Flamingo sunset

Hello and welcome.

My card today uses another image from the June My Monthly Hero kit.

I don't know what it is about flamingos but they make me smile! When I saw this image in the kit I knew I wanted to make something with it.

I stamped, coloured and cut two flamingos.  To be honest these are my second attempt as I tried to watercolour the first ones and they did not turn out nicely at all!!

I masked a strip across the centre of my card panel and added a circle die cut with temporary adhesive.  I then blended a sunset using wild honey. fired brick and wilted violet distress oxide inks.

I glued my two flamingos to the panel and added a sentiment before adhering the whole piece to a standard size card base.

Hope you like it. TTFN Jude xx

Stay wild

Hello and thank you for joining us.

This weekend I have been playing with the June My Monthly Hero kit, which has lots of jungle themed images.

I love this little monkey and had to make something with him.

I stamped, coloured and die cut the image along with a tree branch for him to sit on.

For the background I used the stencil from the kit and applied some wild honey distress oxide with a brush.

I used a square die to cut the background and added a yellow border.  I then glued the branch and monkey across the square panel.

To finish off I added a sentiment from the kit and attached the panel to a 4x4 card base.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Pandamonium

Welcome back.

Today I have another card made for Charlotte's fourth birthday.

This card uses images from the Pandamonium set by Mama Elephant.

  I stamped and cut out several of the pandas which I added to the windows in my card panel.  I added several of the sentiments in the set, along with the two heart stamps.

Behind each window I inked a piece of white card with Distress Oxide inks and added some Nuvo Aqua Shimmer glimmer gloss.

I added the panel to a lime green card base and finished off with some Nuvo jewel drops in strawberry coulis, limoncello and key lime.

Hope you like it as much as I do.

TTFN Jude xx

The birthday chick

Hello and welcome.

Tomorrow my youngest granddaughter, Charlotte Rose, will be four years old.  This is one of the cards I have made for her.

I used the fabulous birthday chicks from My Favourite Things.  I love these little birdies.

I stamped, coloured and cut out all the images in the set, then chose several to add to my card.

For a bit of interest I added a frame to surround the sentiment, and placed my chicks around it.

I love the fun colours and playful imagery.  Hope you do too.

TTFN Jude xx

Beautiful fussy cut florals

Hello again.

My card today is very easy to make but not quick.

I took one of the fabulous papers from the last Simon Says Stamp monthly card kit, and fussy cut the images from it.

I got 6 partial images and one full. I arranged these to create 2 large bouquets on the top and bottom of my card base.  

I had to sacrifice a few leaves and berries to get the images to fit together, but I think it was worth it.

I added a birthday sentiment, also from SSS, to finish off.

TTFN Jude xx

Dainty bouquet

Welcome!  Today is my Mum's birthday and this is the card I made her.

Happy 71st birthday Mum xx

I again used the Dainty Bouquet set from Altenew.  I hope you aren't sick of seeing this yet, lol.

This time I stamped the base layer in unicorn white ink on to purple card stock.  This gave me a base to add the shades of purple inks from Altenew, over the top.  For the leaves I used the green fields set.

I love how this looks against the dark card.

For the sentiment I took a strip of matching card and added my greeting.  I then fussy cut around the leaves so that my sentiment strip would tuck in under them.

For a finishing touch I added the panel to a white card base and scattered Nuvo dream drops in supernova across the design.

TTFN Jude xx

Grey silhouette

Hi folks.

I have a really quick and simple card for you today.

I used the Dainty Bouquet set (again) and stamped a background using industrial diamond ink, both from Altenew.

I used the MISTI to make sure I got good impressions on the card panel - multi stamping when necessary.

I then cut this panel down to fit a silver grey card base. 

I used a strip of matching card to create a banner and white heat embossed a simple sentiment.

I think this is a really versatile stamp set and I love how it looks stamped with just the base layer.

Hope you do too.

TTFN Jude xx

Always be yourself

Hello again.

Today's card is another made for Izzy's 7th birthday last week.

For this underwater scene I combined two sets from Simon Says Stamp and Hero Arts.

For the background I blended stormy sky and tumbled glass distress oxides on to smooth white card. I then used stormy sky to stamp the background silhouettes.

I used Copic markers to colour the mermaid, added loads of Nuvo aqua shimmer pen, then fussy cut her leaving a thin white border.

The rocks and foliage were stamped using a selection of Wendy Vecchi blendable dye inks.  These stamped really well over the distress ink.

I cut my panel down and added it to a white card base.  I used a simple sentiment and then inside stamped, "Always be yourself, unless you can be a mermaid."

TTFN Jude xx

Flower Silhouette

Hello friends. I'm back with another silhouette card, again using the Altenew Dainty Bouquet set.

I masked off an area using post-it tape and used distress oxides to blend the panel.  The colours are worn lipstick, tea dye, tattered rose.

I stamped the rose image using Versafine onyx black ink.  Although this is an excellent ink, I did have to stamp several times.  I'm very thankful for the MISTI to be able to do this.

I added a generic sentiment from the stash then trimmed the panel down.

I added a black matt before adhering to a white card base.

I love the classy look of this card.  Hope you do too.

TTFN Jude xx

Green silhouette

Hello again.

My cards for the next few days will all be made using my current favourite stamp set - Dainty Bouquet by Altenew.

This is a gorgeous delicate flower set which can be layered to create realistic blossoms, or stamped in one colour for a silhouette effect.

For this card I stamped the largest of the images using parrot ink from Altenew. I then inked a piece of white card with this ink to create a matted layer for the sentiment.

The sentiment, from Hero Arts, was stamped in the same ink and die cut with a stitched circle die.

I cut the long edges to make the panel narrower and added the piece to a green card base.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Dandelion wishes

Hello and welcome.

I hope our UK friends had a good bank holiday yesterday, and our US friends had an enjoyable memorial weekend.

Today's card is for a very special little girl (my great niece!) who celebrates her seventh birthday today.  Happy birthday Izzy Lou!

For this card I started with the Hero Arts starry sky background stamp in Altenew dusk ink. I created my panel and added a strip of grass along the bottom using an MFT die.

I stamped, coloured and die cut the mouse and mushroom images from Hero Arts December 2018 My Monthly Hero kit, then added them using foam squares.

I used a sentiment from the same set and cut this with a flag banner die, before adhering the whole piece to a standard white card base.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

The swing

Hello. 

I'm back with another card made for my son-in-law's birthday last week.

For this I used a Hero Arts background die cut from black card stock.

I ink blended the background using distress oxides, directly on to a standard white card base.

I heat embossed the sentiment on some more black card and added this with foam tape.

I decided not to add any further embellishments as I don't think the card needs anything.

What do you think?

TTFN Jude xx

Circles and rings

Hello again.

Today's card was made for my son-in-law's birthday last week. This one was from my youngest son, Joe.

I collected together a few stamp sets which all had circular images.  I used sets from Simon Says Stamp, Uniko, and Hero Arts.

I stamped each image on to a piece of white card using different colours of Distress Oxide.

Once I had covered the card I trimmed it down and attached to a card base made from a co-ordinating colour.  This one is Simon's Audrey blue.

I cut the numbers from another piece of the same card using Papermania carnival numbers, and attached them using foam pads.

I then added some Nuvo shimmer pen over the top.

The finishing touch was the sentiment heat embossed with Nuvo glacier white and some caribbean ocean crystal drops.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx