Farewell Henry

Morning All! Did you hear the really sad news that Whiff of Joy is closing it’s doors? Well today is my last time to post over on the Whiff of Joy Blog

To see my post and also some fabulous tributes from the Design Team to Whiff of Joy and Katharina please head over to the Whiff of Joy Blog.

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Henry on Cute Whale

Morning all. I’m sharing a card over on the Whiff of Joy Blog today using the very sweet Henry on Cute Whale. Here is the card I made:

Right I’d better a wriggle on. This time of year is always go go go with the garden starting to need attention and my veg patch to keep working on. And of course I need to squeeze in a little crafty time ;-)

Supplies:

• Image: Henry on Cute Whale from Whiff of Joy 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: My Minds Eye Pad (although I can’t remember which one!!)
• Card: Grey Card and Neenah Card
• Stamps: From a previous secret stamp kit
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Large Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Enamel Dots

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Henry with Skiff

Morning All. It’s Monday again and I’ll be off to do the school run in a while (roll on Friday and the Easter Holidays). Here is a quick make using the fabulous Henry with Skiff from Whiff of Joy:

The patterned paper reminded me of driftwood so I thought it fitted perfectly with the image.

Supplies:

• Image: Henry with Skiff from Whiff of Joy 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: My Minds Eyes
• Card: Silver card, white card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Stamps: Sentiments and anchor from a previous Secret Stamp Kit
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Decorative Labels 22
• Embellishments: Rope knots and black enamel dots

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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Lisa

Sweet Nora

Morning all. Early start for me today and for once I’m not going to be decorating! I’m taking a break and heading into the garden as my Dad is going to be helping me to build a raised vegetable plot for me and the children to grown our onions, sweetcorn and other stuff in.

Anyhoo, enough waffle from me. Here is some inspiration using Sweet Nora from Whiff of Joy:

I’ve shared this card over on the Whiff of Joy Blog and as today is Colour Me Friday I’ve actually made a note of the Copic colours I used. They are:

• Skin: E04, E11, E21, Eoo, E000 & R20
• Lips: E04, R85 & R20
• Eyes: C7, C5, C3 & B24
• Hair: C7, C5, C3, C1 & B00
• Hat & Shoes: R89, R85, R83 & R81
• Shirt: BV20 & BV0000
• Dress: G99, G94, YG63 & YG61

Supplies:

• Image: Sweet Nora from Whiff of Joy 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: My Minds Eye ‘Vanity Fair’ 6x6 Paper Pad
• Card: Dusky Pink Card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Stamps: Make a Wish Stamp Set from Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Plain Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Gems, Mini Stapler and Doily

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

United by Friendship

Morning everyone! I’m up on the Whiff of Joy Blog today for a feature called Colour Me Happy. 

I’ve used alcohol markers to colour the gorgeous United by Friendship digi stamp.

Here is the finished piece, all ready to be made into a card:

If you would like to see some pictures of my colour process please hop over to the Whiff of Joy Blog and take a a look.

Supplies:

• United by Friendship Digi Stamp from Whiff of Joy
• Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Copic Ciao and Sketch Markers

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Birthday Girl

Morning All. Whoop whoop, it’s half term here and my eldest has gone to stay with my sister and the littlest is staying with my Mum and Dad….peace and quiet, but I do have some decorating to keep me busy. I armed with a wall paper steamer and I’m not afraid to use it lol!

I like to have a stash of some CAS cards, as they are nice and light and ready to pop in the post. Here is a card I made using Birthday Girl from Whiff of Joy:

I’ve used a digi sentiment that I found here on Birds Cards (sorry I lost the direct link) and merged the images in word so it looks like the candle smoke is making the words.

Best get on with the DIY, that wallpaper isn’t going to strip itself!

Supplies:

• Image: Birthday Girl from Whiff of Joy 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Red and Black Card, Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Dies & Punches: MS Border Punch
• Embellishments: Stickles Glitter Glue

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Tag You’re It

Morning everyone! I’m in quarantine at the moment as my eldest (4 years old) has the dreaded chicken pox….I’m just hopping my littlest gets it to so that it’s all out of the way.

Anyhoo, it’s my turn to share over on the he Whiff of Joy Blog today for ‘the Tag You’re It Tuesday’ feature. Here is my creation using the Henry ‘Eat Cake’ Digi image:

I have been inspired by a card from the lovely Kuni’s blog. To see her card and for links to her blog please see the Whiff of Joy Blog.

