Bee Friendly

Well the situation with the Coronavirus has really stopped everyone in their tracks, and for me it has given me plenty of time to do some crafting, so there is likely to be more posts than normal from me.

Todays card is all about bees!  The stamp set is called Bee Friendly from Hobby Art Stamps.  I have had this stamp set a while and decided it was about time I got the set out and played with it.

This card ended up being an 8" x 8", so quite a large one.  I did enjoy making it and it was very simple, with just a bit of stamping and colouring with my Zig Clean Colour pens.  These are watercolour pens and for the flower I put the colour down on a blending mat and added water, and then applied with a watercolour pen.  It was really enjoyable and simple to make.

Here are a few more photo's showing a bit more detail of the stamps.

I hope you have enjoyed my cards and I love it if you wanted to leave a comment.

I hope everyone is keeping well!

With love and crafty hugs

Ginny x

Dream

A friend asked me to make her a card with the tree of life, but I could not find a stamp, so made one using the Tree of Dreams from Lavinia Stamps.

I had my second go at using a brayer straight to cardstock and was quite pleased with the result.   I used Colorbox Blueberry for the sky and Olive for the grass.  I built the colour up very slowly as find
it quite difficult to not get any lines!

I stamped the tree followed by the new Lavinia Stamps Wild Hares, which I love!  I added Dream from the Inspire Me stampset to finish off the stamping.  I added a spotlight around the tree with versafine clair Twilight to highlight the branches and popped some glue from the Quickie Glue Pen around the moon and from the branches down to the hares, and then added some moondust glitter.  It was all very subtle which is what my friend wanted. 








I then mounted the card onto a black background and placed on a 7" x 7" card base, all ready to send off!

Many thanks for stopping by.

Ginny x

Make a Wish!

Todays card is another clean and simple card!  I really love the effect of a block of colour with a silhouette and a sentiment, as I said clean and simple lol.

I started off by taking my card blank and using removable tape, which I made even less sticky by patting it on a tea towel first, to mask off the area I wanted to colour.

I then picked my colours, in this case I used Distress Oxides in picked raspberry, fossilized amber and dusty concord.  I will be honest and say that I was not sure the colours would work but I was really pleased with how it looked.

I applied the colour with my make up style brushes and built the colour up gradually, starting at the top with the picked raspberry and made my way down the card using the fossilized amber and finishing off with the dusty concord.

Once I was happy with the shading I removed the masking tape gently and was left with a strip of colour.  I then stamped the 'Make a Wish' fairy from Lavinia Stamps and a sentiment from Card-io.






I have to say I was happy with the final result, lots of white space which makes the colours pop.  I hope you like it!

I have to dash now as the sun is shining and have to make the most of some fresh air and go and do some fencing up at the ponies field.

I hope everyone is keeping safe.

Ginny x

I'm back!!!

Well, you may have noticed I have been absent for a good while,  in fact it has been years lol ;-)  When I had my accident back in 2017 I suffered a head injury which created a good few problems and I lost my ability to craft.  It is only recently that I have attended some classes and this has really helped me to get some creativity back.  Interestingly I have been playing much more with ink as opposed to die cutting, which has been interesting.

I have resurrected my Lavinia Stamps (and also bought some more!) and had great fun playing with inks, gelli plates and brusho's, which have all been outside of my comfort zone.  Anyways, this is one of my creations and thought you might be interested in seeing what I have been up to.

For this card I used the Tree of Dreams, the Fir Cone Branch, Small Pixies and Stars 2 Miniature set, all from Lavinia Stamps.










I started by using a brayer to apply the yellow

colorbox ink onto a 6" round gelli plate, and on top of this I sprinkled some diluted green brushos.  I then took a print onto multifarious cardstock which transfers the ink onto the card.

I allowed this to dry before stamping on the Tree of Dreams stamp and the small pixies in Versafine Clair nocturne ink.   I then decided to use the green colorbox ink to the outside of the circle to edge the card, which was applied using the 'make up' type brushes - my new love.

Finally I applied the fir cone branch using a second generation stamp to make it slightly lighter and then finishing off with the miniature stars 2 set.

I really enjoyed making this and have been playing a lot with my new stamps, so hopefully I will get around to sharing more in weeks to come ;-)

With love and crafty hugs.

Ginny x

Birthday Star

This week I had to make a card for a male friend and I always feel challenged when I have to make a masculine card.

This card is very simple but have chosen colours that complement each other.  It is not obvious from the photograph but I have used kraft card and a dark brown cardstock, which are well suited to a man!

I then cut the Sue Wilson dies of Happy Birthday and the Swirling Stars dies, using the cut out stars to stick around the sentiment and using some glossy accents to add some dimension to them.

To finish off the card I used some natural twine which complements the kraft card.

I hope you like this card and I will most probably make some more of these in different colours, as it is clean and simple for a masculine card.

With love and crafty hugs

Ginny xx

Products used for this card:
Cardstock - kraft card & dark brown
Sue Wilson Festive Collection - Swirling Stars
Sue Wilson Expressions - Happy Birthday
Creative Expressions - Bakers Twine

Happy Birthday Christmas Die!!!

I was quite sad to have missed the Newbury Papercrafting show last weekend as would have loved to have gone, but unfortunately I am still too sore to be out in company or spend too much time on my feet, but thankfully I am recovering well!

I really enjoyed making last weeks card, so decided that this week I would do another card using the same die, the Precious Merieke The Nature of Christmas range.  As you can see it isn't a Christmas card though!

It has such lovely details that I decided I would use it as a birthday card and just by changing the colours and a few flowers it changes the look completely. 

 I am sure you will agreed that this is an incredibly adaptable die and I think it will come out of my stash on a regular basis.

I also love to use flowers on my cards since learning the techniques from Anna-Marie of Anna-Marie Designs!  I really like the depth, shading and detail they add to a card.

Finally I added the welsh die for Happy Birthday from Tattered Lace, as this is a card for my daughter's birthday who lives in Wales.

Well that is all from me this week and I will hopefully be back next week with something new- will it be Christmas based or not??!

Until then, sending love and crafty hugs.

Ginny xx

Well it is July!!!!

I have been missing in action for a short while, so apologise for that.  I had a nasty accident and broke multiple ribs so have not been able to sit on a chair comfortably and it may still be a while before I fully comfortable!

Anyway here I am and this is my first Christmas card of the year!!!!  I know it is only July but as Hochanda and Create & Craft have all their Christmas programmes running, I couldn't help myself.

This card uses a die from the Precious Merieke The Nature of Christmas range but I have used it for other cards, not just Christmas.    The sentiment is one of the new dies by Sue Wilson, the Let It Snow Snowflake die - I can see this die used a lot  You cannot tell from the photograph but I used the Creative Expressions midnight blue pearlescent cardstock which looks lovely.  I used cream cardstock but it would also look really nice in white.  I finished off with a few pearls.

This has to be one of the simplest cards I have made in a while and can see that I may well batch make some of these.

Hopefully I won't be away for much longer and I will be back in full flow with my cards.

With love and crafty hugs (gentle ones!!!)

Ginny xx