Peeking Rudolph

Hello hello. 

I'm sharing a clean and simple Christmas card today using older Christmas

stash..... anyone else love rediscovering all their Christmas stamps each year?

I've used Finley's ABC's to spell out Rudy's name and used a circle die instead 

of the 'O' so he could peek through like the cutie he is :)

Luckily there's no repeat letters so its simple to die cut on a panel of card which is layered 

over a strip of glitter card adhered to the card base. I stamped, coloured and trimmed out the 

deer image from Polar Peek-a-boo pals and gave him a scarf too then tucked him into the circle aperture.

 

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Thank Ewe!

Hello, crafters!

Tallie here with you today with a quick and simple (at least, for me!) card design featuring the Avery Elle Peek-a-boo Pets stamp set and some alpha dies. A simple pun livens up this thank you card!

Starting with the background panel, I made a DIY stencil from some acetate and a Nesting Circles die. I aligned the circle over a white A6 panel and blended on some Distress Oxide inks in my favourite sky combo: Faded Jeans, Mermaid Lagoon and Cracked Pistachio.

I stamped out two shee and their trotters (if that's what you call them?) from the Avery Elle Peek-a-boo Pets stamp set with some MFT Extreme Black Ink onto some blending cardstock and coloured them in with my alcohol markers. To get the impression of really fluffy sheep, I used small 'C' shapes with some light earthy colours. I cut these out with the coordinating dies.

To create the punny sentiment, I used some more contrasting Distress Oxide Inks in Fired Brick, Candied Apple and Abandoned Coral to colour a white panel. I have a few favourite alpha dies for such occasions : (1) Lawn Fawn Finley's ABCs for taller and chunkier letters; (2) Concord & 9th Simple Serif Alphabet Dies for wider and squatter letters; or (3) Neat & Tangled Journalling Alphas dies for tall and skinny letters. I chose the Finley's ABCs as I thought these would fit better in the space, stacking three layers to give some dimension.

I needed a simple sentiment so I white heat embossed a partial sentiment from the MFT Bitty Thanks & Gratitude stamp set, trimming it into a strip and foam mounting it above the the alphas.

I'm now trying to think of other sentiments that I could use with this type of design. Or perhaps you could use the letters to personalise the card with the name of a recipient!

Thanks for reading, catch you next week.

Tallie

   

Let's Shell-ebrate!

Hello, Tallie here. I have a manatee-rific card for you today!

I started out by stamping out the manatees and scenery from the Lawn Fawn Manatee-rific set onto some blending cardstock with some MFT Extreme Black ink. I coloured these in with my alcohol markers and cut them out with the coordinating dies.

I then die cut a piece of A6 Lawn Fawn Mermaid Cardstock with the Lawn Fawn Finlay's ABCs. I used an Everyday Sentiment Banner die to cut out the banner and stamp the 'SHELL-EBRATE!' sentiment.

I used a bit of Broken China Distress Ink on the background above the die cut letters to give some interest to the scene and arranged my scene towards the top of the card.

A simple and cute card for any shell-ebration!

Thanks for reading, catch you next week.

Tallie

 

Hap-pea Birthday!

Oh my Goodness!! How cute are the Lawn Fawn peas??

I'm so glad they are back in stock so I can share this card I made for our nephew...

It's quite a simple design, I just swapped out the sentiment in the stamp set for die cuts 

using Finley's ABC's and used the English Wall Stencil as a backdrop for a more 

urban feel so it would work as a guys card.

I blended green ink onto the centre of my card base and then blended the same colour 

through the stencil for a tone on tone brick pattern.The streamers and confetti are from

 the Cheeky Birthday set by Hero Arts ... another fab small set which has usable 

sentiments as well as these great background fillers

To make the peas I used the solid shape and inked it using two shades of green inks then 

used the outline stamps and faces to give them character. I die cut the letters from card 

and patterned paper and used the coordinating dies to cut the peas out too, then just arranged 

them on my wall backdrop before adhering them down. What a fun card 😊

  

 

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Letterboard Love

Have you noticed that Letter Message Boards are an 'on trend' accessory for the home at the moment? Well I was pleased to see them make an appearance in the crafting world too... basically what I'm saying is, I had to have the Letter Message Board die by Sugar Pea Designs....

They are good for any type of occasion but excellent for witty quotes or punny sentiments and this one is a classic!!
I started by stamping out the various shapes of lollies from Sugar Pea's Summer Scoops stamp set using different inks. I used selective inking and masking to get the shading and multi-colour effects. Dies are available but I stamped them out with lolly sticks in place so I just used scissors for the simple shapes.

The alphabet that comes with the letter message board is all joined as one die which actually makes life a lot easier!! I just keep it handy on my desk and run it through with any scraps of white card leftover from projects and put all the letters in a small box ready for another time. For this design I wanted to highlight the word ICE so I used Lawn Fawns Finley's ABC's which is unfortunately out of stock at the moment but will be here in a couple of weeks with Lawn Fawn re-stocks..... but any large simple font would work instead.

I love the striking look of the colours against the black backdrop. I think I will have a lot of fun with this die set 😉

  

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x