Say it with Flowers

Well I'm gradually catching up now with all my cards to show you 

and this collection are all about the florals...

This gorgeous frame is a Hero Arts/Pinkfresh collaboration and I couldn't wait to try

 it embossed on dark card so I could use Prisma colour pencils to add some colour... 

When I had finished this next card I had flower pot envy!! Love this die set from MFT,

 all the pieces are well thought out and make such cute gardening tools, bench and flowers..

Flowers on the go!! Flora & Fauna have such whimsy images and this little van is 

just one of them. For a background I thought I'd try some subtle pattern making with 

a few smaller images... love the effect 😊

Saving my favourite til last and these silhouette stems from MFT are such a dream to stamp in 

layered colours thanks to my MISTI ... I was especially pleased with the daisies!

The vase is actually a take out coffee cup die that's been given a contemporary look.

Well that's all for this post, not sure what the next collection will be,

think we are heading towards a miscellaneous assortment!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

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

Hap-pea Birthday

Today I have happy peas to share with you... in fact they're jumping for joy!!

I love this new set from Lawn Fawn, lots of face options and if you don't want to 

colour the peas you can use a solid stamp in the set, which I did here, and used 

two shades of green ink...

I used a large Lawn Fawn alpha for the letters

Wasn't sure what to do in the background so I went with a green wall in the end..

hey what can I say, they're urban peas 😂

More details can be found on my DT blog post over at Seven Hills crafts HERE

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Be-Hapea stamps and dies - Lawn Fawn

Finley's Alpha Dies - Lawn Fawn

English Brick Wall Stencil - MFT

Cheeky Birthday - Hero Arts

In the Mountains

We had a fabulous holiday in Switzerland this summer enjoying the mountain scenery and cable cars, so when I saw this stamp set from Hero Arts I had to have it :)

To make a mountain landscape I have used Mama elephants arch dies to help it pop up!!

The two little cable cars dangle on silver thread and no, that's not me skiing! I prefer to admire the scenery with two feet firmly on the ground plus, it was a lot more green when we were there 😉

This is how I positioned the scenery and pop up elements

To keep the card closed I made a wrap that slides over the card base and added a 

simple stamped scene to lead the recipient to the surprise inside

More details can be found on my DT blog post over on the Seven Hills Crafts blog here

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Inside Arch Dies - Mama Elephant

Ski Holiday - Hero Arts

Bespoke Sneakers

August was a busy month for birthdays!! 

This was a fun one to make as I just knew the young recipient would 

love a pair of sneakers like these :)

I used a Hero Arts background stamp with black ink to make the scripty material for the boots.

I cut the shoes and all the trimmings and then, when they were all assembled, I laced them up with a rainbow cord... Love it :)

I actually think I'd quite like a pair of these too.... and how funky does that 

radiating dots background look heat embossed in white!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash used:

High Top dienamics - MFT (discontinued)

Highline Chalkboard background - Hero Arts (discontinued)

Radiating Halftone Background - MFT

Sketchy Numbers - Waffleflower

Finleys 123's - Lawn fawn

Savannah Sunset

When I look at this card I want to burst into song "Can you feel the luuuurve tonight?....."

you know from The Lion King :) I can certainly feel the warmth from this card and it's glowing sunset.... oh hang on.. that might be the heatwave outside!!! 😳

Silhouette scenes are fun to make... a go-to colour palette and high contrast which just packs a punch. I decided to put Mr Rhino in the foreground on the sentiment strip so he would stand out a bit from the shadows :)

For more detail you can visit my DT blog post over at Seven Hills Crafts here

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Wild about you - Hero Arts

Simply Sentiments - Lawn Fawn

Alphabet Soup and Coffee

How fun is the Alphabet Soup stamp set from Hero Arts??!! It made me think of Heinz Alphabetti as soon as I saw it and this is the result 😊

Okay, so someone has been playing with their food... I know my brother and I used to spell out words with the spaghetti letters in a bowl! I stamped them in a peach coloured ink so they wouldn't have a dark outline and used Polychrome pencils to colour everything.... I'm fairly happy with it but more practice needed 😉

I'm quite impressed how versatile this set is though and the alphabet alone is really good as my second card shows...

