Bank Holiday card making.

With the extra day off work for the Easter bank holiday I decided to have a crafting day and make some cards, I then managed to keep up the momentum and make more cards through the following week, totalling 14 cards and six more friendship teas to sell in the shop.
So here are the cards I made, many of them are made using new items from my last stampin up splurge.

First up a couple of small note cards, on both of these I have stuck a coloured square just a fraction smaller than the card and have stamped on to it in a darker shade. I like the effect this gives just being one colour. I've then added some depth by accenting it with cream bits stuck on with foam pads. Stamp sets used here include loving thoughts, apothecary art, collage curios and aviary. I normally have stampin up stamps in wood mount but read on another blog that aviary was best purchased in clear which I did and I agree its much easier to see where a cage is to place the birds in or on it.

Next a simple but elegant anniversary card the strip of print poetry paper matching up lovely with the flowers on top of the cake. Stamps used including loving thoughts, and love and laughter.

This card uses papillon potpourri and coordinating butterfly punch which is such a lovely shape, I will admit to not getting the two side butterflies level but fixed this problem by stamping more butterflies to create a more random looking pattern, the light ones are created by stamping the image once on scrap paper then continuing to stamp with out re-inking. the word again is from loving thoughts many stamps from this set fit well in to the modern label punch.

For this card I used a stamp from the apothecary art set I cut the shape out by hand but hope to invest in the matching framelit dies at some point. This stamp set pairs up lovely with the loving thoughts set and in this card compliments the strip of print poetry paper really well.

Another card using the apothecary art set this single layer card has had the image stamped in coloured ink then the sentiment embossed in gold, gold corners were also added. this simple card could be interpreted in many colours.

Next a thank you card using the tea shoppe set. Tea cups are very on trend at the moment and have a nice vintage feel. The cup of thanks sentiment is a quirky way of saying thank you.

Another simple card using the collage curios set I love this set as it fits in the 1 inch circle punch a dream and can be mixed and matched with the different pictures and circles. I like this card thou feel it may have worked better being slightly smaller to start with.

This card really show off the versatility of the collage curios set and the lovely print poetry paper, I like the effect of the curly label punch with the circles and feel I've got the balance of patterned paper and stamped images right. Other stamps used include pretty petites and elementary elegance.

 Another version of this style of card with a different colour scheme this one also has an added soda pop top which has been run through a big shot to flatten it. I think this makes a lovely little accent.

The next three are made using the feeling sentimental set, these stamps have a lovely vintage sketchy feel and I think make nice cards for men, the shapes have been cut using some sizzix framelits which I've found is a quick and easy way of creating impact and makes a nice chance from just straight edges and squares.

The last card also uses the feeling sentimental set. Just part of each image is used, I wouldn't have thought of doing this till I saw another card like this I like how it looks though. I added coloured pearl embellishments to each end of the sentiment and I think this helps with the vintage feel of the card.




So there you go cards I have been making recently I hope you like them and have inspired your own crafty doing. I do believe that sometimes you can just get in the grove for crafting and at these times you should do as much as you can, I think mine was helped by the slightly better weather and retro choices of music while I worked, not listened to status quo and genesis for ages.