Easter Basket Pop-Up Card

Good afternoon. I hope you are safe and well and are having a nice Easter Sunday.  

Todays post has an Easter card that I made using a project design available on Cricut Design Space.

Easter Basket Pop-Up Card design from Cricut Design Space.

Bunny and sentiment on the front of the card are from the Some Bunny stamp set by Simon Says Stamp

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Sizzix Easter Cards with Oliver and Papercut Chicks

Good afternoon, I hope you are keeping safe and well today.  Are you ready for Easter?  I did a bit of last minute batch card making so I have a couple of  Easter cards to share with you today using Sizzix colorize dies and distress oxides.

For this card I have used:

Sizzix Oliver Colorize Die Set by Tim Holtz.

Distress oxide blended background using Speckled Egg, Salvaged Patina and Peeled Paint

I created the Easter sentiment using my cricut.

For this card I have used:

Sizzix Papercut Chicks Colorize Die Set by Tim Holtz.

Distress oxide blended background using Speckled Egg, Salvaged Patina and Peeled Paint

I created the Easter sentiment using my cricut.

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Oddball Art Hippie Flower Peace Van Birthday Card - Crafty Calendar April Challenge

Good afternoon.  I hope you are keeping safe and well.  It's April already and as it's the first Saturday of the month we have a new challenge

 over at Crafty Calendar.

The theme this month is

'ANYTHING BUT SQUARE'

For my card I have used:

Hippie Flower Power Peace Van from Oddball Art.  I stamped daisies on the van and also one on each of the wheels and then coloured the image with copics.   My colours were inspired by the worlds greatest van: the mystery machine from Scooby Doo.

I created a shaped card base to match the van in Cricut canvas and cut out using my Cricut Maker.

I then added the sentiments and clear gems in the centre of each flower

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Oddball Art

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months challenge which runs until the 28th April and also check out the other gorgeous DT cards using images from this months sponsor Oddball Art.

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Crafty Calendar March Challenge - Easter card with Digi Doodle Studios

 Good morning.  I hope you are well.  I have a card to share today for our new monthly challenge over at Crafty Calendar.    It feels weird to be sharing a card with everything that's going on in the world at the moment.  Prayers and thoughts are with the people of Ukraine.

Our monthly challenge over at Crafty Calendar this month is Easter with Dots and Stripes.

For my card I have used:

Peyton's Painted Eggs digi stamp from Digi Doodle Studios coloured with copics.

The paint spots are from the My Favorite Things Distressed Patterns Stamp set

The spotty and stripe papers are from my stash.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Digi Doodle Studios

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT cards using other images from this months sponsor Digi Doodle Studios

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All Dressed Up Feed The Birds Birthday Card

Good morning.  I hope you are safe and well today after Storm Eunice yesterday.  I have a card to share today made using an discontinued digital stamp but couldn't resist using it.

The digital stamp is Feed the Birds from All Dressed Up layered on top of a birch tree background png file (not sure where the birch tree png was from) and then coloured with copics.

The sentiment is from the Spellbinders Tweet Sentiments stamp set

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Sizzix Gladys the Flamingo Home Décor Project

Good morning.  Hope you are well.  I have a home décor project to share today.  

Flamingos are one of my favourite birds so when I saw Gladys on the Tim Holtz Sizzix release I couldn't resist her.

I have previously created a flamingo home décor piece using the popular flamingo/pigeons quotation so I went for something different this time.

I created the quotation in Word and printed it using my laser printer.  I ink blended the paper using distress oxides Kitsch Flamingo and Salvaged Patina and sprayed this with water.  After this I sprayed it with Winterberry Distress Mica Stain.

Once I'd finished all the inking I used my Minc machine to foil the laser printed quote in gold. 

I stamped a couple of layers of the Altenew Leaf Medallion stamp set and embossed with distress embossing glazes in Kitsch Flamingo and Salvaged Patina

The flamingo is cut using the Sizzix Gladys Colorise Die Set.

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Valentine's Day Card using Sizzix Lovestruck Colorise Die Set

Good morning, Happy Valentine's Day.  I have a Valentine's card to share, I had to wait to post this until today just in case it got spotted.

After watching the Tim Holtz Live Sizzix release I received an early Valentine's gift from Martyn (the subliminal messages must have worked) and I have used them to create this card.

For this card I have used:

Backround : Distress Oxide blended background (Candied Apple, Worn Lipstick and Broken China)

and over this I placed a piece of white card with a number of heart apertures cut out of it so that the blended background showed through (Heart apertures cut using the Sizzix Stacked Hearts Tiles die set).

The red hearts and arrow were cut using the Sizzix Lovestruck Colorise Die Set by Tim Holtz and a little bit of Black Soot distress ink applied to the edges.

The sentiment has been created using my Dymo label machine and mounted onto black card.

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Crafty Calendar February Challenge - Paper Nest Dolls Goth Ellie Card

Good morning.  I hope you are all safe and well.  January went by in a flash, I was busy working for most of it so I think this weekend will be a mix of catching up with jobs and maybe a day out somewhere tomorrow if the weather stays okay.

Today it is the first Saturday in February so we have a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar and the theme this month is

ANYTHING GOES

My card is very pink.....

For my card I have used:

Goth Ellie from Paper Nest Dolls coloured with copics

The background was created using the Lawn Fawn Plaid Stencil and distress oxide inks in Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry and Black Soot

The sentiment is from the MFT Heart Strings stamp set.

I inked some card using Picked Rasperry distress oxide and die cut some stars so that they colour matched

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Paper Nest Dolls

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Crafty Calendar January Challenge - Little Skater from All Dressed Up Stamps

Good afternoon and a happy new year.   I hope you had a good Christmas.  After covid and then a busy December it was nice to have a two week break from work with no urgent jobs to do.

We have a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar today.  You may have spotted that it is not the first Saturday of January, the first Saturday was last week New Years Day so we decided to put the challenge back a week, give us time to recover from New Years Eve....

The theme this month is

ANYTHING GOES

I created a wintery birthday card, well it was snowing yesterday.....

I have used Little Skater from All Dressed Up Stamps coloured with polychromos pencils

The birthday sentiment is two layer chipboard,  The top layer has been embossed with white and the bottom layer coloured using a black copic marker

The DP's are from my stash.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

All Dressed Up Stamps

Crafty Ribbons

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Crafty Calendar December Challenge - A Little Gift from Lili of the Valley Christmas Card

Good morning all.   Hope you are all safe and well,   I'm now fully recovered from Covid-19, so have started to catch up on some Christmas crafting.  Unlike previous years I think I am nearly ready for Christmas, I now have the majority of cards done, the presents are nearly wrapped, so hopefully I will have time to fit in some other Christmas crafting projects.

It's the first Saturday in December so we have a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar and the theme this month is

'CHRISTMAS'

For my card I have used:

 A little Gift digi stamp from Lili of the Valley.

I masked the image so that I could ink blend the background with Distress Oxides in Villainous Purple, Prize Ribbon and Broken China

I added stars using gold paste and the Spellbinders All the Stars stencil.

The image was then coloured with copics.

I stamped some snowflakes on the base card using the three distress oxide colours I used for the background....I just couldn't find a DP that I liked to go with the image.

I added glossy accents and rock candy glitter to the hats and snowy ground

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Lili of the Valley

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your Christmas projects in this months challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT cards using other image from this months sponsor Lili of the Valley.

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