Easter card and tags

 I made one Easter card and two tags for my little ones.... the card went to the boys in Australia and the tags are for the girls here in New Zealand, to go onto their Easter gifts. 

I used PET tapes from Journalsay for both the cards and the tags. They layer beautifully. However, I did add Peter Rabbit to some white card before fussy cutting it out.  

 I used a Catherine Pooler tag die to cut these two and used some of the pretty tapes for the background and the focal bunnies.   Both the card and tags sentiments are from a Verve stamp set. 

Easter Wishes

Had fun making this little card for my grandsons..... using some of the new Journalsay PET tapes I got a few weeks ago. 

 

I die cut a mini slimline panel and used a background tape and then layered the mushrooms, basket and eggs and then added Peter Rabbit... which I had put onto some white card.    I printed out the sentiment from a free digital sheet from Uniquely Creative and fussy cut it. 

I sent this off to the boys with a couple of little bunnies 

I had added little blue ribbon bows around the neck after I took the photos.  

Hoping they like these and their card.  

Flying Seagull card... a fun fold card.

 I'm sharing a card that I made and sent to my friend Suna.   As part of our little NZ swap group, I had sent her a card last month that took such a long time, I had decided to sent her another card... using this month's theme.  I had chosen the challenge - either a Flying Seagull fold or a Flying Finch fold... I made a Flying Finch fold card for Suze and today Suna told me that she got this card late last week. 

I used some of the PET stickers from Journalsay for this one.   I used a stamped and die sentiment from Couture Creations.  I used some papers from a Franceville paper pack to add the panels.   

On Saturday we had the pleasure of babysitting for Grace and Florence from 10.30 to 4.30... Such a busy day.  The girls spent time playing outside, following Peter around checking the garden and had an "adventure" in the jungle.   That being a corner of our section that goes uphill and is full of plants. 

Florence had her day sleep for nearly three hours which gave Grace and I time to play in the craft room.  She found my Journalsay PET tapes and stickers and decided to make some mini cards... seeing how many stickers she could put on them!   

Today I got some time to have a quick play -  I had some bits and bobs on my table and I put them together to make a quick card - will share later in the week, and made a start on my card for the Craft Roulette #232  - just need to add my panel to a card base and take a photo.   That's tomorrow after work job.  

Thanks for stopping by.  

Flying Finch Fun Fold

 This month it was my turn to chose the challenge/theme for our local swap group.   My choice was a Fun Fold Card - either the Flying Seagull fold or the Flying Finch Card with an option of using a bird on your front panel. 

I chose to do make a Flying Finch Fold card - 

I found some lovely pink papers that I used for the sides of my card.  My front panel used a mixture of PET tapes from Journalsay.  They layer beautifully.  And I used two gorgeous Humming birds to add my bird option.  I used a little sentiment from Couture Creations which I clear embossed over black ink. 

Here's a view looking down on the card to get the idea of the fold. 

I had fun doing this one.  I also did a Flying Seagull card that I sent to another friend,.. but she hasn't received it yet.  So I'll keep that for another day.  

Happy Birthday my friend..

 My friend, Pearl, had her birthday yesterday.   I made a lovely card for her which she loved.   

This was made with a variety of PET tapes and washi stickers from Journalsay.   I love that they are translucent so layer really well.  The sentiment is from a Gina K set called Birthday Sparkle - stamp and matching dies.   Inside is a sentiment from Altenew's Just a Number stamp set - "age is strictly a case of mind over matter,.. if you don't mind, it doesn't matter"  

Pearl was off work yesterday so gave her the card this morning.   I worked an hour then had to go to the dentist for the first part of a root canal procedure.   I felt really blah after so took the rest of the day off and came home.  My mouth and jaw were still a little tender so had a restful afternoon having a nap and reading my book.   Finish off the procedure in 3 weeks.  

Quick birthday card with PET Tapes and washi stickers.

 Today I'm sharing a quick card I made using some PET tapes and washi stickers from a book of stickers and tapes I got from Journalsay.   It is so easy to combine the two.  The tapes are translucent and the stickers are on a white background. 

I had fun sticking these in a combination that pleased me. I got a new die at the Craft show- from Creative Expressions... so cut from gold card.  I die cut the panel and added some pale green for a layer.  Took a pale green shimmer envelope and added a line of floral tape along the bottom.  

Loved how quick this was to put together.    

Birthday Fun Day

 Today is my birthday... and I took the day off work for a relaxing day.  Had a wee lie in - got up and hang out some washing on my inside frame, due to it being a wet and stormy day.  Then into the craft room for a bit of play time. 

Recently I started following a lovely Australian, Lucy Patrick on YouTube.  She makes the most gorgeous cards - and over the last month or so she has done some videos on using PET tape and washi stickers.   She got hers from Jouranlsay.  She had a discount code which I used and bought some. 

Today I decided to try them out.  I have started a Pinterest page inspired by Lucy's videos and cards and today used it as kick off point to make some cards. 

First one, I used the Voice of Spring stickers to make a birthday card 

I used one of the bigger stickers and added a smaller flower.   I die cut a white panel with Gina K Master Layouts 2 and used a background of smooshed ink cut with a Pinkfresh Studio Fold Edge Rectangle dies.  Before I laid the panel onto the background, I cut out the Honey Bee Stamps Bitty Buzzwords dies.  Cut to 2 from black and layered all three together.

Next card used one of the PET tapes.   I trimmed around one of the girls on the tape 

The girls are gorgeous, and I got 6 rolls (the other roll is a fence with lots of flowers)  As this was a roll that had some purple colours, I went with that.  I put the tape onto some white card and used the oval from Gina K Master Layouts 1 to cut it out.  I used a light purple to cut the scallop background.   Used some gel plate with watercolour powders I made a few weeks ago and used the light purple as it's layer.  Found a darker purple for my background and embossed it with Altenew Organic 3D folder.  Lots of lovely texture. Finished with a Creative Expressions Everyday Wordies sentiment. 

And for my final card using the PET tapes.  I went for the autumnal roll.  

I added the tape to white card cut it with the same oval as before but this time I used a Spellbinder Floral Ovals die cut from kraft card.  I pulled another of my gel plate backgrounds.  This one is yellows with gold and green splatters.  I used dies from the Master Layouts one to cut the panel and the background. I found a soft orange card to do a layer for both panels.  The background panel was stamped with Gina K Gauze stamp with Silver Lake ink from Altenew.  I stamped the sentiment in Obsidian ink from Altenew.  Love that it is such a lovely dark ink.   The sentiment is from an older Hero Arts set (circa 2008) called Thoughtful Messages.  I finished with some off-white enamel dots from Altenew. 

I had so much fun trying these tapes and stickers.   Really love how they turned out. 

Had a visit from my son on his way home and finished the day with some takeout Curry from the local Indian restaurant.  I ordered and hubby went and picked it up.  It's only 500 metres from where we live so truly local!