Simply Gorjuss

A dear friend of mine is a huge Gorjuss and red fan so it seemed only fitting that both made it onto her card. I hope she has a wonderful birthday and gets spoilt rotten.

This is my last card of 2014, Ive not been very good at keeping my blog updated and I think that is something i'm going to work on in the new year, its not a resolution though as I always break those lol.

Ingredients
Image: "family in a book" Gorjuss by Santoro
Paper: "my travel" MME
Card: "cherry cobbler" Stampin Up
Dies: blueprints 18, 2 and 1 all MFT
Sentiment: "bloom to grow" stampin up

Copics:
Skin - E11, 00, 000, R20
Hair - N9, 7, 5, 4, 3
Boots - N9, 7, 5
Dress - R89, 39, 37, 35
Dolls - N4, 3, 2

Thanks for looking and "HAPPY NEW YEAR" everyone

Art Attack

This card is one that evolved and took on a life of its own, I wanted to use the crayon from the simon says stamp set and I thought I'd seen a card using a mason jar to hold the crayons but i couldn't find it so I went my own way instead. Once I'd coloured the crayons in rainbow order I pulled out all my art stamps and discovered I have a few, and I liked the sentiment so that was sorted but the crayons looked a little lost so I scooped them up and thought I know the mason jar from lawn fawn. Originally this was going to be a completely white card but I decided to play with the abstract art set from MFT and I liked the look.

This may be hard to believe but this is my first set of spell binders nesties, I have several xcut and MFT. I bought them recently in the countryview crafts advent sale after a very good friend of mine told me what she got and I'm so glad she did as they were an absolute bargain.

Ingredients
Image: "color and sunshine" Simon says stamp and "summertime charms" lawn fawn
Sentiment: "sentimental about art" MFT
Dies: "summertime charms" lawn fawn and "a2 mat stacks rounded" spellbinders
Background: "abstract art" MFT
Inks: "blueberry sky", "pure poppy", "plum pudding" , "orange zest", "Sweet blush", "lemon tart" by paper trey ink and "berrylicious" , "sour apple" by MFT

Copics
Crayons:
Red - R89, 39, 37, 35
Orange - YR09, 07, 04, 02, 65
Yellow - Y17, 15, 13, 11
Green - YG25, 23, 21, 17
Blue - B26, 24, 23, 21
Purple - V17, 15, 12, 01
Pink - R89, 85, 83, 81

Camera Shy

For a change I have used two new items on this card, I couldn't wait to ink up the stamp and start colouring and when the polaroid die arrived I knew they were a match made in heaven. This image was so lovely to colour and I really want to colour it in again

Ingredients
Image: "charlotte loves to shop" Uptown girl by Stamping Bella
Paper: "everyday patterns" Miss Tiina
Dies: Blueprints 1, polaroid and mini cute camera all MFT
Sentiment: "say cheese" MFT (retired set)

Copics:
Skin - E11, 00, 000, R02
Hair - E27, 25, 23, 50
Jeans - B05, 04, 02
Bags - B02, 01, 00, R85, 83, 81, N5, 4, 3, YG23, 21, R89, 39, 37, Y17, 13
Shirt - R85, 83, 81
Camera - E40, 41, 42, 77, 74

Pretty Pocket

Its been a while since I've made a birthday card with mostly dies and no coloured image at all, I have been using my dies predominantly for my christmas cards it seemed only fitting to carry on with it. I've also used a couple of die sets that have been sitting unloved for a while, in fact I don't think MFT carry the pretty pocket set anymore, which is such a shame. I even have an idea for a male card with money sticking out.

Ingredients
Dies: Blueprints 1, pretty pocket and smart phone all MFT
Stamps: pretty pocket and Friend Request all MFT
Embossing: stampendous white and stampin up cherry cobbler
Background stamps: linen and western background (denim)
Card: "enchanted evening" "ripe avocado" both papertrey ink, "raspberry ripple" stampin up

Skipping Santa

I finally used the plaid builder stamp set from MFT, I decided to try to create a more traditional christmas colour scheme, originally I was going to use a darker green but I like the fun brightness of this colour. I have ordered a grid paper pad so I can line the stamps better next time, I am a bit of a perfectionist and it bothers me that a few of them aren't  perfectly aligned lol.

The image is a digi from Birdie Brown but MFT now carry this as a stamp and die set so I didn't feel so bad posting it as I would have done if you couldn't get hold of it.

Ingredients

Image: "santa" by birdie brown

Sentiment: "hanging around" clearly besotted

Background: "plaid background builder" by MFT using "sour apple" also MFT and "pure poppy" paper trey ink

Card: 'real red" stamping up and "sour apple" MFT

Dies: "pierced flagtails" and blueprints 15 all MFT

Copics:

Skin - E11, 00, 000 R02

Black - N7, 5, 4

Red - R39, 37, 35

Playday Christmas Cards Take 1

For my crafty friends I always try and push my creativity, I don't always succeed but I do try. I love anything fair isle/holiday knit so when I saw the "holiday knit" stencil from Tim Holtz I knew I had to get it. I knew I wanted to use it on my christmas cards but how, I tried inking though it and although it looked cool I knew it wasn't the look I wanted. I have been cleaning my craft room and came across the texture paste I bought in the summer and even though this is an extremely intricate stencil I decided to give it a go. Its not perfect but I like the effect, I think the white on white is lovely but I wished I had used a coloured card base and maybe not had the paste so low on the card, but this is a first attempt as the title suggests so you will get to see my other tries over the next few days until I show you the final article.

ingredients
Image: "Frost" Purple Onion Designs
Card: Recollections 110lb white
Dies: Blueprints 15 from mft and "happy" one liners from paper trey ink
Background: "Holiday knit" stencil from Tim Holtz and light modelling paste from Liquidtex.

