Baby Shower

Good morning all, and happy hump day, I hope you are having a good week so far.

Today's card is one I made at the last minute on Saturday for a surprise Baby Shower for my daughter K. The shower was arranged by her work friends, and although I knew about it for a week before, I forgot about making a card lol.

I used stamps from an older Creative Stamping Magazine, Issue 38, called Whatever the Weather. I started by heat embossing the umbrella with Versafine Onyx Black ink, and Wow Clear Sparkle Embossing Powder.

Then I added the pattern to it with Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide Ink and more of the embossing powder, before cutting it out by hand.

I cut a plain white panel using a Wonky Stitched Ellements die from Avery Elle, and added three clouds cut with the Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine set. Then I stamped the little rain drops and hearts with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink.

I added the Baby Shower Sentiment, and then popped it onto a pink A2 note card.

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

xxx

Peppa Pig

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. Are you looking forward to a nice crafty weekend? I know I am lol.

Today's card is one I made for my great niece who turned 3 last week. I decided to have a go at a Peppa Pig card, after seeing a couple of store bought ones.

I used my circle punches for the head, ears, and nose, and trimmed down a large punched circle for the skirt. I cut small strips of the pink card for the arms and legs, and very simple shapes from black card for the shoes.

Another small punch gave me the cheek, and I used enamel dots for her nose, and gave her googly eyes. I cut the mouth by punching a red circle, and then punching into the circle again with the same punch, to give me a small semi-circle, and then punched that again, to give me the very fine curve!

I used a Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio die to cut the hillside, and then a First Edition cloud die for the top. I added these to an A2 notecard and then assembled Peppa on top.

I gave her a few balloons that I already had cut, and added her name using the Avery Elle, Modern Alpha dies. Then I stamped a simple sentiment from Clearly Besotted, and added a die cut 3 to finish.

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

xxx

Awesome birthday wishes

Good morning all, have you had a good weekend? hope you all managed to fit some crafty time in. Unfortunately we were a little busy clearing out the garage and shed to get too crafty but I did manage a few minutes here and there. ;o)

Today's card is made using the Mama Elephant set called Up and Away.

I stamped the main images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and then coloured them with Copic Markers. Then I cut them out with their matching dies.

For the background I used a brick wall stencil by Creative Expressions and inked it with Gathered Twigs, Ground Espresso and a bit of Fired Brick Distress Inks.

Then I used a piece of pale blue card which has a slight shimmer, and topped it with some white card cut with the Mama Elephant Stitched Trio Borders, to give the cloud effect.

The sentiment is from an Avery Elle set called Handwritten Notes. I cut it out and then ran a black pen around the edge to make it look a bit like a street sign.

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

xxx

Be happy and smile

I have another card made using a Simon Says Stamp card kit.  This time I've gone back to the June set.

I've stuck to a simple design letting the sentiment do the work and just adding a few embellishments. 

The candi was white so I coloured it yellow using a Copic marker.  Unfortunately I also managed to colour my finger nails!

 I placed a layer of yellow cardstock behind the image before adding to the card blank using foam tape.  This adds a touch of dimension to an otherwise flat card.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx