Birthday Puss WLSC

     Hi Everyone my DT make today is for

We Love Stamping

This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme 

All Creatures Great & Small

 

A new stamp set to make this card. I saw a sentiment on a card, that I liked, it came with other animal stamps, so off to use the animals and didn't use the sentiment, what am I like? 

Anyhow, I stamped the animals, coloured them with DI's, to match the digital paper I chose, and die cut them to fit the card. Next to find a sketch for inspiration for me to fit it to. I know, I should have started with a sketch. I found one, and played with it. Now I can't find it to let you know which it was. 

I cut the scallop border with my Silhouette. I'm not fussy on fussy cutting! The border was attached to the paper, then die cut to fit the card layer, which I had die cut previously. I stamped the sentiment, then the animal layer was added using 3D pads. 

stamps - Penny Black, Bubbly

sentiment stamp - Magazine freebie, SCP#216 

paper and border - Cherished Mini kit, Wishing Well Creations (2015)

inks - Distress Inks, mustard seed, bundled sage, festive berries,peacock feathers, evergreen bough,squeezed lemonade,tattered rose,shabby shutters  

 

 

 

Our prizes this month are

Three wonderful fun stamps from  

AALL and Create

Birthday card

Hi Everyone, a card that was done for another family member, I have so many birthdays in March. I love this clover stamp. I decided to use it with a pen die, that I'd forgotten about. I stamped the flower, and coloured it with DI's, then added a text stamp randomly. 

Next I cut the pen die out of textured card, matching the clover, and gold mirror card for the nib and pen holder, what is lovely is that the gold nib is textured. Not colours I normally use, but I wanted to go with the colour of the clover flower.

 

stamp - Penny Black, Delicate Florals 

text stamp - Magazine Freebie, SCP #239

pen die - The Greetery, Pen Pal

ink - Distress Inks, victorian velvet, old paper

pink card - Craft Creations, (years old) 

gold mirror card - stash 

 

Winter WLSC

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

Winter

   

 

What could be more Winter than a snowman? So that's what I went with, a favourite happy Snowman. I stamped the snowman and made a mask of him, then stamped the stones either side of him and made a mask of them. With the masks in place, I blended the background with DO's. Then using a snow stencil to add snowflakes, added a touch of water to the ink, but it spread a little, so I added some Stickles for sparkle onto the snowflakes. Next, the stones were coloured and the snowman, adding more sparkle to the snow. I also added 3D gloss to his nose. 

 

Next, I stamped a couple of snowflakes and the sentiment and die cut the sentiment. They were layered onto a blue card which has gold through it. The image was attached to the base card following the CAS #334 sketch.

snowman stamp - Penny Black "Snowy"

stones stamp - Chocolate Baroque "Sticks & Stones"

snowflake stamps and dies - Pink Fresh Mag Freebie SCP 251 

snow stencil and sentiment - Magazine freebie SCP 182

 sentiment die - Julie Hickey

inks - Distress Oxide, mustard seed, fossilized amber, ripe persimmon, peacock feathers, chipped sapphire 

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.

 

 

 This month we have Three prizes from AALL and Create, A4 sets Pheasants, Alstromeria and Key Botanicals

 

 

Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge here

Delicate florals

Hi Everyone, it's been a while since I made a card, apart from my DT items, but my SiL asked me to make a card for my Niece. It was quite short notice and I decided to make a side opening landscape, I looked through my stamps and decided to go all out with stamping multiple times.

 

I stamped in green, seeing as the details are small, and then added a little more green on the stems and tiny leaves with DO. Next, I coloured the flowers in red DO. The sentiment was then stamped in the same permanent ink. I die-cut the layer and attached it to a red layer, both laid onto the base card. I decided to add tiny butterflies with a dab of ink on a piece of card, placing them onto to the card.

 

I then turned to the insert and found a few sentiments for "daughter" on the web and a couple I had in my files, SiL chose what she wanted, so I printed it out. Next, I stamped the floral onto the insert and placed it inside the card.

  

stamp - Penny Black, Delicate Florals 

permanent ink - Whispers, pine green (very old ink}

inks - Distress Oxide, rustic wilderness, candied apple 

insert verse - CraftsUprint

butterflies - Tattered Lace?

red layer - Lidl paper

 

 

A Note: I love the top hung format portrait 5x7-inch size, but all my cards always open wide to display. I hate that, so I decided to cut mine in landscape. I took an A3 card and cut the landscape shape with my Silhouette. I also used an A3 160gsm paper to cut the insert. 

