Krumspring Presents - Naughty or Nice?

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is the first one I have made using a Krumspring stamp. I follow the lovely lady who designs these stamps on Instagram, and when she had a new release last month I bought this presents stamp, called Naughty or Nice to give it a try.

 Now I have to save my pennies so that I can buy some more soon as they are great, they stamp brilliantly and some of the other ones available look amazing. If you haven't heard of her then head here to Maria's website and shop and take a look for yourself.

For this card, I stamped the presents with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it with Ranger Liquid Platinum embossing powder. Then I coloured it with Copic Markers in some contemporary colours, as I did a second card with more traditional colours.

I cut the image out by hand and then found a piece of Christmas paper in the stash that complimented the colours. The little Elf holding the present is an MFT stamp from last year called Santa's Elves. 

I coloured him with matching colours and then cut him out with his coordinating die. 

After adding the sentiment I gave the presents and Elf a once over with Wink of Stella in Silver and Clear to give it all some sparkle.

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

xxx

Batch makes

Today I am sharing a batch of cards I made using some of the small stamps in one of my Simon Says Stamp kits.

I haven't used this set very much but thought I'd use them for a few birthday cards to add to my stash.

Some of the image is random stamped but for the main flower placement I used the MISTI.  This really makes replicating designs so easy.

Once I had filled the bottom half of my card front I added a simple sentiment and then filled in around it.

As I had used lots of different colours of ink I could add them to different coloured card blanks. Although it took a while to set up once I got going it all came together quite easily.

Hope you like them.  TTFN Jude xx

Hello Baby

Good morning folks, I hope you are all well. The hubby, Jude and I have a few days off work this week, to sort out the loft etc. I am hoping that we can finally get the rest cleared and taken to the charity shops or the rubbish tip. It does feel good to be getting rid of some of the years of collected rubbish, but I am hoping to for a bit of rest and craft time too, but we'll see lol.

Anyway, today's card is one I made for a friend of my son and daughter-in-law's who had a little baby boy last week.

I used the Deer to Me stamps and dies from Clearly Besotted. I stamped and masked to make my little scene, and then coloured it with Copic Markers.

Then I cut the scene out with a Lawn Fawn Stitched Square die and matted it with a piece of dark blue card.

The patterned paper is from a Studio Calico 6x6 pad, and I used a 6 x 6 card base to layer it all on. 

Then I used the Lawn Fawn Owen's ABC's to stamp and die cut the baby's name and date of birth.

I used Memento Dew Drop Nautical Blue ink to match the card and cut them out with their matching dies. Then I just added a little bit of clear Wink of Stella to the clouds to finish it off.

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

xxx

Songbird

Hello again.  With only 10 weeks left until Christmas I've started batch making some of the cards I need.  These will be for friends and colleagues - close family get individual ones!

This set is Winter Cardinal from Altenew.

This is one of the multi-layer sets to give added realism to the final stamped image.  These were a little tricky to line up but I don't think they turned out too badly.

Unfortunately when I was making the card up I managed to get ink on a couple of the backgrounds (dirty fingers!)  To help cover these up I hand drew some music notes.  I think I got away with it, don't you?

The berries don't have multiple layers so I stamped them in 3 shades of red ink to build up the colour.  I then used a white gel pen to add some highlight.

The branch was also stamped with a few shades of brown ink to add some realism to the finished article.  I really like these cards although they did take too long to make too many.  I'll settle for the 8 I've currently finished :).

TTFN Jude xx

Anniversary roses

Hello again folks.  You may have noticed that my blog post for last Thursday  was missing.  That is because I have a completely rubbish memory and forgot to set the scheduler!!  So instead you get a bonus Sunday post :)

Anyway the card I should have posted was for the 48th wedding anniversary of my Dad's brother Terry and his wife, Sheila.  This uses the opposite die cut of the card I posted last week (a stripey anniversary)

To recap, the sentiment is made using strips of coloured card attached to a sheet of double sided adhesive.  This was then stamped and die cut to create the sentiment.

I used Clearly Besotted's Round Roses set to decorate a white panel from which I die cut the same sentiment and inlaid the striped piece.  I then added some Wink of Stella to the flowers and a few sequins to embellish.

This was a fun card to make and I hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

To a Deer Friend

Good morning and happy Friday, yay. Are you looking forward to the weekend as much as I am? It seems to have been a really long week for some reason lol.

Anyway, I finally got around to start making my Christmas cards, and this is the first one. I am loving the new sets from Lawn Fawn, this one is called Cheery Christmas.

I started by stamping and diecutting all of the images, and then coloured them all with Copic Markers.

Then I found a Christmas paper from the stash that was multi-coloured, and cut it down to fit an A2 card. I cut a slightly larger stitched mat from white card and then used a navy blue card blank.

I arranged all of the images and stuck them on using foam tape, then I added a puffy star, and a couple of other stickers to the tree, then highlighted the others with Glossy Accents.

Then to finish it off, I stamped a sentiment from the same set, on to plain white card and then stuck it on to the background.

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

xxx

Blue Dahlia Blossoms

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

Today's card is one I made for a friend at work, using the Altenew Dahlia Blossoms stamp and die set.

I started by randomly stamping one of the dahlia layers, using Altenew Arctic ink, which is a very pale blue/grey ink, on to a panel of white card.

Then I used the larger of the flowers and the buds and stamped them using the Arctic, Caribbean Sky, Persian Blue and Sapphire Altenew inks.

Then I stamped the leaves using, Olive Grove and Pistachio Memento Dew Drop inks.

I cut them all out with their matching dies and arranged them on the stamped panel. Then I heat embossed a sentiment from the Altenew Sentiments and Quotes set on to a strip of vellum, and cut this into a banner.

Then I finished it off with a few clear droplets.

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

xxx