Molly's winter coat

Hi peeps

Just a quick post before I go off to Spain for another 3 weeks - it's a hard life, but someone's gotta do it, lol.

My card today features Molly Bloom, I'm seriously in love with these stamps, and was lucky enough to meet Claire - the inventor of Molly, and her daughter (Molly) at a demo day in SirStampalot, where I bought this stamp together with several others, all equally gorgeous.  Unfortunately, I haven't had much time to do papercrafting since I got back from my last holiday, but was quite pleased with this one, which features a new border die, which was a birthday present from my darling daughter.  The 'Happy Christmas' ribbon is from Crafty Ribbons.  I made the poinsettia with my Marianne design dies, and used the Doo Hickey swirl underneath to act like a stem.  Behind Molly I've used a piece of paper that I stamped and embossed using my Whimsy music stamp and Wow embossing powders - love 'em!  I'm afraid I can't remember the make of the papers but again, I picked them up on my visit to SirStampalot with my lovely friend Tash.  I cut the card candy from red card, and then covered it with glossy accents over which I sprinkled fine red glitter, I'm really pleased with the way that they turned out.

Hope you like it, and I'll hopefully be visiting you all again in about 4 or 5 weeks.

Judi x

The Slippery Slope!

Hi peeps

I managed to get this one finished before my hols, but have scheduled it so that hopefully you'll get to see it while I'm away - no more thinking about Christmas for me for 3 weeks!!

I've used another LOTV image which I coloured with Copics and glittered up with lots of Glamour Dust.  The background papers are Bearly Mine Designs and I've used the MS icicle punch for the border.  The 'Wish List' is from Whimsy, although this isn't actually a stamped image - it was cut from the packaging which I bought the stamp  in - waste not, want not!  The sentiment tickets are also from Whimsy.  A bit of machine stitching, and some homemade candy, and that's it.

Hope you like it enough to leave a comment, and I'll look forward to catching up with you all when I get back from Spain.

Hugs

Judi x

Christmas Dinner or Dog's Dinner?

Hi everyone

Thanks for calling by.

Today's card is made with one of the new LOTV Christmas stamps, I just couldn't resist this release and bought six of them, so expect to see them popping up now and again, although I'm off on my hols again on Monday, so you won't be hearing from me for 3 weeks (BIG smiley face!)

Anyway, back to the card - the papers are digis, from Bearly Mine Designs (I think!). The little red snowflake border was an MS punch, the musical paper is stamped with a Whimsy stamp (a pressie from my friend Tasha), and then embossed with WOW embossing powders - I love these for fine detail work.  The poinsettias are cut with a Marianne Design die, to which I added punched stamens cut from coffee filter papers and then dyed with distress inks.  A little bit of stitching, a sentiment stamped with an old HOTP stamp, a bit of ribbon from my stash, lots of Stickles, and that's about it.

Hope you have time to leave a comment as I love hearing what you think.

Hugs

Judi x

Happy Birthday Liz

Hi peeps

Today's card is for a friend of my daughter.  She apparently likes a drink (or three), so I thought this image sent to me by a friend would be perfect.  The background papers were also a gift, so I'm afraid I don't know who they're by, but I love the pink and brown mix.  The image was coloured with Copics, and on checking with my hubby if he thought it was OK, he said he thought I should make her stocking tops a bit darker than the rest of the stocking!!  Wonder how he knew that, lol!  I lightly distressed the background with 'pumice' distress ink, but made a bit of a boo boo, and got a bit of a dark splodge just under where the girl is sitting, so had to cut into another image, and 'pinch' one of the olives, which I then coloured and stuck over the splodge, hopefully no one will notice, except you guys.  The lace is from the load I brought back from Spain (must get some more next time I go), flowers are Wild Orchid Crafts, a bit of Tim Holtz film, and a computer generated sentiment finishes it off.

Hope you have time to leave a comment, as I love to hear from you.

Hugs

Judi xx

Not quite a Red Admiral!

Evening all

Today's card is for my neighbour who kindly helps us out with watering the garden and feeding the fish when we're on our hols.  It's her birthday tomorrow, and I just wanted to make her a card to help show how much we value her.  I don't know her VERY well, so it's a bit pot luck as to whether she'll like it, but I do, so I guess I'll have to be happy with that, lol.   The black and white spotty paper is from an old Papermania pad (I think), the red and black card is from my basic card stock, and I cut the red circle with a Marianne Design die.   The image is Ching Chou Kuik, and I've coloured it with distress inks.  I don't think Sue is into 'pretty, pretty' if you know what I mean, so I didn't want to go over the top with flowers, and decided that the black feather with just one small flower was about right.  The sentiment was stamped with one of my staples, again from Papermania.  A little red homemade card candy for the corners, and that's the lot.

Thanks for looking.

Judi x

Happy Birthday Sis!

 

Hi Peeps

Today's card is one that I've made well ahead of time for my sister's birthday in August as I shall be in sunny Spain at the time (HUGE grin!).  

My sister is REALLY into gardening, which sounds a bit weird when you think that she lives on a narrow boat, but some time ago she managed to pursuade the guy who owns the marina where they moor to allow her to look after a little bit of rough ground at the side of the canal.  You should see it now - beautiful flower beds, lawn, greenhouse and shed!!  It's a real improvement on what it used to be I can tell you.  Anyway, bearing this in mind I once again decided to make her a garden based card, and this is the result.  The image is a freebie that I downloaded at some point from Deedledeedoodles.  It's very simple, but I rather liked it.  It was coloured with Copics, and I edged it with distress ink.  The papers are digis, but off the top of my head I can't remember who by, so if you want to know drop me an email, and I'll find out for you.  I made a little ball of garden string to add a bit of texture to the card, and then some ribbon from my stash, and homemade flowers just about complete this one.  As always, I'd love to hear what you think.

Judi x

Kenny K

 

Hi peeps

Sorry I'm not posting so many cards at the mo, I've been busy with other projects.  However, I bought this stamp at the weekend, and just couldn't wait to get it inked up, and here is the result.

I coloured the image with Copics (managed to run out THREE of my pens, so have had to order refills - not a cheap fix, but at least they do last ages).  I'm afraid I don't have a clue whose make the papers are that I've used, as they were a gift from my lovely pal, Tasha a while back.  The card is Coredinations which I embossed with a new mask that I got at the weekend, unfortunately it wasn't until I went to sand it down that I realised it hadn't taken the embossing as well as I'd hoped, so you can barely see the design, obviously should have used another shim!  The ribbon was originally white seam binding, but I dyed it with Distress Inks, as while back and it just happened to match this project perfectly.  A Doo Hickey swirl is just tucked in there, and I used a few diamond shaped eyelets in the corners, which were originally gold, but I changed the colour with my black Copic pen.  That's about it for this one.

Hugs, and thanks for looking.

Judi x