Easter Basket

 Another Easter card today, this time using a SVG file to cut the basket, as I dont have a die.  I used the same egg stamps as I used on yesterdays card and the rabbit at the back is from Memory Box. I finished off with a sentiment across the bottom. 

Products used:

Easter Basket SVG from Cricut Design Studio

Clearly Besotted Egg-cellent Day stamp set

Memory Box Spring Bunnies die

Card from stash 

Hope you have a lovely Easter Sunday and get to eat some yummy chocolate eggs.

Hoppy Easter

 I brought this Sizzix die ages ago in their sale and I used it to make some Easter cards. I made a versions of Sam's from Mixed Up Crafters panel tower fold card. I did two colours versions and they fold completely flat for posting. I found a little egg stamp to make the eggs for the rabbit to hold. The die set has a teddy in it as well and they are meant for holding a lolly or some sweets but I adapted mine.

Products used:

Sizzix Bunny and Bear Hugs

Clearly Besotted sentiment and egg stamp

Stampin Up checked cardstock

Card from stash

Baby card

 Happy Friday, its the weekend and I hope you are spending sometime crafting. Today I am sharing the card I made for my grandsons arrival this week. I used a old Sue Wilson embossing folders, which has tiny hearts on it. The die is from Marianne and I wanted the giraffe popping through the heart die. I used some scraps of Bazzill cardstock to make him. I used some old sentiment stamps from Clearly Besotted to go in the middle of the heart.  Finished off with the fabulous Itty Bitty bow which sadly you can't get anymore. 

Products Used

Marianne Elines Giraffe die

Sue Wilson 3d Quilted Heart embossing folder

Gemini Stitched Edge Heart dies

Sue Wilson Itty Bitty Bow die

Clearly Besotted New Baby stamps

AnnaMarie cardstock dotty and plain 

Fun Fold card no. 8

Happy Tuesday, another fun fold card today that's called an inner shadow box or tunnel card. I made it for my daughters friend, who has just had a baby. I have made this card before and followed the tutorial from Jennifer Mcguire, the link is here. Once you have got the concept of the card fold, you can easily adapt it to make it bigger or smaller. The elephant is a old stamp from Crafters Companion Humphrey' Corner collection. You could of course use anything to fit in the middle. This little elephant is my go to for baby cards and I have coloured the image with alcohol pens. I die cut a circle for the front and just stamped and coloured the elephant on part of the circle.  I then added a sentiment and instead of doing it on white card I used a coordinating pink plain card and stamped in black ink. I finished off with a stamped verse on the inside front cover, which is actually easier to do before you glue the shadow part of the card. I added a pink circle die cut behind the elephant to make it stand out abit more and my I added some foam pads behind the coloured image.

Products used:

Crafters Companion Humphreys corner stamp

Clearly Besotted New Baby stamp and die

Woodware Baby Wishes stamp 

Promarker Pens

Stitched Circle dies from stash

Anna Marie Powder Pink plain and dotty card

Memento Black ink pad

Statement Flower

Good Morning, hope you all had a lovely VE day yesterday. I'm having a break from fun fold cards for a little while. I have sent a few more different ones out to people, but with the post taking a lot longer at moment, I'm not sure if they have them yet. This week I brought one of the new Altenew stamps from their latest release. Its a large stamp and it's called Statement Flower. For this card I used my Zig watercolour pens on watercolour card. It's just been stamped with black pigment ink and definitely worth using a stamp positioner , so you can make sure you get an even stamped image. The background is the watercolour stripes stencil that I have gently blended ink through, but not all over. There is a die for this stamp, I dont have it, but it's easily cut out.  I have put foam pads on back and finished off with a sentiment.

Products used:

Altenew Statement Flower

Altenew Waterbrush stencil

Zig Clean Colour Pens in Yellow, Light Brown and Light Green

Altenew Vanilla Cream Ink 

Versafine Claire Nocturne Ink

Clearly Besotted Say It In Style stamp set

Have a lovely day, weather is gorgeous

Some Bunny Loves You

Happy Good Friday, lovely weather again today. So today's card is different for me because besides the sentiment on the front, which is a stamp from Clearly Besotted, it has been completely made using my Cricut. The upload also includes the sentiment inside which I did with one of their pens. The cardstock is from Anna Marie and I did two different colours, a grey and a soft turquoise. I used some scraps of card for the flowers and leaves. Here is a link to the project

Have a great weekend, stay safe

Easter Box

Happy Thursday, today I have something a little different. Is a little chocolate box I made for a friend. It's an idea I saw on Pinterest and I will link here if you fancy making it. The great thing about this box is it folds completely flat so you can make them in advance and keep them until you need them.

