Happy Birthday

A birthday card today, inspired by a sketch on Freshly Made Sketches and Colour selection from Just Add Ink

 

 

 

I used my own handmade circle stencil, made with Spellbinders Circle dies & acetate, to make the 'bubbles' using blending brushes on a white 210gsm cardfront.

 

'Happy Birthday' from MFT 'Adorable Elephants' stamped directly to the cardfront in Black, trimmed to suit with a blue border added to define the edge.  Cardfront was then added to 300gsm cardbase using 3D foam.  

 

Two cocktail glasses & umbrellas from Sugar Pea Stamps 'Cheers to You' were stamped, die-cut & coloured in with Copics then layered onto the cardfront with 3D foam ... and a finishing touch of Kindy Glitz/Stickles & bling.

 

I used Distress Inks - Twisted Citron, Tumbled Glass & Mustard Seed - they are the closest to the Just Add Ink colours I have.

 

 

I am quite pleased with this card - I hope you like it too!

 

**UPDATED**  Oooh - My card was chosen Princess of Clean by Judy for Freshly Made Sketches!

 

 

Linking With the following challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches #587

Just Add Ink #654

Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes with Dies

 

ITEMS USED

Stamps/Dies:  MFT Adorable Elephants, Sugar Pea Stamps & Dies

Inks: Distress Inks

Tools:  Cuttlebug, Handmade Stencil, Blending brushes

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

You're not old ... you're vintage!

I had a lot of fun making this card.

 

 

I stamped the TV and die cut several times, making a shaker window for the screen. I placed TV onto background SDP, then used a Stampin' Up Marker to define the edge.

 

 

Sentiment was stamped using Stampin' Up Marker Bravo Burgundy - I am amazed they still work after all these years!

I just love these layering stamps & dies - they create such interest in an otherwise clean & simple card. #Altenew

 

Linking With the following challenges:

 

Happy Little Stampers:  Anything Goes with Dies

AAA Birthday Game #48 - Layer it up

The Male Room Challenge #173 - Stencil &/or Dies

Sweet Stampin Challenge - Use Dies &/or punches

Fab 'n' Funky Challenge #570 - Use die cuts

 

ITEMS USED

Stamps/Dies:  Altenew Vintage Vibes

Inks: Stampin Up:  Close to Cocoa, Really Rust, Bravo Burgundy; Distress Inks, Versafine

Tools:  Cuttlebug, Couture Creations Stamp Press

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Happy Easter

I felt like doing some foiling and Copic colouring today.

 

 

I love this 'easter tree' digi stamp from LOTV - my Sister-in-law has an 'easter egg tree' ornament that she puts on display each year - so that is who I am going to give this card to.

 

I printed digi stamp and the sentiment 'Happy Easter' using a font called 'Tinker Toy' with the Laser Printer. The sentiment was foiled in Gold and the digi stamp was foiled in Green.

 

I then coloured the image with some lovely pastel shades using my Copic Markers.

 

 

The cardfront was trimmed down to fit on a DL sized cardbase, and a final touch of bling added.

 

I really like the simplicity of this one - nice and easy to put in the mail too!

 

I have been inspired by quite a few challenges for this card.  

 

The As You Like It challenge asks us to nominate what is our fave - People or Animals.  I think it has to be Animals .... hands down!  They are such fun to colour in!

Several other challenges have Easter as the theme and these have influenced my colour choices.

   

 

Linking With the following challenges:

Inspired by #231 - Eggs

Sweet Stampin - Easter

As You Like It - People or Animals

Double D Challenges - Easter

Just Add Ink - #646 - Photo inspiration

ITEMS USED

Stamps/Dies:  LOTV Digi Stamp 'easter tree'

Inks:  Copic Markers

Tools: Laser Printer, Mini Minc, fancy rotary blade/cutting matt

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Mum

It will be Mother's Day on the 2nd Sunday in May for us here in Australia, and whilst it has been many years since Mr Fixit and myself lost our Mums, my Mum has been on my mind of late..... so I made a card for her 💗

 

I had another play with the Altenew BAF Lavender stamp & die set.  When I first used this set, I found it a little difficult to line up the stem exactly if you wanted to die cut the whole flower .... so I found a work around!    I die-cut first!   LOL

 

I cut out as many flowers as I needed.  I kept one of the 'background' holes and placed it in my Couture Creations Stamping Platform, then placed the die-cut in the hole.  Using the stamping platform, I was then able to align the stamps exactly where needed.   This was really useful for doing a batch of flowers at the same time.  The process is:  stamp the first layer, remove die-cut, then place a new die-cut in the hole, re-ink & stamp again.  Then when ready for second layer, line up second layer & repeat the process. 
 

Once I had finished stamping a batch of flowers, I could then get down to the layout of the card.  I wanted it fairly simple ....... so an ink spattered background using the same colours from the flowers seemed just right.

 

 

The flowers were arranged and attached at slightly different layers using foam dots.  'MUM' was die-cut in white cardstock and ink blended with a brush using the darker purple ink and the 'shadow' was die-cut out of vellum.

A tiny splattering of 'Kindy Glitz'/Stickles' was the final touch!

I think that our Mums would have loved a card like this.

 

--oo0oo--

 

Linking With the following challenges:

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge #3

The Flower Challenge #78 Stencils or Dies

Happy Little Stampers AG with Dies

Cardz 4 Galz #194 Use Vellum

 

 

 

ITEMS USED

Stamps/Dies:  Altenew BAF Lavender, MUM (unbranded)

Inks:  Colorbox Pigment Inks, Ranger Distress Inks

Tools:  Cuttlebug, Couture Creations Stamping Platform

Embellishments:  Kindy Glitz/Stickles

Cardstock/papers:  250gsm white, Vellum

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.

Noel

I have a new card to share today.

 

A little while back, I left a comment on Christina Griffiths' Blog and I won a prize - it was a Die Cutting Essentials magazine, which included a free die set.

It took a little while to get here .... all the way from the U.K. and this weekend I have had time to have a quick play. 

 

 

Inspired by the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #577, I used the snowflake & Noel from this free set and combined it with a Spellbinders Snowflake I already had. I die cut everything from silver holographic card & layered with black card to add dimension.  A strip was cut from black leathergrain cardstock scaps.  I thought the plain white background was a bit too plain, so I used some black, grey & silver inks to do some paint splatters, with a final touch of teeny tiny stars for some bling.

 

A Christmas Card fits in with the Happy Little Stampers AG Christmas Challenge , and the Christmas Crafts All year Round March Challenge of '3 red hens' or 3 of anything dictated the number of snowflakes .... all in all, the card came together relatively quickly.

 

         

 

 

The 52 Christmas Card Throwdown March Challenge of Black & Silver inspired my choice of colours, but sadly, I was too late to link my card up  (I will leave the link anyway - go visit and check it out)

 

 

 

Thank you again, Christina, I love visiting your blog and seeing your work.  I think I will enjoy playing some more with this die set.

 

ITEMS USED

Stamps/Dies:       Die-cutting Essentials Christmas Pillowbox Die Set, Spellbinders Snowflake

Inks: Distress Inks - Black, Grey, Silver

Cardstock:  White 300gsm, Black Leathergrain, Silver Holographic

Tools:  Cuttlebug

Thank you for visiting my blog today - I hope you have a good day.

Remember, any day doing something you love makes it a good day ;-)

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.