Vintage Birthday

Good morning all, I hope you have had a great week and are looking forward to the weekend. Today's card was a really simple make, and one that I will be repeating for other male birthdays.

I used stamps from a Creative Stamping Magazine set, Issue 70, called Ladies and Gentlemen. I stamped the image and sentiment onto a piece of plain white card, using Versafine Onyx Black ink, and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

I cut the panel down to size using an MFT Stamps Stitched Rectangle Die, and then used Vintage Photo Distress Oxide ink to blend around the edges inwards, to 'age' the card a bit.

Then I added this to a copper coloured note card to finish.

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

xxx

Make a Wish

Good morning all, and happy hump day. I hope you are having a good week so far. Today's card is one I made for my niece's husband for his birthday. I wanted something not too fussy, but not boring either lol. So this is what I came up with.

I used an older Simon Says Stamp monthly card kit stamp set called Big Birthday Wishes, and stamped the word Yay! all over a piece of dark grey card, using Industrial Diamond Crisp Dye Ink from Altenew.

I used more stamps from the same set for the sentiments and candle, but this time I stamped them on white card with Onyx Black Versafine Ink and then heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.

I cut the large sentiment in half so that I could slightly offset them, and added a candle from the same set in place of the I in Wish. Then I added the rest of the sentiment underneath. I placed these onto a couple of  silver Zig Zag Stitched Circle die-cuts from MFT Stamps, and then added it all to a pale grey note card.

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

xxx

It's a Girl

Good morning all, and happy Friday, I hope you have had a great week. Today's card was one I made when my daughter was having Willow. In the end this one didn't get used, but it's a nice one to have on hand for work colleagues etc.

I had seen something similar on Pinterest using a stocking die to make a baby boys card, so I looked through my stash to find something I could use.

I found the perfect thing in my Christmas stash, the Lawn Fawn and Simon Says Stamp Merry Christmouse set. I used one of the dies from the set to cut the stocking from cream and pink striped card.  Then I paper-pieced the stripe on top of the cream to look like little baby booties.

I cut a white card panel using an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements die, and heat embossed a greeting on to this using the Avery Elle City Celebrations stamp set, and Spun Sugar Distress Oxide Ink.

I added fun foam to the back of the panel, and tied a piece of ribbon around the top. This was just a small piece I had left over from a few years ago, which says it's a girl! 

Then I added this on to a pink mat, and used some paper from the stash as a background, before adding it all to a white card blank.

Hope you like it, take care and have a great weekend, and I'll see you next week.

xxx

Have an Ace Birthday

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

Today's card was one I was really happy with, until..... The background ink dried completely!!! I used a pale grey Altenew ink from the Rock Collection, to stamp a hand of cards stamp onto grey card, and it looked really good, so I went on and finished my card. 

Then it dried overnight and the background stamping is so feint, you can barely see it, in fact I couldn't get the camera to pick it up very much at all. Oh well I will know better next time lol.

I used an old pack of cards and took the Aces from it to make my focal point, then I silver heat embossed a sentiment from a couple of older Creative Stamping Magazine sets, onto black card, and cut this into small pieces to position over the top.

Thank you for spending some time here today, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Sending Sunshine

Good morning all, how about something bright and cheery for a Monday morning? I thought seen as how the weather can't make it's mind up in my little neck of the woods, I would send you all a bit of sunshine. 

Today's card came about after an alcohol ink play session. I was making backgrounds and decided to try some brighter colours, so this one is using Tim Holtz and Adirondack/Ranger Alcohol Inks in  oranges and yellows with gold mixative on Yupo paper.

The daffodils are Altenew dies that came free with a Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine earlier this year. I cut the flowers from different coloured card and I added Seaweed Quartz Nuvo Glimmer Paste to the stems.

I cut the panel to size with a Stitched Rectangle die, and added my flowers to the front using wet glue and foam tape for dimension, then I added a stacked die-cut sentiment in black card over the top.

I stamped and heat embossed part of the greeting on the front, and then finished it off on the inside. Then I added a few Nuvo Crystal Drops in English Mustard and Ripened Pumpkin, and Limoncello Jewel Drops to finish.

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

xxx

Have a Wonderful Day

Good morning folks, and happy Friday. I hope you have had a great week and are looking forward to a crafty weekend.

Today's card was a lot of fun to make and I will be making more of these. I started by using a firework stencil from Simon Says Stamp and spreading Nuvo Glimmer Paste through it, on to a plain white card panel.

Once the paste was dry, I used Distress Oxide Inks over the top to create a deep blue sky effect. I just used a dry cloth to take any excess ink off of the glimmer paste.

I cut a Crafti Potential - Wonderful Sentiment Die and Surround, from white linen and silver linen card, and added these to my panel using foam tape. Then I stamped the rest of the sentiment with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and added this above and below my die-cut.

I cut the panel down to size using a stitched rectangle die, and added it to a plain white note card. Then I added in a few drops of Nuvo Atlantic Drift Glitter Accents to finish.

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

xxx

Thinking of You

Good morning all and happy Hump day. I hope you are having a good week so far. Today's card is one I made for a friend who recently lost her mum, I really don't like having to do sympathy cards, so I decided to do a Thinking of You card instead.

I started my stamping my images using the Altenew Dandelion Wishes stamp set, using Altenew Crisp Dye Inks in Silver Stone, Jet Black, Parrot, Olive and Moss. Then I used a  Stitched Rectangle die to cut the panel down to size.

For the background I used a We R Memory Keepers 3D Embossing Folder with some pale grey card.

I wanted to lift the panel away from my background slightly, so I added a green card mat behind the images and a small silver/grey band across the centre of my background.

Then I added it all to a green card blank, stamped the sentiment and popped a few clear silver sequins on to finish.

Hope you like it, thank you for taking the time to stop by today. 

Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Welcome Little One

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week so far. Today's card is another of the ones I made to welcome baby Willow last week.

I started with the background and used the Hero Arts Star Light Star Bright Bold Prints Background Stamp. I stamped this with Simon Says Stamp Embossing Ink and then heat embossed it with Wow Metalline First Frost Embossing Powder.

I cut the panel to size with an MFT Stitched Rectangle die and then used a Paper Smooches Rainbow die to cut a rainbow from a piece of Alcohol Pearl Inked Yupo Paper. I also cut the Heart Border die from Simon Says Stamp out of the same piece of inked Yupo paper.

The little clouds are from a Lawn Fawn set called Hello Sunshine, I cut these three times each and sandwiched them around my rainbow so that I could raise the rainbow with foam tape.

The little Giraffe is from the MFT Stamp set called Wild Things, which is an oldie but goodie set, especially for cute cards. I coloured this with Copic Markers and added it to my card along with a sentiment from a Creative Stamping magazine set.

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

xxx

A New Baby Girl

Good morning all, I hope you are having a great start to your week, and if you are in the UK, enjoyed a nice long weekend.

We had a new addition to the family arrive last week, in the shape of my new baby granddaughter Willow. She was just a week early and is absolutely perfect. Today's card is one of the ones I made for her.

I used Tim Holtz Alcohol Pearl Inks to create a soft rainbow background on Yupo Paper, then I stamped, coloured and die-cut my elephants using the Clearly Besotted Love You Tons set and Copic Markers.

I added the images to my background and then framed and layered them using Lawn Fawn Stitched Square dies,. The sentiment is cut from the same piece of Yupo paper, using a couple of Cut and Make Sentiments.

Then I added it all to a 5.5 x 5.5 card blank to finish. 

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

xxx