Peppa Pig

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. Are you looking forward to a nice crafty weekend? I know I am lol.

Today's card is one I made for my great niece who turned 3 last week. I decided to have a go at a Peppa Pig card, after seeing a couple of store bought ones.

I used my circle punches for the head, ears, and nose, and trimmed down a large punched circle for the skirt. I cut small strips of the pink card for the arms and legs, and very simple shapes from black card for the shoes.

Another small punch gave me the cheek, and I used enamel dots for her nose, and gave her googly eyes. I cut the mouth by punching a red circle, and then punching into the circle again with the same punch, to give me a small semi-circle, and then punched that again, to give me the very fine curve!

I used a Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio die to cut the hillside, and then a First Edition cloud die for the top. I added these to an A2 notecard and then assembled Peppa on top.

I gave her a few balloons that I already had cut, and added her name using the Avery Elle, Modern Alpha dies. Then I stamped a simple sentiment from Clearly Besotted, and added a die cut 3 to finish.

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

xxx

Mosaic Turnabout Stamp Centre

Good morning folks, I hope you are having a good week so far. Today's card was made with the lovely Mosaic Turnabout Stamp Set from Concord and 9th.

For this card I only used the centrepiece of the stamp, and stamped it 4 times with Distress Oxide inks. I used Faded Jeans, Worn Lipstick, Iced Spruce and Picked Raspberry.

I slightly offset the stamp so it would go over the edge of the panel, and then once it was dry I embossed around the outside with two different sizes of MFT Zig-Zag Stitched Circles.

Then I added two small strips of acetate across the front and mounted the Cut and Make sentiment on them. I had cut the sentiment from white card and coloured it with a coordinating Copic marker. I added a few flowers that I already had cut from a previous card, and then backed the panel with pink card before putting it all on a plain white card blank.

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

xxx

85th Birthday Wishes

Good morning all, I hope your week is starting off well. We went over to see our grandsons at the weekend, and watched them take part in a street dance show. They were so good, we had a brilliant time, even if they were absolutely shattered by the end of it lol.

Anyway, today's card is one mum asked me to make for a lady that goes line dancing with her. She reached the age of 85 at the weekend, and so was having a little party that some of the ladies from group attended.

I didn't want to do anything specifically line dancing so I played it safe and went floral instead. I wanted something classy but simple, so stuck with a cream and black colour scheme.

I got the idea for the layout from a few cards I saw on Pinterest, but adapted it to suit my design and materials. I used the Floral Bliss stamp set from Simon Says Stamp, and heat embossed the flower bouquet with black embossing powder.

I stamped it a couple of times and cut one of them up to layer behind the main image. Then I backed them all with black card. For the sentiment I heat embossed stamps from the Clearly Besotted Happy Birthday set. Then added numbers cut with the MFT Starlight Number dies and covered with Glossy Accents.

I layered everything up on a 7 x 5 card blank and added some scored lines to the panels, a ribbon, and a sheer ribbon bow. Then I finished it off with some black and cream pearls.

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

xxx

Happy Birthday from Pretty Quick

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend.

Today's card is made using one of the new dies I picked up in the Boxing Day sale at Craftstash UK. It's from a new (to me) brand called Pretty Quick, and is a one layer die for card fronts. This one is called Happy Birthday, I also got a couple more, which I'll show you another day.

I cut the main image from Kraft card and then inked a simple Distress Ink background on watercolour card. I used Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers, Shabby Shutters, Gathered Twigs and a touch of Mustard Seed.

I put it together on a Kraft card base and used a dark teal cardstock as a mat. But I still thought it was a bit plain, so I used a Gold and Green Wink of Stella Pens to give it a bit of sparkle.

Then a black fine liner finished off the birds eyes and a brown one for their beaks.

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

xxx

Fun Foam Die Cutting

Good morning all, hope you are having a good week. I am so looking forward to this weekend. Jude and I, along with our daughters, my daughter in law and our mum, are off for a girly weekend at a lakeside lodge with hot tub!!! 

Nothing to do for two whole days but eat, drink and lounge around. I am not even taking any crafty stuff with me!

Anyway, on to today's card. I wanted a bright and cheery card so I went with a yellow and green colour scheme.

The Happy is cut with an Xcut alphabet die set using sticky backed Fun Foam. I have seen this technique used before and like how it gives the image some depth. 

I tried quite a few colours of ink on some scrap card for the birthday sentiment, but in the end decided to go with Jet Black Archival. The stamp is from the MFT Stamps set Happy Everything.

I used two pieces of ribbon across the top and then tied a couple of loose knots and stuck them on with glue dots. I have tried all sorts to stick bows in the past but always come back to glue dots, as these seem to hold them the best. 

A couple of layers of matching card to finish it off was all it needed.

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

xxx

CAS - Fail!

Good morning crafty friends. Hope this Friday finds you well. Are you looking forward to the weekend? Lets hope the weather is kind to us all. 

Well as you can tell from the title I tried to do a really clean and simple card today! And as you probably know by now this is not my style at all. So what started out CAS, turned into, well not so CAS lol ;o)) But I still like it.

 I started by using a couple of new embossing folders that came free on a recent craft mag. 

The little birds on a branch one at the top and Happy Birthday at the bottom.

Then it was supposed to be a simple piece of ribbon between and all finished. But of course I couldn't leave it like that, so out came the shimmer chalks to go over the embossed patterns. They don't show up well in the photos but they are lovely and shimmery IRL.

Then it still looked too plain for me so I added Washi tape to the middle and a row of gems.

Then I tied a piece of ribbon around the edge and finished it off with a few tiny gems. 

Hope you like it too.

Take care, and I'll see you soon.

xxx