Some Hero Arts and Gina K

When we were in the US recently I did buy myself a [few] crafty bits including some Spellbinders dies and these lovely frame its stamps and dies from Hero Arts.  This dogwood card was my first play with them and I can see them being a real favourite!  So easy to stamp first and then die cut rather than the other way around.

Next up I used another old favourite stamp set - A Year of Flowers from Gina K - in a trellis with lots of masking.  All the other supplies are from Papertrey Ink, and I stamped the quatre foil die cut with the wood grain stamp.

I think this will fit in again with the anything goes over at a Passion for Papertrey too.

Right - better head off - work tomorrow!

Valentine Roses

I so wanted to take part in Melanie Muenchinger's challenge to make a card using her just wonderful "A Year of Flowers", as the prize is to win a copy of her new stamp set that is just about to be launched by Gina K Designs (and also a change to be a guest designer on her blog!). I think this also makes a late entry for the challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey too.


I knew I wanted to make a Valentine's card and use the roses as they are my favourite in the set, so when I had them all coloured up I hopped over to Mojo Monday blog for some inspiration. This is for Mojo Monday 124.





















The roses were stamped onto Gina K luxury heavy white cardstock and coloured with Copic markers (does anyone know of a Copic certification class near London by any chance?). I thought the Papertrey Background Basics Text Style II went really well - if you read the tiny writing it talks of delight, ectasy and dreams - very good for a Valentine's card :)

All the other supplies are by Papertrey and the sentiment is from Heart Prints.

Here is the sketch from Mojo Monday this week












Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have had a great weekend!

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.

Mojo Monday 75

Well more like Mojo Saturday! I don't get much chance to craft during the week but I think I might get this in before it's Monday all over again!


I often look at the layouts on Mojo Monday and this one spoke to me for some reason - I still think it's missing something but maybe I'll get it out in a couple of days and add something.

The paper is Bella Rosa by Stampin Up and the tulips are from a Gink K set callled A Year of Flowers. I coloured the tulips with Copics and added some little half pearls. I'm sure I'll find room for a sentiment somewhere!

Valentine Roses

A work colleague asked me to make her a valentine card with red roses for her husband so here we have a pair from GinaK designs "A Year of Flowers" - my favourite flower set! I managed to cut the top of one rose off when I ran the die through the cuttlebug so the lovely Jenni suggested that I cut down another rose and add it - so I did it with both roses and liked the dimension it gives to them.

The roses are coloured with Copic Ciao markers in R35 Coral, R46 Strong Red and R59 Cardinal, and the leaves with YG63 Pale Olive and YG63 Pea Green. I like the Ciao markers and can't see/feel any difference between them and the Sketch markers apart from Ciao's are half the price - but it does wind me up that the colour numbers aren't on the caps! The paper is from the SU Bella Rosa paper pack.

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.

Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge

I go look at Beate's weekend sketch challenge every weekend and this was great inspiration to put this card together. I used my new Year of Flowers stamps and took my colours from the designer of the stamps Melanie Muenchinger - check out her beautiful blog if you have time. I was trying for an Autumnal (if that's how you spell it!) feel for this one.

Rainy Day Tulips

It's a really miserable rainy day here today and the clocks went back this morning so it's going to be dark extra early - not my favourite time of year so a good excuse to stay in and play with my new stamps from Gina K. Designs. The tulip is from A Year of Flowers and I made this as a case for the featured stamper over at SCS's to send to a friend who is having a very tough time right now.