Spring Birthday

For my A5 card, Winnie Sunshine Delight digi stamp, coloured with alcohol markers and die-cut using scalloped and straight rectangle layering dies. I die-cut the floral paper from Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Paper Heaven 4 using the same layering dies and I used the pink paper from Lily Bug Love Paper Heaven 2 for the background. I printed the pre-coloured flower from the Winnie Sunshine Delights Embellishments bundle off three times each and layered them up using foam pads. I used the Happy Birthday sentiment from Winnie celebrations 2 sentiments bundle and die cut it down. 

Valentines

For my A5 Valentine's card, I used Work &Play Love & Kisses True Love digi stamp, coloured with alcohol markers and die-cut using heart layering dies. I used papers from the Work & Play Love & Kisses craft download Bundle, I used the large heart paper for the background and die-cut the striped paper using the same heart layering dies as before. The sentiment is from the same big download bundle as the papers, once again using the heart layering dies to make it heart-shaped. To finish I added 3 pearls that I coloured with a purple marker to match the card colour better, a ribbon, and a bow.

 

Darling Buds

 For the spring is coming challenge I used The Darling Buds Daffodil digi stamp coloured with alcohol markers and die-cut using circle layering dies. I used 2 papers from the Winnie Sugar Sprinkles Paper Heaven 4 bundle, layered up using a bright yellow card from my stash. Then I used a border die and simple flower dies to finish. 

 I made a cheer-up card. I chose to make a DL size using Ice Cream Days -Sparkle Unicorn digi stamp and coloured it in using alcohol markers. I chose bright colours and used a flower design paper from Winnie Celebrations 2 - Papers 1, to make this cute cheerful card. To finish I added a ribbon, bow, and paper flower.

A white Christmas.

My first Polkadoodles challenge was "All White (with accent colour)".

I used the Bella Bear with lots of parcels/gifts Digi stamp, coloured with alcohol markers, die-cut it using layering circle dies and I embossed the background with a simple dot embossing folder and used the purple card for the accent colour.  

Hunkydory's Wheel Surprise Dies and stamp sets.

My samples for Hunkydory's "wheel surprise" dies and stamps sets. An amazing combination of dies and stamps to make some adorable spinning wheel cards. Perfect for adding that extra surprise to your cards. 

 

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

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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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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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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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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I won a prize :)

So I did a blog hop, which I love doing because you get to see some fantastic cards and I was picked as a winner! My prize, which was this lovely stamp set, turned up yesterday and it would be rude not to have had a play.

This card is made using Uniko's "Hello Lovely" stamp set and coloured with Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends.

 I started with an A6 card blank and die-cut it with the Die'sire "Isabel" die. I then stamped, coloured and fussy cut the floral spray from the stamp set and stuck it to the card so it was overlapping the die-cut part slightly. Then I stamped the "Hello" and "Lovely" sentiment on the top and bottom of the card. To finish I added some pink/yellow ombre card inside so it shows the delicate die-cut edge.

 

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