Pink/blue & white card

Hello lovely friends; I hope you've had a great start to your week.  I hope you've managed to miss most of the really bad weather we've had recently.  It's been really wet and windy here but no damage thankfully; I really feel for the poor people in Jersey whose homes have been destroyed.  Nature is definitely a force to be reckoned with on times.  

On to happier things; I'm here to share a card I made recently for a crafty friend.  I saw the colour challenge over on the Less is More challenge so based my card on that.  Here is my card:

here is a close up of the sweet image:

I also decorated the inside:

plus I decorated the envelope (ignore the crease!):

I began by stamping by image and colouring with Promarkers and then fussy cut it out.  I put the image to one side and began decorating my panel.  I used a stencil with light blue ink, darker in the centre and fading out to white.  I stamped the sentiment on a thin strip of white card in pink ink (although it looks a little red in the photos) and placed this directly onto my panel with liquid glue.  The image was added over the sentiment with foam squares.  The panel was then added to the card base with liquid glue.  Very clean and simple for me and I had to control myself from adding anything else lol!  For the inside of my card I lightly ink blended the same blue ink around the whole of the panel and then use the same daisy stencil at the very bottom for some interest.  For the envelope I used the stencil on the bottom and on the lower part of the flap on the back.  I remember seeing in a Kristina Werner video to use distress micro glaze over your decorated envelopes to protect it from moisture so I tried it in view of the bad weather we'd been experiencing.  I did manage to crease the flap with my overly energetic rubbing but it was ok once the card was inside.  I wouldn't normally use pink and blue together but I think it turned out quite sweet.  Let me know what you think.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Less is More challenge - colour challenge - blue, pink & white

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - make your mark (I used Promarkers)

Crafty Catz challenge - ATG with option of show some flowers

Crafter's Cafe challenge - flowers

Krafty Chicks challenge - stamp act

Mix it Up challenge - ATG with optional stamping (I used a red rubber stamp)

Triple B challenge - include birds, blooms or butterflies

NBUS challenge - never used this stamp or stencil before

I hope you have a wonderful week.  Thanks for stopping by.  I'll be back on Wednesday for Week 2 of the Winter Wonderland IG Hop so see you soon. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

The Greeting Farm - Anya blooms *retired*

Tonic Studios - dreamy daisies stencil

Promarkers

Personal Impressions - Big sentiments 

Gina K Designs - birthday cheer stamp set (for inside greeting)

Gina K Designs - passionate pink ink pad & blue raspberry ink pad

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm white smooth card

Sakura - white gelly roll 10 pen

Winter Wonderland IG Hop - week 1

Hello again friends; look at me, I haven't posted for ages and now 2 posts in one day lol!  I'm taking part in a Winter Wonderland Card Hop over on Instagram organised by my lovely friend Kelly.  Each Wednesday in November we will creating cards with a winter theme.  I needed this hop to kickstart my Christmas card production and at least I will have a few cards ready by the end of the hop!

Today is week 1 and our theme is 'Christmas trees'.  My mojo is still hiding from me so I again went CAS with my card.  I hope you like it:

here is a close up of the gorgeous tree:

I decorated the inside very simply this time:

I actually die cut a bunch of the trees last year but didn't get around to using them. Before inlaying the pieces back into the tree I ink blended each piece with a green ink (from a coordinating trio) to make an ombre colour tree and a bright yellow for the star (I should have masked off the top part of the tree but I think it looks ok all yellow).  I adhered the tree panel onto a slightly smaller white piece of card and then placed each ink blended piece back into the tree with liquid glue.  This panel was then adhered to a dark green panel with double sided tape.  This was then added to a white card base with double sided tape.  I stamped the sentiment with versamark ink and covered it with gold embossing powder before heat setting it.  I used the coordinating die to cut it out.  I added the sentiment with foam squares that I cut to be teeny tiny!  I finished off with a few gold pearls and my card was complete.  I'm really happy with the way it turned out and my goal is to use up all the trees I die cut last year for this year's cards but maybe in different colourways.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge - embossing heat or dry (my sentiment is heat embossed)

Cut it Up challenge - add a sentiment (must include a die cut)

Just Us Girls challenge - CAS - use just the centre of your card

Pearly Sparkles challenge - Christmas/winter

Scrapping4fun challenge - traditional Christmas colours

SSS Wednesday challenge - emboss it (my sentiment is heat embossed)

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - get inky (I ink blended my tree pieces)

I hope you will be able to join us over on Instagram and follow the hop.  Please use the hashtag #winterwonderlandcardhop2023 to find all the participants creations and if you want to join in we can find your creations too.  

Enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - Christmas tree cover plate die

Gina K Designs - feeling frosty stamp & die 

Gina K Designs - holiday silhouettes (for inside greetings)

Gina K Designs - spruce colour companions ink cubes

Gina K Designs - wild dandelion ink pad

Gina K Designs - black, gold & silver pearl mix

Gina K Designs - connect glue

Gina K Designs - blending brushes

Versamark ink pad

Cosmic Shimmer - bright gold detail embossing powder

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm white smooth card 

dark green card from my scrap bin

AAA Birthday challenge - DT card

Hello friends and happy 1st of November.  I hope you had a great October (although not too sure where it went) and are ready for a brand new AAA Birthday challenge.  We have two hostesses this month and they will each pick a winner - Helen and Kati - and their theme this month is 'large sentiment'; but remember it has to be birthday themed.  Our guest designer this month is Deborah Wheeler so please pop over and show her some love.  

I made two cards this month but was really struggling with lack of mojo so they ended up being very clean and simple.   Here are my cards:

a close up of card one:

I also decorated the inside:

a close up of card two:

I also decorated the inside:

For card one, I began by ink blending a panel using 3 warm colours of ink, added some water droplets and stamped the sentiment over top in black ink.  I used the matching die to cut it out.  I used a dashed rhombus panel die for my background and I did try partial ink blending but didn't like it so in the end I stuck with white.  I cut a black mat layer and adhered them together with double sided tape.  The large sentiment was added with foam squares.  I decided to add a sub sentiment from the same stamp set and stamped it onto black card with white embossing powder.  I then die cut it with a strip sentiment die and added it below the large sentiment with liquid glue.  The panel was added to an A2 card base with foam tape.  I finished off with some black sequins.

For card two, as I had a spare die cut left over I thought I would try and stamp directly onto the die cut and if I messed up it wouldn't matter.  I wanted something different to my first card so I stamped it in versa mark and heat embossed it in gold.  I surprised myself by stamping it perfectly (although I did a test stamp first onto acetate to double check my placement - a tip I learned from Gina K).  I used an embossing folder for this background and matted it onto gold mirror card with double sided tape.  I added the large sentiment with foam squares and finished off with some gold sequins.  The panel was adhered onto the card base with double sided tape.  

Please pop over to the challenge blog and check out the wonderful creations from the rest of the DT; you will not be disappointed.  

I would like to enter my cards into the following challenges:

Allsorts challenge - embossing heat or dry (I've used both on my gold/white card)

Can You Handle the Pressure challenge - embossing option vines/greenery

Cut it Up challenge - add a sentiment (must include a die cut)

Just Us Girls challenge - CAS week - just use the centre of your card

Seize the Birthday challenge - ATG birthday - no topping this time

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - emboss it (heat and dry embossing on my gold card)

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - get inky (I ink blended on my red/pink/purple card)

I hope you will be able to find the time to enter our challenge this month and I cannot wait to see your birthday creations in our linky.  

Enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Waffle Flower - happy birthday duo sentiments stamp & die set

Waffle Flower - dashed rhombus panel die

Spellbinders - candles for every birthday embossing folder (EOM May 23)

Spellbinders - essentials sequins in black smooth and gold smooth discs

Gina K Designs - sentiment strips dies

Gina K Designs - birthday cheer (for inside sentiments)

Gina K Designs - inks for blending red velvet, passionate pink and wild lilac

Gina K Designs - blending brushes

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm white smooth card

Hobbycraft - A4 luxury black card

gold mirror card from stash

Wow - opaque bright white super fine embossing powder

Cosmic Shimmer - detail bright gold embossing powder

Reindeer Christmas card

Happy Sunday friends; oh my goodness it has been so long since I last posted, I hope you missed me!  My mojo has been lacking for the last few weeks and I have been in a bit of a creative slump.  However I found an image that I had already coloured up so thought I would try and make something with it.   Here is my card:

a close up of the adorable image:

