Wavy Elephants - Card Project

Morning All!

 

It’s Lisa here with a new project and today I’m showcasing one of the newest Wavy Stamp Sets. Here I’ve used Wavy Elephants:

 

 

Today I’m using one of my favourite colour combinations, pink and grey, and I thought it went well with the cute little elephants.

 

 

Supplies:

• Wavy Elephants Stamp Set
• Memento ‘Tuxedo Black’
• White Stamping Card, Pink Card and Grey Card
• 15cm Square White Card Blank
• Alcohol Pens
• Patterned Paper
• Die Cutting Machine
• Shaped Nesting Dies and Corner Bow Die
• Border Punch
• Flower Punches, Pearls and Liquid Pearls

Step by Step:

1. Cut a 13.5cm square of patterned paper. Mat first onto grey card and then onto pink card. Fix to the card blank.
2. Cut a 14cm by 4cm strip of grey card and use a border punch to decorate the edge. Add a 14cm by 1cm strip of pink card on top and fix to right of the card blank.
3. Using black ink stamp your Wavy Elephants image onto white stamping card, die cut into a fancy shape and colour in with alcohol markers. Mat first onto pink card and then onto grey card. Fix to the card base with foam pads.
4. Using black ink stamp one of the sentiments from the Wavy Elephants stamp set onto white stamping card, die cut into a fancy shape. Mat onto pink card and fix to the card base with foam pads.
5. Decorate the card with punched flowers, a die cut corner bow and pearls.

 

A quick close up of the fabulous stamp:

I hope you like my project and are inspired to try something similar. My blog is www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com if you would like to see more of my projects.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Monthly Challenge Inspiration–Lisa

Morning All! It’s Lisa here with a quick reminder of our current monthly challenge and a closer look at my challenge project.

The theme of our current challenge is ‘Create a Scene’ and you can find all the details on the challenge post, here on the blog. We would love to see your cards entered in the challenge and there's a fabulous prize on offer for the winner!

For my challenge project I’ve used Dinkies Snowman and Pretty Pastel Dots Paper Pack:

 

Here is my card:

 

 

I created my scene using an embossed and inked background, with two stamped snowmen coloured in, fussy cut and fixed to the background with foam pads.

Details of supplies can be found on my blog here.

I hope you like my project and are inspired to try something similar. My blog is www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com if you would like to see some more projects.

Thanks for stopping by and pop back tomorrow as I’ll be back with a new project.

Lisa

Monthly Challenge Inspiration-Lisa

Morning All! It’s Lisa here with a quick reminder of our current monthly challenge and a closer look at my challenge project.

The theme of our current challenge is ‘Butterflies’ and you can find all the details on the challenge post, here on the blog. We would love to see your cards entered in the challenge and there's a fabulous prize on offer for the winner!

For my challenge project I’ve used Dinkies Spikey Flower stamp:

 

And also Floating Butterflies Paper Pack.

 

Here is my card:

 

 

 

Supplies:

• Dinkies Spikey Flower Stamp
• Dinkies Text To Lovely You
• 15cm Square Tent Fold White Card Blank
• White Stamping Card, Pale Blue Card and Lemon Card
• Floating Butterflies Paper Pack.
• Alcohol Pens
• Memento Tuxedo Black Inkpad
• Butterfly Dies, Plain and Fancy Circle Dies
• Black Fine Line Pen
• Ribbon, Pearls, Pearl Flower and Pearl Bead String

Step by Step:

1. Cut a 13.5cm square piece of blue butterfly paper and then die cut a circle from the centre of the piece (the hole will be covered later).
2. Mat the patterned paper square onto lemon, then pale blue card. Doodle a border around the patterned paper and fix to the card blank.
3. Add a strip of yellow ribbon across the lower part of the card blank and the sentiment to the lower left.
4. Stamp the flowers onto the left of the circle of patterned paper, stamp a second time to the right of the circle. Dot white acrylic paint onto the flowers and leave to dry.
5. Colour  the white dots with a yellow alcohol marker and add grass with a green alcohol marker. Add glitter glue and Glossy Accents to the flowers.
6. Mat the circle onto a circle die cut from lemon card, then a fancy circle die cut from pale blue card and fix to the card blank using foam pads (this will hide the hole made in step 1).
7. Die cut two butterflies from lemon card and fix to the right edge of the fancy circle.
8. Decorate with a ribbon bow, a pearl flower and pearls to the butterfly bodies and corner of the cards.

