The Gift of Coffee

Here's a fun way to give a Giftcard to those coffee fanatics out there!!

This new die set from Waffleflower is brilliant and its great for mixing and matching

 with any coffee themed stamps and dies for a multitude of styles

I went girly and used this lovely lady in her autumnal outfit from a MFT set.... not tried paper piecing for a while but its a great technique for adding interest to your images..

I decorated the background with a subtle tone on tone 

floral pattern and added a sentiment

The tick box stamp in the coordinating set is a great extra detail to add 

to the back. I used the same floral pattern for the inside piece and masked an 

area to add a personal message...

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Coffee Cup Die and sentiments - Waffleflower

Friends at First Sip, Bundles of Blossoms - MFT

Uplifting Wishes - Newtons Nook

Swinging by...

Would you look at this pair of characters!!

Quite the double act and I'm not sure where they've

 pinched that sign from either!!

I couldn't resist inking these monkeys up and cutting them out with 

scissors so I could link them up.... they remind me of that tumbling monkey game!!

The vine is just one stamp in the set and is quite curved but with three small pieces 

of acrylic removed you can alter the curve and even straighten the vine!

It does mean having to cut the vines with scissors but it's 

well worth the extra time.

The sentiment has been turned into a wooden sign using Copics 

and some freehand cutting.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Thanks a Bunch Monkeys - Hero Arts

Happy Birds

Our garden has become a playground for young birds at the moment, being in the countryside, we have quite a variety from sparrows to the great spotted woodpeckers... we even had a family of fledgling swallows precariously balanced on some metal framework the other day!

The most colourful are the blue tits but I don't own any stamps of British birds

so I thought I'd adapt these Wplus9 birdies in a very stylised way....

I used a pale tone on tone ink on the Kraft coloured card and my 

Prismacolour pencils to colour them.

The little fella on the end chirping away just had to be sending Birthday greetings...

perhaps he'd rather Tweet it!!  😄

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Happy Birds - Wplus9

Critter Chatter - Lawn Fawn

A Swell Background

Sometimes you just have to take your scissors to a stamp set and do some

 snipping to make it more versatile!! Come and see what I've done...

I've used the fairly new background stamp called Swell from Avery Elle

and I just had to perform a little stamp surgery to remove the boats from the background.

They can easily fit back in but by doing this it means I can use different colours 

for the boats as I've have for this card.

I've used a circle to cut the centre portion and inset the circular piece to add the 

sentiment to... I felt the Mama Elephant bunting went well with the nautical theme.

With the option of removing the boats means you can add other images instead, like this 

seagull from a smaller beach hut set from Avery Elle...

I've made another inset aperture to accommodate this gaggle 

of gulls, one of which is the birthday 'Gull' !!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Swell, Peek-a-Boo Summer Pals, Beside the Sea - Avery Elle

Swinging Borders, Lots of Letters - Mama Elephant

Seaside Gulls - MFT