Put on your dancing shoes

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week, and are looking forward to the weekend. I am really hoping for some time in the craft room this weekend, but we'll see how that goes lol. 

Right, today's card is one I made for my grandsons step-sister, Orla turns 9 today and loves anything to do with dance and singing. So happy birthday Orla xxxx

I used images from a recent copy of Creative Stamping magazine, and stamped them onto Kraft card using Altenew Crisp Dye Inks, from the Cherry Blossom set. I repeatedly stamped the background panel with the dancers, and then added Versamark ink all over the panel and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder to give it some shine.

The main image and the sentiments, were stamped and then heat embossed and cut out with MFT Zig Zag Stitched Rectangle dies.

I layered them on to an A2 card blank using some red/pink glitter card, and then added some drops of Liquid Pearls in Petal Pink to finish it off.

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

xxx

Hip Hip Hooray - Happy Birthday

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is very bright and cheerful and made using a combination of different products from different companies.

That chubby little Koala bear is from Simon Says Stamp, Cuddly Critters set. I stamped him with Versamark ink on to orange card, then heat embossed him with white embossing powder. The shading and highlights are added with white pencil, Versamark pen and Wink of Stella Clear Glitter pen.

I made the background panel using one of Uniko's, background builder stamp sets. I used a couple of the different circles and stamped them with Tim Holtz Distressed Oxide ink in Spiced Marmalade.

Then I added some Nuvo Pearl Drops in Ripened Pumpkin and Crystal Drops in Silver Moondust.

 I cut a frame using an MFT Zig Zag Stitched Rectangle die, and put it in the middle of my background. Then I raised the outer edge on foam strips and added the Koala to the middle. 

To finish it off I used a sentiment from the Avery Elle, City Celebrations set, heat embossed with clear embossing powder, over the Distressed Oxide ink.

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

Thanks

xxx

Kraft Flowers and Turquoise Spots

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good start to your week. I have my grandsons over to stay this week, but unfortunately I'm at work for a few days, but they are being very well looked after by Jude and my daughter while they are here and I do get to spend the evenings with them. :O))

Today's card was again using bits and pieces of die cuts that I already had and making a card with them. The background turquoise card and the turquoise spot card are both cut with Avery Elle, Wonky Stitched Ellements.

The Kraft layer in between is cut using an MFT Stamps Zig Zag Stitched Rectangle and the grass is from MFT Stamps Grassy Edges.

The flowers are a Spellbinders Die D-Lite, and the butterfly is from an old magazine freebie.

I love how you can combine stamps and dies from different companies and make them work together, just by using coordinating or contrasting colours and patterns.

The sentiment is from the WPlus9 Wishing You set and is cut out with an MFT Stamps Stitched Banner die. Then I just added a few enamel accents and tiny pearls to finish it off.

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

xxx

Hello There

Good morning all, hope you are all having a good week. I have had a little break from the Christmas cards this last week and been making some cards to send to crafty friends abroad. 

This one is off to the USA, so I hope she likes it. I saw this card on Pinterest so made my own version. 

I used the WPlus9 Wishing You stamp set for the bunnies and coloured them with Copic markers. 

Then I used MFT Stamps Zigzag Stitch Rectangles and Circles for the background and coloured them with Memento inks. 

The sentiment is from another WPlus9 set called Strictly Sentiments 2 and is stamped with Jet Black Archival ink. 

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

xxx