Quick & Simple Notepads

Hi there :)

I have a bunch of quick jotter pad gifts to share with you this week, they really 

are simple to make and would be ideal token gifts for friends, family and teachers.

These are slim, shop bought notebooks that have had their front 

covers removed, so I could replace them with my own decorated jacket :)

All you need to do is cut a strip of card the same width as your notebook and then

 measure and score two lines so you can wrap the cover over the top spine. 

You will need to allow an extra inch of card so you can attach the cover onto 

the back of your notebook....

 you could even adhere a magnetic strip for attaching to a fridge!!

I used Altenew's Garden grow for this cover and water coloured the images using

 Distress inks, the lettering is an old Hero stamp set in my stash.

This cover has been stamped using Altenew's water colour wonders 

and the Perfectly Penned alphabet by Concord & 9th (more stocks will be here this week)

These next two were such fun to create using Lawn Fawn Stamps... I went through my stash and pulled out all of the sets with images you'd find on a shopping list and arranged them on my MISTI so I could stamp one on Kraft and one on white

I used Polychrome pencils on the Kraft and Copics on the white then white heat embossed the Shop, Shop Shop wording with Mama Elephants Hollow letters on black card before I added shading with a white pencil

                      

I used 10 different Lawn Fawn sets so here are the links minus the pictures...

         Baked with Love,   Best Pun Ever,   Happy Summer,   Here's the Scoop,   Lets BBQ,  

         Loads of Fun,  Love n Breakfast,   Make Lemonade,   Milk n Cookies,   So Smooth

I hope these have inspired you, as you can see the covers can be decorated 

in any style to suit the recipient and would be great makes for children to help with too :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Monochromatic Miss You

Hi there everyone, Lydia here with you today and I'm sharing a monochrome beauty with you today. This was inspired by this months challenge so I wanted to share some more inspiration if you haven't already dripped your toe into tone-on-tone stamping just yet.

I used Altenew 'Watercolor Wonders' to stamp my floral images- I love this set! It's so easy to create layered images without even thinking about it, as the images don't quite match up you can kind of put them where you feel like.

The sentiment comes from Altenew 'Floral Shadow'- this set is worth getting just for the sentiments alone and then on top of that you get soooo many solid flower and leaf images to play with.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope to see your entry in the challenge!

Hugs, Lydia x

Altenew- Watercolor Wonders Stamp Set

Altenew- Floral Shadow Stamp Set (SHC)

Altenew- Cool Summer Night Crisp Ink Set

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One Layer Watercolour Wonder

Hi there and a very happy Thursday to you. Lydia here with you today.

I do hope the weather where you are is good, but if it's anything like it is here in Wales you may need a bit of warming up. So I'm sharing a card that my brighten your morning a little.

Today I'm using one of my 'oldie but a goodie' set from Altenew- Watercolor Wonders...

I was inspired by an older card I made, so I used the same floral stamp set and same colours but I mixed up the technique- this time I used Distress Inks as watercolour.

I stamped the first layers of the images in Distress Ink onto some watercolour card- Cracked Pistachio for the leaves, Fossilised Amber for the smaller flowers and Abandoned Coral for the large flower. Once they were stamped I used a wet paint brush to soften the colours and added more colour into places where I felt there would be more shadow. Once this first layer was done I let it dry.

Once dry I then moved on to the second layer, using the same technique of stamping in Distress Ink and moving the ink with a damp paint brush- Peacock Feathers for the leaves, Wild Honey for the smaller flowers and Candied Apple for the large flower. I then left this to dry.

I added a third layer to the large flower using Picked Raspberry using the same technique as with the others. For the flower centres I used Black Soot.

I used a mix of sets for the sentiment the large 'hello' is from Halftone Hello and I stamped this first before stamping the rest of the sentiment that I took from Laced Up.

Thank you so much for stopping by today I really do hope you enjoyed your visit!

Hope you have a beautiful day and I hope to see you again soon!

Hugs Lydia xxx

Altenew- Watercolor Wonders Stamp Set

Altenew- Halftone Hello Stamp Set (SHC)

Altenew- Lace Up Stamp Set (SHC)

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