I had some stamped images left over from my mother's day card, so I used those to decorate. The lid is held down with a magnet. Inside look like this...

Products used :

Altenew Build a Flower Triumph Tulip 

Altenew Inks: Warm and Cosy, Tropical Forest, Summer Night 

Works Wood grain paper (6x6 pad)

Clearly Besotted Easter stamp

Stampin Up Stitched So Sweetly rectangle die

magnet

Stay Safe

Happy Halloween

I made these little treat boxes for my grandchildren, with some little sweets and lollies in. Its a box from Pootles, hit this link for a You Tube video of how to make it.

Products used:

Clearly Besotted Fright Night stamp and die set

Stampin'Up Spooky Sweets stamp set

Circle punch

Stampin'Up Pumpkin Pie cardstock

Stampin'Up Grey Granite Ink

Archival Black Ink

Spiderweb paper from stash 

Have a great night if you are out and about and stay safe from all the ghost's and ghoulies !

Wild Roses

I decided to take part in a sketch challenge last night and this is my entry, you could do a scrapbook page or a card. I used Pretty Pink Posh Wild Roses stamp set. I love this set and its great for all sorts of colouring. This time I used a dauber and gently blended some Distress Ink in Picked Raspberry on the flowers and Twisted Citron on the leaves. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted and is from the Say It In Style set. The square die is from Presscut. I finished off with some Kaisercraft Pink gems.

I'm having a day out tomorrow at Ally Pally. I have a little list , lets see what I come home with that's not on it lol !! 

Have a great weekend.

Unicorn card

It was my Grandaughers birthday this week and this is the card I made for her . I saw this Pink and Main stamp set at the trade show and the beginning of the year and decided it would be perfect for her as she loves unicorns . I used a Creative Expressions rainbow die and coloured each piece with Distress inks. The unicorn was coloured with the same inks and I added some Wink of Stella to the horn. Magical sentiment came in stamo set. The cloud die is also Creative Expressions.

Sympathy card

Sadly I had to make two sympathy this week. I am still loving making backgrounds with masks and this Nellie Snellen one although not new out is new in the shop. I used a grey ink to blend through randomly over the card base. Then I stamped the flower on the top in Black ink and heat embossed it with clear powder . I love this stamp and have used it quite a lot for other occasion cards but it’s actually called Condolences. I didn’t have any ribbon to wrap around the card so I decided to make up a bow using a die and create the ribbon using a thin strip of card. Finished off with a lovely sentiment stamp from Clearly Besotted 

Products used:

Nellie Snellen Condolences stamp

Nellie Snellen Drops mask

Stampin Up Slate Grey Ink/cardstock

Versafine Black Onyx Ink 

Sue Wilson Itty Bitty Bow Die

Wow Clear embossing powder 

Clearly Besotted Fancy Sayings

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend and hopefully you will have some time to get some crafting done in between sitting in the garden !! 

Tulip card

Hi there , I hope you are having a fabulous Easter. Today’s card is the one I made for my grown up children and my mum and dad. The tulip stamp and the sentiment  is from Clearly Besotted and I stamped it on watercolour card and coloured with Zig Pens. The dies are from My Favourites Things.

Very quick and easy but I was short on time.

Mays Christmas Card....

....just !!. So all my crafting as has gone to pot abit this month as I am concentrating on wedding makes. I hadn't completely forgotten about my monthly Christmas card but just didn't have time before 25th, so last day of the month and here it is.

 

I used a Spellbinders Die set and used the inner and outer bell dies. I cut them in some patterned paper from an old pad I had and cut the whole bell to go behind. The little bow is part of the set and I used a Clearly Besotted pine stamp to create the background. Sentiment is from Papertrey Ink.

Hopefully Junes will be more organised. I have loads of cards to post about so hopefully I will be back soon with some of those.

Happy Mothers Day

Todays card is for my mum and I also made another one with slightly less on it for a friends birthday which was last month. Foiling is huge at the moment and I am loving it. I am still working out which techniques and types of foils work best for me and there are ways you can craft with it without having to use anything more than a heat gun or glue. From beginning of April I will be showing lots more samples and techniques as we are having a featured product of the month promotion with foils in the shop, so keep an eye out for those.

