Mother

Hi everyone! I'm dropping in today with a little mother's day card using the Matryoshka Dolls set from My Cute Stamp:

 Have a great Friday!

Birthday buddies

Hello.

My card for today uses the Birthday buddies set from paper smooches.

I stamped the images and coloured in with watercolour pencils.

Then i cut the circles from the stamped card using nesties.

I placed this over the fish on foam pads.

Thanks for looking.

Mother's Day

Yes, it's nearly that time again....Mother's Day (here in the UK) is next weekend so I've been busy making the first of 2 cards that I need...this one being for my lovely mother-in-law who loves all things butterflies.

I used the Unity store kit "A Mother's Love" available in the shop here. The frame stamp was inked using Faber Castell big brush pens toa llow the patterned paper to show through the ink and then the sentiment was stamped using Versafine black ink:

Materials used:
Kraft cardstock, MME papers
Unity stamps (as above), Faber Castell brush pens, Versafine black ink
Prima flower
lace, vintage button

Now for some great news......Emily and baby Ivy are now back home and doing well but please remember that orders may still take longer than usual to arrive.

Jo xx

Hello.

As some of you may know Emily owner of Make the day special was expecting a baby.

I'm pleased to say Emily has a beautiful baby girl. 

Unfortunately baby has been poorly and and is still in hospital. 

I hope our customers will understand that this will affect our normal service.

Thank you.

Shrink Plastic tags

I've been playing with a couple of Unity stamps and shrink plastic again to make 2 tags to share with you this week.

My first tag uses a stamp from the Scrapbook Royalty set "Just Be You" available in the shop here. I stamped with black Stazon on to clear shrink plastic for the bird:

Materials used:

My Mind's Eye papers

Unity stamp (as above), black Stazon ink, clear shrink plastic

My Mind's Eye twill,

Wild Orchid Crafts roses, HOTP button

lace, ribbon

My second card uses a stamp from the Quote Bundle Pack which is stamped on white shrink plastic again using Stazon:

Materials used:

My Mind's Eye papers

Nestabilities die-cut

Unity stamp (as above), black Stazon ink, white shrink plastic

Prima flowers, Basic Grey brad, Imaginisce brad

beaded stem, CraftWork lace trim

vintage button, velvet ribbon

As always, thanks for visiting

Jo xx

She decided to leap

Good morning! What could be more appropriate this week than a stamp about LEAPing (that was a little leap year joke!). Emily has recently starting stocking the new and totally GORGEOUS Christy Tomlinson designs from Unity. These stamps are so beautiful, they flew off the shelves...but do not fear, more will be in stock soon. 

I've used the 'She Leaped' stamp to create a journal page. The stamp is wonderfully large (my moleskin is 21x13cm) and so perfect for journalling. Here's my page - minus my text:

 This was a mixed media project: paper piecing, acrylics, water colour pastels, ink spray, glossy accents, sizzix lettering and stamp embossing. 

Have a happy Friday!

From the bottom of my heart

Hello. 

I gave my brayer an airing to make this card.

I used a punched heart and layered different inks over it,

 before stamping the image from lawn fawn.

 the stamp set used is Many thanks.

And i added a little bakers twine to finish.

Thanks for looking.