85th Birthday card for my Mum

During these unusual times, it’s so hard to celebrate special events. Months ago my sister and I chatted about how we were going to celebrate Mum’s special day. My project at work was supposed to Go-Live on the same weekend! Well guess what? My project was delayed by 3 months and we couldn’t celebrate my Mum’s birthday properly. We did however, made the day special for her by getting take-away Dim Sum for her, followed by a visit to her backyard, singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to her. Once we can go out to restaurants again, we will go out for a big family dinner!
This card is an extra large A5 card with a bit of masking and distress oxide inks. Thanks for dropping by!

Challenge:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Materials:
Altenew Stamps
Tim Holtz Distress Oxides
Altenew dies

Masculine card

Just sharing a quick card today using Kaisercraft paper and Mama Elephant stamps. I’ve been making so many floral cards lately and get stumped when I have to make a masculine card! I decided to use my collection of Kaisecraft patterned paper. I haven’t used these cute pandas from Mama Elephant for a quite a while now, just perfect for a masculine card! Hope everyone is safe and well!

Challenge:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes with Mama Elephant

Materials:
Kaisercraft cards
Mama Elephant Pandamonium and Happy Everything

Flower Power

I'm back with another card using the colours of the Altenew April Inspiration Challenge, using a technique that was demonstrated by Lydia Evans from Lydia's Crafty Corner last year. I just love these diecuts and have used them in various ways ever since I got them. The  background was created with distress inks to match the colours from the challenge. This was overlaid with a panel with the flowers cut out as windows. Thank you for dropping by! Hope everyone is staying safe!

Challenges:

Altenew April Inspiration Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Flower Power

Materials:

Background - Tim Holtz Distress Inks

Die - Altenew Rose Filament

Stamp - Hero Arts

Altenew April Inspiration Challenge

I have a birthday card to share using the colours from this month's Altenew Inspiration challenge. I did some water colour backgrounds with distress and oxide inks. I then die cut flowers from the background and leaves from vellum. After adhering the patterned paper and flowers, I used the Altenew white spray to add some splatter before adding the sentiment strip, leaves and sequins to finish the card. Hope everyone is sage! Thanks for dropping by!

Challenges:
Altenew April Inspiration Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Knock on Wood

Materials:
Cardstock - Neenah Solar White
Stamps and Dies - Altenew
Pattrened Paper - Kaisercraft
Others - EP from Altenew (Rose Gold), Altenew Pure White Spray

Easter Cards 2020

Hope everyone is well. I have three Easter cards to share. I stamped all the roses a couple of weeks ago with my Misti and then fussy cut them for a rainy day. Due to still working despite the COVID-19 restrictions, I have been rather busy on my weekends off with some much needed household maintenance and cleaning. I has lucky to have a day off this week and decided to put these flowers to good use! I was inspired by Tim Holtz Facebook Live videos over the last two weekends and decided to use my distress inks and oxides to some good use! All three cards started with some texture paste background, then a mixture of distress oxides and inks and lots of water. I used water colour card stock for the first two cards and Neenah card stock for the last one. I decided to keep the last one CAS with only just a splatter of white paint. I love the different looks of all three cards! Which one do you prefer? Hope everyone is staying home to fight this dreadful virus! Stay safe!

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Add Some Texture
Tim Holtz Instagram Challenge - #TimHoltzDemo

Materials used:
Paper - Bristol Watercolour paper, Neenah Solar White
Stencil - Tim Holtz
Stamps - Altenew and Hero Arts
Inks - Altenew on the flowers, Distress Inks and Oxides on the background, Ranger Archival Ink 

Challenge me a Christmas Card with Michelle Lupton and friends

My Crafty friend Michelle Lupton has asked me to join her again this year with Challenge me a Christmas Card with Michelle Lupton and Friends. The challenge I set for her was to create a ‘Baubles’ card. She sent me a gorgeous bauble card last year.

Here is my card using a bauble die and patterned paper. It was a really quick and simple card to make. Pop over to Michelle’s blog to check out her creation! I can't wait to create more cards with the new Kaisercraft collection! Thanks for popping by!

Ingredients:

Die - Lil Inkers Stitched Squares and Jingle Bells

Paper - Kaisercraft Peppermint Kisses and Neenah Dessert Storm 

Others - Sizzix EF 

Winter Rose Love

I'm back with a couple of cards I made recently. I massed produced this by stamping out all the roses first in various colours and then fussy cutting them out. I then stamped the background leaves before adhering onto the card with a bit of glitter tape on the edge. They were so quick to put together and I've already sent away four of them! Thanks for dropping by!

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Happy Birthday

Altenew August Inspiration Challenge - First card

Ingredients:

Stamps - Altenew Winter Rose, Label Love

Inks - Altenew

Others - Kaisercraft glitter tape, sequins