Mosaic Turnabout Stamp

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card was one I made when I was playing with the Concord and 9th Mosaic Turnabout Stamp.

I really like these turnabout stamps, as they make great background stamps or, focal points. They can also look very different depending on the colours used.

For this card I used all Distress Oxide inks and all of the stamp, as it comes in two parts. You can use all of it, just the outer ring, or just the inner circle.

The ink colours are, Fossilized Amber, Iced Spruce, Peacock Feathers and Wild Honey.

I used an old Cheery Lyn die for the sentiment, and cut it from two complimentary card colours, then I slightly offset them when sticking them together.

The little gifts are from the same die-cut, but I didn't like them being attached, so I snipped them off and used them in the bottom corner instead.

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

xxx

Blooms Fill In

Good morning folks, I hope you have all had a good weekend. I managed to squeeze in some crafty time this last week or so, and today's card is one of the ones I made with one of our new-ish stamp sets.

This is the Blooms Fill In set from Concord & 9th, it comes with a background stamp that leaves spaces for you to fill-in the flowers with the smaller stamps. 

For this card I used Simon Says Stamp Dye Ink in Pale Blush Pink, for the background.

Then for the flowers, I used Altenew Crisp Dye inks from the Cherry Blossom and Tropical Forest sets.

I used an Avery Elle, Wonky Stitched Ellement to cut out the panel, and then with the off-cuts, I used a SSS die to cut the sentiment. 

I cut the sentiment again from craft foam and then layered them together for dimension. Then I popped it all on to a bright pink card base and it was all done.

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

xxx

21st Birthday Wishes

Good morning friends, I hope you are having a good week, can you believe we are now in August? I know with the recent weather you'd be hard pressed to believe it, but we really are. Which means pretty soon we'll be having to think about the Christmas cards 🙈!!!

But not today!, today's card is one I made for a young man at work who turned 21 last week. He is very fashion conscious and always immaculately dressed, so I thought I would go with a suit card.

I used a very soft grey shimmer card and cut two pieces to fit in the middle of a 7 x 5 card blank, with a small overlap for the buttons.

Then I measured the same distance from the centre along the top edges and the same distance down the middle overlapping edges on each piece, so that I could fold the lapels evenly. Then I laid these points on to a scoring board and used my bone folder to score and crease them.

For the shirt I used a small piece of white linen card and popped it behind the suit, then I cut a very thin strip of the same card and laid it down the centre, to put the buttons on. I added a bowtie by using a Presscut bow die, and I made the little pocket and hanky with offcuts of the card.

I added the stripes to the lapels and bowtie with just an HB2 pencil and a ruler. Then I added black stickers for his initials, a small happy birthday die cut from a 'new to me' brand called Make, and a 21 die cut from the MFT Stamps, Starlight Number dies.

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

xxx

Birthday Balloons

Good morning all, how is your week going? are you like me and already can't wait for the weekend? lol.

Today's card is super simple and was inspired by a post I saw on Pinterest. I used the WPlus9 Whole Lotta Happy balloon die set to cut lots of different balloons from white card stock.

Then I placed them randomly over another piece of white card and cut it down to fit a 6 x 4 card base. 

The Happy Birthday die is from Clearly Besotted, I cut it out and then coloured the letters with different pink, lilac and purple Copic markers.

Then I laid this across the panel with my balloons, found a piece of card to co-ordinate and layered it behind, before adding it to a white card base.

Then to finish it off I went to town with pink and purple sequins. As I didn't have any sequins in the right shade of pink, I used clear ones and coloured them with a matching Copic marker. They turned out great!!!

Thanks for stopping by, hope you like today's card. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Paper Candles

Good morning all, I hope you have had an enjoyable weekend. We have had a busy one again, but managed to spend some time with my granddaughters, as they came for a sleepover on Saturday. As usual they were little angels for us, and then go home and be little devils for their mum and dad lol. 😜

Anyway, today's card was a trial at making patterned paper candles. I used small pieces of paper and rolled them up, then added a piece of white twine in the centre of each one.

The pics aren't very good with the mirror card behind, but they did work OK. I held them together with wet glue and small pegs until they dried. then cut them to size to fit my card.

For the background I used a Peerless Designs, Art Definition Text stencil. I placed it over a piece of textured card, and then softly inked through it, with Salty Ocean Distress Ink.

The Happy Birthday die cut is from Clearly Besotted, and I just used the die and not the matching stamp for this one. I did cut it from quite thick blue card though, as I think it helps to make the definition of the letters very clear. (or is that just me????)

I used a stitched rectangle die to cut the panel to size and added it to an blue A2 card blank. Then I used a Stitched Zig-Zag Circle die to cut a small piece of mirror card for the candles to sit on.

To finish it off, I add a small tag on the bottom of the candles and stamped Brother on it from another Clearly Besotted set.

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

xxx

Eye think you're neat

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Can you believe we are now in February???? 😲

Today's card was made for my eldest grandson who turned 11 last week. This one was from his uncle, so I kept it very simple.

I used the Monster Mash stamp set from Lawn Fawn, and stamped them with Jet Black Archival ink on to watercolour card.

Then I watercoloured them with Zig Clean Colour pens, and used a Simon Says Stamp Happy Birthday Circle Die to frame around the edge.

Then I popped them onto a blue background and a grey card base, and finished it off with one of the sentiments from the stamp set.

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

xxx

Shake it off

Good morning all, hope you are having a good week. Today is my step son Matthews birthday so I thought I would give you a break from the wedding cards and show you a shaker card that I made for him instead. Hope you have a great day Matt. 

It's a very simple card using a large star die to cut out of the card front and then back it with acetate. 

I used a Britannia die for the sentiment and stuck it to a piece of blue card behind the acetate. Then I stuck it all to a 6 x 6 card blank.

I raised the front panel on foam tape and left a gap at the top to pour the sequins in. Then I used a gold and silver different size mix and then closed the gap with more foam tape. 

Then I just added a few to the front of the card with glossy accents. 

I thought I would have a little play and make a very short video clip to show the shaker.

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

xxx

Happy 30th Birthday

Good morning all.  Today's card is another that I made for Ian last week. 

A very simple card using off cuts of papers and card strips. 

I found all of the bits and pieces in my scraps box in red, black and grey and then cut them into small strips. I then cut a triangle piece of card the same size as half the card blank front and covered it with the strips of paper using double sided tape. 

I neatened all of the edges up with scissors and laid a piece of black card corner to corner. 

I used a new Memory Box die for the Happy birthday and then added the 30 with sticky numbers. 

To finish the card off I added a couple of strips of matching paper to the inside page.

Hope you like it, take care, see you soon.

xxx