Leather Effect Birthday Card Wallet

Hello Blog Readers, 

I thought I would share with you a birthday card I made for my Son.  I got the idea from Christine Emberson's blog, which is hope-chances.blogspot.co.uk.  Christine featured Angela Dobson blog, (Angela is on the Papermill Direct design team), where she showed some cards she made using Papermill Directs leather effect card.  

The Leather effect card comes in white and buff colour, which is the colour I used. Christine Emberson sells this card in her shop, in Gravesend, Kent.

I inked the edges of the card with Tim Holtz distress ink, to make the wallet looked used.

I covered the inside of the wallet with some paper I had in my stash, which matched nicely.
The "Happy Birthday' and the initials are Robert Addams dies. The verse is a stamp I have from Clarity Stamps

I cut some more leather effect card to make the pockets to hold the messages.  The message cards are cut with Spellbinders label dies.  As you will also see there are couple of stamps in one of the pockets.   I photo copied a small photo of my son and them used a 'postage stamp' stamp from Clarity stamps and cut out.

The last piece of card I cut was for the closure, I used a little piece of velcro, so it would close and a brown caddy dot.  To finish the look, I used a fine black marker around the edge of the wallet to look like stitching.

I think it made a nice male card, so I think I will be making a few more.

 Thank you for looking in. x

65th Birthday stitched steam train card

Hello Blog Readers

Well today I thought I would show you a card I made for my partners 65th Birthday.  

Neil loves trains, so I thought his birthday card should have a train on it.

The Train is a pattern from Form-A-Lines, I stitched the engine with a dark green thread and the carriages with a dark red thread, for the smoke I used a grey/silver and black/silver thread.  I used some peel off letters for Neil's name at the front of the train and numbers for his age on the side of the engine.

I then used a spellbinder label shape to cut around the train, which I then mounts onto dark red card, I trimmed both the white and red card with fine line peel offs - I have loads of peel offs, from when I first started crafting, which I don't really use anymore, so I need to use them up.

I cut some cogs and the words Happy Birthday I cut out of silver mirror board, using Robert Addams dies.  

I then mounted the stitched pattern onto some brick card and white industrial card, which I had in my stash.

Neil really liked his card, hope you do.
Back soon xx