Ladybird heart

Good Morning Everyone.

Thank you for your amazing comments on my Giant Ladybird card.  This ladybird heart came about as i couldn't waste all the little off cuts from my giant one so i turned my red mirri into little ladybirds(or ladybugs - not sure why we call them ladybirds here in the UK).  Then wondering how to use them i got asked to make a non traditional anniversary card - so a ladybird heart was born.  Sadly the photos don't show the mirror card at its best. 

7x7" scalloped cardbase.  On a white panel of card i lightly drew around a heart die with a pencil so i had the shape to follow.  I then stamped my sentiment in the middle. I then arranged my ladybirds around the heart.  I filled in the little gaps using all the little 'holes' that fell out of the die cut ladybirds as they look like little gems. I added one in each of the corners too.  3 black flower gems to embellished.  I then mounted this panel onto more of the red mirror card, black and then the base card. 

A close up, you can see the colour a bit better.  I do love alcohol inks on mirror card😁 The sentiment stamp came free with a magazine years ago.

Items Used:

Elizabeth Crafts Ladybird dies

Sentiment stamp

Tim Holtz alcohol inks

Gold mirror card

Payper box bloack card

CraftUk ltd 7x7 scalloped card blank

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a good week & stay safe. Emmax

Pet Sympathy card

Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing a sad card to make, for a good friend who had to say goodbye to her furbaby. 

6x6 white linen cardbase.  I first stenciled the heart pawprints onto the card base using original distress inks in grey and black.  I die cut a heart that was big enough to cover the large paw print to the right and stenciled the large paw print with red ink and then the rest with grey.  

I then die cut the paw prints across the middle of the heart keeping all the little 'waste' bits.  I added a piece of patterned paper to the inside of the card.  I then closed the card and piece by piece and alot of patience i glued all the paw prints pieces back into place, so that they are glued to the inside of the card but when closed line up with the original die cuts on the front of the card - photo below will make more sense hopefully.  I had to close the card and glue them in through the paw print die cut so that i could line it all up.

I then lined the die cut heart up in place on the front.  I then stamped the crazy dog stamp twice and coloured him in, this is the stamp that looked the most like a little westie dog.  I then fussy cut him out and added to the card front.  Stamped sentiment to finish. 

Hopefully you can see the heart behind the dog better here

a close up and this shows better the paw print apertures

And the inside. I picked a piece of sea patterned paper as the little man used to love his daily walks along the sea front.  I added the second stamped dog here.  Hopefully this photo helps make sense of how i glued the paw prints back into place so that when the card is closed they line up on the front of the card with the stenciled heart. 

Items Used:

Elizabeth crafts paw print die

Paw print heart stencil

Heart die

Tim Holtz crazy dog stamp

Distress inks hickory smoke, black soot, fired brick 

Bobunny paper

Justrite sentiment stamp

Thank you all for stopping by as always.  I hope you all have a brilliant week. 

Id love to enter the following:

simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/2019/05/ch-149-

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craftingwithanattitude.blogspot.com/2019/05/challenge-51 - anything goes

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crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/05/218  - stenciled my own background

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craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2019/05/challenge-26 - anything goes with an animal

Black Cats

Good Morning everyone.  

Today im sharing a Male birthday card i made for my parents elderly neighbour Harry.  He eats his evening meal each day with my parents and joins in alot of family gatherings so is sort of an 'adopted' grandad to us.

Harry has a black cat that was dumped on the farm as a kitten, the cat is also called Harry, Harry the man is very eccentric and all his cats have been called Harry too, so this cat now is Harry the 6th or some such.  My parents also have male black cats, one rescued at 1 yr old after it was abandoned.  Anyway Harry's cat spends his life patrolling the perimeter to keep all others at bay.  My parents cat just ignores him.  So for this  card for Harry the man i went with a black cat theme for a change.  

