Birthday Card for BIL

This is the Birthday Card that I made for my BIL over in the USA - we share the same birthday :-) As the day was yesterday I can now reveal the card :-) It was featured on Crafts by Carolyn as a challenge card but I figured that he wouldn't visit there!

Craft Club makes

It was a free week at Sticky Fixers Craft Club yesterday and between the gabbing, biscuit eating & cuppa drinking I managed to make a couple of cards. The first on was for the Crafts by Carolyn card challenge What no red. A Valentines card without using the traditional red or pink. I layered the bird stamp after cutting it out & fixing with sticky fixers.








The second one was a Birthday card with an Oriental theme. I stamped the background paper with the oriental character stamp & then stamped the figure & sentiment on the pink paper cut out & inked the edges, fixing them to the card with sticky fixers - appropriate as I was at Sticky Fixers craft club :-)

A bit of a play ...................

I've managed to have a play with some of my new stash :-) I used the MS circle cutter & the MS branch punch. I also used my new sentiment stamp.









I cut the circle out of double sided paper & filled in the space with the circle cutout which I turned over, then stamped the image on the 'back' which is now on the front :-)

Why can't you photograph Purple?

What is it about the colour purple? Why is it soooooo difficult to photograph? It looks blue/not purple when photographed!! OK I'm rubbish with the camera & it's not a top of the range but that is no excuse ............................. But I've tried :-)

2 cards for the purple challenge on Hels blog - they are purple Hels! :-)