I also decorated the inside:

As I mentioned I had already coloured up the cute reindeer image with my Promarkers and fussy cut him out.  I embossed a background of kraft card with a snow flake embossing folder and cut it to 4 " x 5 1/4".  I die cut the beautiful decorative circle and also some small trees from white card and also a small snow bank (but it's hard to see it).  I placed the larger tree behind the bank and adhered the smaller tree in front using liquid glue.  The reindeer was added on top with foam squares.  The kraft panel was added to the A2 card base using  double sided tape and then the decorative circle was added towards the top using foam tape.  I stamped and heat embossed a small sentiment and cut it out with a sentiment strip die.  This was added to the bottom right with foam squares.  For the inside I stamped a sentiment in black ink onto a white panel and this was added onto a kraft panel.  This was added to the card with double sided tape.  I lightly inked some sea glass ink into the bottom left corner and placed a white tree on top with liquid glue.  I didn't add any embellishments as I thought it looked ok without any.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Crafty Animals challenge - must include an animal

Crafty Catz challenge - ATG option lots of layers

Creative Moments challenge - it's alive

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Cut It Up challenge - add a sentiment (must include a die cut)

Inkspirational challenge - word prompt - cold

Little Red Wagon challenge - patterned paper or not - I find myself using paper less and less but do try and use up some of it from time to time.  I use embossing folders a lot, as I have on this card

Moving Along with the Times challenge - ATG

Pearly Sparkles challenge - let's go cute

I will try and hunt down my mojo and make something else really soon so that there is such a long break between posts again.  I appreciate you stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

LOTV - penguins and reindeer A5 stamp set

Gina K Designs - snowflakes embossing folder

Gina K Designs - princess circle decorative die

Gina K Designs - winter wonderland die set (for trees)

Gina K Designs - holiday wreath builder (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - sea glass ink pad (for light ink blending)

Lawn Fawn - stitched hillside borders

Clearly Besotted Stamps - mini messages

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card

Crafters Companion - neenah desert storm kraft card

WOW! - opaque bright white super fine embossing powder

Versamark ink pad

Promarkers

Hexagon tile shaker card

Hello crafty friends; I hope you've had a great start to your week.  I can't believe it's been almost a week since my last post; time flies when you're having fun lol!  

I'm sharing a card I made for my sister-in-law's birthday which was last week.  I saw a lovely card on Pinterest and decided to make my own version including a shaker window.  Here is my card:

a closer look at the details:

I also decorated the inside:

and also the back of the card:

I began by rooting around my paper pad stash and picked out some designs that I liked and coordinated well together.  I used a hexagon die and cut out 3 of each design (for the front but I cut extras for the inside and back too).  I foolishly embossed my white card before I die cut it so the design did get a little flattened but I still liked the look so rolled with it.  I then arranged my hexagons on my white panel and decided where I wanted my shaker window.  I used the same hexagon die to cut the window and added acetate behind with double sided tape.  Before filling my shaker I adhered all the hexagon pieces with liquid glue and die cut the panel using a stitched rectangle die and I stamped the sentiment in black ink.  I placed foam tape around the window and then found some sequins to match my colour scheme to fill.  The white panel was then adhered to a black card panel.  I found a butterfly that I had already die cut from some glitter card which matched my colours perfectly so added this with liquid glue to the bottom left.  I added some black pearls to the butterfly body and some gold pearls scattered around the card.  The whole thing was then added to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I simply added 3 hexagons to the right corner and stamped a sentiment in black ink.  As I had spare card I cut 2 more hexagons for the back of my card and also added my handmade sticker.  An elegant card I think and no colouring at all!!  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Can you handle the pressure challenge - ATG embossing option bees/beehives

Seize the Birthday challenge - repetitive die cuts

Triple B challenge - include birds, butterflies or blooms

NBUS challenge - never used die/embossing folder before

Happy Little Stampers ATG with dies challenge - must use dies

Moving along with the times challenge - ATG

I have quite a few birthdays coming up so hopefully will be back soon with some more inspiration for you.  Thanks for stopping by; I really love reading your comments and appreciate them all. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Spellbinders - SDOM Feb 23 Floral mini tiles

