Kick up your heels

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

Today's card was made using the February 2019 My Monthly Hero Kit from Hero Arts. You may remember this card that I made a couple of weeks ago. Well I wanted to use the negative pieces from the die-cut background so I kept them and used them on today's card.

They were cut from the X-Cut Adhesive Metal Effect Sheets, and using the backing paper that I took off the original card as a stencil, I stuck them onto a deep teal background.

I stamped the image and sentiment from the set with Versamark ink, and then heat embossed them with Gold Fine Detail Embossing Powder, from Cosmic Shimmer.

Then I added a few gold sequins to finish it off.

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

xxx

Poinsettia Wreath Card

Good morning all, I hope you have had a great week, and are looking forward to the weekend. 

Today's card was again inspired by different cards on Pinterest, but changed to make my own. I started by stamping the branch wreath from a Creative Stamping magazine set, onto navy blue card stock using Versamark ink.

Then I heat embossed it with Ranger Fine Detail Embossing Powder in Liquid Platinum. We have had this powder for about 4 years, and are only just starting to think about getting a new one, they really do last for ages. It is one of mine and Jude's favourite colours as it is neither gold or silver and goes with both.

 I then cut my panel out with an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements die, and put it on to a white card blank. The little poinsettia flowers came in one of my Wow Embossing Powder kits, and I layered them together and added a gold sequin to the center.

 Then I added a few bits of white fern leaves and mistletoe to the flower, placed a small layered sentiment in the middle and some gold stars. Then to finish it off I added some white and gold gel pen flurries. 

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

xxx

Nuts about you

Good morning all, yes you have me again today, as Jude is off in the 'Big Smoke' for work, so she'll be back with you tomorrow.

Today's card is one that I made for my hubby's birthday last week. We both love squirrels, so this card was very appropriate.

I used the stamp set from Creative Stamping magazine, issue 60, and combined it with a set from Simon Says Stamp, called Nutty over You.

I embossed a circle on to the centre of a 4x4 piece of white card, and then stamped some small leaves and berries around the edge using Altenew Crisp Dye Inks.

I stamped the squirrel with Versamark ink and then embossed it with Nuvo Embossing Powder in Copper Blush.

Then I added a few stick on acorns and sequins before matting it with a coloured card, and adding it to a 5x5 note card.

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

xxx

Silver Embossing

Good morning all I hope you are having a good week. Not long before the weekend now, and hopefully some crafty time !

Today's card is very simple, but very very pretty, and uses a flower image from the July 2018 Simon Says Stamp Card Kit. 

I used soft grey card, and tapped it generously with my anti-static pad, then I stamped the image with Versamark ink, and heat embossed it with Detail Silver Shine Embossing Powder from Cosmic Shimmer.

I cut the panel out with an MFT Stamps Blueprints 13 Stitched Rectangle die, and added it to a black A2 note card.

Then I stamped the Love and Hugs sentiment that came with the set, and the On Your Birthday sentiment, from a recent magazine set, using Jet Black Archival Ink.  I layered them both with black card and then added them to the card.

Like I said, very simple, but still very pretty. Hope you like it too, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Otterly great Father’s Day

Good morning all, I do hope you are having a good start to the week. Today's card is one I made for Alan for Father's Day from our Grandson's. They were staying with us this weekend, so it was lovely for them to be with him for Father's day.

I used images from Issue 57 of Creative Stamping Magazine, teamed with sentiment stamps from Avery Elle and Altenew.

I stamped the otter, and sentiments first using Versamark and Versafine Onyx Black ink. Then heat embossed them with Simon Says Stamp, fine detail clear embossing powder.

Then I stamped the otter again on to a sticky note pad, and cut it out by hand to create a mask. I covered my first otter up with the mask and stamped the grassy beds behind him.

I used Zig Clean Colour Real Brush pens, along with a water brush to colour the otter, and then decided to leave the rest of the card plain. I was going to watercolour a background, but I liked the monochromatic look, so left it alone.

Then I just cut the panel down slightly and put it on to a light tan card blank.

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

xxx

Belated birthday wishes

Good morning folks, I do hope you have had a good weekend, and the weather has been as nice for you as it has for us. This week on the blog, we thought we would focus on florals, so here is my first take on this theme.

As I had been playing with the Brushstroke Messages stamp set from Simon Says Stamp last week, and it was still on my desk, I decided to make another card, but this time using the patterned paper that went with the set.

After A LOT of searching, I eventually found the little flower die, that also came in the October 2017 SSS kit, and I cut quite a few flowers from the papers, and used some Sue Wilson and Marianne Creative dies for the leaves.

This card was for a young lady at work, who we only found out after the event that it had been her birthday. Hence the Belated message on the inside of the card, which is from the Avery Elle set called, Handwritten Notes.

I used part of a sentiment from the Brushstroke messages set on the tag on the front, by masking off the other half before I inked it. Then I heat embossed it with SSS Steel Navy Embossing Powder.

I added a few sequins to the front to finish it off.

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

xxx

Have a Glamorous Day

Good morning all and happy Hump day. I hope you are all having a good week so far. 

Today's card is one I made a few weeks ago while playing with one of the Creative Stamping magazine freebie sets.

I used the shoes and some of the smaller stamps and stamped them all over a plain white card panel, using very soft inks. 

I used Barely Beige and Pale Blush Pink inks by Simon Says Stamp, as I wanted a very subdued background so that the main focus would be on the front image.

Then I stamped the shoes with Versamark ink and heat set them with Cosmic Shimmer Bright Gold Fine Detail Embossing Powder. I coloured the soles red (Louboutin style!) with a Copic marker and then added Spectrum Noir Clear Glitter pen to the rest of the shoes.

I cut the image out with a Lawn Fawn Stitched Square die, and raised it with foam tape on to the stamped panel. Then I added a sentiment to the front, and another to the inside. Then I backed it with red card and put it on a white note card to finish.

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

xxx

Sparkly Leaves

Good morning folks, I hope you have all had a good week and are looking forward to the weekend. We've had a busy week here with the boys being over, but it's so lovely to have them here, and it does go far too quickly !

Today's card was going to be a white on white, with just a pop of colour, but in the end it had more colour than I had intended, but I still like it.

I used a small tree die, that I think came on a magazine a few years ago. Either that or it's a Cheery Lyn die, I can't remember lol. 

Anyway, I cut it from plain white card and then using an embossing pen I coloured some of the leaves and then added Wow Red Pearl embossing powder. Unfortunately the embossing pen turned the leaves blue and the powder wasn't enough to cover it, so the leaves ended up a shiny blue lol. So, when I repeated this for the rest of the leaves, I added silver embossing powder instead!

I used stitched rectangles for the background and frame and added a sentiment cut with a Cut n Make die, I left one part plain white and then embossed the other part silver.

Then I added it all to a plain white A2 note card.

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

xxx