I hope you like my project and are inspired to try something similar. My blog is www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com if you would like to see some more projects.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Dinkies 3 Owls–Shaped Card Project

Morning All!

 

It’s Lisa here with a new project and today I’m showcasing one of the recently released Dinkies Stamps. I’ve used Dinkies 3 Owls:

 

 

Shaped cards make a nice change from simple squares and rectangles. So I have used a fancy shaped die to create my card blank.

 

 

Supplies:

• Dinkies 3 Owls Stamp
• Sentiment from Wavy Elephants Stamp Set
• Memento ‘Tuxedo Black’ and ‘Desert Sand’ Inkpads
• White Stamping Card, Kraft Card and Ivory Card
• Alcohol Pens
• Patterned Paper
• Die Cutting Machine
• 3 Shaped Nesting Dies
• Flower and Leaf Punches, Fancy Oval Die, Pearls and Gems

Step by Step:

To create the shaped card blank:

1. Take an A4 piece of ivory card and score/fold in half, you should now have an A6 card blank.
2. Place the largest of the three shaped dies onto the card, making sure the edge of the die is over the fold.
3. Run through your die cutting machine (Depending on your machine you may need to run it through a couple of times as you are cutting a double thickness of card.

To create the card:

1. Using the smallest of the three dies, die cut a piece of patterned paper. Mat onto a piece of kraft card die cut with the middle sized die and fix to the card blank.
2. Using black ink stamp the sentiment (from the Wavy Elephants Stamp Set) onto the bottom of the patterned paper.
3. Using pale brown ink stamp your Dinkies 3 Owls image onto white stamping card, die cut into an oval and colour in with alcohol markers. Mat onto a fancy oval die cut from ivory card and fix to the card base with foam pads.
4. Punch leaves and flowers from some scraps of cards and add to the edge of the fancy oval.
5. Decorate with gems and pearls.

 

A quick close up of the fabulous stamp:

I hope you like my project and are inspired to try something similar. My blog is www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com if you would like to see some more projects.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Monthly Challenge Inspiration–Lisa

Morning All! It’s Lisa here with a quick reminder of our current monthly challenge and a closer look at my challenge project.

The theme of our current challenge is ‘Spring Colours’ and you can find all the details on the challenge post, here on the blog. We would love to see your cards entered in the challenge and there's a fabulous prize on offer for the winner!

For my challenge project I’ve used Dinkies Welly Girl stamp:

 

And also Pretty Pastel Dots and Delicate Daisies paper packs.

 

Here is my card:

 

 

 

Supplies:

• Dinkies Welly Girl  Stamp
• Sentiment Stamp
• 10.5cm by 15cm Tent Fold Kraft Card Blank
• White Stamping Card, Green Card and Kraft Card
• Pretty Pastel Dots and Delicate Daisies Papers.
• Alcohol Pens
• Memento Tuxedo Black Inkpad
• Black Fine Line Pen

Step by Step:

1. Cut a 9cm by 13.5cm piece of Dotty Paper and mat onto Kraft, then green card. Fix to the card blank.
2. Cut a 6cm by 10 cm piece of daisy paper and stamp the sentiment onto the bottom. Mat onto Kraft card, then green card and fix to the card blank using foam pads.
3. Doodle a border on both patterned panels.
4. Stamp the little girl onto a 6cm square piece of white stamping card and colour with alcohol pens.
5. Doodle a border and fix to the daisy panel.

I hope you like my project and are inspired to try something similar. My blog is www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com if you would like to see some more projects.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Monthly Challenge Inspiration–Lisa

Morning All! It’s Lisa here with a quick reminder of our current monthly challenge and a closer look at my challenge project.

The theme of our current challenge is ‘Anything Goes’ and you can find all the details on the challenge post, here on the blog. We would love to see your cards entered in the challenge and there's a fabulous prize on offer for the winner!

For my challenge project I’ve used Dinkies Flowerhead stamp:

 

And also Pretty Pastel Dots and Pretty Pastel Gingham Papers.

