Spring Into Card Making IG Hop - Week 5

Hello friends; I hope you're having a great day.  I'm back to share this week's card for the Spring Into Card Making IG Hop, which has been organised by my lovely friend Kelly.  Each week we will be sharing a themed card focusing on the joys of spring.  If our hop inspires you please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to join in the fun.  

This week our inspiration is 'tea party' so grab all your stamps and dies with a tea theme and join in the fun.  I love this image and have used it quite a few times before but it was perfect for this week's theme.  

Here is my card:

a close up of the image:

plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and using the fun teacup stencil and some yellow ink created my background.  I matted this onto a black panel cut to 4" x 5 1/4".  I stamped the girl image and coloured her with Promarkers (+ 1 tri-blend marker) before using the matching die to cut her out.  I added some white highlights with a gelly roll pen.  I used a die to cut a lacey oval from vellum and added my image on top with foam squares; this was then adhered to the panel with liquid glue (making sure to only add it behind the image so that it wouldn't show through the vellum).  I stamped the sentiment in the lower right corner in black ink.  I finished with a few pastel pearls.  For the inside I masked a small portion at the bottom of the white panel and used the same stencil and ink to create a coordinating border.  I stamped a sentiment in black ink in the centre.  Once again I matted the panel onto a black panel and added it to the card base with double sided tape.  A fairly simple, bright and colourful card.

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cut and/or stencil (I used both)

Color Throwdown challenge - pink/green/yellow

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - use a die

Dream Valley challenge - spring colours

Fab 'n' Funky challenge - add a sentiment

Get Creative challenge - April Fool's Day (use a joke or punny sentiment)

I love Promarkers challenge - ATG option add a button

Inkspirational challenge - fold (I attempted to add folds to the dress)

Inspired By challenge - umbrellas (I was inspired by the colours)

Stamping Sensations challenge - spring mood board (inspired by the colours)

Stencil Fun challenge - must use a stencil option spring/flowers

Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge - I used sketch #275

Tic Tac Toe challenge - spring colours/free/stencil

I would love it if you would pop over to Instagram and see the amazing work by all the other crafters taking part in the hop.  Please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to find us and also so that we can find your creation if you are inspired to take part.  

I'll be back again with you tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so please pop by and check it out.  As always I appreciate the comments you leave and thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Stamping Bella - curvy girl loves tea

Visible Image - tea party stencil

Spellbinders - lacey oval dies

Promarkers (+ 1 tri-blend marker)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - simply said birthday (for inside sentiment)

Gina K Designs - wild dandelion ink pad

Gina K Designs - pearl mix - rainbow

Stampin' Up! - card stock vellum

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Hobbycraft - A4 luxury black card

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

Birthday card for Mother

Hello friends; I hope you've had a great start to your week.  The weather here in South Wales has been awful, so much rain and really windy but we've been lucky compared to some areas of the country, although it does seem that we've had rain for 10 years lol!  

It was my lovely mother's birthday last week so I thought I would share the card I made for her.  I went for a shabby chic vibe with muted colours.  I hope you like it.  

Here is my card:

a closer look at the images:

I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the images in a soft beige ink and coloured them in muted colours of Promarkers.  I used the matching dies to cut them out.  I cut a piece of white card 4 3/4" x 6 3/4" and used an embossing folder to add some texture.  I matted the white panel onto a slightly larger pink panel with double sided tape.  I die cut a postage stamp panel and cut it up to make individual postage stamps.  I used my Promarkers to colour the edges, stamped a script background stamp over the postage stamps and also used a distressed background stamp to add some 'franking' marks to my postage stamps.  I also stamped some postage value and postage word stamps in black ink.  I added my images with foam squares and also added the postage stamps to my panel with foam squares.  I die cut a stitched strip banner and stamped my greeting in black ink; this was also added to the panel with foam squares (lots of dimension as I knew I would be hand delivering my card).  I adhered the panel to my card base with double sided tape and finished off with some gold pearls.  For the inside I added the same script background just around the edges of my panel and stamped my sentiment in the centre with black ink (I didn't realise it was off centre until now lol!).  As I had a few images left over I added them in a cluster in the bottom left corner with liquid glue.  I again matted the white panel onto pink card and adhered this to the card base with double sided tape.  I don't normally do shabby chic/vintage style cards but I'm happy with the finished result and most importantly my mother loved it.  The finished card is 5" x 7".

