Faux Cross Stitch Cutey!

Hi everybody,

It's Jill here, and this week, I've got a little bit of cross stitch for you!

I've been so excited to play with this Neat and Tangled Hoop die for a while now, and it is BACK IN STOCK!  So perfect time to show it some love.

I thought it would be fun to create a little cross stitched scene, using another stamp set, within the little hoop, so chose the Playful Pups set from Mama Elephant.

I found a piece of patterned paper that had a grid on it, so was perfect, but you could definitely create your own, or pick up a cheap pad of grid paper.  I stamped my cute little Playful Pup out, and created a little scene around him using elements from Mama Elephant's 'In My Heart'.  I then coloured my little scene by drawing a tiny little cross in each box, in various colours, exactly like you would 'stitch' in an actual cross stitch.

I cut the Hoop Die from some kraft card, which I had stamped with a wood grain background, so it looks like a real wooden hoop, and cut the screw part from a piece of card I had heat embossed in gold powder.

I wanted my card to look like it had been lifted directly from a wall in a small old cosy cottage, so stamped my background panel using a wallpaper-esque design, and aged using Distress Ink.  My sentiment is from Mama Elephant's Bloomsies set and is stamped onto cream card and fussy cut.  I added a doily and a twirl of twine behind my cross-stitch, and mounted it all onto my background panel, embellishing with a scattering of pearls, and adding the whole thing to a kraft card base. 

I really enjoyed this little project and can only begin to imagine how many possible 'cross stitches' we could all create using our collections!

I hope you like it, and that you give it a go!

As always, everything I used is linked below.

See you next week.

Jillx

                   

  

Thanks You're My Hero

Happy Friday! I hope you have had a good week and have a super weekend planned. I think we are having a chilled weekend as it's the end of the first full week in school I just want to spend some snuggle time with the kids and not have to rush around.... sometimes having no plans is the best plan, don't ya think?

Today I am sharing with you a super fun card using a couple of the adorable sets from Mama Elephant.

The characters and balloons are from 'Up & Away' which I have paper pieced. Wit the balloons I did three layers to create dimension to them. I used two sets fro the sentiment 'Sketchy Letters' for the 'thanks' and the rest is from 'In My Heart' (sorry OOS).

The background clouds I made by cutting a mask from scrap paper using the 'Landscape Trio Dies' and inking over it in different places using Salty Ocean Distress Ink and then adding a layer of vellum to soften it further.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hugs Lydia xxx

Mama Elephant UP AND AWAY Set

Mama Elephant_ In my Heart (MTDS)

Mama Elephant SKETCHY LETTERS Set

Mama Elephant- Landscape Trio Creative Cuts (MTDS)

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Getting snappy

My favourite thing from the recent Mama Elephant release was the new polaroid die set as it reminded me of a Christmas gift I loved - a camera that took mini instant photos (you know the way we did before digi!) you could turn into labels.   So for my project today I'm replicating that look with the smaller of the dies in the set.

I die cut 3 frames and then drew around one lightly on some copic colouring card before stamping 3 of the characters from Mama Elephant's In My Heart set - I deliberately picked images that didn't quite fit and stamped them at different angles for interest (also we all know its impossible to get a kid to stand still for a photo right!)  Deliberately cropping images is a good way to stretch your stamps and get a different look.   Once coloured I trimmed them and layered on the frames and then filled the picture with glossy accents for the full-on polaroid look.  Some DP, washi tape and a sentiment from the same stamp set was all that was needed to pull it together into a finished card.

We have an order in with Mama Elephant for their new September mini-release and restocks on some from last month.  Some items were out of stock though so not everything will be back this month but I will keep getting everything back as soon as I can so don't panic!

NEWS FROM THE STORE:

We have big news today, as I can finally reveal the successful applicant from our recent DT call, and without further ado, I am really pleased to say that our new team mate is the very talented Julia Altermann who will be joining us all the way from Germany - our first overseas DT member!

You've probably seen her around on Facebook and on our challenges already as she's been a regular and enthusiastic contributor but if not then you can check out her personal blog here http://just-one-more-card.blogspot.co.uk/    I'm not going to say too much more about her just now - she can introduce herself to you on Saturday when she has her first project to share......    Please do make her welcome.

New Releases and Restocks:

We have some new Paper Smooches goodies which will be in store in a day or so (this is not the brand new Christmas release - sorry but every brand is releasing so many things just now its hard to keep on top of them all.  That will be coming in a couple of weeks)

The Avery Elle Christmas release is on its way and includes storage pockets, the new inks and all the paper pads.

The WPlus9 latest release is coming too - along with some restocks but again they don't have stock themselves on some of the popular items like both Flora and Fauna sets but again I will keep trying to get the back with each new order I place so they will be back eventually.

We have an order in with Altenew who are just waiting on a delivery and should be shipping to us in the next week or two so all their oos products will be in stock by early October. 

We will be re-ordering from Lawn Fawn this week so all the oos items from the new release will be coming back soon.

We'll be getting the lastest Hero Arts Christmas release in a couple of weeks too along with restocks on the ink pads - just waiting for restocks to arrive.

That's it for now - see you next Sunday!

Tara

Wonderful Day

Good morning and happy Friday ! I hope you have all woken up wide-eyed and bushy tailed.... I guessing that I didn't this morning as I will be up at 5am to go and visit some friends for the weekend. Yay... for catching up with friends but booooo for the early start.

Today I'm sharing a card using one of my favourite sets from Mama Elephant .... In My Heart is such a cute set and the sentiments are just beautiful....

Although the sentiments on this set are beautiful as I mentioned before I wanted this to be a birthday card so I have matched the image with a sentiment from another Mama Elephant set- 'Everyday Greetings'. 

I have watercoloured my scene using Distress Inks and water and think it makes for a bright, cheery card.

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hugs Lydia xxx