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Gallery of Inspiration

We all get stuck from time to time on ideas... Sometimes we just need a little bit of inspiration to start us off.

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Gardening Time

The sun is shining which means most of us will be making the most of it and getting into the garden, this has inspired today's make, this would be great for a mens card or anyone who loves gardening!

Using a scoreboard is a great way to create your own brick wall background.

Items Used:-
• Crafter's Companion Garden Time Stamp - CC-MM-STP-GATI
• Coloured with alcohol markers (or your medium of choice)
• Gardening Charm
• Crafts Too Brown 5mm Self Adhesive Gems - CT23311-7
• Vintage Photo Distress Ink
• Scoreboard to create your brick background
• Natural jute string
• Ivory, brown and kraft card
• Scrap piece of rustic patterned paper

sympathy card ideas, arched card ideas, lilly flowers

With Sympathy

Sympathy cards can be the hardest cards to make. Take the ease out of it with precut 3D decoupage sheets.

Items Used:-
• Katy Sue Designs White Arched Cards and Envelopes - 05-AC01-CW300-10
• Katy Sue Designs Vase of Lilies 3D Decoupage - - 11-DCD721
• 1mm 3D Foam Tape or pads

Princess Card

A princess card that any little girl would love, full pink, glitter and sparkle

Items Used:-
• Jamie Rodgers Fairytale Castle Stamp Set - JRC0027
• Tonic Studios Heart Cascade 3D Embossing Folder - 5851e
• Artoz Artwork Princess Stickers - 185580-37
• Clear gems
• Versafine Clair Charming Pink Ink Pad
• Picked Raspberry Distress Ink
• Pink and white card
• Craft UK 6x6 white card blanks and envelopes

Bee Shaker Card

A bee themed card, using a background die to create a fun shaker element.

Fill with your favourite sequins, beads or glitter.

Items Used:-
• Sizzix Bunny Bee Thinlets Craft Die Set - 663852
• Presscut Hive Background Craft Die Set - PCD256
• Cosmic Shimmer Gold Hexagons Glitter Jewels - CSGJHGOLD
• Happy Birthday from Two Jays Stamps Simple Sayings Stamp Set - CTJJ178
• JEJE Acetate - 3.1000
• White vellum
• Yellow and black card
• Craft UK white card
• Craft UK 5x7 white card blanks and envelopes

Clean and Simple

Use gilding flakes to add a pop of metallic colour to a clean and simple card

Items Used:-
• Jamie Rodgers Elegant Butterflies Craft Dies Set - JRC0001
• Sweet Dixie Small Texture Craft Die Set - SDD642
• Artcoe Imitation Gold Variety Gilding Flakes
• Two Jays Stamps Simple Sayings Stamp Set - CTJJ178
• Versafine Clair Acorn Ink Pad
• Clear gems coloured with a yellow alcohol marker
• Craft UK white card
• Craft UK 6x6 white card blanks and envelopes

Easter egg cards, easter card ideas, sizzix card ideas, easter bunny cards

Happy Easter

A simple super cute Easter card

Items Used:-

• Nellie Snellen Easter Bunny Egg Craft Die Set - MFD159

• Nellie's Choice Easter and Spring Stamp Set -NSCS003

• Nellie Snellen Spring Flowers 3D Embossing Folder - EF3D083

• Different coloured card scraps

• Morning Mist Versafine Clair

• Craft UK white card

• Craft UK 6x6 white card

Easter Bunny Card

A simple bright Easter card.

Ideal for a quick card or a great way to use up your card scraps

Items Used:-
• Sizzix Spring Has Sprung Thinlets Craft Die Set - 665802
• Nellie's Choice Easter and Spring Stamp Set -NSCS003
• Different coloured card scraps
• Morning Mist Versafine Clair
• Craft UK DL white card

Easter egg cards, easter card ideas, sizzix card ideas

Easter Eggs

Country Pub

A rustic pub card. Ideal for men.

Small stamps are great for creating your own background, that compliments the lovely village pub scene stamp.

