Love you more than Ice Cream

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week and are looking forward to a crafty weekend.

Today's card is one I made for my eldest granddaughter's 11th birthday last Friday. I used an older Simon Says Stamp set called Ice Cream Dream, and even dug out some coordinating paper from the stash!!!

I apologise for the shadows on the pictures, but we had awful rain here all last week, and so the natural 'daylight' was a bit sparse, so I had to take some photo's with artificial lighting, and they never look as good. I was trying to capture the shine and glitter on the lollipops and ice-cream but it kept leaving a shadow from my phone lol.

Anyway, I stamped one of the sentiments from the set onto plain white card, then I stamped the ice cream cone right above it using Versafine Onyx Black ink, and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder. I stamped the lollipops using the same method on another piece of card and then coloured them all with Nuvo Alcohol Pens, and cut the lollipops out by hand. 

I cut the main image and sentiment using an Shaped Tag MFT Die from Blueprints 13 Dienamics dies, and added this to a pink note card using the patterned paper as a mat.

I added the lollipops using tiny foam strips, then covered them and the cone with Nuvo Crystal Glaze, and dropped a bit of Plasma Purple Pure Sheen Glitter along with a little Rock Candy Distress Glitter on to the top of the ice cream.

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

xxx

More than all the stars in the sky

Good morning folks, I hope you have had a good weekend. Today is a difficult day for us as it's the anniversary of losing Dad. It is just so hard to believe that 3 years have gone so quickly since he left us. But, we went out for a meal as a family yesterday, as he would have wanted us too, and today we will go to his spot in the cemetery and probably stand in the rain while he laughs at us lol.

Anyway, this card is one I made a few weeks ago, but the sentiment couldn't be more fitting for today. This is from the Mama Elephant Shooting Star stamp set and was stamped with black pigment ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

The background is watercolour card and I used a Stampin Up background stamp called, Watercolour Wash.

I used three different colours of Distress Ink to cover the stamp with, then I spritzed the stamp with water before stamping it on to the card.

I heat set the background before stamping the sentiment, and then I used more stamps from the Shooting Star set to stamp some background images and heat embossed them with silver embossing powder.

Then I used my Sizzix layered star dies to cut the stars, and added a die cut 11 to the centre, as this card was for an 11th Birthday.

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

xxx

Eye think you're neat

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Can you believe we are now in February???? 😲

Today's card was made for my eldest grandson who turned 11 last week. This one was from his uncle, so I kept it very simple.

I used the Monster Mash stamp set from Lawn Fawn, and stamped them with Jet Black Archival ink on to watercolour card.

Then I watercoloured them with Zig Clean Colour pens, and used a Simon Says Stamp Happy Birthday Circle Die to frame around the edge.

Then I popped them onto a blue background and a grey card base, and finished it off with one of the sentiments from the stamp set.

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

xxx