Let your dreams take flight

Good morning all, hope you are having a good weekend. Well for me today is the last day of my Christmas break before going back to work tomorrow, so I intend to do as little as possible. Jude says I shouldn't be moaning as it's my short week at work anyway, but if your like me, when you've had some time off you really don't want to go back lol. 

Anyway, today's card is made with a new stamp and die set. I got the stamps with a magazine subscription that Jude got me for Christmas, and then the matching die came with this month's Simply Cards and Papercraft mag. 

I took inspiration from the mag and made the feather die-cuts in to a wreath shape. 

I used 6 to go around a Spellbinders Circle die cut, just overlapping them along the way. Then I stamped one of the sentiments from the same set in the centre.

I used another 2 die cut feathers one in white Centura Pearl card and one in black gloss card for the bottom of the card. 

The background is made by by stamping the feathers on to white card with Versamark ink and then heat embossing with Seafoam White embossing powder. 

Then I ran the piece of card through a Sue Wilson Heart Lattice embossing folder.

Then I used London Fog Memento ink to stamp the feather a few more times in the grey colour. 

I finished the card off with some gathered ribbon across the centre, a couple of small black spotty bows and some little grey and black flowers. 

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

xxx

Ruby

Good morning all, hope you are well. Today's card uses the rubber stamp Ruby from Whimsey Stamps. 

I coloured her with Copics and then cut her out with a scalloped square die. 

The papers are a mixture from the stash and the card is Coredinations. 

I used the Sue Wilson bow die to make the bow but gave it a bit of bling with the sparkly slider, 

I used a mixture of flowers, quite a lot for me actually but I do like them. 

Then I finished it off with the little sentiment die. 

I think this one will be going to a friend for her birthday next month. Hope you like it. Take care and I'll see you soon. 

xxx

Panda Hug

Good morning all, I have finally made a card. First one in 11 days lol. My mojo seems to have gone on holiday so they are really taking some time! But never mind I will keep trying. 

The image is Panda Hug from Saturated Canary - available here. But I decided to colour him brown like a teddy bear instead of black and white. 

I coloured the image with Copics, Promarkers and Flexmarkers and then cut it out with a circle die. 

The papers are from a paper pad called Pippi's Garden Collection, this came free with a recent craft mag, and I teamed it with some pale blue Coredinations card. 

I made a bow using a bow template, and now this has really made we want a bow die. The template worked fine but it is very fiddly lol.

Then I finished the card off with a simple sentiment and a couple of gems, then decided to give the bear some googly eyes lol.

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

xxx

Happy Birthday

Good morning blog friends, hope you are all well today and looking forward to a nice crafty weekend.

 

I thought I would share this card with you today as it was made for my son's girlfriend to give to her little sister who's birthday it is today. So happy birthday Kathryn, hope you have a lovely day.

 

 

The image is Crafters Companion and the papers are from the stash, all matted on to a deep red Coredinations card stock.

 

 

I cut the picket fence with a Diesire die and the butterfly is a Tonic punch.

 

 

I added a deep pink ribbon and bow and then finished the card with a simple ready made sentiment.

 

 

I think this one is really pretty, what do you think?

 

 

Hope you like it, take care friends. See you soon.

 

 

xxx

 

Flowers for you

Good morning all, hope everyone is doing well. That was a really strange weekend, had a good but very tiring day out with my daughter, granddaughters and Jude on Saturday to do a spot of shopping. Then a relatively quiet evening, followed by an awful night!!!

 

I started feeling quite ill about 1am Sunday morning and if I had been a drinker I would have sworn I was really drunk (I wasn't honest lol). The room started spinning and I had to grab the bed and hubby, then the sickness started. Horrid I know, but I thought I would share anyway, so I had a rubbish night not being able to lay down or the dizziness would start again closely followed by the sickness ;O(

 

Anyway I am feeling a bit better, but still dizzy every time I get up or lay down, so think it may be an ear infection, I'm going to try and get a docs appointment today and see if I can get it knocked on the head before we go away on Saturday. I am so looking forward to this break and I don't want a silly ear infection to spoil it!

 

Now, on to today's card at last lol. I started with some long stem flower buds that we had picked up at the Great British Craft Fair the other month. I twisted loads of them together to form a long line and then bent them in to a ring shape. It took a bit of fiddling and faffing but eventually I was happy with it.

I used some papers from the stash and matted these with a dark green card. Then added the flower ring to the middle.

I used some green spotty ribbon to make some little bows and added these around the ring, and a piece of plain green ribbon underneath it.

I finished the card with a little sentiment in the centre and then some white pearls.

Hope you like it.

See you soon.

xxx