Fairytale castle

Hi all, Jude here.  Hope you're having a good week.

Today's card features the Critters Ever After stamp and die set from Lawn Fawn.  I've had this set for a while and not used it so thought it was about time.

I started by making a watercolour background using Zig markers, a water spray and a piece of acetate.  I love how this turned out.

I wanted this to look like a fairy tale castle in the clouds complete with a yellow brick road.  For this I passed a piece of yellow paper through the Big Shot in a brick patterned embossing folder.

I stamped and Copic coloured the unicorn and castle from the set, plus a rainbow and clouds from other stash items.  It doesn't show well in photos but I've added shimmer pen to the clouds and the castle windows.

I added a sentiment from the set and fixed my design to a 4.25 x 5.5in pink card blank.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Relax it's your birthday

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's card is one I made for a friend who needed a 60th birthday card for her dad.

I used a digital stamp for a change, this one is by Heather Ellis and is simply called Garden.

I sized and printed it to fit on to a 5 x 5 background, and then coloured the image with Copic Markers.

I used a mixture of  stamps and dies to make up the sentiment, the Happy Birthday is a Britannia die and the Dad is a Clearly Besotted stamp. Then I added little sparkly silver stickers for the 60 on his hat.

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

xxx

Anniversary love

Hello crafty friends.  Thanks for joining us today.

This simple card was made for our Mum for New Year's Eve.  This year she and Dad would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.  My siblings and I wanted to let her know we were thinking of her.  

I used a technique I spotted on Jennifer McGuire's blog (http://www.jennifermcguireink.com/2016/12/stretching-supplies-dies-giveaway.html)

I die cut a heart and then used a word die for the sentiment.  This was then cut again twice from gold card.

I stacked the two die cuts to add a little depth and fit it back into the negative space on the heart..

A few drops of liquid pearls in gold pearl completed the card.

Hope you like it.

TTFN Jude xx

Gnome place like home

Good morning, I hope you have all had a good week. I am looking forward to a bit of a rest this weekend, after the hustle and bustle of the last few weeks, and hopefully I may get to spend a bit of time in the craft room too 😊.



Today's card was one I made some time ago for a friend who moved into a new home, but I never got around to sharing it.

I used the Lawn Fawn Gnome Sweet Gnome stamp and die set, and coloured them all with Copic Markers.

I did some very pale inking to the background using Distress Inks and cut the hillside with one of the Mama Elephant Stitched Border Trio dies.

I cut the grass with an MFT Grassy Edges die from a sticky cardstock and then layered it all on to an A5 card blank.

Then I used Gold Embossing Powder on the Sun from the Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine set, and stamped the sentiment with Tuxedo Black Memento Ink.

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

xxx

Beautiful Day

Hello again

Today I am sharing a card I made for Jen's birthday last month.

I wanted a simple but classy card and was so pleased that this turned out exactly as I had pictured.  Don't you love it when that happens?

Often the image I have in my head is nothing like the finished article, but this was better than I had hoped.

The stamp set is Beautiful Day from Altenew and I used Altenew inks in Moon Rock and Lava Rock.

The sentiment is made up from a couple of sets and was embossed in Liquid Platinum from Ranger. 

I hope you like it as much as I do.

TTFN Jude xx

More Christmas Cards from 2016...

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. Today's post is all about catching up on the Christmas cards I never got to share with you from 2016, plus maybe a couple from 2015 that I had forgotten to blog 😊. Oh well, better late than never!. There isn't any write-ups today, just pictures, so it is very pic heavy, but I hope you like them.

As you can see I have very, Very eclectic tastes, and I don't really have a style when it comes to cards, I just make what I like, and what seems right for that person. Which seems to work for me lol.

Thanks for stopping by, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Reindeer Games

Good morning friends and a very happy new year 🎉

I took a blogging break over the holidays and feel well rested for it. Now I'm back with lots of lovely cards to share.

Today I have the base of the card I sent to my youngest son Joe to share.  However I'm starting off with a bit of a failure.  I'll explain later!

For this fun pile I used Reindeer Games from Mama Elephant.  I love these little critters and how well they fit together to create a stack.

After taking these photos I added hats, candy canes and sparkles to my card.  Unfortunately I then forgot to rephotograph the finished product! Hence the failure 😒

Anyway you'll have to take my word that it turned out pretty good 😊😉  I'll have to get it back from my son and show you the final version at a later date.

Until then, TTFN Jude xx