Hello crafting pals!
How are you adapting to your new social distancing/isolation lives? I have been spending so much more time on the phone that it's been hard to fit in any crafting! But here is a little something I rustled up earlier:
Sometimes when making birthday cards for young teenage boys, only sweets will do and everyone loves a gummy bear - am I right?! These are from Retro Sweeties by Skull and Cross Buns - a place you should shop just for the name alone!!! I stamped the gummies in bright colours and watercoloured them, adding a tiny heart on the yellow one when it was dry. The next step was to fussy cut them before smooshing them into a Versamark pad and embossing them with clear embossing powder to make them all shiny and delicious like real gummy bears!
The sentiment needed to be tiny to fit nicely under the yellow bear and his chum. I used just part of one from Cheeky Birthday by Hero Arts, inking up with a marker and using my stamping platform for position. I glued all the gummies to the card base, except the one holding the heart - he was popped up on dimensionals.
Some of you may remember my special floofy mail delivery service bringing me a box the other day (click on the link and scroll down for total cuteness!) Well, when I opened it, I was delighted to find this stamp set, with congratulations from Emily at Skull and Cross Buns - a sponsor prize for being the January winner at the Less is More challenge.
EDITED TO ADD AN AWARD
I'm proud to say that this card made the top three at CAS on Friday - thank you ladies!
CHALLENGES
I'm going to link today's card up with CAS(E) This Sketch where there's a fab retro sketch this week; also CAS on Friday, where the challenge is to Make a Birthday Card; and The Male Room where the theme is something you'd find Grandfather's House. I didn't know either of my grandfathers but we did visit my stepmother's father once or twice. I remember there was a dog we weren't allowed to play with in case he snapped, but there were also sweets - not gummy bears but boiled sweets!
AND IN OTHER NEWS
If you are in the UK and were celebrating Mother's Day yesterday, you will have had a strange one - but I hope you felt the love. I texted a friend: 'My son came back from uni with a two-pack of loo roll. Best Mother's Day ever!' She replied: 'My daughter says she can't top that! I got breakfast in bed!'
How are you adapting to your new social distancing/isolation lives? I have been spending so much more time on the phone that it's been hard to fit in any crafting! But here is a little something I rustled up earlier:
Sometimes when making birthday cards for young teenage boys, only sweets will do and everyone loves a gummy bear - am I right?! These are from Retro Sweeties by Skull and Cross Buns - a place you should shop just for the name alone!!! I stamped the gummies in bright colours and watercoloured them, adding a tiny heart on the yellow one when it was dry. The next step was to fussy cut them before smooshing them into a Versamark pad and embossing them with clear embossing powder to make them all shiny and delicious like real gummy bears!
The sentiment needed to be tiny to fit nicely under the yellow bear and his chum. I used just part of one from Cheeky Birthday by Hero Arts, inking up with a marker and using my stamping platform for position. I glued all the gummies to the card base, except the one holding the heart - he was popped up on dimensionals.
Some of you may remember my special floofy mail delivery service bringing me a box the other day (click on the link and scroll down for total cuteness!) Well, when I opened it, I was delighted to find this stamp set, with congratulations from Emily at Skull and Cross Buns - a sponsor prize for being the January winner at the Less is More challenge.
EDITED TO ADD AN AWARD
I'm proud to say that this card made the top three at CAS on Friday - thank you ladies!
CHALLENGES
I'm going to link today's card up with CAS(E) This Sketch where there's a fab retro sketch this week; also CAS on Friday, where the challenge is to Make a Birthday Card; and The Male Room where the theme is something you'd find Grandfather's House. I didn't know either of my grandfathers but we did visit my stepmother's father once or twice. I remember there was a dog we weren't allowed to play with in case he snapped, but there were also sweets - not gummy bears but boiled sweets!
AND IN OTHER NEWS
If you are in the UK and were celebrating Mother's Day yesterday, you will have had a strange one - but I hope you felt the love. I texted a friend: 'My son came back from uni with a two-pack of loo roll. Best Mother's Day ever!' She replied: 'My daughter says she can't top that! I got breakfast in bed!'
