Hello again. I have a card to share with you today – it STILL hasn’t stopped raining – for the current challenge at AAA Cards:
I used one of the images from Clearly Besotted ‘Floral Spray’ stamp set, and inked using the new Altenew ‘Permanent Black Crisp Ink‘ – loving the crispness of this ink pad, by the way – and decided to ink just one of the images in this set.
I did play with both images, moving them around, but decided to stamp one only. The sentiment is from the same stamp set.
There’s not much more to add, but if it keeps raining like this for much longer – I’m going to have lots and lots of cards ready for any occasion……..
I decided to make these cards at the last minute today, so I hope you like them:
You’ll have to excuse the lighting, but it’s STILL raining here in the UK. I think it stopped for a couple of minutes two days ago……..
Here they are individually:
(I decided one of the grass pieces was to become a crown……..)
I used a stamp and die set from Clearly Besotted, and a stamp and die set from Heffy Doodle. The images were coloured with Copics – it’s amazing how many colours you use, isn’t it?
I had a visitor to my craft room, who settled in one of my craft drawers – thankfully not one I was using:
The honeycomb stencil is from Imagination Crafts, ink blended onto one of the backgrounds, and the embossing folder of the other card is from Sue Wilson.
Hello there. I’ve been creating a card for Father’s Day, and even though I struggle with masculine cards, I think this came together quite nicely – if I do say so myself!! :)
I took the opportunity to use the Spellbinders ‘Truckin’ Through The Seasons‘ die set I obtained when Justine Hovey was having a de-stash sale earlier this year:
I had to watch a few videos from YouTube on how to put this together, but once you know what every little die from the set is for – it’s quite easy. Well – there are so many little pieces, that gluing them onto the truck itself can be a challenge – but I managed.
Once the truck was put together, I turned to the background. I was initially going to ink blend a background, but decided to play with some Tonic Embellishment Mousse and a stencil. I tried to capture the glimmer on this mousse:
Once that piece had dried, I die cut the shape using the Altenew ‘Pocket Banner‘ die set for some interest, then mounted the truck onto that with some 3D foam pieces.
I don’t have a specific Father’s Day sentiment, but I shall write on the inside.
My Dad has always been into cars – he trained to be a mechanic in the Army, ran a taxi company in the 1990’s, and has even just bought a car from me when I recently changed cars. A very prideful man – is that a word? – and he wouldn’t pay anything less than full price of what I was going to receive from the ‘stealership‘………..hmmmm…….!
I’ll now have to think what kind of card to make him for his 81st birthday on 30th June…….maybe floral, as he likes his gardening too!
I took the single present stamp from the Altenew ‘Celebrations‘ stamp set, stamped once, then masked it off and stamped again a couple more times. I then coloured with Copics, and added a Heffydoodle sentiment.
A quick, clean and simple card, which actually took quite a bit of planning, but the main thought process was which colours to use……..
Now I’m off to plan the card for Dad for Father’s Day……and then it’s his birthday a couple of weeks later………masculine cards are ones I tend to struggle with – but I’m sure I’ll manage – and even more sure you will see what I make.
Hello once again. I have another card to share today, using a new stamp bought at the Doncaster craft show last week:
I just fell in love with this stamp set – cute and quirky. I chose this stamp as I thought just laying there, finger swirling in the puddle – cute. There are some great sentiments on there too – I am sure you will be seeing them in the future…
The image was stamped with Gina K Amalgam ink and coloured – very basically – with Copics, to match the colour challenge. To follow the sketch challenge, the two outer bands were pieces of card coloured with the same light blue copic, and die cut with Lawn Fawn ‘Stitched Simple Wavy Borders‘.
Hello there. I have a couple of cards to share with you today. The first is a card with the Colorado Craft Company ‘Sympathy and Friendship Rose’ – a huge stamp – covering 5 inches square:
The second card is even more CAS:
For the first card, I stamped the image in Catherine Pooler ‘Coral Cabana‘ then heat embossed with clear embossing powder, with my plan to water-colour the image. That plan changed when I saw how gorgeous it looked just as it is -so the water-colour is for another day, with another colour outline!
I layered that panel onto a navy blue card, added a sentiment from a Thirsty Brush and Co stamp and die set, added three Cosmic Shimmer Cosmic Twinkles ‘Decadent Teal‘ drops and left it there.
I think that coral colour with this stamp is very striking, and I may have to explore that colour even further…….
