Roll Up, Roll Up

This month's Crafty Template collection has a circus and animal theme with some really cute designs for use in card-making or other projects.

I've just made cards, but some of these would work brilliantly on scrapbook pages, or would look fab on the cover of a notebook.

My favourite of this months DT selection was the clown and I made him into a shaped card

I've used papers from the fab Crafty Goodies Kit for this month - you can buy the goodies and the templates, and find lots of useful info HERE

I used a big brad in the centre of the bow so that it will spin around with the flick of a finger.

Apart from the papers I used:

black Bazzill for the hat, adding some black Stickes to the brim

some black pen swirls for his hair, and orange Stickles on his eyebrows.  I gave his nose a nice thick layer of Glossy Accents

I love this elephant template too - seemed the perfect one to use for another new baby card.

I converted him to a Robo Template, then cut the elephant shape in card and in paper.  I also cut along the ear shape in the paper layer.  I used a scrap of paper between the two layers to cover the gap when the ear is standing out from the main section.

Paper and ribbon from the Goodies Kit,

Base card embossed with Swiss Dots folder (Cuttlebug)

Sentiment and baby face dingbat  pc generated

tiny Prima flower on the heffies hat

For the big top card I started by cutting a small aperture in the front of my card to match the opening of the tent.  Once I'd cut all the other bits and added them to the card I used my Robo to cut a tiny version of the Sea Lion template - I added this to the inside of the card making sure he could be seen through the aperture.  I just drew the ball with a glitter ink pen and added a blob of Glossy Accents on top.

Here's the sea lion on the inside of the card

Papers are all from the Goodies Kit, Sea Lion is black Bazzill

Bunting cut free-hand from scraps of the papers

black and white baker's twine looped and tied to make the frame

This is just a sample of the templates you get in a Crafty Templates collection, I hope you like what I've made with them this month.

All you need to know about Leo's Templates, Goodies and Quirky Kit stuff is HERE

That's all for today, thanks for visiting, I hope you'll come back soon