Baby Boy Card

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week and are looking forward to a nice crafty, relaxing weekend.

Today's card is one I made for a new baby boy. I didn't want to go with traditional blue, so I decided on grey and yellow for a change.

For the background I used the Concord & 9th Hugs and Kisses Turnabout stamp, and inks from the Altenew Pocketful of Sunshine and Rock Collection sets. Then I cut the panel out with an MFT Stitched Rectangle die.

I used Ella and Friends from Mama Elephant for the die-cut image and sentiment, cutting the image from a silver patterned card from Tonic. 

The little balloon is cut with yellow card using a WPlus9 Whole Lotta Happy die, and I stamped on the balloon using grey ink and stamps from magazine sets. Then I tied the balloon to the elephant using silver twine, and added the whole thing to a pale grey note card.

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

xxx

World's Best Son

Good morning friends, I hope you have all had a good week, and are looking forward to the weekend.

As Jude said yesterday, it was our baby brother's birthday, and this is the card that we made him from mum. 

I said we as this card was a bit of a joint effort lol. Jude already had the bunnies cut and coloured, and I was looking for something to go on this background card, so she kindly gave me them and the moon too.

The background is cut from a Lawn Fawn note card, we really liked the blue wood grain effect so decided to cut them up and use them as backgrounds, rather than as full note cards.

The trees are cut from a Clearly Besotted, Into the Woods die, and then distress inked with Antique Linen, Vintage Photo and Frayed Burlap Distress Oxide inks.

I added a couple of MFT Stamps Grassy Edges die cuts, and gave them a once over with the same Distress inks, to make them a bit darker, than the green card they were cut from.

Then I used a Crafter's Companion die and a Cut and Make die to make the sentiments.

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

xxx

Welcome baby

Good morning folks, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is one I made for some friends who became new parents for the first time a few weeks ago.

I must admit this card did not come easy. I changed it a ridiculous amount of times before settling on this version. But I was happy with it in the end. 

I started with the little bear, that I coloured to look like Winnie the Pooh. He is from the WPlus9 stamp set called, Curious Forest Friends. I stamped him with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and coloured him with Copic markers. The little log he is sat on is also from the same set.

The main sentiment, is from A Verve Stamps set call 100 Hearts. I love this set but have never used this saying, and thought it was lovely for a new baby card.

I used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Inks for the background, in Fossilized Amber, Broken China, Cracked Pistachio, Spiced Marmalade and Vintage Photo. I used a piece of watercolour card, and blended the inks across it.

The Welcome Baby stamp is from an Altenew set called Sentiments and Quotes, and I stamped the baby's name using the Concord and 9th Sophisticated Script set. Then I just added an enamel heart and a couple of puffy stars to finish it off.

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

xxx

You're 2 Cute

Good morning everyone, I hope you are having a good week.

Today's card is one I made for Jude's granddaughters 2nd birthday yesterday. I used a background paper for a change, this one was a magazine freebie a couple of years ago, but I love the colours and thought the bunting design was cute for a little girl.

For the main image, I cut a scalloped rectangle die from Tonic Studios, and then used a number from a Fancy Pants die cut set, and some cardboard adhesive letters for the sentiment. 

I coloured the letters with Copic Markers to match the background paper and then cut a couple of WPlus9 Balloons from the Whole Lotta Happy set. I did one in a spotty card and the other in plain white card, which I then coloured yellow.

The little pink spotty star balloon is from the Clearly Besotted Laugh Out Loud set, and I gave them all a red twine string for a pop of colour.

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

xxx

Altenew - Beautiful Day

Good morning all. I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is one I made for a lovely friend who celebrated her birthday on Tuesday.

I used the Altenew Beautiful Day stamp and Die set, and stamped them with Altenew Crisp Dye Inks. 

I used Morning Frost, Evening Grey, Moon Rock and Lava Rock, warm grey inks and Blush, Rouge and Crimson from the Red Cosmos set.

For the background I randomly stamped a few of the smaller images from the set and then coloured them with a small paint brush and the same inks.

Then I arranged all of the flowers and leaves on the panel, and raised some with foam pads.

I backed the panel with grey card and put it all on a pink card base. Then to finish it off I stamped a WPlus9 sentiment on to vellum and heat embossed it with Liquid Platinum embossing powder.

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

xxx

Sending flowery hugs

Good morning all, and welcome to November, I hope you are well and having a good week.

Today's card is one I made as a request from my daughter-in-law for one of her good friends. I used the Spring Daisy set from Altenew, but changed the colours to look a little more like sunflowers.

I stamped the outline stamp with Dark Chocolate Altenew ink and then did the inner stamps with Mango Smoothie and Warm Sunshine.

Then I used a brown Pigma Micron pen to add more colour to the centres. The leaves were then stamped with Memento Inks in Olive Grove and Pistachio.

I cut the panel down to fit on a 7x5 card base and then added a soft gold mat using a stitched rectangles set.

The sentiment is from a WPlus9 set called That is All. I stamped the first part directly on to the card front and then stamped and diecut the word Hugs several times and layered them together to give the card a bit of dimension.

Then I finished it off with a few clear droplets.

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

xxx

Distress Crayon Background Card

Good morning friends, thank goodness it's Friday. Are you looking forward to the weekend too?

Today's card was an experiment for me, and I don't think it turned out too badly to be honest. 

We have had the Tim Holtz Distress Crayons since July, but haven't really used them before. So I thought I would try a simple watercolour background card.

I used three of the crayons from set 3, neutral/browns, on watercolour paper. I wet the paper first and then scribbled the crayons over the top and then brushed water over again with a water brush.

I repeated these steps a few times until I got the depth of colour I wanted and then dried it off with my heat gun. It's probably better to leave it to dry naturally but I'm not a patient crafter lol.

Once it was dry, I stamped a leaf image three times using Versamark ink, and then heat embossed it with Wow Metallic Brass embossing powder. Then I used a WPlus9 stamp set called That is All to stamp the sentiment using Black Memento ink. 

I cut the panel with a Tonic Studios Scalloped die, and then matted it on to brown card and a white card base.

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

xxx

16th Birthday

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

Today's card is one I made for a colleague at work. She wanted something for a young lady's 16th birthday, but, the only thing she could really say that she liked was one of our local football teams. Easy then lol.

Anyway, once I knew which team it was I came up with the idea of the owls as they are their mascot, and I used the clubs home and away colours.

I used an embossing folder for the background and then stamped the name with the Concord and 9th Sophisticated Script stamps. 

I used the Simon Says Stamp Happy Birthday circle die for the sentiment and then coloured two owls from the MFT Stamps Things with Wings set.

The balloons are from a WPlus9 set called Whole Lotta Happy, and the numbers are from an MFT Stamps die set .

I added silver string to the balloons and numbers and then added the whole thing to a 6 x 6 card blank. Then I finished it off with a few clear dew drops.

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

xxx