Cheers

Good morning all, Friday at last, and today is our last day of blogging, for now anyway. We will still continue to follow the blogs we love, and still use Pinterest to share our cards, and for lots of crafty ideas. You can follow us here: pinterest

Today is my son's 28th birthday, and as he is partial to the odd glass of a well known stout, as we all are!!! I thought I would make him this card.

The idea came from the little Toucan included in the June 2019 My Monthly Hero Kit, from Hero Arts. As soon as I saw him, I remembered the Guinness adverts with the toucan, so decided to give it a go.

I stamped him with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, and then coloured him with Copic markers, then I cut him out with his matching die.

For the glass, I used one of the coffee cups from the August 2018 Hero Arts Kit, I cut this from black card, and then again from white card, then cut the white one down to just sit at the top of the glass.

I wrote my sentiment on the laptop, and printed a harp image using the Laser jet printer, then foiled them with the Minc Machine and Rose Gold Foil. I cut the sentiment with an MFT Fishtail Banner Die, and added the rest of the sentiment in black card using M & C Boutique Alphabet Dies.

I hope you like it, take care and have a great weekend.

xxx

Dainty Bouquet - Amazing Day

Good morning all, and happy hump day, I hope you are having a great week so far. Today's card is one I made for mum's birthday, using the Dainty Bouquet stamp set from Altenew.

I loved this set as soon as I saw it, so just had to have it lol, I also loved the examples that they give in the guide that comes with the set, so I tried my best to copy one of them for this card.

I used Altenew Crisp Dye Inks in the following colours, Morning Frost, Coral Berry, Ruby Red, Volcano Lake and Emerald.

I layered the images as per the instructions which makes it so easy to follow, then I cut my panel down to fit an A2 card base using an MFT Stamps Stitched Rectangle die.

I used a sentiment from another Altenew set, and stamped this with Jet Black ink, then I added a few pink and clear gems which came with a Simon Says Stamp kit last year, before popping it on to a pink card base.

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

xxx

Happy Birthday Sunshine

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

Jude and I have made the decision to stop blogging as of this Friday the 28th June 2019. To be honest it's been more of a chore than a pleasure this year, so as hard as it is to say goodbye after almost seven years, we will give it a rest and hopefully will feel like coming back to it at a later date. I hope you understand xxx.

Today's card is one I made for my granddaughter's birthday last week. This one uses the Sunny Days set from Clearly Besotted, stamped with Altenew inks from the Pocketful of Sunshine and Tropical Forest sets.

I used an MFT Stamps Horizontal Stripes background die, and cut this from a white linen card, then I used various ink sprays to splatter a random pattern over it. 

I placed my inked piece over a plain white piece of card and then stamped a simple Happy Birthday into one of the spaces.

I added my sunflower and leaves to the front, and then added in a white leaf branch from an M & Co Boutique die set. Then to finish it off I die cut the word Sunshine 3 times from gold card, using a Simon Says Stamp die, I stacked these together for dimension and then stamped a smiley face onto my sunflower.

Hope you like it and thank you for stopping by today. 

Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Love you more than Ice Cream

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week and are looking forward to a crafty weekend.

Today's card is one I made for my eldest granddaughter's 11th birthday last Friday. I used an older Simon Says Stamp set called Ice Cream Dream, and even dug out some coordinating paper from the stash!!!

I apologise for the shadows on the pictures, but we had awful rain here all last week, and so the natural 'daylight' was a bit sparse, so I had to take some photo's with artificial lighting, and they never look as good. I was trying to capture the shine and glitter on the lollipops and ice-cream but it kept leaving a shadow from my phone lol.

Anyway, I stamped one of the sentiments from the set onto plain white card, then I stamped the ice cream cone right above it using Versafine Onyx Black ink, and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder. I stamped the lollipops using the same method on another piece of card and then coloured them all with Nuvo Alcohol Pens, and cut the lollipops out by hand. 

I cut the main image and sentiment using an Shaped Tag MFT Die from Blueprints 13 Dienamics dies, and added this to a pink note card using the patterned paper as a mat.

I added the lollipops using tiny foam strips, then covered them and the cone with Nuvo Crystal Glaze, and dropped a bit of Plasma Purple Pure Sheen Glitter along with a little Rock Candy Distress Glitter on to the top of the ice cream.

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

xxx

Alcohol Ink Background

Good morning all, I hope you have had a great weekend and are having a good week so far. Today's card is one I made for mum's birthday last week.

I blended different shades of blue Alcohol Pearl Inks on to Yupo paper, and before it was completely dry, I pressed gold foil randomly over it, and just let it stick where it wanted.

I cut a panel of white card with an MFT Stitched Rectangle die to fit an A2 card base, and then I used a large circle die to cut a window in the front.

I placed my Yupo paper behind the aperture and then cut a few leaves and berry stems from plain white card, using M & C Boutiques dies.

I arranged the stems behind the window and then glued them into place before snipping off the ends. I also added a die-cut Mum sentiment using a Cut and Make die and the same white card.

Then I heat embossed a simple Happy Birthday Sentiment with Hero Arts Gold Embossing Powder, and added this to the front using foam tape, before I added it all to a plain blue note card.

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

xxx

Spot the dog

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

Today's card is another that I made for my granddaughter's birthday last week, this time using a Spot the Dog Stamp Set called Hello Spot. This set came free with Issue 68 of Creative Stamping Magazine.

I arranged the images and sentiment on to plain white card, and then stamped them using Versafine Onyx Black ink, and then heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.

I coloured the images with Copic and Spectrum Noir markers, and then covered them with a ton of Aqua Shimmer Glitter Gloss Pen from Nuvo. Apologies for the awful picture, but I was trying to capture just how sparkly this shimmer pen is lol. 

Then I used an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements die to cut the panel to size, and added it to a lilac shimmer note card to finish.

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

xxx

Arts and Crafts Cards

Good morning crafty friends, I hope you have had a great weekend. We haven't been up to much this weekend, but we have a busy couple of weeks ahead with birthdays lol.

Today's cards are a couple that I made from the Hero Arts, My Monthly Hero Kit, for May 2019. It features lots of different crafty images, sentiments and coordinating dies, and while I was making the yellow version for my granddaughter's 7th birthday last week, I decided to make another version and keep it for later on in the year for my niece.

I arranged the different stamps around one of the sentiments using the Misti stamping tool. Then I stamped them with Onyx Black Versafine Ink, and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.

I coloured the images with Copic markers, and then cut the panels to fit A2 size cards by using an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements die for the yellow version and an MFT Stitched Rectangle die for the red one.

Then I added one to a yellow note card and one to a red note card, and voila all finished. 

I really must do this more often, make more than one card at once, as it really doesn't take that much longer once you have the idea and set-up.

Thank you for stopping by today, I hope you like these cards, have a great week and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Birthday Numbers

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

Today's card was made for my niece's husband's 30th birthday a couple of weeks ago. I started by cutting the Happy Birthday Circle Die from Simon Says Stamp from plain white card. I used three die-cuts and stacked them together for dimension.

Then I used Copic and Nuvo Alcohol Markers to colour the  letters in different shades of blue and beige.

For the background I used stamps from a Lawn Fawn set called Owen's ABC's , and stamped these with some of the paler shades from Altenew's Crisp Dye Ink Collection.

Then I stamped a large number 30 on to a circle of white card, using a Creative Stamping Stamp Set and heat embossed in with navy blue embossing powder.

Then I added it all to a bright blue note card. 

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

xxx