Gift Set 1

Hi Crafty Friends!

Just sharing a little gift set of small cards I made.

 
Just simple stamping and a touch of colouring on the last card shown.

The script background stamp is from a Happy Little Stampers set. All the other stamps are by Crafty Roo Designs. 

These are all stamps I've had for a while and I still like using them. Sadly both companies are no longer trading.

The snowflake dies are from Memorybox and the texture plate for embossing the box lid by Sizzix.

Hope you enjoyed my little trip down memory lane. I shall be back tomorrow with a couple of cards showcasing some new STAMPlorations products.See you then.

hugs

Monika 💕

Merry Christmas

Hi Crafty Friends!

As promised the first one of the two card I made using stencil prints from the card posted on Monday. Think this was the second one I took, have a look ...

I simply added the die-cut trees by Memory Box, had them for ages, a sentiment from STAMPlorations and a couple of gems to finish.

Wishing you all a lovely day!

hugs
Monika 💕

1st Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends!

Today I'm sharing a cute little birthday card made earlier this month for someone's 1st birthday ...

The little foxes are from a set called Hello Pumpkin by Lili Of The Valley, the sentiment is from a set by Crafty Roo Designs and the alphabet dies are from Memory Box.

The colouring was done using a mix of ink blending and watercolouring with brush markers. Of course,the envelope and wrapping paper was decorated using the foxes from the stamp set too.

Wishing you all a lovely day!

hugs
Monika 💕

Sunrise Poppy Hugs

Hi Crafty Friends!

I've been playing with dies and inks today to come up with this colourful CAS DL card ...

The colours used for the background are: Melon Mambo, Daffodil Delight and Bermuda Bay SU inks.

Cutting dies used are: Sunrise Poppy by Memory Box, Basic A2 Panels Nesting Dies by STAMPlorations and hugs word die from ebay.

Wishing you all a lovely day!

hugs
Monika 💕

A Little Die Cutting

Hello Crafty Friends!

I hope you're enjoying the sunshine wherever you are. Here in the UK something very special has happened... we are having a Bank Holiday weekend AND the sun is shining!!!!

Well I'm keeping this one short.I made two cards out of one die cut, here they are:

  

My First card uses a die-cut brusho background, one I made at the Happy Little Stampers Craft Retreat at the end of July in combination with the Joyful Bouquet Memory Box Die, brand new and never used before, with a little sentiment from the Doodled Flowers set by Happy Little Stampers.

Next up is the card I made using the negative of the Joyful Bouquet die on a dark background ...

... with a sentiment from the Thinking Of You set by Happy Little Stampers. Two quick cards out of one die cut.

I am entering my first card at:
Allsorts - use at least two dies, stitched rectangle and joyful bouquet
Darnell's NBUS #7 - at least one item must be 'Never-Before-Used-Schtuff', joyful bouquet is mine

Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes with dies
Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes using Happy Little Stampers stamps

That's it from me. Have a lovely day!

hugs
Monika xxx

Building Up Momentum

Hi Everyone,

It's Inspiration Time over at the STAMPlorations Blog. Each month we invite you to CASE any of our projects and link them up at the Inspiration CASE Playground.

This little feature gave me the inspiration for my first two projects ... I decided to CASE Shirley's cards from her Spotlight Feature Inspired by Pinterest. These were her cards ...

 

... and this is what I made of them ...

As you can see, I am still in Christmas card mode. I used the die cut trees and their matching border and basically followed the steps outlined in Shirley's tutorial. The difference is that I used different colours and that I sprayed my card with Gold Artiste Spritzing Ink before starting, once it had dried of course. Apart from that I used the following sets: Holiday Sketches: Christmas Flower, Vignette: Christmas Block and Patchwork Frenzy: Graphic Squares.

TIP!: If you don't have a matching tree and frame die, you could try and draw the shape and add a doodled outline to finish.

My next card uses the Christmas Flower set again. This time I worked with the flower itself ...

I created a stencil for sponging the ornament and a mask for my poinsettia, which I stamped through my stencil before masking and sponging the bauble. I them watercoloured my flower using Festive Berries and Barn Door distress inks with a touch of Daffodil Delight for the center. To finish I stamped my sentiment, rounded some corners and added a bow and some sequins.

Hope you feel inspired to CASE any of my or my teamies cards. You can link them up at the Inspiration CASE Playground. You find the Linky at the end of each Inspiration Post on the STAMPlorations Blog ... hope to see you there.

Have a lovely weekend!

Hugs
Monika xxx


here is what I used:

from STAMPlorations, links to the sets are in the above text
  

Pine Trio background and outline dies - Memory Box
Gold Artiste Spritzing Ink - docrafts
Crisp Cantaloupe, Strawberry Slush, Coastal Cabana, Smoky Slate Crushed Curry, Daffodil Delight inks - Stampin'Up
Festive Berries, Barn Door distress inks, Jet Black and Sepia Archival inks - Ranger
Onyx Black Versafine ink - Tsukineko
ribbon - Fantastic Ribbons