World Card Making Day!

Sharing this sweet Birthday card that I made for World Card Making Day! Hope you were able to create something to celebrate too! Happy crafting!

Supplies used:

Mama Elephant Birthday Bash Stamp Set 

Watercoloured with Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers: Carmine Red, Orange, Yellow, Emerald Green, Cobalt Blue, Flesh Colour, Light Gray

Lawn Fawn Happy Birthday stamp (a birthday freebie)

Entering this into: 

Simon Says Stamp World Card Making Gallery 

"Anything Goes" Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

Slimline Flat Shaker

Sharing a Flat Slimline Shaker that I made this week. I was inspired by Amy R over at Prairie Paper & Ink - she has been on a roll with these shakers lately and I thought they'd be so fun to try!  

Flat shakers are so fabulous and ridiculously easy to make - this took me no time at all because I decided to use gold glittered patterned cardstock as my base. I wrapped some packaging around this and adhered three sides, leaving one open to fill with my shaker bits - which include gold sequins, black star confetti and little bits of vellum and glitter card. 

Once filled I I closed the last flap and adhered the whole panel to a black slimline card. To decorate the outside of the shaker I used the Pinkfresh Studio Heather Lowercase dies to cut "eighteen" (twice in black and once in gold) and stacked them onto the front! 

And voila, done! SUPER EASY right?? I am obsessed with these edge to edge shakers and have so many ideas I want to try out! 

Entering this into the Simon Says Stamp "Interactive" Challenge

World Card Making Day!!

Hope you had a fab World Card Making Day!! To celebrate I am sharing this 65th Birthday card that I made for my Mum! 

I started by die cutting the the two largest dies from the Pinkfresh Studio Inverted Stitched Scallop Circles three times from white card and once from cream shimmer cardstock, I stacked and adhered these together on top of a circle of vellum. The "65" was die cut using Pinkfresh Studio Heather Lowercase - I adhered this to the middle of the vellum circle and added to my patterned card base. I stamped and die cut some Pinkfresh Studio Lovely Blossoms as well as used floral ephemera from Pinkfresh Studio Days of Splendor and added them around the edge of the circle. To finish, I added some little pearls!

Inks used on the florals: Pinkfresh Studio Sky Blue, Summer Shower, Lavender

Entering this into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"

Mother's Day Tea Party

Sharing a little Mother's Day card that I made for my Godmother using the sweet Waffle Flower Tea Party set. The images were stamped with Versafine Onyx Black, heat embossed with Hero Arts Clear embossing powder and then coloured with Zig Real Color Brush markers. To finish off my little scene I added a frame from Mama Elephant Union Square Cuts.

Zig Colours used:

Cobalt Blue, Wine Red, Violet, Light Pink, Mid Brown, Gray, Flesh. 

I also used Chamomile Altenew ink to watercolour the kitty!

Entering this into:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Feminine

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Feminine

See Through Shaker Bookmark

Sharing this super cute See Through Bookmark that I made this week! I was inspired by Mona Toth, who has super easy to follow step by step instructions - check it out here. When I saw her adorable creation I knew I wanted to try this too!

I don't own frame dies so I created my own by layering the LF Stitched Rectangles with Outside In Stitched Scalloped Rectangles and it worked out perfectly! 

The shaker is created as you usually would but with acetate on both sides for the see through effect. I have a lot of green sequins that never get used so I decided that this would be my colour scheme lol! 

Other Supplies Used:

Lawn Fawn Meow You Doin'?

Lawn Fawn Birthday Tags (for the Banner)

Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders

Entering this into: 

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Add Some Green"

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "A Bit O' Green"

Stencilled Slimline Card

Sharing a slimline card that I made for an upcoming card swap - full disclosure, this is the first ever slimline card that I've made *and* the first time I've used layering stencils!! And I am HOOKED!!!

I used the gorgeous Pinkfresh Studio You Are My Favourite Stencil which features some beautiful blooms and foliage. Onto some vellum strips I heat embossed 'Hello Friend' from Mama Elephant Paola's Wishes with Ranger Rose Gold Powder. I wrapped the strip around the card front and finally added some glittery Poppy Stamps Stitched Butterflies as an extra embellishment.

Inks used:

Pink flowers - Altenew Pinkalicious & Rubelite

Purple flowers - Pinkfresh Studio Lavender & Regal Kiss

Orange flowers - Altenew Chamomile & Marigold

Blue leaves - Pinkfresh Studio Sky Blue 

I love how my first ever slimline turned out, even if it is a little simple -  I'm looking forward to having more fun with these stencils!

Entering this into:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Layer It Up"

16th Shaker Card

Sharing this 16th Birthday shaker card that I created using tulle as the window and featuring this cutie Unicorn cupcake from Mama Elephant Cupcake Wishes. To create the window in my patterned paper I used a Lawn Fawn Circle die and sandwiched some tulle with foam to the back. For my shaker bits I used hole and heart punches, plus some sequins and a mini flower die from Lawn Fawn Spring Sprig. The cupcake liner was stamped with Wilted Violet Distress Oxide and the bunting is from Waffle Flower Tea Party.

Entering this into:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Shake it Up"

2020 Christmas Cards

 

Sharing my Christmas cards for 2020, feat. Mama Elephant Oh Kitty Tree! I started by masking off little hills for the kitties to sit on and then went about creating pink shimmery snowy backgrounds by ink blending Altenew Pinkalicious & Rubelite Inks and then splattering with Pinkfresh Studio Candy Violet Ink and White Gouache and finally adding some Sparkle Sheer Shimmer Spritz. 

The images and sentiment were stamped in Versafine Onyx Black Ink and coloured with pencils! I foam mounted the kitties onto the backgrounds and added some Wink of Stella Glitter Gloss Pen to the little ornaments and Santa hats!

I'm so happy with how these turned out - I do love non traditional colours for Christmas!!

Entering these into:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "CELEBRATE"
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Christmas Critters"

Wishing you and yours a very Happy Christmas xx

Tulle Shaker Cards

I've been having a play with this beauty of a die, the Pinkfresh Studio Fancy Floral 2 and I created a bunch of shaker cards! These feature a tulle window instead of your usual acetate - something I saw Jennifer McGuire do once and I knew I had to try it!

For these, I cut the Fancy Floral die out of some glitter cardstock and glued the tulle to the back. On vellum I heat embossed some Birthday sentiments from Mama Elephant Paola's Wishes with

WOW embossing powder in Black Glint. 

To create my shaker bits I cut various glitter and metallic scraps of cardstock with a hole punch and also added some sequins from my stash.

These were so fun to create and I have so much tulle in my stash I'll definitely be making more of these! I made a few of these with acetate as well which I'll upload to my Flickr. 

Entering these into:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Fun With Dies"

This is the Jennifer McGuire Post that inspired me to try this technique!

2020 Christmas Tags

Christmas is upon us! Let the fussy cutting begin! Here are my Christmas gift tags for this year (I'm happily surprised at how early I finished these lol)

Supplies Used:

Mama Elephant Oh Kitty Tree Stamps

Mama Elephant Union Square tag die

Lawn Fawn Tiny Tag Sayings

Altenew Pinkalicious Ink - blended on the backgrounds

Distress Oxide Mermaid Lagoon - blended on the blue backgrounds

Pinkfresh Candy Violet Ink - splattered on pink backgrounds

White Gouache - splattered on backgrounds

Sheer Shimmer Spritz Sparkle

Coloured Pencils

Entering this into Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Christmas Tag"

Birthday Bash!

For World Card Making Day I made a bunch of these Birthday Bash cards which I will be sending out for an upcoming Card Swap! 

I used Mama Elephant Birthday Bash and Birthday Messages stamps, Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide for the background and lots of coloured pencils!

Entering this into: Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"

 

Big Happy Birthday

Sharing a super quick Birthday card using my favourite Mama Elephant Big Happy Birthday Creative Cut and a cutie Little Cat Agenda stamp. I cut the die three times from blue cardstock and once from glitter card and stacked all together for dimension, stamped and coloured the kitty with some pencils and gel pens and mounted  onto some fun blue chevron paper!

I always love making this brilliant die the focal point of the card - especially love the pop of glitter!

Entering this into:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Masculine"

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "It's A Man Thing"

Happy Easter

I have one last Easter card for you (I made a bunch okay!) - for this one I used the leftover stitched oval from my shaker card and created a little Easter scene using the Basket of Blossoms dies from Issue #34 of Die-Cutting Essentials.

For the background panel I ink blended Shaded Lilac and Seedless Preserves Distress Oxides, stamped "Happy" from LF Meow You Doin' in Picked Raspberries and die cut "Easter" with Impression Obsessions Easter Greetings word die. Then I adhered the oval scene using foam tape for some dimension.

This was super quick and I'm happy with how it turned out!

Entering this into:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Spring Mood Board"

Easter Shaker

Sharing another Easter card today - this time, a shaker! I adore creating shaker cards and this turned out to be so fun!

This gorgeous floral yellow card was a piece leftover from a previous craft session and it was the perfect size for the kind of shaker I had in mind. After rounding the corners of the card I cut a window to the left using a Scrap Dragon Stitched Oval die (I saved the oval itself and created another card which I'll share soon!)

Next I cut the bunny and greenery using the Basket of Blossoms dies from Issue #34 of Die-Cutting Essentials and adhered between the oval window and the acetate. I adhered the Easter Greetings sentiment cut from purple card using Impression Obsession word die. 

I ink blended the panel behind the window with Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide and then added my shaker bits - a mix of sequins, beads, shimmer paper and cute bunny scatters and then sandwiched it all together with foam tape.

Entering this into:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Spring Mood Board"

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"

Easter Baskets Cards

More Easter cards! For both of these baskets I used the Basket of Blossoms dies from Issue #34 of Die-Cutting Essentials, patterned cardstock from DCWV and on the blue one I used a Lawn Fawn Stitched Scalloped Rectangle.

Entering these into:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Spring Mood Board"

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"

Currently

crafting//

...I've made a bunch of Easter Cards this week using the adorable Basket of Blossoms die cuts from Issue #34 of Die-Cutting Essentials. I have a few of these to share and will do more posts but for this one I used pink gingham paper cut with a ScrapDragon square scallop die for the background and various cardstocks for my bunny and basket!

Entering this into:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Spring Mood Board"
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"

baking//

...I've baked a few goodies the last few weeks - my fave buttermilk scones, a super moist chocolate cake, these yellow cupcakes with chocolate frosting SO GOOD!!

reading//

...Tweet Cute by Emma Lord was a fave this month - super sweet cover too!

k dramas//

...still enjoying Hi Bye, Mama! (pretty sure I've sobbed every ep!) and Itaewon Class - I'm sure I'll be getting through a ton next month!

watching//

...caught up with The Goldbergs - man I needed a good laugh and this sure did the trick! Also On My Block S3 was so so great, I can't wait for next season!

Have you watched anything laugh out loud funny lately?
Hope you are staying safe xxxx

Peony Bouquet

My Simon Says Stamp Peony Bouquet stencil finally arrived last week and I got to have a bit of a play over the weekend! Stencils are new to me so I had some fun trying out lots of ink blending with this gorgeous bouquet! 

For my card I used Distress Oxides in: Shaded Lilac, Seedless Preserves, Chipped Sapphire and Mowed Lawn & I added a Thank You Script die from Pretty Pink Posh.

I also decided to make a quick tag using Lawn Fawn Tag You're It! I blended some Worn Lipstick, Dried Marigold and Shaded Lilac Distress Oxides and added a Tiny Tags Sayings sentiment stamped in Seedless Preserves!

Entering this into Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Stencil Fun!" (perfect timing!)

Looking forward to creating all the things with this beauty!

Currently

crafting//

...I made this easel card for an upcoming 60th Birthday - I recycled the art deco image cut using LF stitched scalloped rectangles, the "60" was cut with LF Finley's 123s and mounted on an LF scalloped circle and I also added some Poppystamps stitched butterflies. Patterned papers are from DCWV Love & Grow.

Entering this into Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Anything Goes"

watching//

...I'm Not Okay With This was super dark but funny and I thought it was great! Cable Girls S5, and I finally watched Parasite -  I thought it was brilliantly done!

reading//

...The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman was super cute, gorgeous cover as well! I also enjoyed Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi although I've noticed I've lost my love for YA recently (I need some recs!)

k dramas//

...I'm so sad that Crash Landing on You wrapped up - and in such a bittersweet way! I also got into Hyde, Jekyll, Me and have just started Hi Bye, Mama! 

wishlist//

...this super cute Weasley enamel pin! (i'm starting my pin collection!!) & this Bookish Babes tote bag (i love a good tote!)

Have you binged anything good lately? 

Pop Up Slider Card

 

I made a DIY Pop Up Slider Birthday Card this week using some new patterned paper. Let me tell you, patterned papers are my jam!! I have boxes full of gorgeous pads of paper that I hardly use *sighs* I had so much fun with this, my first interactive card!

It turned out to be super easy to construct (I watched a few YouTube tutorials) - it looks a bit complicated, especially if you're doing it without the aid of specialty dies, but honestly all you need is a paper trimmer and your trusty craft knife!

I settled for these floral papers from DCWV Love & Grow. I used the Mama Elephant Big Happy Birthday as my main attraction, cut from silver glitter card and added extra sentiments from Birthday Messages and Scripty B'day for the inside and pull up flaps! I also made a matching yellow envelope!

Entering this into Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge "Two Or More Patterned Papers"

Cupcake Wishes

I received so many lovely craft goodies for Christmas and I finally got the chance to have a play with them this week when making my first Birthday card of the year!!

Supplies used that are new to me: 

Mama Elephant Cupcake Wishes

Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide 

Scrap Dragon Scallop Square Die

Kraft Card set

I also made a matching envelope using the We R Memory Keepers 123 Punch Board which was also a Christmas gift!

Entering this into the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Something New"