Mothering Sunday flowers

Welcome and thank you for being here today.

I am sharing the card I made for my Mum for Mother's Day last Sunday.

This is another design heavily influenced by the fabulous Vicky P.

I used a stitched rectangle die to cut a piece of white card to be slightly smaller than an A2 card base. I then added a stamped sentiment in the upper right corner.

In the bottom left corner I arranged a bunch of flowers created with stickers.  These came from the March 2018 Simon Says Stamp card kit.

The finishing touch was some Nuvo Jewel Drops in Key Lime.

 I love all the white space on this card and I had to work really hard to keep it clean.  I am a very messy worker so the fact it survived untouched is almost a miracle.

TTFN Jude xx

Relax it's your birthday

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is one I made for a friend who needed a 60th birthday card for her dad.

I used a digital stamp for a change, this one is by Heather Ellis and is simply called Garden.

I sized and printed it to fit on to a 5 x 5 background, and then coloured the image with Copic Markers.

I used a mixture of  stamps and dies to make up the sentiment, the Happy Birthday is a Britannia die and the Dad is a Clearly Besotted stamp. Then I added little sparkly silver stickers for the 60 on his hat.

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

xxx

Ellie sends birthday wishes

Good morning all, today's card is one I made for my Daughter-in-law a couple of weeks ago. 

I love this little elephant set from Avery Elle, I think it is probably my most used image stamp. 

I stamped the images with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and then coloured them with Copic markers. Then I cut them out with their matching dies, and added Glossy Accents to the balloons to make them shine. 

Then I used a stencil that came free with a magazine a while ago to make the border, straight on to a 6 x 6 card blank. 

I inked through the stencil with Distress Inks, Wilted Violet, Shaded Lilac and Milled Lavender.

Then I stamped a sentiment using a purple pigment ink and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I cut it out with the MFT Stamps Stitched Banner dies.

Then to finish it off I added a couple of stickers to the balloons.

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

xxx

Number card

Good morning all, hope you are well. This is the last of the 21st birthday cards that I made for my nephew.

I used a 7x7 card blank and cut a piece of grey SSS card to fit. Then I used an Xcut number die to cut the 21 out of the bottom corner. 

I found a piece of royal blue glitter card in the stash and put this behind. I tried a few different colours but really liked the blue and grey together. 

I used stamps from a Crafters Companion Sentimentals set for the sentiment and stamped them with Versamark ink and then heat embossed with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder.

I then hunted through the stick on numbers that we have and came up with a few black and blue ones. Then I arranged them randomly over the front of the card. 

It's very simple but I hope you like it. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Recycled Butterfly

"Monday Monday, so good to me"

Aren't Monday's great when you don't have to go to work?  I have a hospital visit to make, dogs to walk and a million other things to do but I intend to get some crafting time as well.

Last week I visited a well know health food store to get some Manuka Honey.  I ended up buying their own brand blended instead, but it was the packaging that really caught my eye - a brown paper bag with a large butterfly!  Well it just called out for some glossy accents and a simple background, lol!

This is what I came up with.

I cut closely around the image keeping some of the brown as an accent.  The background is Bare Trees from IndigoBlu stamped in Teal Staz-on.

I highlighted some parts of the wing with the glossy accents - not too much as I wanted a good contrast.

The sentiment is a sticker which I thought fit well.

A simple, quick and unfussy card.  This could be a get well or good luck card; a 'thinking of you' or just for a note to a friend.  I like how versatile a butterfly image is.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Boofle and Donkey

Well only 29 days until Christmas and I finally made a start on the presents :)  I've contributed to a few which were purchased a while ago but this weekend saw my first proper shopping trip.  I've not got much to get this year and it doesn't feel right.  My son usually needs to buy for school, after school club, his respite centre and his carers.  This year he has left all that behind so I only need to buy for the staff at his house!  I'm sure I'll end up buying more than I need lol.

For my card today I have returned to the stash left over from last year.  In among that was the Boofle decoupage (the proper stuff you have to cut out with scissors and everything) lmao.  This is what I made.

I made up the donkey decoupage and layered it with some paper from the Boofle pack.

I don't use peel offs very often and we have loads left over from different goody bags we've acquired, so I thought I'd try them here.  Surprisingly they worked quite well.

There were also some Boofle stickers in the Christmas stash so I used some of these to complete my card.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx