Puttin' on a Party.... Shirt!!

Hello there :0)

I'm back again this week using a Paper Smooches set that hasn't seen ink yet  *shame*

This freshly pressed shirt is from Squeaky Clean which has lots of fun small images but I love how this image lends itself to some colourful paper piecing using Lawn Fawn Paper pads....... just a happy accident that I could fit a weeks worth of shirts down the card including the colourful party number  *wink*
I really think the sentiment from Wplus9's Strictly Sentiments 1 set goes perfectly on this card :0)
It's also a great image to use on a Fathers day card......  coming up on the 15th June !!

 

I'm off to have a play and see what else I can make with this set :0)
See ya next week
Jenny x

Two Floral Minis

Hello there :0)
After my trip into masculinity last Monday I've gone floral this week with two 4" square cards using the new Flower dies from Paper Smooches.... they are made to compliment the Calico stamp set but I've used them on their own and added colour with Promarkers...

I kept the dies joined together and ran them through twice with regular white card and once with the card I use my promarkers on. After adding colour to the flowers I glued the layers together which gives the shapes a bit of strength and the appearance of chipboard :0) The sentiment on this first card is from a set called Strictly Sentiments 1 which is out of stock at the moment

I kept this card very simple and layered up a couple of flowers.... I love the way the red really packs a punch!! This sentiment is from another Paper Smooches set called Just a Note... it's the perfect size against that nodding flower :0)

                                 

I love that these flower dies are a standalone set so you can get great results with them without the stamps, leave them joined together or separate them so you can use them even more creatively ...... we'd love to see what you make with any stamps or dies from the store and now it's easy to share your creativity on our new Flickr group, just click to join us and load up your photos :0)

See ya next week
Jenny x

Another Floral Fusion!!

Hello there :0)

I'm back today and snubbing this horrible wet wintery weather with a taste of Summer Florals in the form of a hanging basket of pretty colours :0)

Yes it's those elusive Wplus9 Fresh Cut Florals again teamed up with the Joanna Sheen Hanging Basket die and the size match is perfect!! I've also joined the trend for embossing paste and stencils to make a textured wall behind the basket :0)

Embossing paste is a trend that's come back round during my crafting time and luckily my paste is still as good as new... the only thing that's different are the gorgeous plastic stencils available now instead of the brass kind we had to use!! I've coloured my embossing paste with a small drop of Memento Tangelo ink to give it an apricot hue.... when the paste was dry I replaced the stencil and used daubers and distress inks in Spiced Marmalade and Rusty Hinge to give the bricks some extra depth and tone :0)
Those pretty vibrant colours transport me away from this wet gloom outside the window and I hope it injects some colour into your day too :0)
Thanks for stopping by
Jenny x

Lots of Wplus9 ....

Good morning inky friends! Yey it's Friday so that means it's my turn to post over on the Make The Day Special blog today. My card today features quite a bit of my new obsession.... Wplus9!

Firstly I stamped the little bottle from the Milk and Cookies set on to a post-it note and cut out two of the lil beauties to use as masks.

I then stamped the first bottle in the foreground using black ink, covered it with a mask and then stamped the other to the side. I then covered this one up with a mask so I could stamp the cute little polka dots from Borders and Backgrounds (sadly out of stock at the moment, but there is a Avery Elle set 'Ikat' that you could use to get the same effect ) in a light pink chalk ink. 

Then I added the lemonade using a yellow chalk ink. As I figured you should be able to see through the first bottle I over stamped the second bottle in a grey ink so you could see the whole of the bottle but lighter through the first. Straws were added from the Milk and Cookies set and the fab sentiment is from Strictly Sentiments 1 (also out of stock but this could be substituted for Strictly Sentiments 2 or even Quite Like You). A bit of washi and twine and its all finished.

So so loving the milk and Cookies set at the moment so this is not the last time you will be seeing those cute little bottle from me..lol.

Have a great day.

A Floral Swag

Hello... Jenny here :0)

I finally broke into my Fresh Cut Florals from Wplus9 and had to have a go at flower arranging!!

Seriously, this stamp set is just amazing and it's so easy to get pretty results everytime,

I made a floral swag along the top of a white piece of textured card.....

I have left my Fresh Cut Floral dies wired together for the time being as it's easier to run them 

through in one go on white card and then stamp out the flowers and leaves afterwards.

I could easily have sat for a while, happily stamping away with different colour combos on the die-cuts

which means you can always keep some extras on hand for a quickie card... just pop them in the 

packet with the stamps or dies for another day :0)

Unfortunately these little beauties are out of stock but the dies can be found here and they 

really do make using the stamps a dream. I used this set for the sentiment.

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend :0)

Jenny x