Camper Van

Same set of Hunkydory stamps used in my last post.

On this card we also used the matching stencil with Colour Cloud inks to make the background, the van was coloured with Colour Cloud too.

Sentiment stamp is by Woodware (Jane's Script)

Thinking of You

I masked off a strip on some white card and smudged on a couple of distress inks, then stamped with Card-io stamps in black.
The sentiment is Jane's Script by Woodware.

Congratulations

Main image is a Penny Black sticker
Sentiment and flower stamps are by Woodware (Jane's Script)

SU ribbon slot punch used on the right to thread the ribbons through, I'm wondering whether to untie them and just use a knot rather than a bow?

Animals

Dies are old Cuttlebug
Stamp is Jane's Script by Woodware

Birthday

Nothing exciting but it's all I've got today I'm afraid.
Image is Lili of the Valley
Sentiment is Jane's Script by Woodware

Best Wishes

Another dull old day which means my colours are out of whack.

Image is Lili Of The Valley, I've added some glitter.
Sentiment stamp is 'Jane's Script' and I've mounted it using SU punches

Thinking Of You

I still haven't got bored of 'French Foliage' stamp set.
This time I just stamped a single leaf, coloured direct to the stamp with markers rather than using an ink-pad.

The sentiment is Jane's Script by Woodware.

I made another card almost identical but used gold embossing powder on the leaf and changed the card colours.

Bird Thankyou

I needed to make a 'thank you' card in a hurry, made this one, and then realised I didn't need it after all. Still it will come in sometime.

Kraft cardblank is by Woodware (Crafts U Love sell them) and the white background has been embossed with a Cuttlebug folder - "Welcome Baby" combo.

The berry coloured card, ink, and bird punch are all by Stampin' Up. I like that their products are available in exactly matched colours so I am not searching for a matching ribbon or whatever.

Sentiment stamp is Jane's Script by Woodware.

House Mouse

Please ignore my awful colouring in! I love these House Mouse stamps but there is a lot of fine detail and my Copic nibs are a touch too big to be totally accurate (plus I'm always rushing).

In fact because my colouring in was so bad I ended up having to cut around the image so I could re-mount it on another piece of card. That was a bit of a mistake because all the fiddly bits were a nightmare to trim round, oh well we live and learn!

So I used Copics to colour the image which is House Mouse "Berried Strawberries". A white gel pen was dotted on the berries and then I added some Glossy Accents just as a highlight on each berry (next time I might try covering the whole berry with gloss but I quite like the highlight effect).

The red card is Core'dinations, I ran it through the Cuttlebug using the Swiss Dots folder and then sanded the tops off the dots so the white core shows through (just used an emery board to do this). I tend to forget I can sand after embossing but love the way it looks especially on this card, kind of matches the berries. I had to add the green band across the middle to hide the join of the red card - too wide to go through the Cuttlebug in one piece. Sentiment is Jane's Script by Woodware.

Jelly Bean Heist

There's a little story behind this card.

I have a brother called Richard and (like a lot of men) it's hard to know what to buy him for birthday and Christmas.

One year I bought him a huge jar of Jelly Belly beans and his wife told me he liked them....

Well that was what he started getting for every present every year!

Sometimes I would put a little extra with the jelly beans like a gift voucher or some toiletries etc

Anyway it was his birthday last Saturday and my mum had mentioned that what he would really like this year was some cash to put towards a new computer part.

I had already bought this cute House Mouse stamp with the intention of matching it up with Richard's jar of beans only now I wasn't giving him any beans.

The title of the stamp is "Jelly Bean Heist" so that gave me an idea....I put cash inside the finished card and wrote "Sorry, the mice ate all the jelly beans".

I hope he liked it.

The stamp was stamped and embossed with fine detail gold powder - this meant I could get away with not colouring so much of the image *however* I soon realised that Copic markers do not like embossing powder! (the nibs were starting to pick up the gold colour). I won't be doing that again but I did manage to get the colour off the nibs by scribbling on a bit of scrap paper so it wasn't total calamity.

The sentiment is Jane's Script by Woodware.

Inspired by Sarita's gorgeous card from her blog

Happy Birthday

Miss Anya stamp coloured with Copics. The paper is from my stash and the sentiment has been stamped using Jane's Script by Woodware. I love the font used on this set of stamps and it is excellent value - £10.99 from Crafts U Love and you get seventeen or so stamps.