Bright Lights

Ahh, bright lights.... quite ironic that the day I photographed this card was 

anything but bright!! I could have done with some good lighting.

I love coloured fairy lights and this set makes it super simple to add them twirling and 

sprawling across your card front. The gap I left was just the right shape and size for this 'bright'

die cut and all that was left was to add some glossy dimension to each bulb :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Party lights stamp and die set - MFT

Rainbow Wishes die - Concord & 9th

Mini Merry Messages - Mama Elephant

Birthday Shout Out!

A break from Christmas cards today to share this card I made for a family birthday,

this Town Cryer is great for a guys card and fun to colour too..

I paired him up with the buildings from a Mama Elephant set and left them uncoloured 

so he would take centre stage... with a booming voice I think he already has centre stage!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Oyez Oyez - Waffleflower

City Sidewalks - Mama Elephant

Stitch Arch Stax dienamics - MFT

Penguins Waddle

Well aren't these a happy bunch? 

These penguins are great to colour and quick too 😉

Just for something different I thought I'd decorate the inside of the card using 

a spot background and then curve the penguins so the front piece could 

slip into a notch I'd cut on the back panel...

I love to mix new stamps with older sets and this sentiment caught my eye from 

a previous Mama Elephant stamp set. This is how the card looks flat for mailing..

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash used:

The Penguins Waddle, Jolly and Merry - Mama Elephant

Dotted Fill in stamp - Concord & 9th

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

Sound the Alarm!!

I was inspired to try a different card design using the Peek-a-Boo 

pals car stamp...... it just needed a pop up scene to sit in...

I basically searched on You Tube for a guide to making these floating floor cards and found 

them quite simple to do once you've worked out where you want to place the images.

My party-goer is a dinosaur from a coordinating set also from Avery Elle . 

I gave him a city backdrop and an inked road to travel along...

Using acetate for the flashing light lines and balloon strings gives 

an invisible way to add them.

I chose to make my floating scene a bit short of the base and then added a simple 

sentiment with room to add a handwritten one too.

The outside of the card needed a wrap/belly band to help keep it closed so

I used a fun font to add the siren noise to a speech bubble for a simple decoration

to the band... I like the fun, striking colour combo too :)

You can find a few extra details for this card on the Seven Hills Crafts Blog HERE if needed

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Peek-a-boo Pals Car, Peek-a-boo Scary Pals - Avery Elle

City Stacks - Concord & 9th

Speech Bubble dies - Waffleflower

Colour Me Letters - Mama Elephant

For the Knitters

Here's a card I made for a friend who loves to knit, I love the cute balls of yarn in 

the Sugar pea designs set and I paired them up with a loopy sentiment to make

 it look like the sentiment is wool  

I find repeating border stamps quite tricky to line up so I devised a method 

for this knitting pattern. By stamping the image across my misti 

grid paper I can use the dark image either side to align the card base 

correctly each time I move it up the Misti 

I used the Letter Message Board die from Sugar Pea Designs to make a fridge 

magnetfor my friend too...... I think that fact is true for any craft! 😂

The Letter board is such a fun die 😃

More details can be found on my DT blog post at Seven Hills Crafts HERE if needed

Thanks for stopping by

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Letter Message Board die, Knit Wit - Sugar Pea Designs

Scripty Birthday - Mama Elephant

Word Up - Reverse Confetti

Knit Patterns - Wplus9

Caution..... Big Birthday!

Now this the the style of card that I love to make and send

 to people... it will make the recipient smile for sure 😊

That happy Policeman just gave me the idea for this design and I couldn't wait to make 

my own hazard tape to wrap across the Big Birthday...

I kept the scene simple and just added a traffic cone, I freehand cut myself, and 

a cloud line in white for subtle detail on the top half of the card.

You can find more details and links to products on my DT blog 

post over at Seven Hills Crafts HERE

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Oyez stamp set - Waffleflower

Big Birthday Dienamics - MFT

Lots of Letters - Mama Elephant

Cloudy Day Coverplate - Mama Elephant

Photo Booth Gang

Here's a happy gang.... looks like they had some fun in the photo booth!!

I knew as soon as I got hold of the photo booth strip die that these 

Mama Elephant images would look great in the square spaces....

 just a good job they were the correct size 😉 

I used sentiments from the same set and embossed one along the bottom of the strip.

The background was fun to make by sponging ink through various sizes

 of circles and then adding sparkles in the same colour.