Here is a close-up of cute little Henry   

Also my apologies for the picture quality, my littlest has managed to break the camera card slot on my computer so I had to use my phone as a back up camera and although the camera is as good I think I wobble it when I hold it!

Supplies:

• Image: Eat Cake from Whiff of Joy 
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• DP: Lili of the Valley Snow Princess Paper Pad
• Card: Yellow and Kraft Card
• Stamps: Sentiment Stamps from Chocolate Baroque
• Ink: Archival ‘Jet Black’ Inkpad
• Dies & Punches: Go Kreate Frilly Frame Dies and Memory Box Corner Bow Die
• Embellishments: Alpha Stickers, Ribbon, Pearls and Glitter Glue

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Eat Cake

Morning All. The Birthday Party is done and dusted (and cleaned up after) so I thought I would share one of the 7 cards I had to make for my week of family birthdays. This card used the fabulous Eat Cake image from Whiff of Joy:

I’ve gone CAS on this one as I was running  out of time with party prep and didn’t want to have to spend time choosing papers and embellies (I’m a ditherer!!). With not a lot of time left before giving it to the recipient I only went and put Glossy Accents on the balloons…OMG what was I thinking. I had to put it above the radiator to help speed up the drying, and just prayed that it didn’t warp. Luckily it was all ok in the end :-)

Supplies:

• Image: Eat Cake from Whiff of Joy
• Colouring Medium: Copics
• Card: Copic X-Press It Blending Card, Blue Card and Black Card
• Sentiment: Freebie from Handmade by Paula (can be found here)
• Embellishments: Glossy Accents

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Saint Nicholas

Good Morning. Hope you are all well and almost ready for Christmas…..I’m getting there. My decorations have been up since the first, my cards are on their way and most of my shopping is done and wrapped, just waiting for a few more parcels to arrive in the post. I have even been helping Hubby buy my presents *Wink Wink* I found him links to some much needed Copics and Dies ;-)

Anyhoo, enough waffle, over at the Whiff of Joy Blog we are showing Christmas inspiration and today is my turn. I’ve decided to make a traditional coloured Christmas card using the fabulous Saint Nicholas stamp from the Winter Secret Stamp Kit.

This card is going to be hand delivered so I have layered things up a bit, especially with my pretty felt snowflake ;-) The sentiment can also be found as part of the Winter Secret Stamp Kit.

Supplies:

• Image: Saint Nicholas from the Winter Secret Stamp Kit from Whiff of Joy
• Colouring Medium: Copics and ProMarkers
• DP: Dovecraft Back to Basics Christmas (Vintage) and Papermania Patterned Christmas Vellum
• Card: Anna Marie Designs Kraft Card, green card, red card and Copic X-Press It Blending Card
• Stamps: Winter Secret Stamp Kit from Whiff of Joy 
• Dies & Punches: Various Spellbinder Nesting Dies
• Embellishments: Gems, Wooden Snowflake and Felt Snowflake

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Shepherd Henry

Morning All. The Christmas card making is still in full swing and this card is previewing one of the gorgeous images from the Winter Secret Stamp Kit from Whiff of Joy. If you want to find out more about it and how to subscribe please take a look here in the shop.

This will be another hand delivered card as the embellishment makes it a little thick for posting!

Supplies:

• Image: Shepherd Henry from the Winter Secret Stamp Kit from Whiff of Joy
• Colouring Medium: Copics and ProMarkers
• DP: Papermania Craft Christmas
• Card: Copic X-Press It Blending Card and Blue Card
• Dies & Punches: X-Cut Corner Rounder and Spellbinders Labels 1
• Embellishments: Wooden Snowflake, button and twine

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Snowmen

Afternoon all. I’m getting back to my crafting slowly and here is my card for the new Whimsy Challenge where the theme is use two images. I have used two images from the Snow Topper set by StampArt by Kathryne (the images can be purchased separately as well).

When I made this card I was inspired by the current challenge at Less is More which is Non-Traditional Christmas Colours. I decided on the turquoise base but when I was colouring I got a bit carried away and used red on the boots….well turquoise and red is one of my favourite winter colour schemes. So I apologise if this doesn’t fit the theme this week.

