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:

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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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.

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BIG Hugs.

I used Time for Tea Designs "You're Elephantastic", "Butterflies" and "Beauty sleep" stamp sets to make this wobbly elephant card. 

So first I stamped the elephant and the butterfly, Cut out some cloud shapes freehand and used M&C Boutique balloon alphabet dies (Brought from The Works) to cut out the word "hugs".

I then coloured them in using Spectrum Noir Tri-Blends. Ice grey blend for the elephant, brown-grey blend for his nails, pale pink blend for the balloons and the wings of the butterfly, Citrus blend and burnt orange blend (light side only) for the butterfly's body and wingtips and blue turquoise to outline the clouds.
I then stamped the "BIG" sentiment from the elephantastic stamp set onto the biggest cloud.

I cut a piece of blue/green ombre to the same size as my card blank. Using Hunkydory Moonstone circle nesting dies (any circle nesting dies will work) I cut out a circle from the Blue/green card and also a bigger (I went up 2 sizes) circle from a scrap piece of the same colour.  

I then used the little cloud from time for tea's "beauty sleep" stamp set and Hunkydory's prism "blue Lagoon" ink pad to add some little clouds to the background.

I wrapped one end of some pale pink cotton around the bottom of each balloon letter securing it at the back with a foam pad. I then cut around the elephant's hand so I could wrap the other end of the cotton around it again securing it with a small foam pad.
I stuck the "hugs" word down using more foam pads.
I then lined up the bigger circle behind the hole, put a foam pad in the middle and stuck the elephant onto the foam pad.
I then stuck foam pads to the back of the card leaving the bigger circle some wiggle room.
Foam tape would work better but I ran out as you can probably tell from the picture.

Then I added the clouds and butterfly. I put some of the clouds on foam pads for a bit of dimension.

I hope you liked this card. The stamps sets I used can be brought here

Drink Wine, Snuggle dog, repeat.

6x6" card made using Splash Crafts Paw Prints USB.

For this card I used the tri-colour spaniel printed onto Splash Crafts "print perfect" 200gsm card, I then used a scalloped circle die brought from The Works to cut it out. I trimmed the scallop edging off and then cut a piece of textured pearlescent peach card using the same die and layered it up. The sentiment is made using the same technique and a smaller scalloped die from the same pack.
The background is from the Paw Prints USB and printed onto 120gsm "print perfect" and layered onto a 5¾" square of the same textured peach card.
The band of the peach card is cut using Hunkydory Crafts Moonstone dies scalloped rectangles but using the same die-cutting into the card again to make it slimmer.
The embossed white band is just a scrap piece of white textured pearlescent card, embossed using an embossing folder that came with my Hobbycraft die cutting machine.
The pearls are coloured in using a sharpie pen.

Fairy nice

A4 card made using Hunkydory Crafts Twilight Kingdom Topper set and Dies.

I used two other sitting fairy dies but I'm not sure what brand they were. The black card was brought from Abakhan craft shop in Mostyn North Wales, it had a nice gloss finish which drew me to it. This card was made in 2017 so trying to remember everything I used was fun :)