Dad

Hello.

As fathers day has just passed i have a quick Dad card to share.

This was a fathers day card but could easy be birthday as well.

I used the paper smooches set My Guy ..(which is currently out of stock) for the golf cart.

The background  is made up using punched card.

The dad was made from the lawn fawn Quinn's abc stamps and dies, these are also out of stock at the moment.

I will be back on Saturday with something very different :)

Thanks for looking.

Travelling Tuesday!

I love travelling. Haven't been globe trotting much.

I've been to a few choice places including a moment of madness taking 2 small kids to Benidorm. ( shudders at the memory).

However, this little card is perhaps best saved for a more classy journey ;-)

I realise you wouldn't normally put travel and thanks together per se but I'm sure you could find an occasion; a pen-pal's visit ( does anyone have these anymore or was it simply a relic from the 80's?!), or a thankyou to a hostess you stayed with etc.

I've used Big Thanks to create all the thankyou sentiments on the suitcase & the smidgeon of the plane that you can spy is from Mr Boy

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Now Big Thanks is so popular that it's slipped out of stock- but don't fear- there are other lovely sentiments that would work perfectly for this card like

 

 Just shows that you can really mix up sets that wouldn't normally go together. The little map pieces are from a very old US & Canada road map. Have a go at mixing up two unrelated sets & see what you come up with. Come and post a link to what you create. I'd love to see!

 

See you next Tuesday,

 

 

Keren

You Are Simply Amazing....

Hello there, Lydia here! Happy Friday....opps I mean Monday! I know my usual day to post on Make the Day Special is a Friday but Lou has some very special vistors over so we have swapped just for this week. Lou I really hope you have a great time catching up :-D !!

Ok for today I have made a simple card where I believe the sentiment makes all the difference.....

The fabulous sentiment is from W Plus 9 and I soooooo can't wait for the pre-orders to turn up. Although this little sentiment isn't in stock at the moment there are plenty available which I need!!! And I think that Label Layers 4 would work just as well.... if not better. 

Ok, that's me for now, hope you have a great Monday !!!!  

Behind the mask

Today I've been playing with some masking tape and chalk inks to make a couple of Unity cards.

I used the Christy Tomlinson Urban Chevron stamp for the card on the left and the sentiment on the right card is from the Bold Insight store kit.

I've then added stickers and a die-cut to embellish.

Now I'm off to try some more masking and inking.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and, as always, thanks for visiting!

Jo

Hearts and Crosses

Hello :0).... Jenny here!!

This week has been a busy one but when you 'make' cards you just cannot nip to the shops to buy one even when time is tight and you've left things to the last minute!! I had to put my thinking cap on and make an Anniversary card for my Brother and his Wife... I set out to make a quick card but it sort of evolved into a game.....

When I first bought the Wplus9 Quilt Cuts 2 dies I could see the potential for a noughts and crosses game board so I went with this idea for an anniversary card and changed the noughts for hearts.

I'd love to provide you with a link to it in store but unfortunately 

I've used an out-of-stock product again ... they'll be back in store soon, even better 

if you grabbed one in the recent pre-order :0)

Not satisfied with just stamping I decided to turn it into a 

real game with the help of some thin magnetic sheet.

Using a punch I made two small circles for the back of each playing piece and 

adhered a large square behind the grid along with a thin strip lower 

down the panel to store the hearts and crosses on.

A splash of red stickles and a blob of glossy accents to tart up the hearts and crosses along with a simple Paper Smooches sentiment and the job was done :0)

I'm now thinking of all the other possibilities for this grid... 

a simple word game or by adding more you could even make a suduko puzzle????

Thanks for your visit :0)

Jenny x

Yay It's Friday!!!

YYYEEEEAAA HAAAA ! It's Friday, love love love Friday's ! It's take-out night for me (Lydia), and the mini-mes love it as Taidy (Grandad in Welsh) and Grandma Lyn come round for tea. I love Archie's little face when you tell him is Friday, he goes off to nursery a happy lil guy when he knows!

Ok, enough of my love of Friday's .... and onto another love , Paper Smooches...... and the start of a new love affair W Plus 9. 

(To be fair I could give this card to Friday's , hehehehe.....)

Those adorable little guys come from the Paper Smooches set Woofers and Tweeters - how cute are they ?!?!?!?! I then coloured them up using another love ..Copics! The super cute sentiment is from W Plus 9- this is sadly out of stock at the minute but I'm sure we will have it again soon. 

Well I hope I started your Friday off well- now go enjoy the rest of it :) 

Have a super great FRIDAY!!!

Hugs, Lydia xxx

Artistic????

Hi there......

She here..........I thought it was about time that I got painty and messy!!!!

I love making Tags!!! And I have lots of cardboard to recycle, so I thought I'd combine the two! I pulled off some of the top layer of cardboard to expose the 'corrugated' bits...I've used paint dabbers in various colours......I use 'dabbers' in the loosest terms....my dabbers don't dab so I just chuck everything onto my craft mat and generally just make a mess!! I've used cut n dry foam, a baby wipe and my finger to apply!

The stamps used are my most favourite set of all .......'Imagine It' by Donna Downey for Unity. I've used paint to stamp directly on the Tag and then Black Versafine ink and clear embossing powder for the sentiment....which is on an off cut of pearlescent cream paper which has been embossed and the paints smudged over....

All that was needed to finish was my favourite punched flowers and Black card candi.......Lots of favourites!!! I had a really good time making this...........

Thanks for looking, I'll see you soon........







She xx