 

Here is my card:

 

 

 

Supplies:

• Dinkies Flowerhead Stamp
• Sentiment Stamp
• 6” Square Card Blank
• White Stamping Card, Aqua Card and Cream Card
• Pretty Pastel Dots and Pretty Pastel Gingham Papers.
• Alcohol Pens
• Memento Tuxedo Black Inkpad
• Leaf Die or Punch
• Pearls
• Glitter Glue

Step by Step:

1. Cut a 13cm square piece of Dotty Paper and mat onto aqua, then cream card. Fix to the card blank.
2. Cut a 9cm square piece of Gingham Paper and stamp the sentiment onto the top right. Mat onto aqua card and fix to the card blank using foam pads.
3. Stamp the flower three times onto white stamping card and colour using alcohol markers.
4. Cut out the flowers and fix them to the bottom left corner of the gingham square using a wet glue.
5. Whilst the glue of the flowers is still wet die cut some leaves (mine was from a larger die so I trimmed into three smaller pieces) and fix under the flowers.
6. Decorate with pearls or gems and add glitter glue to the flower centres.

I hope you like my project and are inspired to try something similar. My blog is www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com if you would like to see some more projects.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Monthly Challenge Inspiration–Lisa

Morning All!
It’s Lisa here with a quick reminder of our current monthly challenge and a closer look at my challenge project.
The theme of our current challenge is 'Love and Marriage' and you can find all the details on the challenge post, here on the blog. We would love to see your cards entered in the challenge and there's a £10 voucher to spend on the website on offer for the winner - a really great prize!

 

For my challenge project I’ve used Wavy Wedding:

 

 

And here is my card:

 

 

A die cut aperture is a good way to focus on the image and if you know the happy couples colour scheme you can match the colours!

 

Supplies:

• Wavy Wedding Stamp Set
• White Stamping Card, Red Card and Silver Card
• Alcohol Pens
• Memento Tuxedo Black Inkpad
• VersaMark Ink Pad and Silver Embossing Powder
• Paper Flowers, Oval Die and Fancy Corner Die

Step by Step:

1. Cut an 11.5cm square piece of white stamping card. Stamp your Wavy Wedding image onto the centre using an embossing inkpad and heat emboss with silver embossing powder.
2. Colour the image with alcohol markers and fix to the card blank
3. Cut an 11.5cm square piece of red card and mat onto silver card. Die Cut an Oval from the centre of the panel to create the aperture.
4. Stamp the ‘Wedding Celebrations’ sentiment onto the top left of the red panel and fix to the card base with foam pads.
5. Die cut two fancy corners from silver card and fix to the bottom left and top right of the red panel.
6. Add some paper flowers to the bottom right corner.

I hope you like my project and are inspired to try something similar. My blog is www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com if you would like to see some more projects.
Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Wavy Baby–New Baby Card Project

Morning All!

 

It’s Lisa here with a new project and today I’m showcasing one of the recently released Wavy Stamp Set. I’ve used Wavy Baby:

 

 

One of my favourite occasions to make cards for is the pitter patter of tiny feet! And the new Wavy Baby stamp set is the perfect partner to the Bunting Stamp Set to make cards personalised with either the baby’s date of birth, name or both!

 

 

Supplies:

• Wavy Baby Stamp Set
• Bunting Stamp Set
• White Stamping Card, Pink Card and Cream Card
• Alcohol Pens
• Patterned Paper
• Paper Flowers, Fancy Oval Die, Pearls and Twine

Step by Step:

1. Cut a 13.5cm by 9cm piece of patterned paper. Mat onto cream and then pink card and fix to the card blank.
2. Stamp the small dangling hearts (from the Bunting Stamp Set) onto the top corners of the patterned paper and colour with alcohol markers.
3. Stamp your Wavy Baby image onto white stamping card, die cut into an oval and colour in with alcohol markers. Stamp the ‘A New Baby’ sentiment onto the top right of the oval. Mat onto a fancy oval die cut from cream card and fix to the card base with foam pads.
4. Stamp the baby’s date of birth using the Bunting Stamp Set and cut out. Glue onto a piece of twine and leave to dry. Fix to the top left of the card, adding some pearls to the space between the day and month.d
5. Stamp the ‘Welcome Little One’ sentiment onto a piece of pink card. Mat onto cream card and curl the ends. Fix onto the bottom left of the card blank.
6. Add some paper flowers to the bottom right corner.

This very pink card could easily turn into a baby boy blue version by swapping out the flowers for buttons/die cut stars.

