Just One tiny Stamp..

 Hi! Thanks to Julia for filling in for me last week. This week I'm championing little things.. or more precisely.. the little stamps.
Those ones that aren't always exciting enough to be a focus of themselves.
Take this card, I thought I'd use the spoons from the Lawn Fawn set..Baked With Love

I stamped lots of spoons and coloured them in with alcohol markers. Then I pierced the tops & threaded some cotton through.

 I love creating what I've named 'chandelier' cards- so very easy.

Just a length of sturdy acetate, measured so its longer than the gap you'll fill. Measure two slits where you want to insert the acetate & fold the strip at either end (leaving enough either side to glue down at the back).
Slot in the acetate and secure at the back. Now you just want to suspend the hanging elements from some washi (or double sided tape) and secure onto the acetate curve.
Just decorate and you're done.
Yeah, I know it would be tricky fitting into an envelope. You could always create a square version that would fold flat, but I think this shape is lots of fun and you could always send it in a little box.

It would look amazing on a bigger card with lots of the cooking items dangling down. I wanted to keep it simple- I thought the spoons looked a little like hanging balloons!

Hope you have fun creating a 3D card,
See you next week,

Keren xx

Trio for the Different Guy

 Hi! I've 3 easy projects for Tuesday...all based around this week's theme. Hand on heart, this is the category of cards that no matter who I talk to, everyone says they find it a challenge. So I've gone for 3 different styles...for the non-beer, non-car, non-golf lovin' type of guy! (or sailing...why are there so many cards with sailing boats on?!)

This card could be a funny one..or even a cute one. It started out with a smiley face on the toilet roll but that just looked weird. You could make up a sentiment about life being a bit rubbish...linked with the loo roll ;-) 

 Thought I'd revisit a really simply technique using a stencil that gives an extra dimension to your project- using this Hero Arts Stencil

 Grab one of those rubbery mats and put the rubber on the bottom, the cardstock on top and lastly the stencil. I always want to put the cardstock on top but this way gets a sharp result.

You can see the texture better below- just as if you've used an embossing folder. You can see how I've begun to create my toilet roll holder

I used this Lawn Fawn set (which would be great for a baking guy too!)

Just chop the rolling pin in half and re-attach it, overlapping it to make it shorter.



Now simply cut up toilet roll so you've a long thin strip to wind around the base. As I sat there trimming loo roll I wondered quite what lofty heights I've attained that have resulted in creating with Andrex ;-)

The paper behind the main panel is the Avery Elle 'Everyday Collection' which is hands down my favourite paper pad (& it's double sided too!). The Sentiment is from the super-useful Altenew set 'Sentiments & Quotes'

 

Now onto two more quickies. With the first, I had my Dad in mind when I made it...he's an architect so buildings are his thing. Add some swooshes of watercolour and stamp over it with the Sketchy Cities. The sentiment is from the set above using the Ombre Ink Pads



And lastly.. a little tag for a little boy (or robot type geeky guy!)

 Using Kelly Purkey's set

 Hope that's a little inspiration to get you sorting out all those complex guys in your life ;-p

See you next week,

Keren xx