Chinese 80th Birthday card

I made this Chinese 80th Birthday card using a Woodware stamp set, image coloured with Promarkers, and die cut with Spellbinders. The papers are by Papermania, and were perfect for the colours I used, I love red and gold together.

I cut out the Filligree Delight largest panel with the oval in the centre to create a frame which I mounted onto red card cut with the A2 card maker set B version, both by Spellbinders.

The numbers were cut with Sizzix Shadow Box die, the ribbon is by Chatterbox. The sentiment is heat embossed in gold and finally I added some red flat backed pearls.

Inside the card, I managed to cover the inside with the same sheet of paper, with a strip of gold card strategically placed over a necessary join! Happy Birthday Granny Tao!

I have entered the following challenges:

Crafty Ribbons challenges - anything goes with ribbon.

Passion for Promarkers - favourite colour combo (Wednesdays)

A Gem of a Challenge - anything with B (birthday, blossoms) (Saturdays)

Papertake weekly - flowers (Tuesdays)

I love Promarkers - bugs - dragonflies (Wednesdays)

Polkadoodles - all things bright and beautiful (Fridays)

Woodware - Girly things

Stamping Sensations - wings and things and a touch of vintage. (August challenge).

Also I finally made a box for the baby word card I made ages ago, and here it is:

The box base is plain and stapled at the corners for strength.

The lid is strengthened by ribbon (from Crafty Ribbons) threaded through punched holes to match the word book (The Cutting Cafe file), and the letters were cut with the same paper used on the word book using Sizzix Shadow Box dies, finally the notches were cut with Sizzix Lollipop die and hammer.

Baby boys

Well here it is, better late than never! This is my other example for the Quirky Crafts All About Boys challenge. I used a cutting file and image files from our sponsor The Cutting Cafe. I cut the pages in blue and red, then the letters in polkadot denim paper, added some shrink plastic images from All About Boys, and the sentiment. I added buttons, ribbon from Crafty Ribbons, and baby white ric rac. Finally I added some dummies from stash.

Inside is decorated too, I can add more to this page, but it cannot be wider than the Baby blocks or it will show though the A.

The Y page has a little more width to decorate, again I can add to this and decorate the A page a tiny bit.

You have until Saturday midday to enter the challenge.

I have entered this in:

 the Crafty Ribbons Inspirations Challenge - anything goes with ribbon.

Quirky Crafts Challenge 33 - recipe

The recipe for this challenge is use: shrink plastic, ribbon, at least two eyelets and two patterned papers.  I used double sided paper so two designs, and after getting through 3 sheets of shrink plastic finally ended up with a bloom I could use, stamped with a Wordsworth poem also stamped in the background corner, the bloom was inked on the back with Stazon pastel ink, words in Stazon black - I did try Memento ink but it ran after shrinking!

Found this great paper in the folder with the shrink plastic then had to find this stamp to go with it, they are perfect together. Paper is Junkitz Fanciful and Stamp is by Paperbag Studio, ribbon by Crafty Ribbons, eyelets from stash and brad by Papermania. Hop on over to Quirky Crafts blog and enter your creation now, it is a mixed media challenge so any project can be entered.