A quick close up of the fabulous stamp:

I hope you like my project and are inspired to try something similar. My blog is www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com if you would like to see some more projects.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Lisa’s Favourite 5 Projects

Morning All!

It’s Lisa here with my round-up of the year. I have loved seeing the projects everyone else has been choosing as their favourites. I could have easily picked all my projects…I love them all, but after much dithering and changing my mind here are my ‘Top 5’:

Number 1: Office Shed

Male cards are always a bit tricky, but I love how this one came together.

Number 2: Butterfly Girl


Sometimes you just need an elegant girlie-girl card and this fit the bill.

Number 3: Calvin Cat


I found myself in a bit of habit of just making cards, so I made myself get back to other projects this year, this notebook being one of my favourites (out of all my makes not just LC Designs!).

Number 4: Birdhouse and Flowers


Another non-card project. I knew I wanted to make a calendar with this image but I did have any calendar tabs, so I had to create them on the computer and print them out!

Number 5: Christmas Scottie with Snowman


Anyone who knows me knows I am like a big kid at Christmas….I love it so much. Therefore this roundup wouldn’t be complete with out a Christmas Card. I’ve made most of my Christmas cards this year using LC Designs Digi Stamps but this is my favourite because I love how my colouring turned out (especially on the wee little doggie!).

So that’s my favourites and I hope these and my other projects have inspired you over the past year! If you would like to see more of my projects please grab a cuppa and stop by my blog www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com .

All that’s left to say is Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year!!

Lisa

Christmas Scottie - Digi Stamp Project

Morning All!

It’s Lisa here with a new ‘Digi Stamp Project' and today I’m showcasing the Christmas Scottie with Snowman digi stamp:

When you are making Christmas cards in can be nice to pick a layout and create many cards using it. This is good because you can create cards quickly but without them looking completely identical.

I made this Christmas card and loved the layout:

I created this card based on it:

Supplies:

• Christmas Scottie with Snowman Digi Stamp
• White Stamping Card, Green Card and Kraft Card
• Alcohol Pens
• Patterned Paper
• Gold Doily, Peel-Off Border, Glitter Dots and a Fine line Pen

Step by Step:

1. Cut a sheet of A4 Kraft card in half lengthwise, score and fold to create a C6 Card Blank (with the fold on the short edge).
2. Cut the doily in half and stick to the right side of the card blank. Trim the top and bottom, so it is flush with the card blank.
3. Cut a 10.5cm square of patterned paper and stick to the left side of the card blank.
4. Cover the join between the patterned paper and the doily with a strip of green card and a peel off border.
5. Print out your digi stamp, colour in, trim to leave a small border and stick to the centre of the card blank.
6. Add some doodling and some glitter dots.

I hope you like my project and are inspired to try something similar. My blog is www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com if you would like to see some more projects.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Simple Christmas Card–Digi Stamp Project

Morning All! It’s Lisa here with a new ‘Digi Stamp Project' and today I’m showcasing the Folk Snowman 3 digi stamp:

I’m still in the middle of making my Christmas Cards and just because I’m mailing my cards and trying to keep them as flat as possible I still like to put a little time and effort into them.

You can’t get much flatter than this card as I have printed the image straight onto the card blank and then coloured it in:

Supplies:

• Folk Snowman 3 Digi Stamp

• Repositionable Tape Roller

• Plain White Paper

• Coloured Pencils

• Mini Kraft Scallop Card

Step by Step:

1. Open up a blank document in Microsoft Word.
2. Click on ‘Insert’ from the top menu and then click on ‘Pictures’
3. Click on the older where you store your digital images and select the image you want to use
4. Change the image to 8cm wide by clicking on the bottom corner of the image and dragging in or out to make bigger or smaller
5. Centre the image at the top of the page by clicking on the image, then format on the top menu, then position and then ‘top and centre’
6. Turn the image upside down by clicking on the image, then format on the top menu, then rotate and then ‘Flip Vertical’
7. Print the image onto plain white paper.
8. Using repositionable tape, stick the card blank into place over the image, place the paper back into the printer and reprint the image.
9. Fold the card blank in half and colour the image with coloured pencils for a brighter look or if you want a softer look use alcohol pens.
10. The finished card

I hope you like my project and are inspired to try something similar. My blog is www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com if you would like to see some more projects.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Folk Snowman–Digi Stamp Project

Morning All! It’s Lisa here with a new ‘Digi Stamp Project' and today I’m showcasing the Folk Snowman 4 digi stamp:

I have hit that time of year where I seriously start to work on my Christmas Cards. I like to make several small batches of a range of simple designs as I find these perfect for mailing to distant friends and relatives.

