Party animals

Friday at last! I'm looking forward to my weekend and some good crafting time.

Today's card uses the free Safari Friends set from Papercraft Essentials.  For this version I stamped the girl, lion and monkey on to the card base then created masks for them.  This was so I could stamp the giraffe and vine and make it seem like they were behind the first images.

Once I stamped the vine though it looked strange so I drew the line back in across the monkey's hand.

With fresh masks for all the animals in place, I ink blended the background to add grass and sky.  This worked quite well, although the masks kept peeling up, lol.

I stamped some grass tufts and the sentiment, then added liquid pearls to the eyes.

I really like how this turned out.  Hope you do too.

TTFN Jude xx

Masks and Inks

Good morning all, hope you are well and having a good week. Today's card is one I made for Mum for her birthday last week, this one was from my brother.

I used a That Special Touch mask and London Fog Memento ink for the flower background. Then I punched some small flowers from yellow card and glued them on top. 

I used some coordinating yellow paper and grey and yellow card for matting and layering and offset them on a grey A5 card blank. 

The sentiment is from a Lili of the Valley set, which I cut out with a circle die from an MFT Blueprints set. Then I made a couple of mats for it with two sizes of EK Success circle punches. 

I made up the sentiment using the Crafters Companion Sentimentals Female set and stamped it with black Archival Ink. 

I added a few pearls to the centres of the flowers, then punched out a tiny butterfly from the same yellow card. 

To finish the card I found a small piece of yellow ribbon and put it across the bottom of the image, then I tied a bow for one end. 

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

xxx

Door sign

It's Friday and a Bank Holiday!  It doesn't get much better than that lol ;)

Continuing the non-card theme we seem to have going I thought I'd show you a door hanger sign I made yesterday.  The idea was based on the mdf hearts we did last week.  Unfortunately I think the colours are too similar for it to work.  Next time I'll use different papers.

I learnt a few tricks to make different flowers at the Dabble Day and tried to use some of our flower stamps to recreate them.  It hasn't worked brilliantly but they will do.

I used a couple of different stencils in the background and inked through with Distress Inks.

The ferns are made from a lovely die Jen bought recently.

I'm not too disappointed with the finished result.  Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx