Simple birthday card

Hello and welcome back everyone! 

Hope you're having a great day. 

 Today I'm back with a simple birthday card, featuring MFT Up In The Air stamp set and ink blending.

I started with stamping all the critters from the "Up in the air" stamp set on to a watercolour paper with waterproof black ink and colouring them with Zig real brush markers. 

I also added details with a white gel pen.

For my background, I decided to do my favourite technique - ink blending. I used distress oxides here, as the results are always great. I added gold splatters for more interest.

My next step was to die cut oval window in the card front. For that, I chose Hero Arts Nesting Oval Infinity Dies. 
I adhered my card panel on top of the inked background with foam tape and added critters inside the window.

For the sentiment, I decided to use one of the greetings from MFT Handwritten Happiness stamp set and stamped it with black ink

To finish off this card, I added a few grey Nuvo drops.

That's all for today! I love love love this colour combination. I'm sure to be back with more cards in the same colour scheme.

Thank you for stopping by! See you soon.

Anna

Full of Heart

Today I’m sharing a card that’s full of hearts. I chose one of my favourite colour schemes - rose gold, navy and pink.

Using the MFT Full of Heart cover die, I partially die cut three rows of hearts at the top of a piece of white card. I then left a gap of two rows, then partially die cut the remaining 5 rows at the bottom.

I heat embossed, with rose gold embossing powder, a greeting from the MFT Handwritten Happiness in the space between the die cut hearts. I then adhered the panel to a card base.

To emboss some hearts in the same embossing powder, I temporarily adhered some to a strip of white card. I used Versamark to add sticky ink to the hearts, then covered them with the embossing powder and heat set.

I coloured the other hearts with copic markers, using the broad tip to quickly colour them in. I then added the hearts onto the card with liquid glue, in rows of each colour.

This would be an easy design to recreate in your own favourite colour scheme. Change the sentiment for a pretty anniversary or wedding card.

Have a lovely day,

Gemma

Birthday Wishes with Small Images

Happy Tuesday!

For my card today, I’m using some images included in the MFT Happy Hippos stamp set. These smaller images are fun to use around a birthday sentiment. You could of course add a hippo or bird too, but I wanted to keep the card simple and focus on the sentiment.

I began by stamping the images and colouring them in with copics. I then cut them out and added some clear glitter and white gel pen accents.

I cut a piece of white card to be the same size as my card base. You could work directly on a card base, but when heat embossing, I prefer to work on a separate piece of card then adhere it to my card base. By doing it that way, the card base isn’t warped from the heat.

I heat embossed a greeting in gold from the MFT Handwritten Happiness stamp set. I then temporarily arranged the images around the card, to help me work out where the spaces were, before embossing in silver and gold, some firework and star images from the MFT Fireworks stamp set. 

I adhered the panel to my card base with liquid glue, then added the images with foam tape and some embellishments to finish.

Thanks for joining me today,

Gemma

Layered Fushias

Do you have a favourite flower? It's hard to choose but I think Fuchsias have to be up there amongst my top five!! With so many colour combinations and flower shapes it will be fun colouring up this beautiful Fuchsia stamp from Avery Elle...

I have used Inktense pencils to paint these leaves and flowers after stamping the image on watercolour card. I used the matching die to cut them out and then fussy cut a few extra flowers and leaves from a second image to layer over the first.

Some of the petals were fiddly to cut but definitely worth it for the finished result.
The thin frame is from Concord & 9th's Just Because die set... I think it helps to place the image so it's not just floating in the white space, before adhering the frame I sponged on bundled Sage distress ink to break up the white.

The sentiment is from MFT's Handwritten happiness.... did you spot the boo-boo?? Yep I accidentally touched the stamp to the card whilst hovering and deciding on placement so I just used a pen to touch up the lines and make it look part of the swirly font design!! Phew 😉

  

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Spring Brushstroke Blooms

Spring is my favourite season. I look forward to the tree blossom and daffodils, and hopefully some warmer weather! My card today has a spring feel to it, with the sunshine yellows, complimented by a touch of soft grey.

 

I began by stamping some flowers from the MFT Brushstroke Blooms stamp set. I used MFT dye inks. Then I cut the images out with the coordinating dienamics.

For the background, I die cut the Avery Elle Diagonal Stripes cover die from white card, and adhered it to a white card base. I wanted to add a touch of colour, so I die cut it again from yellow patterned paper, then paper pieced the small diagonal pieces into the white cover die. I’ll keep the rest of the yellow patterned cover die cut for another card.

I stamped a birthday greeting in the centre of the card, then adhered the flowers and leaves around the edge, using some foam tape for the flowers. I finished the card with some sequins.

Thanks for joining me today,

Gemma

MFT Brushstroke Blooms

MFT Brushstroke Blooms Dienamics

Avery Elle Diagonal Stripes

Lawn Fawn Perfectly Plaid Spring Papers

MFT Handwritten Happiness

Yay for Cake!

Good morning..... Jenny here today hoping you have a good start to the week :)

I've finally got around to playing with my Concord & 9th turnabout stamps and one of them is the Sprinkles background which makes a fab card base for a calorie-free cupcake ;)

I started by making a 5" square sprinkle background using three different inks and only stamping three turns. Then I used Antique Linen distress ink to stamp the large cupcake from Winnie & Walter's Wish Big on watercolour paper so I could practice no-line colouring using Distress inks.

I've haven't tried no line water-colouring for a while... I find it a lot easier than using alcohol markers to do this technique. When all finished and dry, I cut around the cake leaving a slim white border.

The back piece of the card base is brown card which I scored to bring a strip around to attach to the front stamped panel which I cut down to a smaller size.  I used a scalloped edge die to turn the straight edge into a fancy border and gold embossed a sentiment from MFT's  Handwritten Happiness onto the sprinkle background. It's rather annoying when your card warps under the heat-gun but leaving it under a heavy book overnight helps to flatten it out a bit..... it's worth it though for that lovely golden lettering :)

                              

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x