 

It was only then I realised my printer wouldn't recognise the A3 size, DUH! I thought how am I to get the insert paper to go through my printer and print correctly?  A lightbulb moment, had me attaching the cut insert to a piece of A4 paper and printing it out, it was perfect. Now I can do more of the landscape shape and not worry about the insert printing correctly. I expect a lot of you already know how to do that. I blame my age for not knowing!

100 year old birthday card & floods

 Hi Everyone, I had a couple of you ask if my SiL took up stamping? Sadly no, she loves what she does with Photoshop and Silhouette, she makes beautiful of cards. I was like her until a few years ago, but only since I have been on the DT of We Love Stamping I have I really got into stamping and trying to get better at it. Although I still love Photoshop and my Silhouette.

Anyhow, my card today is for hubby's Aunt, who is 100 on the 29th of this month. She is a lovely gentle soul, who still, thankfully, has her full faculties. I decided to use a stamp, that I love. It was stamped twice, turning the card to do the second, then I stamped the sentiment, embossing both with gold embossing powder. I coloured them in autumnal colours with DI's

 

I didn't have large enough number dies, so I measured the size I wanted and cut the 100 with the shadow in my Silhouette. I matched the green of the colouring with pearlised card and layered the front layer onto it before attaching to the base card.

 

For some reason the card was a little bowed, probably due to the heat gun, so I placed it under my Grand Calibur, to weigh it down and flatten it. Then horror of horrors, there must have been a small spot of glue on the card somehow, that had attached to the card. Luckily in the corner, but I couldn't get it off, so a die rescue for the corner and a top corner to match, coloured to match the main flower. I wasn't too sure whether to redo the card, but I hope it's OK and she likes it. I took the photo at a slight angle, so you can see the shine.

flower stamp - Penny Black, Delicate Florals

sentiment stamp - Magazine freebies

inks - Distress Inks, ripe persimmon, twisted citron,

 wilted violet, spiced marmalade, dried marigold

pearlised card - Crafters Companion

flower die - Tattererd Lace

 

Just a little about the recent flooding in the UK, one of my Niece's was affected, one of those people, who had spent a lot on renovating and modernising their home, an old Water Mill. Now will have to start again, so sad for everyone impacted by Storm Babet, it certainly brought awful weather. Here are a few photos she took.

 

 outside her craft room, she sells braided horse collars and leads also dog collars,

 there will be a few disappointed customers too, with delay in getting their orders.

                               Her craft room                                  

 

the garden

 

outside her lounge

The lounge 

 

I also did a Scrapbook page for them. 

page template - cschneider-HP120pg2 

all papers - J Conlon 

 

 

Sympathy card

 One of the ladies in the Craft group, lost her husband of 70 years recently and I made this card for her. 

The stamp, I thought, was perfect for the card. It is part of a set of 3, I used one other here I stamped it onto textured card, also stamping the sentiment. I coloured part of the flower in Distress ink. I then die cut the image and layered it onto it onto die cut dark blue card. Both then attached to the card, keeping the monochrome colouring, I also added a dark blue bow.

I have to admit to liking it, so I made a couple more. I was glad I had, as sadly they were all used within days of the first one. 

stamp - Penny Black "Delicate Florals"

sentiment - magazine freebie

inks - Distress Ink, Chipped Sapphire

textured card - a gift from my SiL.

navy card - Jelly Bean

ribbon - stash

dies - Card Making Magic

Kraft Thanks

 Hi Everyone, Well! what weather we are having, rain rain and more rain. I'm afraid this weather makes me not want to do anything, however I did a card while the sun the was shining a few days ago.

I saw a stamp on someone's blog and now can't remember where I saw it, sorry! I had to buy it, as it reminded me of a clover and a card I did a long while ago. I had bought some Kraft ready made cards for Christmas cards, (at least an idea, that doesn't seem to be working out) but, I stamped this around the card and then stamped the sentiment, I decided to colour the flowers and the leaves with DI's, not that it shows up well, but enough I thought.

As for the sentiment, I found a kraft digital paper in my files, so used it for the sentiment, computer generated then printed it and cut it with a die. Added it to the centre and voila! Although the heat distorted the card a bit, so after I took the photo, I had it under my Grand Calibur and plates, remember that, Yep! I still have mine!

 stamp - Penny Black Delicate Florals

ink - White Brilliance ink

ep - Papermania White embossing powder

Kraft card - Dovecraft

die - Julie Hickey