Paper Piecing Golf

On a recent call one of the ladies had used the huge happy birthday from woodware to paper piece some birthday cards and it made me remember I had this set and the fishing one so of course I had to use them and paper piece them as well. I do wish I had bought the happy birthday when it was available everywhere.

Paper Piecing Words

Sometimes you forget how much you enjoy something until you try it again and for me that’s paper piecing, I really enjoy the whole process and I can say I enjoyed making these cards. I often forget that uk manufacturers make stuff larger than us ones and I had to make a card base to fit the stamp but I like the finished result and I even made matching envelopes!

Moody Unicorn

Gerdes Steiner manages to create images that just make you smile and this is no exception, of course it had to be coloured in rainbow and all the card had to match.

I am obsessed with rainbows and it would appear unicorns as well, just as well everyone feels the same as I do lol.

I made this at the same time as the "platypus unicorn" card and I learnt from my mistakes, I didn't blend the inks then add more ink with the stencil I just used the stencil. I did move the stencil slightly so the glitter paste didn't completely cover the rays but you really can't tell lol.

Ingredients
Image: "Moody Unicorns" Gerda Steiner
Sentiment: "unicorn" Woodware
Inks: candied apple, festive berries, carved pumpkin,  fossilised amber, squeezed lemonade, twisted citroen, mowed lawn, peacock feathers, salty ocean, wilted violet, seedless preserves, picked raspberry all Distress inks
Background: "radiating rays" stencil from MFT
Dies: A2 stitched rectangle stax and wonky stitched circle all from MFT
Shimmer: "Sugar" Bo Bunny Glitter Paste

Copics
Body - T3, 2, 1, 0, blender
Hooves - T8, 6
Mane - R24, 29, YR04, 09, Y15, 13, 35, YG17, 25, B24, 26, V15, 17, RV06, 09

Platypus Unicorn

I am so pleased Clearly Besotted is back and also that they have made their images slightly larger, they fill the card so much better this size and long may this continue.

I had a blast making this card, it was more time consuming and messy than expected but overall I'm not unhappy with how it turned out. Of course if I had my time over again I wouldn't inadvertently mix the picked raspberry and seedless preserves blending tools but if I hadn't pointed it out you probably wouldn't have noticed lol.

Ingredients
Image: "Platypus at Play" Clearly Besotted
Sentiment: "unicorn" Woodware
Inks: candied apple, festive berries, carved pumpkin,  fossilised amber, squeezed lemonade, twisted citroen, mowed lawn, peacock feathers, salty ocean, wilted violet, seedless preserves, picked raspberry all Distress inks
Background: "radiating rays" stencil from MFT
Dies: A2 stitched rectangle stax and wonky stitched circle all from MFT

Copics
Platypus - E30, 31, 34
Bill - E49, 59, 57, 35
Mane - R24, 29, YR04, 09, Y13, 35, YR03, 25, 17, B24, 26, V15, 17

Unicorn

I love me some unicorns and at the moment so does everyone else as they are everywhere lol.

The person I made this card for isn't into the cute type so when I bought this magazine I already knew who the image would be used for.

Of course once it was coloured I had no idea what to do with it and then I remembered that I had made a background for a fairy card and thought give it a go.

Ingredients
Image: Creative Stamping
Sentiment: Woodware
Dies: "scalloped frames" Gina Marie
Background: "worn lipstick" and "wilted violet" distress oxides

You're Out of this World

This is the other version of the card I made earlier in the week, I have been enjoying making multiples of cards, I have the supplies out so why not just use them I say.

Not much else to say except I enjoyed it and I am increasing my stash of made cards nicely.

Ingredients
Image: "The Blimps" Woodware
Moon : dustin pike
Galaxy: Black soot, peacock feathers, wilted violet and picked raspberry distress inks
Stars: Heidi swap white spray and picket fence distress ink
Dies:

Colours
Moon - N6, 5, 4, 3, 2
Alien - Aegean, Cyan, Pear and Lime all Promarkers

To Infinity and Beyond

I decided I wanted to try and make a galaxy background, I wasn't sure which inks I wanted to use so I made two, I will have the other card to show you in a few days. I have to say that I enjoyed making this background much more than I thought I would, I do need to invest in some white paint though as it didn't seem to matter which method I tried none were white enough.

