30th Birthday Roses

Good morning all, as Jude said yesterday it was my daughter's 30th birthday. I really cannot believe that 30 years have flown by already. Goodness it makes me feel old, but then again, at least I'm not as old as Jude 🤣🤣🤣 lol.

So today's card is the one I make for K from Alan and I. I used the Altenew Build a Rose die, and cut it a couple of times in grey sparkle, plain and patterned card.

I put the roses together with wet glue, and left them to dry. Then I cut a few of the matching leaves, and a few other plain leaves using Sue Wilson dies.

For the background I used a large background stamp from Stampers Anonymous, and heat embossed it on white card using white embossing powder.

Then I used Iced Spruce and Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide Inks, to blend a soft grey background over the white embossing.

I cut the panel out with an Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellement die, and then added it to a white note card. I added the flowers and leaves using foam pads, and wet glue, and then added more sparkle using Nuvo Drops in White Blizzard.

I wrote up the sentiment on the PC and printed it on my Laser Printer, then I ran it through the Minc Machine using Pewter Foil.

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

xxx

Have a Beautiful Day

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend. Apologies for the lack of post on Friday but we had a bit of a medical emergency. Our Mum was taken ill late Thursday night with severe chest pains and ended up in the hospital. Six hours later she eventually got to see a doctor! after many tests, chest x-rays, MRI's with dye, she was eventually diagnosed with Pleurisy. Luckily she's now home and on the mend with some high dose painkillers. 

Today's card is the one I made to send to my daughter who's birthday was on Saturday. I used one of the new stamp sets that Jude got for her birthday called Beautiful Day from Altenew.

I used the new inks Jude also got, these are from Hero Arts and they are by Kelly Purkey. 

They don't have individual colour names but they are the mini cubes that come in sets of four. We have the Urban Ink, Coffee and Donuts and the Fashion Ink sets,

I used a soft Kraft card for the main image this time for a bit of a softer look. 

The sentiment is from the MFT Happy Everything set, I die cut the Happy twice, once with black card stock and then with fun foam for dimension. 

I glued the two layers together and then covered them with Clear Wink of Stella for lots of sparkle. Then I added a few coordinating enamel dots to finish it off.

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

xxx

Pretty girl

Good morning all, hope you are having a good week. Today's card was very quick and easy to make and with different sentiments could be used for a variety of occasions. 

I used a Lili of the Valley coloured image and cut this out with an MFT stitched rectangle die. 

Then I embossed a piece of Centura Pearl card with a Patchwork embossing folder from Crafters Companion. 

I sat this behind the picture and then used a piece of patterned paper from a Nitwit Collections pad called Bonnets and Bowties.

Then I used a Sentimentals stamp for the Daughter and a WPlus9 stamp for the rest of the sentiment. I stamped them both with Jet Black Archival ink on to plain white card. 

That was all it needed for a very simple but still pretty, card.

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

xxx

Things with wings

Good morning all, hope you are having a good week. Today is my baby girl's 27th birthday. How did that happen??? one minute she was a baby and now she has two babies of her own lol. 

Today's card is the one I made for her little girls to give her this morning, she has to work today but we are going out for a meal tonight, so that should be lovely. Hope you have a brilliant day sweetheart xxxxx

I used my brand new stamps and dies from MFT Stamps called Things with Wings. I won this in a recent Instagram giveaway and it came the other day. 

I love it as it's such a versatile set that can be used for so many different occasions. I stamped the birds with London Fog Memento ink and then coloured them with Copics.

I cut out the sun shape from yellow card and stamped it with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink. Then I stamped one of the little sentiments from the set in the top corner.

I cut the Mummy letters with my Lawn Fawn Finlay's ABCs dies, and put them on a diagonal across the front. 

I used some yellow card and an orange paper for the background and then put it all on a 6 x 6 card blank.

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

xxx

Just married

Good morning folks, it's the weekend at last lol. This week has seemed to go on forever, and I'm really hoping for some crafty time this weekend. 

This is the last of the wedding cards I made for my son and daughter in law. 

The car was stamped from a free stamp set that Jude got recently on a craft magazine. I stamped it twice, then cut it out and coloured them both with Copic markers. When I put the card together I put one car over the other raised on foam tape.

I covered the windows with Glossy Accents to give them a bit of shine. 

The papers are from a Lili of the Valley paper pad called Winter Wishes.

I wrote the sentiments on the computer and then printed them on card stock and cut them out with tag dies. 

I used antique lace, blue ribbon, a blue tassel that's been in the craft stash forever! and a little heart brad to attach it. 

Then I cut up some pearl trim and used the single pearls on the ribbon and on the car. Then I added a couple of little resin flowers to the bottom corner. 

Then all it needed was a double bow, some silver twine tied in a bow and a little Love charm.

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

xxx

To a Special Daughter

Good morning all, well that's the end of another week, hope it's been a good one for you. Alan and I are currently over in Runcorn, visiting family, so I have scheduled this post to go live while we are away. 

This is the birthday card I made for K that I couldn't share on her birthday. 

It's very simple but took quite some time lol. 

I had seen other patchwork cards done so decided to give one a go. I remembered the patchwork embossing folder we had so used this as the background. Then I used papers from the stash and cut them down to fit inside alternate squares. 

I held them in place with double sided tape and stitched around the edges with the little sewing machine. 

I used a shaped piece of card for the centre and then stamped and die cut different words and numbers to make the sentiment. 

I added the little heart and then a die cut butterfly, 

and then finished the card off with a few little pearls and gems.

Hope you like it, see you soon. 

Take care.

xxx

Tuesday 8th July - Daughter Card

Good morning all, as you know it was Jude's birthday last week, and this is the card I made for Mum to send her. 

I used 4 little cards with decorated fronts, that came back from Thailand with my son last year. 

I stamped on the front of the card and then, inside each little card I added some letters or words to make up the sentence. 

'Birthday wishes for a special daughter with love'. 

It's a really simple card but I was pleased with how it turned out. Hope you like it too.

Take care.

xxx