It's so easy to line up the letters and such a fun playful font too. I turned the cup of soup into a coffee and coloured the fancy barrista artwork with markers.... again, more practice needed I think!!

More details can be found on the Seven Hills Crafts blog here.
Thanks for stopping by :)
Jenny x

Stash Used:
Alphabet Soup - Hero Arts
Label Love - Altenew

Hippo Birthday

I love the variety of animal images in the new Safari sets from Hero Arts... perfect for family members who have travelled and worked in Africa quite a bit and even better for a guys card...

I played around with the solid images to make a pattern with an equal border around them and picked all the images up on my MISTI door which makes stamping them easier. I re-stamped the sentiment in darker ink and then stamped the hippo on a separate piece of card in shades of pink and grey before adding extra details with a coloured pencil.

I'm quite pleased with how it turned out and happy to find another way to use the silhouette images from these sets :)

Thanks for stopping by :)
Jenny x


Stamps used:
Safari Huge Thanks, Safari Wild about You and Safari Huge Thanks dies - Hero Arts

Floral Patterns

Hellooo,
It's my turn on the Seven Hills Crafts blog today and I'm back to one of my favourite styles... stamping out patterns and this time it's florals ....

I love this whimsical set from Lil'inkers... basic layering and nice bold shapes which go so perfectly with yummy retro colour schemes :) I softly inked the edges of the panel to add that extra vintage feel and to disguise the difference in shades of white cardstock ;)
Nothing more needed than a small banner sentiment.

My next card is much smaller and holds a gift card. I've used the Hero Arts/Lia Griffith set called Just for You... I love this small set... more retro style flowers to play with :)

It was fun colouring this one, just a few Prisma pencils in bright colours :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Supplies Used:

Stamps: (Fresh Cut Flowers) Lil Inkers, (Just For You) Hero Arts/Lia Griffith

One Onion, three ways!!

Hello :)
Just popping by to share three cards I made for an article in last months Craft Stamper magazine... the theme was to use one stamp three different ways and I chose the onion stamp from Hero Arts Stamp your own Salad
                                                     

I love this stamp set with it's mix of solid and outline images and my first idea was to use the bulb and leaf parts of the onion separately to make a cluster of flowers....

I used the rock n' roll technique to ink up the onion bulbs and then cut the flowers out once I'd stamped all four petals :)

Next I tried some emboss resist for an all over pattern...

These were quite tricky to line up because I used Versamark ink but, by applying the embossing powder as I went helped me to see the pattern. I ironed off the EP after I'd sponged on the ink which gave me the dark blue shadow around each image.... I quite like the effect :)

Last card is some stamping and water-colouring with distress markers.... a study of three onions!!!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Fruit and Veg

I've been practising some watercolouring using a new Hero Arts stamp set called 'Stamp your own Salad', I love the sketchy bold design of the stamps in the set but decided to use distress inks to stamp the tomato and carrot and use a watercolour brush to colour them instead.

Hubby is a keen gardener and we have quite a productive allotment at the bottom of the garden too so any stamps like these are always going to catch my eye :0) 

Instead of having three tomatoes in a row I tried inking half the stamp and making a wedge of tomato instead. To make a paler colour I made a second generation impression and then googled a photo of a tomato wedge so I could copy the shape and colour right by adding extra distress ink with a paintbrush

For the carrots I had a slight accident where the colour bled so I decided to work with it and go for that look but it's quite tricky to make the colours bleed naturally.... I think I prefer the tomatoes more ;0)

I finished both cards with some Lawn Fawn backdrops patterns and a couple of sentiments from WPlus9.

A few more details can be found on my blog post over at Make the Day Special Stamp store where you can buy the stamps too..... in fact I have a set of three cards using this set in next months Craft Stamper magazine but I'll have to show you those at a later date :)

Stamps used: Stamp your own Salad - Hero Arts; Gingham and Argyle Backdrops - Lawn Fawn; Hand lettered Thanks & Fresh Picked - Wplus9

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x