Stay Cool

I love this cute little image from Stamp Anniething, and she turned out so well!

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: Stamp Anniething Stay Cool
Distress Inks: Skin: Tattered Rose, Vintage Photo
                       Hair: Fossilized Amber, Rusty Hinge
                       Flower: Fossilized Amber, Candied Apple, Pickled Raspberries
                       Top: Peacock Feathers
                       Shorts: Faded Jeans
                       Iceblock: Twisted Citreon ,Mowed Lawn
Papers: American Crafts Happy Place paper pack
Other: Flowers, twine, wooden glasses embellishment, Nuvo Crystal Drops Ebony Black

A Little Birdie Told Me...

I loved this sweet little image from Krista Smith as part of this months Patreon subscription.

Card ingredients include:

Stamp:
Copics: Skin: E000  E00  E11  E13
             Hair: E07  E09  E18  E79
             Skirt/Shoes: W3  B91  B93  B95  B97
             Jacket: R22  R29  R59
             Stool: E35  E37  E59
Papers: Fancy Pants 'Love Note' paper pack, cardstock
Other: Twine, gemstones, flower, wooden embellishments.

Relax, its your birthday

I had fun making this pop-up box card. Not for anything in particular, but just for fun. I used one of the fun stamps from the Magnolia 2018 Advent Calendar with Distress Inks.

Card Ingredients Include:

Stamp: Magnolia 2018 Christmas Advent Calendar stamp

Distress Inks: Skin: Vintage Photo, Tattered Rose

                       Hair: Black Soot, Ground Espresso, Frayed Burlap

                       Bath: Smoked Hickory, Rusty Hinge, Mustard Seed

                       Bubbles: Shaded Lilac, Squeezed Lemonade, Lucky Clover

                       Background: Ground Espresso

Other: Nuvo Crystal Drops: Caribbean Ocean, Silver Lining & Carnation Pink.

                       

 

Hayley & Hartley

I love having a play with Distress Inks. Its such a different medium to Copics, but just a beautiful and elegant.

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: Saturated Canary Hayley & Hartley

Distress Ink: Skin: Tattered Rose, Vintage Photo

                      Hair: Scattered Straw, Rusty Hinge

                      Pig: Spun Sugar, Worn Lipstick, Vintage Photo

                      Flowers: Shaded Lilac, Seedless Preserve, Candied Apples, Aged Mahogany

                      Dress: Shaded Lilac, Blueprint Sketch, Chipped Sapphire

                      Leaves: Cracked Pistachio, Pine Needles

Papers: Various from stash

Other: Lace, flowers, gemstones.

Be Happy, Be Yourself

Another card as a result of just playing. Totally love this stamp!

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: Saturated Canary Krista Smith Valentine

Copics: Skin: E000  E00  E11  E13

             Hair: YR02  YR07  YR18  E07

             Bow: BG000  B00  BG53  BG45  BG57

             Top: G20  G82  G94  G99

             Hearts: R22  R24  R29

Papers: Kaiser Craft Blubelle paper pack, cardstock

Other: Lace, flowers, ribbon, Ivory Seashells Nuvo Crystal Drops 

Sweet Emma

I had a chance to just play with nothing in mind and this is the result of that play.

Card ingredients include:

Stamp: The Paper Shelter Sweet Emma

Copics: Skin: E000  E00  E11  E13  R20

             Hair: R32  R35  R39  R59

             Dress: G00  BG32  BG72  BG75, RV91  RV95  RV96

             Shoes/Bears: E71  E74  E77

             Stockings: RV95  R56  R99, C00  C1  C3
Papers: Kaiser Craft Sage & Grace paper pack, kraft, cardstock
Other: Flowers, lace, ribbon, gems

Look Who's 40!

Recently I helped to celebrate one of my oldest friends milestone birthday. He is a huge Star Wars fan after working on one of the films, so obviously I had to create something fun from that theme and because I love making different types of cards, I went with a shadow box card for this one.

