Poinsettias All Around

Good morning, hope you are all well and had a great weekend. I have had my grandsons over for a quick visit, as it's the youngest's birthday on Thursday. It was so lovely to see them, and for them to spend some time with their cousins. 

Anyway, on to today's cards. I have three for you today as they are all using the same diecuts, just done slightly differently.

The poinsettia is a Memory Box stamp and die set, that we have had for a couple of years. For this card I heat embossed it with Simon Says Stamp Rose Gold Embossing Powder.

For this card I stamped it straight on to a red shimmer cardstock and then layered it with a red sparkle cardstock. I love the red and gold combo, and the tiny yellow brads in the centre.

The Embossing folder is the same on these two cards. It's a Crafter's Companion, split snowflake and snow folder with a plain strip in the middle, which is perfect for adding tape or ribbon. 

For this final card, I stamped the poinsettia onto plain white card and then coloured two layers with green and red Wink of Stella pens. Then I layered them onto a red glitter layer, and added tiny homemade enamel dots to the centre with Nuvo Crystal Drops.

For all the cards I used a Merry Christmas die from a Frozen Forest set and the fern leaves are a Britannia die.

       

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

xxx

Two bunnies

Good morning all, hope you have had a good weekend. Ours has been busy again so not had time to get in the craftroom much but I did manage to finish a project that I will blog later in the week. 

Today's card is one I made right back at the beginning of July for Jude from her grandbabies. Their surname is Warren so she has always called them her little bunnies. 

So I searched through the stamps and found the bigger bunny on a Studio Calico set and the tiny bunny on a little Avery Elle set. I coloured them both with Copics and then cut the panel out with MFT Stamps stitched squares dies.

I layered this on to some bright pink card and some polkadot paper and put it all on a 6 x 6 card blank. 

I typed up the main sentiments on the computer and then printed them on to white card. Then I added in the 'from your' using stamps from a Molly Moo collection and Jet Black Archival ink. 

Then I added a Memory Box Precious Heart and a couple of punched hearts to finish it off. 

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

xxx

Colour wash card

Good morning all. hope you have had a good week. It's been a little busy here this week so I'm looking forward to a nice quiet weekend ;o))

Today's card was made using a new background stamp from Stamping Up called Watercolor Wash. Jude purchased it a few weeks ago, but this is the first time it's been used.

I inked the stamp with a multicoloured pigment ink pad and then stamped it on to plain white card. 

Then I cut a star frame by using two different sizes of the Sizzix nesting stars.

I used half of a Cheery Lynn die to cut the Happy out of black card. Then I added it to the card front on a piece of white card, and raised it on foam tape.

The Birthday banner was cut from white card using half of a Memory Box die. 

I stuck the star to the front over the stamped background and then added the birthday banner across the middle. 

Then to finish it off I added a few enamel accents in coordinating colours.

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

xxx

Acetate card

Good morning all, hope you are well.

Today's card is another that I made for when my nephew turned 21. 

I used the Spellbinders Grand Decorative Label 1 dies to cut the aperture in the front and to decorate the front and inside of the card.

Then I used a Crafters Companion birthday embossing folder to emboss a piece of acetate to go in the aperture, and secured it with Redline tape. Then I covered over the edges on the inside of the card with one of the decorative label frames. 

I used the inner frame for the inside of the card and then put a white square with the number 21 cut with Xcut dies in the centre. 

I used the Memory Box Precious Heart die for the top corner and cut the largest die twice, once from grey card and the other from white card. 

Then I used star punches to make a few layered stars for the inside and outside. 

To finish it off I used a Britannia die to cut the Cousin sentiment. 

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

xxx

Happy 21st Birthday

Good morning all, and happy Good Friday. I hope you have all got some pleasant things planned for this weekend. We have got some spring cleaning to do, but we are going out for the day on Sunday.

Today's card is the one I made for my son and daughter-in-law to send to Joe for his birthday on Tuesday. 

Again I took inspiration from Pinterest and came up with my version of a star card. 

I used a Sizzix star die to die cut the centre star, and then stamped it with a star scroll stamp.

The papers are a mixture from the stash, and the scalloped edges are made with a Tim Holtz edging die. 

The Happy and 21 are stamped with a wooden stamp set using Memento Danube Blue ink, and then cut out with a 3/4 inch square punch. 

The Birthday is cut by using half of a Memory Box Happy Birthday Banner die. 

Then I finished it off by using a Molly Moo stamp for the sentiment on the inside. 

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

xxx

Family Cards - Poinsettia's in Bloom

Good morning all, today I'm posting some of the cards I have made for family and friends. These are the ones that I have kept quite simple and flat as they had to be posted. I apologise for the amount of photos now lol. 

I have used the Poinsettia die and stamp from Memory Box. 

On most of the flowers I have heat embossed them with either gold or silver embossing powder. 

I have used cream patterned card and embossed with an Embossalicious snowflake embossing folder on these ones. 

Then matted them with gold card. 

The greetings on these two are from a Simon Says Stamp (SSS) set. 

On these ones I used more traditional colours and added in some green and red. 

The swirl leaves are Diesire Dies from Crafters Companion. 

This time I cut into one of the flowers and just used the centre bit for a pop of red. 

The happy holidays stamp is also from Simon Says Stamp. 

Then I used a full red flower on this one. 

and a dots embossing folder.

I did personalise some of the cards for Alan's brothers and sisters. 

and made them all slightly different.

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

xxx