Hello Gorgeous

Happy Monday and Happy May everyone!  It's also a UK Bank Holiday so no work today - woo hoo!!

Today's card is one I made for my daughter Cat's 25th birthday on Saturday (excuse the blurry picture!) 

We had a lovely family evening with takeaway, cake and one of Jen's amazing cheesecakes :0 

It had 7 packets of Rolos and used crushed Oreos for the base. It was definitely not one for those on a diet or with diabetes......... but we ate it anyway lol :)

Back to the card.

I started by stamping in Altenew's moonstone ink onto textured card using leaves from their Beautiful Day set.  

The focal  stamp is Beautiful Bouquets - Ranunculus from Wplus9, which I stamped on plain white card and coloured with Copic markers.

I fussy cut the image and added small foam pads for some dimension.  I then heat embossed the sentiment using black ink and clear embossing powder, on to a piece of matching card.

I added this as a strip over the flower using more foam tape and adhered the panel to a white note card.

The card was finished off with some White Blizzard Nuvo Drops and some silver glitter washi tape.  

Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture after adding the washi tape (top left and bottom right) so you'll have to use your imagination ;)

I also added some Wink of Stella clear to the flowers but it doesn't show well in the pictures.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Ranunculus #3

Wednesday already!  Doesn't it come around quick?

My card today is the third of those I made using the Wplus9 Beautiful Bouquets Ranunculus stamp.

This uses the same technique Jen used for the cards posted yesterday.  I loved how her's turned out and decided to try it myself.

Having white heat embossed the stamp onto some watercolour cardstock, I applied Mustard Seed Distress Ink and blended well.

The sentiment is from an Altenew set, Halftone Hello.  I added the sentiment with some tiny foam squares and used some gold Liquid Pearl embellishments.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx 

Ranunculus #2

Hello again.

I told you on Tuesday that I had used the same stamp for three different cards.  Today I have card number 2 to share.

I again used the Wplus9 Ranunculus stamp, white heat embossed on water colour card.  This time though I used a single image.

Like last time I used Zig Clean Colour markers but instead of a water-brush I used the Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen.  This not only allows you to 'paint' but add shimmer at the same time.

I'm afraid it doesn't show too well here but I assure you it looks lovely close up.

For the sentiment I used a Studio Calico set but I'm afraid I don't know the name!

I used a blue top folding note card for this one.  I wanted some blue embellishments but as we didn't have any I created my own.  These are enamel dots coloured with a blue Sharpie!

Hope you like today's card.  See you next week.

TTFN Jude xx

Ranunculus #1

Happy Tuesday!  Hope you are having a good week.

Today's card uses the Wplus9 stamp Beautiful Bouquets - Ranunculus.  I've actually used the same stamp to make three different designs which I will share over the coming week.

I started by stamping in Versamark on watercolour card and heat embossing in white.  This does make it difficult to see the design  but with time and care you can get some lovely effects.

For this card I used Zig Clean Colour pens and a water-brush.  I applied a small amount of the pen to the image and used the water-brush to create the shading.

Once I had finished I coloured a light wash over the background and sprayed it with Sheer Shimmer Mist in Sparkle.

Once dry, I attached the piece to a 4.25 x 5.5 top folding pink note card and added a sentiment cut from two matching shades of card.  I offset the top layer to create a shadow effect then went over with my Spectrum Noir sparkle pen.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

With thanks

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week and looking forward to the weekend. Today's card is one I made for a lovely friend at work, to say thank you for having my back.

 To cut a very long story short, in December, I was given a month's notice at work to either  find another job within the Council, or leave. I had worked there for 2 1/2 years, but my contract wasn't permanent, so there wasn't a lot I could do. To be honest I sort of lost all fight when it became clear that there was no chance of staying with my current team. But my lovely friend and team manager wouldn't let it go, and made a formal complaint on my behalf. Now, with her help, many sleepless nights, and a lot of tears, it looks like I will be moving to another job within the Council next week. 😊

Anyway, I used the WPlus9, Beautiful Bouquets - Ranunculus stamp, heat embossed with Simon Says Stamp fine detail white embossing powder.

First I put a piece of double sided tape across the card before I stamped the image. Then once the image was heat set, I pulled off the tape backing and added some gold foil. I ended up adding another layer of tape and more foil to even it out, but it did work well in the end.

I coloured the flowers with Copic markers and then used the sentiment stamp that comes with the image and stamped it with Jet Black Archival ink.

I cut the sentiment down to fit across the foil but still leave some showing, and then finished the card off with an orange base and a few gold and pale orange sequins.

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

xxx