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cuts and/or stencils

A Place to Start challenge - ATG optional twist add one or more flowers

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes optional mood board

Can You Handle the Pressure challenge - must use an embossing folder optional twist - birds

Colorful Options challenge - pastels

Craft Rocket challenge - layer it up

Daisy Chain challenge - not square

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - use a die

My Time to Craft challenge - butterflies and/or dragonflies

PINspirational challenge - embossing

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - happy birthday

Sweet Stampin' challenge - birthday girls

Triple B challenge - must include at least one bird, butterfly or blooms

Unicorn challenge - use a die

I hope you enjoy the rest of your day.  I am so grateful for all the visits and comments on my blog.  I'll be back again tomorrow so hopefully you will be able to pop back again.  

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - vintage summer stamp & die set

Gina K Designs - Master Layouts 14 

Gina K Designs - petite flourish embossing folder

Gina K Designs - spring friends stamp set (for postage values and words)

Gina K Designs - lovely lace stamp set (for main sentiment)

Gina K Designs - pearl mix - black gold and silver

Gina K Designs - ink pad - sandy beach

Promarkers

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm white silky smooth card

Honey Bee Stamps - Inside: birthday sentiments

MFT - romantic script background stamp

Inkylicious - worn paint background stamp (for 'franking' marks)

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

pink card from stash

Krafty Chicks Challenge #710 - stamps

Hello friends; I hope you're having a great week so far.  I'm back to share my card for this week's Krafty Chicks challenge.  As it's the start of the month we are back to Week 1 which is 'stamps' so we would like to see a stamp/digi on your project. 

I was my mother's birthday yesterday so this is the card I made for my sons to give to her using a new stamp set.  Here is my card:

a closer look at the cute image:

plus I decorated the inside:

I began by creating my shaped card base.  I took a piece of 12"x12" card and folded it in half and placed the largest hexagonal die slightly over the fold of the card and ran it through my die cutting machine.  My card was 250gsm so it cut through the two layers without any issue.  I then took the next size die and cut it from some hot pink card and the next size down from patterned paper.  I then cut another pink panel with a slightly smaller die and used the next size down to cut out my image.  At this point I felt the margins between the dies was too large so using my paper trimmer I made the pink panels a little smaller.  I coloured the image with Promarkers and added some highlights with a white gel pen.  I adhered each of the layers together with double sided tape; adding the largest one to the card base with double sided tape also.  For the image panel I used foam tape for some extra dimension.  I stamped the sentiment in black ink onto white card and die cut it out with a small circle.  I used a slightly larger circle to cut out a pink mat layer and adhered them together with double sided tape.  This is adhered onto the edge of the image panel with more double sided tape.  (In case you were wondering, I live in the South Wales valleys and we use Mam in the same way as you would use Mom/Mum.  When my nephew was born he used to copy us and call his grandmother Mam and it just stuck for all the grandchildren).  For the inside I cut the same two largest panels, one from pink and one from white, again trimming the pink one down a little.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre and a portion of the image in a light grey ink and then adhered the panels with double sided tape.  This was then added to the card base with double sided tape.  I really like the different card shape and it was simple to make, even with all the fussing of cutting down the layers, but at least they were straight edges lol).  I hope you like it.  The finished card size is approximately 5 1/4" x 6 1/2" so I had to make a custom envelope using my envelope punch board.  

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cut and/or stencils

A Place To Start challenge - ATG option add one or more flowers

As You Like It challenge - cute or floral (I love both but I think I reach for the cute images more often)

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes

Cardz for Galz challenge - cute animals

Classic Design challenge - ATG option 4 legged friends

Craft Rocket challenge - layer it up

Crafty Animals challenge - must include an animal

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Double D challenge - cute little animals

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG option add a button

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - happy birthday

Sweet Stampin' challenge - birthday girls 

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - bunnies and/or chicks

Triple B challenge - must include birds, butterflies or blooms 

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'stamps' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori and also our guest designer for April, Rachelle. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

LOTV - spring sweeties A5 polymer stamp set

LOTV - bonnets & bowties 8" x 8" paper selection

Promarkers

Craft UK Ltd - 12"x12" white 250gsm card

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Sakura - no 10 white gelly roll pen

Clearly Besotted Stamps - happy birthday all (retired)

Honey Bee Stamps - inside: birthday sentiments

Tonic Studios - circles layering basics dies

Spellbinders - standard circles large dies

Gina K Designs - soft stone ink pad

GKD - rainbow pearl mix

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

pink card from stash

Hexagon dies - I bought them from a de-stash site but didn't realise they were not branded

Spring Into Card Making IG Hop - week 4

Hello my lovely friends and happy Hump Day.  It's Week 4 of the Spring Into Card Making IG Hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly and this time we are all about spring.  Each week we will be sharing a themed card focusing on the joys of spring.  If our hop inspires you please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to join in the fun.  

This week our inspiration prompt is 'April showers bring'.  You can create anything you like whatever this photo conjures up for you.  I went the obvious route (as I was running late with my card) and my card is April showers bring May flowers.  Here is my card:

A close up of my cute images:

As always I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the umbrellas onto alcohol marker friendly card and coloured them with Promarkers, adding a few highlights with a white gelly roll pen.  I used the matching dies to cut them out (I also cut some extra umbrellas in white card so that I could layer them up for extra dimension).  I die cut 6 of the tiny flowers from 2 shades of purple cardstock and for the raindrops I coloured a white piece of card with a very light grey Promarker and cut 3 small and 3 large.  I cut a panel of lilac dotted paper to 4" x 5 1/4" and die cut a scalloped rectangle from white card.  I stamped my sentiment in black ink.  I added the patterned paper to the card base with double sided tape and the scalloped rectangle was adhered with foam tape.  I arranged the umbrellas, placed the flowers on top and added the raindrops all with liquid glue.  I added a dot of white gelly roll pen to the centres of the flowers and also added some shimmer pen over the raindrops but it's difficult to tell in the photos.  For the inside I cut a piece of white card 4" x 5 1/4" and took two strips of patterned paper cut to 4" x 1" and added them to the top and bottom of the panel with double sided tape.  I cut and coloured one extra umbrella and added that the bottom right hand corner with liquid glue.  I didn't add a sentiment as I thought I could use this card for multiple occasions and will add one later.  A fairly simple layout and limited supplies but it turned out quite cute I think.

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

Addicted to CAS challenge - rain

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cuts and/or stencil

A Place To Start challenge - ATG optional twist add 1 or more flowers

Aud Sentiments challenge - watercolour and/or spring + sentiment (certainly been lots of rain this spring)

Colourful Options challenge - pastels

Creative Inspirations challenge - the season of spring

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG option add a button

Incy Wincy Designs challenge - inspired by a movie/song/book and/or sketch - 'singing in the rain'

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - whatever the weather

Unicorn challenge - use dies

Passion for Markers challenge - monochrome (entering for fun!)

I would love it if you would pop over to Instagram and see the amazing work by all the other crafters taking part in the hop.  Please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to find us and also so that we can find your creation if you are inspired to take part.  

I'll be back again with you tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so please pop by and check it out.  As always I appreciate the comments you leave and thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Clearly Besotted Stamps - April showers stamp & die (magazine freebie from 2020)

Promarkers

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Sakura - no. 10 white gelly roll pen

Tonic Studios - Glitter Gloss aqua shimmer pen

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm smooth white card

patterned paper from scraps bin

Versafine - onyx black ink

Scalloped rectangle dies from de-stash page - unbranded

AAA Birthday challenge - shaker

Good morning lovely friends and welcome to April. I am so ready for the brighter, warmer days after all the rain we've had in South Wales over the winter. Let's hope it works out that way. I am back this morning for the start of a brand new challenge over at the AAA Birthday challenge. This month Swapna is our hostess and she has chosen 'shaker' as our theme. Our lovely guest for this month is Deborah Frings so pop over and leave her some love.

I haven't made a shaker card in a little while so it was a nice change to make one.  I didn't have anyone in mind when I made my card so had free rein with what I could do.  I decided to make a shaped shaker card.  

Here's my shaker card:

a closer look:

I decorated the inside too:

I began by using a coffee cup card die to cut out the basic card shape.  When I used this die last time I must have cut some pink frames and not used them as I found them in the packaging so decided to use them up this time.  I cut another 4 white frames and adhered them all together with liquid glue so I had a really sturdy frame to work with.  I cut some acetate with the coffee cup die and adhered it behind the frame with liquid glue.  I also discovered a background that I made last year (I think using Tonic shimmer powders) which was lovely and shimmery and had some pink in it so thought why no use it up too.  I cup the coffee lid and also the backing for my shaker from this shimmery card.  I added foam strips behind the frame, added some silver sequins to the cup and stuck it all together.  I added a double thickness of foam tape behind the lid to make it as dimensional as the frame and adhered it to the cup.  For the sleeve I wanted a sentiment that was a little punny but couldn't find anything suitable in my stash so made my own.  I stamped the 'happy birthday to' and then die cut some letters 4 times from pink card to spell the word BREW (I know technically brew is synonymous with tea but I think it works in this instance) and lightly ink blended them to give them a slight ombre look and added them to the sleeve with liquid glue.  I stamped a row of cocoa beans underneath to continue the coffee theme and ink blended around the whole sleeve in brown ink (I did try pink first but didn't like it so went over it with the brown).  The sleeve was added to the frame with liquid glue.  The front definitely didn't need anything else with all the sparkle and shimmer going on.  For the inside I used one of the inner parts that cut out when I die cut the frames, added a thin piece of the shimmery card to the bottom and again added a punny sentiment with black ink and a single cocoa bean.  A really fun card and I'm super happy with it.  I may decide to add a gift card holder on the inside depending on who I give it to.  

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

Creative Knockouts challenge - birthday wishes

Cut It Up challenge - happy birthday

Get Creative challenge - April Fool's Day (joke or punny sentiment)

If You Give A Crafter A Cookie challenge - the sprinkles made me think of a shaker 

Scrapping4Fun challenge - ATG

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Snippets Playground challenge - I used all pieces from my scrap bin/already die cut 

Sweet Stampin' challenge - birthday girls (Happy Birthday to Wendy)

The Design Team have created amazing cards as always so please pop over to the blog and check them out and perhaps leave them some love on their personal blogs.   

I hope you will be able to join in with our challenge this month but don't forget it has to be birthday themed.  I can't wait to see your creations in the linky.

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

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Honey Bee Stamps - coffee cup card honey cuts

Honey Bee Stamps - perfect blend stamp set (for inside greeting & cocoa beans)

MFT - make a wish stamp set (for the partial outside greeting)

MFT - little letters die-namics

Taylored Expressions - foam sticky strips (for shaker)

Gina K Designs - ink pads - warm cocoa, bubblegum pink

acetate from packaging

pink card from stash

Pretty Pink Posh - sparkling clear sequin mix

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Tonic Nuvo Shimmer powders (not 100% sure what colours I used but they are all beautiful)

Krafty Chicks Challenge #709 All Occasions

Hello again friends; I'm back with my DT card for this week's Krafty Chicks challenge.  We are on Week 4 which is 'All Occasion' i.e. birthday, sympathy, get well etc; the world's your oyster!  

I needed an anniversary card for my in-laws so this challenge was perfect timing for me.  Here is my card:

a closer look at the florals:

I also decorated the inside:

I began by cutting my white panel 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" and my black panel just a touch bigger to give me a thin border.  I adhered them together with double sided tape.  The floral die comes in two parts; the backing piece I cut from white card and the top detail layer I cut from gold mirror card.  I used the matching layering stencils to colour the backing die cut and then added the gold detail layer over top with liquid glue (it's not perfectly lined up with my stencilling but it looks ok).  I repeated this another 2 times, an extra one for the inside.  I added foam squares to the 2 for the front on my card and arranged them in such a way that I could stamp my sentiment in the centre of my card.  The sentiment is made up of 4 different stamp sets and I could have made my spacing a little closer between the mam and the ampersand but it was too late once I had stamped it!  I added a few tiny heart die cuts to fill some empty spaces and the front was complete.  For the inside I stamped a sentiment in black ink in the centre and then added the third die cut flower arrangement at the bottom of the panel (I did trim it ever so slightly so that it would fit).  I added the panel to the card base with double sided tape.  My card size is 5" x 7" which is my preferred size for family cards.  I hope you like it. 

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

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - any occasion

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes with optional mood board

Cardz 4 Galz challenge - spring flowers with dies or punches

My Time To Craft challenge - multi-coloured florals

Pearly Sparkles challenge - celebrate

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Stencil Fun challenge - must use a stencil option Easter/spring (I used a die/layering stencil combo)

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG option the DIES have it

Tic Tac Toe challenge - pastel colours, CAS design, flowers

Triple B challenge - must include at least one bird, bloom or butterfly

Try It On Tuesday challenge - use a stencil (I used a die and layering stencil combo)

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'All Occasions' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori and also our guest designer for March, Shirley. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - doodled autumn stamp set

Gina K Designs - floral wishes stamp set

Gina K Designs - curved floral die set & layering stencils

Gina K Designs - lovely ladies stamp set

Gina K Designs - grand gentlemen stamp set

Gina K Designs - ink pads - bubblegum pink, passionate pink, ocean mist, wild dandelion, soft stone

Cardmaking Magic - verses for occasions (for inside sentiment)

MFT - tag builder blueprints 6 (for tiny hearts)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Hobbycraft - A4 luxury black card

gold mirror card from stash

Spring Into Card Making IG Hop - Week 3

Hello my lovely friends; I hope you've had a wonderful day so far.  It's Week 3 of the Spring Into Card Making IG Hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly and this time we are all about spring.  Each week we will be sharing a themed card focusing on the joys of spring.  If our hop inspires you please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to join in the fun.  

This week we are making Easter or spring creations and as Easter is almost here I decided to make one more Easter card.  I used an older (but new to me) stamp.  Here is my card:

A close up of the cute image:

I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a panel of alcohol marker friendly card to 3 3/4" x 5" and stamped the image towards the left of centre and coloured it with Promarkers (I also stamped a mask to use later).   After colouring the image I placed the mask overtop and lightly inked all around with a sea glass ink pad to give a slight halo effect to the image.  I then stamped the sentiment to the left of the image in black ink.  I cut a panel of kraft card slightly larger than my white panel and adhered them with double sided tape.  I then added this onto my card base with foam tape.  For the inside I cut the exact same panels as the front, stamped a sentiment in the centre with black ink and lightly ink blended the same sea glass ink around the edges.  I decided to stamp just the little eggs from the image into the left bottom corner three times and coloured them with Promarkers.  The panels were again adhered together with double sided tape and added to the card base with double sided tape also.  I finished with some white highlights using a gel pen and my card was complete.  

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

AAA Cards challenge - anything CAS goes option spring/spring colours

Allsorts challenge - keep it simple

CRAFT challenge - Easter/spring

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG option use the rainbow

Papercraft challenges - Easter

Scrapping4Fun challenge - Easter/spring

Shopping Our Stash challenge - spring has spring (13 challenges total)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Stamping Sensations challenge - spring (3rd entry)

Sweet Stampin' challenge - Easter

The Cutie Pie challenge - Easter/Mother's Day

The Sisterhood of Crafters challenge - bunnies and or chicks (if my 'bunny' isn't appropriate please delete/ignore my entry)

Tic Tac Toe challenge - Easter eggs, yellow, free

I would love it if you would pop over to Instagram and see the amazing work by all the other crafters taking part in the hop.  Please use the hashtag #2024springintocardmakinghop to find us and also so that we can find your creation if you are inspired to take part.  

I'll be back again with you tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so please pop by and check it out.  As always I appreciate the comments you leave and thank you so much for stopping by. 

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Stamping Bella - Valerie bunny stamp (retired)

Dovecraft - essential sentiments (for inside greeting)

Promarkers

Gina K Designs - masking magic sheets

Gina K Designs - sea glass ink pad

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card 

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Crafter's Companion - 280gsm kraft cardstock

Memento - tuxedo black ink

Versafine - onyx black ink

Sakura - no 10. white gelly roll pen