For You...

I hope you have all had a lovely Easter break, after so many days of great weather today is a bit of a shock to system! 

So here is a card to bring a bit of sunshine to this rather wet morning!

To make this card I started by stamping the detailed Lizzie stamp 3 times onto some pink velum, heat embossed them and cut them out. Next I cut a piece of cream card 2cm smaller (length and width) than an A5 card, on this I positioned the flowers but didn't attached them and then stamped the solid leaf once for the top and bottom flower and twice for the centre flower. Over the top of the leaves I stamped the detailed leaf stamp. Around the edge of the cream card I drew on some stitching. Down the right hand side of the card I attached some wide pink ribbon. 

The cream card was then attached to a pink piece of card cut 1cm larger (both length and width). Onto the pink card I had randomly stamped the detailed Lizzie stamp around the edge in a darker pink ink. This was then attached to a A5 base Kraft card.

To finish of the card I die cut two shapes, one in cream just big enough to add the sentiment "For You" and a larger pink one which I stamped the detailed Lizzie stamp onto, this was then attached to the bottom of the ribbon along with some pins. Finally I attached the flowers and added a gem to the centre of each flower, each corner of the cream card and to each side of the sentiment.

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Take it slow......

I really love playing with the little critters stamps, they make cool cards really quick!

To make this card I started by stamping Sammy onto a small square piece of white card and coloured him in using a water brush and Distress Inks. Around the edge I used red ink and an acrylic block to create the lines and lightly distressed it in blue. Next I cut a piece of red card 0.5cn larger than the stamped image and a blue piece of card 0.5 cm larger than that.

To create the background I used two sayings from Relax stamp set and stamped "Relax...." in blue and "Take it slow...........!" in red I alternated these across a scrap of white card to the top of the piece of card I added a strip of red card and to the bottom I added a strip of blue. This was then mounted onto a 5.5 inch square piece of white card, which I then mounted onto a red 5.75 inch square. Into the four corners of the text I added a brad. this was then attached to a 6 inch square base card.

To finish of the card I attached Sammy to the red and blue piece of card (I did mine at funny angles) in each corner I added a brad and attached it to the card. Next I added some googley eyes to Sammy and added  Glossy Accents to his shell. Finally I added some red gems.

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Sunflowers mean summer!

Sunflowers play a big part of spring/summer for the Crafty Roo family, Little Lady spends hours sowing seeds and  watering them and watching them grow. We plant far more than would ever be needed for our little garden, but at least it gives us "spares". Then when the flowers open they become squirrel food right through the autumn/winter and if any are left in the spring we feed them to hedgehogs.

This year we are trying a new variety called "Giant Russian" the only reason we HAD to have these was because on the front of the packet the plant was taller than a man - and of course to a 3 nearly 4 year old that's all that matters, not the part that said hard to grow!

Anyway, enough waffling's, here's a lovely summer card......

To make this card I cut two small squares of white card and stamped the detailed Sunny Doodles stamp in the center, coloured it in using Distress Inks and a waterbrush, stamped "With Love" around the edges, distressed around the edges,  then added UTEE randomly around the edges.

These squares were then mounted onto Kraft card which had been distressed around the edges. The using a DL Kraft Card for the base card I added a panel of patterned paper which was 1cm smaller than the DL card and attached the two squares.

To finish of the card I added large buttons to the center of each flower and a piece of knotted string, then around the the center of the card I wrapped some string and tied it.

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Mildred's Birthday

Sometimes I just have to play with my stamps and if things work great if not they get filed! This one worked.....

To make this card I started by ripping a page from a book and stamping Mildred onto it, then using acrylic paints I coloured her in - making sure I painted over the lines.

Whilst Mildred was drying, I  found some patterned papers to make a background distressed around the edge, stamped fake stitches, where the two papers met I attached some lace around it. Next I lightly distressed a very small doily for the bottom corner and die cut and embossed some flowers for the top right. For the brad I found a 1 inch brad sanded it lightly and stamped "Birthday Wishes 2U" into the centre using Stazon.

Once Mildred was dry I stamped Mildred again this time using Stazon and added some flowers to her bodice from the On the Branch stamp set. I tore around all the edges of the page from the book,  then stamped the corner cog stamp from Large Cog Corner and finally I distressed around the edge.

To finish of the card I attached the doily to the bottom left corner of the patterned papers, then added Mildred at an angle, across the bottom of the card I added some ribbon and a bow (I made a slit in the doily to push the ribbon through). In the top right of the patterned papers I added the die cut flowers using the large brad. In the corners of the page from a book I added a brad and a bead cap. This was then added to an A5 base card which had been distressed around the edges. finally I added some buttons and hatpins.

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Chrissy Caterpillar

I love how simple this card turned out, and if you look closely it is white card, which has NO inky smudges, amazing I know!

To make this card I started by cutting a white piece of card 1cm smaller than a A6 folded card, across the center of the card I stamped three caterpillars. Then I left a gap for the ribbon and stamped "Have a munching crunching good time!". Using Distress Ink and a waterbrush I coloured it in (see I had to use Distress Inks somewhere lol!).

When the caterpillars were dry I attached some red ribbon across the center and added a knot. This was then mounted onto a green card and a then onto a white A6 base card.

To finish off the card I added googly eyes and gems in the corners of the card.

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Blooming....

I made this card at Happy Stampers last weekend, it uses our new Flowers Grows stamp set and of course a quote from Dr Seuss!

To make this card is really quick and easy! I started by stamping the smallest sunflower at one side and the largest one at the other and coloured them in using Distress Ink and a water brush. In the top corner I distressed through a punched out circle, then around the edge of the card. Around the edge of the card I inked up the edge of my acrylic block and "stamped" around the edges of the card. This was then matted on to blue card and onto a white base card.

To finish off the card I roughly cut of the quote and backed it onto blue card and attached it to the card.

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