Thinking of You

I still think these cards are the most difficult to make, you want to let the family know you are thinking of them but it isn't easy to make them when you are upset. This is also the one type of card I don't keep on hand and I'm not sure I want to.

Anyway the card is a simple construction, I masked the area, stamped a leaf branch from a stampin up set, white embossed and then used my distress inks to colour the background. After this was dry I used liquid platinum to heat emboss the sentiment.

Ingredients
Stamps: "hope blooms" and "curly cute" both Stampin Up
Inks:"cracked pistachio" and "peacock feathers" both Distress inks
Embossing Powders: "white" stampendous. "liquid platinum" Ranger
Dies: Blueprints 15 from MFT

Me to You Bear

I saw this set in the clearance section of "the Range" and it contained three separate sheets of clear stamps, three pigment inks, two acrylic blocks and some cards and envelopes for the bargain price of £7.49.  Now I haven't made a card with this bear in quite a long time and now I have more colics I throughly enjoyed colouring her, the Tonal markers match much better than the Cool ones. 

Ingredients
Image:"me to you bear" from a large set by Papermania
Paper: "Happy Day" MME
Card: "pink set" from craft work
Dies: crealies stitched circle, spellbinders scalloped circle, blueprints 2 and 13 by MFT

Copics
Bear - B02, 00, T5, 4, 2, 0
T-shirt - R85, 83, 81, RV34, B02, 00

Soda Pop

I've combined three card designs from the mft design team for this card, I had an idea and for once it looks almost exactly as I pictured it.

I cut two bottles one from copic friendly card and one from acetate, I thought it would look like a real bottle that way, problem was the acetate wouldn't lay flat do it does have a bit of glue on the bottom of the bottle hopefully it's not too visible.

I was looking for some silver/foil card n my stash but I couldn't find any so I used the delicata with the tim holtz blending tool and it has a gorgeous shimmer in real life.

Ingredients
Image: "soda pop" Mft stamps
Card: "real red" stampin up
Dies: stitched circle stax, vertical stripes and horizontal stripes, blueprints 1 and 2 and bottle caps all from MFT
Stencil: "concentric circle grid" from mft with delicata silver ink

Copics
Coke: E49, 79, 77, 74

Woohoo You Passed

A family friend recently passed her driving test, she has been wanting this for quite some time so I wanted to wish her congratulations and happy motoring.

Ingredients
Image: "zoe" Digistamp Boutique
Papers: "oh contrary" MME from Michelle
Card: "kraft" from Recollections
Dies: labels, blueprints 1 and 2 all mft

Copics
Skin - E000, 00, 11, R20
Hair - E55, 57, 59
Top - YG17, 13
Car - R35, 14, N2, 5, 7, Y11, 35
Ground - W3, 1

Dapper Dan Suit and Tie

My cousin recently started his first job and he has to wear a suit and tie so I thought the mft set was perfect to make him a congratulations card.

This die set from MFT is perfect for creating suit cards, I definitely need to use it more. There isn't much to say about the card except that I had fun making it and sometimes that is enough lol.

Ingredients
Dies: Blueprints 1 and 2, suit and die all mft
Card: Michaels 110lb white and "basic grey" from Stampin Up
Paper: "heritage press" Papermania
Sentiment: "big greetings" Mft
Background stamp: "pinstripe" from MFT stamped in Versamark.

Some Odd Girl Weekend Kaylee

I bet you are thinking oh no not that paper pad again, but it had to be done, its a perfect colour combo and so easy to use, I might even invest in the full pack (the free with magazine pack is almost gone!!!!)

Ingredients
Image: "weekend kaylee" Some Odd Girl
Papers: "Isabellina" BoBunny
Card: "basic grey" stampin up
Dies : blueprints 1 and 2, scalloped edges, vertical stripes and circle stax all from MFT and scalloped circles from Spellbinders.

Copics
Skin - R20, E000, 00, 11
Hair - E55, 57, 59, 49
Trousers - N7, 5, 4
Top - R85, 83, 81, RV34. N3, 1

Perfect Pearls Butterfly

I bought these perfect pearls on one of my first visits to Michaels in Florida, so about ten years ago and I have just used them, shame on me. I wanted to try gilding flakes but as I don't have any I went with something sparkly and slightly, only slightly less messy.

In real life it glows far more than the photo and the black card looks considerably darker but even on the photo you can see how the colours pop.

Ingredients
Image: "swallowtail butterfly" Stampin up
Card: from snippet draw
Dies: blueprints 2 and 13
Sentiment: "keep it simple: birthday" paper trey ink
Perfect Pearls: "rose gold" and "gold"