Happy Birthday Handsome

Hi everyone I'm here today with my DT card for Swedsih House Crafts I its a male card. It was hubby's birthday on the 2nd Febuary. Of course to make male card I always turn to the Maja Design 'Denim & Friends' paper, if you struggle like me on those dread male cards then this paper makes it sooooo easy.

I was actually busy decorating the week I made this & yet managed to make this in just over an hour......including machine stitching all the papers. Thats a record for me, it usually takes me hours to make a card lol.

So I have finally used my Magnolia Denim Jeans Pocket die I brought when it was first released...yep they have been in there packet ever since..... I know shame on me, its not the only 1 either & there are still more unused in packets :-0

So I love this Magnolia die & to make it look like a pocket more I cut a piece of scrap paper to make it look like a hankerchief popping out the pocket. On the pocket I also added a piece of border that you get along the bottom sheets of the Maja Design 12x12 paper.......nothing needs go to waste.

I have a long running joke with hubby & sometimes call him Boyfriend, so I got my Tim Holtz Wording book & used 2 words out of it to make the word I wanted.

I love the Gummiapan Die 'Happy Birthday' & so I've used that for the card, I placed Happy at the top & Birthday down the bottom & cut out 'Handsome' again from one of the borders from the bottom of a 12x12 sheet.

For the wording I cut the wording out twice in white cardstock & then again in matching Maja Design Monochrome & glued them all together to make them stronger, its like chipboard then.

I have been asked a few times what glue I use as some people find it too fussy with liquid glue.

I use spray glue, I keep an old show box in my craft room & spray each piece to be glued with 3M Craft Mount in the shoe box, then using tweezers place them altogether. I find it so much quicker doing it this way & it dries quicker too.

I always decorate inside to co-ordinate with the front but I dont always decorate top & bottom inside. However these sheets in the 6x6 pad were perfect for the wording I wanted to add inside.

The 'happy Birthday' I stamped on another piece of white cardstock & cut it out with a Gummiapan Rectangle die leavig room for me to write my message.

'You Are My World' is from Tim Holtz Wording pad. The 'I Love You' is from 2 different stamps, if you dont have the sentiment you really want use different stamps & then cut out the words & make the sentiment you want. I could have done it neater maybe but I was in a rush & hubby still loved his card, especially inside bless him.

I was really pleased my brain worked enough for me to figure this out this way of making a new sentiment lol....I was tired with decorating until midnight every night lol.

From a card I made for my eldest son as his birthday is New Years Eve I had stars left over from a Gummiapan die I used, so I added those stars here..... I think stars are great as little add ons if you want to add interest or fill in blank spaces. The lovely Tamara gave me that inspiration as she uses stars often on male cards lol.

If you struggle with male cards like I do then you need to get this Maja Design collection, I have used a mixture of the 12x12 sheets & the 6x6 pad & the monochromes.......this collection is my favourite for male cards but it can be used for soooooo many occasions even for females as the ladies on this DT will tell you.

All links to products from Swedish House Crafts you will find below, just click on the link to take you there.

Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx

Thank you so much for stopping by, us DT ladies really appreciate it & hope we inspire you a little.

Links To Products Used.....

Maja Design 'Denim & Friends' Complete 12x12 Collection with Monochromes

Maja Design 'Denim & Friends' 6x6 pad

Magnolia Denim Jeans Pocket

Gummiapan Dies - Intergrated Stars

Gummiapan Dies - Nesting Stitched Rectangle dies

Gummiapan Dies - Happy Birthday die

Gummiapan Stamp - Happy Birthday text

The 2 stamps I used for 'I Love You' are - Gummiapan 'With Love From Me To You' text

                                                                    Gummiapan 'I Made A Wish & You Came True' text

Swedish House Crafts DT Card

Hello everyone, today I'm sharing with you my latest creation using yummy products from Swedish House Crafts.

I've been thinking of all the Christmas creating I need to do lately and that brought me to the time after Christmas, New Year. So I thought I would make a table top calendar ready for the New Year.

(Links to items used will be at the bottom of the post.)

I have used the gorgeous Maja Design Denim & Friends Collection, I love this collection so much, it really can be used for almost any occasion. I have machine stitched both layers.

I added layers using Gummiapan Stitched Banners dies, this was just to add a bit of interest. The leaves were made using Magnolia Grandpa's Flower Leaf. The calendars I just got from Ebay.

I also decorated the back, some desks and tables can be seen from all angles so I didn't want the back to look boring. I am going to put a quote on it as well.....just depends where its going lol.

