Autumn Wreath

As Tara mentioned yesterday, September marks the start of the Autumn 

months and its my favourite time of the year too, my 

card today reflects that with this fabulous leafy wreath from Avery Elle...

What's lovely about this set is that the two main images are separate so you don't have 

to make a wreath at all but that's what I decided to go with on a square card. 

I water-coloured the images and trimmed them out, although coordinating dies are 

available here. I added two of the small images to the wreath and 

adhered it to a square panel of the Lawn Fawn Speckled Eggshell card stock 

which goes so well with the 'not so white' watercolour card I used.

I've used the All Lined Up background to add a subtle check and 

stamped the sentiment inside the wreath.

 I love it, it makes me quite excited for some Autumn crafting :)

  

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Golden Classic

I made this card a couple of weeks ago for a friend who is a music fan and 

seeing as the fab Greatest Hits stamps and dies are now

 back in stock I thought I'd share it with you.

I love the Classic reference in this sentiment so I thought I should 

pair it with a golden disc in a frame...

I've cut the record from gold mirri card and used one of the sentiments for the centre. 

To add some extra background detail, I cut the Musical Cover Plate in black card 

and then used a few of the notes in a random pattern behind the disc.

 The sentiment is embossed in gold... top tip... do this before you attach the mirri card 

disc as it doesn't like heatguns!! 😉 ( I learn't the hard way!)

The Rectangle frame is also cut in Gold Mirri card and the whole piece mounted 

onto a card base which has red ink blended around the edges... Gold Mirri card and 

red are probably the two worst colours/textures to photograph 

and I've put them both on the same card!! 🙄

Lets just say it looks better in real life!

 

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Birthday Coffee Cup

It's always fun to have a different way to give a Gift Card and I love Waffleflower's

Coffee Cup die which makes a cute 'Take Out' cup complete with a pull out panel

to tuck your coffee shop Gift Card into...

I followed the simple tutorial on Waffleflower's You Tube Channel HERE about 

cutting and assembling the pieces and then set about decorating the cup.

I stamped and coloured one of the girls from Friends at First Sip along with her little four 

legged friend. As you can see I've paper pieced her clothing with scraps of 

patterned paper, a fiddly job but well worth the snipping :) 

I've used the Bundles of Blossoms background stamp with Natural Dye ink to make 

a subtle tone on tone pattern for the cup and then added a sentiment 

from Uplifting Wishes which fitted perfectly in the space.

On the reverse side of the cup I've used the tick boxes 

from Waffleflower's Coffee Cup Sentiments. 

When you pull the inner panel out it reveals the gift card which is neatly

 held in place by two semi circle lugs, which are cut by the die. 

I masked an area off for a sentiment and stamped the same Blossom background 

in the natural ink for extra decoration to match the sleeve.

What a fun way to give a Gift Card!

  

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Swinging By....

Yes, these two little characters are greeting you this morning and swinging by

to wish someone a Happy Birthday on this card...

I couldn't resist this stamp set from Hero Arts... I love how the monkeys can interlock 

with each other because of the different poses they're in. Coordinating dies are available 

but I have cut mine out with scissors so I could position them this way.

The vine stamp in the set is quite curved but with some minor snipping at three

 points between the leaves means you can alter the shape of the 

stamp on the block... even make it straight!!

This of course means cutting by hand as you've altered the shape but if you 

don't mind that, it does make the set more versatile.

I inked the background in a few shades of green ink and then 

assembled my vines and monkeys. The sentiment from the set is stamped onto card and 

I used Copic markers to do a very loose style woodgrain pattern and cut it out 

by hand with a few nothches in the ends to look like a wood plank.

Cheeky little Monkeys!! I wonder where they pinched that sign from?? 😄

Thanks for swinging by!! 😆😉🙄🤣

Jenny x

A Swell Background

I'm all at sea today with a couple of cards using the Swell stamp set from Avery Elle.

I love that this stamp is such a large background but I decided to make it much 

more versatile by carefully snipping the little boats out of the wavy scene.... it's easy to do 

with a sharp craft knife or scissors and you can always add the boats 

back into the design if you want to..

With the boats separate, you can ink them in different colours as I've done here.

I've used a circle die to cut a central aperture then layered a smaller aperture 

under the front panel to give a blue border to the design.