Before I show you my project I thought it would be a perfect time to run through how to resize a digi image and fill a whole page ready for a mini production line on the making!

How to print and resize a digi stamp (Please click on the screen shots to make them larger):

1. Open up a blank document in Microsoft Word.
2. Click on ‘Insert’ from the top menu and then click on ‘Pictures’
3. Click on the Folder where you store your digital images and select the image you want to use
4. To change the size of the image either click on the bottom right corner and drag out to make larger or in to make smaller. Or if you know the exact size you require and depending on which version of word you have you may be able to resize the image by entering the size into the toolbar on the top right
5. Click on the image with the right mouse button and select ‘Copy’ and then click again with the right button and select ‘Paste’ you can keep doing this until your page is full of images.
6. If you plan to die cut the images after printing remember to space them apart on your page.

Now here is the first card from the batch of Christmas Cards I am making with this image:

For the step by step I will give the instructions for making one card but when I’m making a batch of cards I do all the cutting and die cutting in one go, all the colouring in one go, all the stamping in one go…..you get the idea!!

Supplies:

• Folk Snowman 4 Digi Stamp

• Alcohol Markers

• Kraft Card, White Stamping Card and Gold Glitter Card

• Scraps of Christmas Patterned Paper

• Small Fancy Square Die

• Heart Punch and Square Punch

• Sentiment Stamp and Brown Ink

Step by Step:

1. Cut a 9cm square piece of Christmas patterned paper and mat onto Kraft card. Fix to a 10cm square card blank.

2. Cut a small strip of Kraft card and stamp the sentiment in the centre. Trim the ends into a fishtail using the corner of a square punch. Shape slightly using your thumbs or the barrel of a marker pen and fix to the card blank.

3. Print the image (as explained above) onto white stamping card and cut out. Don't bother cutting around the heart as this will be covered up.

4. Colour the image with alcohol markers mat onto a fancy square die cut from Kraft card. Fix to the top centre of the card blank.

5. Punch a small heart from glitter card and fix over the hear on the image.

I hope you like my project and are inspired to try something similar. My blog is www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com if you would like to see some more projects.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Calvin Cat–Digi Stamp Project

Morning All! It’s Lisa here with a new ‘Digi Stamp Project' and today I’m showcasing the Calvin Cat digi stamp:



Sometimes you need a quick little gift in a hurry, whether is be for a Birthday you almost forgot (oops) or for a little thank you present. So my project is a very easy little notebook:



I’ve used a piece of card as the front and back cover, a bulldog clip to hold it together and some pretty paper. The paper inside mine is scrap paper that I’m recycling but you could you nice plain paper if you were giving it as a gift.

Here is a close up of the image:



And another angle:



 

Supplies:

• Calvin Cat Digi Stamp

• Alcohol Markers

• Bulldog Clip

• White Stamping Card

• Kraft, Orange and Teal Coloured Card

• White A4 paper or scrap paper

• Striped Patterned Paper

• Plain and Scalloped Square Dies

• Pearls

• Word or Alpha Stickers

Step by Step:

1. Cut two 11cm by 15.5cm pieces of Kraft card. Score one across the short edge at 2.5cm (this is the depth of my bulldog clip so you may need to change this measurement)

2. Cut a 9.5cm by11.5cm piece of patterned paper, mat onto teal and orange card and fix to the Kraft card under the score line.

3. Cut a 9.5cm by 0.5cm strip of patterned paper, mat onto teal and orange card and fix to the Kraft card above the score line.

4. Print the image onto white stamping card. Die cute into a square and colour images with alcohol markers.

5. Mat the image onto a scalloped square die cut from teal card and fix to the front of the note book with 3D foam pads.

6. Decorate the front with some word stickers, pearls and some doodling with a fine line pen.

7. Cut several sheets of A4 white paper into quarters (A6 size/10.5cm by 14.8cm) and place inside the front and back covers. Hold it all together with the bull dog clip.

Hope you like my project and are inspired to try something similar. My blog is www.craftingbelle.blogspot.com if you would like to see some more projects.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa