Relax birthday

 Hi Everyone, a card for a nieces husband, I was stumped as to what to make, I saw a card on the web, loved the idea of the sentiment, so I cased it. I went through my files to see what I could find and found this chair. It was a digital stamp already coloured black, but I changed it to blue as I had found a paper pad that could be used for it. I printed out the chair and die cut it, I printed the sentiment and die cut that, then die cut the paper. I added blue Oxide ink to the edges of the white pieces of card, then added all of them to the base card. I kept it flat for overseas post.

chair - Marisa Lerin, Pine Tree Stamps 2024

blue pad - Craft Sensations, Marble 

dies - Sue Wilson Square noble dies

ink - Distress Oxide

 

this is the insert

the verse is my own

balloons - Marisa Lerin Make a Wish 2021

Fav stamps/add lace or ribbon WLSC

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme chosen by Cathy of  

Fav stamps/add lace or ribbon

   

 

My card today is quite simple, I embossed the bottom of the card layer, with an EF that I thought would go with the circles in the stamped image. It was then blended in the green I had chosen to use in the stamping.  The image was stamped above the embossing, and I coloured it quickly in watercolour style. Next, I stamped the sentiment. 

 

I should have picked the ribbon and matched the colours first, as I had a heck of a time, matching the ribbon. In the end, I decided on one that was very close to the green. I didn't have card the same colour, so inked a piece of paper and layered it, all then attached to the base card. Lesson learned, get everything together before colouring. 

 

stamps - Stamps by Me, Happy Home

inks - Distress Inks, bundled sage, picked raspberry, worn lipstick

embossing folder - WeR Memory Keepers, polka dots 

ribbon - Ikea

Easter gift boxes

Hi Everyone, I've been busy with a few more gifts, again for my walker group. I had the design from Sabine Harris in the Silhouette Card Making Paper Crafts group on Facebook, she is so good at sharing files she designs. I cut them on my Silhouette, coloured the inside ear pieces with Spectrum Noir marker and added little pink balls for their tail. I inserted an Easter chocolate egg. I think they are so cute, the walkers were pleased with them too. 

Gift packs & a card

I just popped in to show you my latest makes, I've not been good at blogging or making stuff, apologies. Here are a few boxes, that I saw with Pinky and made them representing my birthday cake, from me to my walker group, I bought some Mr Kipling brownie cakes and 2 of them fitted in so well. They were appreciated, as just a little fun gift. The photo shows a few of them, I actually made 10. They were made with a Craft Sensations Kids paper pad.

I then had to make a card for my God Son's son, lacking mojo big time, I went on to the web looking for male cards and saw a few candle cards. I chose a blue patterned card and went to my Silhouette and cut the rectangles, I then added dots of glue and added gold embossing powder on the gold bits in the card. Having a flame design in my files and using gold mirror card and orange card, the flames were cut too. They were 3D'd to the base card, and after they were added I drew a wick on each one. A piece of vellum was cut and I added a die cut sentiment.

card - Craft Sensations

sentiment - Cut & Make

flames - adapted from a flame by Lindsay Jane 2018

Silhouette

this is the insert, the verse is one off the web, the candle is from a digi kit by Katie Creates 2022

Fav stamps/add lace or ribbon WLSC

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme chosen by Cathy of  

Fav stamps/add lace or ribbon

   

 

I don't know which of my stamps are favourite, but I really like this set, I've not used it much though. For some reason I thought of stamping on ribbon, I tried it years ago, and it wasn't successful, my mind works in strange ways, and things pop up. 

Anyhow, I tried it on blue hessian kind of ribbon, a complete fail, I tried it on brown hessian, another sort of fail, I tried embossing in white on red ribbon, I got too much antistatic powder which didn't want to be removed. So, I looked for a paler ribbon and found pink, then thought, pink and gold are a lovely match. That's how this card came into being.

I stamped the ribbon and embossed in gold, then stamped the card, so that the complete stamp was visible when the ribbon was placed onto the card. I stamped other images and a sentiment, all from the same set on a piece of white die cut card.

