Doodled Birthday Cake Card

This card measures 14cms x 14cms.

I’ve made another doodled card, it’s very basic I know,  but hopefully,  once I become more confident with my drawing and with all the computer gubbings that creating a download involves, I will get a bit more adventurous.  This is quite a learning curve for me …… but it’s certainly keeping my brain ticking over! 

I’ve created three free jpg. files which you can downloaded and can be resized, printed off and put into whatever project you use them for …. the designs are doodled, so please do not expect that lines are perfectly straight etc.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/h4crica1wfujpg4/Happy%20Birthday%20Panel.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0tcz4w1tvjjzssh/Birthday%20Cake.jpg

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ecqicpg41xxcc0k/Happy%20Birthday%20Banner.jpg

I have also created a pdf file that can just be printed off and then cut out, which has an extra candle design on it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yzpwvefzqev5lw1/its%20all%20fiddle%20fart%20Birthday.pdf

*Although I have created the files,  I cannot really help with any technical problems you have downloading or using them.  I would also ask that although the files are free,  they are not used as part of a competition or challenge without my prior permission*

Christmas Bauble Card(s) ….. Dabbling and Doodling With Ideas For The Coming Year Maybe?

While I was in London visiting Marc, he nagged me something rotten about  “doodling” more and his partner Rick told me that I should work on more card ideas that used my own writing ….. so what’s a poor girl like me gonna do?

Well, I listened, because they both really do know what they are talking about and when I got home I doodled a bit and then I did a bit of writing ….. formulating a couple of ideas ……  

The first idea/doodle (above) was very rough and only took a couple of minutes ….. but even before I finished the last dab of ProMarker,  the next progression was in my head …..
….. what if I doodled it all again, more carefully but added the baubles separately to add dimension?

That’s as far I have got with the bauble idea, there is still a bit to go with it, it  needs a few tiny stars in the branches, and something else … I just don’t know what yet  …. but before I finished it properly,  I took off again on a different tangent while my brain was whirring …. this time thinking about Rick saying I should write more on my cards …..

….. Again it’s very, very rough …… but a germ of an idea is now firmly in my head …. with all the festive preparations to get on with, it isn’t really the best of times to have a brainwave…. but hopefully over the holiday,  I’ll have the time to work on it some more ….. I want to go back to the real basics and have a go at card making with just a blank card, a pen, a notebook containing jotted down phrases, sayings, lines from poems or lyrics etc. that catch my fancy and a few very simple embellishments!  Think of all the money I could save …. watch this space!

Very Simple Holly Card

This card measures 5ins x 5ins

This card took me about ten minutes to make.  I decided to keep things really simple and write sentiment myself, adding a little bit of doodling round the edges.  I then mat and layered it on silver mirror and white card, before finally putting it in the centre of a card blank that I had covered in a holly design paper,  using foam pads for extra dimension  . 

The final touches were made by adding three small red flat backed gems to each sprig of holly,  along with a sprinkling of extra fine Hunkydory Diamond Sprinkles, and two PaperCellar silver glitter self adhesive corners.

Doodled Patchwork Card

This card measures 5ins x 5ins and is made using white linen effect card!
 
I doodled this card, so I think I can safely say ……..

It’s all my own work …. though I did use a 12 x 12 paper as inspiration.

Born To Shop Card

Do you remember these smiley face stickers I bought a while ago?

Well this is what I have done with them, I’ve been a doodling!

Trying to get a picture of the finished card was a nightmare because of the hologram effect in the stickers, I’m afraid this is the best I could manage.

If I say so myself they are kinda cute!

Lonely Snowman Card

I’ve looked at this snowman card and I am going to do it again …… the centre square is too big and makes the snowman look very lonely.  I think I need to trim another centimetre, if not a smidgeon more, all the way around to make it look more balanced.

The snowman is a button I got from E-Bay USA a couple of Christmas’s ago, it was part of a bumper bag I got for about £6. The sky background is navy Bazzill paper that I have doodled on with a white gel pen.

Train Birthday Card

I’ve used a whole mixture of elements on this card; the train is stamped with a bit of doodling added and backed with foam pads to give a 3D effect, plus a few odd stickers from Paperchase (the trees) and Matalan (the people and rabbit). I have doodled the track and the smoke, which again, I have stuck with foam pads for extra dimension.

The blue gingham paper is a digi download.  I love using gingham but can never find just the right colour, so I downloaded a couple of sets from Activity Village http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/free_printables.htm – now I am never without just what I want.

And finally the alphabet stickers are from the Papermania – Hampstead Range (beware when buying these, as when I bought them I found that there was no “W"’s” in any of the three sets I bought.!!!!

Doodled Postcard

I bought this book of postcards a little while back, it contains 66 part doodled postcards that you can finish off, but I am guilty of keeping it in my desk and not doing anything with it….

Until today ……………………… this is what I came up with.

I coloured the jug and surface with  promarker pens, the flowers are from a foam set from HobbyCraft and the rest I have doodled and handwritten.  I’m not sure if it withstand the rigours of the post so I may slip it in an envelope when I send it.

Doodled & Punched Birthday Card

I have decided to try a few new ideas and techniques in the next little while, venturing out of my comfort zone like a timid tortoise! I blog hop most days and see lots of wonderful ideas, but that’s usually as far as it goes.

Well,  yesterday I saw this lovely card on Kath’s Blog and was inspired to try something very similar using her basic layout.
http://kath-allthatglitter.blogspot.com/2010/06/get-funky-challenge-june.html

I don’t have any flower stamps so I used my large and small retro flower and snowflake punches and doodled on them.

The “h” is from the set of Making Memories alphabet stickers I got in the HobbyCraft sale last week.

 

The border tape is by Papercellar and I got it in the Dunelm Mill Sale for 80p a roll (10% off I think)

 
Thank you Kath for inspiring me to try something really new!