Tinted Windows and Mohawks

Good morning all and welcome to another Monday. Hope you have all had a good weekend. 

I'm trying to get a bit in front with my cards so I have made the first of my Grandsons birthday cards. It's not until December, but seen as how Jude has already made 2 of them I thought I had better make a start! 

The image is called Tinted Windows and Mohawks and is another Saturated Canary digi stamp. 

I coloured it with Copics and then cut it out by hand. 

The papers are a mixture from the stash teamed with some very dark teal/green card. I used this to cut some Spellbinders Cogs too and a couple of other small embellishments.  

The hand and the the swirls are from a Spellbinders Jewel Treasures set.

I finished the card with a simple sentiment and a Grandson tag.

 Hope you like it. Take care, see you soon.

xxx

For the boys

Hello again.  Hope you are keeping well.

Following my attempts at birthday cards for my nephews, I decided I needed more practice at doing something suitable for masculine cards.  I was browsing Pinterest to steal borrow ideas, when I came across these cards at nicolederendorf.com.  Nicole is a Stamping Up demonstrator in Australia and I really like what she has done here.

We have a few stamps and papers from a Papermania set called Chronology that we don't often use, and these cards made me want to pull them out.  I took my inspiration from the bottom right card above and came up with this.

What do you think?

I stamped a couple of different backgrounds on some Studio Calico paper using rich cocoa and royal blue pigment inks.  I then stamped my cogs and clock and cut these out.  I stamped a second set of cogs in blue, cut out the central element and decoupaged it onto the first image.  I also drew over the clock face with a blue pen to highlight the numerals.

I stamped Happy Birthday on to plain white stamping card and hand cut two pennants.  These were curled over my bone folder to give more dimension and I placed them at the top and bottom.  Everything was inked with Old Paper Distress Ink.

The piece was mounted on to blue card stock, some blue twine wrapped around and the whole piece added to a 5 x 7 card blank.  The clock face was added last with some silicone glue to raise it above the twine.

I like how this turned out and hope you do too.  TTFN Jude xx

To a Great-Grandson

Morning all.  As you know, this weekend we have been busy making birthday cards for Jen's grandson, Cody.  We have sent them down with his uncle Danny and auntie Staci who stayed at his house last night, en route to Liverpool airport this morning for a flight to Barcelona.  Lucky beggars!

So this is the card I made for my parents (Cody's Great-Grandparents!) to send.  What do you think?

The paper is from a Bo Bunny set which I think is called On the Go.  I drew the letters out freehand and matted them on yellow card.  This was then cut to follow the word.  Then it was a simple matter of building up coloured layers until the word fit comfortably on a DL card blank.

The embellishments are a Spellbinder die set called Cogs, and these are the three smallest dies.  I think they work quite well.

I took the largest of the three dies and stamped my sentiment.

Once it was all together I was very happy with how it looked.  It was quite quick and simple to make once the letters were cut.  Hope you like it.

See you soon.  TTFN Jude xx