Little Girls Card

The last of my commissioned cards was one for the sister of yesterdays new baby! I used an image from the retired set, Everybunny, stamped in Staz-on and coloured with a blender pen. This was then punched with a Circle Punch and matted onto a Wisteria Wonder Scallop Circle. The '3' was cut from the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet dies (also retired) and the sentiment is from Bring on the Cake. A few Pink Pirouette butterflies cut from the Beautiful Wings Embosslits die were added just because a little girl has to have some pink!!

Margaret x

Up in the Air

 

Saturday is upon us once again and of course that means the Less is More challenge which, this week, is 'Up in the Air'. My first thought was the bunny in a balloon from the set Everybunny so, as Easter is not too far away, that is what I used for my entry.

I started by stamping the trees from Lovely as a Tree at the bottom of a piece of Whisper White, stamped in Old Olive and then stamped again without re-inking. The balloon image was stamped in Staz-on and then, after placing a post-it note mask over the top of the image, the panel was sponged with a little Certainly Celery under the trees and Bashful Blue for the sky. The mask was removed and the image coloured with marker pens. My poor Easter Bunny looks like he may be suffering from ear problems and that's because I picked up the wrong pink marker so it was a bit brighter than I intended!!!

The panel was matted onto Daffodil Delight and then onto a white card blank. Originally I stamped a sentiment and cut it out with one of the Bitty Banners Framelits to fly from the strings of the balloon but then took it off because I preferred it without. What do you think? I might stamp a sentiment directly onto the card or leave the front as it is and put the sentiment inside - 

decisions, decisions :0)

Not much writing today just wanted to show you some Easter cards made with the Everybunny stamp set. All the images, with the exception of the Easter Eggs on the card to the left, are from this set and the eggs are from Easter Blossoms. I won't bore you with all the details but will put a supply list at the end. I made these a few weeks ago and suddenly realised that if I didn't show you soon it would be too late!

Stamp sets - Everybunny, Easter Blossoms (the sentiment on the chick and egg card is a retired stamp)

Punches - Large Oval, Scallop Circle, Large Scallop Circle, Itty Bitty Punch Pack

Dies - Scallop Circle, Circles and a non-SU Large Oval

Embossing Folders - Perfect Polka Dots, Designer Frames

Happy Toadstools!

When I said at the end of my last post I'd be back soon I didn't expect it to be quite so soon! However, with the weather being so miserable and me as well, what better to do than craft. When I get up on a Saturday morning the first thing I do is look to see what the challenge is on Less is More and this morning it is Masking - now I use this technique quite a lot normally but I just couldn't think of anything I could do and then I had a sudden flash of inspiration to use the lovely toadstool stamp from Everybunny which is just perfect for masking. (I have shown a picture, above right, of the stamp to give you an idea of how I did the masking). I began by stamping the image onto a post-it note and then very carefully cut it out to make my mask, then I stamped onto Whisper White, using Early Espresso, stamping the central image first. Using the mask I stamped the image another 4 times, twice either side of the original and then coloured in using a blender pen and a mixture of colours. I managed to get a spot of ink at the top of the Whisper White so I decided to stamp the butterfly to cover it up, unfortunately I didn't quite get it in the right place so the spot is still visible but thankfully not enough to ruin the card. I wanted a generic sentiment so just used the hello which was inked using an Old Olive marker. I matted the finished panel onto a piece of Lucky Limeade cardstock, leaving the tiniest of borders around, and then fixed in the the centre of a plain white card blank.

Oh well the rain has stopped now so I'd better get my skates on and get to the supermarket before it starts again!

