Happiness is........

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. Today's card is CASED from the lovely Lisa Tilson over at  her My Card Trip blog. I loved the design that Lisa did, so I had a go myself.

I don't have any Yupo paper as Lisa used, so I tried a couple of different shiny cardstock with the Copic markers, but they just didn't blend at all. In the end I used glossy photo paper, and while I don't think you get the same results, I do still like it.

I used a few different colours of Copic markers and just swept them across the paper, trying to blend them as I went. They don't blend as easily as Alcohol Ink does, but you do get a lot more control.

I also had the small sailboat die from Simon Says Stamp, so I cut this 4 times and layered it together for dimension, then I added it to the background using foam tape.

I used a 7 x 5 aperture card instead of creating my own, and cut it down to fit in a 5 x 5 envelope.

Then I used a couple of sentiments from a recent Creative Stamping Magazine stamp set, and white heat embossed them onto black card.

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

xxx

Happy Birthday Nephew

Good morning, hope you have had a good week and are looking forward to the weekend. I'm hoping for some craft time to play with the new goodies we have bought recently ;o))

Today's card is one I made for my nephew back in June. I just hadn't got around to blogging it. It's very simple albeit a bit fiddly.

The papers and die used to make the boats are all from a Simon Says Stamp Kit from 2015. It's another one that I hadn't used before so thought it was about time.

I chose two of the double sided papers and cut the boat out 4 times, then arranged the pieces on to a piece of white card. 

I made up the sentiments by using stamps from a Crafters Companion Sentimentals set and a Simon Says Stamp set. I stamped them with black pigment ink and then heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.

I cut the panel to fit an A6 card blank and then used one of the papers to layer behind it. 

Hope you like it, have a great weekend and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Sail away on your birthday

Good morning, hopefully this post is going live on Friday 22nd July while we are away lol.

Today's card is one I made for my son a few weeks ago. I used a Studio Calico map piece of card and then distress inked it with Tim Holtz inks. 

I used a couple of circle dies to create the porthole window and cut the top layer with a wood effect paper from the stash. Then I wrapped a white string twine around it.

The little sailing boat is cut with a Simon Says Stamp die from one of their older kits and the wavey paper is from the same set.

I used the circle from the centre of the porthole plus a smaller stitched circle for the sentiment and stamped it with a sentiment from the coordinating stamp set.

Then I added a smaller sentiment in the top corner from a Mamae Elephant set called Mini Messages.

I inked everything with the same distress inks to make it look a bit aged and then added it all to a 6 x 6 Kraft card blank.

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

xxx

Simon Says July

We've had a busy weekend here but I did get time to play with the new Simon Says Stamp July Card Kit.

This design is lifted from the inspiration sheet in the kit but uses different papers and another of the stamps.

This little sailboat die is part of the set and would make a lovely embellishment, as well as a main feature like here.

A clean and simple card.  The pictures don't do it justice but it looks really good IRL.

TTFN Jude xx