A simple anniversary

I blinked and missed my wedding anniversary this week with hubby having his accident. Thanks so much for all your kind words and messages. To update you - he is doing fine and has returned to work, his eye is a mess but it will get back to normal! Anyway, I didn't show you the anniversary card I made for him so here it is:

I've used Crumb Cake card for the base and rounded off the corners with the corner punch (love it so much) Then I punched squares of plain card using the 1 3/8" square punch and smaller squares from the designer series paper stacks using the 1 1/4" square punch and stuck then down. I use the grid paper to line them up straight!

The letters and hearts are all die cut using the Big Shot Timeless Type alphabet die set, did you know the set contains numbers and shapes too? Bargain! I added the second layer of the heart on a dimensional and added highlights with the white gel pen to make it look like a sweetie. Finally I stamped the sentiment in Night of Navy ink. the sentiment is part of one of the retiring sets - Cheer and Wishes and has a whopping 40% off!

If you'd like to order any retiring products from me - please view the post at the top of my blog.

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House Warming Invitation

Hope this works as I'm scheduling my post today as planning a day off tomorrow and having some quality play time with the boys. So if this has gone according to plan, you should be reading this and seeing my house warming card. I'm not having a house warming, just made the card!

I've been busy with products from the March Frenzy promotion again to give you some more ideas on what to do with them. Here I've used the Shimmer Card for the base, it's a shame you can't se the shimmer in the photo as it is gorgeous. I punched out some shapes with punches and post it notes and brayered over the top with Tempting Turquoise ink. The sentiments inside and on the front are from Cheers and Wishes.

I rolled the Neighborhood wheel on to Whisper White Card using Basic Black ink and then coloured in using a blender pen, Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, Melon Mambo and Early Espresso inks. I cut the back two houses out and stuck down using Snail Adhesive and the front one is stuck down with Dimensionals. Here's the inside:

I hadn't planned on adding another house to the inside but I manged a big thumb print of Tempting Turquoise ink off my brayer!! I think it looks better with a house now.

Back tomorrow as usual
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Spot On Tutorial

Ooh I ache this morning. I had a night on the camp bed in Zac's room last night as he wasn't feeling well. Glad I made this card at the weekend!

The photo is a little dull as it's still well and no lovely bright day light again! I've used products from the March Frenzy offer again on this card. Items from the promotion are:

• A4 Shimmery White Card Stock - reducded by 30% to £5.25
• Cheer and Wishes Stamp Set - reduced by 30% to £11.87
• Spot On  Stampin Around Jumbo Wheel - reduced by 20% to £6.80

I've also used Versamark ink, white embossing powder, heat gun, brayer and Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango and Melom Mambo inks.

It's quite a simple card to make and you could use this method to make such a huge variety of projects too.

I started off using Shimmery White card for my base, it's lovely and so sturdy too. Using Versamrk ink I stamped the Spot on Wheel, then sprinkled on some white embossing powder and heat setting. Next job is to use post it notes or scrap paper to mask off all the white areas of card. Then brayer over starting with the lightest colour ending up with Melon Mambo.

If you receive my monthly newsletter you will get a tutorial on how to do this. I'm being hollered to go and build a space ship now, not sure if this means out of mega blox or if  have to get out the glue, some empty boxes and tin foil!

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Tutorial for you

If you visited yesterday you will know Stampin' Up! have just launched their latest promotion ' March Frenzy'. I've made a cute set of cards using some of the products included in the offer and put a mini tutorial together for you too.

These cards are made usinhg the following supplies which are included in the discounted products offer:

• Cheer and Wishes stamp set - Reduced by 30% to just £11.87
• Hidden Garden Blossoms rub ons - Reduced by 30% to £5.95
• Blender pens (pack of 3) - Reduced by 20% to £6.36

I have also used Crumb cake card for the base, Rich Razzleberry, Early Espresso and Whisper White ink pads and the Corner Rounder Punch.

These are so easy to make:

Apply your rub ons and stamp your choice of sentiment and then squeeze your inkpads whilst they are closed. When you openm them, there will be ink in the lid as shown in the photo above. This becomes your painting palette.

Pick the ink up by dabbing the blender pen nib into the ink in the lid. The blender pens suck up the ink, allowing you to colour with them. Then colour your images! You don't need a blender pen for each colour as you simply carry on colouring on a scrap of paper and the pen becomes clear again. For this card I have used one end for each colour for speed.

All you need to do is add ink and blend, just like you would with other colouring tools. The Whisper White helps to lift the darker colour and the best thing is it doesn't soak through the card, making one layer cards a breeze.

When colouring like this I tend to start with the darker shade and blend the white ink in afterwards. This works just as well with stamped images as you may have seen on recent posts of mine.

I hope you'll give it a try and let me know as I'd love to see what you create.

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