Birthday Numbers

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

Today's card was made for my niece's husband's 30th birthday a couple of weeks ago. I started by cutting the Happy Birthday Circle Die from Simon Says Stamp from plain white card. I used three die-cuts and stacked them together for dimension.

Then I used Copic and Nuvo Alcohol Markers to colour the  letters in different shades of blue and beige.

For the background I used stamps from a Lawn Fawn set called Owen's ABC's , and stamped these with some of the paler shades from Altenew's Crisp Dye Ink Collection.

Then I stamped a large number 30 on to a circle of white card, using a Creative Stamping Stamp Set and heat embossed in with navy blue embossing powder.

Then I added it all to a bright blue note card. 

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

xxx

Hello Baby

Good morning folks, I hope you are all well. The hubby, Jude and I have a few days off work this week, to sort out the loft etc. I am hoping that we can finally get the rest cleared and taken to the charity shops or the rubbish tip. It does feel good to be getting rid of some of the years of collected rubbish, but I am hoping to for a bit of rest and craft time too, but we'll see lol.

Anyway, today's card is one I made for a friend of my son and daughter-in-law's who had a little baby boy last week.

I used the Deer to Me stamps and dies from Clearly Besotted. I stamped and masked to make my little scene, and then coloured it with Copic Markers.

Then I cut the scene out with a Lawn Fawn Stitched Square die and matted it with a piece of dark blue card.

The patterned paper is from a Studio Calico 6x6 pad, and I used a 6 x 6 card base to layer it all on. 

Then I used the Lawn Fawn Owen's ABC's to stamp and die cut the baby's name and date of birth.

I used Memento Dew Drop Nautical Blue ink to match the card and cut them out with their matching dies. Then I just added a little bit of clear Wink of Stella to the clouds to finish it off.

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

xxx

Happy pandas

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. We have a busy birthday weekend to look forward to, with 2 birthdays over the next few days.

I have been busy making cards, but can't show them yet, so today's card is another that I made for my granddaughters birthday a couple of weeks ago.

I used the Pandamonium set from Mama Elephant and stamped the same image 5 times with different coloured inks. I used Memento Dew Drop inks in Bahama Blue, Tangelo, Grape Jelly, Bamboo Leaves and Rhubarb Stalk.

Then I gave them all balloons from a Lawn Fawn set and stamped letters on to them using another Lawn Fawn stamp set called Owen's ABC's.

I gave them all hats and a couple of them party blowers also from a Lawn Fawn set called Party Animals.

Then I used an over sized DL card for the base and covered it with spotty card and a thin strip of yellow washi tape.

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

xxx

Male 30th birthday card

Good morning all, hope you are having a good week. Today's card is one I made last month for a friend of my son's who turned 30.

I didn't have a clue what to use for the card, but I was reliably informed that he likes motor bikes. Well I didn't have a motor bike stamp but I do have a scooter stamp so that's what he got lol. 

The Scooter and sentiment stamps are from Crafters Companion and are part of the Camden Town Male set. I stamped the scooter with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it with Seafoam White embossing powder.

The 30 is made by stamping Owens ABC's from Lawn Fawn with Jet Black Archival on to red card and then cutting them out with the corresponding dies. 

I used an 8 x 8 blank card for the base and then layered black, red and grey card on the front, finishing off with a white top layer, which I cut an oval aperture in. Then I sat the scooter image behind it. 

I used another stamp from the same set to stamp the tyre tracks and then replicated this on the inside of the card with Washi Tape and an inner paper.

Then I used a Simon Says Stamp set to stamp a sentiment in the centre. 

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

xxx

Circles and squares

Good morning again.

This card was made for my mum to give to Jen's husband Alan.  I saw a similar card using layered squares and thought I'd use the idea but with circles.  It turned out to be more involved than I anticipated.

Stamping the letters and cutting them out was relatively easy.  This is Owen's ABCs stamp and die set from Lawn Fawn.

I cut a larger black circle then another in dark blue and layered the letters up.  Once I got that far I was going to use a larger circle but decided to use the MFT Layered Squares die set instead.  I then added them to a couple of layers of patterned paper.

None of that sounds complicated you might say, but believe me, lining them up wasn't that easy!!  It took me ages to get them straight and vertical.  Even then a couple have slipped a little.

Still Mum liked it, and so did Alan.  Hope you do too.

TTFN Jude xx