I used a die set I borrowed for a friend (thanks Mag) its from Crea-Lies and is called Modern Patchwork No.3. I die cut it all the layers in white cardstock. The flowers are foiled using some Tonertex foil, I have had this years and I mean years but I think company is still going. Its a mix of muted colours and was ideal to go with the Shaded Nasturtium stamp I wanted to use from Creative Expression. I have foiled onto vellum, its quite thick and I used Wow Bonding powder and Versamark ink and then run it through a laminator. The foliage is also dies from Creative Expressions and are called Delicate Fronds and Faux Quilled leaves and those were die cut on Toner cardstock. I will do more detailed techniques during April.

 

 

Closer look at foiling, unfortunately its not the easiest to photograph. I used Copper and Gold foil for the leaves and they were a mix of foils from Wow and Deco foil. The sentiment stamp is from Clearly Besotted. Finished off with some Gold Mark Richard pearls in the centres.

 

Here's the birthday versions I did for my friend. The butterfly was a die from Clearly besotted as was this sentiment.

 

 

Wishing all mums in the UK a wonderful day and hope you get the chance to relax and maybe fit a bit of crafting in.

 

March Christmas card

Today is the 25th so its time for a Christmas card. Its been so cold this week, I had to get my gloves out again to walk the dog. When I got back I had to put the heating back on and make soup to warm up before heading to my craft room to make these cards. I had to remind myself it is almost April and not November !! Anyway, onto the card, I wanted to use something that I had brought and never used...well there's a surprise !! So I found my Memory Box Precious Snowflake die and using the inlaid technique ( well that's what I call it ) and this is what I made.

 

I used the cream shimmer cardstock from Stampin'Up and made my card base to 5" square. I cut another piece of the cream card and die cut the two snowflakes out. This piece was them backed with some double sided adhesive.

 

 I die cut the snowflakes again in Stampin Up soft sky cardstock and laid them back to cream cardstock so they were attached to the double sided sticky. Then I sprinkled glitter all over to cover the rest of the sticky areas. Down the side I masked off an area and stamped with the coordinating soft sky ink a little cluster of snowflakes from the Indigo Blu Seasons Greeting set and then drew a line with a ruler and a black fine liner pen. I stamped the sentiment in black which is from one of my Clearly Besotted sets using my misti. I found some little gems in my stash that match the soft sky perfectly. I love my Itty Bitty bow die from Sue Wilson, so used that for a finishing touch. Lastly,  it was matted onto some soft sky cardstock and mounted onto card base.

 

Managed to make three the same to add to my others from last month

Back on Sunday with my Mothers day card, have a great weekend and hope you get time to squeeze in some crafting.

Feather card

Going back quite a while for this card, it was for my dad on his birthday last year. The feather die was borrowed from a friend, it was free on magazine. Its from Hot of the Press. You could use any other feather die or stamp, they are quite popular now with a lot of stamp/die companies.

I die cut and embossed the feathers in Stampin Up Crumb Cake card and sponged through whilst card was still in the die with some ink of the same colour. The background stamps are also SU called Gorgeous Grunge and the ink colours are Pool Party, Old Olive and Crumb Cake. The Stitched rectangle die is from My Favourite Things and I used more of the co-ordinating cardstock for the mats behind. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted . I finished it off with some twine.

 

 

Some Altenew cards

Trying to get back blogging so having a look back at my photos to see what cards I did in 2016 and didn't post on here.

 

Altenew are one of my favourite stamp company's.  They both use Beautiful day stamp set and I used the same ink pad set , also from Altenew Red Sunset. I used some Stampin'Up greens for the leaves.

 

In the first one I stamped onto kraft card and used a white pigment ink as the first layer. Then I added some layers of coloured ink on the top. I shaped the card using the edge of my big circle cutter. The sentiment stamp is from Clearly Besotted.

 

 

The second card uses the same stamps and inks but onto white card, sentiment again is Clearly Besotted .Simply matted with some green card from my stash.



 

 

Back tomorrow with some more cards

 



Easter Card

I hope you had a lovely Easter, this is my Easter card for this year. Quick and easy to make and reproduce as time was tight. The stamp set is called egg-cellent day and is from Clearly Besotted. Inks are from Stampin'Up and its Early Espresso, Daffodil Delight, Pool Party and Blushing Bride. I embossed a frame using a Sue Wilson pierced square die.