Items Used:-
• Jamie Rodgers Village Pub Stamp Set - JRC0026
• Sizzix Belinda Stitched Hexagons Craft Die Set - 666554
• Artoz - 5mm Nailhead Copper Metallic Self Adhesive Gems - 185620-143
• Vintage Photo Distress Ink
• Pinecone Versafine Clair ink
• Ivory and dark brown card

Fancy a pint?

A clean and simple A6 card using the pint stamp as the main feature, finished off with glossy accents and fluffy stuff to make it look more realistic

Items Used:-
• Jamie Rodgers Village Pub Stamp Set - JRC0026
• Ranger Mini Glossy Accents - CAG27898
• Cosmic Shimmer White Fluffy Stuff - CSFLUFFY
• White Card
• Craft UK A6 white card blanks and envelopes

wedding card, wedding card ideas, jamie rodger dies, elegant wedding cards

On your Wedding Day

A wedding can be such a magical occasion, so why not make them a special elegant card to celebrate their day/ keep as a keepsake.

White on white with a hint of silver using various items from Jamie Rodgers Crafts

Items Used:-
• Jamie Rodgers Church Stamp Set - JRC0029
• Jamie Rodgers Cosmos Flower Craft Die - JRC0039
• Jamie Rodgers Cosmos Entwined Leaves Craft Die - JRCD0064
• Presscut Plain Circle Nesting Dies - PCD206
• Crafts Too Black 5mm Self Adhesive Gems - CT23311-4
• Wow silver and white embossing powders
• White vellum and silver mirror card
• Craft UK white linen card - W123

Bunny Hugs

Cuteness warning

A super cute card created with Sizzix dies.

This card is ideal for Mother's day card, a super cute birth card, or a card for someone who needs just needs a hug

Items Used:-

• Sizzix Bunny Love Stamp and Craft Die Set - 665653
• Sizzix All Occasions Craft Die Set - 665815
• mixture of grey, pinks and green card
• Craft UK 6x6 white card blank

Swan and Cygnet

This would be a great card for men, wildlife lovers, but would also be great for an alternative Mother's Day card (mummy swan with her babies)

Items Used:-

• Sweet Dixie Swan and Cygnet Craft Die Set - SDD499

• Light blue, green, brown and white card
• Coloured with alcohol markers

• White Card

• Craft UK 5x7 white card blank

Dancing in Pundles

We all have rainy days from time to time, so lets be like ducks, have more fun and dance in puddles

Items Used:-
• Card-io Whatever the Weather Stamp Set
• Card-io Making a Splash Stamp Set
• Versafine Clair Morning Mist
• Versacolour Atlantic, chateau and orange
• Distress ink tumbled glass
• Glossy Accents
• Black and grey colouring pencils
• White gel pen
• White Card
• Craft UK 6x6 white card blank

Butterfly Card

A C6 size butterfly shaped card, but would make a cute gift tag for a gift or a bunch of flowers

Items Used:-
• Jamie Rodgers Lace Butterfly Craft Die Set JRC0086
• Picked Raspberry and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Oxides
• Sentiment from Two Jays Stamps Simple Sayings Stamp Set - CTJJ178
• Clear gems
• White Card

Happy Anniversary

This card would be perfect for a Valentines day or a wedding card as well as an anniversary card like I have created with Card-io stamps

Items Used:-
• Mask created with Presscut Plain Heart Nesting Craft Die Set - PCD48

• Sentiment and hearts from Woodware Bubble Birds Pedro and Rosa Stamp Set - JGS877

• Hedgehogs from Card-io Woodland Retreat Stamp Set

• Card-io Pottery Petites Stamp Set

• Various ink pads

• white card

• Craft UK 6x6 White Cards and Envelopes

• Clear gems

cat cards, card-io stamps, card-io cards, scene cards

Spring Stretch

Cheeky little cat is stretching on the wall, getting ready to scare the two little birds.

