Silhouette Critters

Good morning all, sorry for the late post, I totally forgot about the blog this morning. I blame the post holiday blues lol. We got back on Wednesday and now that everything is unpacked and the washing is nearly all done, I just want to go away again ;o))

Anyway, today's card is one I made a couple of weeks ago, after seeing something similar on Pinterest. 

I used the Lawn Fawn Critters at the Dog Park set and cut the dogs with dark grey card. Then I used the same grey card to make an A5 card base.

I used black and white card to make the layers and a large dot embossing folder for the white panel.

I cut the circles with 2 different sized punches. I used the 1 3/4 inch and 1 1/2 inch EK Success punches for this.

I layered everything together and then used a greeting from the Lawn Fawn Party Animals set and heat embossed it with Ranger Fine Detail Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder.

Then I just added a few tiny silver gems to finish it off.

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

xxx

Masks and Inks

Good morning all, hope you are well and having a good week. Today's card is one I made for Mum for her birthday last week, this one was from my brother.

I used a That Special Touch mask and London Fog Memento ink for the flower background. Then I punched some small flowers from yellow card and glued them on top. 

I used some coordinating yellow paper and grey and yellow card for matting and layering and offset them on a grey A5 card blank. 

The sentiment is from a Lili of the Valley set, which I cut out with a circle die from an MFT Blueprints set. Then I made a couple of mats for it with two sizes of EK Success circle punches. 

I made up the sentiment using the Crafters Companion Sentimentals Female set and stamped it with black Archival Ink. 

I added a few pearls to the centres of the flowers, then punched out a tiny butterfly from the same yellow card. 

To finish the card I found a small piece of yellow ribbon and put it across the bottom of the image, then I tied a bow for one end. 

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

xxx

Fun foam caterpillar

Good morning all and welcome to Friday. Hope you have had a good week. Today's card is one I made for our cousins little boy who was one yesterday. 

Again the idea came from Pinterest (here) I love how simple it is, so I just changed it a little to suit my style lol. 

I used fun foam for the circles and cut them with EK Success 1 1/4 and 1 1/2 inch punches. I raised them on foam pads and then drew in the feet and antenna by hand with a Fine Line Drawing Pen.

The number 1 is cut with an Xcut large number die set. I tried lots of different colours but eventually ended up colouring a piece of white textured card with a black alcohol pen. 

The Happy Birthday is stamped with a Molly Moo set that includes loads of different words and sentiments. 

The letters are from a Basic Grey Chipboard set that I won from Simon Says Stamp, and of course I had to give the caterpillar a smiley face and some googly eyes lol. 

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

xxx

New Home

My daughter and her husband are due to move in to their new house in the next few weeks.  Consequently I need to get some new home cards made.

This is the first using this weeks Mojo Monday sketch.

I followed it pretty faithfully and I think it works really well with this image.

The stamp was one of the free ones with issue 22 of Creative Stamping.

The sentiment is from a Lili if the Valley pad we've had for ages.  I cut it with a 1.5 in circle punch and used a 1.75 in punch for the backing.

These are new EK Success punches and they are fabulous!

So that's one off the list.  Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx