Have a Wonderful Day

Good morning folks, and happy Friday. I hope you have had a great week and are looking forward to a crafty weekend.

Today's card was a lot of fun to make and I will be making more of these. I started by using a firework stencil from Simon Says Stamp and spreading Nuvo Glimmer Paste through it, on to a plain white card panel.

Once the paste was dry, I used Distress Oxide Inks over the top to create a deep blue sky effect. I just used a dry cloth to take any excess ink off of the glimmer paste.

I cut a Crafti Potential - Wonderful Sentiment Die and Surround, from white linen and silver linen card, and added these to my panel using foam tape. Then I stamped the rest of the sentiment with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and added this above and below my die-cut.

I cut the panel down to size using a stitched rectangle die, and added it to a plain white note card. Then I added in a few drops of Nuvo Atlantic Drift Glitter Accents to finish.

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

xxx

Mouse on a mushroom

Good morning all. I hope you have had a great weekend. Today's card is one of my favourites from recent makes. I used the December 2018 My Monthly Hero kit from Hero Arts. 

As you can see from my super imaginative title, this set includes this cute little mouse with a dandelion. I LOVE this little image.

I started by stamping the mouse on to white card stock, then I used a Molotow masking fluid pen to mask him, while I stamped the mushroom, so he could sit on top of it. I haven't tried masking fluid for quite some time, so I decided to give it another go, and it worked really well.

Once I had stamped my mushroom, I then coloured the images with Copic Markers, and stamped one of the sentiments from the kit.

Then I added a strip of paper to one side, before putting it all onto a red note card. 

This card has now set off on a journey to one of my very good friends, for her birthday on Thursday. I hope you like it too. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Hedgehugs and Kisses

Good morning folks, and welcome to October, I hope you have had a good weekend, and managed to fit some crafty time in.

Today's card was made using the stamp set Autumnal Treasures, from Issue 60 of Creative Stamping magazine.

I stamped the hedgehog and leaves onto plain white card with Versamark ink, and heat embossed it with Wow Parissa Embossing Powder. This powder has lots of different colours in it, including bronze, silver, and gold. So very autumnal.

I cut myself a mask from a post-it note and then blended a background using, Wild Honey, Fossilized Amber, and Tea Dye, Distress Oxide Inks, which I then splattered with water and a bit of gold glimmer mist.

I coloured the image with Copic Markers, and cut the panel out with a stitched rectangle die from MFT, before adding a heat embossed sentiment on dark brown card.

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

xxx

Best Birthday Ever

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week so far. I am continuing the floral theme today with this birthday card that uses a floral background die.

The floral background in the centre of my card, is cut from an XCut large background die called Floral Filigree Background. I die cut it using a heavy weight white card, and just used a small piece of it for the centre of my card. 

I used a dark pink card behind it and then white card on the top and bottom. Then I layered this on to a pale pink note card.

The large sentiment die cut, is from Lil Inker Designs, as is the white heat embossed sentiment, the rest of the sentiment came from a Honey Bee Stamps set called Happiness.

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

xxx

Let's go fly a kite

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card was one of those that I just made for fun, to try a couple of things out.

We have different colours of fun foam that we use for giving cards dimension, and I thought the grey colour would be perfect for an elephant.

So using Ellie by Avery Elle, I stamped the image onto the grey foam using London Fog Memento Ink. Then I cut him out using the matching die.

We also had some old sparkly craft foam, so I used a Spellbinders kite die to cut one of those. The background images are from a Creative Stamping stamp set, and I stamped the kite image all over a pale water colour panel.

I cut the panel to size, and added it to a grey card blank, then I added two sentiments from the same Creative Stamping set, in Tuxedo Black Memento ink.

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

xxx

Hoppy Birthday

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good start to the week. I have had a nice long weekend off work, which was very welcome and much needed. But alas all good things must come to an end, and I'm back to work tomorrow lol.

Anyway today's card was made using a bit of a mixture of things. I started by using post it notes to die-cut my frog, from the Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After set, and a flower shape, to use as masks in the middle of my panel.

Then I stamped my little frog, and masked him while I blended a light area around him using Distress Oxide Inks, and Picket Fence Distress Ink. 

I covered a lot of this area with my flower shape mask, and blended the rest of the panel, making it a lot darker than the middle so it looks more murky pond like, lol.

I removed the masks and coloured my little frog with Copic markers and then added a border around his lily pad with a white gel pen. Using small fish stamps from an old magazine set, I used Versamark ink and clear heat embossed the fish and bubbles so they looked like they were under water.

Then I added a couple of white heat embossed sentiments on black card, and mounted it all on to a black note card, before adding a few clear dewdrops to finish.

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

xxx

Yappy Birthday

Good morning all and happy "hump day", I hope you are all having a good week so far. Today is another card that's all about the animals lol.

For today's card I used the Lawn Fawn Happy Howlidays stamp and die set. This is normally a Christmas set, but I think it can be used for birthdays too. 

I stamped and coloured the images, using Copic Markers, then cut them out with their matching dies. 

I cut the large letters using Avery Elle's Finlay's ABC's dies, and thick grey card.

Then for the background I cut the MFT Stamps Proof Positive Cover Up die, and ink blended Distress Oxide inks over the top. This time using Wild Honey, Fossilized Amber and Squeezed Lemonade.

I added it all to an orange note card and then added a liner inside, that I had stamped with a couple of the Altenew Family Matters stamps.

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

xxx

Neigh, Oink, Moo....

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend. We have had a quiet one for a change, so it's been nice to just chill out.

Today's card was one that I made for my Nephew for his birthday last month. I know he isn't a child anymore, but I just thought this new set from MFT Stamps (Party Animals), was so cute I couldn't resist, lol.

I stamped the images and coloured them with Copic markers, then cut them out by hand, as we don't have the matching dies (yet!!!). 

For the background, I ink blended Distress Oxide inks on to plain card, and then added very subtle white clouds stencilled over the top, using Picket Fence distress ink and an MFT stencil. Then I added a few sprays and drops of Silver Glimmer Mist over the top.

I cut the MFT Sunburst Coverplate and inked a rainbow of colours over it, again with Distress Oxide inks, then I sealed it with Tim Holtz Distress Micro Glaze. I used the cut out pieces for another card that I will show you soon.

I added the backgrounds together onto a white note card and then arranged the animals on the front using foam tape. Then I added one of the sentiments from the Party Animals set to finish it off.

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

xxx