Daughter

Hello again.

I'm continuing with Jen's birthday cards this week, so today I have the card from our Mum.

I made a shaker card and added glitter.  This wasn't the best idea as the glitter has stuck to the acetate a little too well!  It makes the sentiment a bit hard to read lol.

It says Sending Best Wishes and I heat embossed it in gold on to pink card.  This was then layered with some pink papers from the stash.

I like the design even if the shaker element didn't work as well as I'd hoped.

TTFN Jude xx

Oh Christmas Tree

Good morning all, hope you are having a good week. Today's cards are two I made using the same stamp and a couple of embossing folders. 

I started with the background card and cut a Christmas Tree frame from thick card to use while embossing the background. You lay the frame over the top of the embossing folder and this stops it embossing the whole thing.

Using this technique means you get a flat area of your card where you can stamp a sentiment or an image. 

For these cards I used a Marianne Designs Christmas Tree for the frame and a Creative Expressions stamp for the tree from their Let it Snow collection.

For this first card I used a sentiment stamp from JustRite from their Mix and Match Christmas Blessings set.

and for the second card I used a sentiment from a Molly Moo set. 

I stamped both cards with Versamark ink and then embossed one with Gold and the other with Liquid Platinum Embossing Powder from Ranger.

Then I added a couple of brads to the trees and the sentiment.

Hope you like them, see you soon, take care.

xxx

Happy Birthday Jen

Good morning all.  Hope you've had as good as a weekend as we have.

Friday was Jen's birthday so we took her out for a festive afternoon tea at a local hotel, then in the evening all the family got together for cake and presents.

On Saturday her daughter and son, along with their spouses, took her to York for the day.  They had a wonderful time in spite of the rain and the flooding!!

This is the card I made for her.  I used MFT Blueprints #13 for the shapes and cardstock from my stash.

I cut the sister die twice - once in grey then in peach - and layered them for dimension.

Although the finished card is a little busy, I still like it.  Hope you do too.

TTFN Jude xx

Seasons Greetings

Good morning all hope you are well. Today is my birthday so I'm hoping for a nice relaxing day with my family. 

This card doesn't need a lot of explanation. I used the Concord and 9th Take a Bough die to cut lots of different sized snowflakes. 

Then I layered them all around a circle piece of card to make the wreath shape. 

I cut the bow from an X-Cut die set then added a few pearls. 

Then I added a simple sentiment to finish it off. 

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

Jen

xxx

Icicles

Good Morning crafty friends.

I managed to batch make a few cards over the weekend.  These ones were done using some icicle dies from Spellbinders.

I ran some card through a couple of different embossing folders and used these for my backgrounds.  The icicles are made up of several different size snow flake dies, shaped and layered then topped with a clear gem.

I liked these so much I did a couple of different colour ways and sizes.  Here are a few.

Hope you like them.  TTFN Jude xx

Polar Pals

Good morning folks, well it's back to the Christmas cards today. This one is made using the Avery Elle Polar Pals stamp and die sets.

I started by inking a background piece of blue card with a paler blue ink. Then I cut a snow bank with the Avery Elle Snow Caps die. 

I used a piece of patterned paper for the water and then added the polar bears and the ice float.

I coloured the bears with Copic markers and then stamped a greeting using Tuxedo Black Memento ink and a Tim Holtz Christmas stamp.

Then I added white gel pen all over the sky to give a twinkly/snowy effect and finished it off with a few sequins. 

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

xxx

Penguins

Hello again.  I'm back with a simple card just covered with penguins.

I took the figure from Toboggan Together and multi stamped him in black pigment ink then covered with black embossing powder and heat setting.  Colouring in is much easier after that as there is a slight raised edge so you don't smudge as much :)

The snow flakes were made using the same process with gold ink and embossing powder.

I'm going to have another go at this as I didn't prepare the card well enough and some embossing powder stuck where I didn't stamp!

The sentiment is a Tim Holtz stamp from the Handwritten Holidays #2 set.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx