Lili of the Valley - Under the Weather

Lili of the Valley - Under the Weather 

Yesterday was a complete wash out here so what better to go home and colour in that Lili of the Valley James with his big umbrella!! 

I wanted to make him into a Get Well Card with the sentiment "Under the Weather" so I die cut him out with a nesting die. Found some paper in the stash - the one i chose was a bit dark so I added a light blue cloud paper across the middle to brighten it a bit. Then I added a sun and clouds using Whimsy Stamps die. 

Products used: 

Digi Stamp: Lili Of the Valley - James 

Sun and Clouds Die: Whimsy Stamps

Papers: hobbycraft and Works

Entered in:

Cute Card Thursday 

All Dressed up Birthday Card

All Dressed up Birthday Card 

Now that Royal Welsh Show is over and i'm up to date with orders and personal cards I have some time to make cards just for making cards sake!!! 

So I decided to make a card for the All Dressed up Facebook competition "Pearls/ & Or Gems" and I loved it so I thought i would enter it in the All Dressed up blog challenge too! 

The image was one I saw a few weeks ago and loved so knew I wanted to make a card with it. I coloured it with my copics and then added pearl drops. 

A few weeks ago I met a friend in town and she was heading to the haberdashery to give some of her old jewellery but after a conversation I ended up having it off her. In the box was some pearls and heart earrings so I added a few of these to it using a glue gun - which im not a fan of but it is the strongest glue! 

Image: All dressed up Fairy Swing 

Colours: Copic 

Papers: from stash - most likely the Works 

Pearls: from old jewellery 

I would like to enter this in All dressed up Blog 

Polka Doodles - Drummer

Polka Doodles - Drummer 

My brother-in-law is a drummer in a band and so as I like to try and make my cards personal to that person I wanted a drummer or a drum kit. I did have an image in my head of a festival card but I couldn't quite get it onto paper! Then I came across Polka Doodles drummer in one of the work and play sets - perfect! I also now have more digi stamps to play with! 

Image: Polkadoodles 

Music background paper: Polkadoodles 

Die used: Nesting stitched stars - Creative Dies

Topper: Happy Birthday - Express yourself MIP

Pearl dots: hobby craft 

Punch: star punch - hobby Craft
Coloured: Copics

To enter in following competitions: 

Digi Choosday  (I Only published this today 30/07/19 but its showing date of when I drafted it!) 

Polka Doodles - Birthday Card

Polka Doodles - Birthday Card 

This is a recent birthday card using two digi stamps from Polka Doodles. I coloured using my copic pens and used a nesting stitched die to cut out. I then used papers from my stash and plain paper from the Works to create a background. Adding pearl embellishments for that finishing touch.

Materials used:

Digi stamp: Polka Doodles - Hooray! and Horace
Colours: Copic
Pearl Embellishments: Hobbycraft
Paper: the Works

Entering in following competitions:

Digi Choosday 

Lili of the Valley - Birthday Card

Lili of the Valley - Birthday Card 

In the words of my husband - "you like those colour in thingys these days don't you" - That would be a digi stamp dear. Yes, he is right I do like my digi stamps at the moment - and one of my favourite suppliers is Lili of the valley. 

One of my recent makes is a birthday card for my manager. She likes her gardening so I chose the little mouse that comes with the Happy birthday pots stamp.

Digi Stamp: Lili of the Valley Birthday Pots 

Die: Circle frame die from stash (cant find where I got this from)

Papers: The works  

Colours: Copic 

Polka doodles - Doctor

Polka Doodles - Doctor 

One of my closest friends is a doctor and so when I saw this Doctor Digi Stamp on Polkadoodles I couldn't resist using it. I'm really liking layering at the moment often with different shapes so thats why I did the star on top of the circle which is on the square - I quite like the look of it lol! 

Digi Stamp: Lady Doctor, Polkadoodles 

Flower embellishments: Hobbycraft (think discontinued now) 

Papers 

Star Die: Creative dies 

Pearl Gems: Hobby craft

Bunting die 

Colours: Copic 

Happy birthday: Peel off Stickers

For entry in Polkadoodles challenge blog

All dressed up - Fathers day

All dressed up - Fathers day Card 

Another celebratory day has been and gone - fathers day! I didn't make as many fathers day cards as mothers day but I didn't promote it as much due to other crafty commitments!

This was one of my favourite cards I made:

The digi stamp is from All dressed Up  and I kept it simple using a scalloped edge circle and polka dot background from Hunkydory. I actually gave this card away in a Facebook Competition. 

Materials Used: 

Digi Stamp: All Dressed up

Paper: Hunkydory 

Coloured: Copic Markers

Pearls: Hobbycraft 

Die: from stash 

Polka Doodles Horse

Polka Doodles Horse

I recently had a request from a colleague for a birthday card which included a Grey Horse for her neice's birthday. 

I found this beautiful digi stamp by Polka Doodles and used my copics to colour following technique by Kit & Clowder. 

Materials Used: 

Digi Stamp: Polka Doodle Horse riding 

Colours: Copic

Papers: Hunkydory 

Twine and die in stash

All dressed up ~ Wedding

Wedding Cards 

I have recently made two Wedding cards using a free digi stamp. The digi stamp is by All Dressed Up but was free with Simply Cards Magazine on their website.

Both have computer generated sentiments with one being in Welsh.

The papers were free with Die Cutting Essentials special magazine. 

I am really liking using digi stamps as don't have to worry about the ink drying!! 

Splashing Pig

Splashing Pig 

I see a lot of card-maker blogs that write individual posts for cards they make. So i am going to start trying to write a few more blog posts for different cards I make. 

I am a member of many groups on Facebook and a lady called Lisa Macvicar posted a card using this digi stamp and I just had to make it!!! 

I had bought the rainbow die at the beginning of last month from Creative Dies - Stitched Rainbow. So it was an opportunity to use it. Husband has banned me from buying anything in May as apparently I have too much stuff (never!) 

I used paper from a pad I re-found this week which was Rainbow Magic from Hobbycraft and its on offer now if you like it! 

The pig was a digi stamp from Lee Hollard Art which I coloured with my copics. Im really enjoying my colouring after reading Kit & Clowder techniques so it was nice to practice with other colours ( I just want more colours now!) 

Products used: 

Stitched Rainbow die 

Rainbow Magic Paper pad 

Pig in Wellies

Card blank 

Digi Stamps

Digi Stamps 

I have just discovered the joy that is Digi Stamps. I will be honest when I first read about them I thought you might as well just print an image from google! 

It started when I was looking for a stamp/ die or anything for a twin baby card and a lovely lady on Facebook sent me two Lili of the Valley Digi stamps for twins and I loved them.

Then one of my magazines had a free Paper Nest Dolls digi stamp so I thought I would give that a try and loved it. I hadn't actually got any-one to send this Easter Card to but felt the need to make it anyway! There's also Paper Nest Dolls monthly competitions which I will never win as there is some incredible cards out there but its always worth an entry!

I had recently invested in Copic markers and they give a great colour but there's a good technique to learn! I came across Kit and Clowder who has great online courses for colouring with copics and other markers. So you know what I am going to be spending any spare time doing!!!