Birds of a Feather

Hi Crafty Friends

This week we did a multi-purpose card. I put 'happy birthday' on mine, but others chose 'new home', 'thinking of you', 'get well soon', 'have a great day'. I just had to find small stamps to fit the tag.
I like these pretty papers with a touch of Spring about them (I have a few daffodils out, so we can but hope!)

It was a really quick and easy card. The birds were cut from the patterned paper in the pad, so inking the flowers and the butterfly was the only colouring.
Happy crafting
jx

All that jazz

Hi Crafty Friends

This week we had two cards to make. I bought this piano die a while ago, but it wasn't until I thought of combining it with the sax player we had out last week that I felt inspired to use it. This was really easy, really flat for posting and quick to make. Result!
The ribbon is really sparkly metallic thread, but it defied my best efforts to photograph it. I chose a birthday sentiment, but I think it would make a good 'get well', 'thinking of you' card as well.

I provided two versions of the next card.

I thought it could be used for anniversaries, engagements or even a valentine, but we also had other options for those who didn't want to put a couple on it. This was a bit more involved than the first card, because the arched layer is letterpressed and we used partial die cutting to extend the height of the aperture.

Happy Crafting

jx

Grungy Stamping

Hi Crafty Friends

I based this week's projects on what I remember of a card I made with my good pal, Debbie. I used two slightly different techniques. In the first I stamped splurgy coloured backgrounds, then stamped over them with grungy background stamps before finishing them with die cut embellishments.

In the second set I stamped a focal image, masked over it and stamped a background, either with one big stamp or with lots of little one to make my own pattern. I painted the first two with Distress Oxides and used a layering stamp set for the last one.

happy crafting
Jx

Happy New Year

Hi Crafty Friends

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas, and that 2020 brings you all sorts of crafty fun.
We started back this week, and as usual after Christmas, I started with a fresh Spring like feel. We had another go at stamping wreaths.
This is the main card I made for people to copy if they wanted. I trawled though all my stamps to find diddy bits of foliage.

I had accidentally bought the same set of stamps twice, but it turned out one of them had been made back to front, so I got a left and a right facing set. Result!! I found some dies that made loads of tiny flowers, one set free with a mag and one Britannia, I think, so this came together quite quickly.

Then I made some more for myself which I showed just for a few ideas.

And then I experimented and made a HUGE template for this 8x8" card

I was happy with how it came out, though I'm not generally a fan of massive cards. This gave me loads more scope for stamping. I stamped the teal coloured flowers on coloured paper and inked them to get shading, and then had to cut them all out by hand!! Aaargh!

This is the template, loads bigger than my stamp platform, but it doesn't seem to matter.

happy stamping

Jan x