I added Gummiapan Doodle Circle dies as these are fab for adding more interest to any project, I love them. For the image I wasn't originally going to use this one, I had coloured up another Tilda, however she was Christmassy and Christmassy is not an all year thing. So I went with this gorgeous Tilda With Umbrella Daisy, I coloured her dress with Weathered Wood to make it look kinda denim to go with the papers. I coloured her with distress ink refills and added Stardust Stickles to the centre of the daisy and her hair bow. Then I cut her out using Gummiapan Stitched Rectangle dies.

I have made the calendar folding so it folds flat for posting. All lace and flowers are from my stash. I used the co-ordinating Maja Design card stock for layers behind the image and the calendar, also for the doodle circles and leaves.

Thank you for stopping by
Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx

Magnolia Grandpa's Flower Leaf Die

Magnolia Yay It's Your Birthday 'Tilda With Umbrella Daisy'

Gummiapan Dies - Doodle Circle

Gummiapan Dies - Stitched Rectangles

Gummiapan Dies - Stitched Banners Thinner

Maja Design Monochromes Shades Of Denim - Light Blue

Maja Design Monochromes Shades Of Denim - Pale Orange

Maja Design Denim & Friends - Floral  (both sides)

Maja Design Denim & Friends - Summer Shirt  (both sides)

Challenges I'm Entering..........

Marvelous Magnolia - Anything Goes
Midweek Magnolia's - Special Occasion (New Year but if it not delete it girls)

Swedish House Crafts DT Card

Hi everyone how are you all?

I'm here today to share a card I made suitable for a teenager using the fabulous Maja Design Denim & Friends collection........I love love LOVE this collection, its perfect for those hard male cards & just as perfect for the females. What more could we ask for.....well the perfect dies to go with them of course are Gummiapan.

I made the card base from Maja Design Shades Of Denim, Light Blue. These co-ordinated sheets are fabulous & each side is a slightly different shade, I love the quality of Maja Design.

I used Maja Design Denim & Friends 6x6 pad for the card & highlighted the graphic on the paper which says 'YOU'RE A STAR' I underlined it & added stars that were cut out from using the Integrated Stars die by Gummiapan.

I also added a piece of fine corrugated cardboard painted it with white gesso to give the card extra texture.

I cut the wording 'AWSOME' from the bottom of one of the 12x12 sheets & distressed it a little.

I also cut out Happy Birthday using a Gummiapn text die, I cut Happy out using the Maja Design Monochrome Light Blue sheet & Birthday I cut out using the Maja Design Monochrome Aquamarine sheet....this shade matches the shoes on the image.

I cut out a few pieces with white cardstock first then glued them altogether with the coloured sheet on top.....this makes them thicker & gives an appearance of chipboard.

To glue them together I use a spray adhesive, its less messy & fiddly.

The larger image of the skateboard came from the Maja Design Denim & Friends 12x12 Snapshot sheet & the smaller one came with the 6x6 pad.......I thought it would add interest there being 2 photo's the same but of different sizing.

I cut the integrated stars out using white cardstock & Maja Design Monochrome Aquamarine cardstock.

I kept a couple of the stars inside the cutout.

As always I decorated inside to compliment the front & each sheet was machine stitched.

The rectangle under the main image I cut with Gummiapan Rectangle die & cut it from Maja Design Monochrome Aquamarine.

I used some stars that were cut out from the Integrated Stars die to add here & there, I love that some of them are not perfect star shapes which adds more interest & uniqueness........uniqueness is definitely good for a teenager.

Thanks so much for stopping by we all really appreciate it.

Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx

My blog is here

Links To Products Used Are.....

Gummiapan Nesting Stitched Rectangles dies

Gummiapan Happy Birthday Text die

Gummiapan Integrated Stars die

MajaDesign - Monochromes Shades Of Denim - Light Blue

Maja Design - Monochromes Shades Of Denim - Aquamarine

Maja Design - Denim & Friends Snapshots Guys In Jeans

Maja Design - Denim & Friends 6x6 Pad

I'm also entering this into the mood board over at Maja Design here...

This is the mood board

Challenges I'm Entering.....

Maja Design - September Mood Board

Sweet Baby Boy

Hello everyone I'm running late with this post & have a busy day so gonna get on as quick as possible my lovelies.

Ok so today I'm here for the new chalLenge over at All About Magnolia & this month our challenge is super duper easy peasy..........

ANYTHING GOES

..........what is easier than that lol.

My card today was not originally meant for this challenge, it was just a card for fun as I had coloured the image quite a bit ago & decided to use it. However it came in handy as I didnt have time to finish what I was making.

