Cute Robins

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week so far. Today I have a trio of little Robin's for you, using the Clearly Besotted Red Robin Stamp and Die set.

I stamped the Robin with Tuxedo Black Memento ink, and then masked him with a full stick post-it note, while I stamped the log for him to sit on. 

Then I used the sentiment from the same set and stamped it onto the panel above him. I did this three times to make multiple cards, as it was so quick and easy to do.

I coloured my scenes with Copic Markers and then added some different strips of card and patterned papers to the bottom of the panels. 

I cut one of the panels out with an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements die, and backed another with a black card mat cut with an MFT Stamps Stitched Rectangle die. Then I added twine, holly, and a few sequins to finish them off.

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

xxx

Birthday Balloons

Good morning folks and welcome to June, hope you are having a good week. Today's card is another that I made for my granddaughters 5th birthday last Sunday.

I used the Clearly Besotted Laugh Out Loud stamp set and stamped balloons in Rose Quartz Crisp Dye Ink from Altenew, on to a plain white background.

Then I used the same stamps to stamp the balloons again, this time using Puffy Heart and Purple Wine inks. I cut them out with their matching dies and added white twine to the back of each one.

I used a sentiment and number from the latest issue of Creative Stamping magazine and cut the number out by hand.

Then I used foam pads to lift the balloons and tied all of the strings together and placed the number on top.

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

Big balloon

Good morning all, Jen back again today. This card is one of the ones I made for my daughters birthday a few weeks ago. 

I had seen on Instagram and Pinterest quite a few cards that had a large balloon on the top. Well I didn't have the die they were using but I did have this semi circle one as past of an MFT Blueprints set. 

I used a turquoise spotty card for the balloon and decided to cut it on the corner so that it went on two edges of the card. 

Then I added some white twine to the bottom and tied it in a bow. 

I used a 7 x 5 silver card blank for the base and covered the front with white card. Then I added the balloon and twine on top. I used glossy accents to keep the twine in place. 

The sister was cut with a Britannia die out of white card and I used a Creative Expressions stamp set for the sentiment called Antique Dressforms.

Then I added a few silver and turquoise stars and sequins randomly across the front, to finish it off. 

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

xxx

Music notes

Good morning all, hope you are having a good weekend. 

Yesterday was Jude's son-in-law's birthday, and this is one of the cards I made to send to him. 

I used an A5 dark grey card blank and a music stencil for the base, and inked through the stencil with Black Soot Distress Ink. 

Then I embossed a piece of Silver card with a Spellbinders M-bossabilities Musical Notes embossing folder. 

I was trying to go for an aged metal look, so I rubbed over the card with Black Soot distress ink and then dried it off with my heat gun. I mounted this on to a black tag and then on to another piece of silver card and used some small black corners to frame it. 

Then I cut a couple of the Spellbinder Die D-Lites Musical Notes from the silver card and added these to the card base. 

I added a piece of twine to the tag and then stamped a sentiment with Jet Black Archival ink and added it to the centre. 

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

xxx

Happy Birthday

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

Today's card is another simple one, made after finding inspiration on Pinterest. 

I used an Embossalicious Large Dots embossing folder on black shiny card for the background. Then matted it with bright red card on to an A5 Kraft card. 

I used part of the Layer Makers die from Frantic Stamper to cut the centre panel. Then I stamped the Birthday using Jet Black Archival ink and an MFT stamp. 

I used an offcut of the red card as an accent across the middle, and then tied some red and white twine under the sentiment. 

I thought it looked a little plain so had a good root through our embellishments and came up with some red and gold sequins. 

I randomly placed some stars across the black card with Cosmic Shimmer glue and then used a red leaf on the centre panel to finish it off. 

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

xxx

Nannan Frame

Good morning all, hope you had a good weekend. Today's project is one a friend asked me to make for her mum for her 50th birthday on Sunday. 

She sent me an image of something she had seen online and asked if I could make something similar. 

So I popped off down to The Range and picked up a big box frame and some wooden hearts from Hobbycraft and set to work. 

I printed the sentiment from the computer using a dark brown font on to Neenah Desert Storm Card from Crafters Companion. 

Then I wrote on the hearts with a Sakura Micron Pen in brown ink. 

A ribbon bow, some twine and a button and it was all finished.

 And I am pleased to say Zoe loved it and so did her mum. Hope you do too. 

Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Twine birthday card

Good morning all, today's card is another that I made for my nephew's birthday last week. 

This time I dug deep in the twine stash for a change. 

The card is really simple if somewhat fiddly, with taping the twine down but I do think it's effective once done. 

I used a 7x5 card blank and cut down a piece of white card for the front. Then I used an oval die to cut the shape in the card. 

I used a few different twines cut down to roughly the same length, and then taped them to the back of the cut out. 

I matted this with a dark brown card and stuck it to the card blank. 

Then I used a couple of different stamps for the sentiments, one from a Molly Moo set and the Nephew from a Crafters Companion set. I stamped them with Aged Mahogany Distress Ink and then heat embossed with clear powder. 

The bike is cut with an MFT die from white card and then glued on top of the twine. 

I finished it off with a few sequins and a couple of dark red pearls.

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

xxx