Little Suzy Zoo Sample cards

Here's the 6 cards I made for Joanna Sheen with the new very cute Little Suzy Zoo stamps available in Joanna Sheens Website.

Thanks for looking
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Last of the Jane Shasky card samples

The third sheet of Joanna Sheen's Jane Shaskly stamps is called 'Slice of Heaven'

Here is the first of 3 cards I made using it.
ThePatchwork toppers background paper is printed out from the Joanna Sheen In other words CD. I coloured a round doily with promarkers and the image is also coloured in using promarker pens. I made the roses from die cuts and the letters are from Tim Holtz typeset decoritive strip... my new favourite alphabet die Lol!

For the second card 2 die cut frames are used... one has a pretty doily inside and the other the image.. I used both promarkers and watercolour distress inks to colour the stamp. I added some matching style flowers to carry on the look and added the verse in the top corner. The backing paper is from the Jane Shasky CD

Here is the final card, it uses the other image on the stamp sheet. I coloured it with promarkers and watercolour distress inks. Two brickwork embossed large corners were lightly inked and the flowers are stamped pressed flowers by Joanna Sheen. I added a large tulle bow tied with blue ribbon and added the verse on the card to finish.

Thank you for visiting to day and taking a look at my sample cards.

There will be more of my sample cards coming soon after this weekend's TV shows on Create and Craft TV. when Joanna launches some more of my designs as rubber stamps...

More to come....

Jane Shasky Stamp sample cards

These sample cards are made using Joanna Sheen's Jane Shasky Stamps
I made 3 cards from each sheet for the TV show aired last weekend.

For these cards I used the Sweet Memories stamp sheet

Here's the first card.Both the backing paper and the 'In the garden my soul is Sunshine' sentiment were printed from Joanna Sheen's Jane Shasky CD - I used 2 of the framed words but glued the stamped image over one of them. The stamped image is coloured with promarker pens. I added a doily, wide mesh type ribbon and finished it off with some stamped and coloured flowers from Joanna Sheen Pressed flower stamps.

For the second card from this sheet - Sweet Memories I used the bird houses image.

..for this card I tore strips of white wash coordinations card, rubbed each piece with fine sand paper to distress it a little, then lightly inked the edges also adding some Tim Holtz distress stickles to the bottom edges.. I stuck these strips directly onto the card after I stuck the punched and lightly inked doily edges... creating a lovely shabby chic looking background. I stamped the image with brown distress inks and used both promarkers and inks to colour it in. Using water to take off the ink by blotting, where the white flowers are. Adding the ribbons and the Tim Holtz die cut flowers etc... finished the card.

For the last card using the Joanna Sheen Jane Shasky Sweet Memories Stamp sheet I have used the watering can image again but this time I coloured it red.

I used a backing paper from the Jane Shasky CD from the herb garden section. After colouring the image with promarker pens, I die cut it and inked the edges. I placed it on the card with some of Joanna Sheen's Pressed flower Ivy leaves and some ribbon roses. Narrow lilac ribbon and tiny red buttons that tie in with the red watering can and finshed the card.

Thank you for visiting today.. I would love to read any comments you might have.. like all bloggers I appreciate all the comments left on my blog by fellow crafty people.

I'll be back tomorrow with 3 more card samples from the Jane Shasky rubber stamps..
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Less is More week 18 - Monochrome

The challenge set for us Limettes this week is

MONOCHROME

Definition:

in shades of one colour, using or displaying only shades of one colour or black & white.

Although lots of ideas flashed through my head when I first saw the challenge... I soon realised that this could be a hard one for me, as I love to use lots of colours. , so I spent most of the day yesterday just thinking about what I would like to do.

I decided to use the Pressed Flower Roses stamps from Joanna Sheen.in Shades of RED.

I created a background paper : I stamped an A4 sheet using various roses, masking them and then stamping the two sizes of rose leaves all with Tim Holtz fired brick distress ink, so it appears that the leaves are behind. Then I coloured the background using a red Promarker pen. I managed to create two cards out of the paper

The punched border is because I stuck the paper on Wonky!!.. so it covered that up... actually I rather like it more with the border... so it's a Happy accident as they say.. Here's the next card using 2 strips of the same background paper.

The butterlies are punched from the Martha Stewart large butterfly punch and coloured with a red promarker.

...and here's another card that I couldn't resist doing using some paper roses I made using the sizzix die mentioned in the last post. and some of the stamped rose leaves - again I used Tim Holtz fired brick ink to colour everything.

Thank you for visiting.. I hope you like what you see.

See you soon...
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Less is More - Week 16

The theme over at the Less is more challenge blog for this week is - Butterfly / Butterflies...

Today is my Birthday and my friend gave me nestabilities lables 20 for one of my pressies... they are really pretty so I had to use them on the card for this week's challenge.
Here is my card for this week....
...as you can see I used the long side of the die to cut the top of the card creating a pretty edge. My cuttlebug had no problem cutting through the two layers of card together. I did this by slipping the cutting edge at the top of the card and the rest of the die behind the folded card... I taped it in position with low tack tape to keep it in place.
The butterfly stamp is one that I have had for years - a gift from another friend. ... and of course the flowers are from Joanna Sheens pressed flower stamps...I used promarker pens to colour them in... I started with the full rose, masking that to stamp the second... I masked that one too.. and carried on with masking as I went to build up to look of roses in a basket. The basket is a piece of beautiful textured wallpaper.
.. Well that's it for now, I might be temped to do a few more cards for this challenge as I love butterflies... well, who wouldn't.. Lol
BFN
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Oriental Dance

I've added a new digi stamp today, it's called Oriental Dance.


Here's a card I made.

I used Dovecraft Eastern Promise papers. The stamped rose is from Joanna Sheens Pressed flower stamps.. the Rose sheet. For my digi stamp - I stamped it twice, once onto white card and then again onto one of the 6 x 6 sheets from the Eastern Promise pad, cutting out the ladies kimono and then glueing it onto the image already coloured in with promarker pens just adds so much more.. .. The fantastic sentiment is a freebie over at the TLC blog

Thank you for visiting my blog today...

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Pressed Flower Stamps

Thank you for all your lovely comments on my last post.. it's wonderful that so many of you took the time to let me know how much you like my card for the Less is More challenge this week.

The minute I saw Joanna Sheen's Pressed Flower Stamps launched on TV last weekend, I knew I really, really needed them.. Lol! I started pressing flowers back in 1998 and got well and truly hooked from then on. Sadly, due to ill health over the last 6 years, my garden is no longer full of flowers for me to press so my pressing has become less and less. Ocassionally I will press something for someone as a surprise...or offer to press special flowers and sometimes I see flowers in the florist that I just have to press Lol... Anyway, I treated myself to all three stamp sheets of the Pressed flower stamps and have had a little play already. I have lots of stamped coloured in flowers now he he. ... and I have tried something different with them... here are a couple of cards I have made so far....
I am really loving combining cream and white with black. I stamped the hydrangea stamp onto cream paper with black momento ink cut them out and added little pearls in the centre of each one then I used 2 other stamps to add the 'filler' foliage straight onto the card.. I really like the fresh look it has.
I had a couple of little flowers left over so added them to this card....
I added gems in the centre of these flowers.

Thanks you for visiting my blog today - I will be back tomorrow with 2 more cards I have made lately using just freebies..

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