Stoked

I wanted this set as soon as I saw it, I love making male cards and I thought this set would be perfect but I already had a few unused sets and I was trying to be good so I didn't buy it. Then Michelle and Debbie made amazing cards with the drummer and it was getting harder to resist. I decided if I saw it whilst I was in Florida it was destined to come home with me, well I didn't see it and I was bummed so I popped it in my Seven Hills basket and decided to wait until I got home to order. Then the lovely Michelle had a sale on her blog (if you've never bought from her I highly suggest it.  I have so many sets that are just perfect) and she had the stamps and dies, I don't think I've sent an email so quick, in fact I have no idea what else she had for sale lol.

I had to make a card as soon as I got home, normally I have horrendous jet lag and although I have a bit it nowhere near as bad as normal and my mojo seems to have returned too.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiments: "stoked" from Avery Elle
Card: "pure poppy" and "enchanted evening" both Papertrey ink
Stencil: "glass" Stamposaurus with enchanted evening ink
Dies: Blueprints 15 from Mft and Simple stitched borders from Lawn Fawn
Sentiments: stamped with "crisp cherry" mft and "enchanted evening"  Papertrey ink

Copics
Skin - E13, 11, 00
Hair - E49, 47, 44
Shirt - W2, 1, 0, blender
Jeans - B97, 95, 93
Board - R29, 27, 24

Sweet Treats

I was recently in Florida and I discovered that one of my friends has a birthday in July so we had been discussing these cute Hamsters from Clearly Besotted so I knew exactly what I was going to use as soon as I got home. Hopefully she has received the card now and that she had a fabulous, awesome, amazing birthday.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiment: "sweet treats" Clearly Besotted
Dies: Blueprints 27 from MFT
Card: "wisteria wonder" stampin Up

Copics
Hamster - E99, YR27, 24, R20, 00, W2, blender
Macaron - BV04, 02, 00, E51, 50
Pancakes - E35, 34, 33, 31, Y15, 13, E15
Cupcake - R29, 24, E49, 47, 29, BV04, 02, 00
Waffles - E35, 34, 33, 31, 30, R29, 24, 14, YG17, 03

Big Sister

My friend for whom I made the baby card earlier this week already has a little girl and I thought it would be nice to make her a big sister card, Ive no idea if you can find these in shops but that is the advantage of making your own lol.

I went with a tried and tested, simple design and as my mojo is still on holiday I hoped it would turn out ok.

Ingredients
Image: "girl with Baby" Pure Innocence from MFT (sadly retired)
Sentiment: "alphabet soup" Memory Box
Paper: "pinky swear" Nit Wit
Card: "cotton candy" MFT
Dies: horizontal stripes and Blueprints 13 and 2

Copics
Skin - E000, 00, 11, 21, R20
Shoes - R89, 39
Hair - E49, 47, 29, 27, 25, 23
Baby - R85, 83, 81
Dress - W3, 1

All our Dreams - New Baby Girl

A very dear friend had a baby last week so I had to make her and her family a card to celebrate. I went for my "new baby" design card, all I seem to do is change up the papers and image.

Nit wit recently released new baby papers and I thought the colours would be perfect for a baby girl, now my friend isn't a fan of pink but her daughter might turn out to be lol.

I used a stamp from the "baby" clear set Lili of the Valley retired last year, it is the same as the rubber version just slightly smaller.

Ingredients
Image: "all our dreams" Lili of the Valley (clear version - retired)
Paper: "baby First Girl" Nit Wit
Card: "cotton candy" from MFT
Dies: Small scalloped border, oval stax and small scalloped oval stax all MFT. Large XXL square from Crealies and congratulations from paper trey Ink


Copics
Skin - E000, 00, 11, 21, R20
Hair - E23
Bunny - R89, 39
Onsie - W2, 1, 0, R39, 85
Swing - R85, 83, 81
Leaves - YG17, 03, 01
Sky - BG11, 10

WTFF - What the French fry

I'm occasionally pleased with the cards I make but this one I'm very happy with and that happens very rarely lol.

I had a concept in my head and it's exactly as I pictured it. I've liked this stamp set for a while but it was the queen enabler herself that made me buy it. Jennifer McGuire put up a video showing it paired with another set to make cute characters and I knew I had to have it. Luckily for me Dies to Die for a UK based store just got the set in, I wish they had the other one as well but I can wait.

I inked the entire white panel with festive berries and then added the stencil and deepened the colour, it gives a subtle but I think effective pattern. I had added a circle cut with a post it note as the centre on the stencil wasn't large enough, once the red was dry I added the yellow.

After that I simply added the French fries on an action wobbler, I was going to use googly eyes but this worked out better.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiment: "Happy Meal" Your Next Stamp
Stencil: "sunburst" Stamposaurus
Distress Inks: "fossilised amber and festive berries"
Dies: Blueprints 13 and stitched circle stax both MFT
Other: Action wobbler
Card: "True Black" Papertrey Ink

Copics
Fries - Y32, 35, YR23
Container - R89, 39, 37, 24

Born to be Wild

I have been looking for a motorbike stamp for quite some time and when I saw this at Newbury craft show on Saturday I couldn't resist. They had a show special buy one get one half price so I couldn't resist getting two lol. The other one though you will have to wait a while to see as I bought it for hubbies birthday next year lol, nothing like getting organised and I'm nothing like organised lol.

I also purchased four stencils from their stall as I bought one last year and it was lovely quality, I just went to their site but they don't seem to have them listed on there, hopefully they will as I think they would sell lots.

As I unpacked the stencil I thought the paper used as the packaging would be prefect for the road, I remembered that I had used it last year so I used it again, this is recycling at its best.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiment: "motorbike" from Stamposaurus
Dies: "road" and blueprints 1, 2 and 27 all MFT
Stencil: "grill" Stamposaurus
Card and Ink: "gravel grey" from MFT, black is left over packaging from the stencil

Copics
Tyres - W9, 8, 6
Greys - N4, 3, 2
Red - R29, 24
Blue - B26, 23
Yellow - Y17, 13
Seat - T9, 8, 6

Creative Stamping Music No2 - Mixed Tapes

I just had to use this image from the magazine, it reminded me of my youth and the"mixed tapes" we gave our crushes and friends, yes my dear friends I grew up in the era of taping top of the pops on a sunday night, buying 12 inch discs for the pretty pictures and rats tails. For those of you not lucky enough to be a teenager in the eighties in the UK I will elaborate on the phenomenon that was rats tails, you let a small portion of your hair at the back be longer than the rest, your hair needed to be cropped to the neck otherwise it just looked like your hairdresser missed a bit lol. You cultivated the growth of said piece of hair and if you were able to you plaited it or put tiny little elastic bands in it. Mine grew to a fine length of over seven inches before it got the chop, I did miss it when it was gone but by then the next fad had appeared, although for the life of me I am at a loss to remember what it was, probably too traumatic to want to recall lol.

Anyway you didn't come here for an eighties history or her story lesson so on with the card, as you an probably see it was fairly easy, I matched the colours of the tapes to the papers, cut the paper to match the angle of the stripes and bish, bash, bosh its done.

Ingredients
Image and Sentiments: "creative stamper issue 31"
Paper: "cold avocado soup" Jellybean soup
Card: "blue canvas" Limetree Crafts
Dies: Blueprints 15 from MFT


Copics
Yellow - Y17, 15, 13
Blue - B39, 37, 34
Green - YG97, 95, 93, 01
Grey/Black - N9, 7, 5, 4, 2