Happy thoughts

It's Friday at last.  Hope you have something nice planned for the weekend?

We are off out to celebrate our little brother's 36th birthday at our favourite Chinese restaurant.

As I can't share his birthday cards before the actual day, I have another card I made for the 30 day colouring challenge.

This image is from All Dressed Up and is Wear with Style girl 03.  I coloured her simply without much shading using some zesty coloured Copic markers.

The background is made using a couple of stamps from a Simon Says Stamp set called I See You.  I love making these fun background with the little stamps that don't often get used.

The sentiment is a Wplus9 set called Strictly Sentiments 2.

Hope you like her.

TTFN Jude xx

Birthday monkey

Good morning all, hope you are well.

Today's card is another I have made for my grandson's birthday at the end of the month.

This time I have used the Birthday Monkey digi stamp from All Dressed Up. I coloured him with Copics and then cut him out with an MFT Pierced Squares die. 

The paper is from a new pad I got for Christmas called What a Hoot by Trimcraft.

I used a coordinating card from Coredinations and then used the same colour to cut the number 9 and the name. 

Both of these are cut with X-Cut dies.

That's another one off the crafty list, doing well so far lol.

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

xxx

True Friendship

Good morning all. Today's card is one I made up using two of the digi stamps that I coloured last week. 

I thought I would have a change and instead of making a birthday or anniversary card etc. I decided to make a just because/friendship card. 

The images are from All Dressed Up and are coloured with Copics. The stamp is from the Creative Expressions Classic Sentiments set. 

The paper is from the stash and the frame is part of the Curiosity Corner collection from Dove Crafts.

I finished it off with a paper heart, a metal badge, and a few pearls.

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

xxx

Lily's Room - Door Plaque

Good morning all, hope you are well. I'm back at work today after a few days off because of the flu etc. So I hate to think what's waiting for me lol. But I'm sure it will be OK.

You may remember a couple of weeks ago, I made a door name plaque for one of my granddaughter's, Isabelle. 

Well when her big sister saw it she asked if she could have one, but a little more grown up. Well she is a big 6 lol. So this is what I've made for Lily. 

I used an artists canvas board again, but this time I covered it with lots of pieces of paper from the stash, all cut at different sizes.

I inked all around the edge with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink, and then sealed it all with Ranger Glue N Seal.

The little girl is an All Dressed Up digi stamp, which I coloured with Copics and Spectrums. I stuck her on with Cosmic Shimmer and then went over her with Glue N Seal. 

I coloured the chipboard letters with a Picked Raspberry Distress Marker, and stuck them on. I wanted to give the letters a bit of definition so I went around them with a black fine liner pen.

Then I added three different types of lace to the bottom using the hot glue gun and finally finished it off with a ribbon bow and some paper flowers. 

Hope you like it, Lily loved it.

Take care, see you soon.

xxx

Colouring Practice

Good morning all and welcome to the weekend. Hope you are all fit and well. I'm now recovering from a rather nasty flu bug and septic tonsillitis. Urghh, it's been horrid but I am starting to feel a little more human again. lol. Jude on the other hand has now come down with an infection and Vertigo. So she can't move very well or she falls over lol. It's not nice for her but funny for us ;o)).

Anyway as I haven't been up to much crafting I have just been doing a bit of colouring practice. It is nice just to colour sometimes. These will eventually get made in to cards but just not yet!. 

These images are from All Dressed Up and coloured with Copics and Spectrum Noirs. 

These ones are also All Dressed Up images coloured with Spectrums.

And this one is an image from The Stamping Chef. Isn't she gorgeous, and of course the dress had to be red and I gave her blonde hair. A real busty blonde lol. 

Again I coloured her with Copics and Spectrums.

I am seeing some improvement in my colouring so I'm happy with that, but still a long way to go.

Anyway, hope you all enjoy your weekend and I'll see you soon.

Take care.

xxx

All Dressed Up

Good morning all, hope you are well today.

This card is one I made a couple of weeks ago for my great niece for her 3rd birthday. To be honest I had forgotten that I hadn't blogged it ;o))

The image is from All Dressed Up, and I coloured it with Copics and Spectrum Noirs.  

I cut her out by hand and then found some coordinating papers in the stash. 

The flowers are a mixture of paper and fabric ones all placed on a paper doily. 

I inked the edges with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink, then I added a number 3 and a simple sentiment. 

 

I finished the card off inside with a small strip of the green paper.

Hope you like it.

Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Bedroom Door Name Plate

Good morning all, hope you are well. We are having some very strange weather here at the moment. One minute it's lovely sunshine, the next it's chucking it down with rain. Can't win lol.

Anyway, today's post is a little name plate that I have made for my granddaughter Isabelle's bedroom door. Her mummy asked me to make one as she hasn't had her own bedroom before so has never had a door plate. 

This is what I came up with. I started with a canvas board and covered it with Spun Sugar Distress Paint, and then blended around the edges with Picked Raspberry Distress Ink. 

The image is from All Dressed Up, and I coloured her with Copics and Promarkers. 

I used some stick on letter's for the name, and then sealed everything with Ranger Glue N Seal, in a gloss finish. 

I made the flower using a Diesire die and some purple felt, then added some little paper roses. 

Then I finished it off with a few butterflies and gems. Now I've been asked to make another one for Lily's door lol.

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

xxx

Abi Ballerina

Good morning folks, hope you are all well. Today's card is made with an All Dressed Up digi stamp called Abi Ballerina. She is so cute.

I tried to give the colouring a bit of a lighter touch today and I think she has worked out pretty well.

I coloured her with Spectrum Noirs and Copics for the skin, and then cut her out with a Sizzix scalloped square die.

The paper is from the Fairy Belle collection and the card is Coredinations in  2 different shades of lilac/purple.

I inked around all of the edges with Dusty Concord Distress Ink and then added a little padded heart to finish her off.

I wanted to leave her quite plain as I think this will go to my great niece later this month when she is 3. And then I will add on her name or age etc.

Hope you like it, take care. See you soon.

xxx

Sweet Pea

Hello again.  My card today is made using a Kaisercraft pad called Sweet Pea, an All Dressed Up digi stamp and Tattered Forals die.  The paper pad was another freebie with a magazine subscription.  It's always nice to try something new when you haven't paid extra for it lol ;)

I used four papers from the pad and mounted two on to orange card.  The other two went onto an adhesive sheet to make a double sided paper to use for the flower.  This picture shows the paper on the reverse.  I did this to make the paper thicker and also in case the underside could be seen.  In the end I made a flat flower so I could have stuck with just one sheet!

The image was coloured with Promarkers and cut out freehand.  I mounted her on to some more orange card before adding to the finished card.

I used an 8 x 8 card blank and added a piece of green backing paper from my scrap box.  The edges of this and the other papers were smudged with Scattered Straw Distress Ink.  This is such a versatile colour.

The other layers were attached at angles to each other and my rub on sentiment applied to the top paper.

I added my girl, the tattered flower and a few drops of Olympic Gold PVA to finish off.  What do you think?

TTFN Jude xx