Forest Friend Birthday Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? I had to stay in this morning so that an engineer could come and look at our phone line. He did come a little late but not too bad. The issue ended up being our old phone in the hall that had no filter on it and it has been causing us problems. Hopefully all should be fine now.

I was using a sheet of patterned paper for another card and there was a cute image left at the bottom of the page so I just had to make a card with him.

The papers are ones that I have had for ages the range has long been discontinued. 

This little fox is so cute I couldn't let him go to waste. 

This is my LOTV sentiment stamp that I find so useful. I treated myself to the Double Pierced Circle dies from Creative Expressions. I do find those basic shape dies very useful. 

The ribbon just seemed to go with the colours and the design so well. This is another card for my ever growing stash of cards. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Owls having fun.

The owl stamps are designed by Sam Poole for Creative Expressions. They are brilliant to work with the detail is amazing. I stamped the owls and sentiment with Black Archival and heat embossed it with a clear embossing powder then I coloured them with Promarkers. I embossed the Beach Trees mask on to a paper with a core that I sanded back and then inked. I used another embossing folder to create the texture on the darker brown card which I also sanded and inked. I cut an aperture with a spellbinders die and then I cut a frame using two dies. Apart from the label die, which came free with a magazine, all the dies I used  are Spellbinders. I used Centura Pearl card for the matting and layering I even used my piercing ruler to pierce the edge of one of the mats.

I had so much fun with these stamps that I had a go at a couple of other projects. I thought I would add the to this post. The decorated heart is a first for me. I was really pleased with the background on the fox card so I didn't add much detail to the card so it wasn't  covered up too much. 

Thank you for looking at my blog.