Bee a Honey

Happy New Year's Eve everyone! So,what are your New Year's resolutions? More crafting time? ;)

Now that Christmas is over,my crafty thoughts turn to a new year full of holidays to make things for,and so today's card is embracing a touch of lighthearted spring and Valentines Day. I used the super cute,very affordable Lawn Fawn single set,'Bee Mine', and sprayed a hexagonal mask onto Kraft card,which gives a nice subtle background. I then cut around the outside of the hive with a knife and selected which hexagon was to be the 'window' and cut that out too. I stamped the bee image onto tracing paper using an archival ink,coloured him in and glued him into his window. I inked the edges of the hive with gold and brown and added a couple of the other stamps from the set. I love how he glows in different lights :)

He will bee winging his way to someone special soon ;)(Oh come on,I HAD to get some bee puns in somewhere!)

Hope you all have a fablous New Year!

Lou

Happy New Year!!!

Hi.... Jenny here :0)

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and managed to find some 

crafting goodies under the tree??

The next big event, if you hadn't noticed, is New Year and I like to send out cards to 

people that I may have missed from the Christmas card list...oops!!

I've used Paper Smooches stamps for this simple card...

The firework bursts are embossed in silver tinsel EP on some patterned paper and they

really twinkle and sparkle when the card is tilted.

The buildings are highlighted with a gel pen to show the reflection from the fireworks.

I've also made a start on my Thank You cards and again went with 

Paper Smooches stamps for this simple design...

I think the speech bubbles make a great background pattern!!

The stamp sets I've used today are:

Metropolis

Christmas Sampler

Sentiment Sampler

He Said, She Said - (currently out of stock)

That's all from me today then folks.... I'm off to do battle in the supermarket now :0(

Wishing you all a Happy New Year :0)

Jenny x

Last Minute Christmas cards

Hi everyone... Jenny here :0)

I know we are so close to the big day now and most of you are done with Christmas cards 

but I have a few designs to share with you today that I made for my sons

classmates at school..... I haven't had chance to think of anything beyond Christmas this week!!!

I decided to go done the simple route although cutting the reindeer took a while!!

They are 4" square cards, perfect for school friends, here are each design..

I embellished each image with a gem, pom pom or glossy accents and the sentiment was 

easy to shape on the acrylic block to fit the design. The pom pom on the snowmans hat was white to start but easily changed with a promarker to match the hat colour :0)

Here are the sets I used..

All You'll Need, Freezy Fellas, Critters in the Snow

and Ornate Ornaments

I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy, and hopefully dry, Christmas :0)

I'll be back next week with something other than a Christmas card!!

Thanks for looking

Jenny x

Blossoms and Blooms...

Hi there!
I did promise you a non-Christmas post........

Emily has some lovely new stamps in by Avery Elle   I have got my hands on 'Blossoms and Blooms'....When I saw these I just knew they were made for Black and White cards....so that is what I did.....

The first one I have left very clean and simple.........Just stamped onto a Nestie shape and clear embossed......I did use the flower stamp twice, turning it upside down for my 2nd impression....A bit of spotty ribbon and some Black Pearl blobs and I was done.........

For the 2nd card I have made it slightly larger....Stamped onto the same size Nestie, but I have used the smaller flower head onto White card for a matt. I have embossed the Black card and sanded it slightly...

Thanks Emily, I love my stamps and I'm sure I'll get a lot of use out of them....

I'll see you all soon.....

She xx

More Christmasness

Hi there, it’s Ruby.  I’m counting down the sleeps to Santa, are you?

Today I have a couple of cards to share with you.  I’ve always loved cards with groups of three, so thought I’d use that idea for this card. I used the Paper Smooches All Yule Need set for this one.


Next up is a quick one.  I noticed afterwards that Jenny did something similar to this recently but I didn’t copy, honest.  You know what they say, great minds think alike!


Same set for the stockings, I just used the sentiment ‘Be Jolly’ from the Paper Smooches Christmas Sampler.

Copic colours - RG29, RG27, RG24, YG05, YG03, YG01

Hope you’re having a good week.

Ciao for now.

Berry Nice!

Good afternoon! Well I am fashionably late once more-what a terrible start to my guesting. I blame ipad and illness :-/

I am showing one of my absolute favourite stamp companies in this weeks spot-Wplus9. I could eat their stamps and dies they are so yummy (but that would be a terrible waste,so I wont!)

This is using a combination of the Fresh Preserves set and also Fresh Picked,on a plain Manilla tag,with lots of embellies :-) I LOVE making tags,they are so much fun and you can try out several stamps and layer them up. I hope you like it,Lou x

A Merry Bauble

Hello... Jenny here, it's been a while since I posted something and I'm still in full Christmas card production!! I probably have more than enough but I tend to get addicted once I get into the swing of it :0)

I have used one of the 'new in store'  Avery Elle sets called Merry and Bright as it was intended and made a bauble  ...

I love that texty circle and it fits perfectly inside a nestie which I've debossed into my white card and then used a stamp positioner to get the stamp perfectly placed. I used a quickie glue pen to add glitter to the un-coloured 'Merry'... It really sparkles like disco lights in real life!! :0)

To show how versatile the stamps are I've used the solid and dottted lines in the set with Versamark ink to make a tone on tone pattern on the base card.... kind of like candy stripes :0)

I'm loving those retro shaped sparkles too... thinking they would look good made into a pattern on a one layer card. They are beautiful stamps to work with and give lovely crisp impressions, see the range in stock here :0)

Thanks for looking

Jenny x