I made a baby card with my favourite baby stamp. Usually I use Maja Design Baby papers but this time I decided to use Maja Design Denim & Friends 6x6 collection.....I love how this pad can work for so many occasions. You can get this paper here from Swedish House Crafts.

The star & the rabbit are from Doohickey Volume 13, I edged them with ink & added bits of structure paint here & there, mainly the edges.

You can get the Doohickey volumes from Swedish House Crafts & you can great deals on them, Suha knows how expensive these kits can be so you can reserve Volume 16 for £10 but if you dont like it when it is released then you can change your mind..........pop over to here to read the details.

The Magnolia stamp is called Sleeping Baby Tilda but coloured him for a boy & I coloured him with distress ink refills, added stardust stickles to his wings.

This stamp is available to buy from Swedish House Crafts, its been a long time since I've seen this stamp for sale in the UK......pop along & get it before they go!!

I then cut him out using Magnolia Pink Edition Rounded Frames which are on a fabulous offer at Swedish House Crafts right now.

The heart tag is from Magnolia Doohickey Volume 14 & I added words & letters from Tim Holtz pads to read Sweet on the front & Baby Boy inside. 

As always I decorated inside & I machine stitched all the papers.

Lace is from my stash, the tulle I have in a few colours & have quite a bit of it lol.

Flowers are from WOC & the doily is from my stash.

Hope you will join us this month over at All About Magnolia.

Thats it form me, my grand-daughter is having an operation today & I've got my grandson to look after & other things to do but cannot say incase someone reads this blog lol.

Hope the weather for you is better than it is here.........raining cats & dogs....or is it dogs & cats ;-)

Take care & thanks for stopping by mmwah.

Lotsa hugs Vicky xxx

21st Male Card

Hello everyone how are you all?

I'm sorry I've been missing in action lately, I do have lots of stuff to show but not had time this last week to blog........so much going on. I've not even crafted or coloured for a week.....

Ok I got the latest Maja Design collection 'Denim & Friends' from Swedish House Crafts, they had an awesome deal on the whole collection.......I got the collection, the 6x6 pad & 2 lots of the matching co-ordinates for a fantastic price.

You get the 12x12 collection here for £29.99 plus you can get the co-ordinates for just £5 when buying the full collection!!!

I have to say this collection is gorgeous, it can be used for male & female cards.......however if you struggle with male cards like I do then let me tell you this collection will not only make it easier but it will make you WANT to make male cards......... seriously I made 2 in the first day I got the set.........here is the first one!!!

Ive kept this one more on the simpler side as I really wanted the papers & image to stand out.

I used the 6x6 pad for the bottom layer. I cut 2 sheets in half & then overlapped them & machine sewn all around the edge & then along the middle in zig-zag...

The top half represents the shirt & waistcoat & the bottom half represents the jeans ;-)

The 21 was cut from Kraft cardstock from dies in my stash, cannot remember what brand.

When I put them through the number 2 slipped..........normally I secure them down but I forgot & I liked the way it wasnt quite perfect & ended up a little smaller than the number 1.....it was a happy accident ;-)

I used other sheets from the 6x6 pad & created a backdrop for the image to go on. I chose my papers carefully & when looking through them I saw that this sheet said ''I wish I had invented blue jeans''.. so I thought it was perfect for my card & decided to underline & add little stars to accent it.

The backing is a co-ordinate sheet 'Blue', I used one side for the very bottom layer & the other side as they are 2 different shades for the first banner shape.

First 2 layers were stitched together to match the stitching on the card.

There was also a little something written lower down which I also underlined ''You're a star''.... 

As there was this text when choosing a button I chose one that would go with denim & one that had a star on.......co-ordination at its best lol.

The base of the card I used another sheet of Maja Shades of Denim Co-Ordinates 'Brown'.

The hessian piece at the top is a Magnolia DooHickey & is cut from Kraft cardstock.

The gorgeous image is from the same Maja collection & is called 'Snapshots Guys In Jeans' seriously this sheet is awesome & makes you want to create more male cards. You also of course get the smaller ones in the 6x6 pad too.

I distressed the edges a little just like all the other layers & then added at an angle to give the card a more interest.

I love love LOVE this collection..........yeah yeah I say it about every collection but for someone like me who doesn't do male too often.....well to do 2 in one night is good going lol.

Will show you the other one another day.......a clue though, the other is more teen orientated ;-)

Well thats it from me I have shopping to do today as I have quite a bit of baking to do this week.....what better way to travel a long way than with homemade goodies in the car for every time you stop lol.

Thanks for stopping by big hugs to you all

mmwah Vicky xxx