Puffy Heart Panda

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. We are soooo looking forward to a long weekend again, unfortunately they flash past so quickly. lol. But anyway, tomorrow is my niece's birthday and this is one of the cards I made for her.

Isn't that little panda just so cute? This whole card was made using an embossing folder, and stamps from a papercraft magazine. I really like this set and can see it getting lots of use.

I started by embossing a piece of white card with the heart embossing folder, before I stamped the Panda and a sentiment in the middle, with Tuxedo Black Memento ink.

I used a couple of Copic markers to add some colour to the balloon, bee and butterflies, and then used a white gel pen and a black fineliner to add a bit of detail.

I found a nice shade of yellow Coredinations card to sit behind the front panel and then made a square card blank from some black spotty card.

Then to finish it off I added a few dots of Glossy accents here and there to give it a bit of shine.

Hope you like it, and a very happy birthday to a very special niece for tomorrow.

Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Distress Oxide Blending

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card uses the new Distress Oxide inks again, this time for blending a background.

I used, Faded Jeans, Broken China and Fossilized Amber, and blended them together on to smooth white card. They blend so easily and you really don't get the lines that you can get with the regular Distress inks if you're not careful !!!!!

Then I used the XCut Carnival Numbers dies to cut the large number in another piece of card, which I laid on top of my blended piece using thick foam pads.

The Balloons are cut with some MFT dies, coloured with the Oxide inks and then covered with Glossy Accents.

Then I used the Clearly Besotted, Happy Birthday die set to cut out the sentiment, and used the same inks to give it some colour.

A very simple card, but great for a boys birthday.

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

xxx

Painted Poppies

Good morning folks, hope you are having a good week. The days are positively flashing past now on the run up to Christmas. I swear December is speeded up somehow lol. 

Right, today's card is one I made using the lovely Painted Poppy set from Altenew. It's another of their colour layering stamp sets and I think it is soooo pretty. 

I decided to give it a go on some light Kraft card using the Altenew Crisp Dye inks. 

They stamp beautifully, and are so easy to use. I then added Glossy Accents to the centres to make them really shine.

For the sentiment I went with the Altenew Halftone Smile set. It comes with a couple of different Smile stamps and then lots of other add-on sentiments. 

I think these stamps are lovely for all sorts of occasions, we also have one called Halftone Hello which I haven't used yet. As this card was for a birthday, I used the Smile set on the front and then I added a happy birthday stamp to the inside.

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

xxx

Happy Birthday Fishes

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

I thought I would give you a little break from my Christmas cards and show you one of my recent birthday card makes.

A good friend of my son and daughter-in-law, asked for a couple of cards for her dad's 60th birthday and this is one of them.

I used a digi stamp that came with an old version of Complete Cardmaking, as I needed a fishing image and I only have one stamp. Unfortunately I had already used this for the same family earlier this year! lol.  Anyway I really like this little fella, so all is good. 😉

I coloured him with Copic markers and then cut him out with a stitched border frame. Then I added him to an olive green card blank and put some Glossy Accents on parts of his fishing rod and the fishes eye.

Then I made up the sentiment on the PC and printed it to match, then cut it out with an MFT Stitched Banner die. To finish it off I added 60 using green flocked thick numbers.

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

xxx

Lets Prance....

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today is my last day at work for 11 days, woo-hoo, yay, lol. I needed to take some annual leave before the end of the year or I lose it, but I'm sure I can find plenty to keep me occupied lol. 

Right, today's cards use the Lets Prance set from Clearly Besotted. Aren't these reindeer great? I love their expressions.

For this first one, I stamped them on to a piece of white card and then coloured them with Copic Markers.

Then I stamped the sentiment right underneath them, added the panel to a black card base and Voila, all done.

This next card was just as simple.

I used a Tonic Studios scalloped edge die to cut a card base, and then used a smaller size to cut the front panel.

Again I stamped directly onto the card front and coloured with Copic Markers.

I used the other sentiment from the set and stamped that underneath.

Then I added a scattering of sequins, some glossy accents and it was all done.

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

xxx

Sledging Squirrel

Good morning, I hope you have all had a great weekend. We have had the usual, shopping, cleaning, sorting, type of weekend. But I did manage to fit in a little crafty time :o))

This is one of the cards I made with the Lawn Fawn Cheery Christmas Set. I love these little characters, especially the squirrels, which are my current fave. I stamped and die cut all the images and then coloured them with Copic Markers.

For this scene I used the ladders in the set and had one of the squirrels using them as a sledge lol. The hillside is cut with the Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio set.

For the background, I stamped all over it with the snowy backdrop stamp and Versamark ink, then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

I added a sentiment and a few drops of Glossy Accents and it was all done.

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

xxx

Cheery Squirrels

Good morning crafty friends, I hope you are having a good week.

I have been cracking on with the Christmas cards using a few of our new sets. This one used the Lawn Fawn Cheery Christmas set, the Snow Cool set and the Stitched Mountains.

I also used the Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio die and the Altenew Moon and Back stamp set.

I used the snowy background stamp on Kraft card with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it with Pure White Embossing Powder.

Then I cut the mountains from Kraft and the tops from white card and put these over the snowy background. I used Altenew Warm Grey Inks for the Moon, and then cut this out and raised it on foam pads in the corner.

I added the stitched snow bank and then stamped and coloured all of my little animals and images with Copic Markers. Then I built the seen and finished it off with a simple sentiment and touches of Glossy Accents.

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

xxx