Party like a boss

Good morning all. I’m back with some of the most challenging cards I’ve made in ages. 

Cards for a 13 year old boy are certainly not the easiest but I eventually came up with three ideas. This is the first. 

I embossed a sentiment from a Wplus9 set onto a black card base. I then added Audrey blue card stock to the top and a white strip for accent. 

To fill in the top section I gold embossed Carnival Numbers by Papermania. 

This was quite a quick card to make and I love these colours together. What do you think? 

TTFN Jude xx

Pink posy

Hello and welcome.

My card today was made for my Mum for Mother's Day last weekend.

The stamp set is Beautiful Bouquets - Ranunculus by Wplus9.  I black embossed it on to smooth card and coloured it with Copic markers.

To give some lift to the flowers I added some white gel pen highlights.  I also added a few clear Nuvo drops around the spray.

The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted's Love You Tons set and is white embossed on black card.  I cut two thin strips to add to my card below the bouquet.

I love how this turned out and hope you do too.

TTFN Jude xx

Pretty posies

Hello everyone and happy Monday.

Today's card is made using a Wplus9 stamp set called Beautiful Bouquets - Ranunculus.

I stamped it twice on watercolour paper and coloured it with my Zig Clean Colour markers and a water brush.

Once dry I fussy cut both bouquets and added them to a piece of silver grey card stock and a black card base.

To finish off I white heat embossed a sentiment on to black card.

I love the bright colours of these flowers and hope you do too.

TTFN Jude xx

Birthday Peonies

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week, and are looking forward to the weekend. Lets hope we are lucky enough to get some good weather 😎.

Today's card was inspired by a few cards that I saw on Pinterest, I used elements from some of them that I liked and put them in to this one.

I started by cutting a piece of light Kraft card to fit an A6 card blank, then I used the Marianne Designs large Birthday die to cut the word across the centre.

I used a WPlus9 stamp set called Pretty Little Peonies, to stamp a design all around the word. I started by stamping the bottom layer of a few flowers, then added the top layer and a few leaves at a time, until I was happy with the design.

I kept stopping, turning the card and going back and filling in spaces where I thought it needed it, either with another flower or some leaves.

I used Altenew Rose Petal and Tropical Forest inks to stamp all of the flowers and leaves, and then cut a few of each out and added them on top with foam pads for dimension. A simple sentiment and a few clear sequins was all it needed to finish it off.

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

xxx

Hello Gorgeous

Happy Monday and Happy May everyone!  It's also a UK Bank Holiday so no work today - woo hoo!!

Today's card is one I made for my daughter Cat's 25th birthday on Saturday (excuse the blurry picture!) 

We had a lovely family evening with takeaway, cake and one of Jen's amazing cheesecakes :0 

It had 7 packets of Rolos and used crushed Oreos for the base. It was definitely not one for those on a diet or with diabetes......... but we ate it anyway lol :)

Back to the card.

I started by stamping in Altenew's moonstone ink onto textured card using leaves from their Beautiful Day set.  

The focal  stamp is Beautiful Bouquets - Ranunculus from Wplus9, which I stamped on plain white card and coloured with Copic markers.

I fussy cut the image and added small foam pads for some dimension.  I then heat embossed the sentiment using black ink and clear embossing powder, on to a piece of matching card.

I added this as a strip over the flower using more foam tape and adhered the panel to a white note card.

The card was finished off with some White Blizzard Nuvo Drops and some silver glitter washi tape.  

Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture after adding the washi tape (top left and bottom right) so you'll have to use your imagination ;)

I also added some Wink of Stella clear to the flowers but it doesn't show well in the pictures.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Pencil Coloured Dahlias

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend. Did you get much time to be crafty? I managed to squeeze in a couple of cards this weekend, this is one of them.

I stamped the WPlus9 Beautiful Bouquets - Dahlias stamp on to black card using Versamark ink. Then heat embossed it with fine detail white embossing powder. 

Then I used Spectrum Noir coloured pencils to colour it. I have wanted to try this technique for ages but never got around to it, and I am really happy with the results. The pencils give a lovely soft effect on the black card, but also really stand out.

I wanted to add a bit more interest to the background so added a few sprays of Frost Sheer Shimmer Spritz, by Imagine Crafts. 

This gives a lovely fine spray, but I wanted something a little bit heavier. So I sprayed some on to my glass mat, then flicked it over the background using a water brush, to give me the heavier drops.

The sentiment is from the Mama Elephant - Organic Blooms set. I stamped it with Grape Jelly Memento ink, and then raised the strip on foam tape across the bottom of my card.

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

xxx

Birthday Balloons

Good morning all, how is your week going? are you like me and already can't wait for the weekend? lol.

Today's card is super simple and was inspired by a post I saw on Pinterest. I used the WPlus9 Whole Lotta Happy balloon die set to cut lots of different balloons from white card stock.

Then I placed them randomly over another piece of white card and cut it down to fit a 6 x 4 card base. 

The Happy Birthday die is from Clearly Besotted, I cut it out and then coloured the letters with different pink, lilac and purple Copic markers.

Then I laid this across the panel with my balloons, found a piece of card to co-ordinate and layered it behind, before adding it to a white card base.

Then to finish it off I went to town with pink and purple sequins. As I didn't have any sequins in the right shade of pink, I used clear ones and coloured them with a matching Copic marker. They turned out great!!!

Thanks for stopping by, hope you like today's card. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Window bear

Good morning all and Happy 'Good Friday'. I hope you are all having a lovely start to the Easter weekend, and looking forward to a nice long break, if possible. ✔

Today's card is one I made last year, but again never got around to blogging. I used a Tim Holtz brick wall embossing folder for the background, and inked it with Antique Linen, Vintage photo and Tea Dye Distress inks.

I used a Spellbinders Die D-Lites window die, to cut the window from dark grey card. Then I added a piece of patterned paper and a small bit of lace behind the window.

The little bear is from the WPlus9 Going Places stamp set, I coloured him with Copic markers and cut him out with his matching die. Then I popped him inside the window, to look like he was waving to someone outside.

I used a sentiment from a Lawn Fawn set called Party Animal, stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and then mounted on to a piece of the dark grey card to finish it off.

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

xxx

You are amazing

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. I'm off to have the root touch up today, you know to cover the twinkly bits that I'm still in denial about. Thinking about going grey all over so that it just blends in lol.

Anyway, today's card was an experiment with a new stamp set and some of those new  Distress Oxide Inks by the very clever Tim Holtz.

I was very lucky to win an incredibly generous giveaway on Instagram from the lovely Beverley at Uniko stamps, 6 stamp sets!!! So today's card is made using one of those.

I stamped the Fun Flowers set from Uniko, randomly on a piece of Kraft card. Then I blended, Wilted Violet, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Broken China, Cracked Pistachio and Worn Lipstick distress inks all over the top.

These inks blend so easily, they are absolutely gorgeous, and beautiful colours too. Then I went all over the design with my Spectrum Noir Glitter Shimmer pen in clear. I'm not sure the camera has picked up the sparkle all that well but believe me it does look lovely.

The sentiment is from a WPlus9 set called That is All, and I finished it off by sticking the panel to a deep purple card blank.

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

xxx