Alan's Birthday

My dear other half celebrated his Birthday yesterday,

so I'm sharing the card I made...

We love to go cycling together, and ages ago I bought some bicycle paper clips, 

with a view of using them for his card....not realising at the time that they fitted, almost perfectly,

a retired hostess set Pedal Presents.

 I recently found various ways of paper folding chevrons, so decided to use them as my 'road'.

I then had to find a way of applying the 'clip' to the stamped image.

I ended up cutting it out, and decoupaging it on top of another stamped bicycle,

so that it would fit over the top.

I also secured the bicycle clip with a new metal clip (the arrow),

from Stampin' Up!

I was determined to use a new set 'Chalk Talk' to make a greeting.

This set is fab, because there are various tags and greetings,

with matching dies to cut them out, giving a professional finish. 

I then stamped and cut out a cake to fit the basket,

which I coloured with some sparkly pens from my stash.

Phew!

Almost took me as long to explain it, as it did to make it!

He did enjoy it though.

Happy Friday!

Happy Birthday Glynis!

Would like to share some tips I used for this one,

that can be used for all sorts of things....

Fussy cutting of Designer Series Paper.....don't be afraid to cut into it, decoupage, or just make nice shapes!

I die-cut a frame, then embossed it, adding interest, and texture.

I die-cut a  smaller frame, to use as a stencil, and used a dauber to add ink shading to the centre.

I used the brill stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp the flowers around the sentiment,

which I then coloured in with marker pens.

Here's a pic of the tools I used......

The little flower stamp is from the hostess set Pedal Presents.

Sadly my photographic skills do not do justice to the gorgeous Melon Mambo cardstock,

and Beyond the Garden DSP.

Ribbon and gems from Stampin' Up! too.

Fairly neat bow from me for a change!

Pedal Presents

Had some lovely friends over to play yesterday, and tried out my new

"Pedal Presents" which is a new hostess set from Stampin' Up!

It's so cute because you can add lots of different things to the "basket".

I did paper-piecing on the balloons, and bravely added a "road" with a marker pen,

(I'm not normally brave enough to do anything freehand!),

then lined up the ribbon with it.

I had fun with my Framelits dies, but had to cut off the bottom to stop it wobbling!