New home Card.

A couple of weeks ago I posted a similar version of this card except the girl was a boy. I wondered at the time If I could change the boy into  a girl  by giving him more hair. I wanted a girl as I wanted to send it to  my sister as she's just moved house. So I played around with the image and with a fine marker, I drew in long hair, it seemed to have worked quite well.

 

New home card

 

Another LOTV image I purchased but I think I paid full price for this one. Full price is less than £3 so it didn't exactly break the bank. I always struggle to find suitable images for new home cards.  

This is perfect for somebody that is moving into a new house or flat. As the first thing we do is 

redecorate and make a home.

I am just looking at this image and wondering if I lengthened the hair on this guy if he would look more like a girl. I would also colour his clothes in more feminine  colours.

I tried colouring him in different colour for this one and layered him on the new DSP from stampin up.

This would also make a great thank you card for anyone helping with the decorating.  

To kick start my mojo

                              

I haven't posted anything for a few weeks due to me misplacing my mojo over the Christmas period.       I really haven't felt like crafting for a few weeks now.  Today I forced myself into my craft room to try  and make a couple of simple cards with the hope that somewhere along the way, I would find some inspiration.  I have used this LOTV digital stamp above on a couple of smaller cards. This time I enlarged the image to make this   7 x 7 inch card.  I mounted the image onto a piece of navy card before adhering the panel to the polka dot background and base card. The sentiment comes from the S.U set,  Sorry for Everything. I think this would be a great card to thank medical staff as well as a  great get well card.

My second make is another LOTV digital stamp and the card measures 5 x 5 inches.    LOTV had a 50% off  weekend and I couldn't resist buying this image (along with a dozen more). This time I die cut a stitched frame using two square dies and glued the frame over the top of my coloured image and then adhered the framed image onto a white base card. I added a small bow  for some extra interest.

 

My third make is using another digital stamp from LOTV.  This time  I cut an oval aperture  in apiece of red card  to frame the image. Then cut a larger oval aperture in a piece of white card slightly smaller than the card front.

My fourth make is yet another LOTV image. This one was made in the same way as the one above, but I reversed the colours of the aperture layers just to change things up a bit. 

All the images were coloured with Copic markers. 

You may notice that I haven't put sentiments on all of today's makes. This is because I like to decide on a sentiment once I know who the card is for and what the occasion  is.

These quick and simple cards  have kick started my mojo and I am ready to start crafting and posting again.

Clean and Simple cards for Christmas.

I have left this years making of Christmas cards to the last minute, so these are clean and simple cards.

I visited the LOTV  digital stamp shop last week and came across some new really cute images and what's more they were discounted so time to increase my stock of LOTV images.

 I wanted a few new Christmas images for this years cards to ensure this years recipients didn't get the same image a last year.

The Santa image above does NOT have  number plate on the digital stamp. I added the number plate to personalize the card.

 I found this image touching and personal, probably because I have worked in a school for 26 years and have  had a great deal to do with school plays over the years. Making the costumes, painting scenery and making props. So this image was a must have.

This image was just too cute  not to purchase.

LOTV

5x5 LOTV image coloured with copic markers.  I made the black and white stripe paper on my pc

Infants Cards

I have a couple of baby cards today. Both images are digital stamps available from  the LOTV website. The card above was coloured with Copic markers . I used double stitched square dies to create the frame for this card. It's a clean and simple card and I like the way this one turned out.

I am not so keen on the rocking card below though.  I loved the twins image but I think the colours I used here maybe a touch to strong. I thought  I would decorate  the rolling section with leaves to tie in with the pea shoot. I don't think this worked very well at all . I will have to re think this one.

New home cards.

I don't get to make  new home cards too often, but I needed one a while back. I found this stamp  in the drawer.  I can't remember the maker of this stamp. I think it might be a  Whiff of joy stamp but I wouldn't swear to that. I have coloured this image a few time in the past but I was never happy with my colouring.  I think my choice of colours have been too strong in the past, so this time  I chose less intense colours and I think it works much better than my previous attempts.  

 My second card is an LOTV digital stamp.  I love  the cuteness of their images. This was the card I sent out as it was going to our nephew and his partner.   Both cards were coloured using Copic markers.  I hot foiled the sentiment I had printed out using the pc and a laser printer.

Lou's Moving house card.

A lady I know is moving  house tomorrow,  so this evening I made this card for her and her family.
The stamp set I used  is a discontinued set called "good neighbours" from stampin' up.
I have had this stamp set for ages and not used until  recently. The foregound I daubed with old olive ink the sky with bashful blue ink.
I used Stampin' up's designer paper on the base of the card and stamped the top half of the card using one of the tree tops from the trendy trees stamp set.