Colour me beautiful - complete

Hello bloggers :)  

On Monday I promised to share the full card I made with Country Mama, and here she is.

I think this card turned out really well.  I love the soft pinks and brown - it just works lol!

The papers are a mix of Santoro "If Only" and Grace Taylor "Vintage Elegance".  They tone beautifully.

I chose a soft polka dot paper to mount Mama on and she stands out pretty well.  

I mounted all the papers on brown coredinations card, wrapped one with brown ribbon, and added a Tattered Floral cut from burlap.

So there she is - all finished and looking lovely.

TTFN Jude xx

Birthday boy

Morning folks.  It's Jude here, back with another male card for today.

This is a really simple design requiring a few die cuts and layering - simples!

The 'Happy Birthday' is a freebie die from a recent magazine.  Once cut from blue paper I cut the die cut up to create separate letters.

This image is from the Lili of the Valley Action Time art pad.  I bought a set which has all masculine images so that I wouldn't be stuck for an appropriate topper.

The star is a Spellbinder die from the Jewel Treasures set.

I like blue and brown together and the image demanded this combination, so that made me very happy lol :)

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Wear With Style

Morning crafty friends, it's Monday again.  They soon come around don't they?

Over the weekend I was browsing some crafty blogs and found an image I really liked which had been bought from an Etsy shop.  Of course I had to go take a look and ended up purchasing the same set!  It is called Wear With Style and was purchased from All Dressed Up.  Do you like what I did with her?

The image was coloured with different shades of brown promarkers then cut out.  I knew I wanted to use her as a figure on her own and not on a matt so this is what I came up with.

I cut a dark brown adorning square matt to use behind my girl.  The paper is from an Amy Tangerine paper pad by American Crafts.  I loved the colour combinations.

The motif in the corner would have been covered by the matt so I carefully cut around the image with my craft knife and slid the square behind it.

The sentiment is my current favourite stamp.  It is really versatile and I have used it alot recently.  This was matted on to another piece of the orange paper and added to the matt.

The ribbon, button and twine are from our stash and were adhered with silicone glue.

I am very fond of this image and can see me using more of this style.  The card turned out better than I envisioned and will be used for my niece Staci's birthday next week.

Thats all from me today.  TTFN Jude xx

Boot-alicious

Happy Sunday folks!

I decided to have a break from Christmas cards today and share this multi-occasion card.

The boots are a stamp that came with the last issue of Get Stamping magazine. They are part of a Christmas set but I thought they looked good in shades of brown.

 I stamped the image twice, coloured both in and carefully cut one out.  I layered the cut out on top of the second boot using foam pads.  The edges of the topper were distressed using Scattered Straw distress ink on a piece of cut and dry foam.

I didn't have a sentiment that fit so I printed this one on to some textured card and inked it with the scattered straw.

I added them both to a piece of tan cardstock and then to a 5x7 card blank.  This one is smooth cream at the bottom but the top is ridged and white.  A ribbon, bow and a few pearls completed the layout. 

What do you think? TTFN Jude xx

'Owl' together now.....................

"Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear Alan, Happy Birthday to you!"

Morning crafters it's Jude with you again.  Today is Alan's birthday (Jen's husband) so we are having a family lunch later today.  Unfortunately his grandson's can't join us this weekend but hopefully they can make up for it when he and Jen go to visit next week for Bailey's first day of  school.

 

 I thought today that I'd share the card I've made for him from Mum and Dad.

The background silhouette was cut by Jen on the Cameo as a trial.  I really liked it, so I based this whole card around the design.

Behind the image is a sheet of Hunkydory paper from the Autumn collection 2012, which I have inked to darken down.  I thought the cottage in the background added something to the scene.

The owl was cut from various different cardstocks all in the brown and gold range.  The cardstock image he is perched on is another of the Hunkydory set.

 

I hope Alan will like his cards, and I'll share more of them later in the week.

TTFN Jude xx

Swinging...

Good morning. Hope all is well with you. Well that's half way through my first week in the new job and so far so good :0)

It is interfering with craft time though lol. But I have managed to put a card together last night from some colouring I did earlier in the week.

 

I hope you like it. The image is another of the Besties range from Sherri Baldi.

 

I started by colouring the image with my promarkers and spectrum noir pens. I then cut it out and mounted it on to some co-ordinating papers.

 

I used an 8x8 Kraft card blank for the base and used a couple of papers from the Papermania linen set to mat and layer.

 

I added a doily and some matching ribbon and then placed the image on top. The flowers are some Basil Basics mixed with a few from my stash and the buttons are from the linen collection too.

 

Hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by today, see you soon.

xxx