Another Pop-up Commission.

(Catchupmageddon Post) Another commissioned pop-up box card using illustrations from 1950-60 Patrol Books published by The Boy Scouts Association.

I was asked to make an 80th for a Boy Scout Master and the customer said she would like it as a box pop-up card. I hoped, by including lots of the pictures from the books, which are well drawn and often funny, it would bring back some memories for him too.

Kept to a black and white theme to make it cohesive. Font is Breamcatcher.

You are beautiful!

Had great fun working with the new "You Are Beautiful" stamp set from Witt & Sass. It's a selection of lovely flower images and kind & supportive sentiments.

• I decided to go a bit retro and had a "case card" idea I fancied using. I had believed the original image was on Splitcoast Stampers and by a user called Advanceformore, but apparently they had cased it from this original post by Lynn Kramer-Put here. It was hard to track down as hardly any of the pinterest versions had the original link. So I took the colours and layout and adapted them to fit the You Are Beautiful Stamp Set.

All the flowers are included in the set, as is the sentiment and the zigzag lines that I stamped in repeats to make a backing paper.

All the other elements were from the stash. Diecut leaf, Black heart bling, coloured and glitter paper, ribbon.

I added some stickles to the flowers to finish. Flowers were coloured with copic pens.

This card also fits one of the Witt & Sass Challenges, you get a challenge inspo card with every order, and it can help you out with an idea or theme! I used the inspo card - Black & White, Pop of Colour and Ribbon. Remember to tag your card #wscardchallenge if you use one!

Diesel Trains.

Another commission card, this time for someone interested in just diesel trains (not steam!!). I used the internet to search for these images, reduced them and recoloured them before creating a photo montage in Paint Shop Pro and printing them out for the card.

This card is mainly just matting and layering but I always think this fold makes this shape card more interesting. It also features in the background the recipients local station, I am hoping he spots it.
(And also also, features a train at my local station, but I don't expect him to know that, lol)

John Hughes

Commissioned card for a friend who loves eighties John Hughes films. Suppose the most famous eighties ones are Weird Science (1985), The Breakfast Club (1985) , and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) though he also went on to make Home Alone and other comedies in the nineties...

So same style fold as the last film card I made, a basic fold one way and then a much smaller card folded backwards inside. Space to write the greeting on the inside of the front fold, and small personalised greeting inside the smaller card. And I made some old style 3D glasses for Macaulay Culkin :)

Filmed Themed Man Cards

I had a commissioned card request for an MGM film themed 70th card. I've used this card base before for men's cards - it's kind of already a bit special so less bling and ribbon etc are needed to make it stand out. It's hard to soup up a Man's card! I also needed a Marx Brothers themed card for my Bro-in-law, so used the same layout to make that. Images all from the net and converted to black and white.