Sympathy Poppies

A sad card today for a crafting friend who died this month.  Years ago after I said I would never get in to stamping I was given a heat gun and some stamps and thought I'd look at using them.

I went to a little group run by 2 lovely ladies in their house and have learnt so much over the years and made good friends.

Sadly after all sorts of illnesses one of my friends died after a fall suddenly which was very sad but we have to take the fact that she didn't suffer and has left us with lots of craftiness and the family with gorgeous creations she has made over the years.

This simple card uses an Inkylicious stamp called Poppy.

I've stamped the image in black on the card and again on a separate piece in red so I could cut out and 3D the flowers on.

The bordered is stamped using an image from SU Watercolor Wings.

Sentiment from SU Teeny Tiny Sentiments and a couple of SU punches used.

Looking back I've got lots of tips over the years and realise on seeing all the family together how long we've known each other as they are all grown up with families now.

So rest in peace Rene x

At the seaside

And back to crafting!

This is a birthday card for my friend Jo.

The card is a lovely speckled cream which I think is from my paper mill stash.

The background images are stamped in memento london fog ink using a lovely set from inkylicious.  I have stamped, cut out and added 3D foam to the shells for some extra dimension.

The beach scene is a Michael Powell stamp from DOCrafts.  I've coloured this using pan pastels for the sky, sea and sand which I haven't really used before (funnily enough the idea for this card wasn't how it panned out at all!).  I've also used copics for the beach huts.

Many thanks to Tracy who very kindly let me borrow her Stampin' up sentiment from the label love set as I 'tidied' mine at the weekend and it is currently residing in a safe place!!  I've punched it out using the matching punch (which I do have to hand) and punched another one to layer behind for contrast and to match the layering on the main image.

Bike ride

Sample cards made for tomorrow nights Crafty Bunch - don't want to spoil the surprise though!

Just to throw in to the mix this week (and why I still am vv behind with my quilling!) I was asked to make some cycle-related thank you cards.

Regular visitors may recall there have been a few over the years and as this years are needed for Thursday they had to be quite time efficient.

So I have just made 10 of these:



The bike is an inkylicious stamp which I have heat embossed with black versafine ink - it stands out just that little bit more for being embossed.

The sentiment is from a set that had been on my list for ages, it is 'Bicycle' from Oyster Stamps Our Daily Bread range.  There are a couple of other great sayings and another bike in the set too.

I've just stamped the words and punched out with a circle punch and lightly dabbed the edge of the circle with black ink so it stood out a little against the white card.