World's Best Son

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

As Jude said yesterday, it was our baby brother's birthday, and this is the card that we made him from mum. 

I said we as this card was a bit of a joint effort lol. Jude already had the bunnies cut and coloured, and I was looking for something to go on this background card, so she kindly gave me them and the moon too.

The background is cut from a Lawn Fawn note card, we really liked the blue wood grain effect so decided to cut them up and use them as backgrounds, rather than as full note cards.

The trees are cut from a Clearly Besotted, Into the Woods die, and then distress inked with Antique Linen, Vintage Photo and Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide inks.

I added a couple of MFT Stamps Grassy Edges die cuts, and gave them a once over with the same Distress inks, to make them a bit darker, than the green card they were cut from.

Then I used a Crafter's Companion die and a Cut and Make die to make the sentiments.

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

xxx

Go Bananas

Good morning folks, apologies for this being late, but I really couldn't get moving today !

Anyway, today's card is a really simple stamped card, for a very special young man who turns 12 next week.

I used the stamp set called Safari Friends, that came free with issue 145 of Papercraft Essentials. It's a great set, with cute critters and people, a few different sentiments, and an embossing folder.

I stamped the vines with Altenew Crisp Dye ink using Parrot, from the Tropical Forest set.

Then I stamped the monkey with Memento Rich Cocoa ink, and coloured him with Copic markers.

The grass is cut from thick olive card using the MFT Grassy Edges dies, and layered to show the different lengths.

Then I popped it on to a lime green card base, and die cut a number 12 from an Xcut Adhesive Metal Effect Sheet in gold.

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

xxx

Shaker Polaroid

Good morning crafty friends, I hope you have all had a nice weekend. We have had a busy and very dusty one, thanks to an orbital sander and a dining table that needed refinishing lol. But it does look good now 😊.

Right, today's card was an attempt at a bead shaker, and while I like the style, I am really not happy with my little pug !!! A bit too heavy handed on the colouring poor thing 😳 which I didn't notice until he was securely behind the acetate, but never mind.

I used MFT Blueprints Dienamics for the frame and MFT Grassy Edges for the layered grass.

The pug is from the Lawn Fawn set called Critters at the dog Park and the bee and sun are from the Lawn Fawn set called Hello Sunshine.

I stamped them all with Memento ink in Tuxedo Black and Cocoa, then after colouring the little dog I cut them out with their matching dies.

For the background I used white card and very lightly blended Tumbled Glass Distress Ink over it, to make a sky background.

I added everything together and then mounted the acetate and frame on foam strips, just leaving a small gap to pour the seed beads through. Then I sealed the gap with a final piece of foam strip.

I added the frame to a white linen card blank and then used a sentiment from the Lawn Fawn set, Scripty Sayings.

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

xxx

Gnome place like home

Good morning, I hope you have all had a good week. I am looking forward to a bit of a rest this weekend, after the hustle and bustle of the last few weeks, and hopefully I may get to spend a bit of time in the craft room too 😊.



Today's card was one I made some time ago for a friend who moved into a new home, but I never got around to sharing it.

I used the Lawn Fawn Gnome Sweet Gnome stamp and die set, and coloured them all with Copic Markers.

I did some very pale inking to the background using Distress Inks and cut the hillside with one of the Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio dies.

I cut the grass with an MFT Grassy Edges die from a sticky cardstock and then layered it all on to an A5 card blank.

Then I used Gold Embossing Powder on the Sun from the Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine set, and stamped the sentiment with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.

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

xxx

Football Crazy

Good morning folks and happy hump day! I hope you are all having a good week. Tomorrow is my youngest grandson’s 8^th birthday so today’s card is one that I made for him from his mamma (my mum).

 

I used a Marianne Designs embossing folder with a hexagon shape for the background. Then I used it’s matching die to cut some black hexagons and stuck them on in a pattern to make it look like a football.

I did the same for the football and cut it out with a circle die, and then drew in the black lines between the hexagons with a black fine liner.

The grass is cut with an MFT Grassy Edges die, in a few different shades of green card. 

Then I cut the sentiment using a Clearly Besotted die set in green and black card. I slightly offset the black behind the green to give it a bit of shadow and depth.

Then I added a simple diecut 8 to the football and layered in onto a green card base with a black stitched mat.

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

xxx

Tickled pink it's your birthday

Good morning all, and welcome to August. Can you believe it's August already, where is this year going ???I know time speeds up as you get older lol, but really ;o))

We are back into work mode today after a lovely couple of weeks off. Well when I say we, I mean Alan and I. Some of us (Jude) are off for the whole of August! as she's having a bit of an op tomorrow and then will be acting like a dying duck for the next few weeks while we all wait on her hand and foot ;o)) ;o)) Haha, no she's having the first of her Carpal Tunnel surgeries tomorrow so will be out of action for a while. So you may get more of me this month than usual. 

Anyway, enough rambling, today's card was made while I was trying to use up bits and pieces on my desk. The Flamingo's are cut from Heidi Swapp Foil Card which I ran through the minc with Rose Gold Foil. I cut one of them back to front so I could have a pair facing each other. I think this works fine with die-cuts.

The white background is made with a Sue Wilson Entwined Hearts embossing folder and the raspberry card behind was die-cut with the Avery Elle Wonky Stitches dies.

The grass is from the MFT Stamps Grassy Edges die and I wrote the sentiment on the PC and then ran it through the Minc with Hot Pink HS Foil.

Then I just added a few clear dewdrops to finish it off.

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

xxx

Bee-you-tiful

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today is my oldest granddaughters 8th birthday, and this is one of the cards I made for her. Happy Birthday Lily May, hope you have a wonderful day. xxxxxxxx

I started by typing the sentiment on the PC and then printing it with the Laserjet printer. Then I used gold and platinum foil half and half over the words and ran it through the Minc machine. This gives the letters the two-tone look.

I used a Marianne Designs hexagon die and paper from the stash to create the honeycomb pattern. I stuck some of them flat to the card and raised some of them on foam pads.

Then I used an MFT die called Grassy Edges for the grass border and a Lawn Fawn stamp and die set called Hello Sunshine, for the big bees.

I coloured these with Copic Markers and then used a tiny bee from the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero March kit, to stamp here and there around the card.

I did add a granddaughter word under the sentiment before I gave it to Lily, but after I'd took the photos.

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

xxx