Unusually for me this is a one layer card, i wanted to cut the paw prints into the base card so it peeked through into the insert.  

6x6 white cardblank.  I first stenciled the paw print, but as my stencil is a heart shape and i didn't think that was apt for Harry i also used a circle die to cut a circle out of a piece of scrap card for a mask.  I taped down the heart stencil on the base card and then placed the circle aperture piece over the top and then brushed on my oxide inks.  This meant i kept the paw prints in a circle shape.  I then removed the stencils, replaced the circle mask and lightly inked around the outside edge of the circle.  Hope that makes sense?

I then used my 2nd paw print stencil to add some paw prints around the outside edge of the cardblank and then again lightly inked around the outside with the same oxide inks. I then die cut the paw print die into the middle of the card.  I stamped the greeting.

I then stamped two of the crazy cats onto white card and coloured with grey & black distress inks.  I used green oxide ink for their eyes.  I then fussy cut them out, after gently shaping their bodies i attached them to the card front with glue gel.  

I used some black patterned paper for my card insert so that where it shows through the paw print apertures you see the black paw prints.  I added a little strip/off cut down the left hand edge of the card front to tie it together a bit. 

A close up, trying to show peeking through the paw prints into the inside of the card and my black paper insert.  I use a beautiful double sided paper from the 2019 range of paper pads at B&M - so recommend them for quality.  Ideal for boxes and envelopes too.

This shows the 2 plastic paw print stencils and the circle mask i made to turn the heart into a circle.  Of course you can use this method to turn any stencil into a circle shape if you only want part of a stencil.  Or try die cutting another shape. 

Items Used:

Tim Holtz Crazy cats mini stamps

Elizabeth Crafts 'hearts & paws prints' die '1563'

Paw print stencils

Circle die

Stampin up sentiment stamsp 'curly cute'

Oxide Distress inks - twisted citron, cracked pistachio, peacock feathers

Crafts You Create papers (B&M) 12x12 paper  'B&W'

CraftUk Ltd, white card

Thank you all for stopping by and waving hello to all my followers via email, thank you to all of you who sent me beautiful Easter cards, all unique creations. I hope you enjoy the weekend whatever you get upto.  Hugs Emma

Id love to enter the following challenges please:

showusyourpussies/2019/04/show-us-your-pussycats-challenge-41 

craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2019/04/challenge-25 

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themaleroomchallengeblog2019/04/challenge-109-  one layer

Ladybirds

Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing a fun childrens birthday card using ladybirds or to my followers elsewhere in the world ladybugs.  I think its actually suitable for adults too.

DL cardbase.  This card using alot of scraps and snippets.  The squares, ladybirds and sentiment were all cut from little pieces of card inked with brushos, pixies powders and oxide inks.  The flowers left over bits of white card.  

I first cut a panel of white card slightly smaller than the cardfront, i embossed this with a brick wall embossing folder and lightly brushed oxide inks in tumbled glass & pistachio over the top.  I added this panel to the card front. 

I didnt have enough of one colour of inked card for 3 squares, so the 2 outside ones are from brusho/pixie powder card and the middle one is oxide inks. The ladybirds were cut from black card and red brusho card and layered up.  The sentiment is cut from the same red brusho card.  I gently shaped my white flowers and added to the circles and then my 3 ladybirds added one top. 

Close up on the ladybirds.  We don't get an awful lot of them here in this part of Cornwall due to the damp atmosphere so its always a little exciting to see the odd one or two in the garden.  

Items Used:

Elizabeth Crafts die - 711 Ladybugs

Elizabeth crafts happy birthday die

MFT stitched square dies

Flower die

Crafters companion wall embossing folder

Oxide inks - tumbled glass, pistachio

Brushos

Pixie powders

Thank you all for stopping by, i hope you all have a good end to the week and weekend.  Emmax

Id like to enter the following:

movingalongwiththetime-bugs

pixiescraftyworkshop-challenge-348