Spanish greetings

Good morning all, tomorrow my baby boy will be 27! I can not believe how quickly time really does pass lol. As he's headed to Germany for a few days with his beautiful wife, I have already given him his cards etc. so it's OK to share this one today.

I used the Hero Arts, April 2018 My Monthly Hero kit for the images. These were perfect for a card for D, as they have a Mexican/Spanish feel to me, and D has travelled to both Spain and Mexico a few times, and he speaks Spanish.

I stamped them with Memento Tuxedo Black ink, and then coloured them with Copic Markers.

For the background, I cut a panel using a stitched rectangle die, and then softly blended some Distress Oxide inks, to give it a bit of a dessert look.

Then I stamped one of the sentiments from the set, which translates to Happy Birthday, and popped it on a dark orange card blank.

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

xxx

Sail away on your birthday

Good morning, hopefully this post is going live on Friday 22nd July while we are away lol.

Today's card is one I made for my son a few weeks ago. I used a Studio Calico map piece of card and then distress inked it with Tim Holtz inks. 

I used a couple of circle dies to create the porthole window and cut the top layer with a wood effect paper from the stash. Then I wrapped a white string twine around it.

The little sailing boat is cut with a Simon Says Stamp die from one of their older kits and the wavey paper is from the same set.

I used the circle from the centre of the porthole plus a smaller stitched circle for the sentiment and stamped it with a sentiment from the coordinating stamp set.

Then I added a smaller sentiment in the top corner from a Mamae Elephant set called Mini Messages.

I inked everything with the same distress inks to make it look a bit aged and then added it all to a 6 x 6 Kraft card blank.

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

xxx

Out of this world

Good morning all, hope you have all had a good weekend. We celebrated a couple of birthdays this weekend. One of them was my sons, and this is the card that I made for me and his dad to send. 

I used the paper out of a Studio Calico paper pad, it was already printed with all of the little sayings around the earth. So I just added the main sentiment using Safmat.

I typed it on the computer and added the star around it then printed it on to Safmat and cut it out by hand. 

I really like this product as it's transparent so you don't lose the image behind. I just forget we have it lol. 

Then I used a Britannia die to cut the Son. I cut it twice from bright red card and layered it together. Then I covered it with Glossy Accents and left it to dry. 

Once it was dry I added it to the front. Then I layered the main image on to some bright red card and put it all on a 7 x 7 card blank. 

Then I used another Studio Calico paper for the inside. This one shows all of the constellations. I added a small arrow cut with an MFT Blueprints set and stamped his birthday date in the bottom corner. 

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

xxx

Happy Birthday Chris

Good morning all, hope you are having a good week. Today's card is one I made for our son Chris. He is 26 next Monday, but doesn't read the blog so I'm OK to post this today. But happy birthday for Monday Chris, hope you have a great day xx

I used a mixture of Papermania and Lili of the Valley papers and cut the edge with a scalloped square die. 

Then I used a star stencil and inked it with white pigment ink, then heat embossed them with Seafoam White embossing powder.

I used a Hero Arts script stamp and Vintage photo ink to stamp the papers, and then edged everything with the Vintage Photo Distress Ink. 

I used a couple of Kraft stars that were in the stash and then cut the white star to layer behind. 

Then I tied twine around it before gluing it down. 

The shooting star was also from the stash and I found a sentiment to match and stamped this in Rich Cocoa Memento ink.

Then I added another sentiment to the inside and Son to the shooting star. 

Hope you like it, thanks for stopping by again. 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

Just married

Good morning folks, it's the weekend at last lol. This week has seemed to go on forever, and I'm really hoping for some crafty time this weekend. 

This is the last of the wedding cards I made for my son and daughter in law. 

The car was stamped from a free stamp set that Jude got recently on a craft magazine. I stamped it twice, then cut it out and coloured them both with Copic markers. When I put the card together I put one car over the other raised on foam tape.

I covered the windows with Glossy Accents to give them a bit of shine. 

The papers are from a Lili of the Valley paper pad called Winter Wishes.

I wrote the sentiments on the computer and then printed them on card stock and cut them out with tag dies. 

I used antique lace, blue ribbon, a blue tassel that's been in the craft stash forever! and a little heart brad to attach it. 

Then I cut up some pearl trim and used the single pearls on the ribbon and on the car. Then I added a couple of little resin flowers to the bottom corner. 

Then all it needed was a double bow, some silver twine tied in a bow and a little Love charm.

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

xxx

World Map

Good morning all, hope you are well today. This is the card that I made for D for his birthday on Saturday from Alan and me. 

D and his girlfriend Staci, love to travel, so I decided to go with a map theme. I got the image from Google images, a copyright free image of a world map. I saved it and re-sized it to suit an A5 card blank.

I printed it twice, and cut sections of the 2nd one out to decoupage with. I just picked a few random places to give it a bit of interest. 

I made up the sentiment for across the bottom and finished it on the inside. It reads, "For your birthday, we wanted to give you the whole world.... but unfortunately you will have to make do with this card instead!"

Then I added a 'Son' die cut to finish it off. D loved it, hope you like it too.

Take care, see you soon.

xxx