Items Used:-
• Card-io Wisteria
• Card-io Untamed Textures
• Cat and Birds from Card-io On The Fence
• Trees and Leaves from Card-io Vines and Vendure
• Hedgehogs from Card-io Woodland Retreat Stamp Set
• TCW brick stencil - TCW2305
• Various ink pads
• white card
• Craft UK 6x6 White Cards and Envelopes
• Diamond Stickles

easter cards, easter card idea, easter wishes, card-io stamps

Bright Easter Card

A fun bright easter card, using one Card-io stamp set and various ink pads

Items Used:-

• Card-io Eggstra Special Stamp Set

• Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Easter Wishes Craft Die Set - CEDSS019

• various Versafine clair ink pads

• white and yellow card

• Craft UK 6x6 White
Cards and Envelopes

DIY Card

Great card for men or anyone who are into DIY or tools. Colours can be changed to suite.

Items Used:-
• Card-io Drills 'n' spills Stamp Set

• Creative Expressions Happy Birthday Shadow Craft Die Set - CEDSS030

• Mask created with Presscut Plain Circle Nesting Dies - PCD206

• various ink pads

• white card

• Craft UK 6x6 White Cards and Envelopes

Tea for two

A lovely spring card created with Card-io stamps

Items Used:-
•Branch from Card-io Vines and Venture Stamp Set

•Sentiment from Card-io Sunny Sentiments Stamp Set

•Card-io Nan's Garden Stamp Set

•Masking sheet or a post it note

•Diamond Stickles

•Shabby Shutter Distress Ink

•Pinecone, Avocado, Very Peri and Hawntorne Rose Versafine Clair Ink Pads

•Craft UK C6 Card and Envelopes

•White Card

Colouring with Crystal Tints

Create a bright and glittery card, using crystal tints as a colouring medium.

Stamp your image onto a silver or gold mirror card with stazon. Cover your card in double sided adhesive and sprinkle over glitter bitz. Then colour with Cosmic Shimmer crystal tints

Items Used:-
•  Stampendous - Hollyhock Flowers Cling Rubber Stamp Set - QS5037#

•  Woodware Double Sided Adhesive Sheets - WW2351
•  Cosmic Shimmer Crystal Tints - various colours
• Cosmic Shimmer Frosted Sparkle Glitterbitz - CSGBFROSTY
• silver mirror card
• white card
• Craft UK 6x6 White Cards and Envelopes
• Foam tape

Happy Monster

A fun bright card, suitable fo children's cards, memory book and scrapbooks

Colour your monsters in your favourite colour, and of course every monster needs to be put on a wobbler

Items Used:-
• Woodware Huge Monster Stamp Set - FRS1067
• Woodware Paint Blots Stamp Set -FRM086
• Large Wobble Springs
• Distress inks in bright colours
• Alcohol marker
• Craft UK 6x6 White Cards and Envelopes
• Craft UK White card

Simple Mens/ Teenager Card

A bright birthday card using a stencil as the main focal point.

This would be a great card for a man or teenager.

Items Used:-
• Tim Holtz Linked Circles Stencil - THS159
• Creative Expressions Happy Birthday Shadow Craft Die Set - CEDSS030
• Distress inks - wilted violet, cracked pistachio and mermaid lagoon
• Craft UK C6 White Cards and Envelopes
• Silver mirror card

Autumnal Flower Meadow

Another card created with Jane Gill's Bubble birds collection.

A lovely floral card with a inky background inspired by the lovely autumn colours around at the moment.

Items Used:-
• Woodware Blooms for Birds Flower Stems Stamp Set - JGS883
• Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Bountiful Butterflies Craft Die Set- CED1555
• Watercolour background created with orange and yellow distress inks
• Background splattered with Cosmic Shimmer Iridescent Watercolour Palette Set 8 - Carnival Brights - CSIWPSET2
• Craft UK DL Cards and Envelopes
• Black card
• Crafter's Companion Watercolour Card - WTRCLR-CARD

anniversary cards, bird cards, fun anniversary cards

Happy Anniversary

A fun take on an anniversary card, It would also make a fun wedding card too!

Items Used:-
• Woodware Bubble Birds Pedro and Rosa Stamp Set - JGS877
• Presscut Plain Heart Nesting Craft Die Set - PCD48
• Background created by smooshing various pink distress inks
• Craft UK 6x6 Cards and Envelopes
• Crafter's Companion Watercolour Card - WTRCLR-CARD
• Coloured with alcohol markers

Gallery of Inspiration

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