Subtle Shades

Just popping by with a quick make for the weekend. This little note card uses one of the longer, background stamps from Beautiful Botanicals, along with one of the sentiment stamps from Sophie's Sentiments.



Using an ink in a similar tone to my cardstock, I simple stamped back and forth to create a subtle background pattern on my base. Then added my sentiment and a handmade ruffled ribbon flower. Done in minutes!

teachers cards

Hello.

With a little help from Lawn fawn here are the cards i made for my kids to give to their teachers.

A very simple card using school house backdrops and quinns abc.

Finished with a badge...can you believe i do not own a apple stamp?

This card also used school house backdrops along with admit one and sophies sentiments.

I used some of my own alpha stamps too.



And I'm not sure that this one worked out ...ooops!
I used quinns abc for this and sophies sentiments.
Maybe i will try this again but with better placement of the letters.
All lawn fawn are available from make the day special.
Thanks for looking.

Sweet Little Notes

After finishing up a craft project, I often find myself with small leftovers and there is nothing more pleasing than finding a use for them! Yesterday, I ended up with a long piece of stripy kraft cardstock. I decided to cut it down into smaller pieces and create some sweet little notes using the teeny tiny stamps from Sophie's Sentiments and Say Cheese Too.

It can be all too easy to overlook some of the smaller stamps in these sets, but I think they're really versatile - and they're fun too! I also added a couple of small sentiments to the mix, by only inking up part of the larger phrases. You can see that with just a few stamps, some black ink and a little bit of time - five minutes to be exact - I ended up with something I can use in other craft projects, instead of something to add to the scrap pile.

I'm thinking gift tags, tiny journalling spots, or cute card toppers - lots of options. So, make the most of your Make The Day Special stamps by constantly looking for new ways to use them!

And, don't forget that some of the giveaways we featured as part of last week's Get 'Em While You Can Blog Hop are still open - including my own - so now's your chance to make some last minute entries.

Thinking of you

Hello.

A couple of Lawn fawn cards to share today.

The first one above uses School house backdrops, blissful botanicals and sophies sentiments.

All of these sets can be bought from make the day special

This card uses Quinns abc, blissful botanicals and bon voyage.

Thanks for looking.

Oh nearly forgot its the make the day special "get em while you can" blog hop this Saturday.

Be sure to stop by for a chance to win some fab prizes.

Using Unity Store Kits

I've been making cards again. You guessed that, right? All of a sudden I can't get enough of them. I'm so glad that I didn't give up on card making when it all seemed so hard!

Stamps from Unity's Life Becoming

Stamps from Unity's Quiet Essence and Lawn Fawn's Sophie's Sentiments

I think these dinky, little numbers are suitable for lots of occasions. Perfect for stashing away for unexpected moments of panic - I have lots of gift wrapping moments of panic!

Tagging You...

Short, sweet and simple. That's how I'd describe my 'one layer' gift tag. I've used three stamps sets for it though - so you will need to rummage through your stamps. Oh! What a chore :)

I cut the based cardstock down to ATC size, popped a hole in the top and rounded the corners. Then I sprayed it liberally with some ink. I love the brightness of it against the contrasting black stamp ink.

Then I used the corner stamp from Naturally You to stamp into the corners - I edged them a little way off the cardstock, so it's not quite the full stamp image. I then inked up the You stamp from You Deserve (masking the smaller words below the main image with a post-it note.) Once that had dried, I used a couple of the sentiments from Sophie's Sentiments to finish off the centre of the tag.

I added some black lace and it was ready!

Love You!

This post might be reaching you a little later than normal, but Emily is busy sorting through some exciting new stamp sets that will be available from Make The Day Special very soon!!!

So, this is just a quick post from me to show you how a simple stamp from Sophie's Sentiments finishes off a card perfectly. The writing script used in this set is just wonderful - it seems to work well for every type of card.

And, what I've found recently is that if you ink the set lightly the script will appear very delicate when stamped, but ink the stamp heavily and roll it very slightly while stamping and the script looks a little bit chunkier. Awesome!

Have a lovely summer evening folks x

Simple Saturday

Since my cardmaking breakthrough last week, I've been embracing the 'clean and simple' with the help of the Sophie's Sentiments stamp set. Who would have thought that a simple (though lovely) little sentiment set could change the way I feel about cardmaking?

I've made a few this morning, but this one's my favourite. I stamped directly onto my ribbon using Stazon - no bleeding of the ink! Hurrah!

Have a good weekend folks x

Clean & Simple Card Making

Just popping in to show off a little card I made for one of my bestest friends this week. She's had a little girl and I felt that something appropriately pink and pretty was in order.

I'm still developing my style as a cardmaker, but I am finding that 'clean and simple' seems to work well for me, so I kept it simple and used my new Sophie's Sentiments set.

This one sentiment actually uses three stamps from the set, but there's lots of ways the sentiments in the set can be combined and they're extremely easy to line up correctly. A couple of additional embellishments and I was done.

Simple. And...um...clean :)

Thinking Of You!

My new sets of stamps from Make The Day Special arrived this week, don't you just love good mail days? I swooned a little when I opened them!

Today I'm sharing just one of the projects I've used them on this week - a little card for my sister who's a bit fed up with being ill and off work. A 'Get Well Soon' card didn't seem appropriate but, luckily, the Sophie's Sentiments set from Lawn Fawn has something that will work for almost any card.

I've used the 'Thinking Of You' sentiment, along with one of the stamps from the Naturally You set - which is just peeking out behind the embellishments. (This set is only available in stores, so snap yours up and be the envy of all your friends!) So simple, but oh so lovely.