Bench Card for a Birthday

 

This is a bench card. I saw these on Pinterest and like it so much. I made this for a guy that is turning 14 already. At the back I made a pocket in which we put his present. You can lift up the counter and then fold it flat so it fits into an envelop. This can be made in so many different themes so I will probably make more of these.

I used colored and metallic silver cardstock. I used kraft cardstock to make the peg board. I embossed the red cardstock with a wall patterned embossing folder and a patterned one for the silver doors, I added a black half pearl to be the knobs of the door. I also like how the silver metallic make the tools reflect. I have the tool dies from Temu so guess they are unbranded. 

I hope he likes it when I give it to him

I also decided to enter this one for the Cut It Up Challenge #323. The challenge is This Makes Me Smile. Well what makes me smile about this card is that it is a fun fold. I am always still in awww what you can do with pieces of papers and shapes.

Till next time
Renate

Birthday Card

 

This is a birhday I made for my not yet official son in law. I made it into an Easel card. I printed a graphic of a vinyl record from the internet and then added some miniature vinyl recors and music notes for decoration as well as a movie strip. I saw something like this on Pintereset and like it a lot so had to make my own.

I will be adding this card to the Krafty Chicks Challenge #754 where the challenge is a Birthday themed card.

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Renate

Cut It Up Top Cuts

 

The card below made the top at cut it up challenge #322. So happy for that so thanks for appreciating my card.

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Renate

Cardz 4 Galz Spotlight Winner

 

So my card below has been chosen for as a spotlight winner. So honoured. Thank you for choosing me.

Lots of hearts

Lots of hearts on this beautiful card. I have just die cut a lot of different hearts from the hugh stash of cutting dies I have. I have so many maybe too many but it gives you a nice selection to choose from.

Under the heart I have done some partial embossed lines. The sentiment was stamped with distress ink Vintage Photo. Overall the card is too busy for CAS but it kind of looks like one

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Renate

 

Butterfly Birthday Card

 

Today I am showing you a birthday card I made with butterflies

I splattered some gold paint on the background. I used square postage dies to put the butterflies on. I die cut the butterflies once in white cardstock and once in vellum and cut the vellum butterflies slighty smaller. I stamped the sentiment and embossed it with gold embossing powder and then die cut it with a label die. For the finishing touch I used some sequins in matching colors

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Renate

Card for my nephew

 

I made this card for my cousin that is having his birthday. I do believe he is turning 56 but I wasn't sure so I didn't add any numbers to the card. He likes music and music cards are always suitable for cards so I made this.

As far as I know these dies are unbranded. I bought them at Aliexpress. I like the little guitar a lot. You can get it in 2 sizes. The shop also sell a violin and an acoustic guitar both in 2 sizes. The papers are from Nitwit Collections.
I inked up all the edges after distressing them with the Tim Holtz distress tool but I guess you could use scissors to distress the edges of your paper.

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Renate

Card for challenges

 

I decided to join in at some challenges.

There is a sketch challenge at the

52 Christmas Card Throwdown Challenge. 

And there is a gnome challenge at the
Make My Monday challenge #244

I have so many dies that I still need to use and among them is this cute gnome from the Spellbinders The Gnome Drive Collection. The papers I used are from Nitwit Collection. I printed out so many and have a whole stack of them so I don't remember the specific collection. The sentiment is in Dutch and I made that myself on my computer.

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Renate

Card for a challenge

 

I made this card for the Cardz 4 Galz challenge #242. The theme is anything but square. This card is a rectangle when opened and looks like a slimline when closed. I made it a birthday card as you can never have to many of these. The sentiments are available as stamps of Marianne Design CS1087. The papers and graphics are from Nitwit Collection and the collection I used for this one is called Cherish.

It is a fun fold card that is know as a book flip card. I saw these on Pinterest. This is my version of that card. I love fun folds as they are often so different then a storebought card.

I hope you like it as much as I do

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Renate

CAS Birthday Card

 

So I saw something like this on Pinterest and had to make my own. I just love the CAS style of cards. There is some beautiful about simplicity in cards. It is actually kind of hard to keep cards really simple. I tend to go overboard easily.

Anyways I used a dotted embossing folder for the panel and put the cupcakes on that with some foam tape. The cupcakes are from Cottage Cutz, Pedestral Stand With Cupcakes. The card is in slimline size. The sentiment was made and printed by myself

Till next time

Renate

Cards That Are Winners

 Today I noticed my card made the top 3 over at the Addicted to Cas challenge

Saturday, 1 february 2025

Thanks a lot and till next time

Renate