It's nearly Valentine's Day!

Here is a card I have made with a digital stamp from digistampboutique. I have my kids card making club at school tomorrow and a male member of staff voiced an interest in maybe coming one day to see what we do. I have cut all the elements for the card and hopefully I can persuade him to come and put it together for his girlfriend. The papers are from Popcorn Romance cd from Crafters Companion.
The kids are making a never ending card and a valentine's card so they should enjoy that.

Men and their Motors!!

I have had this stamp for quite sometime and have used it in the past. I wanted to try the distress ink water brush technique. I chose browns to give it an old look. I masked off the edge and used the stamp with versamark to give a watermark effect. Men's cards are so difficult to think up but I am quite pleased with this one. The stamp is from rubbadubbadoo and came as part of a set when I bought it.

Mandala stamps for sale!

I have just listed 13 Chris Warner Mandala Stamps on my ebay page. Click on this link if you are interested Stamps for sale! These stamps are brand new as I never got round to using them. Today I decided that they must go. Will probably go through the rest of my stamps and clear out any that I haven't used or am unlikely to use.

You're only 50 once!!

A good friend of mine will be 50 on Tuesday so I decided to make her a card using my cricut machine and gypsy.
I used Stampin up chocolate chip card for the base. I used glitter card for the icing and a free paper from a recent craft magazine for the cake case. When I cut out the glitter card the little heart was left so I used it for the flames (I have 2 as I didn't quite position my glitter card properly on the mat and had to cut it again). I used the Home Decor cart for the cake and Ashlynne's alphabet for the numbers. I welded the cake and numbers in the shadow feature. I copied and pasted the top layer and used the hide feature function so I could cut the top and bottom at the same time in different papers. I welded the number top layer and cut them in pink pearl card. I trimmed the bottom of the card so it would stand.

Think Pink

I decided to try resist embossing today, not done it for a while. I stamped my image (Stampin up - Pocket Silhouettes) with versamark ink, then used white embossing powder on top.
Once heated I used Stampin up Melon Mambo dye based ink with a finger dauber over the top. I then removed the ink from the design using a tissue so it popped. I punched around the image using Stampin up scalloped punch. Using the finger dauber and the same ink I inked the edges of the scalloped shape. Using Melon Mambo card I used the same stamp and versamark ink and stamped over the card to give a watermark effect. I used pink polkadot ribbon to decorate the card.

Valentine's Day is nearly here!!

A little Valentine card I made using my new 3 Birds Clearly Hand Stamped box of stamps. I stamped the image onto white card and used my nestabilities to frame and mount the topper. I stamped the image onto scrap paper and cut around and stuck on top of the owls. I have thousands of these mini wobbly eyes which were the right size for these owls. Iused papers from Crafters Companion cds - Swalk 1 and Occasions Autumn and Winter. I framed the card with a silver peeloff. I finished it off with ribbon and a faux bow.

Tulip Thinking of you card

This was the topper I made in the video below using the centre point feature on the cricut machine.
At last I found the time to put it onto a card. I made a fold back card.
The backing papers were from Crafters Companion Swalk 2 cd (green) and Occasions Autumn and Winter cd (wine).
I used my oval small and large nestabilities to layer up a sentiment topper to give me the smaller increments I needed between each layer.
I stamped 'thinking of you' from my new 3 birds Clearly Hand Stamped box of stamps also from Crafters Companion.
I wrapped some wine organza ribbon around and made a bow for the flower.
As you can see I put some brads where the marks were left on the purple layer by the cricut. I just had to make the holes slightly bigger.
I layered the papers onto the card with some holographic mirror board.