Happy birthday to ewe

Good morning folks and happy hump day!!! I hope you are all having a good week. 

Today's card is super quick and simple and could be mass produced so easily and made using lots of different images.

I used a small scalloped edge card blank (13.5 x 9.5 cm) and then cut a background using a Marianne Designs Postage Stamp die and some turquoise spotty card.

The little sheep and sentiment are from the Clearly Besotted stamp and die set, called Feeling Sheepish, and the image is coloured with Copic markers.

I used the MFT Zig Zag Stitched Circles to cut the white circle and then used a Spellbinders circle die to cut the smaller circle from some Coredinations turquoise card.

I added the image to the circles and then stamped a sentiment from the set and added it underneath. Voila, a handy little card done and dusted in no time at all.

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

xxx

Ranunculus #1

Happy Tuesday!  Hope you are having a good week.

Today's card uses the Wplus9 stamp Beautiful Bouquets - Ranunculus.  I've actually used the same stamp to make three different designs which I will share over the coming week.

I started by stamping in Versamark on watercolour card and heat embossing in white.  This does make it difficult to see the design  but with time and care you can get some lovely effects.

For this card I used Zig Clean Colour pens and a water-brush.  I applied a small amount of the pen to the image and used the water-brush to create the shading.

Once I had finished I coloured a light wash over the background and sprayed it with Sheer Shimmer Mist in Sparkle.

Once dry, I attached the piece to a 4.25 x 5.5 top folding pink note card and added a sentiment cut from two matching shades of card.  I offset the top layer to create a shadow effect then went over with my Spectrum Noir sparkle pen.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

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