More than all the stars in the sky

Good morning folks, I hope you have had a good weekend. Today is a difficult day for us as it's the anniversary of losing Dad. It is just so hard to believe that 3 years have gone so quickly since he left us. But, we went out for a meal as a family yesterday, as he would have wanted us too, and today we will go to his spot in the cemetery and probably stand in the rain while he laughs at us lol.

Anyway, this card is one I made a few weeks ago, but the sentiment couldn't be more fitting for today. This is from the Mama Elephant Shooting Star stamp set and was stamped with black pigment ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

The background is watercolour card and I used a Stampin Up background stamp called, Watercolour Wash.

I used three different colours of Distress Ink to cover the stamp with, then I spritzed the stamp with water before stamping it on to the card.

I heat set the background before stamping the sentiment, and then I used more stamps from the Shooting Star set to stamp some background images and heat embossed them with silver embossing powder.

Then I used my Sizzix layered star dies to cut the stars, and added a die cut 11 to the centre, as this card was for an 11th Birthday.

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

xxx

Moon and back

Good morning, well if all has gone to plan this post will be going live as we are getting ready to return from our holiday. Hopefully we've had a lovely time lol. 

Today's card is using a stamp from Mama Elephant called Shooting Star, that we have had for ages but has hardly been used. But recently I bought the die to go with it and now she's getting inked lol. 

I teamed her with a Moon from the Altenew set called To the Moon, which is stamped in layers. For this one I used greys and a very dark brown. I then cut it out with a 2 inch round punch and chopped a chunk out of it with a slightly smaller round punch to leave the moon shape.

For the background I used a number of Distress Inks, including Seedless Preserve, Salty Ocean and Mermaid Lagoon. I love the purple with the blues, it gives a really nice effect.

I stamped a sentiment from the Altenew set and heat embossed it with Liquid Platinum fine detail embossing powder from Ranger.

Then added a few small stars coloured yellow and topped with clear Wink of Stella.

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

xxx

To the stars and back

Yesterday my youngest granddaughter, Charlotte Rose, celebrated her first birthday.  It would also have been my grandma's 95th birthday.

This is the card I sent to Charlotte.

The background is made using a blend of memento inks - rose bud, angel pink, sweet plum, grape jelly and teal zeal.  The stars and the little girl are from a Mama Elephant set called Shooting Star.  I heat embossed the stars in bright white.

The moon is cut from a piece of silver paper that feels like cloth.  I've no idea where it came from but I wish we had more!

Hope you like it.  See you soon.

TTFN Jude xx 

15th Wedding Anniversary

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Yesterday was mine and Alan's 15th wedding anniversary, and this is the card I made for him.

I didn't want anything too fussy, so went for something simple but with a nice sentiment.

The stars are cut with an MFT die called Star/Sky vertical. I cut it out of a piece of black card and then added a piece of silver card behind it.

I cut the piece down to fit an A2 card blank and then cut and coloured these cute sheep from Clearly Besotted.

I love this set, called Feeling Sheepish. As there are a few different sheep and extras in the set, they are so easy to colour and they stamp and cut beautifully.

The sentiment is from a Mama Elephant set called Shooting Star, and I cut it out with a Marianne Designs Postage Stamp die.

Then I just added a couple of little punched hearts to finish it off.

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

xxx

Happy birthday JP

Good morning all, hope you are having a good weekend. Today is our little brothers 35th birthday. One day we may stop calling him our 'little' brother, lol, but not today! So hope you have a great birthday JP, see you later xxx

Today's card is the one I made for mum to send to John. Using an old Chronology stamp.

I stamped the image with Rich Cocoa Memento Ink and then cut it out by hand. I used Glossy Accents to go over a few areas to give it a bit of shine. 

The papers are from a Lili of the Valley pad called Father Knows Best.

Then I used the Marianne Stars Embossing Folder on Kraft card and the coordinating Stars Die on some more of the yellow paper.  

The 'Son' is cut from Kraft card using a Britannia die and the other sentiments are stamped with a new Mama Elephant set called Shooting Star.

I added an inner to the card and stamped a greeting using the Rich Cocoa ink again and one of our older sentiment stamps.

Then I finished the card off with a little more Glossy Accents here and there.

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

xxx