Hello everyone. The Alphabet Challenge has reached the letter ‘Q‘ and the theme this time round is:
‘Quick and Easy’
Here is my card:
I rarely do what I consider this to be – a Clean and Simple card. I tend to always like layers and dimension, but I do think this is enough. It doesn’t need anything more.
I glued a black A2 sized panel onto a card base. then cut a slightly smaller piece of white card.
Onto this I placed the Gina K Designs ‘Masked Oval Stencil‘ – the outer part, leaving the oval free. I then ink blended a green and a blue – Pinkfresh Studio inks – nice and gently, and softly (I am a heavy handed blender!), and not quite getting them to meet in the middle – or very little meeting anyway.
Once that was dry, I stamped the Gina K designs image, and then the sentiment.
This was then glued down onto the black panel.
I hope you can come and join us with you ‘quick and easy’ makes. xx
Hello once again. Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge. Dawn has chosen the theme of:
Add Texture
Here is my card:
I used a couple of die sets from Spellbinders to create the floral elements. One way to add texture is to layer things up – there are lots of layers on these floral and leaf images.
The second way I added texture was by using an embossing folder.
The background panel was created using a deep purple card stock, then I took a piece of white cut down slightly, then another piece of the purple and ran them through my die-cutting machine at the same time – one piece of top of the other. That way, both pieces are embossed, and the pattern runs continuously across both pieces.
These were adhered down, the the floral elements added, extra little flowers and leaves placed where I thought they were needed.
For more texture, I added Pinkfresh gems to the centre of some of the flowers.
The foiled sentiment was added at the end.
I hope you can come and join us with your creations highlighting and featured texture. xx
Hello. ABC Christmas Challenge has reached the letters ‘W’ and ‘X’. We want to see your Christmas creations with the following themes:
W is for Water colouring, X is for Xylophone
Here is my card for the water colouring theme:
The poinsettia image is from Pinkfresh Studio – the Poinsettia Frame collection – and I chose to heat emboss the image. There are matching items for this set – a hot foil plate, a stencil set for colouring, as well as the matching die.
Once the image was gold heat embossed, I broke out my Zig markers and water coloured them. I don’t do much water colouring, I don’t actually enjoy the process, but I actually have fun with this image and the Zigs – I forget how they are really good to colour with.
Once the image was coloured, I let it dry, then used the matching die to cut out the frame.
I chose a deep purple card panel, and dry embossed with a Spellbinders embossing folder, then placed the frame on that with 3D foam.
The foiled sentiment was added to the centre, and then I played with glossy accents – using that on each berry, and the centre of the flowers.
I thought the centre needed more, so I also added some Pinkfresh Studio gold gems.
I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas creations following one or both of our themes. xx
Hello there. I have had more time to play with some Concord & 9th products:
This die set is the ‘Ornament Inlay Die’ and I created lots of colour variations. As I was die cutting from lots of different colours of card stock, and generally having a good time playing – I just went with it:
I started by taking an A2 piece of card and laying down a double-sided sticky sheet. I pulled back the protective sheet then adhered the outer piece from the die cut. All the other little pieces I kept in piles of colours. Then I began to piece them all back in where I thought the colours would work.
Once inlaid, I then used my Teflon bone folder to burnish them all, making sure they were good and stuck down.
Here are some other colour ways:
I must be in a mood to be fiddly – loving these inlay dies from Concord & 9th.
Hello there. I have been playing with a collage stencil from Waffle Flower Crafts:
Following the colour choices for the current Color Throwdown Challenge, I made a couple of variations.
The first card, I used all the stencils, including the background for each tile. Using Pinkfresh Studio inks, I stencilled the background with a medium grey, then used the orange, red, and green on the next layers. I cut apart the collage tiles, and chose the images I wanted for the card.
The background panel was cut down and then dry embossed using a Spellbinders embossing folder. The images were then laid out and attached with 3D foam pieces, before adding the foiled sentiment. The final touches were some red pearls in the centre of the flowers.
For the second card, I didn’t use the background stencil, only the three layers for the leaves and the flowers, and I also used the same three colours of inks.
I die cut the background collage die several more times and layered them together with the stencilled piece, instead of using 3D foam pieces.
The white card base, a red panel showing around the edge and through the holes of the collage die, and glued together.
I added more of the red pearls – the centre of the flowers, the red berries on the holly, and a few more for good luck……
Personally, I think I prefer the stencilling without the grey background – but that may be the colour choices I made. I will play around with colours a little more – loving the collage stencils – and perhaps post some more variations.
Hi there. Another creation to share using the ‘found’ Tim Holtz ephemera:
This is another 5×7 inch card base, with a Kraft piece on top, the edges distressed with some brown Distress Ink.
I also used some Tim Holtz papers, distressing that edge too, and adhered to the card base.
I took another of the Tim Holtz base board pieces, distressed the edge with brown, the used a Tim Holtz stencil to put some glitter paste through parts of the leaves I wanted. Then added the sparkle paste around the edges of the base board.
