Wood Pallet Background

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is one of the ones that I made for family members to send to my brother for his birthday last week.

I used one of our recently new background stamps called Mini Scenery Multi Grain, by Winnie and Walter. I stamped it twice onto plain white card using Versamark ink, and then heat embossed it with white embossing powder.

Then I used Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Weathered Wood to blend across the top of the embossing. This gave it a lovely worn look and I really love the colour blue/grey.

I decided to team it with a couple of Lawn Fawn dogs from their Critters at the Dog Park set. I didn't stamp them this time, just cut the silhouettes out of dark grey card.

The balloons are cut using the WPlus9 Whole Lotta Happy dies, and softly coloured with Copic markers. Then I used white string on the balloons and a tiny piece of red string to tie them together. 

I finished the card off with a heat embossed simple sentiment from the Clearly Besotted Happy Birthday set, cut with an MFT Stitched Banner die.

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

xxx

Baby giraffe

Today's card is a simple one in celebration of the birth of a family friends son.

I took the giraffe from the My Favourite Things set called Wild Things and stamped it in Altenew's Dusk ink.

I then used an alpha stamp from Concorde and 9th to stamp the baby's name.

I added the figure with foam pads for dimension and kept the name strip flat.

Everything was put on a 3.5 x 5 card blank.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

DIY Wall Art

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Since we had the living room decorated a couple of weeks ago, I have been looking for some ideas for art work. I didn't want anything too big and I really wanted to do something myself.

So after trawling Pinterest for a while and making myself a board with all living/dining room ideas on, I finally set to work this weekend and had a go.

I used a magazine freebie feather stamp for this and stamped it with Altenew Dye inks in grey and yellow, and then added the little sentiment underneath.

This was a free text printable that I'd had for some time, so I popped it into my photo editing software and gave it a sun frame and a grey background. Then I printed it as a 7 x 5 photo, and popped it in one of the white frames that I already had.  

This final one was again made with a couple of magazine freebie stamps. This time I stamped the images with Versamark ink and then with dark grey Altenew ink and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder. Then I layered the image with mustard card and used a scrap of leftover wallpaper for the background. (Excuse the chipped frame, didn't realise how badly it stood out until I saw the photo's lol.)

What do you think? I'm quite happy with them, and because they didn't cost me anything but a bit of time, I can easily change them when I get fed up lol 😉.

Hope you have a great week, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Silver Wedding

Happy Monday everyone.  Hope you had a good weekend.

Today I have the last of the wedding cards I made last week to share with you.

This gorgeous stamp is from IndigoBlu.  Although I've had it a long time it remains a favourite.

I used Versamark and silver embossing powder for the heart before matting it on silver mirror card.  I added this piece to a 6 x 6 card blank.

The sentiment is from the Simon Says Stamp Congratulations set and is also embossed in silver.

This was quite a quick and easy card to make but I think it is stunning.  Hope you agree.

TTFN Jude xx

So Happy For You

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week and are looking forward to a nice crafty weekend.

Today's card was a very simple one that I made for a friend last year when she got a new job. I used a small background stamp that came free with a magazine, stamping it 4 times with Versamark ink and then heat embossing with white embossing powder.

I masked off the centre of the panel and then blended Spun Sugar and Picked Raspberry distress inks over the embossing, to give an ombre effect. 

Then I used the MFT Stamps Happy Everything die to cut the main sentiment, and added a touch of pink ink to that too. Then I just added a couple of word stamps to finish the sentiment.

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

xxx

Have a wizard birthday

Hello and welcome.

Today I have the card I made for John's birthday yesterday from my daughter and her family.

John and I went to see all the Harry Potter films on consecutive Saturdays last year as we both love the films.  When I saw this wizard digi stamp it seemed obvious this would be a good image for him.

I coloured the image with Copics in the colours of Gryffindor and used matching card stock for the design.

The word dies are from a My Favourite Things set called Magical Memories.  I cut them from black and added the mustard yellow to make the words pop.

I used the same card to die cut the uncle and added it to some more black.

The completed image was added to an 8 x 8 card blank.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

You mean the world to me

Good morning all, can you believe it's March already ?? I also cannot believe that my baby brother is 37 today 😲, where does the time go lol. 

Today's card is one I made for my brother from Mum, (I added the Son sentiment after taking the photo's).

I used a new background stamp for this card from Hero Arts, called Map of the World BG. I stamped it with Versamark ink and then heat embossed it with White Fine Detail Embossing Powder from Simon Says Stamp.

I wanted the card to look aged, a bit like an old map, so I used Distress Inks in, Vintage Photo, Antique Linen and Tea Dye, and blended them all over the embossed image.

Then I stamped a sentiment from an old Creative Expressions stamp set, onto Kraft card, heat embossed it with the same white powder and then spent ages trying to decide where to put it !

In the end I decided to cut the sentiment up and spread it across the map. 

Then I added the whole thing to a Kraft card blank and it was all finished.

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

xxx