Mini Bear

As a proud mini owner I couldn't resist this image, now my mini is a dark blue but my friend has one which is cream with black stripes, I tried to draw in the stripes but it just wasn't happening so I just went with cream instead. I"m still loving the blueprints 20 think this is my favourite set yet, of course until I get the next one lol.

Ingredients
Image: "mini bear" Lili of the Valley
Paper: "cowboy" MME
Card: black star dream (snippet folder)
Dies: Blueprints 20, 3 and horizontal stripes all mft

Copics:
Bear - E44, 43, 42, 41, 40
Mini - N7, 5, 4, 3, T9, 7, 5, 4, Y11, 13, E53, 51, 50
Ground - W3, 1, 0, 00

Challenges: Snippet Playground

Hanging Around Set 2

I bought the new blueprints 20 set from mft and decided to change up the previous hanging around cards I had made, I can't believe I have almost finished my christmas cards and I have only coloured a few images, Im hoping that next year I will get more time but that is probably famous last words lol.

Ingredients
Image: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "teal zeal" memento dew drop
Dies: Blueprint 20  by mft stamps
Card: "island indigo" Stampin Up
Embossing Powder: "Detail Silver" Ranger

Ingredients
Image: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "simply chartreuse"papertrey ink
Dies: Blueprint 20  by mft stamps
Card: "simply chartreuse"papertrey ink
Embossing Powder: "Detail Silver" Ranger

Ingredients
Image: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "plum pudding"papertrey ink
Dies: Blueprint 20  by mft stamps
Card:  "plum pudding"papertrey ink
Embossing Powder: "Detail Silver" Ranger

Hanging Around Set 1

I saw this card on Michelle's blog and I knew I needed that set. I love Michelle's clean and simple style and wanted to try to recreate something similar for my family christmas cards. Normally I colour an image and make most of them more individual but this year time wasn't on my side so I needed a design I could replicate easily.

Ingredients
Image: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "teal zeal" memento dew drop
Dies: "rectangle stax 1" and Blueprint 15 both by mft stamps
Card: "island indigo" Stampin Up
Embossing Powder: "Detail Silver" Ranger

Ingredients
Image: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "simply chartreuse" Papertrey Ink
Dies: "rectangle stax 1" and Blueprint 15 both by mft stamps
Card: "simply chartreuse" Papertrey Ink
Embossing Powder: "Detail Silver" Ranger

Ingredients
Image: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "pure poppy" Papertrey Ink
Dies: "rectangle stax 1" and Blueprint 15 both by mft stamps
Card: "real red" Stampin Up
Embossing Powder: "Detail Silver" Ranger

Ingredients
Image: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "berrylicious" Mft Stamps
Dies: "rectangle stax 1" and Blueprint 15 both by mft stamps
Card: "berrylicious" Mft Stamps
Embossing Powder: "Detail Silver" Ranger

Ingredients
Image: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "pure poppy" Papertrey Ink
Dies: "rectangle stax 1" and Blueprint 15 both by mft stamps
Card: "real red" Stampin Up
Embossing Powder: "Detail Gold" Ranger

Free magazine stamps

I have been batch making Christmas cards and after seeing this card on Chrissie's blog I had to go get the magazine for the free stamps.

I have made several of these using different colours of distress ink and I found that using one colour seemed to work better than my usual three.

Ingredients
Image: "wonder" Penny Black free with Papercraft Essentials magazine
Dies: circle stax by mft
Sentiment: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "seedless preserves" distress ink

Ingredients
Image: "wonder" Penny Black free with Papercraft Essentials magazine
Dies: circle stax by mft
Sentiment: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "evergreen bough" distress ink

Ingredients
Image: "wonder" Penny Black free with Papercraft Essentials magazine
Dies: circle stax by mft
Sentiment: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "dusty concord" distress ink

Ingredients
Image: "wonder" Penny Black free with Papercraft Essentials magazine
Dies: circle stax by mft
Sentiment: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "broken china" distress ink

Ingredients
Image: "wonder" Penny Black free with Papercraft Essentials magazine
Dies: circle stax by mft
Sentiment: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "faded jeans" distress ink

Ingredients
Image: "wonder" Penny Black free with Papercraft Essentials magazine
Dies: circle stax by mft
Sentiment: "hanging around" clearly besotted
Ink: "evergreen bough, peacock feathers and salty ocean" distress inks

shhh...party animal resting

I'm ashamed to say I have owned this stamp since it was first released and I have never used it, this is the beauty of organising my stamps I can see what I have and unfortunately what I haven't used even once.

I have a friend with two mad black cats so I had to make the kitty black, now I know red isn't  her favourite colour but once I started I couldn't stop lol.

Ingredients
Image: "party animal" strawberry kisses by crafters companion
Card: "cherry cobbler" stamping up and unknown sparkly black card (found in the snippet draw)
Stencil: "diamond circles" simon says stamp exclusive
Ink: "scarlet jewel" papertrey ink
Brad: stash
Dies: blueprints 14 and 3, both mft

Copics:
Cat - T9, 7, 5, 4, R11, 01, 000
Shoe - N5, 4, 3, 2, R89, R39, 37, 35, N7
Confetti - R35, 32
Ground - W3, 1, 0, 00

Challenges: Snippet playground