Biker boy

Happy Monday crafty friends.  Hope you had a pleasant and restful weekend. 

My card today is quite masculine given the colours but could easily be made appropriate for a girl biker too.

I used a basket weave embossing folder and used the reverse.  I thought it looked like tread plate.

The bike is an MFT die and the sentiment is part of a Frantic Stamper Precision Die - Happy Birthday Layer Makers set.

I finished the sentiment with silver embossing powder.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Love you to the moon and back

Good morning folks, I hope you have had a good week. Are you looking forward to a crafty weekend? I know I am lol. 

Today's card is another that I made last year but never got blogged. I used the Mama Elephant, Up and Away stamp and die set, along with the Altenew, To the Moon set.

First of all I stamped the moon using Altenew and Memento inks, then I cut a circle mask and used Distress Inks to blend a dark background, around the moon.

I picked one of the sentiments from the Altenew set and stamped it with Versamark ink, and heat embossed it with Liquid Platinum fine detail Embossing Powder. 

Then I added drops of silver shimmer and white paint to the background to give a spacey/shimmery feel.

I stamped the bunny and balloons using Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and then coloured them with Copic Markers and cut them out with their matching dies.

Then after stamping in the balloon strings first, I added the images to the card front, backed it all with black card and added it to a white card base.

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

xxx

Shirt and Tie event

Good morning all, I hope you're week is going well. 

Today's card is one I made for a young man who celebrated his 91st birthday last year! A call went out via Instagram for help in making 91 cards for Pop's birthday. So I offered to send one over to the states to help.

We have had this shirt and tie wooden stamp since I first started crafting, 6 years ago. It was in one of the bundles of goodies I bought on Ebay when I was first getting started. But as with all the wood mounted stamps, it sits in a cupboard and doesn't get used.

But I thought a nice shirt and tie would suit a sprightly 91 year old. So I stamped the image a couple of times. Once on a teal patterned paper and then on plain white card. 

Then I cut them out and put some of the white on top of the patterned paper to give a different collar and cuff and I coloured the tie with a matching Copic Marker.

I added a few black gems in a couple of different sizes to the button holes on the pocket, cuff and collar, to make the shirt as smart as possible.  

Then I stamped two sentiments using Jet Black Archival ink. I turned one into a tag and stamped the other on to the card background.

The background was cut with the Avery Elle Wonky Ellements die and I even made a tiny coat hanger from a gold coloured paperclip and made a couple of slits in the back of the shirt to hang it through.

I hope you like it, Pops did. Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Water colour back drops

Happy Tuesday.  Hope you're week has started well.

I have another card using the Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After set to share with you today.

This one has the dragon lighting the birthday candle for his friend, who I think is a griffin.

I coloured these mythical friends using Copic markers and added them to a water coloured background.

I made this using Zig markers, a water bottle, a piece of acetate and some water colour paper. I used Aqua fine smooth from Daler Rowney.   If you've never tried this I urge you to give it a go.

Take a water colour pen or distress ink and scribble on the acetate.  Spritz with water until it's good and wet, then dab onto some water colour paper.  Allow to dry.  

You can do multiple colours at once but I find it works best one colour at a time.  Usually I make a couple of backgrounds from each colour.

I hope you like my card and that you'll give this technique a try.

TTFN Jude xx

Happy Birthday from Pretty Quick

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend.

Today's card is made using one of the new dies I picked up in the Boxing Day sale at Craftstash UK. It's from a new (to me) brand called Pretty Quick, and is a one layer die for card fronts. This one is called Happy Birthday, I also got a couple more, which I'll show you another day.

I cut the main image from Kraft card and then inked a simple Distress Ink background on watercolour card. I used Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers, Shabby Shutters, Gathered Twigs and a touch of Mustard Seed.

I put it together on a Kraft card base and used a dark teal cardstock as a mat. But I still thought it was a bit plain, so I used a Gold and Green Wink of Stella Pens to give it a bit of sparkle.

Then a black fine liner finished off the birds eyes and a brown one for their beaks.

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

xxx

Inlays

Happy Friday everyone - even if it is the unlucky 13th!

  Are you looking forward to the weekend as much as I am?

The idea for my card today came again from Jennifer McGuire and the inlay technique she has used on several projects.  

I wanted to try it with a sentiment die and a shape, so I went with this happy birthday die in a circle.

I first cut the circle and then the word.  

I cut the word a second time in red and then just pieced it back together.  

I made sure to keep the small areas from the die cut so I could fill in the background area.

I then multi-cut the nephew sentiment and stacked them for some dimension.

For the background I repeat stamped a sentiment in Altenew's Arctic Blue dye ink and added the number 11  in red.  This card is for my nephew's 11th birthday later this month.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

With thanks

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week and looking forward to the weekend. Today's card is one I made for a lovely friend at work, to say thank you for having my back.

 To cut a very long story short, in December, I was given a month's notice at work to either  find another job within the Council, or leave. I had worked there for 2 1/2 years, but my contract wasn't permanent, so there wasn't a lot I could do. To be honest I sort of lost all fight when it became clear that there was no chance of staying with my current team. But my lovely friend and team manager wouldn't let it go, and made a formal complaint on my behalf. Now, with her help, many sleepless nights, and a lot of tears, it looks like I will be moving to another job within the Council next week. 😊

Anyway, I used the WPlus9, Beautiful Bouquets - Ranunculus stamp, heat embossed with Simon Says Stamp fine detail white embossing powder.

First I put a piece of double sided tape across the card before I stamped the image. Then once the image was heat set, I pulled off the tape backing and added some gold foil. I ended up adding another layer of tape and more foil to even it out, but it did work well in the end.

I coloured the flowers with Copic markers and then used the sentiment stamp that comes with the image and stamped it with Jet Black Archival ink.

I cut the sentiment down to fit across the foil but still leave some showing, and then finished the card off with an orange base and a few gold and pale orange sequins.

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

xxx