Wishing you a Happy Mother's Day!

We've recently celebrated Mother's Day here in the UK and I'd like to share with you the two cards we sent to our mum's this year.

The orange and peach one I sent to my mother and the blue one is for my mother in law. 

Just a simple design and very relaxing to colour.  My mum especially liked the gems, she said they 'shine! Like she does!'

Here is a list of the products I used, the star of the show being the stamp coming from the sketchy Florals clear stamp set.

Sketchy Florals

Wonky Stitched Rectangle 

Mother' s Day Digital Sentiments

Thank you so much for popping over. 

I hope you have a great day!

Love Lu xx

Glorious Resurrection

 

Faith Cards I would say take me out of my comfort zone.  It was quite a challenge at first but with all of the right Whimsy products I created this very simple card and happy to say that I've made more.

Let me share with you everything that I used..

Saviour Stamps

Saviour Die Set

Glorious Sky Slimline Papers

Wonky Stitched Rectangle Die Set

Up in the Clouds Die Set

Grass & Cloud Edger Dies

Thank you for popping over.

Have a great day

Love Lu xx

Best Friend!

Hey Whimsy Friends!

I've made a pretty little card bursting with bright colourful flowers, perfect for a Best Friend!

I fancied a change for this and coloured the image using water colours, I still need lots of practise but love how vibrant the colours have turned out.

Here's a little list of all the crafty goodies used to create this:

Sketchy Florals Stamps Set

Best Friend die Set

Fadoodle Frames Scalloped Rectangles

Simple Sentiment Strips Rectangles

Wonky Stitched Rectangles

Alphabet Mini Stamps

Thanks for popping over.

Have a great day

Love Lu xx

 

Safari I can see..........

Hey everyone!

Today I'm here to tell you that it's Sweet Sentiment Stamps turn to sponsor Passionate Paper Creations and Friends this weekend!

Make sure you join both pages, go and say Hi and see what's up for grabs!!

I've made this super cute pop up box card to show case a recent release from Sweet Sentiment Stamps called Elephants and Unicorns.

Elephants & Unicorns

I couldn't help but make them play peek a boo in the safari.  The sentiments took a few days to come up with too but with the help of my husband and a friend I think we nailed it!

Here's a little video........

Thank you so much for popping over.

I hope you all have a great day.

Love Lu xx

it's pandAmonium out there!

Could you get any cuter than these Pandas' OMGEEEEEEE!

My youngest needed a birthday card making for one of their friends so went through my stash and picked out what I was to work with.  I was left with strict instructions not to make it cute and not to use too many pandas!

Opps! I failed there!

I am told that despite them being cool teenagers, the card was loved by everyone.

I used water reactive inkpads to colour my background and dabbed with water and darker shades of greens and blues to create some texture.  I'm liking this look lately.

I stamped the Panda bears out twice each and took a few minutes to get them coloured and cut out.  Stamping the bamboo was easy, cutting it out wasn't so much, I must go see if there is a die for this stamp set, I'm thinking it would be useful! I also took the gifts from the Nutcracker stamp set (only that particular gift, I wasn't allowed to use the others) and stamped and coloured that a few times too.

Don't the Pandas look cute, climbing and sliding the banks and bamboo, I think a few are playing peek a boo too!

Here's a list of the Whimsy goodies I used to make this card....

Panda Butt Clear Stamp Set

Sentiment Assortment Celebrate Clear Stamps

The Nutcracker Clear Stamps

Fantabulous Clear Stamps

Thank you so much for popping over, I hope you have a great day!

Love Lu xx

Rainbows & Unicorns

 

I love making shaped cards!  

Today's Whimsy Stamps card is all about the rainbows and unicorns.

For this little rocker card I used the largest pierced and stitched circle die to cut a card base, I also cut out two circles, one size smaller so that I could run those through the die cutting machine with the cloud die from the grass and cloud edger dies set.  (you could also use some scrap pieces for this part) These created the clouds that I've placed behind the rainbow.  I inked the edges of the clouds with water reactive ink pads and also flicked some darker blue inks and water to create a bit of texture.  

I set those pieces to one side to dry and moved onto stamping and colouring my rainbow and unicorn images.  I coloured those using spectrum noir markers.

I coloured the clouds in front of the rainbow with a sparkle glitter pen, it's difficult to see in the picture but they now have a lovely shimmer to them.

I also heat embossed the sentiment 'Incredible' 

Everything has been assembled using foam pads to add depth and dimension.

Here is a list of the Whimsy Stamps goodies that I've used 

FaDoodle Rainbows

Unicorn Magic Clear Stamp Set

Pierced & Stitched Circles Die Set

Fantabulous Stamps Outline Die Set

Fantabulous Stamps

Grass & Cloud Edger Dies

Thank you so much for popping over, I hope you have a wonderful day.

Love Lu xx

Ahoy Matey!

Ahoy there!

Did I have loads of fun creating this beachy scene? Yes I did!

Whimsy Stamps is sponsoring Passionate Paper Creations this weekend and it's my turn to share my creation with you.  You really need to get over to the PPC facebook page to go see what's going on and see if there is a sale!

I created my beachy scene using the Ahoy, Matey! Digital Stamp Set and a whole host of other Whimsy goodies which I've listed below.

The background was created using harmony water reactive ink pads and the image and die cuts were coloured using spectrum noir marker pens.

Ahoy, Matey! Digital Stamp

Build a Scene Dies - Build an Island

Simple Sentiment Strip Dies

Cutie ABC Alphabet

Alphabet Mini Clear Stamp

Thank you so much for popping over.

Have a great day, Love Lu xx

Happy 50th Birthday John!

Last week was my husbands 50th Birthday! So a big huge Happy Birthday to him!

Dudley came floating in on his birthday balloon to save the day and make this awesome birthday card.

I created my own background for this card using the statement Chevron Background rubber stamp die.  I's huge and is perfect to create a bold background with.  Even with all of my embellishments it still stands out.

Chevron Background Rubber Stamp

Here's a list of all of the other Whimsy goodies that I used to create this birthday card.

I coloured Dudley using Spectrum Noir Illustrator makers.

Dragon New Year Clear Stamp Set

Simple Sentiment Strips Die Set

Awesome Large Word Die

Cutie Numbers Die Set

Connected Rectangle Frame Die

Nested Hexagon Die Set

Fantabulous Clear Stamp Set

Thanks for popping over and taking a look.

I hope you have a wonderful day.

Love Lu xx

Magical Birthday Wishes

 

Hi there!

I can't believe its March already and have I got lots to show you this month!  I'm so excited!

The slimline card that I'm sharing with you today is always going to be one of my favourites, its colourful, has lots going on, uses a bit of technique, lots of products and most of all was an absolute joy to create.  

How did I create this card.....

I took a piece of card the same size as the outer edge of the slimline clouds die set and covered it using Harmony water reactive inkpads Honey Pot, Spring Meadow & Parakeet.  Just to add texture, I then flicked a wet paint brush over the card and dabbed it dry.  I also flicked sparkle glitter pens Soft Jade, Moonstone and Crystal Clear over the card.  Once it had all dried I also added stars using a white gel pen.

Whilst that piece was drying I took another piece of card and ran it through my die cutting machine with the Slimline Clouds Die Set.  I then passed it through again but this time I lined up the scalloped die from the Slimline Fancy Frame Die, this created my white frame with stitched edging.

I then stamped the train and carriages from the Linking Train stamp set and coloured them using my copic markers for the grey areas and SN markers for the blues.  Next I stamped the unicorns from the Unicorn Wishes stamp set and coloured those using SN markers.  With a cup of tea and a good movie, I sat and cut out everything that I'd coloured.  I also stamped out the train track 3 times being careful to line it up and cut this out too.

When I was happy with the placement of all of the elements I glued and foam padded everything in place.  I even used the fantastic extra elements of balloons and lollie pops from the Unicorn Wishes stamps. Next I stuck the white frame down and then stamped the sentiments (actually, I stamped the sentiments before I stuck the carriages down - that's a top tip!)

To finish this bright and fun card, I mounted to a card blank and then added a few clear gem stones.  Lets also not forget, this beautiful card needed its own envelope, so I used the envelope maker die to make a matching envelope.  (no picture here because I always forget to do that!)

Here's a shopping list for you:

Unicorn Wishes

Linking Trains

Slimline Clouds Die Set

Slimline Fancy Frames Die

Slimline Enveloper Die

Thanks for popping over, I hope you have a great day!

Love Lu xx