My Little Paper World

So… Craftie Café’s theme this month is summer – which aside from being my favourite season of the year also happens to have endless possibilities in terms of card ideas! I thought sea (water, seagulls, beach, sand, sun, & hats) which then moved to sea animals (fish, whales, & dolphins). I then thought ice-cream and fruit…which…then lead me to BANANA’S (my son’s favourite fruit!) which quickly reared off course to Jungle Safari and MONKEY’S!!! Yup – that’s how my crafty brain works! I used Wplus9 – Whimsy Alphas and Eline’s Monkey die (by Marianne Designs) to create these fun bright and interactive cards (their heads wobble). I also happened to video the card process – which you can view below. I speed it up quite a bit during the stamping of the background as that part is quite repetitive. VIDEO https://youtu.be/DdKA6koSGB0 Below are two more card examples – using the same process but creating different background sentiments. I don’t use...

I’m back with another Father’s Day Card for Craftie Café! I don’t make a lot of masculine cards – but given the right tools I absolutely love creating them. Most of my masculine cards are created with a certain person in mind (which is probably why they’re so much fun to make) – I purposefully use stamps/dies that I know they will like. In this case both my dad and husband enjoy cars and moving parts. So today's cards I’m using two gear dies and I’ve made them a little interactive because WHY not!!! Here is the first card: This was a pretty simple card to make. First I die-cut the gears a couple of times using black card. I used the same technique I used in my last blog post (see video here ) to create some dimension for three of the gears. Using pencil I marked where these gears would be place on the card. Next, I used my Crop-a-dile hole punch to punch holes in the spots where I had marked with pencil. I then inserted my split pins into the gears and attached the...