Autumn Feels

 Hello there,

I'm sharing a few autumnal cards today, my favourite to make as the colours mother nature showers us with are just gorgeous. I've discovered and become obsessed with colouring die cuts with Distress Oxide inks... the colours are intense and I love the chalky matt finish when they are dry. I've used this technique for the first two cards...

This card uses dies and alphabet stamps from Concord & 9th... and the die cuts below are by sizzix... isn't that toadstool cute :) 

It just so happens these next two cards are both water coloured and are stamps from Colorado Craft Company, I love their large images for practising my painting..

This oak leaf image is my favourite, it's been a great year for acorns, lots of seeds and nuts in fact. I've been collecting the acorn cups when out walking so I can needle felt some acorns to go in them... not sure what I'm going to do with them yet but I quite like the idea of a garland :)

I hope you've been enjoying the autumn colours too :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Big Jolly Holly

My love of all things Christmas greenery drew me straight to this gorgeous stamp set 

I love its huge size... great for getting the watercolours into action 😉

I'm quite pleased how it turned out but if I'm going to make a few of these I think the 

watercolour will have to be a more loose style!!

I messed up the sentiment... well actually it's more that I didn't think the gold embossing 

showed up well enough so I embossed it in white on black card instead.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Big & Bold Holly Berries - Colorado Craft Company

Birthday Beer

This is the first time this stamp set has seen ink... and oh boy was it fun to use!

Thanks to the MISTI stamping tool, inking these bottles was a dream, 

I love starting with a light shade and then adding deeper colour on certain areas

 of the stamp to create shape and shadow..

The other small touch that made me so happy is cutting the bottle tops in 

Mirri card... my Dad was quite impressed with them too 😊

I borrowed a sentiment from a different stamp set by the 

Colorado Craft Company because I just love that font. Now that's my

 idea of a clean and simple guys card 😉

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Bubble Over - Stampin Up

 His birthday - Colorado Craft Company

Blue Hydrangea

I love Hydrangeas so this gorgeous stamp from Colorado Craft Company's new 

Big & Bold range had to come and live with me 😉

It's a BIG stamp and I love that for easy colouring and that off the edge style of image.

I practised my loose water-colouring again having stamped in light purple and green Distress ink.

When I had finished and the image was dry, I put the piece back into my MISTI and re-stamped using a grey pigment ink to give a clearer crisp edge. A simple vellum wrap was all it needed for a sentiment... I have to say I love that sentiment too :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Big & Bold Get Well Hydrangea - Colorado Craft Company

Anything But Basic Encouragement - MFT

Father's Day Legs

 Father's Day is approaching and I had to colour up these Colorado Craft Company stamps..

I tried the loose watercolour style of laying different shades of blue for the golfers trousers.. this involves waiting for colours to dry which is something I struggle with!! I'm pleased with how it turned out though. The background plaid is made using a plaid builder set from Concord & 9th... why have I waited so long to get this set inked up??

This image is perfect for all those BBQ kings out there.... I've used Polychrome pencils to 

colour and then held my breath as I used distress inks to give a poloroid style colour 

cast around the edges of the image..... I think it worked quite well 😊

You get a mix of sentiments in each set and of course you can change it up with other 

sentiment sets you have which makes these images usable for any occasion.

Colorado Crafts stamps are available in the UK at Seven Hills Crafts and my 

DT blog post for these cards can be found HERE

 Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Tee-Rific, Chillin & Grillin - Colorado Craft Company

Happy Plaid - Concord & 9th

Be Him Sentiments - Waffleflower Crafts

Graduation Legs

Over at Seven Hills Crafts there's a new stamp company in town and they're brand new 

to the UK too!! The Colorado Craft Company have a line of stamps called Lovely Legs 

which, as the name suggests, focus the artwork on the legs of people at occasions or in

 situations for your cardmaking needs. It's a great concept and I hope the range 

increases to encompass hobbies too.... 

I quite literally hope they run with it... hahaha .. great pun 😂🙄

I've used the Graduation set as I like the non 'cutsey' style for this occasion and 

you have both male and female images in the set

I watercoloured this card and was even brave enough to add my own 

background, the flower border was inspired by the formal gardens in Bath 

where we took photos after our own daughters Graduation.

For this card I decided to go monochrome and try a sepia style with Polychrome pencils..

I love the layered rectangles for a classy elegant look!

They're a great range of stamps and definitely worth checking out 

especially now they're available in the UK at Seven Hills Crafts... 

click HERE to find them in store :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Graduation - Colorado Craft Company

Fine Frames Rectangle - Altenew