Card catchup

Here are some cards I have made since my last post

Happy half birthday

I have been seeing loads of designs with cats on lately and wanted to make a card for my friend.  However her birthday is in December, so I decided to make her a “half birthday” card!

I used a TiddlyInks digital stamp, coloured it with Copics and cut it out.  I then used a dotty stencil and distress ink for the background.  I made another stencil by cutting out paw shapes and using the holes as the stencil.  The sentiment is stamped in Stazon black ink.

I am entering this card in … TiddlyInks Challenge #183 Happy Birthday

 

TiddlyInks Challenge #183

This is my card for the new TiddlyInks challenge.  The digistamp is called Schoolboy from TiddlyInks.  I coloured it in with Copics, then cut it out.  I stamped a Kraft baseboard with some Crafter’s Companion Journal Jottings stamps using Distress Ink.  Then I die cut the numbers and added Distress Ink again.  Stuck them on, added the image with sticky buds and die cut the words Happy Birthday on white card coloured with Distress Ink.

 

Flower Girl card

This is the second Julia Spiri design I bought.  Again coloured with Copics and layered up.  The embellishments are die cut flowers and Liquid Pearls.  The large flower has some sparkle added from a clear Wink of Stella pen.

 

Green Elf card

I discovered Julia Spiri digital stamps about a week ago, and bought a couple of images.  The first one is a little elf which I have coloured with my Copic Markers.

I hand drew around the edges of the various papers and scuffed up the edges, then added a couple of brads and some buttons and ribbon.  The base card is a Gorjuss card blank and envelope.  The sentiment is a rubber stamp free with Creative Stamping magazine a while ago.

Not sure who this card is going to yet.

One smart cookie

This is a card I made for a friend’s daughter for passing her GCSE exams.  It is an image from TiddlyInks, and I think this is one of my favourite cards so far.

Coloured with Copics, with gems and Glossy Accents added.

I am adding this card to the TiddlyInks challenge blog challenge – School Rules.

All Dressed Up

I recently entered a giveaway on the All Dressed Up Digital Stamps Facebook page.  You submitted a card to their gallery and a random number was drawn.  My number came up!!  I’d only just joined the group too so I was really surprised!  My prize was to choose three free images from All Dressed Up Etsy store.  I chose ‘I love my puppy’, ‘A little me time’ and ‘All wrapped up’ because it had a knitted scarf in the design.

So this card is the one I am going to enter for the next challenge.  If you want to enter click here.

I used the ‘I love my Puppy‘ image.  I wanted to use yellow because I’d seen it used recently on another blog.  Blue always goes well so I coloured most of the image in.  But I left the hair til last and couldn’t decide on Blonde, brown, black or red.  None of them seemed to suit.  So I thought why not blue.  That way it kept the whole image in the same two colours (apart from a couple of very pale green leaves).

Copic marker colours used were:  Face E000, E00, R20;  Blue B32,B93, B95;  Yellow Y11, Y06, Y02, Y08

I then rummaged through my papers and found the blues and yellows, stamped the sentiment and die cut it.  Then added the flowers and pearls.  There is a bit of blue Sakura Glaze pen on the little flowers and the hair tendrils but it isn’t clear in the photo.

If friends were flowers……….

This is a random card with no-one in mind, I just liked the image and wanted to colour it.

Tiddly Inks image again coloured with Copics, sorry I didn’t write down the colours.  The backing papers were offcuts which I bought at Crab Apple Crafts in Frodsham.  Again the sentiment was from a magazine freebie.  Some of the magazines give great free gifts, like Creative Stamping magazine.  You can see the glossy accents better on the centre of the flowers, the gems and paper flowers are from Hobbycraft and other local craft shops.

A card for Mark

I have a Welsh friend who is two days older than me.  We met when we were working together and have kept in touch since I left there 19 years ago!!  (Yikes!).   Anyway it is his birthday on Thursday so I have made this card for him…….

The dragon image is from Bugaboo stamps and the sentiment is a stamp which was free on a magazine.  I drew in the faux stitching around the edge of the card to match it.

Copics used: Reds R02, R05, R17, R27..  Browns E000, E00, E31, E35

Enjoy the little things………

I’m getting back into the swing of blogging, probably because I have things to show for my time.  I’ve been card making again and entering some challenges – and guess what?  I won one.  Well I say won, it was a random number draw and my name came up but I’m claiming it as a win.  It was the All Dressed Up July Facebook challenge and I submitted this card…. (you have to watermark them so the images can’t be stolen)

The image is actually a freebie in the All Dressed Up FB group files, and is coloured with Copic alcohol markers.  I then stamped and coloured the butterfly twice, cut them out and layered them up.  I think the backing paper was a freebie with a magazine, and I bought the paper flowers in Hobbycraft.  There are some glossy accents but they don’t show in the photo.

My prize is to choose 3 images from the All Dressed Up Etsy store, but I can’t choose!!  There are 114 of them!

I’m leaning towards ‘I love my puppy‘, maybe ‘girl on a bike‘ and maybe ‘a little me time‘.  But I keep changing my mind!!