Re-using pretty things - Bambi Tag

Good morning all Thursday at last, not long now until the weekend, I hope you are looking forward to a crafty one.

I thought I would share with you today a very quick card that I made by re-using a gift tag. I received this beautiful Bambi gift tag on a Christmas present from my brother, and because it was so cute I didn't want to just throw it away.

So I decided I would use it on a card and then someone else can enjoy it too. I went with a very simple design, and used some rose gold satin card to cut a small stitched rectangle from, then to one side I used a double stitched circle die from MFT Stamps to cut a half-circle aperture.

I lined this up on my card base where I wanted it to sit and after lightly marking it with a pencil I stamped my sentiment using Archival Jet Black Ink. The sentiment stamp is a Make and Create stamp from The Works, and I based the size of the circle cut on the size of this stamp.

I added my little Bambi tag on to the rose gold panel, and then finished it off with a few soft peach  sequins and clear dew drops.

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

xxx

Bike ride

Good morning all, I hope you are all having a good week. Today's card came from seeing a  card that Vicky Papaioannou made for a recent blog hop, and knowing that I had a bicycle die, I thought I could make something similar.

I've had the bicycle die for a few years, I think it's an MFT Stamps die, but not 100% sure.

I cut the bike from a rose gold card from Tonic Studios, then cut a stitched rectangle panel using an MFT Stamps Blueprints die for the background, from the same card stock.

The shaped die cut is from an old Spellbinders set, which I think is Labels 28. I cut this from white shimmer card and then punched a couple of small hearts from the same card.

The little sentiment stamps are from the Mini Messages set by Mama Elephant, I stamped them on to the heart, then tied them to the bike with white twine, then I added a couple of orange gems to finish it off. 

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

xxx

Fairy Garden

Hello again.  Today I have a card I made for Keira's birthday last week.

This uses the Fairy Friends stamp and die set from Lawn Fawn.

I heat embossed the images using a luscious rose gold embossing powder from Simon Says Stamp.  They were then coloured with Copic markers.

The hillsides are cut with the border trio from Mama Elephant and stacked to create the scene.

I used the cloud shaped die from this set to make a mask, then inked lightly over the edge to create the sky.  The ink is Altenew dye ink in Sea Glass.

I used the same embossing technique for the sentiment, then added Wink of Stella clear to the fairy's wings and the flowers.

Hope you like today's card and I'll be back with another on Friday.  TTFN Jude xx

Birthday goodies - florals

Hello again.  Judy back with a couple of quick cards I made earlier this week.

Last weekend was my birthday and Jen picked out loads of fabulous crafty goodies for me, which I couldn't wait to use.  These are the cards I made using two new Wplus9 stamps from a range called Beautiful Bouquets.  These are Dahlia and Ranunculus.

I stamped each flower with Versamark ink and heat embossed with a stunning rose gold ultra fine embossing powder from Simon Says Stamp.  They turned out wonderfully and I decided not to do anything else with them.

I cut two coloured card fronts with a stitched die then used a die from one of the Blueprints sets for the image.

I layered the two together on a white card blank and added a sentiment from another new set.  This one comes from Sentiments and Quotes by Altenew.

I love how these turned out and can't wait to try the embossing powder again but on black card.  Watch this space!

TTFN Jude xx