Biker boy

Happy Monday crafty friends.  Hope you had a pleasant and restful weekend. 

My card today is quite masculine given the colours but could easily be made appropriate for a girl biker too.

I used a basket weave embossing folder and used the reverse.  I thought it looked like tread plate.

The bike is an MFT die and the sentiment is part of a Frantic Stamper Precision Die - Happy Birthday Layer Makers set.

I finished the sentiment with silver embossing powder.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Making Christmas Happy

Good morning all. Yes you have me again today, as Jude is currently unable to type until her hand starts to improve. The operation did go very well though and she is feeling much better with this one than she did when she had her right hand fixed. Hopefully she will be back with us next week.

Anyway, today's card was one of those that looked better in my head!!! I used the Cheery Christmas set again from Lawn Fawn and stamped a few of the critters and images, then coloured them with Copic Markers. 

For the background I used a piece of Christmas paper from the stash and embossed a piece of white Centura Pearl card with a snowflake embossing folder, then added them to a teal card base.

The 'Happy' word die is a Frantic Stamper die that sits on it's own little border, so I tucked this in-between the two papers, then added some twine around the middle.

I arranged the images to look like they were decorating the sign, and then added a load of clear Wink of Stella to make it all shimmer.

It turned out OK, but I'm not sure the main word stands out enough? What do you think? 

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

xxx

Reflection die cut

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. We are celebrating a birthday a Christening and an Anniversary in the next few days, so It's going to be a busy weekend lol.

I needed another male card a few weeks ago so while looking for inspiration I found this card on Pinterest. I really liked the colours and the use of the large word so I set about to make something along those lines, only I don't really do CAS so mine is much fussier !

I used some dark grey card for the background and then cut the MFT Skyline from a pale silver card and the background die from black card. I had to cut the background one back to front so that I could use it as a mirror image. 

I then die cut the Birthday die from the Happy Birthday Layer Makers by Frantic Stamper, and covered it with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with Ranger Fine Detail Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder.

I placed this across the middle of the panel and then went over the black silhouette with a Clear Wink of Stella pen, to give it some shimmer.

To finish the card off I stamped a Happy sentiment from a Simon Says Stamp set and added some clear Gems and sequin stars.

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

xxx

Foxy wishes

Monday again and I'm back with another birthday card.

This one uses the fox and bird from Party Animal by Lawn Fawn.  I've teamed them with some Wplus9 balloon dies and a layered sentiment set by Frantic Stamper.

I've deliberately kept this one plain and simple.  What do you think?

TTFN Jude xx

30th Birthday Girl

Good morning all and Happy Thursday. Hope you are all well and having a good week. 

Today's card is one I made for a friend of my son and daughter-in-law, who turned 30 a couple of weeks ago. I wanted something girly but grown-up, so I dug through our stamp selection and came up with this very old stamp that we got free in a magazine.

I coloured her with Copic markers and then mounted her on to some gold and black card. I used a corner chomper to round off all the corners. 

I made the rosette using three different sizes of round punch, and then added a 30 to the centre cut from MFT Bright Light Number dies. Then I used a couple of pieces of ribbon and stuck them together, then stuck them to the back of the circles.  

The Happy and Birthday dies are from Frantic Stamper and are the Happy Birthday Layer Makers. 

I added a little message to the inside using a Simon Says Stamp set called Happy and Smile. 

Then I finished it off with some sparkly sequins and stars. 

Because the girls were having a weekend away to celebrate, Staci asked me to make some stickers for champagne flutes for the train. So I used Safmat, and printed out these with the girls names on, then cut them out with oval dies. 

Then as a little gift for the birthday girl, I made her a badge using a wooden heart, a brooch back, Safmat and a gold pen. 

Hope you like them all, thanks for stopping by, take care and I'll see you soon. 

xxx

Happy Birthday

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

Today's card is another simple one, made after finding inspiration on Pinterest. 

I used an Embossalicious Large Dots embossing folder on black shiny card for the background. Then matted it with bright red card on to an A5 Kraft card. 

I used part of the Layer Makers die from Frantic Stamper to cut the centre panel. Then I stamped the Birthday using Jet Black Archival ink and an MFT stamp. 

I used an offcut of the red card as an accent across the middle, and then tied some red and white twine under the sentiment. 

I thought it looked a little plain so had a good root through our embellishments and came up with some red and gold sequins. 

I randomly placed some stars across the black card with Cosmic Shimmer glue and then used a red leaf on the centre panel to finish it off. 

Hope you like it, take care and I'll 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