Monochrome birthday card

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you a monochrome card I've made using flower and foliage stamps
Please see all details and products used below:

• I started with a 7x7 white card blank
• I matted and layered a black piece of cardstock, and a patterned piece to the base, on the black card I've ran around the edge with a glue pen and added some iridescent glitter
• On a white piece of 6x6 cardstock I have stamped a frame in the centre and a birthday sentiment inside
• Next I've taken my stamps and stamped and cut out a mask from copy paper for each one.
• I've masked the frame and sentiment and started to stamp my image all the way around the frame in a clockwise direction. once I have stamped my flower or foliage I have masked it off so that I can over lap my image without it interfering with the other flowers that I've previously stamped, I've built this up until it had nicely filled the 6x6 card, I've then removed all the masks to reviel the image as shown
• Next I have matted and layered this piece onto a black and a white layer and added to the front of my card
• I have added a few gems to the corners and added a little bit of glitter to the centre of the flowers to finish.

Products used:
• Hunkydory card stock in black and white
• Patterned paper was metallic mono from Docrafts, papermania
• frame stamp is creative essentials from Docrafts
• Flowers and foliage stamps are rose mallow, clematis flower, flower starburst, and spring foliage all from Chloe's creative cards
• Birthday sentiment is from Happy birthday sentiments set from Chloe's creative cards

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Scooter shaker card

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you a card I've made for a challenge group on Facebook Hunky junkies the brief was - transport, so I made a fun scooter shaker card
Details and products used below:

• I started with a 7x7 white card blank
• I've matted black card stock to the base
• For the frame I've taken the red patterned paper and made a frame using square nesting dies and ran it through my die cutting machine, to the back of the frame I've glued a piece of acetate then I've raised the frame with mounting foam ensuring there is no gaps in between
• I have then matted and layered a piece of white card stock with the patterned scooter print and fixed to the base card
• For the sentiment I have cut in black card and a white shadow a happy birthday sentiment and run it through my die cutting machine and layered it up and attached the the front as shown
• I then took some red, turquoise and green sequins and place in the middle of the card and attached the frame over the top creating the shaker.

Products used:
• Patterned papers from First Edition paper it's a mans world
• Black and white card stock from Hunkydory
• Square nesting dies from Tonic
• Happy birthday die from Chloe's creative cards
• Sequins are unbranded from amazon UK

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Happy birthday

Hello and welcome to my blog. This card was inspired by Chloe From Chloe's creative cards, I love all her designs and recently purchased a lot of her products.
Please see instructions and products used below:
This card was made for a challenge blog, a perfect time to craft - anything goes challenge Please use link to see all creations
https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html?m=1

• I started with two 7x7 card blanks I cut one half of each card down the centre at 3.5" and stuck both of the cards together to form a gate fold card.
• I then cut two lilac card panels and two white card panels both slightly smaller and matted and layered onto the base.
• I cut another two panels in lilac card stock and stamped and heat embossed the geometric background, I then used some dries clear glue and glued in between all the patterned background and added glitter to all the open spaces, and fixed these panels to the base
• For the flowers I stamped two large, two medium and two white flowers onto lilac card and heat embossed in white embossing powder, then I stamped out each one of the flowers again onto vellum and heated embossed in a glitter embossing power and cut them out. I shaped the flowers with my tweezers and layered them up with glue gel and added a lilac crystal in the middle.
• I then die cut three circle shapes and stamped and heat embossed my sentiment in silver embossing powder and layered the circles up with foam pads. When attaching the sentiment piece I ensured to only glue half of it down so the card could open in the middle, then I added some gems to finish.

Products used:
• Chloe's creative cards luxury pearl card stock in kunzite and white
• Chloe's creative cards geometric background stamp
• Chloe's creative cards rose mallow stamp
• Inks and embossing powers are, Wow - opaque bright white super fine, Wow - lilac aurora, Wow - metallic silver super fine and clear perfect medium by Ranger
• Glue was Cosmic shimmer dries clear glue and Chloe's creative cards sparkleicious glitter in Crystalina
• The circle dies were all unbranded, free with a magazine
• Chloe's creative cards happy birthday sentiment
• Gems were unbranded from b n m stores

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Bee Crafty tag

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I am sharing with you something very different and out of my comfort zone, this tag was made using a subscription box full of goodies from Paper craft Society (Box 8, Bee crafty) The box contains papers, card stock, dies, two stamp sets, stencils, ink, embossing paste, spatula, and also a free £5 gift voucher for Craftstash UK The subscription is through Craftstash UK.
Please see details and products used below:

• I first used one of the dies to cut out the tag from white card stock I then used the inks that came in the box (pink, yellow and green) and blended a solid background with a blending tool, I left this to dry for 20 minutes or so
• Next I used one of the stencils - the butterfly. I taped the stencil in place and using the the spatula provided I spread the embossing paste through the stencil, whilst still wet I removed the stencil and using a flicking motion with a brush I added some bronze perfect pearls over the top and heat embossed with my heat gun
• I then used one of the smaller butterfly stamps and a black ink and stamped over the embossed image.
• Next I used some more of the stamps with clear perfect medium and the bronze perfect pearls around the edges of the tag
• I stamped the pocket watch with black ink towards the left hand corner and the Roman numerals at the bottom left hand corner
• The sentiment time flies I thought matched perfectly with the theme, so I stamped that in black above the butterfly
• to complete the grungy look to this tag I then inked all around the edge with a brown ink and blending tool.

Products used:
• Mostly everything used in this project came with the box subscription, incredible value for money at £24.99 considering the amount of products you get, each month there is a different designer and different products to try. Using this box took me away from what I would usually make and that's what I loved about it, you get to try something completely different each time you receive your box.
• Bronze Perfect pearls by Ranger
• Black versa fine Clair ink
• Clear perfect medium embossing ink from Ranger

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Birthday card - you are purrfect

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you a card I have made using a free digital image from bugaboo Digi stamps

Please see instructions and products used below.

• I started with a white 5x7 card blank
• I used a free digital image and sentiment from bugaboo Digi stamps and coloured with my chameleon colour tone pens
• I have used a piece of grey card stock and heat embossed around the edges with a heart stamp and attached to the card base
• I have then taken a piece of pink card stock and cut out a fancy frame with my die cutting machine and attached to the grey layer
• I've then die cut a white frame and insert and attached my image and sentiment with foam pads and adhered the frame to the pink layer, then just added some pink gems in the corners to finish.

Products used:
• Free digi stamp and sentiment from bugaboo digi stamps, check out this site every Saturday, it has freebie images each week.
https://bugaboostamps.com/collections/freebies-and-sales
• Grey, pink and white card stock from Hunkydory
• Heart stamp (unbranded freebie from a magazine)
• Embossing power- Wow, strawberry shake from Chloe's creative cards
• Frames die set - Spellbinders, water lilies decorative accents by Stacey Caron
• Gems unbranded from B n M stores

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Birthday card

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you a card I've made using free digital stamps from bugaboo Digi stamps.

Please see details and products used below:

• I started with a 6x6 scalloped white card blank, I've matted and layered a piece of red and yellow polka dot card stock to the base.
• On a blue piece of card stock I've ran a herringbone embossing folder through my die cutting machine and added to the mats and layers
• I've added another strip of the yellow polka dot card stock horizontally across the middle and attached some red and white bakers twine before securing it to the card
• I then cut two pieces of white card stock with two square dies and ran them through my die cut machine and attached to the base as seen
• For the image and the sentiment they are both freebie digital stamps from bugaboo Digi stamps, I coloured the image with chameleon colour tone pens, trimmed to size and attached to the front panel, I added a bow with the bakers twine and a few red gems to finish

Products used:

• Red, blue, Yellow polka dot and white card stock all from Hunkydory
• Free digital image from bugaboo Digi stamps - for image and sentiment Check out this site every Saturday, it has freebie images https://bugaboostamps.com/collections/freebies-and-sales
• Herringbone embossing folder is from Gemini, Crafters Companion
• Twine and gems were from Hobby house

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Especially for you

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you a simple little card, made using freebies from Hunkydory.
Instructions and products used below:
This card was made for a perfect time to craft, anything goes blog challenge at:

https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html?m=1

• I started with a card that I've folded to measure 8 2/8 x 4 3/8 inch from the Hunkydory collection kit
• I've added the bird cage topper and sentiment from the same kit
• For the flower I have stamped and heat embossed in white embossing powder onto peach card and vellum, I've made two large flowers, two medium, and two small in each material
• I've then shaped the flower with my fingers and added some glitter with dries clear glue and stacked them together. For the centre I've used a rhinestone and attached the flower to my card as shown

Materials used:
• Hunkydory - Gardeners Paradise deluxe collection (card base, topper and sentiment)
• Card stock was Hunkydory flexi-weight in peach
• Vellum was Anita's plain white vellum
• Flower was from Chloe's creative cards stamp and die set clematis flower
• Glitter and rhinestone was unbranded from Amazon UK

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Sent with love

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you a very simple card but also very pretty and elegant. This card was made for a perfect time to craft, anything goes challenge

https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html?m=1

Please see below for instructions and products used.

• I started with a 7x7 white card blank, I've matted and layered a piece of holographic mirror card and a piece of pale blue card
• On the pale blue panel I have stamped and heat embossed around the edge with a lace border stamp in blue ink and a holographic embossing powder using my heat gun. I then attached two matching ribbons around the panel and glued to the base card
• The main image was from a Hunkydory card kit which I have just added highlights of glitter to and glittered around the edges of the panel
• I created a bow from the blue ribbon and added a sentiment from the same Hunkydory set, I then added a gem stone over the knot of the bow and just a few gem stones to the corners of the card to finish.

Products used:
• Holographic mirror card from Dovecraft
• Hunkydory adorablescorable card stock in pale blue
• Hunkydory, gardeners paradise kit (main panel and sentiment) (freebie)
• Lace stamp was from paper society subscription box 8 from craftstash UK
• Ribbon, gems, and glitter was all unbranded from Amazon UK

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Happy Birthday

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you a happy birthday card, I loved this fun sentiment, if you lose your shoes you're definitely drunk! 😂🍾
please find below instructions, dimensions and products used below:

Blog challenge anything goes a perfect time to craft.
https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html?m=1

• I started with a white 7x7 base card, I matted and layered a teal mirror card and a aquamarine pearlescent card to the base. On the aquamarine panel I glittered around the edges with a iridescent glitter and my chisel tip glue pen
• Next I took the teal mirror card and ran it through my cutting machine with an embossing folder, and attached to a white mat at a slight angle.
• I then took the pearlescent aquamarine and a white mat and adhered to the front
• For the panel below I used the teal mirror card and a die and ran it through my machine. On white card stock I added a double sided sticky sheet and placed the teal mirror panel on top, once in place I glittered the exposed sticky sheet with the same iridescent glitter and added the panel to the card.
• For the shoe, I die cut the shoe with my cutting machine then stamped the image. I added, teal and iridescent glitter and a few gem stones and attached this to my card using foam pads
• For the sentiment, I stamped this onto white card and adhered as shown
• To finish off I just added a few extra gems to the corners.

Products used:
• Hunkydory teal mirror card
• Chloes creative cards aquamarine card
• Hunkydory white card
• Creative Expressions - Sue Wilson, 3D quilted hearts embossing folder
• Panel die - Sue Wilson - striplet, prism
• Shoe stamp and die set was Chloe's creative cards
• Sentiment stamp was Crafters Companion midnight shoe
• Glitters and gems were all unbranded, purchased on Amazon UK

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Rainbow Thank You Card

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you a thank you card made for one

of our NHS heroes. 

Please find below all instructions and products used.

• I started with a 5"x7" pearlescent base card then I matted and layered a piece of holographic mirror card and another mat layer in a pastel orange shade, I then used another white layer
• On the white layer I inked a cloud background, grassy hills and a sun using die inks. I did this by creating a cloud, sun and hills shape from scrap pieces of card and used them like a mask to form the desired background effect.
• To create the rainbow I used a rainbow die I ran this through my cutting machine seven times in seven different shades of pastel card, then pieced them together to form the rainbow.
• Using the same die set I cut out two of the stitched cloud shapes in white, then again from the same die set I cut out two lager hearts in holographic mirror card and two smaller hearts in pastel pink and layered them together with the rainbow as shown
• I cut the sentiment 'to brighten your day' four times in the holographic card and stacked them together using glue for a more dimensional look.
• Then I cut the die cut tag with debossed sentiment thank you and then mat and layered a piece of pink card stock behind it
• Once all the elements to the card were cut out and stacked together I arranged them to the front of the card as seen, adhering each layer and element with wet glue.

Products used:
• Dovecraft 5"x7" pearlescent base card
• Dovecraft A4 holographic mirror card
• Hunkydory A4 Matt-tastic adorablescorable card in the colours soft white, petal pink, lovely lilac, kiwi crush, cornflower blue, apricot burst, lemon burst and tranquil turquoise.
• The die set was Sue Wilson, necessities collection you are my sunshine
• Tonic studio - thank you die tag set

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Neutral Wedding Card

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you a wedding card that I have made. This card was for a group challenge, anything goes aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com please find all instructions and products used below

• I started with a white 7x7 card blank I matted a pale gold mat and two pieces of patterned paper to the front of the card base
• I then took a very light neutral shade of card stock and stamped out a background using a gold ink and heat embossed with a gold embossing powder and adhered the the front panel
• Next I took a piece of white card and a trellis die and ran that through my die cutting machine, behind it I layered a piece of vellum that I had stamped tiny daisies onto and heat embossed with a holographic embossing powder
• Next I used a piece of white pearlescent card and stamped and heat embossed a floral pattern in pearl embossing powder and die cut a heart shape and attached a small pearl to the centre, and adhered onto the card as shown.
• I die cut four sentiments 'on your wedding day' and stacked them together to add some dimension
• I also cut from the same two patterned papers from the mats and layered sheets, 2 banners and attached my sentiment as shown, I also added a pre-cut congratulations sentiment underneath the heart shape
• I added an adhesive pearl string as a border around my die cut and vellum piece and some adhesive pearls to the centre of the 'crisscross' on the trellis pattern
• Next I attached some pre-made flowers to the corners of the card and added some pearls to the corners also.

Products used:
• Card stock was all Hunkydory adorablescorable
• Patterned paper was Gilded Winter by First Edition papers
• Trellis die was Sue Wilson
• Banner die and heart shape die was also Sue Wilson
• Pre-cut congratulations sentiment was from Dovecraft essentials
• Pearls and pearl string was from Hobby House.

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Hello, Scrap Pieces

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I would like to share with you a card I've made using up those pesky scrap pieces we all have laying around.
Please see all instructions and products used below.

• I started with a white 8x8 card blank, I matted and layered a piece of purple and grey card stock to the base.
• With the grey card stock I ran my chisel tip glue pen around the edge and added some holographic glitter.
• For the background, I have taken my leftover scrap pieces of paper/card stock from other projects and cut them into one inch strips. I've used glitter, patterned papers, mirror card and plain card stock, all in a complementary colour scheme
• I proceeded to stick these down with wet glue onto a white 7x7 backgroud leaving a small gap (or edge) in between each one - (I have used a random pattern but you could do this diagonally, horizontally, vertically or any other way in which you choose) I then glued this piece to the card
• For the sentiment I have taken a white piece of card and cut out a fancy circle shape with a die, then used a plain circle die to cut a piece from purple card stock.
• I have cut out the Hello die three times in white card and once in the same grey card as the mat layer and stacked them together slightly off-setting them to add dimension.
• I've then added a bow with purple ribbon, a silk purple flower to cover the knot and added a few adhesive gems to the corners.

Products used:
• The plain, glittered and mirror cardstock is from Hunkydory
• The pattern papers are from Papermania Lucy Cromwell addition
• The circle dies were unbranded from Amazon UK
• The hello die was a freebie from a papercraft magazine.
• The ribbon, flowers and gems were all unbranded from Amazon UK

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Happy Birthday Card

Hello and welcome to my blog, today I have a lovely Happy Birthday card, inspired and created using magazine freebies from Chloe's Creative Cards.
Please see all instructions and products used below:

• I started with an 8x8 scalloped card blank, I have matted and layered a piece of holographic mirror card with a paper from the Bloom and Wonderful First Edition Paper pad. 
• Next I used a  6x6 stencil on white card and inked through it using a pink, purple and blue ink with a blending tool. Whilst the stencil was still in place I spread over some dries clear glue, removed the stencil and added holographic glitter on top. Once dry I trimmed this slightly and matted and layered onto another 6x6 piece of holographic mirror card in a diamond orientation.
•  I then took an embossing folder ran it through my die cutting machine on white card, gently with a blending tool inked over the top with the same colour inks as before
•  For the flowers, I have stamped them (x3) on pastel coloured card for the base of the flowers, then stamped the same flowers onto vellum and heat embossed in a silver and white embossing powder, repeated the process with a smaller flower stamped onto vellum (×3 each) and cut them out with a matching die and layered them together as shown and added an adhesive an rhinestone to the centre.
•  I then added an already pre-cut Happy Birthday sentiment and some adhesive jewels in the corners and a bow to finish.

* The stamps, stencil, embossing folder and dies all came with a freebie gift from a magazine Chloe's creative cards, issue 6
• Backing paper was from the paper pad Bloom and Wonderful by First Addition Papers
• Card stock and vellum was from Hunkydory
• Holographic card was from Dovecraft essentials
• Inks are Papermania
• Pre-cut sentiment was from Dovecraft essentials
• Silver and white fine detail embossing powers both from Wow embossing powders

*All products were purchased on Amazon UK.

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Thinking of you card

Hello and welcome to my very first blog post. Today I would like to share with you a pretty thinking of you card that I have made.
All instructions and products used are below.

• I started with a scalloped white 8x8 card blank
• I ran a glue pen around the edges of a pale blue piece of card stock and added holographic glitter as a small border and adhered this to the card base
• The next layer is a white piece of card matted behind a pale blue one with the same glitter edging as before
• For the background piece I took a white piece of card and stamped all around the edge with a pale blue ink then heat embossed with a holographic glitter embossing powder and my heat gun, and added this to the small pale blue mat.
• For the centre piece I use the same blue card stock and stamped out two floral images to the corners using the same blue ink and holographic embossing powder and matted this onto a piece of silver card.
• for the flowers I stamped out 2 flowers onto vellum, again same colour and embossing powder, then I cut these out using a matching die, I added these to the stamped image then adhered some little pearl flower gems.
• Before I glued the last piece down I added a ribbon and a bow going around all the mats and layers and tucking behind the largest one.
• Then I just added a few flower gems to the corners and one to cover to knot on the bow.
• I die cut the sentiment thinking of you three times in white card and once in silver card and stacked them together for some dimension then adhered to the front panel.

Products used:

• Card stock was all Hunkydory adorable scorable, in white, pale blue and silver.
• The stamps and die for the background and flower were both freebies from a magazine (Chloe's creative cards, box set 6) 
• The sentiment die was from Sue Wilson. 

All my items used were purchased on Amazon UK

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