Fat Club Weigh Day Card

My friend who is a slimming club consultant is opening a new group next week, so I wanted to acknowledge it with a card.

I used a stamp by Art Impressions, which is part of their "Girlfriends" collection (ref: UMT4009), which I coloured with Promarkers.  I added a typed sentiment as I wasn't able to source anything suitable.

Mother's Day Eclipse Card

Well Mother's Day has crept up on me, so I thought I'd better get a card made for my Mother-in-law.  I decided to make an eclipse card.

There was a lot of stamping to make this card.  For each rose on the background there were three separate stamps used and then each leaf was stamped separately too.  I used the Stampin' Up "Swirly Bird" stamp set to create the rose background.

Using 5cm thin dies, I positioned and then cut the word "Mum".    I placed a piece of co-ordinating card below the die cut area then returned the die cut letters into their original places using foam pads to elevate them.

The two flowers above and below the word are die cuts using Spellbinders "Timeless Heart Tectured Flowers" die set.  

Yupo Paper Stencil Tag

A while back I saw a Tim Holtz tutorial where he mentioned that due to the coating/finish, you could use Yupo Paper to create a stencil using your existing dies, so I thought I would give it a try.

I started my tag with a background of Tim Holtz Oxide Inks.  I used a Sizzix Thinlits die (Tim Holtz Alterations 661185) to cut the stencil in the Yupo paper and then secured it over the top of the tag.  I used a Distress Ink in "Faded Jeans" shade and the sponge applicator to apply the colour through the stencil, I inked the edges in the same shade too.  I used a Stamper's Anonymous stamp for the sentiment and stars.

Week 9 - 52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2018

So here we are at the last week of February.  I hope you're enjoying the challenge so far.

The prompt for Week 9 is "Picture Perfect".

For my tag, I started with a page from a book and covered it with Distress Oxides.  Using a stamp with a camera image (I think it was free with a magazine) I randomly stamped in a Versafine Ink "Smokey Grey" shade.

The sentiment at the base of the tag is from a Hobby Art stamp set called "Inspirations".   I used various Stamper's Anonymous stamps and also the Stampin' Up "Gorgeous Grunge" stamp to fill the background and then inked the edges, adding white dots to lift the colour with a Signo pen.

On a separte piece of card (with an oxide ink background), I stamped the butterflies (also Stamper's Anonymous).  Then cut it to the size I wanted.  I stuck it to some black card and cut it so that it looked like a Polaroid photo snap.  I used tiny sticky alpha stickers for the wording and stuck it to the tag, adding a paperclip to look as if it were casually attached.

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Camper Van Birthday Card

I received my subscription copy of Creative Stamping Magazine (issue 54) today.  It has some fab clear stamps and patterned papers in it.  I couldn't help but have a quick play and made this little camper van card.  It's always handy to have cards like this in my pre-made stash in case I forget an occasion.

I've use Promarkers to colour the van and mounted it on the card using foam pads.

I have used a Papertrey Ink stamp from their "Stylish Sentiments" set to stamp the sentiment.

Here is a photo of the magazine cover and stamp set in case you would like to get it too.

Week 8 - 52 Week Mini Art Card / Tag Challenge 2018

The prompt for Week 8 is:  Repeat Patterns (this was inspired by looking at wallpaper,

For this week, I couldn't make my mind up what I wanted to do.  As I finished one tag, another idea popped up, so hopefully this prompt should be an easy one to interpret.

For this tag, I stamped the same image in different colours.  The stamp is from the Stampin' Up set called "Totally Trees".

For this stamp, I used a piece of patterned paper with hearts on it.  I then placed a stencil over the top and shaded in lines.  A stamped sentiment, using a Papertrey Ink stamp from their "Love Lives Here" set was used in the middle.  Then the edges were inked.  Finally, I used a Promarker to colour four wooden hearts and stuck them to the middle of the tag.

On this final tag, I used a background of assorted Tim Holtz Distress Inks, and then used a stencil over the top to create the zig zag look.  I then die cut and applied the dogs.

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Stars Birthday Card

I made this birthday card, but in hindsight, I should have placed the stars differently.  It's all stuck down now so will have to do.

I heat embossed some green and navy cardstock with a wavy pattern and then die cut the stars from the card.  The dies I used for the stars was the Stampin' Up "Stars Framelits" set.  The stamped sentiment is from a Papertrey Ink set called "Stylish Sentiments".