BBQ Anyone

This card is for my best friends husband, he is the BBQ master and can cook anything as long as he is in the garden. Put him in the kitchen and nothing is edible

Under the weather

A quick one today, a bit of no lines colouring

Shake Your Tail Feathers

Fancied a change from drawing trees so thought these fabulous birds could do with a lovely garden to relax in. That one on the perch looks like he is quite enjoying the sunshine.

Dino Time

 My nephew turns 3 this month and is dinosaur mad!! So I wanted to create a fun dino card. I do actually fear for long neck here as I can not help that but think that he is about to become Mr Rex's lunch. I did not really think that one through when I stamped them up

Duck Race

We once stayed in a lodge owned by the Forestry Commission and they had a rubber duck race on the river that flowed through the forest. It was great fun, made even more hilarious by the organisers mad Labrador pup which swum down the river with the rubber ducks and every time it caught one it throw it out of the river, onto the shore. The organiser was charging down the bank lobbing them back in. This card made me laugh when I remembered the race

Pull tab

For this card I have taken inspiration from my second Sandy Allnock lesson from the enchantment course, but have added in my stamps, an extra tree and changed up the colours

Birds of a feather

This stamp set is great for creating easy cards to fill out your stash. This is what the kids have requested for my Dad for his birthday 

There is a video on my YouTube channel Mrs H's Crafty Corner

Card Making Supplies

Heffy Doodle Wingman Stamp Set

Spectrum Noir Finesse in Rustic Brown

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Heffy Doodle Pull Tab Slimline Die

Black sequins

Grandad sentiment from Dovecraft

Another Year Sentiment From Papercraft Society July Box

Versamark Embossing Ink

Wow Embossing Powder in Pepper

Heffy Doole Stitched Trio Slimline Die Set

Card Making Tutorial

The images were stamped, coloured and fussy cut out

The trio slimline panels were cut in an assortment of greens

The pull tab insert was cut in the top panel

The 3 squares panel was adhered on and 

the birds were glued down and Grandad was heat embossed in the right hand window

A banner saying another year was heat embossed and attached to the bird. 

The pull tab mechanism was created and the bird attached.

The panel was attached to the scalloped base using foam squares and was finished in sequins and nuvo drops before being attached to a Slimline white card base

Thank you for reading 

Happy crafting

Claire xx

Clearly Besotted Cosy Christmas

The August Kit and Clowder Monthly Marker Tutorial is an enchanted garden and has the most adorable pumpkin house with a brick bay window. I have only just started the class and so am nowhere near ready to show you all yet However I decided I would practice the brick technique on this fireplace and I can not believe how well it turned out 

There is a video on my YouTube Channel showing how I made the card but because I often sit and watch TV while colouring there is not one of the fireplace technique. Mrs H's Crafty Corner

Card Making Supplies

Clearly Besotted Cosy Christmas Stamp and Die Set

Clearly Besotted Christmas Onesies Stamp Set 

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers 

Spectrum Noir Finesse Ink Pad in Rustic Brown

Time For Tea Designs Washi Tape Stamp Set

LRDS Creative slimline Scalloped die

Heffy Doodles Stitched Trio Slimline Die

Distress Oxide in Tumbled Glass and Mulled Lavender

Versamark bossing Ink

Wow Embossing Powder in Blue Glitz

Nuvo Drops in Oyster Grey 

Sequins in lavender and pale blue

Craft Card

Purple Card

White Card

Card Making Tutorial

I begun by stamping and colouring my images, I die cut the ones I have dies for and fussy cut the rest

I cut a piece of white card using the Heffy doodle slimline die and blended it in tumbled glass distress oxide

The washing stamp stamps were stamped onto white card using milled lavender and tumbled glass distress oxide

These were glued onto kraft card and trimmed to give a very small border

These were glued onto the card base and the sentiment.heat embossed. See picture below for placement

The images were arranged on the card base and adhered with a.combination of double sided tape and foam squares

The scene was accessorised with a selection of nuvo drops and sequins

A piece of purple card was used with the scallop edged slimline die and the panel.was mounted onto.this before being mounted onto a slimline Kraft card base

Thank you for reading

Happy crafting

Claire xx

Wingman

I love this fun Stamp set from Heffy Doodles and already know the recipient, we all have that one person who has our backs regardless of the situation.

This is my first attempt at using brushes instead of foam pads for my ink and I have to be honest and say I agree with all the hype. Just wow it was so effortless

There is a video on my YouTube Channel Mrs H's Crafty Corner

 Cardmaking Supplies

Heffy Doodle Wingman Stamp Set

Distress Oxide in Squeezed Lemonade and Twisted Citron

Versamark Embossing Ink

Wow Embossing Powder in Earthtone Mint

Time For Tea Designs Stripes Cover plate Die

Spectrum Noir Finesse in Rustic Brown 

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Glossy Accents

A5 Card Base 

Cream Card

Card making Tutorial

I burnished and folded an a5 card base. Onto this I heat embossed the tiny feathers that came with the stamp set

This was blended with squeezed lemonade across the middle 

Followed by twisted citron on either side 

The plate die was cut and adhered to the card base

It was then blended with squeezed lemonade.

