Sending you a latte love

Good morning crafty friends, I hope you are having a good week so far. Today's card was made for my niece's anniversary last week. I love stamp sets that are versatile.

This card is made using the August 2018 My Monthly Hero kit from Hero Arts. I stamped my images on to white linen card using Tuxedo Black Memento Ink, and then coloured them with Copic Markers. 

I used the coordinating dies to cut the cups out, and then did the background. For this I took some of the smaller stamps from the set and stamped them with Ground Espresso Distress Oxide Ink, Barely Beige and Khaki Simon Says Stamp Dye inks, onto Kraft card.

I cut the background out with a large Stitched Square die, and put this onto a 5 x 5 white note card. 

After arranging my cups on the front, I stuck them down with glue and foam tape for dimension. 

Then I white heat embossed one of the sentiments onto dark brown card, and placed it on the bottom of the front panel to finish.

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

xxx 

Anniversary Giraffes

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week, and are looking forward to a crafty weekend.

Yesterday was my niece and her husband's fourth wedding anniversary, and this is one of the cards I made for them.

I used my Silhouette Studio software to design the card, which I then printed with the laser printer and foiled using the Minc machine.

I love how versatile the cut images are on this software. This was an elephant and giraffe cut file that I bought ages ago. But because of the software, you can use just certain elements from them.

So for this one I just kept the Giraffe fill image, which I then duplicated and mirrored, so that they could be nose to nose.

When I'm doing this I change my images line colour and fill colour to black, so that when I print it on the laser printer I get a really nice dark image to foil. Then It's just a case of picking the foil colours I want. This time I used Rose Gold Heidi Swapp Foil, and Red Deco Foil.

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

xxx

Have a Whale of a time

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week so far. Yesterday was my son-in-law's birthday, and this is one of the cards I made for him.

I used the stamp and die set that came with Issue 160 of Papercraft Essentials magazine. I stamped the main image with Onyx Black Versafine Ink, and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

I coloured the image with Copic Markers and then cut it out with an MFT Stamps Zig-Zag Stitched Circle die.

I stamped and coloured the whale tail, and then cut a slit into the background image so that I could slip the tail behind to make it look like it was coming from the sea.

I stamped the main sentiment on to the front panel, and then added the rest of the sentiment on to the internal liner.

I added the circle and front panel to a navy blue note card using foam tape. Then I added Tonic Nuvo Crystal Glaze to the sun, sea and whales tail for a bit of shine.

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

xxx

Hope you perk up soon

Good morning all, and happy Monday. I hope you have all had a good weekend. 

Today's card is one I made during a play session with the Hero Arts My Monthly Hero Kit for August 2018. I wanted to make a get well card for my daughter-in-law, who recently had surgery, and she's a huge coffee lover, so this fit the bill perfectly lol. 

I stamped the cups on to plain white and textured white cards, and coloured them with Copic Markers. Then I cut them and the steam out with their matching dies.

I stencilled a 5 x 5 card blank with a coffee bean stencil that came with Issue 177 of Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine, using Ground Espresso Distress Oxide ink. Then I cut out a circle using an MFT Stamps Zig-Zag Stitched Circle die, and woodgrain paper, to represent a table top. 

I used a sentiment from the same magazine stamp set as the background stencil, and white heat embossed it onto black card.

Then I added my 'table top' and mugs using foam tape, and then finished it off with a tiny puffy heart sticker.

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

xxx

75th Birthday Card

Good morning all. I hope you are having a good week so far. I am back to work today after 2 weeks off, but what I really want to do is sit in my craft room and play 😏 lol.

Today's card is one I made for my mum for a friend's birthday. Unfortunately, I didn't hear the bit of the conversation where she told me it was a he, not a she!!!!! So after spending time creating this, I then had to quickly alter a different card that was more suitable lol.

I used the papers and dies from the Simon Says Stamp Brushstroke Messages Card Kit from October 2017. I love this kit as it is so versatile, and the flowers and leaves look very different if cut from different papers.

I first wrote the sentiment on my PC, and printed it with the laser printer, and then foiled it with the Minc Machine, using Decofoil Rose Gold Foil.

Then I cut this out with a Stitched Rectangle die, and I laid 3 strips of white card in different widths diagonally across, using 3 layers of each for dimension. Then I placed thin strips of copper card in between.

I arranged my flowers and leaves to one side of the card strips using glue and foam tape, and then popped it all on a plain card blank. I did consider a scattering of sequins, but in the end decided to leave it quite simple.

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

xxx

Nuts about you

Good morning all, yes you have me again today, as Jude is off in the 'Big Smoke' for work, so she'll be back with you tomorrow.

Today's card is one that I made for my hubby's birthday last week. We both love squirrels, so this card was very appropriate.

I used the stamp set from Creative Stamping magazine, issue 60, and combined it with a set from Simon Says Stamp, called Nutty over You.

I embossed a circle on to the centre of a 4x4 piece of white card, and then stamped some small leaves and berries around the edge using Altenew Crisp Dye Inks.

I stamped the squirrel with Versamark ink and then embossed it with Nuvo Embossing Powder in Copper Blush.

Then I added a few stick on acorns and sequins before matting it with a coloured card, and adding it to a 5x5 note card.

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

xxx

White Heat Embossing on Bright Card

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

Today's card is one I made a few weeks ago, but never got around to sharing. It uses the Simon Says Stamp set Beautiful Flowers.

I used a bright pink card, and stamped the flower image with Versamark ink, and then heat embossed it with Wow white embossing powder.

I love the look of white embossing on bright or dark card, and I think it looks gorgeous on the bright pink.

I used a Crafters Companion Female Sentiment for the main sentiment, and the Happy Birthday is from the SSS Beautiful Flowers set too.

I cut the panel out using an MFT Stitched Rectangle Blueprints die, and added it to a white note card. Then it just needed a few black pearls to finish it off.

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

xxx

Blue Carnival

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend. Jude and I have had a few hours organising some of the crafty stash this weekend, but still LOTS to do. lol

Today's card uses the My Monthly Hero Kit for July 2018 from Hero arts. I stamped some of the images on white Vellum paper and heat embossed them with white embossing powder.

I then coloured them on the back with Copic Markers, and cut them out with their matching dies.

I used the large sun ray cover plate die that comes with the set for the background, cut in a blue card, and put this onto a cream base.

Then I used one of my alcohol ink backgrounds that I recently made using Yupo paper, and cut a small label shape using a nesting die set.

I matted the shape with the larger size die using white card, and then arranged my images on the front of the label.

I used a Simon Says Stamp Happy Birthday die for the sentiment, and cut it from white card and the alcohol ink background, slightly offsetting them so you can see the dimension.

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

xxx