Lazy Daisy Gift Set

 We have had a lot of spring type weather where I live. Normally we are covered in a ton of snow at this time of year, but this year we have had a lot of sun and double digit temperatures. It feels like spring and spring to me means flowers!! 

I planted some daffodil bulbs in the summer and they have started to come up already! I am hoping the little bit of snow and freezing temperatures we had on the weekend don't kill them but somehow I think they will be alright. The new daffodils and a tulip coming up inspired my cards for this week. I decided to do a card gift set featuring the Lazy Daisy Lady Bug stamp and a number of sentiments from High Hopes Rubber Stamps. Am I the only one ready to see some spring flower beauty in the flower beds? 

After stamping the image 5 times on alcohol marker friendly paper, I coloured them with Copic markers and cut them out using a square die. Next, I grabbed my Misti and some of my favourite High Hopes sentiment and stamped each daisy with it's own sentiment. Truth be told, the two smaller Just A Note cards are the result of a sentiment I masked off that I didn't stamp straight, so I trimmed them down to create two smaller cards. I wanted to keep the design clean and simple for this set and added them to a piece of black card stock. There are three 4.5" x 4.5" cards and two approximately 4" x 3.25" cards in this set and I am hoping someone in my life will be able to use them. 

 

Stamp Recipe

Stamps - Lazy Daisy Lady Bugs (J111)- High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - You Make Me Smile (FDG015), Sending Smiles (G276), Just A Note (DLL003) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Hammermill Digital Cover Card Stock, black card stock, square die

Copic Markers

Stem - YG01 YG03 YG17

Centres - Y11 Y15 YR23

Petals - C0 C1 C2

Lady Bugs - T2 T4 T6 R05 R17 R39

Outline - B000

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Pony Smiles

 I love horses and ponies so when I saw the "My Pony" stamp in the "Thoughts of Spring With Friends" release  I knew I wanted to colour it! I had a horse for a number of years and when I got really stressed out or to "serious" he would do something - like pull a coffee cup out of the garbage and stand there with it in his mouth and bob his head up and down - to make me laugh. 

He also loved little people and was the perfect horse to introduce my nieces and nephews to. They loved having a ride on him and would smile as big as the little girl on this stamp. So many great memories! 

I stamped on alcohol marker friendly paper, coloured with Copic markers and cut the stamp out with a stitched rectangle die. The clouds were added by using a dauber around the edge of a cloud die cut. 

I combined patterned paper from Craft Consortium and Honey Bee stamps to create the layers on the card, added them to card stock and glued them down. Some cotton lace ribbon was added before gluing down the layers. The sentiment was stamped and cut out with a circle die and matching card stock. A bow, wooden horse shoe and enamel dots finish off my card. 

Card Details

Stamps - My Pony (TDG043) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - You Make Me Smile (FDG015)

Patterned Paper - Summer Stems - Honey Bee Stamps, Bloom and Wild - Craft Consortium

Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Hammermill Digital Cover Card Stock, circle die, stitched rectangle die - Your Next Stamp, cotton lace ribbon, horse shoe - Southern Ridge Trading Co., enamel dots

Copic Markers

Pony- E33 E35 E57 E29 E25 E29 E47 E49

Bucket - C1 C2 C4 C5

Bow/Pants - B34 B37 B39

Skin - E00 E21 E11 E04

Hair - E50 E53 E55

Shirt -R81 R83 R85 R89

Flower - R81 E83 R85 R89 Y02

Shoes - E25 E27 E29

Grass - YG61 YG63 YG67

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You Make Me Smile

I am an animal lover through and through but I am slightly partial to horses and dogs. At the moment I have a little Shipoo who is the love of my life. He has his moments where he thinks he's a Rottweiller but for the most part he is the best cuddle bug ever and a mom's boy. He is never too impressed with me when I put a sweater on him to go out in the freezing cold that is our winter sometimes but he gets over it pretty quick if I let him run the race track his dad blows for him in the back yard. It's a perfect place to get rid of the zoomies! 

"Winter Pup" from the Winter Friends release just makes me smile and reminds me of my dog when he is dressed to go out. I love his hat and scarf and he is just too cute! I wonder how my dog would like a cute hat and scarf.....

I stamped this cutie on alcohol marker friendly paper, coloured him with alcohol makers and hand fussy cut him. Next, I found some snowy paper in the Winter paper pad from Echo Park and cut it and card stock to fit my 5" x 5" card base. 

I cut a second piece of card stock at 4.5" x 4.5" and used an inside out stitched circle to cut a hole. I added a stitched hill die behind the circle, added a picket fence and a stitched snow bank for this pup to sit on. The sentiment is stamped directly on to the card stock.

To create the stcitched snow bank I cut a stitched border and then carefully moved the die down the paper (keeping it in line with the first cut since it is wavy) to the thickness that I wanted, taped it down and ran it through my Big Kick again. This created the little drift he is sitting on. Some snowflakes punched out of the paper I trimmed off and some enamel dots finish off my card. 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Winter Pup (SDG005) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - You Make Me Smile (FDG015)- High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Winter - Echo Park 

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill 100lb digital cover stock, inside out circle die - Gina Marie Designs, stitched border - Whimsy Stamps, fence die - Your Next Stamp, snow flakes - Marvy punch, enamel dots

 Copic Markers:

Nose- T4 T6 T8

Body - C1 C2 C4 C5

Scarf/Hat - B91 B93 B95 C0 C1 C2

Clothing - E41 E42 E43 BG72 BG75 N5

Star - B91 B93 B95

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