Supplies:

• Image: Snow Topper from Whimsy Stamps
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers and Copics
• Card: Copic Xpress It Blending Card and red and turquoise card
• Sentiment: Whiff of Joy Winter Secret Stamp Kit

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Less is More – Non-Traditional Christmas

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Halloween

Morning All. What with my lack of crafting and blogging and Mr Blogger not publishing the post I did do, I’m not doing very well at the moment! But better late than never I’m here with my Halloween make for the current challenge over at A Gem of a Challenge where the theme is ‘Trick or Treat’

I like to decorate the window of the house on Halloween so that other Trick or Treaters know we are are friendly and don’t mind having them knock on our door. So I made this little plaque to hang in the window using the gorgeous Broomstick Chloe and lot’s of traditional Halloween colours.

Supplies:

• Image: Broomstick Chloe from Pink Gem Designs
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers and Copics
• DP: DCWV Latte Paperstack
• Card: Copic X-Press it Blending Card and Black card from stash
• Stamps: Sentiments from the Whiff of Joy Fall Stamp Kit
• Dies & Punches: Fiskars Border Punch and Spellbinder Plain Circle Dies
• Embellishments: Flat back Pearls, Paper Flowers, Button, Ribbon, Twine and doodles with a black fineliner.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Mummy Henry

Morning All. Hope everyone has a lovely weekend planned. I scheduled this post as hopefully I’ll be enjoying a lie in :-) We are staying at the In-Laws for the weekend to celebrate my Sister-in-Laws birthday and usually Nanny get up with the children!

In the week I shared a Halloween Trick or Treat loot bag I made for my little boy, well here is the one I made for my little girl. It is similar in design to the other by I tried to add more girly decorations.

Supplies:

• Image: Mummy Henry from Secret Stamp Kit Number 3 (Fall)
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers and Copics
• DP: Prima ‘Reflections’ 6x6 pad, DCWV Latte Card Stack and DCWV Latte Matstack
• Card: Copic X-Press It, Core’dinations Purple Card and Black Card from Stash
• Stamps: Secret Stamp Kit Number 3 (Fall)
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Plain Circles, Go Kreate Circles and MFT By the Letter Lowercase
• Embellishments: Raffia Lace, Pearls, Gems, Ribbon, Tag and Paper Flowers

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Witch Henry

Morning All.

Pre children, I didn’t really celebrate Halloween but the little ones love the fun of it all! The dressing up, having other children knock on the door. So getting into the spirit of things I have made some little bags for them to keep the fruits of their Trick or Treating in.

I have coloured the image with Derwent Pencil on Kraft card. The Bat and spider are handmade using circle punches and some freehand cutting.

Supplies:

• Image: Witch Henry from Secret Stamp Kit Number 3 (Fall)
• Colouring Medium: Derwent Pencils
• DP: Prima ‘Reflections’ 6x6 pad, DCWV Latte Card Stack and DCWV Latte Matstack
• Card: Anna Marie Designs Kraft Card, Core’dinations Purple Card and Black Card from Stash
• Stamps: Secret Stamp Kit Number 3 (Fall)
• Dies & Punches: Sizzix Hexagon Dies and MFT By the Letter Lowercase
• Embellishments: Raffia Lace, Pearls, Gems, Ribbon, Tag, Glitter Glue, Buttons, Googly Eyes and Paper Flowers

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Tag You’re IT

Morning All. More decorating for me today but before I get started with that I thought I would show this little tag card I made for a feature on the Whiff of Joy blog called ‘Tag You’re It Tuesday’.

I’ve been playing with my Inktense pencils again. I love them more and more each time I use them. I can colour an image so much quicker than I can with markers simply because the water controls the blending and instead of using at least 3 markers to create a blend/contrast within each colour this can be done with just 1 pencil and a waterbrush!

For more info on the rest of the tag please visit my post on the Whiff of Joy blog.

Supplies:

• Colouring Medium: Derwent Inktense Pencils
• DP: Basic Grey and MME
• Card: Anna Marie Designs Kraft Card and Bockingford Watercolour card
• Stamps: Whiff of Joy Summer Stamp Kit
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Plain and Picot Edge Circles and an X-Cut Corner rounder
• Embellishments: Pearls and Twine

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

• Milk Coffee Challenge – 2 or More Diecuts
• A Creative Romance – Fun in the Sun
• Inky Chicks – Photo Inspiration (I have used the colours)
• Papertake Weekly – Spots and Dots
• Bunny Zoes Monthly Challenge – Summer Colours
• Stamping Sensations – Anything Goes
• Crafty Calendar Challenge – Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Sail Away

Happy Thursday everyone. Hope you are all enjoying nice weather where you are…it’s been really nice here, sunny but not to warm and the children love being out in the garden, especially watching our strawberries grow and ripen.

