Dream Big

I've had this magazine freebie dreamcatcher stamp set for a little while, but never really done anything with it. So I decided to stamp it up and have a crack at being messy!

Lighthouse

My father celebrates his birthday this month and this is the card I made him whilst playing around with my new watercolour set and an old magazine freebie.

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: Magazine Freebie - Sun, Sand & Sea

Coloured in watercolour

Father's Day

We celebrated Father's Day last month and I forgot to share the 3 cards I made for the special father's in my life.

Card ingredients:

Stamps: Spring Garden magazine freebie

Coloured in Copics

Card ingredients:

Stamps: Furry Friends magazine freebie

Coloured in Copics

Card ingredients:

Distress Inks: Mowed Lawn, Cracked Pistachio, Salty Ocean

Die: Uniquely Creative Geometric Bear

Party Time 21!

This week I'm joining in some 21st celebrations. I've had these freebie 'Hello Spot' stamps from a magazine and thought its make a cute addition to my pop-up box card.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Hello Spot magazine freebies

Coloured in Copics.

Build-a-Bouquet

I had left this card to the absolute last minute to make for Mother's Day the other month. Glad it turned out as well as it did!

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Magazine Freebie - Build a Bouquet

Coloured in Copics

Paper: Sugar & Spice Russian Dolls paper pack

Evelyne

I love being asked to create special cards for special people and special events. This is my first Christening card for a little cherub, and because its going to be a keepsake, I went with a shadow box card which is always a winner.

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: Magazine freebie

Coloured in Pencil

You're a classic!

My dear work husband celebrated another birthday so I wanted to make him a cute card with all of his toys on it.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Magazine freebies - Happy Travels & Life's An Adventure

Papers: Magazine freebies, cardstock

Coloured in Copics.

More Box Cards

Still playing around with pop-up box cards. Still having fun.

  

Stamps: Magazine Freebie A Good Sport, Kaiser Craft Technologic Robot

  

Stamps: Paper Smooches Smarty Pants + The Paper Shelter Ready for School, 

Magazine Freebie Apple Blossom Sprinkled with Love

Box Cards

I think I've found my favourite card style; pop-up box cards! They are super fun to make and make use of all of those freebie magazine stamps and left over papers to make super cute scenes.

Here's some I've been working on recently.

 

Magazine Freebie Stamps: Gingerbread Village, Boho Chic

 

Stamps: Paper Smooches Smarty Pants + Dearie Dolls, Yampuff Alyce and Lila

 

Stamps: Paper Smooches Smarty Pants + Saturated Canary Grow, CC Design Little Bug Emma + Apple Blossom Cardmaking Collection #2

Babushka Dolls

My wonderful mother celebrated another birthday this week and as I'm still having such fun making these pop-up box cards, I just had to make one for her too!

Stamps: Magazine Freebie - Family Ties Nesting Dolls

Coloured in Copics

Papers: Crafters Choice Garden

Dies: Memory Box Fairyland Butterflies, Impression Obsession Floral Hearts Strip, Poppy Stamps Tea Cup Stacks, Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Border

Work of Heart

My father-in-law celebrated his birthday this week and I wanted to do something fun for him. I'm loving pop-up box cards at the moment so I played around and came up with this using the Hunkydory Collection 'A Gardener's World'.

Card Ingredients Include:

Stamps: Hunkydory Collection 'A Gardener's World'

Coloured in Prismacolor pencils

Papers: Kraft, collection papers

Die: Lawn Fawn Grassy Border

Chill Out for your Birthday

My nephew has his birthday this week. Its the middle of winter so I thought a winter themed card would be fun.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Winter Wonderland magazine freebie

Copics: Penguin: W1  Y15  YR14  C5  C7  C9  100

             Seal: R20  BV31  BV20  BV23

             Polar Bear: W00  W1  W3  R11  R12  E95

             Sled: Y15  YR14  B000  B00

Other: Salty Ocean Distress Ink, Pure Platinum Nuvo Embellishment Mousse

Aged to Perfection

I've been waiting for this magazine freebie to arrive so was excited to have my first play with it to create this fun card.

