MFT Stamps - Leopard Grid

Hello!

I'm popping in today with a sweet little make using the MFT Stamps Loveable Leopards stamp set.

This card was actually the first card I used making this set and it's been sitting in my draft folder for a while. I coloured this with my Zig markers, the colour combo I used for this leopard is a bit different from the others I made and I must admit I prefer the others which are a bit more golden yellow toned.

I used the leaves from the Funky Flowers stamp set in this card also as well as some paper from the Graphic Grid paper pad, Blueprints 31 and a Stitched Sentiment Strip. The window is made using the MFT Square Peek-a-boo  Window die.

The addition of a few orange enamel dots finished my card perfectly.

Items used:

Smooth White Cardstock

MFT Blueprints 31

Strathmore Bristol Smooth Paper

Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

MFT Loveable Leopards Stamp Set

MFT Loveable Leopards Die-namics

MFT Funky Flowers Stamp Set

MFT Funky Flowers Die-namics

MFT Stitched Sentiment Strips

MFT Square Peek-a-boo Window Die-namic

Whimsy Stamps Summer Breeze Enamel Dots

Big Shot Die Cutting Machine

Silver Black Velvet Paintbrush

Kokuyo Dotliner Adhesive

Ranger Multi Medium Matte

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That's all for today, thanks for visiting! 

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Altenew &My Favorite things- Celebrate

Hello!

Dashing in with a quick share for you.

I used a combination of dies from My Favorite Things, and an outline flower stamp and Gold embossing powder from Altenew to make a simple but elegant card that could be used for a birthday, wedding, engagement or anniversay...or any special day realy.

I used some MFT Cardstock in Crushed Coral to make my card base and then used the large die from Blueprints 20 to cut some vellum. I really love using layers of vellum when you want a softer effect and of course it's not as heavy as cardstock.

I took the large outline flower stamp from Altenew's Garden treasures, and stamped all over my watercolour paper with Versmark ink. I did this a few at a time, using my anti-static powder first and using the crisp embossing powder from Altenew in Antique Gold to heat emboss/

I then used my distress inks in Worn Lipstick, Abandoned Coral and Dried Marigold  to blend on some colour. I added a few drops of water and left for a few seconds before blotting with some absorbent paper., then I added a light misting of gold Glimmer Mist and left to dry. 

I cut the Celebrate word out several times in cardstock to match my base card, and for the top layer I sponged over with Versamark ink before adding more of the gold embossing powder and heating to make the beautiful gold finish. I then glued all my layers together to make my dimensional word.

I used a sentiment from the Simon Says Stamp You Matter stamp set, and embossed with more gold powder on some vellum, cutting it out with an MFT Stitched Sentiment Strip die.

I glued all my elements together, popping the main panel up on some craft foam and then added a few sequins from Little Things by Lucy.

That's my card for today, I hope you like it and thanks for visiting!

Paper Smooches GDT - Rainbow Dove Shaker Card

Hello!

Popping in super quickly today with another make as part of my Guest Spot over at Paper Smooches.

July is drawing to a close fast, but I still have 5 days and another 2 cards to share with you after this one.

So for today's card I used that fabulous Dove Die again, but this time I used just the outline part of the die cut around the aperture to make a shaker card.

Because I'm rainbow mad at the moment (I've obviously been overdoing the Skittles eating), and because the theme fits perfectly with the dove, I decide to do a rainbow blended background.

It's just some standard blending with Distress Inks (Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch, Cracked Pistachio,Twisted Citron, Fossilized Amber and Picked Raspberry) on some Tim Holtz watercolour paper. Then I added a few drops of water here and there and blotted, and spritzed with some glimmer mist. Finally when dry I added some spots of white paint.

I cut the shape with a rounded rectangle die, the aperture with the dove die, added some acetate behind filled around with foam tape and added a mix of coloured sequins and a piece of white card to seal them in.

I stuck the whole thing to a card base made from bright pink cardstock and added the white dove outline, cut with the same die glued on top of the acetate.

I cut out the word hope with the hope die from Religious Words 2, several times in white cardstock and layered them together to make my word more dimensional and glued it in place beneath my shaker element. 

To finish up I added a few sparkling clear sequins.

I hope you like it.

I've had several enquiries about selling my CAS cards, so I've finally started listing them on my Etsy store, but it will take me quite some time to get them all listed, so bear with me!

Thanks for visiting!

My Favorite Things - Favorite Person

Hello!

I'm back with another MFT make today, and this time I'm using the super cute Jungle Gym set and matching die-namics again.

I coloured the cute images with my Zig Markers, I cannot find the list of all the colours I used but I know that I used the following:

Tiger - Light Brown, Dark Gray, Gray

Monkey: Oatmeal, Dark Oatmeal, Light Pink

Birds - Pink, Deep Pink, Cobalt Bue, Persian Blue, Pale Green, Emerald Green, Bright Yellow.

I used the Mini Cloud Stencil and Picked Raspberry, Dried Marigold, Wild Honey, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers and Blueprint Sketch distress ink to make the background for my card and frame it with the Pierced Rectangle Frame STAX and some Calm & Cozy  Chevron paper.

Hope you like it!.

Thanks so much for dropping by.

Happy Birthday - Make it Crafty

Hello!

Sometimes when I'm playing with inks and making background, I end up with more than I actually need, and if I don't make an additional card than and there, I'll put that extra away with the intention of using it later.

That's what I did with this card, I used the background for this card that I shared a couple of weeks ago.

I was in the mood to make a card, but without much time or many  ideas coming to mind. I had a sort through my stash of still to be used 'bits' and found this chipboard piece from Make it Crafty that I've had for a long while now.  Because it was made of a grey type of chipboard, it wasn't covered too well with my distress or dye inks as they sink into the material. However, Distress Oxides cover this beautifully, so I set to with the Wilted Violet colour that I'd used to stencil on my background.

Then I gave it a good spritz with my Gold Glimmer Mist and left to dry. 

To make the card I just made a white, top folding vertical A2 (US) size card, trimmed my background with a large stitched rectangle frame, and glued that to my card base. Then I cut another piece of white cardstock a little bigger than my chipboard panel, glued the panel to the white card and the white card to my background piece, added a few sequins and voila!

Possibly the quickest card I've made yet, but it still looks very effective. You can find the chipboard I used here.

Thanks so much for visiting.

MFT Stamps Sketch Challenge #342

Hello!

It's been a long time since I joined in with the sketch challenge over at MFT Card Challenges, so I thought I'd dash off a quick card using the new MFT Stamps Happy Hippos clear stamp set.

I used the hippo with the present and the 3 little birds, stamping them on some Bristol Smooth paper  and colouring them with my Zig Clean Color markers, using Turquoise Green, Yellow Green, Light Green and Bright Yellow. I cut them out with the matching dies and set them aside.

I made an A2 vertical top folding card base and used a little Sno Cone Ink and the Mini Cloud Edges stencil to sponge a few clouds directly onto my card base. I cut some Limelight and Gumball cardstock with one of the Grassy Edges die and finished the edges with a stitched rectangle die, stamping a sentiment from the same set onto the top layer before gluing them both to my card base.

I cut some while and patterned paper with one of the Basic Scalloped Edges dies and finished with the same stitched rectangle die, gluing both to the top of my card. Then I added the hippo and birds with some foam tape and finished with a few enamel dots. You could omit the dots as it doesn't really need them, I just felt they helped balance the card.

If you want to join in with this week's challenge you can find it here, but you only have till Tuesday evening.

Thanks for visiting!

Altenew & Simon Says Stamp - Leaf Background Card

Hello!

I have a few cards to share with you today but as they are all different I've split them into different posts. I'm really trying to work my way through my draft folder and clear some of the backlog this weekend, or some cards will never see the light of day here.

So the next few posts may be short on text.

This card is made using the leaf die from Altenew's Graden Treasures set and a the You die and You Matter stamp set from Simon Says Stamp.

I used Distress Oxide inks in Peacock Feathers, Cracked Pistachio and Twisted Citron for blending and stamping.

I also used Blueprints 31 from My Favorite Things, Altenew Gold embossing powder, Gansai Tambai Starry Colours watercolour paint and a few gold and mint sequins from Little Things by Lucy.

I highlighted the leaves with a Sakura Gold Star Gelly Roll pen.

Thanks for dropping by!

Whimsy Stamps July Release Day 3

Hello!

We're on the last day of our new release show case and to round off my cards today I have 2 makes with clear stamp sets to share with you.

The first uses Paper Polly Dolly.