Next I found an embossing folder that fitted the stamped layer, after embossing I rubbed over the same ink I had coloured the flowers on the card. The embossed layer was attached onto a piece of card, then inked around it in the same ink. They were all layered. 

The ribbon was attached to the top layer, matching the stamped image. I felt it needed something else to balance it, so I cut more ribbon and folded and glued it onto the side edges. The top layer was 3D'd onto the embossed layer. A die cut butterfly was added, coloured in the same colour.

Cherry Blossom stamps - SC&P Magazine #215 2021

embossing powder - Altenew Antique gold

ink - Distress Ink spun sugar

ribbon - stash

card - Crafters Companion

embossing folder - I think from a magazine freebie, no packing

butterfly - could be Cut & Make, no packing

scalloped die - Tonic

 

 

For our prize winner this month, we have beautiful stamps from

  Fairy Hugs
 

Geometric TMR

 My DT card today is for 

I struggled with this theme, last time I used it, so went online, to get some ideas. I saw many chevron shaped cards, and as I haven't done a fold for an age, I decided to give it a go. 

Going through my paper pads, I came across a double sided pattern that I thought was suitable for the male species, so I cut the shapes needed, folded them and placed them onto a 6x6 card. They didn't fit as I wanted, so I cut a piece of card to fit them, then decided to emboss it. The pieces were arranged onto the embossed card, then the sentiment was stamped onto the sentiment shape. I decided to edge the shapes with the same paper. They were then added to the base card. Something I thought would be difficult, in the end was quite easy, thanks to Pinterest.

paper - Craft Sensations Purple Shadows old

embossing folder - Embossalicious Argyle old

sentiment stamp - Spellbinders Shopping Run sentiments

 

 

There are super ideas for the men in our lives from the DT, have a look and come join us.

Bunny smile CCC

    Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for -

Critter Crazy

 Anything Goes but they MUST feature a critter as the main focus 

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, 

Scaly, or Insect, there must be a critter.

 

I am trying to use up digital stamps I haven't used before, but it's going to be a long road as I have sooooo many. Anyhow, I found this cute bunny, and decided to use it for a GG Niece birthday. I looked for some birthday paper in my files and this came up. I added a black birthday greeting to the paper and printed and die cut it, then attached it onto a die cut paper layer to match the printed paper. They were attached to the card base.

Next I took the bunny into Silhouette and print and cut it three times. I coloured the bunny with markers and 3D'd the hand and feet pieces, it was added to the paper layers. I then added 3D glaze to the bunny's eyes and the camera lens.

The negative and smile word, I designed in Silhouette, and cut it from black card twice, I then painted them with sparkle pen. 

 

 cheese please bunny - Gerder Steiner

paper - Papercraft Inspirations free download 2021 

font on paper - ChokoKings

my design smile film frame - font - Austin Vintage with Carin Grobe film frame 2011

markers - Spectrum Noir 

sparkle pen - Spectrum Noir

3D glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

 

Daffodil birthday

 Hi Everyone, another daffodil card, well I do love the flowers and have some lovely stamps. I had made it for a DT challenge but forgot I had made it, looking through my pictures I realised I hadn't posted it, so here it is.

I embossed the card first and then stamped the daffodils and the sentiment, and coloured the daffodils with DI's. Then decided to punch a round corner. Next it was just layer and glue on to gold card. A very simple card, with limited supplies but, I really like it.  

stamps and embossing folder - Magazine freebies SC&P #240 

inks - Distress inks mustard seed, fossilised amber, squeezed lemonade 

Here are some daffs in the garden at the moment, on a very dull day today, such happy flowers, that brighten my day. Spring is definitely springing, everything has begun to show itself, hubby has been out pruning and mowing the lawn. I just hope the frosts, supposed to be due this weekend, don't stop them in their burst of life.

