Man cards!

Ok so as part of my team swap, we had to do man cards this month. I suck at making man cards, so I went online, found France Martin on youtube and made her card 20 times. It was a labour of love and took me about 6 or 7 nights! But partially that was my fault when I didnt notice the cable embossing folder wasnt current so I had to start again, 7 cards into the process lol. Enter the argyle folder and round two!

The necks are petal pink with sahara sand on them, and come out as quite a good skin colour!

There are a million punches and die cuts on this card. Three punches to make the neck. one to remove the neck hole, two more to make the cuff on the t-shirt. The same concept on his v-neck sweater. Square die to cut it, another two layered to make the cuff of his sweater/vest. Plus his three pockets, The lower pockets are one stitched rectangle cut in half. The upper pocket is the smallest stitched rectangle, cut then the die settled back over it to cut the other end off. 

In actual fact, both these shirts are ones I kept because I didnt go with black buttons, I used metal embellishments as buttons instead, on my actual swap. Cool man cards huh!

I am writing this May 19th and dating it to post next month when our swap will be complete. Hopefully no-one I know will head by and see it before they receive theirs. I must ask if its ok to put their swaps up on my blog, that might be a bit of fun!

Bulk making cards

Hi! I have been making cards in bulk lately. this card, I found online but I dont own the daisy punch so I asked my friend Tracy if I could borrow hers. She didnt have the background die so we loaned to each other and both got to make the cards. Not gonna lie, this background die is a BITCH and has been nick-named such lol. This is how it went down. I used die release paper. I used a precision plate to help it cut. I ran it through the big shot 2-3 times to get it to fully cut. Then I used my roller to get some of the pieces out and to release the die. THEN I still had to peel it off the die, and THEN I still had to poke out a heap of holes with a piercing tool. Its work ok? Hard work lol. I needed to send it to 10 of my craft group so I made it in 15 colours! Not sure I photographed them all but you get the idea lol.

This is the ripping technique of a few weeks ago. Of course, I got this via youtube. Stamphappynz is her user name. I talked about how to do this in my last blog post but if you are unsure, she has a great video of how its done.

This card is part of a series of videos by the paper haven (in the UK) who does a mail out card class. I happened to own the supplies so I made it. I sent this to my brother's girlfriend.

Ok so when you make a card like the one above, you first cut the width to 10cm and it leaves you a strip. This card below, is what I did with that strip. I stuck it onto smoky slate and put it on a card. Then I decided it needed some 3d so I got another sheet out, fussy cut a couple of the flowers and raised them up on dimensionals. I think its quite a nice sympathy card.

This one is the same technique. I sent it to my upline Odette...because she is amazing.

I had a scrap so I lined it and used it on the inside.

This one is another of Julie's over at the paper haven...look her up on youtube. This was meant to be one panel of DSP but I had already used it by the time I found her video, so I used scraps to get a close approximation of her card...I just had to have shelves of different sizes lol.

The bitch die, hard at work again! This time, to make a mother's day card for my daughter...her baby is too little to organise mothers day just yet!

I just thought of a sunset card I havent added...I'll take a photo of it for next time!