Jeepers, Creepers

This is for my best friend Jackie's grandson who will be 19 next week and I thought this stamp by  Stampendous Sneakers is just perfect. As usual I stamped and bossed the image twice, coloured with copics then cut them out. I got paper and red card from my stash and mounted onto a card. Using the complimentary stamp by Stampendous Sneaker Background I stamped, embossed and coloured the panel to go down the side of the card. The banner is from a greetings set by Woodware which is stamped and cut out, I have then cut out his name using All Occassion Dies and stuck onto the banner. I'm really pleased with the effect and think this is such an ideal stamp set for a male friend/relative young and old alike.

Sophisticated Lady

Tomorrow is my beautiful daughter-in-law's birthday and these cards are for her. The card on the left is from me and is of a very sophisticated lady contemplating her bath! The stamp is Scruffy Little Cat - Lola which I have stamped and embossed then coloured with copics. Using an embossing folder resembling bubbles I embossed a piece of white card which I then very lightly distressed with spun sugar and faded jeans distress inks. Mounted this onto red card, cut a shape from the same card and fixed some black lace around the edge with double sided tape. Out of gold card and using Marianne Swirls (CR1245) I added a swirl then added the image on top. I added a few sparkly gems on the red card just to give it a bit of bling.

The other card was achieved using Stampendous Heat and Bond sticky embossing powder and while still sticky press foiling over the top. Any areas missed with the foil I went over with Pearlex powder. The stamp and sentiments are Steampunk Shoes by Stampendous and have been stamped and embossed the same way, then cut out and mounted onto card which has been stamped with a script stamp. 

This card is for my son's two girls to give to her and the message that they wrote inside included 'thank you for being a second mum to us' which I thought was lovely and I know will bring tears to her eyes. Hope she has a great birthday! 

Spotlight Card

It is my big brother's 75th birthday on New Years  eve so I always send his birthday with his Christmas card and then I know he has it in time for his birthday.  As he is ship mad, especially tall ships I thought this Stampendous Navigateur stamp fit the bill. I stamped and embossed the     Image twice. One of them I distressed with a variety of colours, yellow, blue, green and beige by just using squares of 'cut'n'dry and just randomly dabbed onto card. The second card was left uncoloured and I selected an area to punch out. This was edged in blue ink and matched precisely to cover the corresponding area on the coloured card. Thus this then becomes a 'spotlight' card, and, of course, you have the scrap from the punched one that you could make another card from - nothing wasted. The background was from a decoupage sheet of a map of the world which I cut selected pieces out, and lightly distressed edges with stormy sky distress ink. The embellishments are wooden shapes that I have coloured with Versafine and embossed. The 75th and Happy Birthday are All Occasion dies by Robert Addams.    

Christmas Date

Here I have used the lovely background stamp by Stampendous Christmas sentiments which I have embossed in gold, then distress lightly with scattered straw.
I found some red poinsettia paper in my stash which I mounted onto card. The Christmas sentiments I mounted onto dark green card.
On the main image I used the striking Woodware stamp Christmas Date which I embossed then distressed in the scattered straw. I used copics to colour the 25 and the holly. For the berries I used Gloss-Gel. I cut around the edges then mounted onto the same dark green card as before.

No apologises

I make no apologises for using my favourite stamp from Stampendous Snowbird it is lovely. In this case I stamped and painted with distress inks barn door and rusty hinge. Once dried I then cut it out. I dry embossed a crafts too folder onto white card blanking a section part way up from the bottom. I dabbed over the snowflakes with a little silver metallic paste. I then scored a line each side of the area left blank. Here I stamped a greeting before fixing the Robin in place using Woodware silicone glue which I swear by.

Cutie Robin

I just love this stamp Robin by Stampendous
It's one of my all time favourites, he's so cute
This Christmas card is for my friend, the same one who I made the birthday card for. I stamped two of the images and reversed another one. All were coloured with distress inks barn door and weathered wood. Two of them I cut out. The background papers are from LOTV. I cut out icicle, fir branches and poinsettia dies. The icicles and fir branches I embossed with white sparkling embossing powder which gives a beautiful frosty look. The red poinsettia flowers I edged with glitter glue. The fence and log that the extra robins are sitting on come from a Hobby Art set Reindeer. Painted with weathered wood mixed with barn door, the snow was liquid appliqué in White which was heated and sprinkled with glitter. Sentiment typed out on my computer finishes it off. Hope she likes it.

Spotlight

Making spotlight cards was the subject of my friend Kim's class at Davina's two weeks ago. I made a few toppers of different designs of which I was particularly pleased. For this one we used distress inks and sponges which we put down at random onto white card. On this one I stamped this lovely Stampendous Carnation and then stamped the image on white card. I selected a punch and punched out part of the second image. This was then stuck over the relevant section on the main image matching up exactly.
The card was going to be added to my box for future use. It has come in useful sooner than I thought.
My lovely son-in-law is gravely ill and will not last the weekend, the last thing on my daughter's mind is her brother's wedding on Saturday and our good friend's birthday on Tuesday so I told her I would take care of everything down here (they live in Yorkshire) and then I will be with her a.s.a.p. So I mounted the image onto dark red card then onto an embossed card, added some leaves and tiny flowers, LOTV sentiment and finally 70 peel off.