Daffodil get well

 Hi Everyone, a get well card today, for a neighbour's daughter who at just 25 has had a stroke, losing her left side. We were so shocked, and as it was just after St David's Day, I made this card for her.

I found a verse and did the card to reflect it.  I designed it in Photoshop and cut layers with my Silhouette. Then printed the sentiment and fairy, attaching it to a yellow piece of card. I added the layers with 3D pads, and added glitter pen to her wings. Next, I added gold sequins. Very simple, but I hope it conveyed our feelings for her. 

daffodil fairy - Gina Jane 2007, yep! I've had it a few years

the layers below

 

 

the insert before printing

Hello Spring mid month WLSC

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme of  

Hello Spring

   

 

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my birthday and for the card. I had a wonderful birthday and an extra couple of days with #3 brother and SiL staying on. After they went back, hubby and I went down with something, I had a severe headache, like a migraine for 4 days, hubby wasn't well, but couldn't say why. We didn't have a Covid test kit to check and couldn't be bothered to go get one either. Saturday morning we woke feeling much better, so whatever it was the family haven't had it, thank goodness, and we are back to normal, well as normal as I can be!

My card today turned out to be about Spring Greens, which are so fresh. I had a few stamps to use, but decided on a clean and simple Lily of the Valley flower, I nearly missed it on the A4 sheet of Spring floral stamps.

I thought it needed to be layered, so I cut a mask for the leaves and the flower, then stamped the large leaf and then the flower and the smaller leaves. I wasn't sure whether to add more flowers or leaves, but decided no. Then I used an oval die to cut the flower, I used the same die and the next size up, to cut a frame. Feeling it needed something else I looked for green paper in my files, I came across this, that I liked. I decided on these sentiments and stamped them and the frame, then die cut them. A sparkle pen was added to the flowers.

The paper was printed, and the edges inked, it was glued to the base card, the flower, and the frame were added then the sentiments. An unexpected monochrome card, but I'm not too sure about the design. Oh! well, it's done now. 

flower stamps - Magazine freebie SCP#226

sentiment stamps and die - Julie Hickey, Birthday Message Stamp Set 

ink - Distress Oxide, rustic wilderness

digi paper - A.J. Roberts Winged Jewel Paper Pack 1 2008

sparkle pen - Spectrum Noir

  

this kinda shows the sparkle added to the flowers

 

 Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

 

  Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge Here

 

Our prizes this month are - Two Spring themed Penny Black stamp sets from Buddly Crafts

Cars 17th birthday card

Hi Everyone, it's my birthday today and I have my family coming for lunch, I love having all of us together.

We all live miles and hours from each other, and as all of us are older, I wonder, each time we meet, if this will be the last time we will be able to get together. With driving becoming more complex, and heavy traffic on the roads they have to travel. Thankfully, the furthest away from Lincolnshire is staying a few days. 

We have kept up a tradition, to meet at least once a year, it's usually a couple of times, as we did when my mother was alive. 

Here is a photo of us a few years ago, one other brother sadly passed. 

 

Anyhow, enough of my indulgence, here is a card you came here for, it's for a Great Nephew, on his 17th birthday, he is getting a driving licence, so I thought a car card would suit. I've had this in my files from Shirley, my blog friend, for a while and thought it would be great for him. I took it into my Silhouette files enlarged it to an 8 x 8 inch card size, and cut it out. Also added a 17, to cut and add to the centre card, as they are on racing cars. 

After cutting it all out, I coloured the top layer of cars with the same colours Shirley had, with marker pens and then glazed them. When dry, they were added onto the black layer and glued together. Both layers of each car were attached to the main card.

The road backing layer is included in the file, so I printed that out and placed it inside the front layer. I had added a birthday verse inside by double printing. After taking the photos, I added glue to the front layers, to make them sit flatter onto the paper. I also made an envelope to fit. 

car card -  Car Birthday card Shirley Young

markers - Spectrum Noir

glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

 

 

 this shows the glaze effect, which I'm pleased with

Happy & Bright TMR

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for 

I was stumped big time with the mixed media, but after looking online for ideas, I came to the conclusion that it was just using different things to make a card. Please correct me if I am wrong.

