Mother's Day Carnations

Good morning crafty friends, I hope you are having a good week so far. We are off work this week as it's half term for all of the grand kiddies now, so we are off to the cinema today, and hopefully out for some fresh air tomorrow.

Anyway, today's card is another that I made for Mother's day last week. I used the Carnation Signature Die from Joanna Sheen, and cut them a few times from white card and then just the top once from a yellow card.

I stacked the die cuts together with Nuvo clear glue, and then cut the petals out of the yellow flower to sit on top of one of the white ones, just to give it a pop of colour. 

I arranged my flowers towards the bottom of a green side-fold note card and then cut off the excess stems.

For the sentiment, I stacked a couple of Mum die cuts from Crafter's Companion onto a piece of white card, and then stamped the rest of the message using the Avery Elle City Celebrations stamp set. Then I matted this with yellow and green card and added it to my note card.

A very simple card to make, but I love the effect of those stacked white flowers on the green card. 

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

xxx

Exotic Tulips for Mother's Day

Good morning all and happy Monday or April Fools day, I hope you have had a great weekend. As it was Mother's Day here in the UK yesterday, today's card is the one I made for my mum.

I used the Altenew Exotic Tulips stamp, Die, and Mask set, which is so lovely. I love the fact the masks are included so you don't have to make your own to stamp bunches of flowers.

I stamped the leaves with Prickly Pear and Fern Green Blendable Dye Inks from Wendy Vecchi, then the petals with the same make of ink in Poppy and Red Geranium. 

 To finish off the petals I added a little Cosmic Berry Crisp Dye Ink from Altenew's, Rose Petal set.

I cut the panel to size using an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements die, and placed the panel on to a plain red card blank. Then I added a few clear dew drops and a simple Mother's Day sentiment from Avery Elle's City Celebrations set, to finish.

Hope you like it, take care and have a great week.

xxx

Mothers Day Roses

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. Are you looking forward to the weekend? Jude and I are off to the Creative Craft show in Birmingham this Sunday, so should be a nice day.

Today's card is the one I made for mum for Mother's day on Sunday. I used the Altenew Layered Rose die collection, from a recent copy of Simply Cards and Papercraft Magazine.

I used 3 different shades of pink card for the flowers and made the centre layer from a pink metallic card. This does give the flowers a lovely shiny texture.

I used a Stencil from The Works across the middle of a white panel, and stamped through it with Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide Ink. Then I cut the panel out with an MFT Stamps, Blueprints Stitched Rectangle die.

I added my flowers and leaves to the panel and then cut a sentiment with a Cut and Make Relatives die, and layered this 4 times to make it stand out.

I added the Mum die-cut to the panel and then used a sentiment stamp from a Clearly Besotted set called Love You Tons.

Then all it needed was a few pink pearls and I placed it all on an olive green card blank.

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

xxx

Gilded heart

Hello and thanks for visiting us today.

This is the last of the cards I sent on Mother's Day a couple of weekends ago.

To be fair it isn't a completely new card.  The front panel was made quite some time back and I cut it down to fit a 5.5 x 4.25 card blank.

The panel started as a piece of white card with a sheet of double sided sticky paper added.  I then covered this with gilding flakes.  These are called Winter Dawn and are made by IndigoBlu.

I stamped the Love Is stamp with Staz-on ink over the gilding.  The surface is quite slippery so this takes a bit of care.

The sentiment is a Kaisercraft rub-on.  I don't use these very often anymore but I found them really useful when I had access to a limited number of sentiment stamps.

It is difficult to get a good photograph as the light reflects off the flakes in the background, but it looks lovely up close.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Mother's Day bouquet

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. I'm off to take my daughter and her family to the airport this afternoon, so that they can jet off on a lovely holiday to Thailand, to see my son and daughter-in-law. They have had this arranged for about a year now, that K would go out with her family and meet them while they were travelling, and Thailand was the place they chose. I have to admit I'm a tiny bit (a lot!) jealous, that I'm not able to go and spend some time with them 😞 but I know they will have a fantastic time.

Today's card was one I made for Mother's day (last year) 😲 but I never got around to blogging it. I used a bouquet and stem stamp from a Creative Stamping magazine, and heat it embossed it with white embossing powder.

Then I coloured the flowers with Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Drawing Inks. I don't have many colours, but what we do have give lovely vibrant results.

I cut the Happy using a Clearly Besotted die out of pale blue card and laid this on top of the bouquet.

Then I stamped the rest of the sentiment using Tuxedo Black Memento ink and a Crafters Companion stamp, directly onto the card front.

Then I added it all to a blue card base, sprinkled on a few sequins, and it was all finished.

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

xxx

In full bloom

Can you believe it's Thursday already?

I'm back with another Mother's Day card but I didn't send this one to my Mum. I might save it for next year ;)

I saw a similar card on Altenew and loved the idea, so had to replicate it.

My version uses the Dahlia Blossom set.  

I stamped it in Versamark onto pale kraft card and clear embossed.

I love the tonal look this achieves.

The bloom sentiment is from the same set but the Mother's Day one is from Avery Elle.

I cut my panel with a stitched rectangle die and added it to a standard note card.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Bunny Love

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is another that I made for Mother's Day at the weekend. I tried a new technique that Jennifer McGuire had released a video about last week, and it worked out OK.

That cute bunny is from the Some Bunny set from Uniko stamps. This was another of the sets that I was lucky enough to win in an Instagram giveaway. 

I stamped the image with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it with white embossing powder, on to a dark purple card. Then I used my Spectrum Noir white pencil, a Versamark ink pen and Wink of Stella Clear sparkle pen to add the accents to the image.

I'm certainly no artist, but I do think it ended up OK, but if you have the Prismacolor pencils, it may blend a little better for you.

The panels and sentiment were cut out with Tonic Studios Scalloped Rectangle dies, and the sentiment is from the Avery Elle City Celebrations set. I again stamped it with Versamark and heat embossed in white.

I used a plain white note card and added the image by raising it up with fun foam. Then I added a darker border around the image using my Versamark and Wink of Stella pens.

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

xxx

Mothers Day Flowers

Good morning all, I hope you had a lovely weekend, and for those of you that are mums, mummies, moms, mothers, mamma's or whatever other name you are known by - I hope you had a very happy mothers day. 

I had a lovely weekend and was very spoilt. On Saturday the 'mummies' in our family were treated to a delicious afternoon tea by my son and daughter-in-law, who arranged it all the way from Cambodia! Then on Sunday, everyone gathered at ours for a delicious Sunday lunch cooked by my husband Alan. 😋 Needless to say a thoroughly enjoyable but not exactly slimming friendly weekend lol. 😉

Anyway, on to the card. As you can see this card is using that gorgeous Fresh Freesia stamp again from Altenew. Apologies that the pics look a little hazy, but can you believe that is sunshine??? I know, in March. I only realised how hazy they were when I uploaded them to the PC !!!!

I stamped the image using Archival ink and then watercoloured with Zig Clean Colour markers. This time trying to replicate the lovely soft purple freesia that has the hint of yellow in the middle, which I think is the colour that mum had in her bridal bouquet.

I stamped one of the sentiments from the Freesia set directly on to the card panel. Then I stamped the Mothers Day greeting using the Avery Elle City Celebrations set, and Grape Jelly Memento ink, on to a plain piece of card and cut it out using an MFT Stamps Stitched Banner die.

I used stitched rectangle dies by Crealies, to cut out the white panel, and the purple background and then mounted the front with fun foam to raise it up.

Then I added the whole thing to a mid-green card base and it was all finished.

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

xxx