Clearly Besotted Oops-a-Daisy

Hi Lovelies...

Today I'm sharing a few cards I made using these cute chicks from Clearly Besotted.  I've been stash shopping again, as I've had this set for a couple of years, and have used them before a couple of times. 

Sorry this post is picture heavy, but I made a few different designs! 

This time, I decided to blend some colour onto the top of the card panel, using some post-it tape to protect the lower part.  I did the blending, then splattered some deeper colour over, then some gold watercolour paint.  

I shaped the chicks with an embossing tool, then added them to my card panels with foam pads so they stand out, then added a sentiment to each card.

I don't know about you, but it always makes me happy to use a stamp I've previously used and loved - it's like having an old friend as I know the best way to colour etc!

Card Info:

Images - Clearly Besotted Oops-a-Daisy stamp set

Sentiment - Wow Happiest Day Set

Distress Oxides - Kitsch Flamingo and Saltwater Taffy

Gold and Coloured Watercolour Paints

Colouring - Copics

Chicks - Y15/17/18 YR04/23

Daisies - C0/1 YR23

Hope you like my makes today!

Big hugs

Pretty Pink Posh Daffodils

Hi Lovelies...

Well I'm getting ready for Easter - so I've been colouring these gorgeous daffodils!  They only take a couple of minutes to colour and then fussy cut.  Then I shaped them with an embossing tool and added foam tape to the back.  I created a small square smooshed background splattered with gold, and popped that behind the scalloped square frame, before adhering the daffodils.  

I used a dotty yellow paper for the background, then added a tiny sentiment which I'd stamped, then matted onto gold to give the card a little lift.  

Card Info:

Image - Pretty Pink Posh Daffodils

Sentiment - The Greetery Easter Mini Sentiments

Distress Oxides - Fossilized Amber and Scattered Straw

Colouring - Copics

Flowers Y15/17 Leaves G21/24

Gold Watercolour 

Dotty Paper

This was another card that I made with the same image, but this time in green... I think I prefer the yellow! 

Hope you like my cards today...

Big hugs

More Tulips...

Hi Lovelies...

I'm back with more tulips... this time shopping my stash to pop them in a vase!  

After colouring, I die cut the the tulips, and shaped them with an embossing tool.  I did the same shaping with the vase which I'd cut from kraft card.  Then I added a little sparkle to the vase, before adhering it to the filigree oval that I'd cut from white cardstock.  I added a tiny sentiment tied with rustic string to the vase, as I didn't think the card needed a sentiment, but it did need something!

Card Info:

Tulip Dies - from Amazon a year or so back

Vase Die - Papertrey Ink a long time ago!

Filigree Oval - Spellbinders - again, a long time ago

Sentiment - Papertrey Ink Tiny Tags - ditto to above!

Colouring - Copics

Flowers - RV14/17

Leaves - G21/24

Kraft Card

Glitter card for vase stripes

Hope you like what I created as much as I enjoyed making it!

Big hugs...

Tulips Mother's Day

Hi Lovelies...

I'm running a bit late with this card, as it's Mother's Day here in the UK on Sunday this week!  But here it is.  I lost my own Mum a long time ago now - back in 1989 - and I still miss her.  So this card is for her memory, and for all the Mum's out there who deserve it!

I've used a set of tulip dies - I think I bought them from Amazon, but I've had them a while.  I saw a lovely card by Chris Stokes recently using them, and it prompted me to dig this set out and colour them up!  

I used my Copics to colour them, with a touch of white gel pen.  I then created my card base, using a slatted rectangle die for the heads to sit against.  I adhered that with foam tape onto a square stitched diecut panel.  Then I added the tulips which I'd shaped with an embossing tool.  Lastly, I used a sentiment from a Clearly Besotted Miniature Type set, which I embossing in Rose Gold, and added some rose gold card behind the strip to make it stand out.

Card Info:

Dies - Tulip Set from Amazon (sorry no name)

Slatted Rectangles from Craft Addiction UK

Stitched Squares from Lil' Inkers

Sentiment - Clearly Besotted Miniature Type

Colouring - Copics

Flowers RV14/17

Leaves - G21/24/82

White Gel Pen

Hope you like my make today, and that all you Mum's out there in the UK have a fabulous day on Sunday, and in the rest of the world, a wonderful day when you do celebrate it!

Big hugs..

Taylored Expressions Daisy Dreams

Hi Lovelies...

For my card today, I've used this lovely stamp from Taylored Expressions - which was part of my haul from the recent Crafterama show at York!  I love anything daisy-like, so this stamp was an immediate 'I have to have' item that jumped itself into my basket!

For the background, I used some card that I'd printed using a digi from LOTV - adding that to an embossed panel using a Burlap embossing folder.  

I stamped and coloured the image, then fussy cut it out, before adhering to the background with foam pads.  Lastly, I added a tiny sentiment, and some crystals.  Fussy cutting is very good for mindfulness..  there's nothing like concentrating hard so as not to accidentally cut through a stem!!  And weirdly, I find it relaxing!

Card Info:

Image - Taylored Expressions Daisy Dreams stamp set

Sentiment - done on PC

Digi Paper - LOTV Pretty in Pink

Honey Bee Stamps Burlap embossing folder

Colouring - Copics

Flowers - R81/83/85 Y15/17/18 YR23

Leaves - G21/24/82 YG63

White Gel Pen

Crystals

Hope you like my pink make today!  

Big hugs....

Waffle Flower Happy

Hi Lovelies...

I got this new die a little while ago - it's from Waffle Flower and called Happy Vertical.  I decided to use the negative part, so cut it from a panel of white cardstock, adding acetate behind, then used foam tape to lift it from a piece of coloured digi paper, that I'd splattered with gold watercolour paint.

Then I added the panel to my card base, adding the birthday word which I'd cut from gold mirri cardstock.

Card Info:

Waffle Flower Happy Vertical Die

Birthday Word Die

Stitched rectangle Die

Digi Patterned Paper

Gold Watercolour Paint

Hope you like my card today!

Big Hugs...