I had a few male birthdays, well 7, out of a total of 11 birthdays in March. I decided to do 2 similar, but, I didn't know where to start. Going through the many paper pads I have, I found bright papers, suitable for the male species. These were die cut for a landscape 5 x 7inch card.

Then my Silhouette came out to cut this layered happy birthday, in matching colours for each paper. Starting with the light blue background, then the black layer, the purple Happy was next, then the black and green for the birthday. I coloured all the additional letters cut in white card, for layering, in colours to match the papers. 

 

The Happy letter cut out, was used as a "stencil" to add a glass bead paste layer onto the Happy letters. The birthday letters were covered in 3D glaze, after I had attached them to the birthday layer. Just one thing, t looks like the B and the R are both red, nope, the B is red, the R is orange. It must be the light.

I then stamped a sentiment and die cut it, adding it to the finished card.

my mixed media, contains

die cut, stamping, stencil, glazing

 

paper -  Craft Sensations 

Happy Birthday - My Scrap Chick

die - Card Making Magic 5 x 7 Card & box set

Silhouette Cameo 2

layered card & paper - Lidl

white card - Crafters Companion

glass beads paste - Winsor & Newton

3D glaze - Nuvo Crystal glaze

birthday stamp & die - Julie Hickey Birthday Sentiment stamp set

I love the bead effect, I saw it originally on a Christmas tree on Loll's blog here. Not the same brand, though, hers looks finer and more even.

 

Hello Spring WLSC

 

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme of  

Hello Spring

   

 

It's March, and it starts with St David's Day here in Wales, so of course it had to be that theme. I was lucky enough to buy the stamp set after Christmas, at a reduced price. I brought in another stamp set of daffodils, and arranged them with the flag and Miss Wales, as I call her. I thought they looked best on a square card, so I die cut a square and, inside that, I embossed using a smaller die. 

The images were placed onto the square and stamped. I embossed in gold, so the daffs shone, I've attached a closeup so you can see it, I think it would have been better stamped in black, all done now, maybe next time? I coloured the flag and Miss Wales, she was coloured with DI's in the same colours as I wore in 1981, below. The hat wasn't black enough, so I went over it with a marker. I added wobbly eyes, as I had made a mess of the eyes!

As the 1st of March is St David's Day, I decided to write Happy St David's Day, in Welsh, on the computer and print it out, it was then die cut and placed with 3D pads.

Welsh stamps - Wales AALL & Create

daffodil stamp - Magazine freebie SCP#240

inks - Distress Inks tattered lace, tea dye,fossilized amber,scattered straw,mustard seed,barn door,fired brick,twisted citron,mowed lawn,gathered twigs,black soot

marker - Spectrum Noir 

wobbly eyes - stash

dies - Sue Wilson Noble square dies

 a close up of the gold embossing

me in Welsh National costume, only a couple of years ago, ahem  in 1981.

here's a link to the photo post, if you are interested?

 

 Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

 

  Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge Here

 

Our prizes this month are - Two Spring themed Penny Black stamp sets from Buddly Crafts

Spring Happiness CCC

 

     Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for -

Critter Crazy

 Anything Goes but they MUST feature a critter as the main focus 

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, 

Scaly, or Insect, there must be a critter.

 

The title of my post today is very apt, as Critter Crazy Challenge has been saved by the marvellous Becca Sadler, who also has other wonderful challenges to follow. 

I saw this digital stamp in a sale and had to have it, so cute, and I could use it for a friend. I took it into Silhouette and cut 3 images. Then stuck for a design, I looked at a few sketches I have saved and found this.

  

I looked for paper to use with it, and as it's St Davids Day today, I used this daffodil paper, from 2017. Using DI's I coloured the image to match and attached the 3 layers. Next I die cut a square of yellow card and white which was slightly smaller, onto which I blended green and blue to make a simple background for the image, which was added to it. I also added 3D glaze to the eyes and nose.

