Eye think you're neat

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Can you believe we are now in February???? 😲

Today's card was made for my eldest grandson who turned 11 last week. This one was from his uncle, so I kept it very simple.

I used the Monster Mash stamp set from Lawn Fawn, and stamped them with Jet Black Archival ink on to watercolour card.

Then I watercoloured them with Zig Clean Colour pens, and used a Simon Says Stamp Happy Birthday Circle Die to frame around the edge.

Then I popped them onto a blue background and a grey card base, and finished it off with one of the sentiments from the stamp set.

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

xxx

Air mail

Good morning.  Hope you are having a good week.  

I'm finding it hard to believe it is the end of January already!

My card today was made using the Avery Elle set called Fly By.  I thought it would make a perfect masculine card for a work colleague.

I started by very lightly inking through a cloud stencil for the background.  I used Arctic from the Altenew Glacier Caves ink set.

The plane was coloured with Copic markers and cut with the matching die.  I added small foam squares to give dimension on the front of the card, and did the same with the clouds.

I added the sentiment as a banner behind the plane.  I wanted the black and white striped paper but couldn't find any in the stash.  I made this piece with a permanent marker and a ruler.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Congratulations Die

Good morning folks, hope you have had a lovely weekend. I was out car hunting on Saturday and fell in love with a car, which will hopefully soon be mine 😊 lol. Then we had a last minute visit from our grandsons on Sunday for a few hours, which was brilliant. So all in all a very good weekend.

Anyway, today's cards are made using a new Pretty Quick die, from Craftstash UK. This one is simply called Congratulations.

I picked a blue shimmer card and a soft gold card to cut the die twice with. Then I used double sided adhesive sheet on the back of the blue die cut, and was able to piece in all of the cut out bits from the gold die cut.

I used a 6 x 6 square plain card base, and did mats in gold and white card, then added the finished piece on top.

For the second card, I used the same die cut pieces. But this time I didn't fill in all of the cut outs.

I just used a wet glue to piece in the blue stars after I had stuck the gold die cut onto a piece of white card.

Then all I had to do was add a blue mat, and put it on a square card base.

They are both very simple cards, but look a little different just because of the amount of white space left on the second one. These will be great for male birthdays, they can also be made in any colour combination, and other sentiments added for anniversaries etc.

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

xxx

Blueprints #15

Happy Friday friends.  Can you believe it is February next week?

Today I have a masculine card to share with you.  I made this using the MFT Blueprints set #15.

These sets are great for making quick and simple cards.  I used several of the dies from the set  and just layered them together.  You can use as many or as few as you like.  I used five :)

I love blue and brown for male cards so chose a patterned paper from the stash and matched my card stock to it.

The sentiment is from a Simon Says stamp set.  Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Altenew - Beautiful Day

Good morning all. I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is one I made for a lovely friend who celebrated her birthday on Tuesday.

I used the Altenew Beautiful Day stamp and Die set, and stamped them with Altenew Crisp Dye Inks. 

I used Morning Frost, Evening Grey, Moon Rock and Lava Rock, warm grey inks and Blush, Rouge and Crimson from the Red Cosmos set.

For the background I randomly stamped a few of the smaller images from the set and then coloured them with a small paint brush and the same inks.

Then I arranged all of the flowers and leaves on the panel, and raised some with foam pads.

I backed the panel with grey card and put it all on a pink card base. Then to finish it off I stamped a WPlus9 sentiment on to vellum and heat embossed it with Liquid Platinum embossing powder.

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

xxx

New house

Hello again.  Hope you are having a good week.

My card today is a very simple new home card for a work colleague.

I pieced this together by using a stitched square die and a heart die.

I cut the house from patterned paper then took out the heart.  I cut again from brown card and cut diagonally through the square to make a roof.  From the excess I cut the small chimney.

I then recut the heart from red card and added it all to a 3" x 5" card blank.

I finished it off with a simple sentiment.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Hello - English Rose

Good morning, I hope you are having a good start to the week. I start my new job today, so a little nervous but looking forward to getting back to work, after the uncertainty of the last few weeks.

Today's card is one I made when I was having a play with ink colours and water colouring. It's one of those cards that I made just because I wanted too and not because I needed it lol. So I really enjoyed making this one.

I started with some watercolour card and our Zig Clean Colour Markers, and made a very soft watercolour background. Then I added thin score tape down the side and put some gold foil over the top.

The flowers are from the Clearly Besotted English Rose set and are stamped with Blush, Rouge, Crimson and Velvet Altenew Crisp Dye inks. The leaves are stamped with, Frayed Leaf, Forest Glades, Evergreen and Jet Black, Altenew inks.

I arranged them on my watercolour panel and then added another strip of foil to the pink card base. 

Some double sided sticky tape and more foil was perfect to cut the Simon Says Stamp, Painted Hello sentiment with. Then I added a ton of Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen to the flowers and a few gold glitter enamel dots to finish it off.

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

xxx