Alcohol Ink Background

Good morning all, I hope you have had a great weekend and are having a good week so far. Today's card is one I made for mum's birthday last week.

I blended different shades of blue Alcohol Pearl Inks on to Yupo paper, and before it was completely dry, I pressed gold foil randomly over it, and just let it stick where it wanted.

I cut a panel of white card with an MFT Stitched Rectangle die to fit an A2 card base, and then I used a large circle die to cut a window in the front.

I placed my Yupo paper behind the aperture and then cut a few leaves and berry stems from plain white card, using M & C Boutiques dies.

I arranged the stems behind the window and then glued them into place before snipping off the ends. I also added a die-cut Mum sentiment using a Cut and Make die and the same white card.

Then I heat embossed a simple Happy Birthday Sentiment with Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder, and added this to the front using foam tape, before I added it all to a plain 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

Baby Boy Blue

Good morning all and happy Hump day, or Wednesday, whichever you prefer lol. I hope you are all having a good week.

Today's card is the 2nd of the new baby boy's cards that I needed in the space of a couple of weeks. So I went back to the same style as the first one that I made, and just changed it up a bit.

For this version, I used Altenew Inks from the Sweet Dreams set, and the Concord & 9th Hugs and Kisses Turnabout Stamp. When I had stamped the hearts, I used a Spellbinders Circle die to cut them out, and then added the circle to a Stitched Rectangle die cut, using craft foam for Dimension.

The little elephant was made with different tones of blue Alcohol Ink, onto Yupo Paper, with a bit of Silver Mixative. I used an MFT Stamps Die from the Wild Things set to cut him out, and used a Cut and Make die to cut the sentiment from the same piece of Yupo Paper.

I added the panel to a blue note card, and then used some Nuvo - Calming Aqua and Caribbean Ocean Crystal Drops with some Sea Breeze Jewel Drops to finish it off.

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

xxx

Skating in the park

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend. Today is the last of my Christmas cards that I have to share with you. I love how this one turned out so I didn't want to forget about it.

I used the My Monthly Hero kit from October 2018 for today's card, plus an add on background stamp. I started by stamping the background snowflake stamp on to blue card and heat embossing with clear embossing powder. Then I added Blueprint Sketch and Black Soot Distress Oxide Inks over the top to give a night time wintry look.

I stamped my images using the included stamp set, and cut them out with the matching dies. Then I coloured them with Copic Markers.

I heat embossed my tree using the embossing powder that came with the kit, it has green and gold in it. Then I cut the tree in half to hang off the edge of the page.

I used Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio dies for the snowy backdrop, then added my images on top.

To finish it off, I popped a Cut and Make sentiment, which I die cut in a soft gold card and stacked for dimension, at the top.

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

xxx

Red Sky at Night...

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. I'm looking forward to the weekend, and hoping to fit in some crafty time, hope you are too.

Today's card was a bit of a change to see if I liked a different background colour for my Xmas cards, and I do lol. 

I used the Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio dies, for my snow banks, and I made the snowman from two different sized circle punches.

I gave him a little hat from a smaller snowman die, and fashioned some arms and a nose from scraps of paper, then gave him some eyes and buttons using black pearls.

The little sleigh and trees are small Cut and Make dies, and I cut them both in sparkle card. Then I added some small punched circles as snowballs, and filled the sky with falling snow using a white gel pen.

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

xxx

Sending Joy

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend. We had our granddaughters to stay over on Saturday, four of them (two of mine and Alan's and two of Jude's) ranging from 3 to 10 years old.  They were all so excited that they got to spend time with their 'cousins' lol, and they were all beautifully behaved for us.

Right, today's card is as clean and simple as it gets for me lol. I started with a piece of pink card, and stamped it with a Hero Arts background stamp called Graphic Snowflakes Bold Print, in Versamark ink.

Then I used Fine Detail White Embossing Powder from Simon Says Stamp, and heat embossed it, then I cut the panel to size with a Stitched Rectangle die from an MFT Blueprints Dienamics set.

The little ornament die is a Cut and Make die, and the letters are from Lawn Fawn's Finlay's ABC's. I cut each three times from white card, and stacked them together with liquid adhesive for dimension.

I used the string and bow from a Memory Box Snowflake die, for the string to my bauble, as I like the design. I just cut it off the snowflake and then pieced it on to my bauble with glue, and my card was all finished.

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

xxx

Pink and White Christmas....

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend, and managed to fit some craft time in.

I have been trying some different colour combos (for me), for this year's Christmas Cards, and this was my attempt with Pink. 😏 Not great but I'll keep trying until I find something I like, lol.

The stitched hillside is from Mama Elephant's, Stitched Border Trio dies, and the tree lined hill is a Marianne Designs. The Houses and the Santa with Reindeer are from a First Edition, Craft a Card, large die. 

I cut the whole die from pink card, but then just snipped out the bits I wanted. I added some white card behind the houses so I could colour the windows etc. but in hindsight I wouldn't do that again, or just stick to a pale yellow glow.

  

Then I popped it onto a pink note card, and added a Merry Christmas Die Cut from Cut & Make to finish it off.

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

xxx

Happy Birthday Flowers

Good morning crafty friends, and happy Friday. I hope you have all had a good week, and are looking forward to the Bank Holiday weekend.

Today's card is the last in our floral theme for this week, and is made with this flower wreath/basket die set, from Die Cutting Essentials magazine.

I started by stamping a floral background stamp on to white card using Versamark Ink, then I heat embossed it with white embossing powder, and used Distress Ink to blend over the embossed pattern.

I used a Lawn Fawn Stitched Square Die to cut the panel down, and then added a larger stitched square panel behind it in Kraft card.

I cut the wreath shape and the extra flowers a couple of times in Kraft card, and then again in white card, and layered them onto my pink panel.

Then I added a die-cut sentiment, using the Happy that came with this set and a Birthday die from Cut N Make on a Lawn Fawn Banner.

Then I added it all to a 5 x 5 Kraft card blank and finished it with a few drops of Nuvo Crystal Drops in White Blizzard.

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

xxx