Just the Lotus....

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Todays card is another with the Waffle Flower, Lotus stamps. 

Just stamped and embossed in a green irridescent embossing powder. Painted with my water colours

And a simple bit of doodling to frame the image.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy Crafting .

Clair xxx

Orange Lotus

Post 149

Todays card I'm using the wonderful Lotus stamp set from Waffle Flower.

With this , I stamped and embossed in white, then masked the images as I stamped the next

I used my Kuretake Gamsai Tambi water color paints to colour the image.

I finished the image with a doodled line all the way around the image.

Both dragonflies have had their wings glittered with the Wink of Stella clear pen.

And all backed onto some orange card.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy Crafting.

Clair xxx

Unforgettable elephant

Post 148

Good morning crafty friends. Today's card was inspired by the card made on this video HERE thanks Julia for the inspiration.

With Julias card in mind I thought it would be fun to have the elephant blundering through the words, catching a letter on his way through.

The elephant and his balloon is from the W plus 9 stamp set 'Unforgettable', after laying out the birthday letters, from Mama Elephant, 'Block party'.

I stamped the elephant, then masked him and proceeded to stamp the letters around him.

I used my distress markers to watercolour the image, giving the letters an ombre look.

The card was matted on to some Lawn Fawn decorative paper then onto the card base.

Finishing things off with some faux stitching.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy craftying.

Clair xxx

Lotus 60th

Post 147

Todays card uses the beautiful stamps from Waffle Flower called 'Lotus'. Simply stamped and embossed using some green lustre powder from cosmic shimmer.

Then painted using my much loved Kuretake Gansai Tambi water colour.

I cut out the numbers and stamped around using a mish mash of stamp sets to get the greeting I needed.

The panel was finished off with some sequins and a co ordinating strip of card under the main panel.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

Jingle all the way!

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Todays card is for CHRISTMAS!!!! Yeh!

Using the completely wonderful 'Jingle all the Way ' stamp set and dies from My Favorite Things.

The santa is die cut and stamped using memento ink, and coloured using pro markers

Then his suit HAD to be twinkled up using Wink of Stella. I used the Avery elle 'Custom Panel die' to create the angled layers of my papers. I used a Stampin Up Christmas paper pad, which is no longer available, for my pattern paper.

In side the card I had to put some more of these great characters from the stamp plate, so I used the 'Pop up Trio creative cuts' from Mama Elephant to create a pop up base for the characters to stand on. Easily done without dies I know, but these make it so quick , easy and neat.

These were also die cut, stamped the coloured with pro markers, they just add that little surprise inside the card.

The sentiment is from  Stampin up,  'Endless Wishes' (unfortunatly also unavailable)

Hope you like todays card.

Merry Crafting.

Clair xxx

40 and Simply Fabulous!

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For todays card I had to go digging in the old stash for the 'Party ladies' stamp set from Creative Expressions as using one of these images was a request for the card.
 I stamped and embossed the image onto some watercolour card. making sure she was postioned over to the right.

                                     

Before painting the lady I die cut the panel to her left, I used a Sue Wilsons striplet die called                'Lattice heart' . I cut the die again out of some pink card stock, and having lined the back of the watercolour panel with double sided sticky sheet I inlaid the pink pieces into some of the pattern. I left a diamond of available spaces and sprinkled some crystal glitter in.

On top, the number was die cut 3 times and stacked to make a substantial embellishment, then it had to have wink of stella and glossy accents to make it pop. The number dies are from Lawn fawn 

'Finley's 123s'.

I then, after all the inlay work, painted the image. Dotting some glossy accents on the beads once the image was dry.

Inside was a simple greeting and a shoe, also from the stamp plate.

Hope you like todays card.

Happy crafting.

Clair xxx

Minion Golf....

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This is a card my husband asked me to make for one of his golfing buddies! Having being pestered into going to the Minions movie with my youngest son, the Minions were on my mind when considering what to do for this card.

The fabulous image I found on google....one of these print out and colour sheets for the children! 

Sized right for the card, masked and a golf buggy stamped behind, the Paper Smooches 'My Guy' provided the buggy. The Lawn Fawn grassy border runs along the front of the minion.

Coloured in with my Distress Markers, the minions goggles were screaming for glossy accents, all finished off with a quote, and a big golf ball, just so the recipient doesn't forget his age!

The numbers on the ball were stacked up 3 high, covered in clear wink of stella and glossy accents.

 Hope you like todays card.
Banananaaaaaa!!!
Clair xxx