Tina Wenke Baby card - all pink

Well I found a new technique I love and that's using white Gouache or acrylic paint on the edges of things - I think its cos I saw it on Di's cards and fell in love with it a while back and although its quite textured, it does soften stronger colours and hard edges, in a distressed kind of way.

...and I have used one of my all time fave baby stamps AGAIN! I love love love this image Tina! A lot of people have asked me lately and its a Tina Wenke Stamp called Sent from Above

and a closeup of the flowers above and coloured the image with twinkling H2O's

Tina Wenke Stamped Book Card

Hi everyone and hope you have all had a fabulous weekend. 

Am popping in to share a book card which I have wanted to make up with this particular stamp for a while - just the perfect image from Tina Wenke called Storybook Friends.

here is another view from the side where you can see the 'faux' pages and inking.

and here is the inside:

 and a side on view of the inside

loved making this project and will be making another one very soon!

Tina Wenke baby and Whiff of Joy Cherub cards

another couple to share this one didn't photograph as well for the colouring bits (the colouring is subtle in Twinkling H2O's but the shine quite a bit so looks a wee bit faint, but great in real life.

Instead of using the obvious lemon or yellow for this baby card I added a muted mustard colour with the palest grey and mint green to keep it all subtle and pastel.

the stamp is one of my baby ones from Tina Wenke / Stampavie and I keep going back to it time and again - the sign of a fabulous illustration!

The duck is an old freebie from a magazine and I think it could be the duck from the popcorn range not 100% sure, but he is cute all the same! think I have had that little duck since I started crafting and it was just begging to go with the stamped sentiment..

Last but not least, I was thrilled to bits to discover and quickly hipped along to the Whiff of Joy website, after previews of the new Elisabeth Bell stamps released in the last few weeks,. I love the cherubs and have two or three more uninked stamps in the range so look out for these, I intend to ink them very soon!

Coloured with twinkling H2O's again and will be back with some more.

April cards

Hello bloggers, have a few cards to share today from a crop - thanks to everyone who came along and for a fantastic day!

Here are some cards, and they all follow a feminine theme for different ages.

Please note that digi images and papers should not be shared without permission from the digi site / artist, and I have permission from Donna from Bearly Mine and Tracey from Fred She Said to use their wonderful work for these cards.

the first is a baby girl card coloured with polychromos pencils and embellished with punched flowers, die cut shapes and leaves and using a Stamp by Elizabeth Bell from Belles and Whistles

used a mixture of card candy and pearls on this one for the flowers so they are nice and fresh and dainty / girly!

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This next card has one of the precious hAnglra and StAnglar stamps I own (they are like gold dust!) and is made with cheery papers from Bearly Mine called Spring Blossoms which you can find here.

the sentiment is computer generated and I used the Tim Holtz weathered clock sizzix die for the background with matching strips of embossed card using Country Companions and cuttlebug folders.

the border is punched with a Martha Stewart border punch

and some card candy and EK success daisies to finish - also coloured with polychromos pencils

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I love blue and white cards and this is another of those in a side stepper shape made with a Whiff of Joy /  Elizabeth Bell stamp and the sentiment is just perfect for this.

embellished with Martha Stewart punched butterflies and EK retro flower punch outs, card candy and pearls

a closeup of the sentiment and flowers

and the tag pulls out for a little message

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the next card is a 'bookmark on a card' but it isn't obvious when you first look at it - I like ideas like this and they make perfect cards / gifts in one!

Tina Wenke creates the most adorable images and hedgehogs are one of my favourite things so I couldn't wait to use this and teamed it with a quote I like being that I love buying books as well...

those punched daisies disguise punch outs on the card blank itself and are adhered to the punch outs which hold the book mark in place, and you can see how it detaches below:

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the next card is a decoupage one in a favourite green and lilac colour scheme using digi images from Fred She Said which you can find here.

the inside is decorated to match the outside and the card is embossed with a border embossing folder and I used the same butterfly punch as I did on the blue card but instead of cutting on white and inking like the last one I cut out of lilac card and added gems to this one

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the last in this post is a shaped easel card using Go Kreate dies, and with stamped and distressed papers  to create a vintage feel.

Again the image is coloured with polychromos pencils

bright cerise ribbon and stencilling inside the dies..

and the die shapes used to hold open the easel again

that's all for today - if you pop by don't forget to leave me a comment and let me know what you think!

LOTV, Belles & Whistles and Tina Wenke Baby girls

  Hello fellow bloggers and crafters, thought it was about time to dust off the blog, after have a few relaxing days over Christmas, and share some cards today, all baby girl ones with LOTS of pink!

The first one is a LOTV one I have used quite a bit before and is nice and quick to colour and a good size for lots of card layouts.

An aperture and lots of use of nestabilities as well as a Martha Stewart border corner punch.

The colouring is with twinkling H2O's.

The next card is made with Belles and Whistles stamp called Sweet Dreams, and I used:
Martha Stewart corner punch
cuttlebug embossing folder
nestabilities from spellbinders
magnolia doo hickey leaf dies
EK success flower punches
distress ink
charm
coloured with twinkling H2O's again

...and the last one is one of my favourite baby stamps from Tina Wenke, and for this one I used:

baby feet punch you can find here, and I think dovecraft make a similar one

nestabilities, including lacy ovals

buttons

twinkling H2O's for colouring

that's all for today - I guess it will be 2012 when I post again :)

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Tina Wenke Baby card

Sometimes its nice not to use blue or pink, lemon or pastel green for baby cards, and just use some pastel, earthy and neutral colours, so that's what I decided to do with this one - have used this Tina Wenke Stamp before and keep going back to it as its beautiful.

On this one I used embossing and punching again and some more candy and coloured with promarker colours:
Antique White Flex Marker, Ivory, Satin, Blush, Tan and Sandstone with a blender, and for the bottle Ivory, Vanilla and Gold.

Here is a closeup of the layering and embossing - it was a bit cloudy when I took the photo so its a bit blurry - where are the bright autumn days??

oops and nearly forgot - the sentiment stamp is from a general verse set from Stampin up and fits in the long rectangle nestability perfectly!

anyone for ice cream?

oops and the picture looks a bit lopsided... 

so onto toady's card then, and it was one which was meant to be for a sketch challenge but too late so never mind as I still liked the colours and the layout on this one.

There was lots of inking but with chalk inks and embossing as well. the papers are from papermania from last year (I think its called Sweet Nothings, but don't quote me on that as I lost the packet it came in) and I used a Tina Wenke Stamp and added loads of stickles after I coloured the image with twinkling H2O's

 

.. also wanted to try something different with adding the sentiment and instead of place it on top of the card or on a tag or label shape, I layered the paper over the sentiment so it shows through an aperture and is a little different.. might do that again sometime soon.

hope you liked this one and its the cutest little stamp too!

talk about getting more from nestability dies..

a handy little tip I am sure some of you may already know about, but for those who don't..

Some of the nestability dies have designs which aren't too intricate to trace around, like the labels one I used in this card.

So, by tracing either inside or outside the die with a sharp pencil to get a thin cutting line and cut out the shape, you can come up with even more nested shapes / graduated (is that the right word?!) shapes from your existing dies - brilliant!

The stamp I used in this card is one of Tina Wenke's newest ones and the colour used to colour her dress with Twinkling H2O's is called northern lights - isn't it just so luminous!?

I also used the following materials:

• Personal Impressions Happy Birthday stamp
• Martha Stewart Leaf Punch
• Craft Creations light turquoise gingham papers
• EK success flower punch
• card candy
• Cuttlebug embossing folder on the punched flowers which matches the gingham paper and comes from a set called simply charmed.

that's all for today, will be back with more soon.

Tina Wenke Colour themed card

here's a different card .. its a Tina Wenke stamped Birthday card for a 90th Birthday but it Offaly colours - green, white and gold.
The embossing is done with a cuttlebug folder (a bit predictable but I love embossing..) and I have used nestabilities to cut the appertures and sentiments parts - the edging on the green is done with scalloped edged scissors.
the paint used to colour the image is twinkling H2O's again and I added gold gems to finish off the sentiment as a tiny bit of stickles added to the image.
the gold doesnt show up very well on the picture, it came out a bit dark, so glad it turned out better than the pic in RL!

Anniversary and Wedding Cards

just a few spring wedding and anniversary cards to share with you.

the first one was made using a Tina Wenke stamp of a couple of squirrels who are as cute as can be -
I didnt have any colour requests or themes for the two wedding cards in this post so I just did 'my own thing'. I coloured this one with faber castell watercolour pencils ...oh and added some stickles too.

this card is a very simple and clean looking style and I decided to box it because of the size of the flower, or the depth of it rather. Royal blue and white go so well together and the sapphire element comes in when you add the gems.
Just a little embossing too with the cuttlebug border folders..

the third card is in burgundy and white which colour combo I am also hooked on at the mo (apart from lilac and mint green!) - have used this stamp before but coloured with twinkling H2O's before so for this one I used watercolour pencils again, and I like the saturation of colour of the pencils with this stamp.