I tried cutting a circle for the alien to stand on but it looked lost so I remembered I had bought a digi planet from Dustin Pike eons ago and for once I was right I did have it. The hardest part was getting the size right and then I coloured with my copics and all done.

Ingredients
Image: "The Blimps" Woodware
Moon : dustin pike
Galaxy: Black soot, peacock feathers, wilted violet, twisted Citroen and picked raspberry distress inks
Stars: Heidi swap white spray and picket fence distress ink
Dies: blueprints 13

Colours
Moon - N5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Alien - Aegean, Cyan, Pear and Lime all Promarkers

Pan Pastels part three

This is a very different colour combo for me, I am more into cool tones but I thought a change is as good as a rest and it most certainly was.

This chubby bird is so prefect for so many occasions, I can't believe I held out so long on this trend.

Ingredients
Image: "crazy birds" Tim Holtz
Sentiment: Woodware
Dies: Blueprints 13 and 2

Jeepers Creepers

I recently attended the sincerely yours craft show in Taunton, one of the Bristol playday rules is you have to make something before the next playday using your new goodies. So I decided even though my mojo is still on holiday I had better get something made.

I bought this woodware Sneaker stamp as I thought it would be prefect for both girl and boy teenager cards. I should add that this is a huge stamp and completely filled an A2 card so I have had to make a 6X6 square card just to fit it on.

I paper pieced the sneakers which was fairly time-consuming as I had to cut each and every lace but I like the effect and will probably do this again.

I made a card recently using the avery elle custom panels to create a similar look but in the end I gave in and bought the MFT ones so now I have options lol.

Ingredients
Image: "Sneakers" by Woodware
Sentiment: "be original" by MFT
Papers: "boy crazy" Designs by Dani at Jessica Sprague
Card: real red, tempting turquoise and basic grey all Stampin Up
Dies: "stitched basic edges" by MFT

Copics
White - N3, 2, 1, 0
Shadows - W3

Christmas Jumper

At last I've made a start on my christmas cards, every year I start with good intentions of making some in January but normally start in April/May but this year its October and I've made a grand total of 2, I think I might be buying some this year. 

This card was quick and easy and the blueprints means that it came together super fast, maybe I should bulk make some. I'm not sure where the paper is from, I found it already printed in the snippet folder to be honest I'm not even sure its christmas paper lol.

I was worried that the sentiment would get lost on the busy paper but the die really holds it own, I'm very impressed with it and think I will be using it a lot.

Ingredients
Image: "Christmas Knits" Woodware
Card: "jellybean green" MFT
Paper: Snippet folder
Dies: Blueprints 3 and 14, sentiment Clearly besotted
Ink - DI Peeled paint

Copics:
Snowman - C1, 00, blender
Scarf and Hat - G99, 94
Jumper - E09, R08, 05, 02

Challenges - Snippet Playground

Mad About....Fishing?

I bought this stamp at the same time as the golf one I used in september last year, they are both very large stamps and they lend themselves to paper piecing which you know is one of my favourite things to do. I started this card in September but it has taken me this long to make it into a card, I just couldn't decide what size and shape of card to use and in the end went for a simple one as I felt the image says it all.

I have used the first paper pack I ever bought, its by Papermania and is all blues, oranges and browns but I have lost the front cover so have no idea what it is called lol. It was perfect for paper piecing though as there were lots of small bits already cut. As I used both recycled card and snippet I am off to the playground.

Ingredients:
Image: "fishing" woodware
Card: Old file folders
Paper: Papermania

Challenge: Snippet Playground

A golfing birthday

Golf was the order of the day for this card, my ex-boss celebrates his 50th birthday today and I decided to make a golf themed card for him. I saw this stamp on Steph's blog and decided I had to go buy it immediately, they also had a fishing one so that will be making an appearance soon too.

This is a large image and a large card, 8 x 8 in fact so this gives an idea of how large the image is.

Ingredients
Image: "golf" stamp by Woodware
Papers: "" Echo Park at Jessica Sprague
Card: 8 x 8 from Craftwork Cards
Cardstock: "kraft" from recollections, "blue" Colorbok at Walmart
Numbers: Cut on cricut using "billionaire" cart