Pipper

Hello. 

I wanted to show you one of the stamps from Simply Betty.

I stamped the image with momento and coloured with my long neglected pro markers.

The sentiment is from Paper smooches birthday buddies.

Thanks for looking

Dream Big

Today I'm using the gorgeous Unity/Webster's Pages Itty Bitty stamp "Dream Big" available in the shop here to  make my card.

I stamped the butterflies on to a pale pink patterned paper and then coloured them with Prismacolor pencils blended with Sansodor. I then cut them out and stuck them to the felt frame. I stamped the sentiment on to a die-cut tab before sticking it under the backing paper.

Materials used:

American Crafts cardstock

Pink Paislee papers

Unity stamp (as above), black Archival ink, Prismacolor pencils, Sansodor

Joy Crafts flourish die-cut, Die-namics die-cut

die-cut felt frame.

Thanks for visiting

Jo xx

A Happy Hybrid

Hello everyone...welcome to Saturday and today I want to share a card I've made using Lawn Fawn and Paper Smooches stamps... yay, hybrid heaven :0)

The little paintbrush from Spring Fling was my inspiration and teamed with the skyline from Metropolis makes a fun party invite!!!! Okay so this is a little elaborate to reproduce multiple times but a more simplified version could be made I'm sure :0)

The chevrons are stamped with Versamark to give a subtle pattern on the base and apart from the night sky everything is paper pieced. I added the text in a cartoon strip style and I'm super pleased with the hand-drawn fireworks...oh boy, was I holding my breath when I added them last!!!

Hope this inspires you to mix these two fab companies on your cards, the style of stamp are a perfect match to work together :0)

The Lawn Fawn sets used are: Say Cheese, Chevron Backdrops
The Paper Smooches sets used are: Metropolis, Spring Fling, Alphadot, Sunnyside up

Hope you have a great weekend...Happy Stamping :0)

Jenny x

At Last!!!!!

Hi there....

I am so glad to be back. Thank you Emily for being so understanding on my lack of blog posts...Hopefully I'll be able to share more regularly now.
I have a Card and Tag to show you today....As ever I didn't know quite which one of my few stamps to use..so I just took my box of Unity stamps out and decided to play with the first one I could lay my hands on..Luckily it was one that Emily has in stock, one of my favourites too..
A Unity store kit..'Moments In Bloom'...

My Tag first of all.....Again I thought I'd just reach behind me and chose some ink pads....My Adirondak were there so I picked about 4 colours. I used my Black Versafine (as ever) to stamp the flower and clear embossed. The other 2 leaves were stamped with Adirondak  and also clear embossed. I then just coloured the tag with the other ink colours and water splattered. My little 'flowers' are just 2 sizes of circle punches cut from decorative paper, sprayed with a bit of glitter spray and scrunched. The Butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch.

I wanted to show how the same stamp set can look different so I made a little card..

I used my Distress stains to colour the flower stamp (love how this gives a water colour effect) and a variegated Green ink pad for the sentiment.

Thanks for looking, I hope to be back very soon...

She xx

Enjoy the ride

 Hello.

I have a couple of cards to show today using Lawn fawn stamps.

This card uses new lawn fawn sets Flutterby and Chevron backdrops

They can be found here.

The  sentiment is from Many thanks set. 

The flowers and leaves are coloured with Pro markers.

This card uses The carousel from Admit one.

Again i have coloured the image using Pro markers.

Thanks for looking.

BFF

Happy Tuesday everyone, it’s Ruby here with a picture heavy post!

The sun is shining in my little part of the world today and it’s a lovely crisp morning.  What’s the weather like with you?

Whatever your weather is like these little cutie stamps are sure to brighten anybody’s day!  I have this little banner to share with you that I made with ‘BFF’ on, Best Friends Forever.  I asked my daughter to help me pick out some gorgeous Paper Smooches images and used the gorgeous colourful ‘Alora’ papers from Bo Bunny.


I apologise for the weird pictures.  I couldn’t figure out how to take the photo so that you could see it all without losing some of the detail and I was working against the light when I took them too.  I really need to take a photography class lol

Here’s the line up of each one..

The little bird is from the Chubby Chums set.

This owl is also from the Chubby Chums set.

This little monster is from the Falling For You set.

Isn’t he the cutest?!  (Party Posse set)

and last up, my favourite one…

I just LOVE this little fella, Love Monkey. The actual stamp has him holding balloons but I just cut that part off so that when I hang up the banner I can have him hanging on the twine.

I must make some more of these, they’re great fun to make!

If you like Copics then these are the colours that I used..

R27, R24, R22, Y06,708, YG21, YG23, YG25, E43, E44, E47, YR21, YR23, BG70, BG72 and zero to add some texture to the little characters, although I’m not sure you can see it that well on my pics.

What my daughter doesn’t know is that it’s actually for her, but ssshhh, don’t tell anyone lol

A Little 'Hi!'

I'm a huge fan of sending a little traditional mail every now and then and what's nicer than receiving a handmade card - especially when it's not for a special occasion? That means someone thinks you're special, right?

And luckily for me, my favourite stamps, from Lawn Fawn's Summer 2011 Release, are full of cute phrases and short sentiments, perfect for a general greeting.

I've made this card using the ticket and balloons from Admit One, a cute flower from Blissful Botanicals and a dinky sentiment from Cruising Through Life.

Why not have an afternoon creating some cards so that you have a little stock on hand? And a bit of ink on your fingers?