Baby Girl Cards

My lovely cousin has a new grandchild so I wanted to make a card for her and for her lovely daughter. First up is the Baby Buggy which is a Pink Petticoat digi here.

I used a pearlescent base and added some gorgeous digi papers from My Time Made Easy here. I also used  one from my Pink Petticoat stash.  The baby buggy is paper pieced from Pink Petticoat papers too. They are all edged with distress ink and the ovals are Spellbinders dies.  The buttons are from Fiona Jennings here which I have threaded with ultra thin ribbon from my stash.

The next one is a digi stamp from A Passion For Stamps here.  I have again used a pearlescent card base and  the My Time Made Easy papers and Spellbinders Timeless Rectangles. The image is coloured with Copics and the sentiment is using a fancy font on my pc.

I hope you like them and thanks for coming by and special thanks if you leave a comment. Anne :)

Warmest Christmas Wishes

I love making Christmas cards after I don't actually need any more because then I can just enjoy the process with no pressure.  This card uses pretty Christmas papers I bought last year from Create and Craft and they were an amazing bargain price.  They are gorgeous colours and the set includes printed vellum and die cuts, plus they are still available in their sale.
I used a Craftwork Cards 6 x 6 blank and distressed the edges of the papers using my distressing tool from Making Memories, but you can just use scissors.  I added a piece of translucent vellum from my stash and sewed it on with my sewing machine using a zig zag stitch .  I also sewed the stripy strip using a straight stitch.

The image is a Pink Petticoat digi from last year coloured with pencils.  I used distress ink around the edge whilst it was still in the spellbinders die.  This is mounted onto a nestie scalloped circle in one of the background papers.  The snowflake is a Marianne die and the buttons were clear ones that I coloured to match using copics.  The ribbon is from a local haberdashers and is tied along with the buttons with crochet cotton.  I added some fluffy stuff on the main image to finish it off.

Thanks for coming by and any comments very welcome and appreciated :).

Christmas cards with Margaret Sherry digis.

Here are some cards I made recently using Margaret Sherry digi images.  I mounted the images onto mats or die cuts and used the waste from the die cuts as a frame for some too.  The backgrounds are from the same set and also some Pink Petticoat digis.  The sentiments are also from the same set and I used shaped Craftwork Cards card blanks. I used Glitter Magic and ribbon from my stash.   It certainly saves time using digis when you have a lots of cards to make.  My first love is stamping but I did have fun glittering and glazing these fab images.  On the snowballs I used fluffy stuff which puffs up when heated to resemble snow, it's great fun.

I hope you're still here!  Thanks for looking and any comments very welcome :)

Pink and Purple Tortoises!

This card uses a tortoise stamp from a set I bought a while ago and have hardly used, so thought I should have a play.  The tortoises are coloured using my copics and cut with a spellbinders oval die.  The pink piece behind is a piece of handmade (by me!) paper made a very long time ago and has been sitting in my stash waiting for the day.  These pieces are mounted over a lovely Cheery Lynn fancy oval which is one of my favourite dies.

The background pieces are a gorgeous pink flower paper that I have been saving (lol) for ages as I love it, but today's the day it's got the chop!  The other piece is a pink petticoat polka dot digi paper.  Both of these mounted onto white card and stitched on the sewing machine.  The ribbon is  lovely glittery striped sheer pink gorgeousness.

This lot mounted onto a folded A4 purple pearlescent card.  Not forgetting (almost!) the sentiment from Craftwork Cards which is a white pearlescent flower shape which I have edged with one of the pink copics I used on the tortoises.

It was such fun to make this card, pink and purple tortoises, why not?!  I hope you like it :)

(Sorry about the picture quality I am having a problem with my camera and have used my phone again )

Cutie Owl

This little cutie is coloured with watercolour pencils and is probably a bit brighter than it needs to be, but hey it's always an experiment isn't it.  It has stickles on it too.  The branch is various metallic pens.  The more I look at it, the more I think I should do something on the white background, but there's so much going on elsewhere on the card, I think I'll leave it.   Its cut out with a spellbinder label and edged in silver leafing pen.
The pearlescent blue card mat under that is also edged with the leafing pen.

The background papers are both digis from Pink Petticoat (I love their papers, their colour palettes are gorgeous) .  They are both sewn onto a white card matt with a multi-coloured machine embroidery thread in a zig zag stitch.

The owl stamp and the sentiment are from the same set (I think it might be Inkadinkadoo but I have stupidly thrown away the packaging of most of my unmounted stamps!) .  The sentiment is edged in the silver leafing pen as well.  The gorgeous dotty blue satin ribbon is tied around the piece to balance out the blue of the mount above.  The whole thing is mounted onto the same blue pearlescent card as the mount for the owl.

Like a lot of my cards when I look at it, I find fault, this isn't perfect, that could be better, what if I did this or that, so I was reluctant to post it.  But I think you just have to go for it and just let it be 'good enough' rather than 'perfect'.  I don't think we would ever post anything otherwise!  What do you think?

Another variation on the Three Ferns stamp by Hero Arts

This is another version  of Three Ferns stamp.  It uses distress inks sprayed with water before stamping onto a piece of white card stamped in distress inks with a text stamp on one side and the three ferns on the other.  The edges have been inked with the same colour and then distressed with a tool.  Thread is tied around and has a button knotted onto it.

The lacy ribbon I  have had for years and not used til now and the background paper on the left is a Pink Petticoat digi.  I have a ton of Pink Petticoat digi files they make gorgeous background papers and are lovely colours and designs and very reasonable.  The brown piece of card is stamped in versamark using the Three Ferns stamp again.  The sentiment is from an Inkadinkado (I think) clear stamp set of flowers. It is distressed and stamped with distress ink.

This is one of the cards that will be hard to give away.  You  know you have to give most of them away otherwise the house would be full of cards!  Anyway it means you have to make some more!

One of my favourite cards

This is one of my all time favourite Hero Arts stamps and I have done lots of variations on this theme.  I used distress inks watercolour technique on a piece of white card which was stamped with a large text stamp.  I then colour tinted the edges and used a distressing tool to rough up the edges too.  The background paper is digi from Pink Petticoat, and the tiny happy birthday is one of my oldest (foam!) stamps which I love.  The green and brown strip are cardstock.  The base card has a lovely metallic pearl finish.  As always it looks better in real life!   Thanks for looking :)