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Hello.

Rather than my normal clean and simple look I have gone for some layers.

Love this layered look but find it really difficult to do.

I have layered up some patterned papers that i have had for ages.

Then I have used the paper smooches roses die, which holds some twine in place.

The thanks word die is cut twice in black and silver, the black underneath kind of grounds the word.

I stamped the friend stamp from sentiment sampler in black archival ink straight onto the paper.

I finished with some clear sequins from neat and tangled.

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Thanks for looking.

Clean and simple

Happy Tuesday! It's Ruby here.  I think you might want throw tomatoes at me this week.  I haven't had time to make a card so am posting one I made a couple of weeks ago with my new fave set, Lawn Fawn Flutter By.  I know, I said I'd do something different but this set is soooo adorable.  Hope you forgive me!

The sentiment is from Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler.  I think both sets are out of stock right now, maybe I've started a trend!

Have a fabulous week!

 

Just a Note

Happy Tuesday!  It’s Ruby.  I hope you’re having a fab week so far.   I’ve got a little book to share with you today and a matching peg.

 I was given this little spiral bound book a while back and I thought it needed a bit of colour to liven it up so using my Paper Smooches Perky Plants I added a bit of fun to it.

I stamped and coloured in both flower images using the Perky Plants set and I stamped the ‘Just a Note’ from Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler.  The peg was just covered both sides with paper, I sanded down the edges, softening them off with some distress ink and attached the flower with pop dots.  I LOVE covering pegs, they are so quick to make and yet so pretty.

Copics used… 

B91, B93, B95, R08, R05, R02, R20, £81, E84

I hope you like it, I know it will brighten up my office.  Those flower stamps always make me smile!

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

Friendly Flowers

Hi there, it’s Ruby.  I have a simple little birthday card to share with you today.  I  coloured in the little Paper Smooches Friendly Flowers flower with my Copics and then used the sentiment from Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler (A while ago I cut the sentiment in two so that I could stack it, eeek, scary stuff!)

This card is just a little 3” x 3” card.



To finish off I just added some faux hand stitching.

Copics used…

• Y15, Y13, Y11
• YR06, YR04
• G24, G21, G20

Ciao for now!

A Bit of Denim

Hi everyone.  It’s Ruby. Today I have a fun little boy’s card to share with you.


The little tag is just a tag that was in the sheet of paper itself.  I cut it off, added a couple of stars and then die cut the number 3.  The little train is from a Christmas set, Lawn Fawn’s Pa-Rum-Pa-Pum-Pum and the sentiment is from one of my fave sentiment sets..Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler.

I normally like to colour, as you know, but this time I thought I would just stamp and paper piece the little train.  You can’t really make it out but I used white enamel accents for the centre of the wheels for a touch of dimension.

Hope you like it, have a great day!

The Coolest Bear!!

Happy Weekend everyone.... I hope you've all enjoyed a warm week of sunshine :0)

Yes summer arrived this week so what do I decide put on a card in these high temperatures.... the coolest bear around, yep a Polar bear!!!

I've used the bear from Happy Camper and carefully inked him so as not to include the line around his muzzle because I wanted him to be a polar bear. The mountain range is from Get Outta Town which I also selectively inked and cut out to add to the scene. I wanted the bear to stand out a bit from the scenery so I made the backdrop a narrow panel and then stamped a shadow on the card base for my polar bear to stand on.

The sentiments are from two different sets called Sentiment Sampler and Swanky Snowdudes.

It's quite a simple scene but then that's what the Arctic looks like!!!

Hope you have a great weekend and thanks for looking :0)

Jenny x

Tag/Card/Recipe Set

Hi there.  It's Ruby. Today I have a little tag/card/recipe set to share with you.  You may have seen my lemonade set version on my blog a while ago, well I’ve got the bug now…

This one is all peachy!  I have been eyeing up the Paper Smooches Fruitastic set for a while now and when we had a gift to give I thought what better excuse to ‘have to’ buy it, I can wrap the gift and then do the bottle/accessories with my lovely new stamp set!  It’s always so much more justifiable if there’s a purpose, after all you’re kind of getting your money back on it in a way, aren’t you?!!

This little set started out with my peach; I stamped and cut 2 out then coloured them in with my Copics.

So taking each one in turn..

(excuse the crumpled backdrop lol)

I matted the card base with card stock having tied around the twine bow before adhering.  I die cute the banner and stamped the sentiment ‘Celebrate’ from Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler onto white cardstock.  I then die cut the label in polka dot paper, the doily label in white and then the chocolate circle (I always have to say chocolate and not brown because it’s my favourite food so brown doesn’t really cut it!) I then pop dotted my little happy peach on the top to finish.

Next up is the little wine tag, the same layered effect but the finished panel was pop dotted onto the wine tag.  This was die cut but you can easily make your own just by cutting a banner shape and using a hole punch to cut out the top hole, I’m just lazy so bought it!

