More teacher/classroom assistant cards

Been a busy little bee this last few days. I had a small craft fair on thursday night but was only able to bring a few cards as there were other tables doing cards so i ficused mostly on my scrapbooks that night.
As usual it was fairly quiet til the very end when i had someone order a personalised fathers day card from me and it was to be delivered the next day. No problems with that. She then wrote to me asking if i could do a teacher and classroom assistant card to be left up with the fathers day one. Okay there! She then wrote back to change the order to 1 teacher and 3 classroon assistant ones to be done for the next day with the fathers day one. Still fine cos i love getting the orders but by giodness was i going to be busy!
So considering i wasnt back til midnight that night the cards had to wait til the next day to be made and heres what i came up with. (Childs name has been blocked out). 

This card has been made using papers from Papermania Capsule collection and the image is 'tammypie' from Saturated Canary. She has been hand coloured using my Spectrum Noir markers and cut out so i could move the book stack in front of her. The matts for all items are from Papermill direct.

I used papers from Lili Of The Valley for the layers in this card (not sure which collection of if theyre all from the same collection... sorry :)) and layered them all onto the lilac supersmooth card from papermill diect. The image is hand coloured using my Spectrum Noir markers and is a Saturated Canary image called 'Reader.'

For this card i used papers from the papermania capsule collection, this time in a rose colourway. I absolutely love these papers. I layered the papers onto pink card from papermill direct and used another image from Saturated Canary,this time 'Diane' which was also hand coloured to match the papers. I used white ribbon from my stash as well as a new crochet ribbon inhad just bought from 'the Works' to finish the card.

My last card was a quicker one as the image was an pre coloured one from PinkGem Designs on etsy. I own a few of their designs as they are so easy to work with. 

The papers are ones i also bought on etsy from seller jenny L called 'I Love School'. As with all my cards, everything was layered onto card from papermill direct, this time the navy which helps set the items off. My images have all been printed onto supersmooth white card also from papermill direct and the paper on the bottom card was also printed onto it. I love how this card came out especially... it just goes to show how different items from different sellers or collections can compliment each other so well. 

And to top it all off, the buyer was over the moon with the cards which makes the time put in all worth while :). 

Teacher card

Had a few orders for teacher cards this week plus a craft fair coming up on frday. Absolutely love this digi stamp called Reader, by saturated canary. It makes teacher cards so easy and the papers from lili of the valley really add to the card too.
Image is coloured using spectrum noirs :). (Skin tones FS2 and FS3, lips PP3, eyes CG1, top CG1 and CG2, skirt TB2 and TB3, hairpiece CG1,TB2 and TB3 and book PP5 and LV1)

Challenge entered:

http://craftyourpassionchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/challenge-270-always-anything-goes.html 

Mini album

So made possibly my favourite make EVER last night... a 6x6 mini album using a  papermania paper pad with chipboard pages, card from papermill direct, bling on a roll, ribbon and handmade flower. I am in love lol.

Pics of the album below.

Commission

My brother in law wanted a card for his dad with a picture of the lorry his dad drives. Unfortunately he only had one pic of it which wasnt the best but i had to make do. This is what i came up with!

Using Craft Artist 2, I inserted a background onto an a4 page and placed 3 frames on the page aswell. I cropped the pictures at different points so all 3 frames were slightly different and then made one frame slightly bigger (this one having the best pic of the lorry as it was going to be layered on top). I then wrote 'Happy BIrthday Dad' using a breaking bad font and placed it where i wanted. I printed the background page with the text and 2 frames towards each of the outer edges at the bottom of the page and printed the larger frame on a separate so i could cut it out and then layered it on top of the other frames overlapping it on all sides.

Recipient was very happy so of course i was too :).

Teachers gifts!

Its getting near that time of the year again... end of the school year! so I've been sitting down to make some teacher notebooks for lovely end of year gifts. Using notebooks I bought from Hobbycraft online, all I had to do to make these was to add some Papermill Direct card, some printed cardstock and a few gems and ribbons and hey presto... lovely teacher gifts. I also printed some extra cardtock and layered it onto coordinating card (the green for the top notebook and teal for the bottom with matching ribbon) to make matching bookmarks that will be included in the pack with the notebooks.

For this notebook I used the Apple Green card from Papermill Direct for the bottom layer and using papers I downloaded free from DoCrafts website, 'Get Fruity', I added them to my Craft Artist 2 software and made up my front cover, adding the mock ribbon, blackboard element as well as the teachers image in the bottom corner. I was then able to print this directly out and layer it onto the apple green card stock, add a few green and red gems and ribbon, in red, green and cream lace, to the spiral binding and done! :)

 

 
 This notebook was done pretty much the same as the above one only using teal cardstock from Papermill Direct and using the 'Get Orgainised' free paper downloads from DoCrafts. I added navy, teal and white ribbon to the spiral binding and also added blue and clear gems to this after taking the picture which really set it off.

I really love how these notebooks have turned out and hopefully so will the teachers who receive them!

Special commission :)

 Thought it was about time I started a blog, so here goes... my first post! Just hope I am doing it right :p.
 It was a special little girl, my niece's, first birthday about a week ago and seeing as her party theme was Minnie Mouse, I had to come up with a few different ideas for Minnie Mouse themed cards. Using a few digital papers I bought on etsy, these are the cards I came up with.  

 

This grand daughter card was made using baby Minnie Mouse papers and clip art image that came on the digital paper pack I bought from etsy. the pink and yellow cards I used to layer are from Papermill Direct as is the card I printed the background on... it is their white linen effect card so has a lovely texture to it. I had stuck the ribbon onto the card before the topper so I slightly misjudged the size of the topper... the ribbon ideally should have went through the middle of the sentiment however the recipient was more than happy with the card as it was so I didn't need move it.

 

 

This card was printed on photo paper to ensure the photo came out as best quality as possible. The backing paper was also from the baby Minnie Mouse pack I had bought and the Minnie mouse from a different kit I bought also on etsy. the software I used to create the card was Craft Artist 2 so using items I had on it, I inserted the required text and frame as well as the border along the bottom. The Minnie Mouse, the frame, the 'Ava Rose and '1 TODAY' were all put on 3d foam so as to lift them off the page and give the card a bit of dimension.

 

 

And finally, this card was made from the second digital paper pack I had bought. the hot pink card I matt and layered with was from Papermill Direct as was the supersmooth white card I printed my required papers onto. I also used my Craft Artist 2 software to make this card as due to the size of card, I was able to lay all out digitally to see how I wanted the card before printing all the elements out separately. It definitely helped speed up my card making as I was able to print all to size and limited wastage of my card and printer ink.