JustRite Stampers Card

I bought a couple of JustRite Ensemble stamp sets, this is one of the Oval baby sets, some really cute designs in them I also bought the Devine oval set with the wooden stamper.

I thought I should get into practice of making baby cards again in light of Lauren (daughter) expecting a little one in July.

Stamped Beach Scene Card

Simply stamped an shaded with a little watercolour, the edges were distressed then inked with the ocean tides ink by PTI, I found some raffia in my craft stash and plaited it and adheared it to the card,

I Punched out a couple ofstar fish with craft punches and coloured with watercolour pencils the compass is from the Father knows best Stamp set by PTI.

Floral Craft Sunflower

Hand made Floral Punch Craft card, the flower was made with a mega daisy punch by Punch Bunch a 5 corner Flower by Punch Bunch and a small Sakura Punch made by Carla.

I started by using the rubber stamp set Spiral Bouquet by Papertrey Ink and stamping the base card using Palette Inks I used the Nestabilities to cut out the scalloped and plain circles then layered them together.

I made up the sunflower and added the leaves after painting them, the craft punch leaves are Dusty Miller, Ivy and Leone Em's Ash leaves

Busy, Busy, Busy....

I'm scheduled to be on Create and Craft on Tuesday 13th January at 9am with the full range of Remember When Decoupage. I found out on Thursday so lots and lots of demonstration preporation to get done. I know they are going to be great prices so try not to miss it, Sky Chanel 671 or 344 on freeview it is chanel 22.

Right back to work now I've had my 10 minute break.

Flippn' Men Cards

Just a few more examples of the Flippin' Men by La Pashe

With these cards I covered the specially designed triple fold aperture cards with scrapbooking paper. The reason the Flippin Men Cards are different is not only the large size, they have a spine down either side of the aperture, the reason for the spine is so that the inside of the decoupage won't get crushed.

More Flippin' Men cards

click on the images to see them at full size

Baby Card

This special baby card is the most beautiful card in the world. Just ask any grand parent and they will tell you that it's true.

Lauren went for her first scan on Tuesday afternoon and came straight over to show me the scanned image.

Baby Anderson is 12 weeks and 1 day out of 40 weeks keeping warm by my Daughter Lauren. This is Laurens first baby and she just can't wait.

During the scan they noticed that Lauren has got a double Uterus.

If you click on the large scanned image you can even see the baby's eyes.

Vintage Lady Stamped Card

A Stamped Vintage Lady card, the card base is a pre printed A4 card folded in half, I still love Vintage cards and often drift back to this style when I need some inspiration, I love working with inks and getting my hands dirty, so, Tuesday I will be going to work sporting green inky fingers.

The lady is a rubber stamp by Stampsmith she is one of Shakespeare Heroins, I used green distress ink by Ranger to stamp the image then tore around the edges and used the same ink to distress by ponging the ink on the edges of the image.

It was this stamp that inspired the card as I think she is just so beautiful.

I punched out some flower shapes in cream and green card then used wet glue on the petals and dipped them into crushed glass glitter, I have 2lbs in weight of this glitter to use up ha ha ha.

This is a rubber stamp flower stamped onto acetate then cut out, I then wrapped the threaded beads onto a large gold brad and then poked the brad through the acetate and secured the beaded flower onto the card with a glue dot.

Glimmer Mists Card

This is the second Glimmer Mists background that I made, the glimmer mists by Tattered Angels is colour inks and mica powders in a spray bottle you build up the colours by spraying your paper and letting the inks slightly overlap, you can see the glimmer on the background in this picture.

I stamped the Ellusive Images Koi Carp onto stampbord and coloured the stampbord with matching inks added a bit of glitter and used Sakura pens to colour the Koi Carp.

Cuttlebug Bird Call & Glimmer Mists card

The background on the stamped watercolour paper was made with Glimmer Mists I love the way the colours have formed I started with the lights colour in this case it was gold, then misted over a blue and a black cherry colour then let it dry naturally.

Once dry I used the Penny Black aspire stamp and the bird and wording from PTI set Birds of a feather and created a picture.

I used the Cuttlebug folder Bird Call and embossed a piece of card then sponged over this with a wine coloured ink.

I used the Spellbinders Tag Trio to cut out the wording and tied this to the card with a burgandy wine coloured ribbon.

I thought it was worth adding a close up of the glimmer mist background that I made the nice thing about glimmer mist is every time you spray you know you will end up with something different I just wish I could show the twinkle it has. As soon as I layered the glimmer mist colours on this paper I saw a morning sky.

Flippin Men by La Pashe

Flippin' Bookies is one of the decoupage sheets that is close to my heart, it was designed shortly before I lost my Dad he was renowned to have a little flutter on the horses an the bookies odds board you can see the first runner is Jacks Lad.

I had bets on that I could get 2 cards from this sheet.

This is the reverse image of Flippin' Bookies I made this one up on a DL card I used the title on the Decoupage sheet as embellishment words.

Flippin' Snooker, this decoupage was added to a gate fold card, and the sentiment was added to the opposite side of the gate fold. Just a few peel off corners and borders to embellish.

I added the flip side of the image to the inside of the card, you can see from the shot I added a side spine to the card as I don't want the decoupage to be crushed.

If you are stuck for a verse to add to your Flippin' Men cards it could be well worth your while popping over to Jon's blog as he has made up some verses for you to use.