Back To Normal

Well, holidays are almost over. I spent a week with family in Yorkshire a few weeks back. It was for my latest gt.granddaughter's christening. Then last week I took my two youngest granddaughters on a caravan holiday to Rye. They love caravanning, thinking it a great adventure. We had a wonderful time, full of fun and laughter, that's the beauty of being 70 (well almost) you don't mind making a fool of yourself when playing with children.
However, one of my best friends is 70 just six days before me and this the card I have just made for her.

She loves knitting and doing cross-stitch.
So what could be more appropriate than these house mouse
stamps by  stampendous  Knit Gift.
The second stamp was from an old set by Joanna Sheen
The numbers I have added to embroidery thread bobbins and stuck a sample of the thread inside a wrapper.
I included a wrapper from a ball of baby wool to compliment the sample of knitting on the wooden needles.
All these were mounted onto a spellbinder decorative circle grand nestie die.
This I ran through my ebosser with the purl one A4 embossing folder. This give a perfect likeness of plain and purl knitting. I then coloured it with Spun Sugar distress
ink.
I used 8x8 card onto which I stamped ' birthdays are sew special' and 'enjoy your special day'  also in the Spun Sugar ink.

Sympathy for a friend

I just had to quickly make a card for my friend of long standing Jeannie. The poor woman found out that her brother had died SEVEN days previously, and HOW she found out!! She was visiting her sister in Brighton who just so happens to follow Facebook and she had got into one of her nieces Facebook pages where she saw, to her horror, R.I.P messages to her brother! My friends sister, not one to mess about, phoned her niece demanding to know what was going on, only to be told that her sister-in-law only wanted immediate family to know and to attend the funeral. What are Jeannie and her sister for Gods sake if not immediate family, he was their only remaining sibling. We could understand it if there had been a falling out but there hadn't been. Jeannie went to an anniversary party at their house last year. Sorry, but I am just SO angry on her behalf. I said to our other close friend I've just got to make a card from us to show someone cares.

              

                                                        I wanted to keep it clean and simple so I decided to use the

Dreamweaver long stem calla lily stencil  and coloured it with colour box liquid chalks and Sakura glitter pen. I mounted it onto matching card and finished off with a very narrow black ribbon and bow. I kept the message inside simple using sentiments from Stampendous Sincere sentiments set. 

Daisy Panel

I had a wonderful time with my friends down in Cornwall recently, nothing is too much trouble for them and they really go out of their way to make sure you enjoy your visit so I felt a 'thank you' card was in order. I used kraftcard for the background which I stamped with the beautiful stamp Cling Seed by Stampendous using Versamark and Frantage in Aged pink and aged gold. For the panel I used Daisy Panel by Woodware. The colouring was done using copics and I used distress ink Antique Linen to slightly shade the background. The panel was then mounted onto brown card then orange card. Yellow circle with 'thank you' sentiment mounted the same way as the panel to finish. As I have been unable to enter their challenge for a while,I think I will enter this in the
Woodware sketch challenge.                  

Clematis

What an afternoon, one minute lovely sunshine, next pouring down with rain, just the afternoon for card making! So that's just what I did!
The background for this card was made during Kim's lesson at Davina's last Saturday. I have sponged the card with distress inks then using an embossing folder created the pattern which I then, very gently, wiped over with black soot distress ink.
The sketch was two ovals, one smaller than the other and mounted above each other, in either order. I chose to put a Woodware sentiment at the top. The bottom stamp is Stampendous Clematis  which I have coloured with copics.
To finish I added a little dragonfly.
I think I will enter this into the Woodware sketch challenge

Yet More Mice

Evening everyone, today I have been to the Sincerely Yours Craft Show at Biggin Hill. Spent too much money (don't we all when it come to craft) but lots of goodies to show for it.
Being on a roll with the 'Mouse' stamps I made this card for my granddaughters to give to their other Nan.


I have used two stamps here, the Cupcake Jump and I think it's Gifts to Tie.

I have stamped extra mice from the jumping for joy stamp to make it appear that several mice have jumped over the cupcake while the older mouse is busy wrapping the presents. I coloured with my favourite distress inks vintage photo and worn lipstick but have also used copics on the cupcake wrapper and presents. Then I sprinkled Frantage Aged Embossing Enamel  in pink on the cake and a few in the air and at the base of the cake. Sponged lightly with the vintage photo mounted onto papers from stock and added sentiments to finish

I would like to enter this in the Stampendous challenge Mice are Nice. 

Mice are Nice

Here is another card I have made using the lovely Stampendous mouse stamp. On craft card with versamark I have stamped lots of just the hat. These I have embossed using various colours of Frantage aged embossing enamels. The image I have stamped twice and embossed using Versafine and clear powder then coloured with distress inks vintage photo and milled lavender. I have cut out both mice and decoupaged onto the main image. I then mounted this onto purple pearlised card, then onto white card before attaching to my background.

I finished the card with a birthday greeting mounted the same way.

I would like to try and enter this in the Stampendous challenge Mice are Nice.

Keep Calm and Knit

      

This is my first card to blog (after the fiasco yesterday) I have stamped this lovely mouse stamp by Stampendous using Versafine and coloured with distress inks, vintage photo and worn lipstick. Cut it out using a nestie and sponged with the worn lipstick whilst still in the nestie, it gives that lovely white edge. I also stamped some extra hats by using a small ink pad and coloured them in a variety of shades then cut them out. The background pink pearlised paper I have run through a cuttlebug folder. Both this and the pattern paper come from my stock. I added some pink wool and the sentiment is by personnel impressions.