Fathers Day Rainbow

Just For Dad

I was going for something quite simple this year for dad's card and this is what I came up with.

First I created the background with what I call the colour swipe technique (not too sure what's it's really called). Then I stamped the tree and thought it was a bit to low so added the birds from the retired up up and away stamp set. After that I stamped the sentiment and die cut it with the banner from the cup cake cutouts die set. All complete within about half an hour.

I've made my dad a few cards over the years but this year was the first time he looked at it and said it was very nice.

The materials used are:

Card stock: Very vanilla

Ink: Early espresso, Crushed curry, rose red, soft sky, so saffron, wild wasabi

Markers: Garden green

Stamp sets: Guy greetings, lovely as a tree, up up and away (retired) 

Framelits: Cup cake cutouts

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

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Guy Greetings

For A Great Guy

Today I'm showing a card I made for one of our neighbours he's a great guy and always has time to say hello and have a chat.  In fact if Roy goes to the shops and takes more than ten minutes I know he's bumped into Dave and will probably be well over half an hour, they could win a talk for Britain competition if there was one. 

I have also had a breakthrough as this card has NO retired elements on it, well done me. I'm so glad that the woodland textured embossing folder has not been retired off after all.

The materials used are:

Ink:Crumb Cake, Early Expresso, Soft Suede

Card stock: Early Expresso, Whisper White

Stamps: Boys Will Be Boys, Gorgeous Grunge, Guy Greetings

Embossing folders: Woodland Textured

Framelits: Lots of Labels

Thinlits: Gift Card Envelope

Accessories: Candy Dots

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Quick and easy

Hello there, so glad you dropped by

Have spent some time with some of Grand children this week and they are so noisy I have a headache when I leave but I love then dearly and feel blessed to have so many.  Hope you all had a great half term week. 

Today it's a quick and easy card as nearly forgot my cousins birthday so had to whip one up quickly and this is what I came up with, did some scoring on this card which is something I don't do very often but felt it gave the card a bit more character,  and there 's only one thing that isn't in the  new catalogue (very good for me).

I'm doing a bit more now but still have a way to go before I catch up with my posts.  I'm doing some things with the new goodies and can't wait to show you all.

The materials used are:

Inks: Memento tuxedo black 

Card stock: Whisper white

Card base: Note card

Stamps: Guy greetings

Punches: Decorative label

Framelits: Deco labels

DSP: Modern medley (retired)

Accessories: Candy dots, Scoreboard

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Guy greetings

Hello there, so glad you dropped by

I did this for my Uncle as a Ha Ha! card, he's a bit younger than me and doesn't like me calling him uncle but there you go. I like to tease him sometimes.  I'm still more than a month behind in my blogging and it'll be some time before I catch up as there's still a lot going on at the moment which is taking up loads of my time. 

The new catalogue is out soon and I can't wait to get my hands on some of the new goodies.  Will miss a lot that's now leaving us but you can't have everything can you. 

By the way my Uncle looks nothing like the card, he's still good looking for his age.

The materials used are:

Ink: Crumb cake, Soft suede

Card stock: Soft suede, Very Vanilla

Stamps: Guy greetings

Punches: ¹/₂^”  Circle

Ribbon: Natural chevron

Accessories: Gems (NSU)

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x