Peppa Pig

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. Are you looking forward to a nice crafty weekend? I know I am lol.

Today's card is one I made for my great niece who turned 3 last week. I decided to have a go at a Peppa Pig card, after seeing a couple of store bought ones.

I used my circle punches for the head, ears, and nose, and trimmed down a large punched circle for the skirt. I cut small strips of the pink card for the arms and legs, and very simple shapes from black card for the shoes.

Another small punch gave me the cheek, and I used enamel dots for her nose, and gave her googly eyes. I cut the mouth by punching a red circle, and then punching into the circle again with the same punch, to give me a small semi-circle, and then punched that again, to give me the very fine curve!

I used a Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio die to cut the hillside, and then a First Edition cloud die for the top. I added these to an A2 notecard and then assembled Peppa on top.

I gave her a few balloons that I already had cut, and added her name using the Avery Elle, Modern Alpha dies. Then I stamped a simple sentiment from Clearly Besotted, and added a die cut 3 to finish.

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

xxx

Birthday Balloons

Good morning crafty friends, I hope you are having a good week. Can you believe that we are at the end of January already ??? where did that go lol.

Today's cards were an idea that popped in to my head that I decided to give a try, using the string of balloons to make the age number of the recipient.

It ended up being very fiddly, so I don't think I will rush to try it again, but I am happy with how these turned out. 

I have recently signed up to a new monthly kit, from Hobby base, and the foiled card and twine came in that kit. I used an MFT Stamps, Dienamics die to cut the balloon shape, and raised them on foam tape onto 6 x 4 card blanks.

I shaped the twine into the numbers and then covered them in PVA glue, once they were dry, they were pretty much stuck in the shape, so I could glue them to my cards and tie a knot around the balloon end.

Then I heat embossed a sentiment and added a few sequin stars to finish.

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

xxx

You're 2 Cute

Good morning everyone, I hope you are having a good week.

Today's card is one I made for Jude's granddaughters 2nd birthday yesterday. I used a background paper for a change, this one was a magazine freebie a couple of years ago, but I love the colours and thought the bunting design was cute for a little girl.

For the main image, I cut a scalloped rectangle die from Tonic Studios, and then used a number from a Fancy Pants die cut set, and some cardboard adhesive letters for the sentiment. 

I coloured the letters with Copic Markers to match the background paper and then cut a couple of WPlus9 Balloons from the Whole Lotta Happy set. I did one in a spotty card and the other in plain white card, which I then coloured yellow.

The little pink spotty star balloon is from the Clearly Besotted Laugh Out Loud set, and I gave them all a red twine string for a pop of colour.

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

xxx

Birthday Balloons

Good morning all, how is your week going? are you like me and already can't wait for the weekend? lol.

Today's card is super simple and was inspired by a post I saw on Pinterest. I used the WPlus9 Whole Lotta Happy balloon die set to cut lots of different balloons from white card stock.

Then I placed them randomly over another piece of white card and cut it down to fit a 6 x 4 card base. 

The Happy Birthday die is from Clearly Besotted, I cut it out and then coloured the letters with different pink, lilac and purple Copic markers.

Then I laid this across the panel with my balloons, found a piece of card to co-ordinate and layered it behind, before adding it to a white card base.

Then to finish it off I went to town with pink and purple sequins. As I didn't have any sequins in the right shade of pink, I used clear ones and coloured them with a matching Copic marker. They turned out great!!!

Thanks for stopping by, hope you like today's card. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Distress Oxide Blending

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card uses the new Distress Oxide inks again, this time for blending a background.

I used, Faded Jeans, Broken China and Fossilized Amber, and blended them together on to smooth white card. They blend so easily and you really don't get the lines that you can get with the regular Distress inks if you're not careful !!!!!

Then I used the XCut Carnival Numbers dies to cut the large number in another piece of card, which I laid on top of my blended piece using thick foam pads.

The Balloons are cut with some MFT dies, coloured with the Oxide inks and then covered with Glossy Accents.

Then I used the Clearly Besotted, Happy Birthday die set to cut out the sentiment, and used the same inks to give it some colour.

A very simple card, but great for a boys birthday.

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

xxx

Cuddly cat

I scheduled this post before my operation so hopefully that went well and this will post properly!

For my birthday Jen and the family bought me some stamps and dies I have been wanting for a while - Cuddly Critters from Simon Says Stamp.  I finally got round to stamping and colouring some of these adorable little chubby animals.

I decided to make this cute cat the focus of my card and kept the rest very simple.  I used my Gansai Tambi watercolours to create the background and mounted it on a lilac card base.

The balloons are a cut with a Paper Smooches die and stamped with mini messages from Mama Elephant.  I then added glossy accents to them.  I was a bit heavy handed with this and they took ages to dry!  (Note to self: be a bit more sparing with the glossy accents lol!)

They did turn out quite well though.  I used some twine to create strings for the cat to hold.  I then sliced around his paw and stuck the tails underneath, so he can hold them tightly.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

One in a minion

Good morning all and welcome to the start of another week. We are now in the midst of major birthday season for us, and this is one of the cards that I made for my granddaughter, when she turned 4 last week. We have another 7 birthdays over the next 4 weeks!!! so busy, busy, busy ;o))

Anyway, today's card came about after seeing other Minion cards on Pinterest. I cut myself a basic egg shape by cutting off the bottom part of an oval.

Then I just made the other bits of the Minion's outfit up as I went along. For quite a while she didn't have any arms or hands lol, but I looked at what others had done, then cut the arms by hand and used tiny hearts for the hands.

I used a couple of circle punches for the mouth and then added some googly eyes. Then I drew in some eyelashes and hair with a fineliner.

I typed the sentiment on the computer then printed it on the laser printer and added some pink foil with my Minc machine.

The balloons are from a Paper Smooches die set and I added stickers for the sentiments, then I drew in the balloon strings with a silver glitter pen.

I embossed a piece of white card with a Marianne Designs stars embossing folder and then cut it out with a stitched rectangle die.

Then I added it all to a 7 x 5 card blank. Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Unforgettable - Just Like You

Good morning all, hope you are well and have recovered from the Christmas and New Years celebrations. We have had such a lovely Christmas and New Year that we really didn't want it to end. But oh well, we're all back to work now and on with a new year. 

Today's card is one I made using the Mama Elephant Ella and Friends stamp and die sets. 

I used a patterned paper for the background and then stamped the images using Tuxedo Black Memento ink.

I coloured them with Copic markers and then cut them out with the matching dies. 

I used some balloon dies from Paper Smooches and held them to Ella with some blue twine. 

I love her little friends at the bottom, you can easily change the scene depending on which friends and accessories you choose. 

I finished the card off with one of the sentiment stamps that comes with the set and a die cut 7, for the birthday boy. 

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

xxx