I used a couple of the sentiment strips from Tim Holtz ephemera pack distressed the edges again with brown, then glued them both down.
Using a snowflake stencil, I mixed some sparkle paste and brown Distress Ink and created some ‘dirty’ snowflakes which would show through the aperture. The poinsettia image was glued down, and then the baseboard added.
The sentiment board – also distressed with brown ink – was glued with collage medium, and the final touch was the bell image – glued to the top of the aperture.
Another creation which was a lot of fun, out of my comfort zone – but I went with it.
Hello. I have ‘found’ some Tim Holtz ephemera packs I bought either last year or the year before and had a play:
I started by taking a piece of Kraft card stock measuring 5×7 inches, and blended Distress Ink ‘Candied Apple‘ over the whole panel.
Using a Spellbinders embossing folder, I ran that panel through, then distressed the surface with a sandpaper block.
The brown ribbon was placed across, stuck down the the back of the panel, and then the panel adhered to a 5×7 inch card base.
The ephemera pieces were laid out and played with until I was happy with the scene it created, and a red striped Tim Holtz paper placed behind the aperture. The images were glued onto the paper – measured and placed according to the base board panel – then the base board panel was distressed slightly with a brown Distress Ink, then adhered with Distress Collage Medium.
The deer was added after that was stuck down, then some more collage medium added to the top and bottom of the base board aperture, then mica flakes scattered there.
The sentiment board was distressed a little with some brown Distress Ink, then also glued down with collage medium.
I enjoyed playing with products from my stash that are not my usual ‘go to’ products – and getting inky and messy, of course.
Hello. I have been busy crafting and have made a Christmas card using some Pinkfresh Studio washi tape:
The first thing I did was to place the wide washi onto a piece of card, and use the matching dies to cut out the images.
I created the background using a Spellbinders embossing folder, then wiping over some white pigment ink to bring out the details more.
I then arranged the images in a wreath format, adding the dangly baubles at the bottom. Before using a combination of glue and 3D foam.
I have a selection of this washi tape from Pinkfresh Studio – the trickiest part is not applying it to the card before die cutting – it’s making sure the die is very well stuck down to the card piece surrounding the washi – low tack tape doesn’t stick to washi and the die can move – a lot! Ask me how I know…….
Hello. I have been spending a lot of time in my craft room to escape decorating work and have another card to share:
I used some Pretty Pink Posh products which I ‘found’ when I was searching for something else. I was inspired to use the bird house stencil, and the bird dies.
I first created the birdhouse stencilled background using Pinkfresh Studio inks. I used coral and pink tones, and then cut that panel into a 5.5 inch square – knowing I was going to use a 6 inch square card base.
I then die cut the birdies out of white card stock, then ink blended a brown and a red Distress ink. I wanted them to look like Robins. The beaks are so small I used an orange Copic, and the eyes are little black gems.
After placing the birdies on the background panel – they didn’t really stand out very much so I looked for a way of still showing the background stencilling and found this Polkadoodles vellum with silver snowflakes….
I cut that 5.5 inches by 6 inches, used a bone folder to score each end, then wrapped it around the sides to hold it in place, then added double sided tape. This way, there is no glue on the front of that snowflake acetate.
I then die cut the word ‘Joy’ from a Stamps Of Life die set provided to us for a virtual event – the shadow layer from a mat silver, and the word itself from a silver glitter non-shed card stock.
I die cut the word a couple more times and layered with the silver glitter word for a little more dimension and stability.
I first added the word with glue, then each of the little birdies was added with small pieces of 3D foam.
This is a very shiny and glittery card which makes it difficult to take a photo of – but I think you can see all the shine.
Hello once again. The Alphabet Challenge has started a new challenge. We have reached the letter ‘P‘ and Melanie has chosen the theme of ‘Party’. Here is my card:
I decided to release my Copics for this card – they have been neglected recently….
The Images are all from Mama Elephant – ‘Flying With Friends’ and ‘Yay A Party‘, and ‘Celebration Hamsters‘. I stamped the images with Gina K Amalgam, then set to colouring them all. The colouring didn’t really take me too long, it is the colour choices which take me longer to plan out, but I kept with the pink, blue, and green theme – obviously with greys and browns for the critters.
I also added some rosy cheeks, and white gel pen.
Once the colouring was completed, I turned my mind to the actual scene. I used the Mama Elephant ‘Slim Woodland‘ die and cut out of white card stock. I then used Distress inks in green and brown to colour the trees and the grass, masking off as required.
I wanted a blue sky behind the party, so took a white piece of card and ink blended a couple of blue Distress Inks – a light one first, then the darker one nearer the top.
A white picket fence – another Mama Elephant die set – and now to lay out the images……
The tree and grass layer was added the blue sky piece of card, with the white fence slotted in behind the grassy hills.
The animals were added one by one, some overlapping, with either glue of 3D foam.
The sentiment was stamped and cut, added to the top right corner.
I hope you can come and join us with your ‘party’ themed projects. xx
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