The second card is using an Altenew sentiment, then stamping an image from Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz ‘Funny Farm’ stamp set. I thought of this image immediately when I saw the current challenge at CASology, and this Altenew sentiment from the ‘Build-a-Flower Daffodil‘ set seemed to fit just perfectly.
The first rose card will be entered into the following challenges:
Hi there. There is a new challenge beginning at Cardz 4 Galz and the theme this time is ‘Fox – foxy ladies, or foxes – your choice‘. I took the opportunity to go all out and pink and glittery. Who wants to see a pink fox? Here we are:
So – a lot of products were used in this card, from lots of different companies…..so I’ll begin….
Crafters Companion sentiment. I masked each part of the sentiment to stamp – instead of cutting the stamp apart, with the word ‘fabulous’ embossed with glitter pink embossing powder from WOW!; Pink glimmer card from Stampin Up; Altenew Cozy Flannel Cover Die; Waffle Flower ‘Be Her’ stamp and die set, Copic colouring.
Phew – I don’t I missed anything out…….let me know if you think I have!
Anyhoo – I am sure we don’t Prosecco to get fabulous – but it certainly helps increase our fabulous-ness………..(a new word!)……and this little fox looks like she is quite stern and precise…….
So – an awesome theme for the challenge and so many ways to take the word ‘fox’ and ‘foxy’. I look forward to seeing what you create and dropping you a comment – or two!
Hello again. I have been trying some new techniques on this card, as it is a new challenge at The ABC Christmas Challenge. The themes is/are ‘L’ for Little, and ‘M’ for Masking:
I first stamped the Santa from Crafters Companion ‘Christmas Stamp and metal die set – Santa‘ and then coloured him in Copics. The stamp itself has quite a bit of shading on it, so I just followed those lines – basically – to create some shading. I then stamped him again on some masking paper and fussy cut him out – realising afterwards that the stamp set comes with a die that cuts around him – oh well……hind sight…..!
I masked him off then went hunting for a stencil of roof tops, or chimneys or anything I thought would go as a background, and found my Sheena Douglass stencil from her ‘Remember When‘ set called ‘Big Chimney‘.
I ink blended a couple of Distress Oxides for the chimney and roof top, then thought about the sky area……so then ink blended from a cloud stencil I have from Inkylicious.
I then removed the Santa mask, some more thought about the snow area, and decided to try out my new buy from Hero Arts – the ‘Snow and Froth Technique Kit‘……with heart in my mouth as I had virtually completed the card.
And – it worked:
I didn’t dare do any more snow technique on the rest of the rooftops and chimney, as I felt the card was complete aside from a sentiment, which is a die from Birch Press.
I hope you have time to join us and follow our two themes – either on one card, or even two different cards – one for each letter – and I look forward to seeing your makes in our gallery. :) :)
Hi there. I have another Christmas card to add to my growing collection as there is another new challenge beginning today at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge. The theme is ‘anything goes Christmas‘:
Another photo of the glittery-ness:
and I couldn’t resist another glittery photo:
I used a newly purchased Birch Press die set, a three layer die set, called ‘Shimmer Snowflake Frame Layer set‘, (Bumbleberry Papercrafts) but I only used the second layer for this card. The bottom right snowflake is actually cut away from the outline rectangle, and glued further up, so I could stick the sentiment across the bottom.
As there is some open space, I used some matching rose gold sequins – I think they came in the same craft box with the glitter, and stuck them as you see here.
I hope you can join us again for this challenge, and I hope to see you in the gallery. I also see my Design Team-mates have some great inspiration for you – please have a look at their creations, and perhaps drop us all a comment….. :) :)
Hello again – I have another card to share with you today, inspired by a couple of challenges. This card was in my mind for hours, I couldn’t shake it – so I just had to go and make it. It was interfering with my reading!!!!
I’m sorry the picture isn’t that perfect – but even though it’s lovely and sunny and warm – there is quite a wind.
Another photo because I kept trying:
I knew I wanted an outline die to emboss into the card – as per the Less Is More Challenge – and I Knew I wanted the sentiment to run through the embossed die, so I took some time thinking and thinking about which die to emboss……..
I stamped the sentiment from Altenew ‘Moments In Time‘ in black ink, then embossed an outline die from Altenew’s ‘A Study In watercolor‘. I then stamped the floral image in the lightest grey Altenew ink to bring more attention to the embossed outline, but not too bright nor too invasive – quite muted, I think, and to tie the card in with the Allsorts Challenge.
I shall be entering the following challenges:
Less Is More – CAS embossing – up to one third to be embossed
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