Two Pretty Pyramage Puppies

Hello Everyone,

I hope you are all well and enjoying your week wherever you are. Weather here isn't too bad, not bright and sunny as you would hope for in August, but reasonably warm, dry and pleasant.

A couple of weeks ago my friend, Marie-Louise, sent me these sweet little puppies, and instead of just putting them away somewhere safe ... that usually means to be forgotten ... I decided to put them together, keep them in view, ready and waiting for the right card to come along. And after completing the little 8"x8" scrap layout this weekend, see post here, I realised that the leftover scraps of paper and card would be perfect for the puppies.

I made this first A5 sized card with my niece, Louise, in mind. It's her birthday tomorrow - her 27th - and as she is an ultra-feminine, girly kind of young woman, the card is very girly to suit. The aqua in the puppy's hat is picked up in this gorgeous DP from Fancy Pants Wishful Thinking collection - a freebie from Simply Cards & Papercraft!

The insert is computer generated using Bearly Mine Design digital paper and the MCS digital punch. Sentiment from one of my favourite resources, a bought card received several years ago - I just adapted the wording to suit.

The back is decorated with a strip of the insert design and I even cut out the digitally punched shape ... only for someone as loved as Louise would I do that ... it is so fiddly to cut round I nearly lost the will to live :)

There was enough left of the DP to make this useful 5"x5" Just Because card ... I've named this pup Charlie because he is very much like my friend, Ruth's dog, Charlie ... right down to the look on his face when he's been naughty!

The insert is made the same way as the first but the digital paper is a slightly paler colour - which made it very tricky to photograph ... the camera found it really difficult to focus on it.

Materials:
White cardstock for base
Papermania textured cardstock for matting
Fancy Pants Wishful Thinking DP
Pyramage puppy & sentiments
White copy paper for computer generated insert using Bearly Mine Design Simply Dots digital paper & digital punch
Wild Orchid Crafts cherry blossoms, cream satin ribbon and Crafty Notions aqua rainbow drops from stash.

I'm submitting this to Jules' Sunday Snippet Challenge - Week 33 - I think it might just impress her that I managed to get two cards from this leftover piece of DP!

I can't get away from birthdays this month - I'm now making a card for my SIL's birthday on 27th. I plan to finish that this evening so that I can get back to doing some more scrapbook layouts ... well, that's the plan anyway. But first, a cuppa is called for, methinks :)

Happy Crafting,

Taking a Dip - Birthday Card for a Sister

Good Evening All,

Two days ago the materials for three cards was lying on my desk - you can see it here - waiting for me to decide what to do with them. I finished the first, my weekly Christmas card, yesterday and posted it here and this is the second. It's a twisted pyramid of a sweet little kitten testing out the waters made up from a little kit I bought on a whim at the Hougie Board stand at the SECC Glasgow. I thought the kitten was very appealing, lovely colours - love green - and, it's got gingham - love gingham, so I suppose it ticked a lot of boxes even though I'm not really into kits, preferring to choose all my own materials. However, the finished result is really quite pretty.

This photograph is not very good - too much shadow on the left of the pyramage - but the lovely evening sunshine was streaming through the window at the time and no matter where I place the card the result was pants! This photo is the best of a bad lot : (

Here's another view of the pyramage.

It's my sister, Margaret's, birthday on the 18th April so I decided this card, with it's lovely spring colours, would be for her - I'm safe posting this because she does not have a computer and so will never see this blog. She was born on Easter Sunday 58 years ago which prompted Nana (our great-grandmother), also Margaret, to suggest my mother named the new baby Esther. Mum, however, had other thoughts on the matter, and named the baby after Nana as a way of saying thank you to her for being around to help her at that time.

Here's the inside - the kit has several toppers in it so I cut one down to decorate the inside and I used one of two tiny squares inside together with a strip of the gingham paper.

The other one I placed on the back.

Materials used:

Design House twisted pyramid kit from the Feline Friends collection, Taking a Dip,which includes the gingham paper, pyramage and toppers
Cardstock: White card for base; Forest Green(C20, 240gsm from Papermill Direct
Stamps: Stamps Away, Really Useful Words, VersaMark; Sheena's WOW embossing powder, appropriately named Easter Sparkle; Woodware corner rounder
Embellishments: light green card candy

It's been an absolutely gorgeous day here, warm and sunny, and I'm told the weekend is going to be a scorcher. And, if it is, we'll be off out for a drive to somewhere nice. I hope the weather is going to be good for you wherever you are and that you will have a great weekend.