HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIMMY

 

Today is Jimmy's 4th birthday and here is this year's card I made for him.

When Jo and Jimmy came to stay last August we went to the circus and I took plenty of photos with the idea of using them as inspiration for his card.

 

I started with the background, painted in watercolour on a stiff rough paper.  The sides are in red card folded into a concertina with about 2 centimetres for each fold to which I added the layers as they were made.

 

 

First at the back is the lioness in her cage. I made her stick her head through the bars, I wonder if Jimmy will notice that?

 

The ringmaster comes next with his horse who trotted around and jumped over bars.

 

The acrobat was very young and brave doing her moves high in the air on a hoop and the clown was a young girl too.  I think Jimmy was quite taken with her and some of her jokes and antics.

 

I built up the card in the layers and it wasn't till I had finished that I noticed that the acrobat was upside down!  As she was attached by a ribbon it was easy to turn her over but too late for the scans so you'll just have to imagine her the other way up!

I hope Jimmy remembers our fun afternoon at the circus when he sees this card.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015

 

For my last post of 2014 I wish all my followers and readers a very happy and healthy New Year and lots of creative fun too!

 

I've been busy making birthday cards again as there are quite a few at this time of year. 

 

First of all my darling sister Juliet had one of those big ones with a nought on the end so I had to make something special for her.

 

She visited Provence last summer to see the lavender fields and sent me a lovely postcard with a similar image to this on it.

 

 

So I decided to turn it into a 3D version with all these layers building up to a beautiful view across towards the mountains.  I finished up by sticking on a few dried lavender stalks up the sides which smelt wonderful.

 

Grandson Jimmy's birthday is in January and as he's only 3 I don't think he'll get to see this.  He loves dressing up in his pirate outfit so I hope this will make him smile with the parrot hanging down teasing the crocodile!

 

Bob's birthday is on Christmas day and I made this in honour of the new garden sheds we built this year in the garden.  I copied the tools in 3 layers and used orange card to make the frame.  He was very pleased and surprised when he opened it!