As Easy as ABC

A simple Baby Card made using Rubber Stamp Tapestry Baby stamps set abd the Stamping up Alphabet wheel, the gingham paper was punched with the new ABC123 border punch by EK success.

A Nestabilities heart die a pink sheer ribbon and a gingham button and it was done.

Birthday cards received

I thought it would be nice to show you a selection of cards I received for my birthday back in March, I havent got all of them photographed as yet but I've made a start so here is the first few.

I will try to get a few more on here later.

This on was made by Pam (peejay) I'm not sure how she parted with it, I have hoked and poked at it Pam to get the center details correct lol!

A real flower card made by my Mam

Made by jJackie who is on my design team

Made by Karen who is on my design team.

This one was made by my Mother-in-Law, she has only been crafting for areound a year.

Border Punch Card

I used the Kreaxions 3in1 punch to create a frame as the focal point of the card I took a couple of pretty papers and punched the border down 2 opposite edges then turn the border inwards to show the white side of the patterned paper, I then matched the papers one inside of the other to create the frame.

I used the Stamping up It's Beautiful Wheel to stamp on the base card using Close to cocoa ink.

Using the Wishing You Stamp set by PTI I stamped the dragonfly in brocade blue and close to cocoa ink and sponged the edges, using glossy accent I glazed the dragon fly wings and added a pretty copper ribbon to finish.

Damask Holder Folder

I decided to have a go at a card set contained within a folder.

Lauren my Daughter runs a Slimming World group and I thought it would be lovely for them to recive a well done card from her so I set too with making her a modern card set

The stamp set used is Damask by Papertrey Ink.

A view of the folder opened up, as you can see I made a spine and stamped it to match.

The ribbon that ties the folder runs below the white card acrossthe front the spine and the back, the loose ends of the ribbon are tucked inside for photography purposes.

The inside of the folder, I made a couple of pockets to hold the cards and envelopes then added some white punched and staped card on top of the pockets.

Stamped and scored 6 matching cards to slot inside the folder.

I thought the words below would be very apt for a good weight loss, so, they were stamped inside the cards.

Of course I stamped a smalled image onto the envelope as I wanted all to match.

Mother Card

I new stamp set Mother by Papertrey Ink, I love this set I combined it with the Life set and stamped the silhouette floral onto the base card added a couple of pearls and a punched flower and I was done.

Life

This was made with the PTI stamp set Life designed by Lisa Johnson, I love this set some of the sentiments are beautiful ans the foliage is all suitable as silhouettes.

I stamped onto a very deep coloured purple card stock using Versamark and white detail powder then heat embossed it, the white paper border was made using a 3 in 1 punch made by Kreaxions, I wish I'd bought a couple of these punches when I was at Harrogate as I can't seem to find a stockist in the UK.

Prayer Card

The card below has an inverted look to it as there is 2 cut out nestibilities shapes cut out of card & the prayer is stamped onto the base card inside the cut out shapes.

The top layer of card has been stamped with a PTI flourish and the little flower stamped from the same set then cut out and glue in place on top of the flourish.

The Prayer stamp is by stampendous

Click on the images below to see a close up of the prayer and the 3d little flowers

Elegant Damask

I used the the Papertrey ink Damask Stamp set and stamped the elegant large Damask image onto the white card base and added a pearl to the centre.

I also used one of the papers from PTI and using the EK success border punch made a fancy edge and glued it on the bottom part of the card using the punched out shapes from the paper I glue them opposite the border to make a negative pattern then glued one of the shapes onto both top corners.

The card was finished by tying a ribbon just above the border.

Because sometimes the inside of the card is as important as the front of the card this is how I finished this one, I used the EK success border punch on a black paper liner then again on the white printed insert.

Golden Heart

Heart were cut with the Nestabilities cutting 2 of the scalloped and one of the plain heart shapes.

The plain heart was then stamped with a heart stamp made by Impression Obsession and heart embossed with ranger gold fine detail embossing powder and heat set then distressed the edges of the heart.

The larger scalloped heart was embossed using the Swiss dots cuttlebug folder.

The base card is a chocolate shade then a gold square slightly smaller cut and punched at the corners using a 3 in 1 punch

Layered is all up with foam pads and finished with a gold edged ribbon

Build a Blossom - Frill mix 2

Another free download of the Build a Blossom Frill and a couple of backgrounds too.

You are free to use these for personal use but please do not share my designs instead link back to my blog for people to download them.They are copyright to me.

Click on the image to download the PDF sheet at full size.

Click on the image to download the PDF sheet at full size.

Click on the image to download the PDF sheet at full size.

Harrogate craft fair

I'm off out for the Day with my Mam, we are going to Harrogate Craft Fair and my wonderful brother is to be the chauffeur as I didn't fancy the long drive with a sore hand, mind you there is definitely an improvement this morning.

As I won't be around today I have some exciting free downloads planned for tonight including to Build a Blossom, Polka dot and a Flourish sheet.

Misty Meadow

I had a little play with a couple of sprig stamps and in doing so I have learned that I can also sponge edges with my left hand too, I'm getting to be quite ambidextrous.

the base card is a spring green colour then I layered a paper by HOTP on top folding opposite corners and adding a ribbon below it before sticking it onto the base card.

I took a separate piece of the green card and sponged the corners with a blue in then using the same ink I stamped the sprigs and the sentiment from PTI.

I distressed the edges and cut a couple of slits in the card to thread through the ribbon and tied it at the edge

Just a Dress

This is a little dress that I stamped a couple of weeks ago but never got round to making it up untill now, it is a DL size card layered with papers that have been punched down one edge the image is couled with the stamping up ink, a blossom, ribbon and pearls to finish

This is a close up of the dress stamped directly onto card then re-stamped onto parchment, cut out at attched on top of the image.

Cuttlebug Coffee & Cream Swirl

The stamped images are slear stamps by Impression Obsession called Smell the Coffee.

I used the Cuttlebug Swirl embossing folder behind the stamped images

The Fancy edges are New Border Punches by Adorna sent to me by a very dear friend Katie you just have to check out her blog

Left Handed Stamping

Well this is my first card for a good while and as the title says I hand to stamp it with my left hand I only did a little bit of stamping and it was a succession of mistakes on my first few tries but I got there in the end.

Tomorrow I'll post my second card as I still need to put it all together although I got a bit more adventurous and tried left handed cuttlebugging lol!

the papers added to the card below are by Glitterami and the stamps are from the sale-a-bration by Stamping Up

As you can probably guess my hands are slightly better although still quite a challenge to make cards.