The two cards I have for you today are using the stamp set Everybunny and are ones that I have made for my grandchildren. Sky is 3 and definitely a 'pink' girl and Conor is only 6 months so I can still get away with using baby blue!
I stamped the bunnies in Crumb Cake then coloured the images using various colours and a blender pen, and then they were punched out with the Extra Large Oval punch. The DSP from the Paper Stacks were embossed using the oval folder from Designer Frames and then glued to a piece of matching cardstock with the oval bunny image placed inside the embossed frame. Some taffeta ribbon was tied around the panel and then the whole thing glued onto a DL card blank. As I didn't want the whole sentiment, I inked the part I wanted with a marker and stamped this above the names which had been cut from the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet dies and run through the Square Lattice (pink) and the Perfect Polka Dots (blue) Embossing folders before being positioned onto the card. On Sky's I added a little pink butterfly which was from the Beautiful Wings Embosslits die.

ColourQ challenge

Oh dear this is my 4th post since Friday - I really do need to get a life! Well until I do here is a card I am entering for this week's ColourQ challenge which, as you can see from the inspiration photo above, is using Chocolate Chip, Calypso Coral, Blushing Bride, Certainly Celery and Whisper White. I decided to make another Easter card with the gorgeous Blossom stamp from Easter Blossoms and the cute little rabbit from Everybunny. I began by stamping the blossom branch in Chocolate Chip and then coloured in using a blender pen with Calypso Coral then the little bunny was stamped underneath, again in Chocolate Chip. The ink from the original stamping was blended in for the rabbits face, ears, arms and legs with a touch of pink inside the ear. I don't have the Blushing Bride ink pad so I substituted this with Pink Pirouette and used this to colour the dress and one of the eggs and Calypso Coral was used for the other egg and the shoes. To 'ground' the bunny so she didn't look like she was suspended in mid-air, I squiggled some Certainly Celery around using a blender pen then stamped the sentiment on top. The panel was matted onto a piece of Certainly Celery cardstock which had been punched along the bottom edge with the Eyelet Border punch, a knot of grosgrain ribbon tied around and then positioned onto a white card blank.
I hope you've all had a lovely weekend and have managed to enjoy the sunshine - please let this be the start of spring :0)

Script Challenge

 

I have two cards today for the Less is More challenge, which this week is 'Script'. The card on the left is using French Foliage and En Francais with a sentiment from Petite Pairs and is all stamped in Old Olive. I began by stamping off the En Francais stamp before stamping the image down the left hand side of the card then I took the three leaves and stamped randomly over the script and, without re-inking, I stamped them again. A lot of the white card base is covered but I think that, because none of the images are solid, the white shows through and gives the impression of still having quite a lot of white space - well I hope so anyway!

The second card is made with a sentiment stamp from Happiest Birthday Wishes (a hostess set) and, because Chrissie & Mandi have said the script must not just be a sentiment stamp, I have adapted it a little. The original stamp starts with the 'B' and ends with a '!' and just above the 'T' it says happy, so I masked off the 'happy' and inked the rest of the stamp with Soft Suede and placed in the centre at the bottom of the card. Using my stamp-a-ma-jig I stamped again at either side to make a script border. I then took another stamp from the same set and inked just the 'Wishing you a happy' part with a Soft Suede marker and positioned this above. The mushrooms are from the Everybunny set and were stamped in Soft Suede and Old Olive then coloured in using a blender pen.

I hope you all have a great weekend and I look forward to coming round and visiting you all - when I've got the housework and the shopping done that is!!

This has to be one of the easiest cards ever! I needed a thank you card and I needed it quick so, as my Everybunny stamp set had just arrived, I quickly mounted one of the stamps and got to work. The original stamp has an Easter egg at the top of the stem but, because I didn't want that, I used my Cajun Craze and Old Olive markers to ink just the pot and the stem. Using my stamp-a-ma-jig I stamped three across a 10cm square card blank and with my blender pen I coloured in. I didn't add any extra ink to the pen but just blended the ink that was already there (super easy!). The flowers were punched from Daffodil Delight using a punch from the Itty Bitty Punches pack, shaped by placing on my pricking mat and pushing down with the end of the white gel marker, glued to the top of the stems and the tiniest Basic Pearls placed in the centre. I squiggled some grass with the Old Olive marker and stamped my sentiment in Daffodil Delight. Yet another 'Easter' set that doesn't have to be used just for Easter!