Plum Mums

My lovely friend Betty is such an enabler!  She told me that Copic were having a price rise and would I like some before they went up? Never one to say no I ordered some of the new Copic marker colours and she posted them over to me.  So I had to make a thank you card using those same new colours - it is such a pretty set!

The plum pudding cardstock is stamped with Damask Designs in Versamark and the flower in Memento Tuxedo black ink. A slip of ribbon and a sentiment from the same stamp set (love that font!) finished it off.

Thanks for stopping by!

Poppy Background

When I saw this stamp I just had to buy it - I've loved every example that I've seen made with it. When I got it though, and stamped it off, I felt really intimidated by it and I put it to one side.

This weekend I felt it was time to get over my fear and get busy! Here is what I came up with first -

I stamped it in Memento Rich Cocoa ink and then coloured in with the Copic markers below. The sentiment is from Through the Trees by Papertrey and the cardstock is Hibiscus, Dark Chocolate and Spring Moss.

Whilst I had the stamp on the table I also made a quickie set of notecards to send to a friend - not a great picture but you get the idea! They were stamped in Papertrey's new inks - great for big stamps.

Thanks for stopping by this weekend and I hope it's been a good one for you!

Arranged With Love

I've just got back from a great weekend away in the Cotswolds visiting my friend Pam - it was so quiet and I didn't hear a siren or an aircraft all weekend! What a difference to living near the world's largest airport.

To say thank you I made this card for Pam using my new Arranged with Love set by Melanie Muenchinger which is a companion set to my all time favourite flower stamps - A Year Of Flowers. I emailed Gina K and she posted it out so quickly I was very impressed indeedy.

The flowers were stamped in Memento Black ink and coloured with copic markers. I used Gina K's 120lb pure white card (well I did have to justify the postage!) to stamp onto and it's true - the copics don't bleed through to the other side and so will be great for one layer cards!

I hope you like this first effort - I'm working on a yellow version for my Mum and Dad's wedding anniversary.

A Year of Flowers

I have been totally inspired by Melanie Muenchinger designs for her "Year of Flowers" stamps and as soon as I saw these two 'off the page' cards on Melanie's blog here and here I had to get ink onto rubber and go for it.

I coloured both cards with copic markers onto Papertrey Ink white cardstock - there is some bleed through to the other side but I used some patterned paper to cover it up.

This first one was made for a friend who has a birthday today. I scored along the top and then used my craft knife to cut out the roses - not easy as I am challenged when using a craft knife! The lower rose is popped on foam pads to give a bit of dimension.

This one is for my Mum - I think she will like this as it's a bit different. I wasn't sure which of the leaves would go best with it but went with the same leaves in the end - I need to go google some options! The coloured cardstock is by Stampin Up and the sentiments for both cards are in the stamp set.

Funky Fold

I love trying out new foldy things and had to have a go at this funky fold card which is based on a squash book. I made it as part of a challenge for Jenni who I know loves anything foldy too!

If you want the tutorial you can find it here on Splitcoast Stampers. It was fun to make and I got to use some new stash that I had from Santa - plain square nestabilities and some new tapestry rubber stamps by Laura Ashley. The lovely double sided paper is by Making memories and I coloured the flower and ribbon with a Copic marker to match the blue of the paper

Here it is all closed up

and here opened up -

I can see me making more of these :)

Home for the Holidays Take Two (and Three)

Here are another couple of cards made with PTI's Boards and Beams set with the Home for the Holidays addition.

































I think I must have coloured and cut out about a 100 windows for my Christmas cards but I like how the single layer card turned out. I added liquid applique for the snow and a bit of stickles glitter glue to bring a bit of sparkle.
























I also made another acetate card using the townhouse from the Boards and Beams set - it's a really poor photo taken on my office window at work and acetate is so hard to take a good picture of! I just noticed one of the windows is wonky - hope it straightened itself in the post :)