Birthday kitty

Happy Friday!

Today I'm back with a birthday card for my granddaughter, who will be 7 on Sunday.

Happy birthday Keira Grace!

I made this card for her uncle to send to her.

I started by adding squeezed lemonade and wild honey distress oxide inks to a piece of white card.  I then stencilled over with the same colours.

I cut a layer from yellow card and added the inked piece in the centre.  To this I adhered a cat from the Cuddly Critter set by Simon Says Stamp.

The card base looked a little bland against this panel.  I stencilled the same pattern using antique linen ink before sticking the yellow panel to it.

I cut a balloon stencil from red card and added a gold number 7 using the starlight number die from MFT.  The cat is holding the balloon with some gold thread.

I like my sweet little kitty with her balloon.  What do you think?

TTFN Jude xx

Silver Embossing

Good morning all I hope you are having a good week. Not long before the weekend now, and hopefully some crafty time !

Today's card is very simple, but very very pretty, and uses a flower image from the July 2018 Simon Says Stamp Card Kit. 

I used soft grey card, and tapped it generously with my anti-static pad, then I stamped the image with Versamark ink, and heat embossed it with Detail Silver Shine Embossing Powder from Cosmic Shimmer.

I cut the panel out with an MFT Stamps Blueprints 13 Stitched Rectangle die, and added it to a black A2 note card.

Then I stamped the Love and Hugs sentiment that came with the set, and the On Your Birthday sentiment, from a recent magazine set, using Jet Black Archival Ink.  I layered them both with black card and then added them to the card.

Like I said, very simple, but still very pretty. Hope you like it too, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Floral focus

Hello again.

Today's card uses another background made with the August kit from Simon Says Stamp.

This time I clear embossed the roses background stamp on kraft card and added it at an angle on to a piece of bronze metallic card.  I then cut this piece down to fit my card base.

To this panel I added another of the flowers from the SSS set which I coloured with Spectrum Noir pencils.  I fussy cut this out and added it on foam squares.

I white heat embossed my sentiment on to another piece of bronze card and added this with foam too.

The final step was some Nuvo drops in Auburn Pearl.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Spotlight Stamping

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week so far. Today's card uses a technique that I have seen before called spotlight stamping.

It uses stamps from the My Monthly Hero July 2018 kit, and some of the new Nuvo Shimmer Powder from Tonic Studios, this one is called Atlantis Burst, and it came with a recent Tonic monthly kit.

I used a piece of watercolour card, and put a few drops of the Shimmer Powder on to it, then sprayed it lightly with water, which gave me quite a saturated effect. I wanted some lighter areas too, so I put some powder on an acrylic block, then sprayed that with water and used a splatter brush to flick it over the card.

To add a little bit of different colour to the background I sprayed a couple of Shimmer Spritz colours over the top, in Pewter and Silver. These also give the background a hint of sparkle.

For the main image, I used one of the stamps from the My Monthly Hero kit, and stamped it on the card using Fiesta Teal dye ink, also from Hero Arts. Then I cut an oval piece of linen card, placed it over the top of the background and stamped it again using the same ink.

I die-cut the background panel, using an MFT Stamps Blueprints 13 Stitched Rectangle die, then added it to a teal note card. Then I added my stamped oval on top using foam tape and lining the stamped images up, so it looks like they were all stamped at the same time.

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

xxx

Scrap card

Welcome back.  I'm here today with a card made from left overs!

The yellow frame was the remains of a scalloped matt I cut for another card.

The red background was made while I was playing with some alcohol inks on yupo paper.  I cut the piece up to make several backgrounds.

The flower in the vase was stamped from the Simon Says Stamp August kit, called Mandy's flowers.  I stamped and coloured all the flowers with no particular card in mind.  I just wanted to see how they looked.

The scalloped piece is the remains of a piece cut for another card (I rarely throw any pieces away, just in case!)

I added a sentiment from the same SSS set.

For a finishing touch I used a scrap of the alcohol ink background to cut a few hearts.  I think they add a lovely accent.  What do you think?

TTFN Jude xx

Welcome Little One

Good morning all and happy Friday. I hope you have had a good week and are looking forward to the weekend.

Today's card is a little bit different for me as I got the opportunity to make a baby card for a change, and it's very simple.

The image and sentiment is from a Simply Cards and Papercraft Magazine stamp set, issue 178. I stamped them with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto smooth white card, and then coloured the image with Copic markers.

I cut the panel out with a stitched square die, and then matted it with pink card and a patterned paper, then put it on to a 5 x 5 note card.

I used a 'new to us' die set for the bricks from Xcut called Alphabet Blocks, which I cut from pink card, and then added a small square of white card behind.

I was originally going to use ABC, but then changed my mind to use the new young lady's initials instead.

Like I said, very simple, but oh so cute lol.

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

xxx

Background flowers

Welcome back.  I have another card using the fabulous background stamp from the August Simon Says Stamp card kit.

This time I used a dark blue card stock and embossed with Wow clear embossing powder.

The stamp didn't get a good cover towards the bottom edge, so instead of throwing this away I decided to find a way to still use it.

The solution?  Cut the piece down so the missing area has been removed.  Then cut this piece in half and add a black band to the middle.  This was it looks like the piece is big enough for the whole card front :)

This was also the perfect spot for my sentiment.

The image is water coloured with Gansai Tambi Starry Night palette.  These paints are highly pigmented and I managed to cover over most of the outline while painting.  To add the detail back in I used a black gel pen.

I partially die cut the centre out using a circle die, then fussy cut the rest.  

I like how this turned out.  What about you?

See you next week.  TTFN Jude xx