Sunshine

Hello again.  The weather may not be brilliant but at least my card is sunny :)

I wanted a small but bright card for my granddaughters to send to their uncle next week.  This is just 4 x 4 and fits the bill nicely.

I used a stamp from Simon Says Stamp for the sun and coloured it with Copic markers.  The sentiment is by My Favorite Things.  Both were stamped in black and clear heat embossed.

I cut a mask for the sun and inked over with Caribbean Blue and Persian Sky from Altenew.

I added a bright yellow matt to a navy blue card base to tie it all together.

The finishing touch was a few yellow enamel dots.  What do you think?

TTFN Jude xx

The Worlds Best Uncle

Good morning all, today's card was made for my granddaughters to send to their uncle for his birthday last week. 

It's a really simple card, I picked three different scraps of card from the stash and cut them into balloon shapes using the WPlus9 Whole Lotta Happy dies.

I raised some of them on foam pads and stuck some of them direct to the card front. Then I drew in the strings by hand. I had seen the little dots done on another card on Pinterest so I gave it a try and I really like the effect.

The Happy Birthday stamp is from a Nit Wit Collection and is stamped in Jet Black Archival ink.

I made the bottom banner by stamping a couple of sentiments from the Crafters Companion Sentimentals - Male set, again with Jet Black Archival ink. 

Then I matted it all on to three pieces of card and put it all on to a 7 x 7 card blank. 

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

xxx

Happy birthday Uncle Terry!

It's Monday morning and June is upon us.  Can you believe it?  The year is flying by.

Tomorrow our Dad's older brother is celebrating his 68th birthday.  This is the card I have made for him.

I ran a piece of paper through an embossing folder for the background, then layered different sized stars to make a focal point.

The stamped sentiment is an old favourite that gets used A LOT lol.  I layered it on the same papers used for the stars.

It's a simple design but quite effective.  Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Home to nest

Good morning all, hope you are having a good weekend. We have visitors this weekend, so we had a little birthday party for our grandson Bailey last night, as he will be six, the week after next. But as they don't live locally we have to do things when we can all get together lol. So we have one very happy little boy as he had a 'nanny birthday' before his 'real' birthday lol.

Anyway today's card is made using a decoupage kit. I haven't done this for ages so it made a change to do some gluing and piecing. 

The kit is an A4 card kit from the Home to Nest range. I used the main image on the A4 card, but also managed to make another couple of cards out of it. 

I used a mixture of silicone glue and sticky foam pads to raise the layers, depending on the size of the surface.

Then I used a Creative Expressions stamp to stamp the sentiment in the top corner. 

I tried to take a side on view so you can see how many layers there are but it hasn't shown them very well lol. 

The card went to our uncle for his 71st birthday on Friday, and mum said he really liked it. 

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

xxx

Friday 4 July - Doggy Scrabble Frame

Good morning all, hope you are well today. Hopefully by now I am laid by the pool on holiday soaking up the sun :o)) But while we are away we have scheduled some posts to keep you going lol. 

Today's post is another of my name frames. This one my cousin Kirsty asked me to make for my aunt and uncle.

It contains all of the names of the dogs that they have had over the last approx 35 years. 

Sadly most have passed away over time but they do still have Emily. They have all been Yorkshire Terriers and have all had very different characters. Starting off with Susie many, many years ago, who used to love bacon sandwiches and biting my brothers feet lol.

I used a large 12 x 12 frame for this one and kept a neutral feel.

My aunt and uncle loved the gift and it now hangs on the wall in the summer house in the garden. 

Hope you like it too.

See you soon. Take care.

xxx

Happy Birthday Uncle Terry

Good morning folks and happy Monday. Today is our uncle's birthday (Dads brother) and it will be his first one ever without dad. Terry wasn't yet a year old when dad was born so they have never missed each others birthdays until this year. But we can't dwell or we would never achieve anything lol. 

Anyway I went for a very simple card as I am really struggling with the old mojo at the min. So I used a ready made topper. 

This is a Docrafts range from their latest goody bag.

And as Terry likes his garden I thought it was quite apt.

While we were dropping Terry's card off yesterday we arranged to go and see our cousin Sarah and her new little addition, at the same time. This is Seth. Isn't he just gorgeous? He is now 2 and 1/2 weeks old and he looks so tiny lol. 

Anyway we had already sent pressies for Seth when Mum went to see him so this time I decided to make a little something for Sarah.

So I made her this little Amber necklace and matching earring set.

Hope you like it, Sarah did.

See you soon, take care.

xxx