My kind of Peep

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week, and are looking forward to a crafty weekend. I reeeeaaally need to get in my craft room this weekend, and get caught up on some projects.

This card was one I made to say bye and thank you to the lovely folks from my old team. I really didn't want to have to take this in as it meant the end of my time there. But I had to do it, so I thought I may as well make it a fun card. 

I'm not great at goodbyes, so I made it more of a thank you card, for all the support and friendship that I received there over the last couple of years. So I used the Simon Says Stamp, My Kind of Peep, stamp and die set.

I stamped them with Jet Black, Paradise Teal and Bright Tangelo Archival inks, and then added bow ties to a few. I cut them all out with the matching dies and then used the Simon Says Stamp, Seeing Stars set, to stamp a background.

I stamped randomly on a white panel that I had trimmed to fit a 7 x 5 card blank. I used the same colours of ink and added the odd touch of yellow, courtesy of an SSS Hybrid ink called Goldenlocks.

I had to include the goodbye somewhere, so on the inside I added a verse from the Sound of Music song, So Long, Farewell. It had to be done as I knew it would start my old team manager off singing lol.

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

xxx

Miss you already

Good morning all, I really hope that my blog scheduling is going well while we are away. This one is scheduled for Tuesday 26 July, so hope that's right!

Today's card is one I made for a lovely lady who left our team at work last week. She has now finished her placement and has moved on to start a new job, so this is the card we all signed for her.

I used the little critters from the WPlus9 set Going Places and the bunnies are from the Wishing You set also by WPlus9.

I coloured them all with Copics and then cut them out with their corresponding dies.

Then I made some window frames from black card and the MFT Stitched Square dies. I arranged them on a 7 x 5 card blank and then added all the animals in to the windows.

I love that they all look like they are waving lol. Then I wrote a sentiment on the PC and printed it on white card backed with black. Simple!!!

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

xxx

Promise me...

Good morning folks, I hope you have had a good week. I'm looking forward to the weekend and getting some time to play in my craft room and relax.

Today's card is made with a quote from AA Milne, the author of the Winnie the Pooh books. I love this quote, I have it on a little wooden block in my bedroom, and It's nice to see when you're feeling a bit rubbish. 

As my lovely friend Debs left work last week, I made her this little card from me along with a couple of gifts. I printed the quote out from the PC on to white card and then cut it out with a circle die.

Then I coloured it with pink Copics to look a bit like a balloon. I used the Avery Elle, Ellie stamp set for the little elephant, and the flowers are from the Lawn Fawn Fairy Friends set.

I inked some linen card with blue Distress inks for the background and then cut different heights of grass from green card using the MFT Stamps Grassy Edges die. A touch of Wink of Stella on the balloon finished it off.

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

xxx

Sorry You're Leaving

Good morning all and happy hump day. Are you having a good week?

Today's card is one I made for a friend when she left work last week. After many year's of debating it she has finally taken the leap and moved down the country to live with her partner. So I thought a map themed card would be appropriate.

I looked for inspiration on Pinterest and found a card that had used butterflies, and seen as how she loves butterflies I thought it would be a good idea.

I cut the butterflies out using dies from the My Monthly Hero March kit, from an old road atlas. I used the areas that she lives now and where she's moving to in the diecuts.

Then I took a copyright free image of a UK map from Google images and cropped it down to the area I wanted. Then I printed it in black and white on the laserjet printer.

I like orange with black and white so went with that colour scheme. As I don't have any orange pearls I used plain white ones and coloured them with an orange Copic marker.

Then I printed a couple of sentiments on the PC to finish it off.

Hope you like it, Deb's did :o).

Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

From Owl of Us

Good morning all, hope you are having a good week. I made this card last year but only got around to posting it today. 

I needed something for a lady at work who was leaving the team, so I looked on Pinterest for inspiration. I saw a card with the saying "from owl of us" so went with that. 

The large owl is a Papermania stamp. I stamped it with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and then coloured it with Copic Markers. Then I did a bit of paper piecing over its wings and the circles on it's tummy.

The smaller owls are from the MFT Stamps, Things With Wings set, again stamped with Memento Ink and coloured with Copics. 

I used paper from a Trimcraft paper pad called What A Hoot. Then I made up the sentiment with some Molly Moo stamps and the Lawn Fawn, Finlay's ABC's dies. 

I had one little owl left over so I popped him on the inside. 

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

xxx