Disney Wedding

As I didn't have a card to show you this week, I thought I would share a card I made for two of my daughter's closest friends who got married last week.  They are both a sweet and extremely talented couple who I believe will go far in the film industry here in the UK. I wish them all the love and luck in the world.  I've slightly covered their names on the front of the card but left the date showing. 

The couple in question absolutely loooovee Disney, and even had a Disney themed wedding cake. I was asked by my daughter to make a Beauty & The Beast card.

FOOTNOTE - I have been emailed many times by lovely people wanting me to make a similar card to this for a family member or friend getting married. Unfortunately I am unable to do this, because I no longer own a Cricut machine or the Cartridge used to make it. I'm really sorry!

I made the card using one of my Disney Cricut cartridges, I have to say it came out really well despite the fact that it was soooo fiddly and time consuming. Some of the smaller element such as Belle's face and Beast's fur were a nightmare to cut and glue into place. Some of the pieces had to be cut out several times until I got them right.

The sentiment was printed directly onto the white cardstock which I die cut it with a fancy oval.  The flowers and leaves were also die cut.

Here's What I Used:
Cricut Cartridge - Disney 'Dreams Come True'
Cardstock (CS): First Edition 'Silent Night', Silver Mirra CS, White CS
Dies - Britannia 'Multi Rose', Tattered Lace 'Embellishment', Spellbinders Grand 'Decorative Elements'
Other - Serif CraftArtist2, Craftwork Cards 'Candi', Gems, Pearls

My daughter and her friends absolutely loved it - which made all my hard work worth it.

Thank you for visiting.

Hugs Janine x

When is Silver not Silver

Made this 8 x 8 card for my sister and brother-in-law's 25th Wedding Anniversary.  They don't like 'cute' and didn't want the traditional silver either.  So I came up with this card - cute owls, both  have been paper pieced and layered up to give a 3d feel.  They are sooooo cute, I love them.

Die cut/Punch:  Owls

Paper: First Edition 'Blank Canvas'

Punch and Cricut machine

Hope You like it.

Janine X

Belated Christmas Card Uploads

Here's a few cards I didn't managed to upload....well you know what it's like at Christmas! There's just not enough hours in the day lol. X

Things I used:

5 x 5 Kraft Card, Docraft Back to Basic Christmad paper, Cuttlebug Snowflake Die & Embossing Folder, Red Mirra Card, Button, Sentiment Circle (designed by me). 

8 x 8 Kraft Card, Cricut, Joy Of The Season Cartridge, Spellbinder die and computerised sentiment, Cuttlebug snowflakes die, CS (red, kraft, white), Distressing Ink (Lipstick), Glitter

Hope you like them.

Janine X

Heart to Heart

LOL, I made this for my husband for our 25th anniversary to give him a giggle. It was so simple to make.

I cut out 2 card using my Cricut,which I distressed and dashed. I glued them together overlaying them slightly.  I computer generated the message to my husband and hand cut it to make a banner, and distressed the edges again.  The digi image was printed off 3 times, coloured and cut out and then layered up; this was then glued onto the front of the hearts.  The very apt sentiment came with the digi couple, which I printed off, distressed and layered up onto the front of the heart. I added glossy accents to their glasses...it makes their eyes bulge!!

The hard part was making it stand up.  So I had to devised a standing mechanism, it took several attempts to get it right...but I did finally.   Here it is.....it's not the best photo I  know, but it was hard to get the shot right,

Here's what I used:

Digi Stamp/Sentiment: Bugaboo 'SL One Person To Annoy'

Selection of Pro & Flexmarkers, Copics, Cricut machine and Cricut cartidge 'Plantin Schoolbook', Glossy Accents

Hope you like it, my hubbie did!!

Janine X

Have a Hoot

Made for my step-dad's 80th birthday a couple of weeks ago. I always find making cards for men really hard (like we all do) - he really likes owls and luckily I found this stamp set in The Range. They're so cute.

I wanted the owls to appear as though they were peering out of the hole of tree, so I stamped the owls, outer leaves and flower frame about 6 times.  I cut out circle in the same woodgrain paper and placed the owls inside it with a small piece of the brown card as the background. On top of the circle I coloured in and cut out lots of the leaves, branches and flowers that I had previously stamped to add depth. The branches were cut out using my Cricut, and the leaves were cut from a swirl die and coloured with promarkers. It took quite a bit of time to do but I was happy with the end result.  I just love dimensional cards.

This is what I used:

Stamp: Neighbourwood 'Owlets'

Paper: First Edition 'Desert Blooms'

Leaves: Cherry Lynn Designs 'Fanciful  Flourish' B117

Branches: Cricut, Cricut Cartridge '

Pro & Flexmarkers: Ivory, Putty, Pastel Yellow, Sandstone, Lemon, Sandstone, Caramel, Canary, Pumpkin, Satin, Ruby, Orange, Berry Red, Forest Green, Leaf Green, Meadow Green

White Pen, computer generated sentiment, 'Tea Dye' distressing ink

Hope you like it, and thanks for looking.

Janine X

NEW CARDS FOR YOU

Mother's Day Card
This is the card I made for my mum...Happy Mother's Day mum.

I stamped the same flowers several times with versamark and embossed with clear powder.

Then I used the brilliant ink dusters from  Inkylicious Crafts to add colour to the background using pink and brown ink. I've only used them a few times, and take a little getting used to but I found them much easier to use them a brayer.  As they're double ended I keep one end for one colour to avoid contamination.  They're a simple and effective way to build up and blend colour slowly using all of your water based inks eg distressing, adirondacks, pigment and even mica powders etc.

Note: Never use permanement inks as they stain the brush

I stamped the text across the background with brown (2nd generation ink as the ink pad was brand new and very juicy), and then randomly stamped the darker flowers using the same brown as before (2nd and 3rd generation ink).

I tore a strip of parchment for the sentiment, and then stamped the text stamp with Flitter Glu and added gold gilding flakes. This glue is from Indigo Blu and is fantastic, it's great for adding gilding flakes to delicately stamped images/text. It looks like PVA but it's much, much stronger, you basically coated it onto a piece of cut 'n' dry foam to make what is essentially an ink pad.  You can then pat your stamp with it, then stamp your image (don't press too hard as it's incredibly strong) and add flakes, glitter or beads etc. It's fabulouas and definitely worth a try! I spotted both products and demo's on Create and Craft TV.

The flower was made using my Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and coloured using the same pink and brown inks. The whole thing was then matted onto brown card and the based card. All in all this was a really easy card to make.  The gilded text can be seen now - sorry the camera couldn't quite pick it up but it looked stunning and so professional.

Stamps: All from Inkylicious - wonderful mother, flowers and background text

Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa brown),Memento Rose Bud (pink), Distressing ink Tie dye (brown)

One for the boys

Here's a few of the boys cards I made recently...I hope you like them.

Army Boy
Made for a little boy who loves the army. Apparently he loved it and I've been asked to make another one for another little boy. The digi kit was from Digi Printables . I printed the images several times and layered them up to keep it simple but dimensional.

Sk8r Boy
Made using the Sk8r boy digi stamp from Polly Craft Designs, which I multi printed, coloured using promarkers and then layered up.

Promarkers: Lime, leaf green, forest green, powder blue, cornflower, sky blue, caramel, henna
Spectrum Noir: 132, 135, 196
Distressing inks: tumbled glass, peeled paint, faded jeans
Sentiment: computer generated
Papers: Up Up & Away (First Edition) Paper Pad - great price from Dunelm Mill or The Range store.
Stars and Number: Paper (as above) cut using Plantin Cricut cartridge

I hope you like them all.

Janine XX

Anniversary Couple

This monochrome card was made for my sister and BIL's  anniversary on Monday (so ssh! don't tell them), who aren't really into lovey dovey stuff. It was really simple to make, it was just a case of printing out the backing sheet  and cut out.the shapes using my Cricut and Grand Calibur and sticking them down.

CS: Kanban White Scalloped card, Co-ordinations Black Card, RymanWhite card
Cricut: Sweetheart cartridge
X Cut: Tags/Bookplate Die
Background CS: Pink Petticoat Elegance White (Black - Negative)
Embossed Background CS: Cuttlebug Swirls Folder
Nestibilities: Circle and scallop circle dies
Gem, Brads and black ribbon

Hope you like it.

TFL
Janine XX

Sweet Roses....Sweet Friend

I made my latest 8 x 8 creation yesterday for my mum to give to her friend.  She wanted a 'pretty card' with a friend poem on it...and well I love green and pink together.

I made the swirl roses myself...my first attempt..yey!  I added a blob of glitter to the centre, mainly because I didn't have any pearls or gems big enough.

I distressed the edges of the paper and poem label with the Egg Plant ink. Also using the ink I stamped the swirly leaves onto the poem and background paper...gorgeous.

I punched out lots of leaves in green glitter card and also in white card and then coloured then using the same Egg Plant ink.  Finally I added a large pink glitter swirl and punched daisy flowers.

I wanted a pretty but fresh look, and hopefully I achieved it.  It went in the post today, so I just hope she likes it.

Materials I Used:
Paper: Digichick (gorgeous kit)
Leaves: Martha Stewart punch
Flowers: Daisy punch
Ink: Eggplant Adirondack
Nestibilities: Label 4
Hougie Board
Swirl: Marianne Swirl Die
Stamp: Clarity Stamp's Swirly Leaves

Thanks for looking.





PS A quick update...my stepdad is still in hospital, but today he looked a whole lot better.  His breathing and cough has definitely improved and there's talk of home coming home at the end of the week. So fingers crossed!!!!

Happy 18th Birthday Alice

Here are 2 cards I made for my lovely niece Alice who turned 18th last week, and who is off to start university life in York in a weeks time.

I made her first one using a Hunkydory kit I bought a while ago, I'm not really keen on the kit but I'm happy to say the card came out quite well.  I added glitter, gems and a sentiment.  Thankfully Alice loved it!!

I made the 2nd one for my daughter (Heather) to give to her, it's a variation on the 'Girly, Girly' card using my cricut.  The only 2 changes I made was that I cut out the '18' with my cricut and triple embossed it to give it a glossy effect, and the other was that I raised the girl and boxes up off the page with foam pads...much better me thinks. :0)

For the materials I used see the 'Girly Girly' card.

Hope you like my card creations, and thanks for visiting.

Daisy, Daisy!

I made this gorgeous Fizzy Moon card for my closest friends' daughter. I just loved making this card, FM characters are just sooo cute.  OMG I love colouring with my Promarkers.

Materials used:
Stamp: Fizzy Moon (Love)
Paper: Fizzy Moon (Celebration)
Promarkers: Ivory, Satin, Saffron, Burnt Sienna, Apricot, Pastel Yellow,Yellow, Meadow, Line Green (I used my new fine nibs for the smaller details...I just love these nibs)
Nestibilities: Labels 4 / Shapeabilities: Ribbon Tags
Flower Punch

TFL

Girly, Girly!!

I made this for a commision; my work colleague saw one I'd made for another work colleague and loved it.  She immediately ordered 3.  This is the first one....only 2 more to make!

Materials used:
Cricut cartridge - Forever Young, Birthday Bash, Songbird
Paper and scraps - Forever Friends (Spring Time),
Sweet Wishes (free papers)
Nestibilies: Label 4

Thanks for looking.