Card ingredients include:

Magazine Freebie: Kinetic Creation & Finest Vintage

Other: Tim Holtz stencil, Mother of Pearl Nuvo Embellishment Mousse

Cricket Silhouette

A close family lost their patriarch last week who was a lover of cricket, so I created this simple silhouette themed card for them.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Magazine Freebie A Good Sport

Distress Ink: Lucky Clover, Mowed Lawn, Bundled Sage

Warm Wishes

I'm an addict when it comes to collecting magazine freebies, so when this coffee & tea set came out I jumped to add it to my collection. This is my take on one of the featured cards.

Card ingredients include:

Magazine Freebie: Coffee Break stamp, die & stencil set

Distress Ink: Cracked Pistachio, Faded Jeans, Seedless Preserve

Other: Twine, Cosmic Brown Nuvo Embellishment Mousse

You Rock!

Forgot to post this when I made it but this was a special card for a special young fella who celebrated his birthday recently. I had fun playing with a recent magazine freebie stamp set & Distress Inks to create this fancy fold card.

Card ingredients:

Stamps: Sheena Douglass Music & Dance Collection (magazine freebie)

Distress Ink: Carved Pumpkin, Cracked Pistachio & Salty Ocean

70 years young!

So my wonderful, hard working father turned 70 this week so I had to create him a special card with a different fold, as he loves all of the wonderful creations that I make him. This time I went with a tri-fold shutter card. Needless to say that he loved it too!

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: Mo Manning Fixer Boy, Timeless Moments (magazine freebie)

Copics: Skin: E000  E00  E11  E13  R20

             Hair: E25  E59  E49

             Overalls: W3  B93  B95  B97

             Belt: E11  E13  E08  E09

             Hat: R22  R24  R27  R29

             Top: G00  G02  G05

             Tools: C3  C5  C7

Papers: Basic Grey 'Bowties' paper pack, cardstock

Dies: Memory Box Man Tools, Die Versions Socket

Other: white & chrome embossing powder, twine, wooden numerals

Dream Big

I love getting my hands on craft magazines, not only for their endless inspiration, but also for all of the great freebies. I used some new freebies to create this.

Card ingredients:

Stamp, embossing folder & die: Boho Chic magazine freebie

Distress Inks: Faded Jeans, Peacock Feathers & Seedless Preserve

Other: twine, flower.

Beach cards

I loved this new stamp set which is Issue 23 of the Cardmaking In Easy Steps magazine. These two cards were featured & I loved them so had to give them a go! The first one is a direct copy, but the second one I put my own twist on it. Love the summer beach stamps that came with it too.

Card Ingredients:

Stamp: Magazine freebies

Coloured with: Distress Inks

Paper: Watercolour paper, cardstock

Other: Twine, Liquid Pearls

Card Ingredients:

Stamp: Magazine freebies

Coloured with: Lyra Watercolour Crayons

Paper: Watercolour paper, cardstock

Other: Twine, burlap, Ivory Seashells Nuvo Crystal Drops

Happy Retirement

I love it when my husband comes home and asks me to make a card for him to give to someone, I just don't like it when he says he needs it the next day! So glad I was able to throw this together in time.

Card ingredients include:

Stamps: Miscellaneous Magazine Freebies

Coloured with: Copics

Papers:  papers from stash, cardstock

Dies: Annelies Karduks Crea-Nest-Lies XXL Stitch Squares

Other: Twine

I'm playing along with:

Crafty Sentiments: Anything Goes
Crafty Creations #351: Anything Goes
Crafty Catz Weekly #386: Anything Goes
Just Keep On Creating #Oct: Anything Goes
HIMCR #320: Freestyle