Hey There Hop Stuff!

Good morning folks and happy Good Friday, I hope you are all looking forward to the long weekend, and have some crafty plans in there too.

I wanted to make a card for Judes youngest, who will be 24 tomorrow!!!! and when I opened the March Simon Says Stamp card kit I knew I could use this set for one. I wanted to try the gingham check stamp and had this idea of a picnic blanket for the bunny to sit on.

I stamped the check stamp all over a white panel using a blue ink from the Altenew Deep Blue Seas set. Then I die cut a scalloped square from another white panel, and ran it back through the Bigshot using a We R Memory Keepers, 3d embossing folder.

This gave the panel the lovely weave effect, which I thought looked a bit like a picnic basket lol. I stamped the bunny and carrots, coloured them with Copic markers and then cut them out by hand.

I placed the check panel behind the embossed panel, and then sat the bunny and carrots in the die cut area.

I used one of the sentiments from the kit and then added another below on a small strip of the checked card, raised on foam tape.

I really like this card, and hope you do too. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Red, white and black

Hello again.  I'm back with another card using left overs, although this one is just the flower!  

I stamped and coloured this to add to another card but then didn't need it, so it has sat unused for months waiting for the right project.

Last week Jen and I had a bit of a crafty splurge and one of the items we purchased was this cover plate.  Of course I had to cut a couple to test it out and then tried it against different coloured backgrounds.  

When I saw it on the black I thought of this little flower and a red, black and white card came to mind.

I stamped a simple sentiment on black card and white embossed it before adding it to the panel.

I added some shimmer pen over the flower for a bit of interest and raised it above the sentiment strip with foam squares.

A couple of drops of liquid pearls in ruby red finished it off.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Have a Glamorous Day

Good morning all and happy Hump day. I hope you are all having a good week so far. 

Today's card is one I made a few weeks ago while playing with one of the Creative Stamping magazine freebie sets.

I used the shoes and some of the smaller stamps and stamped them all over a plain white card panel, using very soft inks. 

I used Barely Beige and Pale Blush Pink inks by Simon Says Stamp, as I wanted a very subdued background so that the main focus would be on the front image.

Then I stamped the shoes with Versamark ink and heat set them with Cosmic Shimmer Bright Gold Fine Detail Embossing Powder. I coloured the soles red (Louboutin style!) with a Copic marker and then added Spectrum Noir Clear Glitter pen to the rest of the shoes.

I cut the image out with a Lawn Fawn Stitched Square die, and raised it with foam tape on to the stamped panel. Then I added a sentiment to the front, and another to the inside. Then I backed it with red card and put it on a white note card to finish.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

What did the fox say?

Welcome back.

Over the past couple of weeks I've been trying to use up some of the 'extras' I have stashed on my desk.  All the components of this card come from that stash!

Whenever I stamp the elements for a card I do a few more - just in case I ruin one! If they don't get used they sit in a plastic wallet and often get forgotten.  These characters are from Lawn Fawn and must be at least a year old :)

The blue circle was cut from a card base when I made a shaker a while ago.  I always keep these kind of pieces in case I need them.

The sentiment is the only 'new' piece although the card strip is again from the scraps.

So there you have it.  A card made entirely from leftovers.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

A little bird told me.....

Good morning folks, I hope you are all well and have had a nice weekend. We had one of my granddaughters to stay over on Saturday night, which was lovely. She also came out walking in the woods with us yesterday morning with the dogs, and spent more time in the stream than she did on the paths lol. But she thoroughly enjoyed it, and so did we. 

Anyway today's card is made using the February My Monthly Hero kit from Hero Arts. I stamped the bird and branch using Distress Oxide inks and then cut them out with their coordinating dies.

For the background I used a cloud stencil by MFT. I inked through the stencil with Versamark ink and then used Simon Says Stamp Fine Detail White Embossing Powder and heat set it.

Then I used Broken China, Salty Ocean and Mermaid Lagoon Distress Oxide inks blended over the top of the clouds. I used a dry cloth just to take any excess off of the heat embossed areas.

I found a little sentiment from a magazine freebie set, that says "A little bird told me...." and teamed it with another stamp from the set to finish the sentiment.

I cut the whole panel out with an MFT Blueprints Stitched Rectangle die, and then I added a few Nuvo Jewel drops in Sea Breeze and Strawberry Coulis to finish it off.

I hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Blooming boots

Hooray for Friday.  Who else is looking forward to some weekend craft time?

Today's card is again inspired by the numerous cards I've seen using stencils.  This time I used some Nuvo embellishment mousse in peony pink through a floral stencil.

I attached my stencil to some pink card and applied a generous layer of the mousse then left it to dry for 24 hours.

While waiting for the mousse to dry I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the floral wellies.  This stamp is from the March kit by Simon Says Stamp.

I also black embossed a sentiment from the same set onto a thin strip of lilac card.

I attached my sentiment and wellies to the background and added everything to a pink card base.

Hope you like the finished card as much as I do.  TTFN Jude xx

You are amazing

Good morning folks, I hope you have had a good week so far, and the weather is starting to warm up a bit for you.

This is a card that I made a while back for Mum using the Blooms Fill In stamp set from Concord & 9th. I love a yellow and grey colour combination so wanted to try it with this set, and I think it came out lovely.

I used the Rock Collection and Pocketful of Sunshine Crisp Dye Inks from Altenew to make the panel and then cut it out with an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements die. 

I used a sentiment from the Concord & 9th Dahlia Turnabout set and the frame is from the Blooms Fill in Dies.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you next week.

xxx

Golden girl

Happy Wednesday and thank you for spending time with us today.

Today's card uses very few supplies - a stencil, 2 stamps and a sentiment die.

It seems everyone is using stencils lately so I dusted off some of our old ones to give a subtle background to my girl.

Although it appears brown this ink is actually Morning Frost from Altenew's Warm Grey collection.  I coloured the girl in matching colours using Spectrum Noir alcohol markers.

The banner is made using a die from a Blueprints set by MFT, to which I added a stamped sentiment.

The finishing touches were Liquid Pearls in Bisque and some shimmer pen highlights.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Small Stamp Wreath

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week so far. I was inspired to make today's card after seeing a new product released by Gina K Designs, for a Wreath Builder set. 

As it's quite expensive to get a lot of the big named companies products shipped over here, I thought I would have a go with the products we already had.

So I dug out the Pretty Little Peonies stamp set from WPlus9 and made a makeshift template to hold the card. I based it on the one I had seen but just made ours from heavy weight card. (I did try acetate first, but it didn't cut as smoothly as the card!).

I started with a 4 x 4 square of plain white card, and then turned it using the template 8 times for each stamp. This gives you a circular design which you can build up with other stamps.

Which is what I did with this one, I started with the main flower and then added in the leaves and smaller flowers afterwards.

When it was finished, I added a simple sentiment, matted the panel on black card and then put it all on to a plain white 5 x 5 card blank. Now I definitely want to buy the real thing lol.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx