Sunday 20 September 2020

For the love of stamps Designer Selection.

My samples for Hunkydory's For the love of stamps, designer collection. These stamp sets included a great range of stamps for the younger and older card designs. 






 

Thursday 6 August 2020

Gypsy Meadows

Another adorable card made using Crafty Devils Gypsy Meadows "Happy Birthday and Cake" stamp set. 
This set is just perfect to go with a circle die as the images are not too big and fit nicely onto 6x6" cards. 
You can find this adorable set HERE

Wednesday 20 May 2020

Gypsy and friends.

This card is made using the Gypsy Meadows "Gypsy and Napkin" and "Gypsys Friends" stamp sets, Hunkydory Prism ink pads and colouring is done using Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend markers. 


To start I ran my "Rainforest Green" ink pad around the edge of the card to give it a border and then I cut a piece of smooth white card ¼" smaller than the base card.
I stamped the fox, Gypsy with Napkin and the duck straight onto the white card. Then I stamped them twice more another piece of card, once for the masking and once for the 3d layers. I masked off the stamps on the white card, used "Blue Lagoon" prism ink and the "Plane Cute" stencil from Hunkydory crafts to make the clouds. Then I drew a line for the grass and added some hand-drawn bushes. I coloured the grass, bushes and stamps in using my Tri-Blend markers. Making sure to use the same colours on my second set of stamping. Then I stuck the base picture to the base card.
I cut out the parts I wanted to 3d from the second set of stamping and layered them onto the base picture using 1mm foam pads. To finish I stamped the "Have a very Happy Birthday" sentiment from a separate stamp set from my own stash onto smooth white card, die-cut it out using a rectangle die, layered it onto a piece of card that I coloured using the "Rainforest Green" prism ink pad and stuck it to the base card using foam pads. 


Thank you for stopping by and happy crafting.

You can get these adorable stamps sets and other in this range from here:
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Family comes in all shapes and sizes. I think these stamp sets show that really well.  

Friend

6x6" card made using Gypsy Meadows "Gypsys Friends" stamp set, Hunkydory Prism ink pads and coloured with Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend markers.


To start I covered a 6x6 card blank with Hobbycrafts green card, then I added a 5¾" x 5¾" piece of spotted paper from The Craft Place origami paper stack. Then I cut a 2"x 6" piece of green card and layered it up with a 1¾" x5¾" piece of zig-zag origami paper. I put a band of hessian ribbon around that layer and stuck it the base card.
I die cut a piece of smooth white card using Moonstone nesting dies Circle, then stamped the fox onto the circle. I then masked off the stamp and used "Blue Lagoon" prism ink and the "Plane Cute" stencil from Hunkdory for the clouds. I coloured in the fox in brown to make him look more like a dog and added flicks of different greens to the grass. Then I die-cut a scalloped circle from the green card using Hunkydory Scalloped nesting dies, layered the stamped image onto it and stuck it to the base card using 1mm foam pads. Using Time for Tea designs "friend" die, I cut the word from white card and the backing from green card, stuck them together and added it to the card, again using foam pads. To finish I coloured some white pearls green to match the card and stuck them along the hessian ribbon.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and thank you for stopping by.

You can get this adorable stamp set and the others in the set here:


Saturday 16 May 2020

My Little Duckling

For this card, I used the "Box Clever" die set from Time for tea designs, Hunkydory for the love of stamps "Totally Quackers" stamp set, "Blue Lagoon", "Rainforest Green" and "Arctic Mist" Prism ink pads and coloured with Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend markers.


I started by die-cutting some lime green adorable scorable card for the box and smooth white card for the inside strips. Then I created the background using For the Love of Masks "Plane Cute" stencil and arctic mist prism ink pad. I die-cut the sun and clouds using the box clever die accessories, coloured the sun in yellow and ran the arctic mist ink pad around the edge of the clouds. I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the ducks, reeds and sentiment, then I stuck them to the inside strips that I had coloured using "Rainforest Green" and "Blue Lagoon" ink pads. To finish I glued the box altogether and added the sentiment to the outside.   


Thank you for stopping by and happy crafting. 

Wednesday 1 April 2020

Another Year Taller

A6 slider card made using For the love of stamps "Another Year Taller" stamp set, "Blue Lagoon", "Arctic Mist" and "Rainforest Green" prism ink pads, For the love of masks "Plane Cute" stencil, nesting rectangle moonstone dies and coloured with Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends. 


I started by running the "Blue Lagoon" ink pad thickly around the edge of the card blank to make a blue border. I then die cut a piece of smooth white card using the second largest nesting rectangle moonstone die, blended the sky using "Blue Lagoon", "Arctic Mist" and the "Plane Cute" stencil and blended the grass using "Rainforest Green", the bush stamp from FTLS "Cheeky Monkey" stamp set and added a couple of flicks of green marker. I stamped the "Another Year Taller" sentiment in Black.
I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the Giraffes body on its own, neck x2 and head together. I stuck the body of the giraffe to the background, cut a slit at the neck part for the long neck to fit into and I then slid the long neck into the slit. On the back, I glued a small piece of cardboard to stop the neck sliding out of the slit and added a pull tab made from acetate to the head. To finish I stuck the background to the base card with 2mm foam pads.


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Thursday 26 March 2020

You are Moo-vellous

 A6 card made using Time for Tea Designs "Moovellous" stamp set, "Rainforest Green" prism ink pad, backing paper from The Craft Place "Origami Super Stack" (brought from the works) and coloured with Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends.


I started with an A6 card blank and covered it with Hobbycraft's "Brights" green card.
I used Hunkydory's nesting rectangle Moonstone dies to cut a piece of patterned paper so it was just smaller than the card. 
I then stamped, coloured, fussy cut and added two google eyes to the cow. Using the smallest rectangle in the nesting dies I cut a piece smooth white card and stamped the sentiment in "Rainforest Green", I used a green marker to add some dots around the sentiment and I made a green card layer for the sentiment using a slightly bigger rectangle die. 
Then I die-cut a scalloped circle using HDs Moonstone scalloped and straight nesting dies from green card, then a smaller straight edged circle from patterned paper, layered them up and stuck the cow to it. 
To finish I stuck the cow topper I made and the sentiment to the card using 1mm foam pads. 


You can buy the stamp set here
Hunkydory dies and ink pads can be brought from here

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Sunday 15 March 2020

Plane Cute

A6 card made using For the love of stamps "Plane Cute" stamp set, "Plane Cute" for the love of masks, "Blue Lagoon" and "Arctic Mist" prism ink pads, Straight edge rectangle Moonstone Die and coloured using Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends.


First I die cut a piece of smooth white card and used the plane cute mask to blend the clouds in the background using blue lagoon prism ink, then removed the mask and blended over everything with Arctic Mist. While I have my prism ink pads out I used Blue lagoon and coloured all around the edge of the base card.
I then stamped, coloured and fussy cut the two people, the biggest plane, the smallest plane and the banner. I then stamped the "Fly away with me" sentiment onto the banner and stuck them all down onto the background. I used foam tape for the biggest plane and two people and tacky glue for the small plane and banner. To finish I stuck it all to the base card.

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Saturday 7 March 2020

It's Hammy Time!

This little box card is made using Time for Tea Designs "Hooray Hamsters" Stamp set, Uniko's "Pinstripe II" stamp and coloured with Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends.


I stamped then coloured and fussy cut 2 different hamsters, the wheel and the sunflower seeds. I then stamped the "Pinstripe II" stamp using the "Slate Grey" prism ink pad to make the background. I then made a wrap out of acetate with 1" sides and ½" tabs for sticking to the background. I stuck ½" wide of scrap patterned card to the bottom and made a ½" wide panel of scrap white card, coloured in with "Jersey Cream" prism ink pad for the hamsters to be stuck to. Before I stuck the background to the wrap, I stamped the "It's hammy time" sentiment in the top corner using Spectrum Noir harmony "Jet Black" ink pad. I used foam pads to stick the wheel to the background and then stuck it all together. To finish I added a panel of white card to the back to add some stability and hide the acetate flaps.


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Friday 28 February 2020

Dogs life.

This 6x6 card is made using Splash Crafts "Pet Set" USB. 


I layered the card with silver mirror card, then added a 5¾" square of blue checked card from Hunkydory Crafts. I then printed off the "Jack Russell Jumping" decoupage sheet, cut it out, layered it up using 1mm foam pads and added a matt of silver mirror card before sticking it to my base card. I finished it off with some silver "Diamond sparkles" gems from Hunkydory crafts.

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Sunday 23 February 2020

Hip, Hop, Hooray!

6x6" pull-tab, jumping bunny card made using Time for Tea Designs "Hip Hop Hooray" stamp set, prism ink pads and coloured using Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends.


I made this simple pull tab card by cutting a 5¾" square of smooth white card and then cutting a slim rectangle for the pull-tab slider, I stuck it to the base card using foam pads so it can be slid up and down. I then blended the grass using "Rainforest Green" prism pad, the sky is "Blue Lagoon" and I used T4TD's blending brushes. I stamped the rabbits, trampoline (twice), coloured them in and fussy cut them out, cutting the second trampoline to look like a hoop. I finished by stamping the sentiment and die-cut it using a rectangle die.


I hope you like this card. Thank you for stopping by,
Lynn.

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Saturday 22 February 2020

Cheeky Monkey

 A6 swinging monkey card made using Hunkydory Crafts For the love of stamps "Cheeky Monkey" stamp set, prism ink pads and coloured with Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends.


I started by covering the A6 car in Hobbycraft's Primary card in green, then I cut a piece of smooth white card ¼" smaller than the base card, blended it in using Prism "Rainforest Green" and "Canary Yellow" and stamped the large and small leaves in "Rainforest Green" all over it. I then stamped the bushes, large leaves, monkeys and vine using Versafine black ink, coloured them all in using Tri-Blends and fussy cut them out but leaving about ½" of white on the top of the vine. I then placed them onto the card so I knew where to fix the vine and used a brad to fasten the top of the vine to the card. I stuck everything down using liquid glue, but foam pads on the top bushes to hide the brad and still give it room to swing. 


Thank you for taking the time to pop by 
Lynn.

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My Time To Craft!

Thursday 20 February 2020

Mermazing Birthday

6x6" card made using Time for Tea Designs "Swimming by to say Hi" and "Mermazing" stamp sets, Prism ink pads, Posca paint pen and Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends.

I blended the background using "Purple Velvet" and "Blue Lagoon" ink pads, lightly sprinkled with water and drew on some bubbles using my Posca pen. I die-cut a long thin rectangle and covered it with the bubble stamp using "Blue Lagoon" ink pads, then I die-cut a circle, stamped the mermaid from "Swimming by to say Hi", coloured her in using Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends, used the Posca for the dots and I used "Purple Velvet" to blend around the edge. I stamped the "Have a Mermazing Birthday" sentiment in "Purple Velvet", dotted it a bit with the Posca pen, die-cut it using a rectangle die and blended the edge using the same colour ink pad. I then stamped the wavy line stamp in "Purple Velvet", blended over it so it has a nice pale colour inside the lines, dotted it with the Posca pen and cut it out. To finish I added two blue iridescent pearls to the top corner.   


Stamp sets and blending brushes can be brought here

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Sketch Saturday

Tuesday 18 February 2020

Fairy Happy Birthday

I made this 6x6" card using Time for Tea Designs "Fairy Garden" stamp set, Uniko's "Party Confetti" stencil, prism ink pads and coloured with Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends. 


I started by die-cutting a square piece of smooth white card using Hunkydory's "Scalloped and Straight Nesting Dies-Square". I then taped it to my stencil, using "Blue Lagoon", "Purple Velvet" and "Dusky Rose" I blended the background and stuck it to my card. I stamped the fairy, cupcake and the "Fairy Happy Birthday" sentiment, coloured them in, fussy cut the cupcake and stuck it in the fairy's hand. I then die-cut the fairy using Hunkydory's "Nesting Circles" dies, blended the edge using "Purple Velvet", Die-cut the sentiment using "Nesting Rectangles", blended the edge using "Dusky Rose" and stuck them to the card using foam pads.

Products I used:
  https://www.uniko.co.uk/product/stencil-party-confetti/
https://www.hunkydorycrafts.co.uk/pip017-prism-ink-pads-blue-lagoon.htmlhttps://www.hunkydorycrafts.co.uk/pip022-prism-ink-pads-purple-velvet.htmlhttps://www.hunkydorycrafts.co.uk/pip003-prism-ink-pads-dusky-rose.html

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Monday 17 February 2020

CAS Bees

A clean and simple card made using Time for Tea Designs "Bee Happy" Stamp set, "Stitched Hexagon" layering dies, "Bee Hive" stencil, Prism ink pads and coloured with Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends.


First I cut 3 Yellow hexagons using the 3rd biggest die and Hobbycraft Primary yellow card, Then I used the next smallest die and cut 3 smooth white hexagons, I blended them using Prism "Canary Yellow" and then using the "Bee Hive" stencil I blended "Orange Zest" to make the pattern. I stamped the bees and honey pot, coloured them in and fussy cut them out. Then I stamped and embossed the "Bee Happy" sentiment using clear embossing powder on smooth white card and then blended the background in "Midnight Black" so it looks like it's white embossed. I finished by adding 3 yellow gemstones for a bit of bling.

  
  





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Crazy about Cats

So today I made a box easel card for a lady who loves cats. I used Time for Tea Designs "Cat Mom" digital stamp, Hunkydory crafts prism ink pads in "Blue Lagoon" and "Rainforest Green", Hunkydory's adorable scorable card in blue and I coloured in with Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends.


I started by making a 6x6" box with drawer using the blue card and the Adorable Scoreboard. Then I added the top easel part again using the blue card. I then cut 2 pieces of smooth white card and blended one using just "Rainforest Green" and the other I blended using "Blue Lagoon" with a cloud stencil and added "Rainforest Green" for the grass. I printed the "Cat Mom" digital stamp, Stamped the flowers from T4TD's "Hip Hop Hooray" stamp set and the sentiment from the "Always Time for Tea" stamp set, Coloured them all in and fussy cut them out. I stuck them all down and added a packet of cat treats to finish.

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Prism Ink Pads - Blue Lagoon

Prism Ink Pads - Rainforest Green
The Adorable Scoreboard

Adorable Scorable A4 Cardstock x 10 sheets - Blue Steel