Steampunk

Yesterday was Jen's daughter's 27th birthday.  It doesn't seem two minutes since Jen was waving me off on the train to London, without telling me she was in labour!  She knew I wouldn't have gone back to work if I'd known lol.

Happy birthday Kayleigh!

For my card I used a blank and matching card stock to highlight the teal blue in the image.   I coloured her with Copics ages ago but have only just got around to putting her on a card.

This is a La La Land Crafts image called Steampunk Marci.

The sentiment is from a My Favourite Things set called Happy Everything.

One stamp, one image and you have an easy card.  Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Christmas Ornament Luka

Good morning folks, and welcome to November. 

Well after days of sorting out the craft room and rearranging things, I finally found some time to actually make something!!!

The image is a rubber stamp from La La Land Crafts called Christmas Ornament Luka. I stamped it on to some light blue and pink coloured cardstock and then coloured the image with Copics.

The paper is from the stash and I backed it with very dark brown card and mounted it all on to a cream A5 card blank.

Then I used a couple of Cheery Lyn dies for the mistletoe and Merry Christmas banner. I added some glossy accents to the mistletoe and snowflake to give them some shine. 

Then I added a few gems to finish it off. 

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

xxx

Sailboat Luka

Morning everyone it's Monday again. Yesterday saw the end of BST, so the dark nights are really on us from now on.  Winter is on it's way, lol!!

Today's card is made using Luka with Sailboat from La La Land Crafts.  This is a fabulous rubber stamp Jen bought last weekend.

I coloured him with the recommended Copics (with a few substitutions) but it didn't turn out too badly.  I am especially happy with his hair and sweatshirt.

This die has been used a lot lately but it is just so good!  I added in a lamp post and ticket dies as extra embellishments and used 2 designer papers from Basic Grey.

Hope you like him.  TTFN Jude xx

Outlaw Luka

Good morning, hope you are all having a good weekend. Today's card is another one for a little boy. 

The image is Outlaw Luka from La La Land Crafts. I coloured him with Copics and then cut him out with a Spellbinders Adorning Squares die. 

The backing paper is from the latest Simon Says Stamp kit, and the green dotty and yellow card are from the scraps box. 

I added a little brad to attach the sentiment with and then cut down the Marianne star die to just use a small piece of it. 

I coloured it with a coordinating yellow Copic.

That's another one off the crafty list done, now if I could just find a few more hours in the week I'm sure I could get the rest done before Christmas lol. 

Hope you enjoy the rest of your weekends. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Paper Doll

Hello again and welcome to Tuesday.

I have another very simple card using a La La Land image to share with you today.

This is Paper Doll Marci - she's such a sweetie.  I coloured her entirely with Copics.  I'm really enjoying using these and I'm finding my colouring has improved greatly.

I didn't feel the image needed a lot of fuss, so I used one paper, some ribbon, a paper heart, a crochet flower and a ribbon flower.

TTFN Jude xx

P.S I've entered this into a challenge at http://papermakeupstamps.blogspot.co.uk

Born to be wild

This is the card I made for Alan's birthday on Monday.  I used it being for a man as an excuse to go a bit grungy, lol.

The image is from La La Land Crafts and is called Outlaw Luka.

(Buy him here - http://shop.lalalandcrafts.com/Outlaw-Luka-Sentiments-INCLUDED-Digi-Stamp-DGS5096.htm)

I took a long time to colour him as I wanted to get a good quality image.  He was a lot of fun to do!

The cogs are cut by layering up the different sizes in the Spellbinder cogs set.

The sentiment is one that came with the image and fit Alan quite well.  Well maybe 30 years ago, lol!

So there he is.  Outlaw Luka on his trike.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Practice makes ....better ;)

Happy Sunday everyone!

We have been away this weekend for Alan's birthday, so I haven't made a card that I can share.  Instead I thought I'd try to inspire all the would be colourists amongst you.

A few months ago I hadn't done any proper colouring since I was a child.  Then I discovered what you can do with alcohol markers if you practice - a lot!!

What do you think?

The image is Singing Marci from La La Land Crafts. 

I've used both Copics and Promarkers on these. 

This one is totally Promarkers.

And this is all Copics! (Excuse the smudge, my pen leaked!!)

For comparison I will share one of my early attempts, that I was happy with at the time lol.

I think I've improved, what about you??

TTFN Jude xx

"La la, la la la la"

 Happy Sunday everyone.

Today I have a card featuring Singing Marci from La La Land Crafts.  Jen used the same digi a few days ago but I thought I'd show you a different colour scheme for her.

Marci is coloured with Copics and Promarkers, then cut out by hand.

This feather bunting was silver when I bought it.  I changed the colour with Distress stains and paints.

The flower is made up of layers of burlap with feathers, a large black paper flower and small ready made roses.

I layered several papers, die cutting some for interest.

Hope you like her.

TTFN Jude xx

Singing Marci

Good morning all, hope you are well. 

Today's card is made using the other of our new La La Land Crafts digi stamps. This one is Singing Marci. 

I coloured her with Spectrum Noirs and then cut her out and rounded the corners. 

I decided to stick with the blue for the papers, so chose some coordinating ones from different collections. 

I used a couple of white paper doilies in the layers, and a piece of blue material cut using a Tonic die backed with double sided adhesive. 

I added the Noir butterfly die cut to the side, 

and then added more material flower shapes and some paper flowers to the top. Then I added a little clear butterfly in with the flowers.

Finally I finished it off with a tag, sentiment and little pearl decoration. 

I am definitely struggling in the old mojo department at the minute, this card took me over two hours to put together. And that was after the colouring! lol.

Anyway hope if was worth it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Mod Marci

Hello peeps.  Hope you've had a good weekend.

Last week Jen won a prize of $5 to spend at La La Land Crafts.  We didn't need any encouragement and ended up spending a bit more than $5 lol!

One of the digis we bought was Mod Marci, who we both loved.  When we saw they did it as a scene with her dog, we had to have it.  What do you think?

The picture is a bit harsh for some reason but you can see her better here.

I layered several papers and distressed them with scissors, before using Picked Raspberry Distress Ink on the edges.

I love the look of frantage but don't use it very often.  I saw a card recently which used some white and that inspired me to do the same on this one.  Mine is from Stampendous and is called Shabby Pink. It has hints of gold, which you can just make out - lush!

A card of mine usually has flowers and this one is no different, however I did add a couple of hat pins for a change.

So that's Mod Marci.  I can see this being used a lot!

TTFN Jude xx