I've used part of the sentiment from the same set and added 'Birthday' on a banner 

with Swinging Borders and Lots of Letters by Mama Elephant.

Another fun thing you can do with the boats removed from this background 

is add different images in their space... like this seagull from Beside the Sea.

The waves and birds are embossed in white and I've cut a circle aperture again 

and used the die cut to make a recessed window..

The seagulls in the Peek a Boo Summer Pals was the perfect fit for this card so I've 

paper pieced them and tucked them into the window... one of them had to be 

the Birthday Gull so it has a party hat!!

It may seem scary chopping into photo polymer stamps but as long as you're 

careful it can really make those supplies stretch that bit further with your creativity.

This is what my stamp looks like now... and I can just pop the boats back into 

the holes and still use it as intended.

Just to note that some of the stamp sets I've used have now sold out in store due to the 

very popular sale over the weekend, please use the notification system for when they 

come back in stock if you'd like to purchase them.. thank you

  

  

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Birthday Tweets

Our garden is a hive of activity at the moment with this years fledglings and in 

particular the acrobatic young blue tits. I remembered the Happy Birds set from 

Wplus9 and challenged myself to colour a couple of the birds as blue tits...

I've stamped the birds in a very pale ink for a tone on tone image so I could cover the 

lines up with my Polychrome pencils. The roundness of the birds led me to go with a 

very stylised design.. luckily their colouring fits quite well with the style...

I decided to go for Kraft coloured card so the lines would be hidden more easily and

 just to see that pop of bright colour against the background. 

For the sentiment I've used the Critter Chatter set from Lawn Fawn which

is a great set to use with many of your animal stamps.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

 

Hooray, Yippee!

I have a happy card for you today that features some simple colouring and those 

lovely large alpha dies from MFT as the focal point....

I'm a sucker for an alphabet whether it be stamps or dies, but these 

good sized Impact Alphabet dies from MFT are a great size for 

cardmaking and will also be useful in sewing projects too 😉

One way I like to use them is to replace part of a sentiment and add 

images to decorate and accent the word. These rather excitable, 

happy peeps from Waffleflowers Yippee set were just the thing.

I started by cutting a few of each letter in thin, cheap cardstock and then 

used better quality grey card for the top layer. I arranged the letters in a 

wavy curve layout and added the boys and girls which I have 

coloured with Copics and cut out with the matching dies.

I made a rough cut mask out of copy paper where the letters would lay and then 

used a stencil to add stripes in similar colours to the Copics I'd used. 

All I had to do then was adhere all the letters and images....

I used a Hooray stamp from an Avery Elle set because it fitted the space 

better then added some glittery stars to match the shimmery alpha dies...

 not picked up by the camera 😞 

  

 

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

A Cool Kiwi Day

Well seeing as summer is here I had to get these new dies into use, I love the Cool Treats die 

set from Concord &9th and I just had to pair it up with an older stamp and die set to make this juicy Kiwi lolly...

Now I've never tried a Kiwi Lolly but hey, it looks good for a summery birthday card and the key

to make your lolly look real is sandwiching the slices between two layers of vellum.

I started by using the Orange you sweet dies to make three kiwis... I just love the die that cuts the little seeds out!! 

I used ink blending to colour up the edges and centres of the slices then backed the seed area with black card. 

I added the little green hearts back in place but gave them a swipe on a white pigment ink pad first to lighten the colour.

The white lines are created by just inking the centre of the small orange segment stamp with pigment ink 

and stamping a few times, rotating the stamp to get a circular pattern..

The great thing about vellum is you can layer two different colours to get the shade you need so I used a yellow green and blue green to get this bright shade. I of course used Stick it to adhere the layers together, always a great invisible adhesive on vellum. I love how you can still see the detail on the slices through the vellum :)

I used the small cluster of seeds in the set to stamp a pattern around the edge of the square card base.. love the black and white against the bright green. For a sentiment I reached for the Cool Treats Turnabout set and used my Misti to ink the word COOL in a few different inks to mimic the kiwi fruit colouring... even adding a few seeds with pen!! 

The juicy bursts are made using an older die in my stash and cut from the left over vellum scraps.

Mmmm is your mouth watering too??

 Just think, you could make a citrus set of lollies too using the same set :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x