The sentiment was heat embossed onto one of the strips cut from the plate die and blended in the twisted citron

The images were stamped, coloured and cut out using the scan n cut. These were then adhered onto the card front and the sentiment added with foam squares. 

Glossy accents were added to the beaks

Thanks for reading

Happy Crafting

Claire xx

Interactive Christmas

This stamp and die set from Time for Tea Designs is so fun, with the naughty fury friends trashing the tree. We use to have a beagle, she was the most beautiful dog I have ever come across, but was totally bonkers and so so naughty I could tell you many tales. Including how she learnt to open the grill door so she could use it as step to climb onto the work surfaces and ate an entire slow cooker full of lamb stew...

Christmas with Indiana was a nightmare she was THIS dog. We use to put bells on the bottom of the tree so they acted like an early warning system and alerted us to her mischief before too much damage was caused. Even as a tiny puppy at Christmas last year Hamish our Jack Russel did not have the interest in the tree that Indie never grew out of

When we visit a special place I buy a bauble as I love putting the tree up and it reminding me of the trip.  We can be like 'oh do you remember that trip to...' 

Well my inspiration for this card came from Indie, on one particular tree mounting occurrence my husband literally threw himself across the room and caught our bauble from New York (that could have been costly). There were decorations flying in all directions but he saved the ones that mattered. 

There is a video on my you tube channel  Mrs H's Crafty Corner

Card Making Supplies

Time For Tea Designs Christmas Surprise Stamp and Die Set

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Spectrum Noir Finesse in Rustic Brown

Acetate 

Heffy Doodles Slimline Pull Tab Die Set

Mama Elephant Peek A Frame Die Set

Distress Ink in Fired Brick and Mowed Lawn

Versamark Embossing Ink

Wow Embossing Powder in Earthtone Grape

Nuvo Drops in Mustard Gold and Moonlight Silver

Card Making Tutorial

To begin I stamped, coloured and die cut the images. The die set has a die you can lay on the tree to.cut the head and arm holes of the furry beast.

Using the large stitched rectangle from the mama elephant die set I.cut a.piece of white card stock. I used the heffy doodle pull tab dies to form the panel.for my pull tab base. See the picture below for placement

This was blended in Fired brick distress ink

The pull tab was inserted and I felt it would be too heavy for just the one circle to mount onto. I therefore cut another and used double.sided tape to attached them both together to form one pull tab. See the picture below

The top one was coloured in the fired brick to ensure that it blended in if seen

Using acatate the free falling baubles and the dog were attached to the mechanism. The tree was then secured onto card base with foam tape to allow a gap

The pull tab arrow was blended in the distress ink

The sentiment was heat embossed using Wow Earthtone Grape Embossing Powder  and this was blended in mowed lawn. A cormer trimmer was used to.round the edges

This was attached to the card panel which was adhered to a card base using double sided tape

The card was finished with nuvo drops

Thanks for reading

Happy Crafting 

Claire xx

Interactive Gnomes

I purchased this pull tab die on a whim. It looked good but I am not sure I would use it. It frightened me a little and looked complicated. I was very wrong it was just so so easy.

There is a video on my YouTube Channel Mrs H's Crafty Corner

Cardmaking Supplies 

Heffy Doodle Slimline Pull Tab Die

Heffy Doodle Stitched Slimline Trio Die Set

Polkadoodles Grass Lawn Stencil

Distress Ink in Speckled Egg and Mowed Lawn

Kraft Card card 

Teal card

Blue card

White Card

Heffy Doodle Stamp Set Gnome Matter What

Spectrum Noir Finesse Ink in Rustic Brown

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Embossing Ink

Wow Embossing Powder in Speckled Egg

Nuvo Dropa in Ruby Slippers

Cardmaking Tutorial

I cut the smallest slimline stitched rectangle from the trio die set and blended the grass using the polkadoodles stencil and mowed lawn distress ink

The clouds were created by blending speckled egg distress ink.

The pull tab die was then cut and attached to the scalloped base.

I cut 2 pieces of Kraft card using the next size up stitched slimline rectangle

A piece of teal card was cut using the scalloped frame.

A blue card base was created meassuring 8 3/8th Inch by 6 5/8th

The stamps were coloured and fussy cut out. These were then arranged as the image below.

Onto one of the pieces of  Kraft card I heat embossed my sentiment 

This was then all glued together and nuvo drops were added to the arrow on the pull tab.

I have entered this into the following challenges

Heffy Doodles Facebook August Challenge Build a Scene

All Fun Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Midsummer Blues

through the craft room door

Thanks for reading

Happy crafting

Claire xx

Handmade Card Slimline Bunny

I discovered these wonderful slimline dies from Heffy Doodles when they did a blog hop with Time for Tea designs. Of course I had to pop onto the shop I could not stay at the blog page and discovered these beauties. These were not all I purchased so keep your eyes peeled for interactive cards.