Floral layers

Hello again.  Sorry I'm a bit late today.

This is a really simple and quick to make card.  I took a background stamp and inked it in Hero Arts Unicorn White ink on craft card.  This stamp is from Stampers Anonymous.

I cut a wavy edge panel from the centre using a set from Tonic.  To layer this back on to the same base I then added a layer cut using the slightly larger die and a brown shimmer card stock.

For the sentiment I chose Avery Elle's Sentiments - Petal Panel.  I heat embossed this on the same brown card using Wow Bright White powder.

Once I layered these all together, I added the stamped piece to a regular white card base.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Summer blooms

Morning all.  The end of July means the summer school holidays and clear roads getting to work.  For those of us without children in school it's a great time but I know for parents of youngsters the summer holidays aren't all fun.  If that's you, try not to stress!  Craft instead 😁

Today's card is made using an old Clearly Besotted set called Sketched Blooms.  If you go looking in their store you will find a newer version of this, which looks totally different.  The closest I can see to the same flower is Blooming Marvellous.

 Using Dusty Concord Distress Oxide I stamped a strip on a piece of white card, cut to 3.75 x 5 ins, with a background from Stampers Anonymous. I added this to a pink mat cut with an MFT stitched rectangle.

The flowers were stamped with Spun Sugar oxide and a light layer of Worn Lipstick over top.  I stamped the outline with black Archival.

The leaves are Crushed Olive and Old Paper oxides.  I layered these, together with the flowers, using glue and adding foam squares under the edge of the smallest flower for a little dimension.

The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamps Big Birthday Wishes.

I really like how this looks.  What do you think?

TTFN Jude xx

30th Birthday Roses

Good morning all, as Jude said yesterday it was my daughter's 30th birthday. I really cannot believe that 30 years have flown by already. Goodness it makes me feel old, but then again, at least I'm not as old as Jude 🤣🤣🤣 lol.

So today's card is the one I make for K from Alan and I. I used the Altenew Build a Rose die, and cut it a couple of times in grey sparkle, plain and patterned card.

I put the roses together with wet glue, and left them to dry. Then I cut a few of the matching leaves, and a few other plain leaves using Sue Wilson dies.

For the background I used a large background stamp from Stampers Anonymous, and heat embossed it on white card using white embossing powder.

Then I used Iced Spruce and Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Inks, to blend a soft grey background over the white embossing.

I cut the panel out with an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellement die, and then added it to a white note card. I added the flowers and leaves using foam pads, and wet glue, and then added more sparkle using Nuvo Drops in White Blizzard.

I wrote up the sentiment on the PC and printed it on my Laser Printer, then I ran it through the Minc Machine using Pewter Foil.

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

xxx

Christmas Cards catch up

Good morning all and happy Friday. I am ready for the weekend are you? I'm hoping to get some time in the craft room and catch up on the cards I need for this month, but will have to see how it goes lol.

Anyway, today's post is a catch up on some of the Christmas cards that I never got to post during December. 

I know you are probably sick of them but this is it for a while now lol. 

There is a real mixture here of Marianne Designs, Avery Elle, Lawn Fawn, Molly Moo and Tim Holtz, so I think I made good use of our supplies. 

Anyway, hope you have a good weekend. Take care and I'll see you soon. 

xxx

We wish you a merry Christmas

Good morning, hope you are all well and looking forward to Christmas. Today's cards are another two I made using the same sentiment stamp.

The sentiment is from a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous set called Handwritten Holidays 2. 

I stamped the first one with Black pigment ink and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. 

Then I used a Memento Dewdrop ink in Pearlescent Sky Blue to stamp some snowflakes around the greeting. 

For the second card I used the blue ink to stamp the greeting and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. 

Then I used a Lawn Fawn background stamp called Snowy Backdrops to stamp all around the card with Versamark Ink.

Then I heat embossed it with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder. Two very simple cards but still pretty.

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

xxx

Reindeer Wonderland

Morning all!  I'm back with a Christmas card again today.

This one uses the fabulous Reindeer Games from Mama Elephant.  We managed to get the stamp weeks ago but the die was out of stock.  It was finally delivered last week so we can now do some cutting as well :)

These reindeer were embossed on to a printed paper from a pad called Frozen, along with a sentiment by Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous, called Handwritten Holidays.

I used some Liquid Pearls for red noses and added the paper to a 6 x 6 card blank.  I think it worked really well.  What do you think?

TTFN Jude xx

Let it Snow

Hi there, hope you are having a good week. Today's card was made using the new Polar Pals set from Avery Elle.

I used a background paper from a Graffix paper pad called Frozen for the background. Then I used the Avery Elle Snow Caps dies for the mountains and landscape.

The same set was used for the little tree and the cable car, I love this set lol. Then I used the Polar Pals set for the penguins and cut them out with their matching dies. 

I coloured the penguins with Copic markers and then used a load of Wink of Stella to make all of the mountains and snow sparkle. It's a pity it doesn't pick up very well on photo's. 

I finished the card off with a sentiment from a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous set, stamped with Jet Black Archival ink. 

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

xxx

Oh deer

Good morning crafty friends hope you are looking forward to a nice weekend. Today's cards are a few I made along the same theme.

I used a few different sets of Christmas stamps to make some simple cards. Some are Spellbinders and others that came with Magazines. 

I stayed with a beige, brown and red colour theme for them all. 

And used a couple of different sentiment stamps. You may notice there are one or two deer here and there!

This one is coloured with Copics and finished off with a few gems. 

While this one is stamped with Rich Cocoa Memento Ink for the Deer and Simon Stays Stamp (SSS) Khaki ink for the snowflake.

I used up the rest of my scraps of card to make this one, which I thought would be good to send to a man. 

The candy stripes down the edge are SSS stamps and the sentiment

 is a Tim Holtz stamp

I think they came together quite nicely and didn't take long at all. 

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

xxx