Enough waffle. It’s my turn to post over at the Whiff of Joy Blog and today’s theme is:

I was inspired by the nautical theme of the Summer Stamp Kit to create a card that looked like a Porthole…I think it worked as Hubby recognised what it was!! Here is my card but for more details and peak at a little extra I made with the scraps please head over to the Whiff of Joy blog…

I was proud of myself on this one as I cracked open the Watercolour paints. I haven’t used them for years and apart from using some watercolour pencils a while back I haven’t painted a whole image before…not bad for a first attempt.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

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Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Scrap Your Stash at Whiff of Joy

 

Good Morning all! It’s my turn to post on the Whiff of Joy Blog today and the theme of the post is

  I have used cute little Composer Henry from the Spring Stamp Kit to make this card:

  To see more pictures and find out what bit and bobs I used from my stash please visit the Whiff of Joy Blog.

Thanks for stopping by.

Lisa

Speech Bubbles

Just playing a little catch up as I’ve been suffering from a horrid sinus infection. I just having felt like crafting or blogging for a few days or so. But I have several things I want to share so thought I would make a few quick posts.

First up there is a new challenge in progress at Sarah Hurley 365. The theme is ‘Speech Bubbles’ and here is my card…

There is a step by step as to how made this here on the Sarah Hurley 365 blog.
Supplies:

• Image: Be Mine Digi Kit
• DP: Be Mine Digi Kit
• Card: Cream and white card
• Stamps: Sentiments from Little Claire and Personal Impressions
• Dies & Punches: Speech Bubble Die from Whiff of Joy
• Embellishments: Bakers Twine, Glitter Glue, Wink of Stella Clear Brush Pen and Glossy Accents

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Thanks for stopping by
Lisa

Henry Playing Drums

Morning All. Not quite sure whether or not I’m coming down with a cold :-( The children have both got one and I although I don’t feel bad I feel a little achy and shivery. So I’ve told hubby that’s a good excuse to forgot the housework today!!

I have been quite a busy little bee in my craft room but I have photographed anything yet. Instead I thought I would share with you another creation made using another fabulous Henry stamp from Whiff of Joy’s Spring Stamp Kit. It’s too late to late to receive the Spring Kit but follow the link in my side bar for details of how to subscribe to future kits. They really are fabulous value for money as you get image, sentiment and embellishment stamps.


I made this as a Valentine’s card using one of my favourite colour combos red and blue…

Supplies:

• Image: Henry playing Drums from Whiff of Joy’s Spring Stamp Kit 
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: We R Memory Keepers Magazine Freebie from Simply Cards and Papercraft
• Card: Crafters Companion Neenah Card and red & blue card from my stash
• Stamps: All from The WoJ Spring Stamp Kit
• Inks: Faded Jeans and Weathered Wood Ditress Inkpads
• Dies & Punches: Spellbinder Picot Edge Circles, X-Cut Hearts and Whiff of Joy Arrow dies and an X-Cut Square punch
• Embellishments: Ribbon, Pearls and glitter glue

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Thanks for stopping by
Lisa

Spring Stamp Kit Showcase at Whiff of Joy

Morning All.  Over at the Whiff of Joy Blog there is a post showcasing fabulous projects created by the Stamp Kit Design Team using the adorable Spring Stamp Kit. Here is my card…

Now I know Henry mouse is a boy but I have made quite a few masculine cards lately and I wanted to create something super girly and pink! I have distressed,  torn, stamped and layered with vellum for a cute card.

Supplies:

• Image: Whiff of Joy Quarterly Stamp Kit
• Colouring Medium: ProMarkers
• DP: Prima Marketing Fairy Belle 6x6 pad and patterned Papermania vellum
• Card: Bazzill 12x12 Kraft card
• Stamps: Whiff of Joy Quarterly Stamp Kit and a Personal Impressions Sentiment Stamp
• Inkpads: Distress Inks ‘Antique Linen’ and Walnut Stain’
• Dies & Punches: EK Success Slim Edger Punch
• Embellishments: Gems, Pearl, Small Wooden Peg and Viva Decor Pearl Pen,

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Thanks for stopping by
Lisa