Friends are gifts

Hello all, apologies for the very late blog today, we are currently decorating and reorganising the house as well as doing the garden and working lol, so sometimes things are a bit late ;o))

Anyway, today's card is very simple. I took a digital image from an old Complete Cardmaking Kit from June 2013 and printed it to fit an 8 x 8 card.

I coloured the image with Copic markers, sticking to a quite neutral palette.

Then I backed it with some cream shiny card and added it to the card blank.

Simple! Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you tomorrow.

xxx

16th Birthday

Good morning all, hope you are having a good week.

Today's card is one I made for a colleague at work. She wanted something for a young lady's 16th birthday, but, the only thing she could really say that she liked was one of our local football teams. Easy then lol.

Anyway, once I knew which team it was I came up with the idea of the owls as they are their mascot, and I used the clubs home and away colours.

I used an embossing folder for the background and then stamped the name with the Concord and 9th Sophisticated Script stamps. 

I used the Simon Says Stamp Happy Birthday circle die for the sentiment and then coloured two owls from the MFT Stamps Things with Wings set.

The balloons are from a WPlus9 set called Whole Lotta Happy, and the numbers are from an MFT Stamps die set .

I added silver string to the balloons and numbers and then added the whole thing to a 6 x 6 card blank. Then I finished it off with a few clear dew drops.

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

xxx

Altenew blue

Good morning all and happy Tuesday.  Hope you are having a good week.

Today's card is another made for Jen and Alan's anniversary a couple of weeks ago.

This is a very simple layout as I wanted the focus to be on the flowers.

These roses are from Altenew and were free on a magazine!  We have wanted some Altenew stamps and dies for ages but couldn't justify the costs, so this was a great way to try them out.  We will now be buying some!  They are brilliant quality and stamp really well.

These are triple layer stamps and you just need three colours of ink for the effect.  We have tried them in loads of different colour ways but I really love the blue.

Hope you like my card.  TTFN Jude xx

One in a minion

Good morning all and welcome to the start of another week. We are now in the midst of major birthday season for us, and this is one of the cards that I made for my granddaughter, when she turned 4 last week. We have another 7 birthdays over the next 4 weeks!!! so busy, busy, busy ;o))

Anyway, today's card came about after seeing other Minion cards on Pinterest. I cut myself a basic egg shape by cutting off the bottom part of an oval.

Then I just made the other bits of the Minion's outfit up as I went along. For quite a while she didn't have any arms or hands lol, but I looked at what others had done, then cut the arms by hand and used tiny hearts for the hands.

I used a couple of circle punches for the mouth and then added some googly eyes. Then I drew in some eyelashes and hair with a fineliner.

I typed the sentiment on the computer then printed it on the laser printer and added some pink foil with my Minc machine.

The balloons are from a Paper Smooches die set and I added stickers for the sentiments, then I drew in the balloon strings with a silver glitter pen.

I embossed a piece of white card with a Marianne Designs stars embossing folder and then cut it out with a stitched rectangle die.

Then I added it all to a 7 x 5 card blank. Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Princess Isabelle

It is Friday again and almost the end of my week's holiday.  Why does the working week not pass as quickly?

Today's card was made for Jen's granddaughter Isabelle's 4th birthday last weekend.  This is the start of lots of birthday weekends for us.  June is a very busy month!!

The idea came from a card I found on Pinterest and was quite simple to replicate.  The crown is a Spellbinder die and the stars are from an X-cut set.

We don't have a princess stamp so I hand wrote that part of the sentiment.  I then added a few bits of diamond bling for some sparkle.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Picket Fence Cover Up

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. I can't believe we are in June already, and this month is super busy for us with birthdays, starting today with our uncle, so happy birthday Terry.

Today's card is using those cute sheep again from the Clearly Besotted Feeling Sheepish set. I do love those sheep, they are very cute and surprisingly adaptable.

For this card I chose to use the MFT Horizontal Stripes Cover Up die, and turn it on it's side to look like a picket fence.

Then I used the Mama Elephant Stitched Border for the Hillside behind and the MFT Stamps Grassy Edges for the grass in front.

I used a plain blue card base and then added the sentiment that comes with the stamp set.

A few flower sequins finish it off nicely. Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Anniversary blue

Good morning and welcome to June!  Can you believe it is summer already?

A couple of Wednesdays ago was Jen and Alan's 15th wedding anniversary.  They went to York for the day and got a bit wet but in spite of that they had a lovely day.

I made them cards from a few family members and this is one of them.

The corner stamp was free on a magazine and is made by Clear Impressions.  I used Bahama Blue memento ink to stamp the image.

The navy blue cardstock is from the stash and I used it for the sentiments and backing.  The happy die is an MFT and the anniversary is from Cheery Lynn Designs.  I doubled them up for a little more dimension.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx