Super Mario Birthday Card Insert - For Nathan

Ooooo, two posts in one day, I think I may come over all faint :o) I don't know if you remember but back in March I made a Super Mario Birthday card for my Dad to give to my nephew Nathan, who is a BIG Nintendo DS fan, well today I did the insert for it. I don't usually show the inserts to my cards as frankly compared to the outside they suck big time. I've seen so many of the inserts to cards made by other crafters out there and they are so superb I thought I'd make a bit more of an effort...








It's all computer generated, and all the images were sourced from the internet. The hollow lettering (Super Mario font from Urban Fonts.com)was coloured in with Sakura Gelly Roll Stardust pens and the other lettering (comic sans) was gone over with atyou spica clear glitter pen. Oh and the octagon was made with my new Octagon Nestabilities my Dad bought me for my birthday :o)
Well I'm off to have a bath now as I've got to go to bed early tonight as I have to start work at 5am tomorrow, this is NOT my usual work hours, just covering for someone who is off ill, but I get to finish at 1pm and then Tuesday is my day off, so it's all good.
So goodnight, God bless and keep smiling

Birthday card for Christopher - Nintendo DS

I know another Mario card, but I was inspired by the last HM challenge (shaped card) that I thought I'd have go at making another shaped card, well sort of ...

From the base up...

1. Stardream pearlescent card - orange.

2. The backing paper was one I made myself on the computer from a block image found on the Net, changed the size to suit and I randomly tiled then filled the blanks in with yellow and printed onto a plain white card.

3. The Game console inner,cover and screen images where also from the Net and again all the images where resized. The bottom image had the text added by me using Comic Sans font, and both top and bottom images where triple heat embossed and edged with silver peel offs.

4. I scored the "hinge" using my Scor-Pal.

Unlike my HM shaped card, I'm really pleased with how this one turned out.

Thanks for looking

Another card for Nathan - Nintendo Super Mario Birthday Card

Here's a quick card I made for my Dad to give to Nathan.

Card size - 6.5" x 6.5" / 16.5cm x 16.5cm

From the base up…
1. Yellow card – eBay
2. Backing paper made by me on the computer using the star image found on the internet.
3. All Mario images from the internet. Mario & Luigi are stuck on with 1mm thick foam pads, the landscape picture and the sentiment are mounted onto red silk Mirri card.
4. “Happy Birthday” stamp from Art Impressions. Coloured with Derwent Coloursoft pencils, Sansodor and Sakura Gelly Roll Stardust pens and then double heat embossed.

Nice quick and simple card to make and I've no doubt Nathan will like it as he's big on Nintendo DS Mario games at the moment.

Take care & keep smiling