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

Birthday wishes

Another week and another birthday!  I can't yet share the cards for this event with you so instead I have made a generic card suitable for a man or woman.  We don't make many masculine cards but we need to start doing!

The sentiment and clouds are from Simon Says Stamp and the balloon from a Paper Smooches die.

The background was made using my Gansai Tambi watercolours.  I intended to use just blues but, as I never know when to stop, I ended up with extra colours in there :)

I added Wink of Stella clear to the clouds and balloon then added glossy accents just to the balloon.

I matted my panel with black and added it to a 6 x 4 card blank.  Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

One in a minion

Good morning all and welcome to the start of another week. We are now in the midst of major birthday season for us, and this is one of the cards that I made for my granddaughter, when she turned 4 last week. We have another 7 birthdays over the next 4 weeks!!! so busy, busy, busy ;o))

Anyway, today's card came about after seeing other Minion cards on Pinterest. I cut myself a basic egg shape by cutting off the bottom part of an oval.

Then I just made the other bits of the Minion's outfit up as I went along. For quite a while she didn't have any arms or hands lol, but I looked at what others had done, then cut the arms by hand and used tiny hearts for the hands.

I used a couple of circle punches for the mouth and then added some googly eyes. Then I drew in some eyelashes and hair with a fineliner.

I typed the sentiment on the computer then printed it on the laser printer and added some pink foil with my Minc machine.

The balloons are from a Paper Smooches die set and I added stickers for the sentiments, then I drew in the balloon strings with a silver glitter pen.

I embossed a piece of white card with a Marianne Designs stars embossing folder and then cut it out with a stitched rectangle die.

Then I added it all to a 7 x 5 card blank. Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Unforgettable - Just Like You

Good morning all, hope you are well and have recovered from the Christmas and New Years celebrations. We have had such a lovely Christmas and New Year that we really didn't want it to end. But oh well, we're all back to work now and on with a new year. 

Today's card is one I made using the Mama Elephant Ella and Friends stamp and die sets. 

I used a patterned paper for the background and then stamped the images using Tuxedo Black Memento ink.

I coloured them with Copic markers and then cut them out with the matching dies. 

I used some balloon dies from Paper Smooches and held them to Ella with some blue twine. 

I love her little friends at the bottom, you can easily change the scene depending on which friends and accessories you choose. 

I finished the card off with one of the sentiment stamps that comes with the set and a die cut 7, for the birthday boy. 

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

xxx

Hanging Hearts Christmas Card

Good morning hope you have all had a good weekend. It's another Christmas card today, this one I made after seeing this lovely card on Pinterest. Again I used the supplies I have to make a similar card.

I started with a red 4 x 6 card base and then cut mats from white and Kraft card. I used part of an MFT Stamps Blueprints set to add a stitched border to the top layer. 

Then I stamped a branch using Versamark ink and heat embossed it with True White Cosmic Shimmer embossing powder. I cut the branch out by hand and cut the leaves off to leave the branch bare. 

For the hearts, I used a Paper Smooches hearts die and cut them from white and red card. Then I punched a tiny snowflake from one of the hearts so you could see the red through. As it didn't show enough for me, I punched the snowflake again with red card and fitted it into the aperture. 

For another heart I punched a tiny red heart from red card and stuck this to the front. Then I used a sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp, Be Joyful set with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with white embossing powder. I used simple white string to tie the hearts on and stuck it with Cosmic Shimmer glue.

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

xxx

Birthday presents

Good morning all and happy Monday. Hope you have all had a good weekend. We have been getting Mum settled in at home, all went well with her knee replacement, but she is off her feet for a few weeks until it heals. She is doing really well though and I've no doubt that she will be back line dancing sooner rather than later! ;o))

Anyway, today's card is a very quick and simple design. I used a stacked presents stamp that was a freebie on a magazine a while ago. I stamped it with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and then coloured it with Copics. Then I cut it out by hand.

I used a couple of different balloon die sets, one is WPlus9 and the other is Paper Smooches. I coloured these with Dew Drop and Memento Inks to give them a bit of a translucent look.

The background paper is from a Pebbles Inc pad called Garden Party, and I used a blank DL card blank for the base.

I added the balloons and presents with foam pads and used these to hold the strings down. Then I just added a few silver sequins to finish it off.

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

xxx

Sparkle and shine

Good morning all, today's card is made using the December Simon Says Stamp Cardkit. I took inspiration from one of their designers for this card and just adapted it to make use of the supplies I have. 

I used a SSS silver card for the background cut with a Dynamics Stitched Rectangle die. Then I used a Paper Smooches balloon die to cut the balloons. I used the largest balloon from the set and cut it three times. 

On the third time of cutting it, I used a plain pale blue card and then used a spot mask to stencil through some Versamark Ink. Then I heat embossed the spots with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder.

Then I used one of the stamps from the kit and embossed that with the same embossing powder. 

I stamped another of the sentiments on the inside using black Memento ink.

I raised the balloons on foam pads and then tied some silver/white string to the bottoms and glued this down with Cosmic Shimmer glue. 

Then I just finished it off with a few sequins in silver, bronze and gold. 

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

xxx

Then I just added a few sequins in silver, bronze and gold

Will you marry me?

Good morning all, hope you are all well on this Monday morning. 

Today's card is the one I made for Alan and I to send to D and Staci for their engagement. 

I used a Lili of the Valley pre-coloured image and cut it out with a circle die. 

I wrote the sentiment on the PC and then cut it down to size. 

The paper is from the Curiosity Corner 8 x 8 pad and really didn't need a lot of extra embellishments. 

So all I used was the love die from Paper Smooches cut with dark red Coredinations card. 

I then used the red card and some cream and brown to mat and layer the image and paper.

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

xxx