Anniversary Love Birds

Good morning folks, I hope you have had a good weekend, and a good start to the week. 

Today's card is an anniversary card that I made recently, however, the design is so simple it could easily have lots of other sentiments on it.

I started by using Alcohol Inks on glossy paper to blend a background. I used Lettuce, Meadow, and Sunshine Yellow, with a few drops of Silver Mixative, and swiped it over the paper in one direction. 

I trimmed the panel down and cut it out with a Stitched Rectangle die and then added a larger white mat behind it, before adding them to a green note card.

The tree is a Spellbinders Die-D-Lites die, and the birds are fussy cut from a Marianne Designs Birdhouse stamp set, coloured with Copic markers and then covered in Glossy Accents.

I stamped the Happy Anniversary sentiment on to plain white card and then cut it out with an MFT Stamps Stitched Banner Die.

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

Thanks

xxx

Altered Bird Cage

Good morning folks, halfway through the week already. Where is it going? lol. 

Anyway today's post is the second in my little list of altered projects for my daughter. This time a purple birdcage candle holder. 

As she no longer has anywhere purple, she wanted it changing to match somewhere in the new house. So I thought if I did it fairly neutral it would go just about anywhere. Now it's finished though I think it will go in the living room.

I gave the cage a quick rub over with some fine grit sandpaper, and then gave it two coats of white spray paint. It wasn't the easiest of shapes to paint lol, so it's not perfect, but I sort of like it that way as it's a little bit shabby chic.

Once the paint was dry I decided to give the base a bit of further treatment and used some Pebeo Paint in onyx to change the colour. 

Then all I needed to add was a bit of bling and some ribbon and it's all finished.

 K just needs to add a candle now lol.

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

xxx

Par avion

Happy Sunday everyone!

We have been busy helping Jen's daughter Kayleigh to paint her new home yesterday and today, so crafting time has been in short supply.  Still I managed to get a little bit done.

When I first saw this Saturated Canary image I kept thinking of travel, so I decided to make something I've never made before - a 'bon voyage' card.  However after I started I decided to change it to an 'across the miles'.

The image is a digi called Beautiful World, which I coloured before we went away.  I used Promarkers to colour her with.

These embellishments are a couple of stamps cut out by hand.

The bird and cage are a Tim Holtz die.  I wanted a globe but we don't have one (yet!)

The sentiment is from a pack we received free on a magazine.

So there she is.  Hope you like her.

TTFN Jude xx

Art tray

Morning all.

I was in the mood for something different last night so this is what I came up with.  I painted the tray and added some background papers and ricrac edging.

I made a couple of flowers using our new floral craft embossing tools and a couple of circle punches (1" and 1.5").  The edges were inked with Crushed Olive Distress Ink and added to the frame with silicone glue.  I love the big blousey blossom!

Under the big flower is an old ribbon reel that has a tree charm tied on with twine.

I have hidden a small wooden flower behind the bird and birdcage.  I used pre-embossed core'dinations card stock to cut these and sanded them lightly before inking with more crushed olive.

I love the words on the paper (find the extraordinary in ordinary days) and the 'hope' plaque seemed just right for the bottom corner.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Wednesday 8th January

Morning all.  Hope the new year is treating you better than it has us so far!  Jen told you about the car accident on New Year's Day - well Mum is now in hospital being treated for compartment syndrome!!  This often happens after a crush injury but as she wasn't crushed no one suspected it until her leg was twice its normal size!  We now have to wait to find out if she needs surgery to relieve the pressure.

As she is having a bad time I got home from work last night and quickly made a Get Well Soon card for her.  I literally had 10 minutes so I turned to my trusted Hunkydory sets and came up with this.  What do you think?

 I took a matching piece of card stock, wrapped it with purple ribbon and added it to a 5 x 7 blank.

The sentiment is from the same set.

I added a few purple hearts to finish it off.

We will keep you updated on Mum but TTFN.  Jude xx

With Love

Good morning folks, it's Jen back again today. I'm holding the fort while Jude is on her sick bed! There are so many bugs around at the moment and between the family we seem to be getting them all. So yesterday was Jude's turn. Hopefully she will be feeling better today and will be back to blog again tomorrow.

 

Today's card is one made from my Serif Craft Software again. This time using a bird theme.

 

 

I made up the layout using different elements and then printed them on to good quality cardstock. I printed an extra copy so that I could decoupage a couple of the pieces to give the card some depth.

 

 

I then added it to an A5 card blank and added some flowers and ribbon from the stash.

 

 

 

I kept the sentiment very simple as I was using this as an anniversary card, but it could be used for lots of other occasions, just by changing the sentiment.

 

 

Hope you like it, thanks for calling by.

 

Take care, see you soon.

 

xxx

 

Tag kit completed :o))

Good morning all, yes I have finished my Tag Kit that I got from Hope and Chances. Just as well too seen as how it's for my daughter's birthday tomorrow lol.

 

 

I decided to put the kit together with a couple of pictures of my granddaughters in, so that they can give it to their mum for her birthday.

 

 

The only things I have added extra to the kit are a few flowers and gems, a little bird, and the inking and stamping.

 

 

Then of course their gorgeous pictures :o))

 

 

Cheeky little monkeys lol.

 

I'm really pleased with how it's turned out and I think things like this make lovely little gifts.

 

Hope you like it too, thanks for stopping by today.

 

See you soon.

 

xxx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy birthday Jude

Good morning all. Yes today sees the birthday of my much older sister Jude. He He. I won't tell how old she is or she might just make me suffer lol. But I hope you will all join me in wishing her a very, very happy birthday xxxxxxxxxx

Today's card is one I made for Jude from  my son and his girlfriend before they went away on holiday. 

 

I started with the pretty bird paper and went from there. I had this idea that it would work with the Tim Holtz Caged Bird die and it does lol. 

 

I teamed it with a co-ordinating backing paper and then cut the die using Core-dinations card. 

 

 

I added some flowers from my stash and a ready made sentiment. Then added a piece of pink border down the left edge. 

 

 

A splattering of pearls finished the card nicely. Hope you like it. 

Thanks for stopping by today. See you soon. 

 

xxx