New From Old(ish!)

 Hi! How are you doing today? Thought I'd create cards using brand new shapes from old(ish) sets!
 To create this mandala flower, I've used the crayon from Paper Smooches 'Smarty Pants' set. It is coming back into store soon, but you can create the same flower using this Lawn Fawn set.

A flower from a crayon?
Here's how!....

 Just carefully line them up so the top of crayon's lines match and stamp around.

 Once completed, just cut down each line in the centre and fold the shapes back.

Cut out now and then colour in. For the central sentiment, I've used this 'I blank you' set.

Then just add some white gel pen details and some glitter.

You can do this technique with nearly any shape. I've already posted this on my blog but thought I'd show you too. Using the Avery Elle Set 'We Go Together'

I've used the heart and the cookie. You just need a symmetrical image to get an easily repeated shape.

It's so easy- and you can make shapes you never thought you had in your sets!! 

See you next Tuesday,

Keren x

Inspired Thank You's

Morning all :0)
I hope you had a good weekend and managed to dodge the storms!!! We were down in Witshire and had three inches of rain but arrived back in Cambridgeshire yesterday to 4mm!!! We should have collected some and bought it back with us for the garden... Lol :0)

Anyhow, onto my card today and it's a mad last minute rush for teacher Thank You cards but I found my inspiration on a recent shopping trip.....

and here's the notebook that gave me the idea....

Source

I love stationary and these jotter pads by Happy Jackson appealed to me with there bright speech bubbles so I thought I'd use the inspiration. The white panels are cut and mounted onto a piece of black card before die-cutting the speech bubbles from the panel. I then cut the speech bubbles twice in the four different colours and white embossed Thank You sentiments from different stamp sets onto each colour before sticking two bubbles together for extra thickness. Then I simply glued the panel to a card base and placed the bubbles into the correct spaces and embellished with black stamped stars.

I just need to make two more now and find some suitable gifts before Wednesday.... talk about a last minute Lucy!!!

Here are the stamps I used, click on an image to take you to the store :0)

                               

I'm on this weeks team for the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge and it's 'Anything Goes'... here's my card using Blossoming Buds and the Dots and Dashes dies .... more details on how I made it can be found on my blog :0)

I hope you'll have time to join in, see you in the gallery :0)

Jenny x

Happy New Year!

Well hello!!!  It’s Ruby.  Happy, totally wonderful and fabulous New Year to you! I wish you everything you wish for yourself.

I am here to do the first 2013 post for MTDS, I’m the first person up to start of the New Year.  How exciting, a whole year of inspiration is waiting for you.

I made this little notepad for my friend that is mad about sending me ‘Did you know…?’ texts.

Some examples of the kind of thing I mean are..

• Did you know cats spend 66% of their life asleep?
• Did you know Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year? (I soooo need to move!)
• Did you know a 'jiffy' is actually 1/100th of a second?

Anyway onto my project…


I used Paper Smooches Smarty Pants and the following Copics…

BG49, BG45, BG10, YR09, YR07 YR04, Y19, Y15, Y13, E11, E00, E29, E27, E25
I just used my computer to generate the sentiment.

Here’s to a fabulous 2013!

Teacher Thanks

Happy Saturday everyone.....

With the school summer holidays in sight I thought I would get a thank you card made for my youngest's class teacher and the Paper Smooches stamp set called Smarty Pants is a great set to use ....

The chubby pencil and crayon are fun to colour or paper piece, you could even make a whole pack of crayons or pencils in a rainbow of colours and there are loads of other elements to the set that would be ideal for making backgrounds or using as focal points as well. 

I've used a couple of sentiments from Chit Chat to make it look like the crayon and pencil have been used to write the sentiments.... now I need to get the grey cells working on a gift idea using the stamp set too!!

STOCK UPDATE

The newest Paper Smooches stamp sets are now in stock, they are called Space Cadet, Squeaky Clean, Teen Routine and Summer Groves and are all found on this page here ......and look what else has arrived...

......Make the Day Special are now Stockists of Copic Ciao markers, the perfect pens for colouring in the bold hand drawn images of Paper Smooches and Lawn fawn :0) ...they can be found here.

Thanks for looking :0)

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.