More than all the stars in the sky

Good morning folks, I hope you have had a good weekend. Today is a difficult day for us as it's the anniversary of losing Dad. It is just so hard to believe that 3 years have gone so quickly since he left us. But, we went out for a meal as a family yesterday, as he would have wanted us too, and today we will go to his spot in the cemetery and probably stand in the rain while he laughs at us lol.

Anyway, this card is one I made a few weeks ago, but the sentiment couldn't be more fitting for today. This is from the Mama Elephant Shooting Star stamp set and was stamped with black pigment ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

The background is watercolour card and I used a Stampin Up background stamp called, Watercolour Wash.

I used three different colours of Distress Ink to cover the stamp with, then I spritzed the stamp with water before stamping it on to the card.

I heat set the background before stamping the sentiment, and then I used more stamps from the Shooting Star set to stamp some background images and heat embossed them with silver embossing powder.

Then I used my Sizzix layered star dies to cut the stars, and added a die cut 11 to the centre, as this card was for an 11th Birthday.

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

xxx

Yellow and Grey - Christmas Elf

Good morning folks, I know it's February and I'm sharing a Christmas card ! but this is one of the ones I never got around to posting at Christmas, and I really do like it lol.

I used the MFT Santa's Elves, to stamp the images. Then I coloured them with Copic markers and cut them out with their matching dies.

For this little guy, I used a grey and mustard yellow colour scheme, and then used cardstock to match.

I used a MFT Zig Zag Stitched Circle die to cut a frame out of silver card, and then cut a circle window out of the yellow card. I backed this with some gold Christmas paper and a piece of snowy acetate.

I cut the yellow card down with a Stitched Rectangle die and put it onto a grey card blank.

Then I added the images with foam pads, stamped a sentiment from the set and used a Spellbinders corner die to add a little interest. Then I finished it off with a few silver sparkly enamel dots.

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

xxx

Dahlia Blossoms

Hello and welcome back.

Today's card uses one of my favourite techniques for creating a background.

I used Altenew's Dahlia Blossoms which is a multi-layer stamp set.  For this card I used layer 2 of the small flower and randomly stamped all over my card stock using Altenew Lagoon ink.

I then used all the layers of the larger flower and leaves to create my focal point, which I added with some foam tape for dimension.

I used a sentiment from a Simon Says Stamp set called Happy and Smile.  The finishing touch came from some Nuvo drops in Silver Moondust. 

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Heat embossed background stamp

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good start to the week. Can you believe I still haven't made any new cards 😲 It's been almost 3 weeks now. It's a good job I had a backlog of ones to share lol.

I am really hoping that things calm down in the next couple of weeks, that I get a bit more used to my new job and start to feel a bit better. Then hopefully I may be able to accomplish something lol.

Anyway, this card is another that I made for my grandson, when he turned 11, a couple of weeks ago. I used a Hero Arts Triangle background stamp and heat embossed it with black embossing powder.

Then I used the giant Marianne Designs, Birthday die, and cut it in a satin red card. I wanted a background for the die cut, so I drew around the outside of the die, on black card and cut it out by hand.

Then I added a small tag at the top with Happy, heat embossed in white embossing powder.

I matted the panel with red and black card, then put it all on an A2 card blank. Before I gave him the card, I added Grandson on another small tag at the bottom.

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

xxx

Birthday bouquet

Hello everyone.  Thank you for joining us again today.

I have a layered floral stamped card to share using one of my favourites.  This is the Peony Bouquet set from Altenew.

I stamped one large flower and two buds with four sets of leaves then layered them together. 

To get this beautiful pink-red I used three Altenew inks (Ruby Red, Coral Berry, Frosty Pink) from the Red Cosmos set.

The leaves are Forest Glades and Evergreen from the Green Fields set.

For the background I blended the same inks using an ink blending tool from Tim Holtz.  I find I can control the round head blender better than the oblong.

The sentiment comes from a Simon Says Stamp monthly card kit.  I only used part of the sentiment as the last words are thank you and I didn't want this part. The inside of the card says Happy Birthday instead.  I used gold embossing powder and then added some gold liquid pearl drops.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

 

 

 

My kind of Peep

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week, and are looking forward to a crafty weekend. I reeeeaaally need to get in my craft room this weekend, and get caught up on some projects.

This card was one I made to say bye and thank you to the lovely folks from my old team. I really didn't want to have to take this in as it meant the end of my time there. But I had to do it, so I thought I may as well make it a fun card. 

I'm not great at goodbyes, so I made it more of a thank you card, for all the support and friendship that I received there over the last couple of years. So I used the Simon Says Stamp, My Kind of Peep, stamp and die set.

I stamped them with Jet Black, Paradise Teal and Bright Tangelo Archival inks, and then added bow ties to a few. I cut them all out with the matching dies and then used the Simon Says Stamp, Seeing Stars set, to stamp a background.

I stamped randomly on a white panel that I had trimmed to fit a 7 x 5 card blank. I used the same colours of ink and added the odd touch of yellow, courtesy of an SSS Hybrid ink called Goldenlocks.

I had to include the goodbye somewhere, so on the inside I added a verse from the Sound of Music song, So Long, Farewell. It had to be done as I knew it would start my old team manager off singing lol.

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

xxx

Star note

Hello lovely people.  Thank you for visiting us today.

The card I have to share is a simple note card suitable for any occasion.

I used the star die die from a Simon Says Stamp kit (I think it was July?) and backed it with gold card.  The die only cuts the central stripes and not the star shape so I cut it with scissors leaving a border.

I added a red and a white matt and placed it on a 4 x 4 card base.

When I have an occasion to send a note I will add an appropriate sentiment.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx