Sweetie Pie

Hello there!

I'm back with another card to share with you. This one is in my usual style of clean and simple with oodles of cuteness!

I used stamps from one of my fave companies, Paper Smooches. This is quite a small card, 8.5cm x 12.5cm which makes it ideal for a quick note card or a 'just because' card.

What you need...

Stamps:

Bee Mine - Paper Smooches

Boob Tube - Paper Smooches

Ink pads:

Extreme Black - My Favorite Things

Sky Blue #38 - Versacolor

Promarkers:

Berry Red, Champagne*, Ice Grey 3, Lipstick Red, Raw Sienna, Sandstone

Masking paper:

Stamping Mask Paper - Inkadinkado

Card stock:
White, Kraft

*Limited Edition

What you do...

1 Stamp the pie, steam and three hearts onto white card in black ink.

2 Stamp them again onto masking paper and cut out. Place the masks over the corresponding images.

3 Use a blending tool to blend Sky Blue ink over the image, focusing the depth of colour over the actual pie.

4 Remove the masks and colour in the images.

5 Stamp the sentiment underneath the pie.

6 Trim the image to 6.5cm x 9.5cm and mat centrally at the top of a Kraft blank 8.5cm x 12.5cm with foam tape.

There you have it! A cute little note card. Mixing and matching your stamp sets makes them go a lot further with infinite possibilities and they don't have to be the same brand.

I'm going to sign off now, Thank you for popping by and I will see you next time.

Born Today - Cricut

Good afternoon!

It's been a couple of weeks since my last post. A few things have been happening in my life and unfortunately the blog took a back burner, but I'm back now.

A very dear friend asked me to make a birthday card for his husband. I went through the Cricut design store and found a perfect image. I kept to the colours used by Cricut as I found them to be quite clean, fresh and masculine.

Here is the card...

What you need...

Cricut image: 

Someone I Love Was Born Today (#M8B6A72E) - Let's Eat Some Cake set

Card stock: 

navy, teal, coral, white

Embellishments: 

Droplets Crystal Clear Hearts - Little Things From Lucy's Cards

What you do...

1 Purchase and download the images to your canvas.

2 Re-size to fit your chosen card blank. I used a 15cm square blank.

3 Send to cut in the colours of your choice.

4 Assemble onto the card blank and secure with adhesive.

5 Add some heart shaped droplets to finish.

I think this was such a lovely card to send to a male as men are so difficult to make for sometimes. You could also change up the colour scheme to make a card for a female recipient.

Handy tip: I cut the whole design out first in a scrap of card. I used the negative to help place all the final coloured pieces onto the blank. This helped keep the lovely heart shape and spacing of the little hearts.

If you haven't got access to a Cricut, then you could get a similar look by using die cut words/hearts or stamps from your stash.

So there we have it, a simple card that uses a beautiful image and colours.

I am going to sign off for now, thank you for popping by and I'll hopefully be back soon.