40th Berry Balloons

Hi guys

I completely forgot to share this card with you earlier.  It's a card I made for my brother to give to a mutual friend.

It may look familiar as I stamped and die cut these balloons when I made this card but ended up not using them.

The balloons were stamped in Versa Color inks and die cut using their co-ordinating dies.  I positioned them on a panel of white cardstock and marked with a pencil where I wanted them to sit before I drew the strings with a black fine liner pen.  The balloons were then secured with glue dots.  I die cut the 'happy' twice, once in white and once in a berry shade and adhered these together, slightly off centre, before adhering to the panel.  The '40th' was then stamped directly on the panel before it was popped up on 3D foam strips.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Wplus9 - Whole Lotta Happy; Uniko - Classic Numbers
• Ink: Versa Color - Cardinal, Raspberry, Boysenberry, Grape
• Dies: Wplus9 - Whole Lotta Happy; Clearly Besotted - Happy Word Die

Challenge entries:

Papertake Weekly Challenge - To Die For
CASology - Week 160 - Number
Seize the Birthday - Anything that Flies
Stamping Sensations - August Challenge - Anything Goes with a stamp and a die
Crazy for Challenges - Challenge #297 - Include the word Happy


Thanks for popping by.  That's all for now, back to stash sorting mode :)

Ombre Hugs

Hi there

I've got a really quick post for you this evening.  I made this card this afternoon to combine a few challenges.

This is only the second time I've used my Distress Inks and I think I'm getting the hang of this blending business as I'm really happy with how this one turned out.  I'm desperately waiting for pay day as I NEED to add some more colours to my collection of ink pads!

On a panel of white cardstock I masked off a horizontal panel and used my mini blending tool to blend two pink inks to create an ombre effect.  I then used a word die to cut out the word hugs from the panel.  Originally I was going to just inlay a second word die but I decided to stack them so I didn't really have to cut it out after all!  The top word die is cut from another panel of blended cardstock but with the colour fading in the opposite direction, from bottom to top instead of top to bottom.  The panel was adhered to my card base using 3D foam and I added an epoxy heart sticker to finish.

Materials used:

• Cardstock: Anna Marie Designs
• Ink: Distress Ink - Spun Sugar and Seedless Preserves
• Die: Lawn Fawn - Scripty Hugs
• Accent: Stampin' Up - Itty Bitty Accents Epoxy Stickers

Challenge entries:

CASology - Week 143 - Ombre
CAS on Sunday - Challenge #57 - White and one other colour
Happy Little Stampers - April Sketch Challenge

That's all for now, thanks so much for visiting.

Thanks with Dots

Hi guys

A quick late post tonight to share a card I made for my mum and her partner to say thanks for everything they've done for me over the last few months.  I'd be completely useless without them!

I wanted to enter the latest challenge at ShowCASe your Style where they have a colour challenge so I based this card on the challenge inspiration photo.

And here is the colour challenge inspiration photo...

I started by randomly stamping different circle stamps in different colours around the centre of the card.  Once the area was stamped I die cut the word 'thanks' from the card base, keeping all the bits from within the cut.  I adhered a panel of cardstock to the back of the card front, ensuring that there was double sided adhesive in the area where the word had been cut from.  I then die cut more word dies from white cardstock and inlaid one of these into the card base, filling in the gaps with the original bits from within the original cut.  I then layered up 3 more white die cuts before finishing off with the original stamped cut on the top.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Geometric Style II
• Ink: Versa Color
• Die: Paper Smooches - Thanks Word

That's all for today, I'll be back again late tomorrow night with the next challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.  I'd love for you to swing by again.

Bye for now

Fabulous Friend

Hi there

Just popping by tonight to share a card I made for my bestie's birthday, Happy Birthday H :) xxx

I tried a couple of techniques which are new to me and that I've never tried before and it took a few attempts to get this right, a few bits and bobs did end up in the bin! :D

The first technique was using an inlaid die which, on a single piece of card would be quite simple.  But I tried to be fancy so it took me a while to get this right!  The second technique is one I've seen a lot of recently in blogland, and that is the layering up of the same die cut image and adhering the layers together.  You can see this in the third pic where I've layered up the various purple and lilac die cuts.  I've used lots of Clearly Besotted products on this card and I adore that 'fabulous' font, isn't it, well...fabulous!

Materials used:

• Cardstock: Papermania Premium Textured Cardstock; white cardstock from stash
• Dies: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Leafy Accents and Happy Everything; Spellbinders Nestabilities - Classic Ovals Large; MFT Die-namics - Fishtail Flag Stax
• Stamps: Clearly Besotted Stamps - A Little Sentimental and Say It In Style
• Ink: Versafine - Onyx Black
• Gems: Kanban - Pastel Bling

Challenge entries:

Dream Valley Challenges - Challenge 74 - No Designer Paper

Simply Create Too - Challenge #54 - For a Female

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 306 - Something New (2 new techniques)

Papertake Weekly Challenge - Anything Goes

I hope you are all well and to those of you in the UK, stay safe in this dreadful weather, I think our South West is going to take a battering tonight :(

Take care