Driving Test Card

This is one type of card that is lovely to make and personalise. I am sure that now she has passed her driving test there will be no stopping her and I am sure we will see less of her too.

Still I am pleased for her as this is something she has talked endlessly about for some time and I now will be a source of great pride and pleasure for her, so well done Ellie

Ingredients
Image: "see ya" Mo's Digital Pencil
Sentiment: computer generated using "marker felt" font
Dies: wonky stitched rectangle from MFT
Card: Raspberry fizz from Papertrey Ink

Copics
Skin - E13, 11, 00
Hair - E35, 37, 59
Jacket - N8, 6
Top - RV09, 06, 04
Jeans - B99, 97, 95
Ground - E87. 84

Seaside Seagulls

About two years ago on a Florida trip I had a bit of a spending spree and bought so much stuff that now two years later I am just getting around to using it all. This has only happened because I have decided to shop my stash rather than buying more. I am about to change from my little craft room to a larger one as I have outgrown it and I thought I wonder how many stamps I have never used and this one caught my eye.

I would like to say that I will continue on this no buying regime but as this posts I will be returning from another trip to florida and I can't imagine I haven’t  bought anything lol.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiment: "seaside seagulls" from MFT
Dies:Blueprints 1 from MFT, scalloped dies from Clearly Besotted and semi circle from a friend
Distress Inks: salty ocean, blueprint sketch, squeezed lemonade and fossilised amber
Stencil: "radiating rays" from MFT

Copics
Beaks - YR07, Y35
Wings - C4, 2, blender

Cupcake Hamster

This wasn't the card I was making for my friend, I had already bought a different image and was going a completely different way when she said casually " I love your cards with hamsters" so I thought a hamster card it is then.

I went very simple and clean as I wanted the image to really stand out and I coloured it to look like their hamster "Roo" or "roudini" as we like to call him lol. He is like a mini escape artist but as he is so tame he comes back easily too.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiment: "cupcake hamster" from Mo's Digital Pencil
Paper: Birght dots and stripes paper pad from MFT

Copics
Hamster - R00, 20,
Cupcake Wrapper - YG17, 25, 05, 03, 01
Ground - E87, 84
Cupcake - E55, 53, 51, 50
Icing - RV14, 13, 11, R39, 37

Clearly Besotted We Go Together

This card required surgery to accomplish, the stamp set from Clearly Besotted has a dog and cat image for the gin and tonic but as the lovely couple have two dogs that seemed more fitting. So I used the other dog face from the cheese image also in the set.

I lost count of the number of times I tried to make this card, I cut a mask for the cat face and forgot to remove it - attempt 1, I tried to stamp a second time and it moved - attempt 2, I wiped away the excess ink from the cat face and forgot to dry the stamp - attempt 3....you get the picture lol.

Ingredients
Image: "we go together" Clearly Besotted
Sentiment: as above and also "big birthday sentiments" from MFT (retired)
Stencil: "radiating rays" from MFT with hickory smoke, squeezed lemonade and fossilised amber distress inks
Dies:blueprint 1 and arch stax both MFT


Copics
Dogs - YR27, 24, 23, E43, 42, 40
Gin - G28, 46, 24, N8, 6, N1
Tonic - YG0000, 00
Lime - YG07, 06, 11

Guinea be a Good Day

I can’t believe that I have used another stamp from this set, only one more and the entire set will have been used and that will be a first for me lol.

Its a simple card but I hope Kathy liked it. I know she likes Guinea Pigs and purple so thats a start lol.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiment: "guinea pig-out" from Art Impressions (ai)
Dies: "tag corner rectangle stax" from MFT
Paper: "" from MFT


Copics
Guinea pig - W4, 2, Blender, E99, 97, 95, 93
Chocolate Drops - E59
Ground - E87, 84

Earl Grey Peep

I am sure I have used this image before but I can't find it on my blog, I might have mis-tagged it though lol.

This is more my normal or actually older style of card making and I must say I did enjoy it and it came together really easily, it was a bit like riding a bike. I use this saying a lot but it is so true, if it ain't broke don't fix it and this is so true of card making, sometimes we all rush to the newest style or technique without realising or remembering what we enjoy most about this hobby and for me that is making a card I think the recipient will like.

Ok enough rambling you came to see a card so here it is.

Ingredients
Image: "earl grey" peep from Stamping Bella
Paper: "chalkboard" from We R Memory Keepers
Card: "black" recollections from Michaels
Dies: Blueprints 2 and 13, horizontal stripes and small scalloped circles all from MFT and Crealies XXL stitched circle stax

Copics
Skin - E11, 00
Hair - E77, 74
Dress - R22, 21, 20
Flower - R22, 21, 20, Y17, 13
Cup - G02, 00

Spotlight Can

The second of the cards using the spotlight sentiment, the third won't be on here for a while as I am conscious they might check my blog so I will wait until later their birthday to post it.

I have used this can before and coloured it almost identically, this image is so useful for teenage boys, I think next time I need to try the coke bottle though.

Ingredients
Image: Drinks Trolley from Apple Blossom and spotlight sentiments from MFT
Dies: A2 stitched rectangle stax from MFT
Card: 65lb from Recollections at Michaels

Copics
Can - R39, 37, 35, N5, 4, 2, 1