Happy 5th birthday

 Hi, is it too late to wish you happy new year? Apologies for the lack of posts but on the day I last posted both my hubby and I tested positive for covid and I just haven't had the energy to make anything let alone sit in front of laptop and blog. Although I had fewer symptoms than my husband I am still very fatigued but I needed to make a card for my grandson birthday so made myself sit and make that at the very least. To be honest the doggy die cut I had already made up, I used the same one for my grandaughter last year and I had made a couple at same time. As he has dogs in the house I thought he would like one on his card. I used a balloon stamp and die set and die cut the number to go on top. The stitched rectangles are a die I have had for a few years now and use for peek a boo style designs. I found the little hat stamp on an old sentiment set. I used a landscape 5x7 side folding card blank.

Products used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs Dog die

Papertrey Ink Celebrating You stamp and die set

Tonic Windsor number die

Die-namics Rectangle Peek a Boo die 

Altenew Birthday Builder and Imagine that stamps (sentiment)

Clearly Besotted Party Time stamp (hat)

Gold Mirror card

Paper from stash

Creative Craft World card blanks

Altenew Inks 

I hope you are all keeping safe and well, please take care to look after yourselves. We did everything we could but still caught it. My husband is a lot fitter than me and I have never seen him so ill its was frightening and I was convinced at one stage he would end up in hospital. Things will get better , we just have to hang on in there abit longer. Hopefully I will be back with some cards next week .

 

Altenew Leaf Canopy

Happy Tuesday, anybody else have to think really hard what day it is ?? Today's card uses a Altenew stamp set and I think it would work great for a mans card.  I have done it in other colours which I will post another day. This a new technique to me and one I saw on you tube. I stamped a white piece of card with a background stamp, mine was a dotty one and it a large 6" square stamp.  I used white pigment ink on the stamp, it must be pigment or it won't work. I set it aside to dry and then placed it in my stamp positioner and arranged my first leaf stamps. First I inked up with my lightest green and cleaned and moved the stamps around the card. Then I did the same thing with a middle colour green and then lastly a darker one cleaning and reinking as I went.

 I used a dye based ink for the greens and the pigment ink acts like a resist , so you can see the white dots through the green inks. Once I had completed all the stamping, I run it through my die cutting machine and cut out the centre panel. I then lightly drew in pencil where the centre square was going to go on my card blank. This gave me a guide for the stamping and the die cut happy. Once that was all done it was mounted on foam pads and centralised over the sentiment. 

Products used:

Atenew Leaf Canopy stamp set

Studio Light STAMPSL163

Stampin Up White Pigment ink

Altenew Tropical Forest ( I used the first 3 colours)

Simon Say Happy 3x4 stamp and die

Black Ink

Die-namics Rect Peek-a-boo window die