Kept this card simple. Heat embossed the leaves and sentiment with the Geometric Greenery MFT stampset. The inks I have used are Blueprint Sketch, Peacock Feathers & Shabby Shutters distress inks which have been ink blended across the white stitched panel. I have added some water droplets along the distress inks to add some texture to the ink blending. I have used Wow Embossing Powder in white on a thin piece of slate gray cardstock.  To finish off embellishing the card I have added some Nuvo Crystal Drops in Midnight Blue, Caribbean Ocean & Apple Green.

Hi All, Welcome to today's very exciting release.

This die has been so much fun to play with and it motivated me to make a scrapbook page which I hadn't done for while. 

The stampset has some beautiful sentiments to use.

I hope my creations inspires you on your creations with this die.and coordinating stampset. 

Love Sentiments

 How excited are you to see the Inspired By Stamping January Release. Today we release the wonderful sentiment stampset "Blessed". This can be very versatile in it's meaning. 

See the cards below as inspiration for today's release. 

Hi All, I have made this cute card using MFT Bithday Bears Stampset. The colour combination is inspired by the current MFT colour challenge 61. 

The birthday bear has been watercolourd in with some extra pencil texture on the bow. I really tried hard to keep this as simple as possible so it can be given to either a male or female.

The card layout design is from the Freshly Made sketches challenge.

Hope you enjoy today's creation and dont forget to stop by the above challenges to enter or just to use as inspiration

Paper Crafting Hugs

Jo. 

My first magic slider card I have ever made and I love it!

I have used MFT Birthday Bear & Banner Greetings stampsets and dies. The pattern paper has a bright water colour wash with gold foil throughout the pattern paper.   

I have entered this card in the seize the Birthday challenge. 

Hi All, 

Today's card creations are made with a wonderful stampset & coordinating die "Hello Gorgeous".

For most of the cards I have used some left over project life cards as an added layer. 

Card 1 - Ombre card base with Stampin Up Blushing Bride Ink.

Each of the images have been heat embossed with white embossing powder on crumb cake cardstock. 

Card 2 - A tone on tone card by repeat stamping one of the small floral images on a crumb cake card base.  I have added some glitter washi tape over the project life card.  After I stamped the hello in crumb cake I have gone over it with clear wink of stella.

Card 3 - Heat embossed the "Hello" in gold embossing powder.

I have also repeats stamped one of the bigger images in the background with some light sponging.

Card 4 - This is card is my favourite. Same techniques as the previous cards but instead if the project life cards I have die cut a circle to stamp the "hello" sentiment in baked brown ink. I have gone over the hello with clear wink of stella. The crumb cake layer has been placed slightly off centre adding some interest to the card.

I have also entered Card 5 in the AAA Challenge .

Happy New Year all , Jo here and welcome to my first blog post for the year. 

Today I have made a sweet card set using two of my favourite Inspired By Stamping stampsets. The first stampset is the "Easter Lily" & second one is the "Hello", which I have cutup. I know for some of you this may be rather daunting. The OCD side of me really struggled with this concept however I wanted to tailor my gift set as I had a specific friend in mind to give this to. 

Ok,so I first cut up this stampset as you can see below. I set aside the sentiments that I wish to use on a separate cardstock. 

The sentiments has been heat embossed with white embossing powder on coloured strips of coloured cardstock. 

Hello

Hello

I tapped into my paper stash hoard vault and pulled this beautiful paper collection out.  I have used the paper to cover the full top folding  vanilla base for thecard front.  With very vanilla cardstock panels I have die cut with border strip framelits to create interest tot he panels and foam mounted this onto the floral paper. 

To add a feminine touch to accompany the type of paper chosen I have used paper doilies which I have placed on carefully with glue dots as I found this type of adhesive was less likely to be seen through the very paper thin doilies.

I have stamped the Lily image on die cut circles and hearts with light blue & strawberry inks. To embellish each card I have used two types of hemp twine natural and bleached.  I have also used some resin flowers and buttons to tie off the twine which I have adhered on with glue dots.

Easter Lily