Cornflower Poppies

Good morning all, I hope everyone had a good weekend, and a good start to the week.

Today's card was made with the Clearly Besotted Pure Poppies stamp and die set. But for something a bit different, I decided to stamp the poppies using blue inks. So they are more Cornflower Poppies lol.

I used Altenew Crisp Dye Inks, from the Deep Blue Seas set, to stamp the poppies on to white card. I masked and stamped until I was happy with the bunch, and then added in the stems with Altenew Inks from the Tropical Forest set.

I stamped a couple of the poppies onto a separate piece of card, and die cut them, to raise them on top of my panel.

Then I cut the panel down to fit an A2 note card, and used striped Washi Tape down each side as a background.

Then to finish it off, I stamped the sentiment from the Altenew Family Matters set, in matching inks.

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

xxx

Pure Poppies

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week so far. Today is Jude's birthday, so we are off out for lunch later. I can't share one of her cards yet as she hasn't seen them lol, so today's card is one I made for my "step-daughter" last week, who shares a birthday with my son. It's very complicated lol.

I used the Pure Poppies stamps and dies from Clearly Besotted, it's such a gorgeous stamp set, and I teamed it with a sentiment stamp set from Altenew called Family Matters.

I used Altenew Crisp Dye Inks from the Red Sunset, and Green Fields groups for the poppies, layering the colours and masking as I went along. Then I added a few extra details with Copic Markers.

I then cut around the outer edge of my poppies and raised them on foam tape to a 7 x 5 card blank.

I used Jet Black Archival ink for the sentiment. I like Archival inks for stamping sentiments, as I think you always get a crisp image from them.

The card was still a little plain for me, so I added a couple of different width strips of black card to the top, to finish it off.

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

xxx

Anniversary wishes

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week, and are looking forward to the weekend. Today's card is the one I made for my hubby Alan, for our 17th Wedding Anniversary earlier this month.

I used a heart stencil that came in one of my Wow Embossing members kits, and inked through it with Distress Oxide Inks.

I used Cracked Pistachio, Fossilized Amber and Squeezed Lemonade inks, just for a change of colour, as I do a lot of blue and pink etc.

I love this little heart and think the ombre ink effect really works well with it. I then cut the panel out using an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements die.

I used the Altenew Family Matters stamp set to create the first part of the sentiment, and then added the 'happy anniversary' using a Clearly Besotted stamp set called, Happy Anniversary.

I stamped the sentiments with Onyx Black Versafine ink, and then heat embossed them with clear embossing powder from Simon Says Stamp.

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

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