Card Ingredients Include:

Stamps: Troll Wars by Craftin Desert Divas 

Copics: Yoda: YG03  YG25  G24  G28,  E71  E74  E77  E79,  E09  E18

             Chewy: E07  E09  E18  E49

             Darth Vader: R17  R29  R59,  W3  W5  W7  W9  100

Distress Ink: Faded Jeans, Seedless Preserve, Peacock Feathers, Fossilised Amber, Black Soot

Other: Film washi tape, brads, Nuvo Embellishment Mousse: Pacific Teal & Mother of Pearl, 

           Stencils: spots, stars & cracks, Memory Box Star Garland die

And this is the special gift which I made him, a crocheted Yoda! You can find the pattern here.

Dino Pals!

I had the wonderful opportunity to be a special guest designer for Uniquely Creative for their February release. It's been a while since I did some DT work so I loved having the opportunity to be creative. Here are a couple of projects I did using the Dino Pals stamp set.

  

Card Ingredients:

Stamp: Uniquely Creative 'Dino Pals' stamp set

Copics: Red Dino: R22  R24  R46  R59

             Blue Dino: B93  B95  B97

             Green Dino: BG90  BG93  BG96  BG99

             Volcano: E71  E74  E77, Y17  YR14  YR18

             Cactus: YG25  YG17  YG67

             Bones: E41  E43

Papers: Kraft, cardstock

Other: Wedgewood Blue Nuvo Crystal Drops.

Card Ingredients:

Stamp: Uniquely Creative 'Dino Pals' stamp set

Papers: Kraft, cardstock

Other: Gathered Twigs Distress Ink, twine, Brass Liquid Pearls.

Selfie Pals Builder

I had the wonderful opportunity to be a special guest designer for Uniquely Creative for their February release. It's been a while since I did some DT work so I loved having the opportunity to be creative. Here are a couple of projects I did using the Selfie Pals Builder stamp set.

Card Ingredients:

Stamp: Uniquely Creative 'Selfie Pals Builder'

Copics: Skin: E23  E25  E29  E79

             Coat: B91 B93  B95  B97  B99

             Vest: R29  R59  R89

             Shirt: W00  W1  W3

Papers: Kraft, cardstock

Other: Twine, Glossy Accents, Nuvo Crystal Drops in Ivory Seashells & Red Berry

Card Ingredients:

Stamp: Uniquely Creative 'Selfie Pals Builder'

Papers: Watercolour paper, cardstock

Distress Ink: Squeezed Lemonade, Carved Pumpkin, Pickled Raspberry & Worn Lipstick

Other: Alpha stickers, Nuvo Crystal Drops in Golden Sunset, Dandelion Yellow & Carnation Pink.

Read Past Your Bedtime

I had the wonderful opportunity to be a special guest designer for Uniquely Creative for their February release. It's been a while since I did some DT work so I loved having the opportunity to be creative. Here are a couple of projects I did using the Read Past Your Bedtime stamp set.

Card Ingredients:

Stamp: Uniquely Creative 'Read past your bedtime' stamp set

Copics: Skin: E000  E00  E11  E13  R20

             Hair: E07  E09  E18  E49

             Chair: BV20  BV23  BV25  BV17  E33  E35

             Top/Socks: RV11  R83  RV34  E04

             Jeans: W3  B91  B93  B97  B99

             Book/Cup: BG15  BG49  BG15

Papers: Kraft, cardstock

Other: Twine, flowers, doily, Pink Carnation & Caribbean Ocean Nuvo Crystal Drops, Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

Bookmark Ingredients:

Stamp: Uniquely Creative 'Read past your bedtime' stamp set

Coloured in Prismacolor Pencils

Paper: Kraft

Other: Gathered Twigs Distress Ink, ribbon, brad, Nuvo Crystal Drops in Caribbean Ocean, Crushed Grape & Silver Moondust.

Love Life

Having some fun with colouring using Distress Markers. Haven't made a simple card for a while so love how it turned out.

40 & Fabulous!

My lovely SIL celebrated her milestone 40th birthday recently in style with a surprise roller disco party! Was so much fun and I only fell over 3 times & didn't break anything which is always good! I made her this special pop-up box card and had fun creating the background brick paper with multiple stencils and distress inks. The image was coloured in Distress inks too and the scene came together so well.

   

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

Hope

Someone very close to me has recently found out they had cancer. I didn't know what else to do other than to make them a card for hope.

Card Ingredients include:

Stamp: Karleigh Sue We Keep the Hope

Coloured in Copics

Papers: Kaiser Craft Miss Empire paper pack

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