Wishing You a Happy Birthday

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. Today's card was one I made for Jude's granddaughter a couple of weeks ago. 

For this card I inked a background on smooth white card using Tim Holtz Distress Inks, in Shabby Shutters, Tumbled Glass and Scattered Straw. 

Then I combined a couple of WPlus9 stamp sets with a Mama Elephant set to make the images and sentiment. 

I used the Going Places set from WPlus9 for the balloon and bear, and the little monkey comes from the Mama Elephant set called Up and Away.

 I stamped them with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, and then coloured them with Copic markers and cut them out with their matching dies.

Then I added them to the inked panel and put them on an A2 card blank, made from bright orange card stock.

I added the sentiment from the WPlus9 set called Wishing You and then stamped Niece in the bottom corner using a Crafters Companion Female Sentimentals set.

To finish it off I cut a number 5 using the MFT Stamps Starlight Number dies and popped it on the front of the balloon.

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

xxx

Stamping mad

Good morning all, hope you are well. Today's card is actually made with a Christmas stamp set. 

I have to admit I never realised it was a Christmas set. I've only used it before for some of the family names in it. But I wanted to make a card with just stamps, and this set fit the bill. 

It's by Hunkydory and is called A Family Christmas, and if you look closely at the images there is the odd snowflake and some baubles etc. 

I stamped all of the images using Memento Dew Drop inks in Rose Bud and Paris Dusk. 

The main sentiment stamp is from a recent magazine freebie and the Niece stamp is from a Crafters Companion set called Sentimentals Greetings - Female.

I added a piece of bright pink card behind and mounted it on a 7x7 card blank. 

Then I finished it off with a few pearls in blue and pink.

 It is a bit busy, but I do like it, hope you do too.

Take care and I'll see you soon. 

xxx

Sun Rays

Good morning all, today is my niece, Cats birthday, and this is one of the cards I have made for her. 

She loves yellow so this one should be a winner lol. I used the new Sun Ray cover up from MFT Stamps, then inked a piece of card for behind it with three different coloured Distress Inks. 

I used Scattered Straw, then Mustard Seed and then a tiny bit of Tea Dye to darken the centre. 

The stamp is from the Blue Skies Ahead MFT Stamps set, stamped with Mustard Seed Distress Ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

I used a pale blue card for the background and some little gold corners to make the panel stand out. 

Then I finished it off with some sparkly sequins in gold, silver and bronze.

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

xxx

Lily May

This is the last of the cards for Lily's birthday last weekend.

The image is a Time for Tea design and I'm really pleased with the shading on this one.  I can see improvement in my colouring, but still a ways to go yet.

This is a die we received as a freebie a while ago.  It is quite versatile and it certainly gets put to use a lot. 

So there she is.  A pretty card for a pretty girl.

TTFN Jude xx

Hula Hoop Love

Happy Sunday everyone.

Yesterday we took a run to the coast to celebrate Lily's 6th birthday.  We had a lovely day even though the weather wasn't the best, but at least it didn't rain!

This is the card I made for her Uncle John to send.  The image is Hula Hoop Love from Saturated Canary (again!)

[Excuse the rubbish picture!]

I received some vellum pennants and matching papers on my Quick Cards Made Easy magazine last month, and used these for the card.

I used an adhesive number and cut 'Today' with a die.

A quick and easy card to put together.

TTFN Jude xx

Happy Birthday Cat

Good morning. Today is my niece's 22nd birthday, so this is the card I have made from Alan and I. 

Hope you have a brilliant day Cat, happy birthday love. 

It's a Time for Tea Designs digi image. Coloured with Promarkers and then stitched on to some Coredinations card. 

I teamed it with purple paper and some grey embossed card from the stash, and then made a flower from grey fabric and card. This is cut with the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die, all held together with a big brad.

I added some more ready made flowers and a couple of curly vines cut from the same grey card.

The little rope flower is one that I received as a gift all the way from Thailand.

I added a ready made sentiment and then used a Tim Holtz on the edge die to cut the butterflies for the top. I cut these in a double strip so that it goes all the way inside the card. Then I inked it all up with Dusty Concord and Seedless Preserve Distress Inks. 

I inked all of the rest of edges with Dusty Concord and then finished the card with a couple of little stick on butterflies.

Hope you like it, I know Cat does.

See you soon.

xxx

To a special niece

Good morning all, so glad it's Friday. It has been a long week at work this week so glad it's nearly over lol. 

Today's card is one I made for a friend at work. She was looking for an 18th birthday card for her niece but couldn't find one anywhere so she asked me to help. 

I was told nothing too girly, mainly black and white but could use a touch of red. So this is what I came up with. 

I started by embossing some white Centura Pearl card with a Sue Wilson embossing folder. I then cut this to fit an A5 card front and matted it with black card. 

The fancy label is cut with Spellbinders Timeless Rectangle die and the main sentiment was printed from the computer.  

I used a number die for the 18th and then used a new Memory Box die called Precious Hearts for the splash of red. 

Then I set to work with the gems! And used black and crystal gems on each of the joins. This took some time lol. 

I nearly left it there but decided to add the red braid at the end to finish it off. 

Hope you like it. See you soon. Take care. 

xxx