Cheers

Good morning all, Friday at last, and today is our last day of blogging, for now anyway. We will still continue to follow the blogs we love, and still use Pinterest to share our cards, and for lots of crafty ideas. You can follow us here: pinterest

Today is my son's 28th birthday, and as he is partial to the odd glass of a well known stout, as we all are!!! I thought I would make him this card.

The idea came from the little Toucan included in the June 2019 My Monthly Hero Kit, from Hero Arts. As soon as I saw him, I remembered the Guinness adverts with the toucan, so decided to give it a go.

I stamped him with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, and then coloured him with Copic markers, then I cut him out with his matching die.

For the glass, I used one of the coffee cups from the August 2018 Hero Arts Kit, I cut this from black card, and then again from white card, then cut the white one down to just sit at the top of the glass.

I wrote my sentiment on the laptop, and printed a harp image using the Laser jet printer, then foiled them with the Minc Machine and Rose Gold Foil. I cut the sentiment with an MFT Fishtail Banner Die, and added the rest of the sentiment in black card using M & C Boutique Alphabet Dies.

I hope you like it, take care and have a great weekend.

xxx

Spot the dog

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week so far.

Today's card is another that I made for my granddaughter's birthday last week, this time using a Spot the Dog Stamp Set called Hello Spot. This set came free with Issue 68 of Creative Stamping Magazine.

I arranged the images and sentiment on to plain white card, and then stamped them using Versafine Onyx Black ink, and then heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.

I coloured the images with Copic and Spectrum Noir markers, and then covered them with a ton of Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss Pen from Nuvo. Apologies for the awful picture, but I was trying to capture just how sparkly this shimmer pen is lol. 

Then I used an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements die to cut the panel to size, and added it to a lilac shimmer note card to finish.

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

xxx

Arts and Crafts Cards

Good morning crafty friends, I hope you have had a great weekend. We haven't been up to much this weekend, but we have a busy couple of weeks ahead with birthdays lol.

Today's cards are a couple that I made from the Hero Arts, My Monthly Hero Kit, for May 2019. It features lots of different crafty images, sentiments and coordinating dies, and while I was making the yellow version for my granddaughter's 7th birthday last week, I decided to make another version and keep it for later on in the year for my niece.

I arranged the different stamps around one of the sentiments using the Misti stamping tool. Then I stamped them with Onyx Black Versafine Ink, and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.

I coloured the images with Copic markers, and then cut the panels to fit A2 size cards by using an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements die for the yellow version and an MFT Stitched Rectangle die for the red one.

Then I added one to a yellow note card and one to a red note card, and voila all finished. 

I really must do this more often, make more than one card at once, as it really doesn't take that much longer once you have the idea and set-up.

Thank you for stopping by today, I hope you like these cards, have a great week and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Always be yourself

Hello again.

Today's card is another made for Izzy's 7th birthday last week.

For this underwater scene I combined two sets from Simon Says Stamp and Hero Arts.

For the background I blended stormy sky and tumbled glass distress oxides on to smooth white card. I then used stormy sky to stamp the background silhouettes.

I used Copic markers to colour the mermaid, added loads of Nuvo aqua shimmer pen, then fussy cut her leaving a thin white border.

The rocks and foliage were stamped using a selection of Wendy Vecchi blendable dye inks.  These stamped really well over the distress ink.

I cut my panel down and added it to a white card base.  I used a simple sentiment and then inside stamped, "Always be yourself, unless you can be a mermaid."

TTFN Jude xx

Birthday Numbers

 Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week so far.

Today's card was made for my niece's husband's 30th birthday a couple of weeks ago. I started by cutting the Happy Birthday Circle Die from Simon Says Stamp from plain white card. I used three die-cuts and stacked them together for dimension.

Then I used Copic and Nuvo Alcohol Markers to colour the  letters in different shades of blue and beige.

For the background I used stamps from a Lawn Fawn set called Owen's ABC's , and stamped these with some of the paler shades from Altenew's Crisp Dye Ink Collection.

Then I stamped a large number 30 on to a circle of white card, using a Creative Stamping Stamp Set and heat embossed in with navy blue embossing powder.

Then I added it all to a bright blue note card. 

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

xxx

A New Baby Girl

Good morning all, I hope you are having a great start to your week, and if you are in the UK, enjoyed a nice long weekend.

We had a new addition to the family arrive last week, in the shape of my new baby granddaughter Willow. She was just a week early and is absolutely perfect. Today's card is one of the ones I made for her.

I used Tim Holtz Alcohol Pearl Inks to create a soft rainbow background on Yupo Paper, then I stamped, coloured and die-cut my elephants using the Clearly Besotted Love You Tons set and Copic Markers.

I added the images to my background and then framed and layered them using Lawn Fawn Stitched Square dies,. The sentiment is cut from the same piece of Yupo paper, using a couple of Cut and Make Sentiments.

Then I added it all to a 5.5 x 5.5 card blank to finish. 

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

xxx

Flower patch

Hello and happy May bank holiday to my UK friends.

I'm here today with a simple card featuring small stamps.

This stamp set is Hello Darling from Simon Says Stamps April card kit.  

I used several of the small flower, leaf and stem stamps to create my border.

  I then loosely outlined each flower using a black multi-liner pen.

I cut a square frame using a couple of stitched dies and added my border behind.  I cut off the excess and added a green Copic pen to the bottom for the ground.

I added the panel to a white card base and used a well-loved sentiment stamp from the stash, underneath.

This is a really easy design to replicate.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Tri-Fold Birthday Card

Good morning all, I hope you have enjoyed the long Easter weekend. We have had a lovely one spending time with family and getting out and about.

Today's card is one I made after watching another of Jennifer McGuire's videos, featuring tri-fold cards. I started with 2 yellow A2 note cards, and glued them together. 

Then I cut a circle window in the front of the card, and used a fancy circle die set from The Works  to make a frame around it. Before sticking this on I used an MFT Stamps Confetti Background Stamp, and inked it with Altenew Crisp Dye Ink from the Pocketful of Sunshine set.

The image inside is from a Simon Says Stamp set from earlier this year, and I coloured this with Copic Markers. Then I added it to the first fold of the card so that the flowers poked through the window on the front.

I added a sentiment strip to the front, and then finished it off with another sentiment over the top of the flowers on the inside. Being careful not to let it show through the front window.

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

xxx

No Prob-llama

Good morning all, I hope you have had a great weekend. 

Today's card is made using stamps from Creative Stamping Magazine Issue 57 called Go Wild, along with the background images from the April 2018 Card Kit from Hero Arts.

I started by stamping the llama onto plain white card, colouring it with Copic Markers, and then cutting it out by hand. I stamped some cactus images onto another piece of card and then masked them to ink a background using Distress Oxide Inks. 

I cut the background down to size with a Stitched Rectangle die from MFT Stamps, and then added the llama and sentiment on top with foam tape for dimension. Then I popped it all onto a plain white A2 note card.

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

xxx