April showers bring may flowers

Good Morning everyone

Last month i was lucky to win this lovely penny black stamp called 'the bunch' so this is my first outing for it, not my usual style of image but its lovely to try something different and its such a lovely spring image with the tulips.

7x7" white scalloped cardbase.  I stamped and coloured the image with alcohol markers - very simply coloured as i don't have the patience for colouring in and for once i managed to stay pretty much inside the lines😁

I matted rainbow paper onto gold holographic card and then the base card.  I die cut the image into a circle, die cut a white card circle frame for it and matted onto a fancy circle die cut from gold holographic card - I actually die cut the fancy circle from the middle of my square mat layer so it makes the card go further.  

Clearly besotted sentiment stamp onto a white oval and then matted onto a fancy oval die cut again from the gold holographic card. 

Items Used:

Penny black Mo Manning stamp 'the bunch' 40-603

Clearly besotted sentiment stamps 'seasonal sayings'

Spellbinders grand circles and grand fancy circles

CraftUK ltd 7x7" scalloped card blanks

Alcohol markers

Kaisercraft paper pad 'fine & sunny'

Thank you all for stopping by.  I hope its a good week for you. Emmax

Id love to enter the following with my 1st card:

http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/04/challenge-242-easter-spring.html

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https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2023/04/i-spy-with-my-little-eye-april-showers.html

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https://papercraft-challenges.blogspot.com/2023/04/challenge-93-spring.html

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https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/05/spring-season-may-2023-challenge.html

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https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/05/week-727.html

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Dads Birthday

Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing the 2 cards i made for my dads birthday last month.  The first one is another one of those triple panel cards ive been making and the second one isn't an normal male card but i was given a lovely stamp by stampendous and a Mo Manning lady cycling image and it just reminded me of fun postcards you can get in France which my dad has collected over the years of going to Brittany.  He loved both of them. 

So to make the card blank, take an A4 sheet of card, from the left score 3", 1", 2.5", 1" & 3", cut off the extra on the end.  And then cut as high as you like, i used a 6x6" paper so by the time i added my 2 layers for matting it took the card height to 7".  You can easily change all these figures, but its a starting point for those of you who asked how i made them. 

After picking the tree pattern paper i picked out olive green and Chocolate brown mirror card to mat and layer.  I die cut the MFT leaves from the olive green and chocolate mirror card and layered together.  I die cut an oval from the same cream card i used for the base card and layered up on larger ovals.  Computer printed sentiment die cut into a circle. Copper nail head gems to finish.

Just a close up.

Onto the 2nd card i made dad.

A5 white cardbase. I stamped the image & sentiment onto white hammered cardstock, doodled in some ground and a breton style hat, i then watercoloured with distress inks.  I stamped a second image and cut out and decoupaged onto the first one to add some dimension.  Mounted onto black card and then the cardbase.  All corners rounded. 

A close up.

Items Used:

MFT layered leaves die set

Spellbinders oval dies

Tree pattern paper

Penny Black slapstick Mo Manning 'Enjoy the ride' stamp

Justrite sentiment stamp

CraftUk ltd white card

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you all have a good weekend.  Hugs Emma

Wheat & tractor card

Right lets kick of with the card i made for my dads birthday, being a farmer i went with this tractor digi stamp from Mo Manning, coloured with distress inks, i used spellbinders grand labels 1  and circles for the card base and frame, which i then layered up lots of wheat die cut using a die by impression obsession and coloured with brusho's.  I added glossy accents to the tractor. Cloud embossing folder for the sky and brusho's card die cut with stitched borders for the grass. Double twine bow to finish. Great fun to make. Thank you for looking.

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