Spellbinders - EOM Feb 23 Hydrangea blooms

Honey Bee Stamps - Acorn sisters stamp set (for sister sentiment)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - fabulous fuchsias (for HB sentiment)

Little Things from Lucy's Cards - muted metallics and passion flower sequins for shaker

Tonic Studios - autumn maple 6x6 pearlescent card pad

Honey Bee Stamps - inside birthday sentiments

Gina K Designs - Master Layouts 8 (to die cut the panels)

Gina K Designs - black, gold and silver pearl mix

Memory Box - Isabella butterfly die

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card

Hobbycraft - Black A4 card

paper pad ? from Home Bargains (not 100% sure)

Falling for Wednesdays IG Hop - Week 7

Happy Wednesday friends; I hope you've had a great week so far.  I'm back with my card for the Falling for Wednesdays IG Hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly.  It is Week 7 and this week is the last week of this hop but don't be sad we'll be back very soon with a Winter Wonderland Hop.  This week's theme is 'BOO-tiful' and we want to see all things Halloween.  

I don't really make Halloween cards as none of my family really celebrates the occasion so I decided to make some fun Halloween inspired sour cream containers.  I'm sorry but my post is photo heavy so scroll through if you don't want to see them all.  Here are my cute containers:

here they are individually:

a close up of the cute images:

I began by making the containers.  I used 4 sheets of patterned paper in 2 different colours and cut them to 5 1/2" x 6 1/2".  I've made these before so knew what to do but if you're not sure there are loads of tutorials on Pinterest and YouTube.  Typically I couldn't find my paper crimper to crimp the edges (isn't it always the case when you need something) so just left them plain on the bottom.  For the top I punched 2 holes with my Crop-a-dile (another hunt around the craft room first though) and tied some ribbon in a knot before wrapping some black twine in a bow to secure and make it look pretty.  I didn't have any lime green or orange ribbon so I coloured some white ribbon with my Promarkers to match.  

I stamped the 4 adorable images and coloured them with Promarkers; I made sure to leave enough room so that I could cut them out with a circle die (whilst the die was still in place I lightly inked around the edges with a grey ink pad for some definition).  I also cut the matching scallop die with card to co-ordinate with the images.  I didn't have any lime green card so ink blended that one to match before cutting it out.  The sentiments are from the same stamp set; I stamped 2 in black ink and 2 were white heat embossed onto black card.  I added the stamped circles on to the scalloped circles with foam tape and then they were added to the container with double sided tape.  The sentiment was then added on top with double sided tape.  I added a few white gel pen highlights and voila they were done.  

I tied the opening with ribbon because I didn't have any small treats available to fill them with so it means I can undo them and fill them when I'm ready.  

I would like to enter my treat containers into the following challenges:

Colourful Options challenge - neon

Crafty Catz challenge - ATG option spots and/or stripes (my paper has spots)

Creative Inspirations challenge - autumn or Halloween

Dream Valley challenge - occasions other than birthday

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - show us some colouring (coloured with Promarkers)

Get Creative challenge - purple, black, green and orange 

Papercraft challenges - ribbon

Pearly Sparkles challenge - let's go cute

Shopping Our Stash challenge - colour me beautiful - 13 challenges max

Tic Tac Toe challenge - purple, orange, black/purple, witch, embossing/free, orange, embossing/free, broom, black

Unicorn challenge - autumn and/or Halloween

We Love Stamping challenge - mood board (I was inspired by the colours)

I hope you will be able to join us over at Instagram and check out the hop.  Please use the hashtag #ffwcardgroup2023 to find all the creations by the participants of the hop and if you want to join in we can find your makes too.  

Enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

MFT - fab-BOO-lous friends stamp set (bought new from a store on eBay)

Spellbinders - standard circles large dies

Spellbinders - classic scalloped circles large dies

Gina K Designs - key lime and stormy sky ink pads

card, ribbon and twine from my stash

Promarkers

Wow - white super fine embossing powder

Memento tuxedo black ink pad (to stamp images)

Versafine onyx black ink (for sentiments)

Sakura - white gelly roll 10 pen