Thursday 27 February 2014

Typography Greetings Cards, batch made.

Greetings all,

Did you ever get to the stage where you were putting inserts in up-side down, dripping glue where it shouldn't be, getting the sticky of the cello bag stuck to your card front, putting the wrong inserts in the wrong cards. Shall I go on? Yeah, I think you may have been there, well, that's where I was ten minutes ago, so I've taken a break and will update my blog while the jinx leaves.

I can see you all wondering what I was up to. Well here's the thing, I have two craft shows coming up in the near future, so I decided to batch make a few cards to boost my stock.






I'm still enjoying making typography cards, which seem to be quite popular this year. What's more, once the initial design is decided, the lettering can be changed for just about any occasion.






So my marathon batch covers Mum, Sis, Daughter, Friend, Dad, Brother, Son, Pal, Thinking of you and Anniversary.






I changed the theme a bit on the male cards, but the principal is the same. All the cards were designed in CAP2 using various digi kits. I just gathered lots of different letters from various alphabets so that I had a nice selection.







I chose a few nice backing papers and some embellishments to match. I like the Kraft paper I used for the male cards, I use this paper a lot. All the toppers were distressed with Tim Holtz and I finished them all with card candy and either bakers twine or raffia and either a heart or star 'Hand Made With Love' charm.   

So, twenty four made.....






...........and sixteen to go.






Phew, I do hope they sell. 



I am entering these cards into the following challenges :- 



 
 

Thank you for coming by and do come again. If you could leave a comment to let me know what you think, that would be great.


Love,


Jools.   xxxx

16 comments:

  1. These look fabulous Jool.What a good idea.

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  2. The cats look great your a very buddy lady. And yes that happens to me and u dunt make a lot of cards at once.

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  3. I think you may have entered this card into our challenge in error as we are solely a CAS challenge where we like to see white space, few layers and minimal embellishments. We also allow a maximum of 5 challenges which may be combined!
    Do join us again!
    Thanks so much
    Chrissie
    Less is More

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    1. Sorry Chrissie, I'll remember that for next time. xx

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  4. Wow Jools, you have been bust with a wonderful batch of cards. And yes been there as well, my usual is to put the font of the card the wrong way up to the base.

    Thanks for sharing with us at Allsorts challenge.

    I would love it if you joined in my Spellbinder blog celebration here, it runs until 5th March.

    B x

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  5. Great batch of cards! Thanks for joining us at Polkadoodles this week, for our Sugar and Spice challenge.

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  6. You certainly have been busy, thanks for sharing this amazing batch of cards with us at CMM

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  7. Gosh you've been busy! Would love to see a CAS version :)
    Sorry to be so late visiting, thanks for joining in this week at LIM for the metal challenge.
    Anne
    Guest LIM commenter :)

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  8. fabulous work! thanks for joining us at inky impressions rubberstamps!!!

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  9. Great card..Thanks for joining us at In The Pink..Hugz Gayle xx

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  10. Great cards
    Thanks for joining in this week at Inky impressions challenge.
    Hugs katie x

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  12. Love the way you have used the buttons in this project. Thank you for taking part in the polkadoodles challenge .Keeeeeeeeep Crafting xx Katie DT xx

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  13. lovely and wow so many good luck at craft fair

    thank you for entering at the Polkadoodles Sugar&Spice Challenge

    Hugs kerrie x
    Polkadoodles DT

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  14. wow gorgeous cards, they are fab and I bet they'll sell like hot cakes! Thanks for joining us at Polkadoodles this time
    Claire xx

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