Finally my little recipe card.  Again I matted the card base with kraft after I’d tied on the twine.  I then cut out the little banner, added some polka dot paper to tie the theme together and stamped a little 'berry’ which I am using as a peach.  I tried adding a little leaf to him but he just looked like he had a mohican so I decided against it!  I stamped the word ‘peach’ and then finally wrote on the little recipe. 

I kind of worked backwards on this because it all started that I was going to do a ‘Kir Royale’ recipe but then I started reading around the symbolism of fruit and found that in China the peach is a symbol of health, long life and prosperity and that was what we wanted to wish our lovely friends so the peach it was!

Hope you have some fun playing around with some stamping today.  How could these little stamps not make you smile?!

Have fun!

Spotty Leaves

Happy weekend to you all, I don't know about you but the long bank holiday has thrown me completely off track this week so Saturday crept up quite quickly :0)

I've been using my Paper Smooches Reflections set to stamp to make a card and tried stamping on patterned paper which is something I do often for paper piecing but not like this......

I pulled out the spotty paper because I wanted to use the maize colour on my card and I actually love how the leaves appear dotty because the white spots show the brown ink darker.
The flowers are punched from patterned paper in the Bright Side Lawn Fawn pad and shaped slightly to give a little dimension, the centres have been made with glossy accents.

I think the solid stamps in this set work well with this technique depending what paper and colours you choose but its fun to experiment :0)

Hope you get some crafty time this weekend to perhaps try it out and don't forget to link up your cards to our Flickr gallery :0)

Oh and keep an eye out for the new Lawn Fawn stamps arriving next week in the store.

Paper Smooches sets used: Reflections, Sentiment Sampler

Thanks for stopping by today.
Jenny x

Photobooth fun!!

Hello again and Happy weekend to you :0)

I've made a card to show you using the cheeky little squirrel from the Paper Smooches set called Hang Ups.... this is what I reckon would happen if he came across a photo-booth!!!

I love this cute little chap and it was great to get him inked up again... he was the reason I started buying Paper Smooches stamps, Hang Ups was my first set and my collection has grown from there :0)

To make the little Polaroid photos I carefully inked the square speech bubble in 'He Said She Said' and then drew in the gap to make a complete square.

I made a slightly smaller square mask in a post it note so I could stamp and ink through so as to leave a white edge, then cut them out and strung them on the hemp cord with tiny paper clips. 

I thought the cork effect paper would make a great pin-board type background, just right for the display :0)

The big funky exclamation mark is great to emboss, cut out and use on most of the Paper Smooches sentiments.

The Paper Smooches sets I've used are 

• He Said, She Said
• Hang Ups
• Sentiment Sampler

Thanks for looking and I hope I've inspired you to pull out an old favourite stamp set you haven't used for a while and get it inky again and remember if you've used stamps from the store, you can share your creations on the Make the Day Secial Flickr gallery here, we'd love to see what you make :0)

Have a great weekend.

Jenny x

Well Old!!

Hi, it’s Ruby.  I’ve made a man card today.  I find cards for men reaaaalllly challenging.  I seem to get a mental block when it comes to no butterflies, flowers or pretty colours!

Anyway, this is what I’ve come up with….


Using Paper Smooches ‘Smarty Pants’ set I stamped the books/globe/smarty pants and coloured them in using my Copics.  I printed the words ‘read’, ‘travelled’ and ‘old’ to which I then stamped the word ‘well’ from ‘get well’ using Paper Smooches ‘Sentiment Sampler’ set.  I love combining stamps with computer generated words, it opens up a whole new world of opportunity.  It’s a good job the recipient of this card is my future father-in-law and doesn’t get upset easily lol

I hope you are all having a great start to your week!

Ciao for now.

Hey there!

Hello :0)

My name is Jenny and I'm a craftaholic...there I've said it now...Lol
Seriously... this is my first post as a member of the Design Team here at Make the Day Special and I'm thrilled to join such a talented bunch of ladies :0)
I like to think I have a clean, simple and fun style which lends itself nicely to my love for Paper Smooches and Lawn Fawn stamps, so without further ado here is my card to share with you....

As you can see I like to mix and match the stamp sets and this uses 'Zoo Crew' and 'Whimsical' with the sentiment from 'Sentiment Sampler', the Paper Smooches stamps lend themselves so well to paper piecing as well as colouring, both of which are fun techniques to do :0)
By lifting the leaves on the tree you can see Mr Giraffe is hiding and the sentiment inside the card reads "....you can't hide, it's your birthday!!"

Doesn't that little giraffe look adorable with those big 'baby' eyes. I'm thinking she could be quite versatile on cards for all ages and occasions :0)

Well that all from me today, I'd like to take this chance to say Thank You to Emily and my fellow Teamies for such a warm welcome..... and I hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend :0)

Thanks for stopping by

Jenny x