Game On!

 

Hi Crafty Friends,

Yesterday was my grandson's 11th birthday, so today I am sharing a birthday card I made that his aunt gave to him.

Like most boys of his age, he loves playing computer games and is also into Pokemon right now, so that is the theme I decided to use for this card.

A number of years ago MFT Stamps released the Game Controller Die-namics set and the Level Up Sentiment Stamp set, both of this sets were released from their vault last year, so are both available again. So I decided to pull those out of my stash to use on my card today. I also found an old 12 x 12 paper pad that had computer game themed paper.

I don't know anything about Pokemon, and don't have any stamps etc, so made a few of Pokemon balls to embellish my card.

For the inside of my card, I created a pop-up card using Crafter's Companion's Pop-Out Individual Numbers die set. I die cut the numbers off centre towards the left side of my card. I die cut the numbers again in green to layer over the pop out numbers, add a background to the numbers using Simon Says Stamp's Sketchy Lines Background.

I used Photo Play Paper's #9 Borders die set which are a Slimline die set to die cut the patterned paper along both edges of the card.

I decorated the inside of the card using the small game controller dies included in the Game Controller Die-namics set and added two sentiments from the Level Up Stamp set.

Here is another look at the inside of the card from a different angle, so you can see the pop up portion of the card a little better.

Level Up

Hi Crafty Friends,

It's my youngest daughter's birthday today, so of course I had to make her a card! She is always fun to make cards for as she has particular likes, so I can make a card to suit what she likes ... normally it is Super Heroes or Doctor Who.  This year though, she decided she wanted the new Nintendo which has all the old video games many of us remember fondly ... including Super Mario. When I saw this stamp set from Kindred Stamps recently I knew I NEEDED it so I could make her card this year (I also grabbed the Time Traveller set (Doctor Who) while I was at it which I will make for her at some other time.

As I was decorating both the inside and the front of the card, I stamped a ton of images, many duplicates and cut them out using my Scan N Cut. For the path that Mario is following, I used a brick stencil and distress oxides, trimmed that to the side I wanted and then used a cloud die (which I think is now retired) and die cut green cardstock and added it behind the path to create bushes.

I added various images from the Video Game stamp set from Kindred Stamps to the front of the card.

For the inside I used the pivot arm from Karen Burniston's Katherine Label Pop-up die set and used the label from the old Pop It Ups Katie Label Accordion (retired) for the sentiment.... I needed something long to fit the sentiment.

I added more paths and bushes and then added the different images to the card. Mario is on the left side off to try and rescue the Princess and Luigi on the right. 

Here is another look at the inside of the card ... you can see a few more elements to the card that were hidden by the sentiment in the previous photo. 

Stamps: Video Game Brothers - Kindred Stamps; Level Up - MFT Stamps

Paper: White; Blue; Green

Dies: Katherine Label Pop-up - Karen Burniston; Clouds & Grass; Pop It Ups Katie Label Accordion - Elizabeth Craft Designs (both retired)

Inks: Black; Fired Brick Distress Oxide; Wild Honey Distress Oxide; Antique Linen Distress Oxide

Other: English Brick Wall Stencil - MFT Stamps; Foam Tape Copics