This little cutie comes with several outfits you can dress her up in and for this card I chose the Bee outfit. The set also comes with a set of matching dies (which I don't have so I did have to fussy cut this one), to make life easier for you, and the die set actually allows you to make an additional cat outfit.

I've just realised that I completely forgot to add her little antennae!

I coloured her with my Zig markers and popped her on top of a shaker card that I made with the Honeycomb Pattern Die. The sentiment is also part of the set.

For my second card I made a background using the smooshing method, with Distress Inks and Gold Watercolour paint from Gansai Tambi.

I paired this with some gold lustre cardstock and then stamped and gold heat embossed some flower images from the Little Birdie Told Me stamp set, coloured them with my zig markers, and fussy cut them. I popped them up against my gold frame with some foam tape.

The sentiment stamped on the bottom of the frame is from the Simple Sentiments set and the numbers are made with dies from the Brush Script Number Die Set.

I finished off with a few gold and clear sequins.

Thanks for joining us during the release.

Paper Smooches- You Heart is Pure Gold

Hello!

I'm back again with another make as part of my July guest spot over at Paper Smooches.

I used the Body Language stamp set and the Body Language Icons die set, using the heart again, but this time I stamped it out several times, didn't bother with the arms and legs and used the happy face.

I coloured then all in shades of pink and orange except for the middle one which I coloured with my Gansai Tambi Stary Nights Watercolours, to give it that metallic gold finish. I stamped the faces once they were all  dry, and cut them out with the matching die. 

I used a piece of Tilm Holtz watercolour paper and blended the same shades with distress inks, using Wild Honey for the gold. I sprinkled a few dots of water and blotted for more texture and interest.

I stamped the sentiment and the hearts with Versamark ink and embossed with gold embossing powder. Then I cut it with a stitched rectangle die and mounted on some gold lustre cardstock.

I glued my base to an A2 horizontal card base and added my hearts with foam tape.

Finally I added some googly eyes to my little heart faces.

Thanks for visiting!

Lee Holland - Teddy Birthday Hat - Whimsy Stamps July Release

Hello!

I'm back for day 2 of Whimsy Stamp's awesome release for July.

Today I have another of those adorable cute bears from Lee Holland

This is called Teddy Birthday Hat

I coloured him with my zig markers using Light Gray and Dark Gray for the bear and Pink, Orange, Yellow and Yellow Green for the hat.

I fussy cut him and added him to a background of masked distress ink stripes which I popped in top of some stripy design paper.

I added the whole lot to a yellow card base and used sentiment from the Happy Sayings stamp set.

I finished off with a few It's a Party enamel dots.

Thanks so much for dropping by, I'll have more inspiration from the new Whimsy release tomorrow!

Whimsy Stamps July Release - Wee Stamps - Baby Giraffe

Hello!

I'm back again with my second card for today's release at Whimsy Stamps and this time it's super cute!

This is Baby Giraffe from the Wee Stamps Collection, isn't it adorable?

I stamped him/her on some Bristol Smooth card and watercoloured them with my Zig Markers.

Then I masked the image and used some vintage photo and a giraffe print stencil to stencil a background.

Finally I stamped a sentiment from the Scripty Occasions Sentiment Set and added a few clear sequins.

That's all for today but I'll be back tomorrow with more from the new release.

Thanks for visiting!

Whimsy Stamps July Release- Deb Davis - Dracula Bite Me

Hello!

It's arrived a little later this year, but welcome to the July release at Whimsy Stamps.

We seriously have so many fabulous images and dies to share with you this month that I barely know where to begin, but I'm kicking it off today with this clear stamp set by Deb Davis called 

Dracula Bite Me.

This comes with a whole set of punny sentiments and also has a set of dies to match. Sadly my dies did not arrive till after I made my card, so I had to use a couple from my stash and some from the Dracula I Compel You die set and Stamp Set, and fussy cut my vampire, but I still love the result.

I started by making a background with distress inks, masking the moon and adding a little grey shading before stamping on the sentiment and layering on the dies and image.

Hope you liked my card for today, but don't go away because I have another card to share with you from the new release a bit later .

Thanks for dropping by!

MFT Stamps - Celebrate, Rainbow Blending, Stamping with Water

Hello!

I have a couple of cards to share with you today, I love making cards where you get a kind of a Two for the Price of One thing going on.

First of all I have to explain that I made the background without any idea of how I was going to use it in a card. I was just trying out some techniques I'd seen in this video from Jen McGuire where she shows stamping with water. I thought it was a cool idea and decided to give it a try.

Since I'm all about the Rainbow lately I chose rainbow colours swapping the red for a bright pink. The ink blending is all done with Distress Oxide inks which gives it that lovely soft brushed sort of finish.

I used Picked Raspberry, Fossilized Amber, Twisted Citron, Broken China and Wilted Violet, blending them to create the additional shades.

Once I was happy with my blending I spritzed a background stamp, (this is the Wavy Colouring Book BG Stamp from MFT), with some water and stamped onto my blended cardstock. Then I blotted and dried with my heat gun.

I loved the way the pattern came out but for a few days I had no idea what I was going to make with it, and then I got the Celebrate die from MFT Stamps. Bingo!

After dabbling with the idea of using the whole panel, I decided to go for a 2 for 1 creation, making 2 cards from the 1 background. I used a Stitched Scalloped Basic Edges die to cut the sedge of my first card and then used the same card on the white cardstock for the 2nd.

I cut the outside edges with a large stitched rectangle die from  Blueprints 15.

Basically the 2 cards are almost the same, just reversed, except the first card I inlaid the die cut word and heat embossed a sentiment in white on a banner cut from Limelight cardstock, and on the 2nd I stacked lots of layers of the die-cut word to make it very dimensional and stamped the sentiment in black ink directly onto the white cardstock.

To finish both cards I added a few sparkling clear sequins.

Here you can compare the 2 cards. 

I can't decide which one I like the most, which do you prefer?

Thanks so much for visiting, don't forget to drop by tomorrow for the new release from Whimsy Stamps!

Whimsy Stamps July Release Sneak Peek - Lee Holland - Teddy with Presents

Hello!

I have one last sneak peek for you before the release goes live on Wednesday, and it's the second of Lee Holland's fabulous bears for this release.

I am so in love with these, you will have to wait till Thursday to see the third one though.

This one is called Teddy with presents.

These bears look fabulous coloured up in the traditional browns and beiges, but I really enjoyed colouring them up in different colours for a change in how they lookl.

My inspiration here was the patterned paper. I coloured this with my zig markers on Bristol Smooth paper butt  I don't have the colours I'm afraid,  as this was coloured some time ago before I got a little notebook to jot my colours down in.

The die cut word 'birthday' comes from the Sweetest Birthday Shaker Builder die set

Can't wait to show you the third bear, and I have lots more to share with you this week.

Thanks so much for visiting me.

Whimsy Stamps July Release Sneak Peek - Dracula I Compel You

Happy Sunday!

The sun is shining here and my creativity is high, so life is good.

Today I'm here with another sneak peek for the Whimsy Stamps July release and this time I'm showcasing a new clear stamp and matching die set by Deb Davis.

This set is Called Dracula I Compel You, you'll be able to find it and the matching die set here once the release is live.

I don't normally go anywhere near Halloween stuff, but these sets have lots of fun sentiments that are suitable for lots of different occasions and I used this set to make a fun birthday card.

I thought this card would be idea for a teen or would make a fun male card, (we all know I normally run screaming from the male card, because they scare me - ironic then that a 'scary' stamp set should make it easy lol).

I stamped all my images onto Bristol Smooth cardstock and coloured with my Zig markers using black, reds and grays, cut them out with the matching dies and set them aside.

I took another piece of watercolour cardstock and used some Festive Berries and Candied Apple distress inks to make a background using the 'smooshing' techniquie to get the effect of blood splatters and then added some small spalatters of black paint using a paint brush and flicking.  I set this aside to dry while I heat embossed my sentiment in white, onto some black cardstock and cut it out with a banner die.

I cut my background out with a Hand Stitched Nested Rectangles die. I backed this with some black cardstock, stamped another sentiment from the set at the top and adhered it to my card base made from red cardstock, using a little foam tape to give some dimension.

Finally I added all my elements to my base with some foam tape for the main image and added a little sparkle to the bats with some Wink of Stella.

Don't forget the new release is on Wednesday 19th, but I'll have one more sneak peek for you before then.

Thanks for visiting!

MFT Stamps - Jungle Gym

Hello!

I hope you are all having a great weekend so far. It's bright and warm here but a little overcast.

My order of goodies from the July release for My Favorite Things came yesterday, and since the other half was out for the evening, I couldn't resist having a bit of a play right away.

I made a few cards last night and this morning, and today I'm sharing a little card I made with the Jungle Gym stamp set and matching Die-namics.

This is such a sweet set with some great sentiments as well.

Firstly I stamped the images I wanted to use on some Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper and coloured them with my Zig Markers. Now don't faint people but I have the colours for you today!

Tiger: Light Brown, Gray and Dark Gray

Monkey: Oatmeal and Dark Oatmeal

Bird: Light Blue, Cobalt Blue and Persian Blue

Leaves: Green and Deep Green

I cut these out with the matching dies and set them aside while I worked on my card base.

I took another piece of Bristol Smooth paper and used both the original MFT Stamps Cloud Stencil, plus the new Mini Cloud Stencil along with Peacock Feathers and Broken China Distress Oxide ink and a blending tool, to create a sky. I cut this out with the large rectangle die from Blueprints 20 and also cut out a window with the Square Peek a boo window die, making sure to keep the square that was cut out.

I used the Grassy Edges die-namics to cut 2 layers of grass, one from Limelight Cardstock and one from Gumdrop Cardstock, I ran the limelight 'grass' through my Big Shot with the same rectangle die so that it matched the rest of my base then adhered both strips to the bottom edged.

I laid out the rectangle on my card base and adhered the cut out square to my card base through the whole, then I popped the rectangle up on some foam tape, after attaching the swing to the back.

I added my figures with some thin foam tape. To finish I stamped a sentiment from the set onto a scrap of limelight cardstock, cutting it out with a banner from the Stitched Sentiment Strips and trimmed it to fit, attaching it to the top of my window with a little more foam tape.

I hope you like my card and I'll have some more from the new release to share with you soon.

Thanks for visiting!

Paper Smooches - July Release - Body Language

Hello!

It's Friday finally and I'm hoping that my parcels arrive this morning before my partner leaves the house so that I can get crafty with my new goodies this weekend lol.

Speaking of new goodies, I'm guesting again for Paper Smooches and my card today is made with more of the new July release.
This stamp set is called Body Language and it's a fun and quirky set which includes lots of body parts and punny sentiments. It come with a matching set of Body Language Dies.

Today I used the heart from the stamp set, which has 2 different faces you can add, a happy one and a sad one. The sad one goes perfectly with the sentiment I used.

Firstly I stamped my image onto some Strathmore Bristol Smooth watercolour paper and coloured it with my Zig Clean Color Markers. I also stamped the arms and legs in black ink. I added the face to my image once it was dry and cut out all the pieces with the matching dies and set those aside.

I took some more Bristol Smooth paper and blended some distress inks (Festive Berries and Shaded Lilac) onto the area where I wanted to place my image, sprinkled with a few drops of water and blotted, and made a few small splatters with white paint. I then cut this out with a large rectangle die and adhered it to a small note card made from black cardstock.

I cut a small banner from a scrap of black cardstock and another larger one from some grid patterned paper and positioned them where I wanted them. I then used my MISTI to stamp my sentiment perfectly beneath the banners with black versafine ink.

 I glued the arms and legs onto my heart and added that to my card, popping it up with some foam tape. Finally I added a few sparkling clear sequins to finish.

I'll share the other card I made with this heart stamp, this time using the smiley face, at the weekend.

Thanks for dropping by!

Whimsy Stamps Sneak Peak - Lee Holland - Teddy Birthday Message.

Hello!

Our July release at Whimsy Stamps should have gone live yesterday, but unfortunately due to a small manufacturing hiccup we have had to delay it till next week. 

Because I totally do not want you to miss out on how fabulous this release is, I'll be doing a couple of sneak peek posts between now and then so you can get an idea of just how much you want need some of these stamps. 

So kicking off today I'm sharing Lee Holland's Teddy Birthday Messages.

Seriously, how cute is he? If you follow me on Instagram,  you'll have seen this little chap yesterday.

I stamped him onto some Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper, with Versfine Ink in Onyx Black, and coloured him up with my Zig Clean Color Markers. I wanted a change from all the brown teddies so I decided to make him purple. These bears look awesome in different colours.

Then a masked my image and used a brick stencil and one of my Clarity Stencil brushes to brush over a grey brick pattern to look like he's drawing on a brick wall, graffiti style.

I kept the card pretty simple just using some basic rectangle and border dies and some purple grid patterned paper which I thought went well with the theme. the whole lot is backed onto some purple cardstock keeping everything nicely tied together colour wise and I finished a few purple and clear sequins.

I hope you enjoyed my sneak peak today. I'll come back and add links for you once the collection is live and I'll be adding another sneak peak in the next few days.

Thanks for visiting!

My Favorite Things - New Home Shaker Card

Hello!

A quick card from me today, still ploughing my way through my draft folder.

This is a little New Home card I made, just because it's good to have one in hand and you never normally have when you need one.

I used the fabulous Lock and Key Die-namics from My Favorite Things, to make a shaker card.

First I chose some fab wood grain patterned paper to act as my 'door' and backed it with some lightweight card before cutting out my keyhole.

Then I sponged some distress ink in Worn Lipstick and Victorian Velvet on some white cardstock, and added a few splatters of water and then gold watercolour paint. I cut a piece of backing card and the banner for my sentiment from this.

I glued some acetate behind my window and then added some foam tape around my aperture and filled with sequins, these are the Rose Gold selection from Lucy's Little Things.

I glued on my backing card and then fixed the whole thing to an A2 card base made from ridged Kraft card stock.

I stamped a sentiment from MFT's No Place Like Home sentiment set, in Versafine Black Onyx, onto my banner, and popped that up on some foam tape.

I cut one of the keys in gold card stock and glued that to the front of my window.

Finally I added a few matching sequins to finish.

I hope you like today's card, thank you so much for visiting.

*Just a small heads up, our July release at Whimsy Stamps has hit a small delay and will be live next week rather than this, but to keep you going until then, I will have a couple of sneak peeks to share with you this week*

Altenew - All My Love

Hello!

I hope you're having a wonderful weekend, wherever you may be.

For today's post I'm using the Altenew Garden Treasures stamp set again, but this time I changed things up a bit.

No masking this time, instead, I stamped out lots of flowers individually with Versafine Onyx Black ink, and coloured them with my Zig Markers.

I don't have the matching dies for this set so I fussy cut them all out by hand....yup...by hand.

It took a bit of time but it was quite relaxing and very worth it in the end.

I set all my flowers aside and started to work on my panel. I used some Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper and blended Distress Oxide Inks in Cracked Pistachio and Broken China, with a blending tool. Then I took the Moroccan Lattice Stencil from MFT Stamps and blended through a little Wilted Violet Distress Oxide ink in the centre part of my panel.

I sprinkled a few water droplets and spayed some gold glimmer mist and blotted and dried. Then I took some gold watercolour paint and splattered on some drops using a paintbrush. 

Once completely dried I cut it out with a large rectangle die from MFT Stamps Blueprints 20 and added it to a white top folding A2 card base.

 For the frame I took 2 oval dies and taped them inside one another on a piece of white cardstock and  flicked on some more gold watercolour paint, then cut a narrow strip of foam tape to pop it up on my card. 

I then took a piece of Boysenberry Lustre cardstock, cut it out with a banner die from the same Blueprints 20 die-namics, and gold embossed a sentiment from MFT Stamps' 

You Give Me Butterflies sentiment set. 

I arranged all my flowers where I wanted them around the frame and popped some of them up on foam tape. I added the banner sentiment with a little foam tape and finally I added a few sequins from different selections, to match the colours of the card.

I really love the way this card turned out and hope that you do too.

Thanks so much for dropping by!

Make a Wish - My Favorite Things - Fairy Happy

Hello!

I did mean to blog this yesterday and thought I had but obviously did not hit that publish button!

Anyhooo......I get to share it with you today instead. As you can see I made another card with the Fairy Happy stamp set from MFT Stamps.

I stamped out my little fairy and coloured her in Distress Inks this time. I used Vintage Photo, Picked Raspberry, Worn Lipstick, Fossilized Amber. I cut her out with the coordinating dienamic and then started work on my background.

I used some Tim Holtz watercolour paper and blended some inks using the Radiating Rays stencil and a blending tool and then went over each area of colour with a bit more ink using a Clarity Stencil brush for a softer, lighter effect. I cut this out with the smaller rounded rectangle die from 

Blueprints 31.

I cut out some patterned paper from the Graphic Grid paper pack, with the scalloped edge die from Blueprints 20 and stuck this to an A2 card base made from Razzle Berry cardstock.

I stuck my background piece to my card base using some craft foam in between for dimension and stamped the Make a Wish sentiment onto a scrap of Razzle Berry cardstock and cut that out with a banner die from Blueprints 20. I glued that to my background panel.

Finally I added my fairy with some foam tape to make her pop and finished with a few sparlking clear sequins.

I hope you like my make for today, I'll be back tomorrow with some Altenew inspiration.

Thanks for visiting!

Paper Smooches - Guest Designer for July

Hello!

I can't tell you how excited I am to be joining Paper Smooches as their Guest Designer for the month of July.

I just love their cute and quirky stamps and dies.

Lucky me I got to play with the whole of the July release....whooohooo!

I have 2 cards to share with you today, the first is using the new Dove Die, this die is so versatile that I used it to make 2 different cards, but you'll need to wait for a later post to see the other one.

As soon as I saw this and the Religious Words 2 Dies, I knew what I wanted to do.

The dove of peace is such an icon, and if you know the story of Noah's Ark, you'll know that along with the dove there was a rainbow at the end as a symbol of hope, so I knew I wanted to make my hope word rainbow coloured.

I started with a piece of watercolour paper, and stenciled some clouds on with Broken China Distress Ink and cut it out with a stitched rectangle die. Then I took some plain white cardstock and die cut the dove 4 times, and gluing the outline together, stacking them up for dimension.. Then I took one set of the interior dove pieces and sponged it lightly with Broken China distress ink, concentrating the ink close to the bottom part of the dove.

I took a small piece of watercolour paper and blended Distress Inks in Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch, Salty Ocean, Twisted Citron, Mustard Seed, Carved Pumpkin and Candied Apple. I sprayed this with some gold glimmer mist (which is not showing up in the photo but looks lovely IRL), and once dry I cut it out with the hope die. I cut it twice more using white cardstock and layered them together to give the effect of a chipboard word.

I cut a rectangle of rainbow coloured patterned paper and stuck that to my card base and then adhered my panel to it with foam tape.

I stuck down my Dove and Hope dies to my panel and added a few gems to finish.

For my second card (I'm still all about the rainbow here) I took the same colours of distress inks and blended them on some Strathmore Bristol Smooth paper, and then cut out 3 x with one of the
Pointers Dies I also cut a few extras in white cardstock.

Then I tool some plain white cardstock cut it with a rectangle die and used one of the Pointers Dies to cut out the apertures. I glued this to some black cardstock cut slightly larger than my rectangle.

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I then started to add back my die cut shapes, keeping them in rainbow order and adding more layers with the white cardstock die cuts to some of the layers and less to others for more interest, and glued everything in place. Then I added this panel to my card base with some craft foam in between (you could use foam tape if you prefer).

I cut 4 x the Cheers die from the Birthday Words Dies in black cardstock, gluing them all together and then adhering the stacked die cut to my card.

I added a few bright enamel dots to finish.

For those in the UK, you can get your Paper Smooches fix over at Dies to Die for.

I do hope you like them, I'll be sharing more Paper Smooches creations from the July release over the coming weeks.

Thanks for much for visiting!

Set of 3 Baby Cards

Hello!

I'm running behind today, typing this post in my lunch break at work lol!

I made 3 very simple baby cards using the MFT Stamps Bundle of Baby Clothes Die-namics, the MFT StampsWelcome Baby sentiment set,  the MFT Stamps Country Fair Plaid paper pack, some white cardstock and a few enamel dots.

I also usedMFT Stamps Blueprints 15 and 20 for the rectangle dies and a stitched circle die. You could substitute any large rectangle dies.

Making them was very simple. I made a US A2 topfolding vertical cardbase in white cardstock, and then cut 3 rectangles (with Blueprints 20) and 3 items of baby clothes from the white cardstock.

I then cut 3 large rectangles (using Blueprints 15), a circle and the little embellishments for the clothes from my patterned paper.

I adhered the large rectangle to my card base with my tape runner. I glued the circle to the white rectangle and then stamped a sentiment in black ink below it. I adhered some craft foam to the back of my smaller rectangle and adhered that to the patterned paper.

I mounted the baby clothes to the circles using some foam tape for dimension, and then glued on the embellishments with a little Ranger Multi Medium Matte.

Finally I added a few enamel dots in matching colours.

These really were super simple and quick to make.

Thanks so much for dropping by!