Foxy Grad!!

Good Morning, Jenny here.... don't panic, it's not Monday!! Tara has a busy weekend so we have swapped blog days this week.... you'll be able to catch up with her tomorrow with a project and the usual store round-up :)

In the meantime I have a New Grad card to show you.... it's coming round to that time of year when results are known and Mortar boards are thrown... hey I'm a poet!! Lol

I pulled out Concord & 9th's Above Average stamp set and paired it with the fox from Mama Elephant's Three Amigos...

I love the big handwritten font and it makes quite a good focal point on its own but I thought the little fox could be the new Grad and share his news with you. I used lined paper from a MFT paper pad and adhered it to the card base at a jaunty angle then stamped out the sentiment with bright colours of pigment inks.

The little fox is stamped, coloured and trimmed out using scissors along with a mortar board from Avery Elle's Hats off stamp set. I used a Lawn fawn alphabet to add text to his paper and scattered a few coloured pencils at his feet. I felt the blue frame was needed to add an extra pop of bright colour and help ground the little fox in the design.... I wonder what he has a degree in???

                                                                                                  
Thanks for stopping by, Tara is here tomorrow and I'll be back next Monday :)
Jenny x

Good Luck Placard

Hello there and happy Monday to you :)

I'm back to a card again this week as my daughter has requested a good luck card for herself and her housemates to give to a uni friend who's off overseas to continue his study. 

It just so happens that there's four of them to sign the card and Good Luck contains 8 letters... 

time to get those Avery Elle hands out I think :)

I do love this stamp set :)

For this card I have stamped and coloured the arms with Inktense pencils and cut them apart, of course to make them pairs I had to mirror stamp the image so I used the Stamping Bella Cardstock Matcher stamp to do this. I find it much easier using the rubber block to do mirror stamping and because I was cutting the images out it didn't matter about exact placement either. 

To make the placards I used the Sketchy Alphabet stamp set and coloured the letters in rainbow order before trimming around them in a rough rectangular shape

After working out the layout.... (a long card was needed for this one!).....

 I attached the placards and arms to the card with varying depths of foam tape

 for some dimension and interest.

I tucked them all behind a strip of Kraft card to match the base colour and added some sketchy lines to carry on the hand-drawn feel, which I love as much as the pop of the rainbow colours on the Kraft.

 

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

It's Graduation Time!!

Hi there and happy Monday to you :)

For todays project I've taken inspiration from my fellow DT girl, Keren, who's the queen of illusions with acetate!! I love how it creates the suggestion of movement which was just what I needed for this box card....

It's proud Mum and Dad time this week as our daughter graduates from University and I wanted to make something a bit more than a regular card so I thought I'd try a box card using the Avery Elle Hats Off stamp set and dies. I followed a template I found on the web, there are quite a few designs and sizes out there if you type in box card, and I made the basic shape of this one with white card. I decorated the panels with black card on the outsides and then squared paper from MFT's Off the Grid Paper pad on the flaps. 

The box has three card inserts which I've used to attach the rows of arms and the mortar boards on their acetate strips..

To decorate the flaps and back panel I inked the edges of the gridded paper and used stamps from various sets which I've linked below

In case you're not familiar with these types of cards, they do fold flat for placing in an envelope and posting albeit with some extra protection for the journey. This card, however, will not be going in the post so I allowed a few of the hats to poke out of the folded footprint and I'll have to custom make an envelope for it...

I've added the same gridded paper to the underside of the flaps so we can add our message to the card too :) I'm really pleased with how it turned out and will definitely be making this type of card again :)

          

                                      

Please note: The "So Very Proud of You" sentiment stamp I've used on the back panel is from a set in my stash and not available in store.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Hands Up!!

Hello there :)

I have a couple of cards to share with you today using a new stamp set called 

Hats Off from Avery Elle... I was quite excited when I saw this set because those hands in

 the set are going to be soooo useful, come and see.....

How about a group of party-goers to celebrate a birthday..

yay, put those hands in the air:)

I stamped, coloured and die cut the arms twice, the first layer are left as is

 but I trimmed the second layer apart in places so I could swap the arms around.. 

Lol, not as painful as it sounds :)

For the sentiment and balloons I used MFT's Birthday Wishes & Balloons.....

 I think the font is a great match for the style of card :)

One of the hands in the set is drawn to hold an item so I embossed a sentiment from 

 Mama Elephants Photo Bomb onto black card to make a small placard for that person to hold :)

For my second card I went quite calm and neutral and made a wedding card....

how about those hands throwing confetti.....

 This card is simple and almost one layer.... I've kept the colouring monochrome 

so the confetti adds a splash of subtle colour and the sentiment is from Congrats by Waffleflower.

I used Polychrome pencils to freehand draw the confetti and I love 

how the oil based pigment has resisted the ink when stamping the sentiment.

I also have to confess to loving the scalloped rectangle die I used for this card, I'm not usually

one for a scalloped edge but I think I've been swayed by the current trend. This die comes in the MFT Blueprints 27 which contains lots of other useful dies too :)

         

  

Have I got you thinking what else those arms and hands can be used for?

It's such a useful set :)

Thanks for stopping by

Jenny x