A die cut a circle of the yellow card, that also surrounds the main image, and a white circle of the next size up which was blended to match. The daffodil paper was added to another piece of the yellow card. All then added to the base card.

digi stamp - Di's Digis, Spring Happiness 

inks - Distress Inks, dried marigold, fossilized amber, wild honey, tea dye, brushed corduroy, antique linen, old paper, shabby shutter, bundled sage

sentiment stamp - Spring Florals SCP#226

paper - Daffodil Cheerfulness, The Lovely Studio (Pink Petticoat as was)

 card - Lidl

3D glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze 

 

I hope to see you at the Critter Crazy Challenge which as I said is continuing under the guidance of Becca Sadler. Whoop Whoop

 

A Happy St Davids Day

The difference a paper can make!

 Hi Everyone, I had downloaded some beautiful images and wanted to make a card, they are in the Spring challenge of TLC Creates Vintage over on Facebook. Anyhow, I designed a card in Photoshop from them, the challenge is to only use the set of images. I took them into Silhouette and printed them out, then sent them to cut.

I was really disappointed with the result, if it hadn't been for the sizing being wrong for a 6 x 6 card I would have used them, thinking that's how they should be. Thankfully, they were too big. Silly me. So off I go, get the paper, and find that I had used the wrong one on the first printing. I printed them again after adjusting the size, and was quite astounded at the difference it had made, both printed at Standard not High. All printed and cut as separate items, then put together and added to a pink card layer. The sunflower was added with 3D pads.

Here is the difference, I have not edited the colour on either, the "faded" one is misshapen and not attached, due to being brought out of the bin. 

 

all images - TLC Creates Vintage Private page Facebook and a Ko-fi shop

pink backing paper - Lidl

Silhouette

paper - Crafty Bob

CAS Sympathy

Hi Everyone, I had a family sympathy card to make, and have this simple flower stamp, which I felt it would make a CAS card. 

Firstly, I die cut the 5 x 7 inch card, then stamped the flower, next I added embossed lines top to bottom of the card, but in between the flower. I then used DI's to colour it and added a sentiment that was amongst my stamps, now I can't find it, to add who by, but, it's probably one of my magazine freebies. The layer was 3D'd to the base card. Sorry, the lines haven't been picked up by the camera.

flower stamp - Create Together Club, Stamps By Me, May 2023

inks - Distress Ink, antique linen, old paper 

die - A5 box die Card Making Magic

CAS Mid Month WLSC

 

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme of  

CAS

   

 

As I explained at the start of the challenge, a search through my stamps, brought up 2 sets that I could use, so I actually made this card at the same time as the first card of the challenge, whoop, whoop. This one again for one of my Niece's birthday. The next couple of months are busy with birthdays.

I found this stamp, that I have had many years, given to me by my lovely Sister in Law, and now I wonder why I haven't used it. Anyway, I stamped the bear, the "with love" is part of the image and coloured it with DI's, then die cut it, and die cut another layer. Next, the bear was 3D'd onto the bottom die cut layer. 

As an afterthought, I found tiny flower dies and coloured them with the same colours. I kept the tiny die cut pieces together by adding double sided tape. They were added to the edges of the image. All then adhered to the base card. I think I shall be using the set again quite soon, he's adorable.

stamp - Bentley Bear Thank You Collection

inks - Distress Inks brushed corduroy, walnut stain,ground expresso,bundled sage,carved pumpkin,mustard seed,dried marigold.

flower dies - Cut & Make

dies - Sue Wilson Noble square dies

 

Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

 

  Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge Here

There are Two prizes of Lavinia stamps and stencil (photos not to scale). (Please note, (Lavinia) cannot provide exchanges/replacements/refunds for any products received through this third-party giveaway).

 

 

I thought I would add a photo of our glass conservatory roof, which was frosty on the outside, in the recent cold blast we had. Such great patterns, isn't Nature marvellous?