I can honestly say I've never had a good photo from a booth.... clearly you need

 to be mucking about and having a laugh for the best results 😄

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Photo Booth Strip Die, Basic Shapes Circles Stencil - MFT

Photo Bomb Stamps - Mama Elephant

Diamond Sparkle Stencil - Simple Stories

Baby Box

I've finally got round to using the Mini Pop Up Box die from Lawn Fawn, it makes 

such a cute card and what better occasion to use it for than the arrival of a cute baby...

I used MFT's baby clothes die to cut a trio of garments and the celebration balloons 

from Mama Elephant to add a bit of height to the arrangement.... 

here's a photo of the opened card..

I made a couple of nappies using the bottom and sleeves of the onsie in the die set, 

I have more details and photos on the Seven Hills Crafts blog here to show you.

I kept the front of the card simple, using a sentiment from MFT and a twine wrap to help keep the card closed. The cute star charm is from the pop up box die.... the perfect finishing touch.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Mini Pop Up Box Die - Lawn Fawn

Bundle of Baby Clothes, Welcome Baby, Woodplank Background Stamp - MFT

Celebration Balloons & dies - Mama Elephant

Shining Super Heroes

Here are a couple of Super Heroes.... I think there were a few of those last week

 helping stranded motorists caught in the snow!! Luckily we had

 hardly any snow here so life carried on as normal... phew 😌

Do you like the shining sparkle background? 

Its the new sunshine turnabout from Concord & 9th... I think it looks great

 embossed in white on the blue and the flying stars add the extra zing. 

It's a great set with lots of sentiments to mix and match with other stamps and 

the chunky banner has room for good sized words too.

This card featured on the Seven Hills Crafts blog here

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Tiny Heroes and dies - Mama Elephant

Hello Sunshine Turnabout and dies - Concord & 9th

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

A Floral Trug

Here's a card I made for a dear friend and it was great fun breaking out both Fresh Cut floral Stamp sets from Wplus9 again. I remember when they first came on the scene... they were the first multi step stamps I had in my stash and now its fun to try them with new inks :)

My friend started her own flower farm this year and has had a busy first summer not to mention a battle with the hot dry weather, she has done so well. Her card had to be floral and I wanted to use this trug die from Joanna Sheen... what a colourful arrangement :)

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x  

Stash Used:

Fresh Cut Florals, More Fresh Cuts - Wplus9

Trug Die - Joanna Sheen (discontinued)

Scripty B'day - Mama Elephant

Leave your Mark

This is another one of those cards where I suddenly had an idea that caused me to smile ;)

These little snails needed inking up and whilst looking for suitable stamps for a snail trail I found this brushstrokes set from Mama Elephant which also contained a dotted stamp too...

How did that snail make his trail??

I had to alter the other snails smiley face to a look of surprise, easily done with a gel pen and

 added a question mark above him to reinforce his puzzled thoughts!!

On a side note, it turns out we do have an Olympic snail living in our garden judging 

by the trail marks we found one morning!!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash used:

Snailed it - Lil Inkers's

Brushstrokes - Mama Elephant

Monkeying Around

Let the monkey business begin.... what a fun phrase for a greetings card and I knew just the troop of monkeys that would fit the sentiment :)

These little guys are just so cute and are up to all sorts of antics, I decided to stamp them on Kraft card and colour with Polychromes and I did the same with the vine leaves from the swinging borders stamp set too. I cut the leaves out and used green hemp twine as vines to attach the leaves too..

They certainly look like they're having fun :)

You can find my DT blog post for this card over at Seven Hills Crafts here

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stash Used:

Little Monkey Agenda stamps and dies - Mama Elephant

Swinging Borders - Mama Elephant

Monkey Business - Reverse Confetti

More Coffee

More coffee anyone???... yes please :)

I saw this poster on Pinterest and it made me think of the MFT Coffee Date set and how well the solid colour blocks would work with the simple line drawn images. It gives a modern yet retro look....

I needed a card for a coffee loving guy and this seemed a good design. I played around with the images on the card panel until I was happy and then stamped them all at once with my Misti using Memento ink

The colour blocks are distress inks sponged between four strips of masking tape and then I went back to the Misti and re-stamped the images in Versafine Onyx black for a more defined image.

Love the new sentiment labels from Mama Elephant.... lots of options and a very useful size too :)

Thanks for stopping by :)
Jenny x

Stash used:
Coffee Date - MFT
Occasional Labels - Mama Elephant