Sending smiles

Hello.

I decided to go through my stamps and find a set that i hadn't used in a while.

I came across my mama elephant stash and new what i wanted to create straight away.

I started by die cutting a  stitched rectangle from Lawn fawn and then  i die cut that using the landscape trio creative cuts. 

I die cut randomly but wanted the empty the cuts to all start at one point and fan out. 

I paced the die cut over my card blank and dew roughly were the sequins were to go then set about sticking the sequins on ...double sided tape is a godsend for this type of project.

Once all in place i added the die cut panel on lots of foam tape to hold it in place.

The sentiment was stamped on top the panel with black archival ink. 

The bunny and the balloons from up and away were stamped onto watercolour card and coloured with watercolour pens before being fussy cut and added on to the panel. 

I didn't stamp the balloon strings and have instead used some thread just for an extra detail.

 

Thanks for looking.

Deck the halls

Hello.

As Christmas is getting closer i thought id better start proper making my cards and tags.

Today i have used the deck the halls mini set from Lawn fawn and the winter gifts stamps.

And the tag your it die cuts and stitched rectangles.

I stamped everything in the new Avery Elle inks and it works perfectly on my Kraft card stock.

The colours stay true. 

I added some stickles to the snowflakes and some glossy accents to the berries.

I changes it up a little for the tag and used the vellum to soften the black snowflakes.

I then added dots of stickles to the vellum.

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Thanks for looking.

Project Life DIY!!!

Hi there :0) I have something a bit different today!!

I've been pondering around the idea of starting a project life album, those fabulous core card kits look just so scrummy and the thought of speedy scrapbooking is attractive too :0)
When you actually look at the designs in some of those kits though I couldn't help thinking I could use the stamps I already have to make my own.....

I'm a bit of a procrastinator so knowing which photos to start with was hopeless so I thought I'd just get some ideas for core and journal cards out of my head and into real life and hopefully the photos and album will come later :0)

These two are cut with the Lawn Fawn 3x4 journal card die and I've used the tandem from Roll With It the solid speech bubble negative stamp from Oh Yeah and the wording is from Paper Smooches set called Captured Moments which is an ideal set for scrapbooking :0)

This one is cut using the larger Lawn Fawn Journal card die and stamped with the typewriter from Just A Note and the scroll of paper is stamped on white card, cut out and inserted through a slit in the top of the typewriter. The wording is again from Paper Smooches Captured Moments stamp set .... I was leaving the left handside for a photo or journaling :0)

These last two are cut using dies from My Favourite Things but to be honest you don't really need fancy dies as long as you have a ruler and a craft knife... a corner rounder is an optional extra!! I've used the long and short brushstrokes from Avery Elle's Brushed on both of these cards... the long one makes a great striped background for that sketchy camera in #Smile and I used a versamark pen to colour the heart with sticky ink before adding gold embossing for a touch of glamour :0) The torn edge notecard has been stamped with Lawn fawns SchoolHouse Backdrops for the lined paper look and the Hello is from the same Avery Elle set mentioned above :0)

If Project Life or pocket scrapbooking is somethng you've thought about trying I encourage you to take a look at your stamps and see what designs you could turn them into, you'll have a great time being creative and making your pages even more personal :0)

Oh and before I go just a quick reminder it's an Anything Goes challenge over at Paper Smooches Sparks this week, here's my DT card for this week featuring the mad scientist from Great Chemistry. Please pop over and see the DT inspiration and play along too, it would be great to see you in the gallery :0)

Jenny x

Newton and Winston

Hello.

I have three cards today using Newton and Winston from Newtons Nook.

I have gone for three different looks.

First up is a shaped card and i used Newtons birthday bash.

I coloured Newton with pro markers and for  the presents i stamped onto lots of scraps of patterned paper i had on my table before fussy cutting.

For my next card we have Winstons birthday. 

Winston is coloured with copics.

I used Lawn Fawn Hello sunshine papers and Stitched journalling card.

                                              Card number three...And i used Newtons antics.

This time i coloured newton with my zig pens and almost everything was coloured with them and a pen spritzer.

I kept it very simple and its only one layer.

Thanks for looking.

Winter Woods

Happy Friday stamp lovers! Can you believe that this is the last Friday before Christmas?!?!? I know and I'm still no where ready ..... I should have learnt by now not to leave everything till last minute but I guess that's just me...lol.

Well I guess that you all know by now the store is on a little break over Christmas but not to worry we will still be here tempting you for when it opens back up in January. 

Today I have a little wintery card to share with you...

I so love this little yeti stamp from the Lawn Fawn set 'Yeti, Set, Go' and I'm a big believe of making holiday sets work throughout the year.... changing the colour of these little cuties will change them from yetis to cute little monsters in an instant. 

Look how happy these little guys are holding hands and running through the woods.. I like the effect that the boy yeti is popping out of the framed scene.

Hope I've inspired you for today.

Hugs Lydia xxx

Joy

Hello.

Today i have used the ever so popular Fresh cut florals and matching dies from Wplus9.

I haven't used this set much at all ...totally love what everyone else does just couldn't get it to work out for me lol.

Well i finally have fallen in love with it :)

I wanted a clean and simple Christmas card and found these were prefect for winter berries. 

The dies give the stamped images a really great quality finish.

The sentiment and dies cuts are also from Wplus9 but are currently out of stock. 

We do have lots of the Christmas release here.

Thanks for looking.

Milk And Cookies For Santa

Instead of sharing a card with you today I thought I would mix it up a little and share with you what we will be tying around Santa's glass of milk (or Baily's ;) ) this year. 

This tag is a beautiful mix of Lawn Fawn and Wplus9- two of my main stamping addictions at the moment.

Firstly I die cut Lawn Fawn's Stitched Journaling Card and inked the edges using Antique Linen Disstress Ink. I then used my favourite background stamp 'Woodgrain Backdrop' (sorry currently out of stock) to the bottom of the tag to act as a table and inked this using a blending tool and Tea Dye Disstress Ink. The sky is Tumbled Glass Disstress Ink ..... and although you can't see them very clearly from the photo there are some snowflakes in the sky from Yeti Set Go set. 

For the main image of milk and cookies I used the Wplus9 set bearing that name (Milk And Cookies and dies). 

For the finishing touch I added 'For Santa' using Sally's ABC's and some twine so I can attach it to the big man's drink ;) .

I hope you like this little idea and maybe give it a go yourself!

Hugs Lydia xxx

Lawn Fawn: Woodgrain Backdrops	Lawn Fawn: Yeti Set Go	Wplus9- Milk And Cookies	Wplus9- Milk And Cookies Dies
Lawn Fawn: Stitched Journaling Card

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