Anniversary Love Birds

Good morning folks, I hope you have had a good weekend, and a good start to the week. 

Today's card is an anniversary card that I made recently, however, the design is so simple it could easily have lots of other sentiments on it.

I started by using Alcohol Inks on glossy paper to blend a background. I used Lettuce, Meadow, and Sunshine Yellow, with a few drops of Silver Mixative, and swiped it over the paper in one direction. 

I trimmed the panel down and cut it out with a Stitched Rectangle die and then added a larger white mat behind it, before adding them to a green note card.

The tree is a Spellbinders Die-D-Lites die, and the birds are fussy cut from a Marianne Designs Birdhouse stamp set, coloured with Copic markers and then covered in Glossy Accents.

I stamped the Happy Anniversary sentiment on to plain white card and then cut it out with an MFT Stamps Stitched Banner Die.

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

Thanks

xxx

Window bear

Good morning all and Happy 'Good Friday'. I hope you are all having a lovely start to the Easter weekend, and looking forward to a nice long break, if possible. ✔

Today's card is one I made last year, but again never got around to blogging. I used a Tim Holtz brick wall embossing folder for the background, and inked it with Antique Linen, Vintage photo and Tea Dye Distress inks.

I used a Spellbinders Die D-Lites window die, to cut the window from dark grey card. Then I added a piece of patterned paper and a small bit of lace behind the window.

The little bear is from the WPlus9 Going Places stamp set, I coloured him with Copic markers and cut him out with his matching die. Then I popped him inside the window, to look like he was waving to someone outside.

I used a sentiment from a Lawn Fawn set called Party Animal, stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and then mounted on to a piece of the dark grey card to finish it off.

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

xxx

Kraft Flowers and Turquoise Spots

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good start to your week. I have my grandsons over to stay this week, but unfortunately I'm at work for a few days, but they are being very well looked after by Jude and my daughter while they are here and I do get to spend the evenings with them. :O))

Today's card was again using bits and pieces of die cuts that I already had and making a card with them. The background turquoise card and the turquoise spot card are both cut with Avery Elle, Wonky Stitched Ellements.

The Kraft layer in between is cut using an MFT Stamps Zig Zag Stitched Rectangle and the grass is from MFT Stamps Grassy Edges.

The flowers are a Spellbinders Die D-Lite, and the butterfly is from an old magazine freebie.

I love how you can combine stamps and dies from different companies and make them work together, just by using coordinating or contrasting colours and patterns.

The sentiment is from the WPlus9 Wishing You set and is cut out with an MFT Stamps Stitched Banner die. Then I just added a few enamel accents and tiny pearls to finish it off.

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

xxx

Music notes

Good morning all, hope you are having a good weekend. 

Yesterday was Jude's son-in-law's birthday, and this is one of the cards I made to send to him. 

I used an A5 dark grey card blank and a music stencil for the base, and inked through the stencil with Black Soot Distress Ink. 

Then I embossed a piece of Silver card with a Spellbinders M-bossabilities Musical Notes embossing folder. 

I was trying to go for an aged metal look, so I rubbed over the card with Black Soot distress ink and then dried it off with my heat gun. I mounted this on to a black tag and then on to another piece of silver card and used some small black corners to frame it. 

Then I cut a couple of the Spellbinder Die D-Lites Musical Notes from the silver card and added these to the card base. 

I added a piece of twine to the tag and then stamped a sentiment with Jet Black Archival ink and added it to the centre. 

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

xxx

Poppy Patch

Good morning all and welcome to May, hope you have had a good week and are looking forward to a nice weekend.

Today's card is as close as I get to clean and simple. I actually managed to resist the temptation to add anything extra ;o))

I used the Spellbinders Poppy Patch Die D-Lite, and cut it once in green card and then again in red card. Then I cut all of the heads off of the poppies on the red one and stuck them over the green ones with Cosmic Shimmer glue.

The sentiment stamp is from a Wplus9 set called Strictly Sentiments 1, and I stamped it with Lady Bug Memento ink. 

I finished it off by backing the panel with a piece of red card, then a piece of black to give it some depth. 

Hope you like it, have a great weekend, see you soon.

xxx

One of THOSE cards

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

Do you ever have one of those times when you have an idea for a card in your head - but try as you might you can't get it to look like you imagined???? well today's card is one of those for me. 

We got some new dies last week and these Happy Birthday Layer Makers by Frantic Stamper Inc were the ones I really wanted to use. 

I had this vision for a card with a different sized front and back, using the dies as the main focal point. But when I came to do it, I just couldn't get the image down on the paper. The back section was fine but I tried to cut three layers with the front die and it wouldn't go through so I ended up having to finish it with my scalpel. 

Then I used the Spellbinders Die D-Lite Flower Patch die for the flowers and heat embossed it with Shabby Pink Frantage. This looks lovely but doesn't really stand out enough on my chosen papers, which were from the Lillibet pad. 

I struggled with what to put on the inside as it looked too plain just left white. In the end I used a flower stamp from this month's Studio Calico Kit and stamped it with Shaded Lilac Distress Ink. Then I matted this with more of the dark pink card. 

I also covered the inside front page with some of the paper from the front. 

Then I added a piece of dusky pink satin ribbon across the bottom and tied a little bow. Finally I finished it off with a few pink and clear crystal gems.

All in all I'm not too unhappy with it, but it really was a lot of effort for something that's just OK lol. Anyway hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Singing Wryn

Good morning crafty friends and welcome to another 'Hump day'. Why is it that most Wednesday's feel like they go on forever? unless your doing something fun of course! But unfortunately I'm not doing anything fun, I'm at work today and have a training course this morning :o(

Today's card is made using the lovely little Tiddly Inks stamps that came free with a magazine recently. I'm not sure what she's called but I call her Singing Wryn lol. 

I coloured her with Copics and cut her out with a Spellbinders Opulent Ovals die. 

I used the larger sized die to give her a mat and then used papers from the latest Simon Says Stamp kit and a Kaisercraft Christmas pad. 

I used olive green Silky Crush ribbon across the centre and added a little angel charm. 

I used a simple sentiment again and then added the musical notes using a Spellbinders Die D-lites die called Love Notes. 

Hope you like her, have a good day. See you soon.

xxx

Round and round

Good morning all, hope you are well and looking forward to a nice weekend. We at last have a weekend where we aren't really busy lol. Although I am dog sitting while my daughter and family have gone away for a couple of days. So the two pups are more than enough to keep anyone busy lol.

 

Today's card just had to be round so that I could play with our new Grand Stately Circles dies :o)) I've wanted these for some time now and when I spotted an offer on them, well it would have been rude not to! right?

 

The second largest of the dies just so happens to fit rather nicely on an 8 inch round card blank :o)) So this time I started with the backing paper.

 

Then I cut the smallest of the circles in white Centura Pearl card. I then cut one of the Die D-Lites dies, this one is called Poppy Patch. I inked around the edges of the card and circles with Aged Mahogany Distress Ink, then used this to colour the poppy heads.

 

I coloured the stems with Forest Green Cosmic Shimmer Drawing Ink and then heat embossed it all with clear embossing powder.

I layered the paper, card and topper up and then added a couple of ready made sentiments. 

 

I finished the card by sewing a piece of ribbon in to a rosette and adding a white ribbon bow to the top. Then I topped this with a flower made in the melt pot. 

That's all for today. Thanks for stopping by again. See you soon.

xxx