Hello. I have a CAS card to share using a Clearly Besotted stamp:
I stamped the image onto panel and coloured with Copics. I then stamped the sentiment in the same brown Gina K amalgam ink, cut the panel down to be slightly smaller than the card base, and adhered with 3D foam.
I decided the bear needed some grounding, so I added a little cool grey Copic shadowing.
This card took a little planning, some drying time – and patience…..
I started by ink blending a piece of card with Distress Inks – Prize Ribbon and Hickory Smoke. Once dry, I stamped the trees in Versafine Black Onyx – and waited for it to dry again. Then splattered with white acrylic paint – and waited yet again.
Whilst waiting for all the drying to happen, I die cut the houses from The Greetery from ‘Ice White’ card stock from Pink frog Crafts here in the UK, pieced all the layers together – not a major issue – then stuck some black card stock on the back of the houses to fill in the windows.
I then die cut a circle from the front of the card base, die cut a larger circle from the ink blended panel – deciding which part I wanted to show through the aperture, glued that to the back of the card front – adding a white panel on the back to cover the mess. Sorry – the creative process……
I then placed the houses as you see – the smallest one with glue, and the other two with 3D foam squares, added a foiled sentiment – and done….
This has been a busy crafty weekend for me – a virtual class with Jenn Shurkus, and on the breaks from the class – and before it starts US time – I was able to make this card:
I took the opportunity to use some Spellbinders products – new and unused – to create this card.
I started by die cutting the elements – flowers, leaves, house, and trees, then created a scalloped circle and inner white circle using a Gina K Designs Master Layouts die set.
I then used a Spellbinders embossing folder – choosing to use the debossed side – and splattered that piece with some black acrylic paint.
I played a little with the layout – where to put the house and trees – how and where to add the floral elements – and found I liked this layout – using a mixture of 3D foam and wet glue to stick them all down.
The sentiment is a previously foiled strip.
After I had thought I had finished the card, I decided to add some white glitter card to the smoke coming out of the chimney…..
The Alphabet Challenge has started their first challenge of the year. We are at the letter ‘U‘, and we want to see your ‘Under The Weather/Get well‘ creations. Here is my card:
I stamped and coloured the image from Brutus Monroe then die cut using a wonky stitched rectangle die, and matted that with a blue piece of card. I added a couple more panels to the cards base, and added the sentiment as you see.
I decided to make the boy look quite sick and poorly, colouring his skin green – which was quite fun to do actually.
I hope you can come and join us with your ‘under the weather/get well/ creations. xx
Hello there. Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge. Caz has chosen the theme of ‘Clean and Simple’. Here is my card:
I chose a Heffy Doodle image, stamped then coloured with Copics, and die cut with the matching die set.
I then die cut a circle into white panel, added a piece of previously created ink smooshed card behind the aperture, and then added the image so he was poking his head out of it.
The sentiment was stamped and cut into a strip, adding as you see.
I hope you can come and join us with your CAS creations. xx
Hello once again. The ABC Christmas Challenge is at the beginning of the alphabet again. Helen is hosting this time round, and we want to see your ‘A for Anything goes’ and ‘B for Bears’ Christmas creations. Here are my cards:
A is for Anything Goes
B is for Bear
As you can see – two very different styles of cards.
The first CAS card is using s Clearly Besotted image, stamping, colouring with Copics, then using an oval to die cut, layering that white oval with black, then adding a foiled sentiment.
The second definitely not CAS card took a little more preparation.
I sprayed some Tim Holtz mica spray onto some Distress Heavystock card, splattered with white acrylic paint and set aside to dry.
I then totally channeled Tim Holtz from one of his YouTube videos, and die cut the bear from white and grey wood grain card stock, layered together, then added a pink scarf using a previously created ink smooshed panel.
The trees were die cut from a panel of card onto which I had glued some tissue paper, added water, added Brushos, then when dry added some gold wax. The die cutting of the trees flattened the ridges on the trees – but if you add the wax prior to die cutting then the detail is still there.
I snipped and placed the trees, added the bear, added some white glitter drops for the snow on the ground, then added the sentiment – die cutting the ‘board’ from the same white and grey card stock, and adding the letters in a haphazard fashion – I struggle with straight when I do a sentiment like this, so I went overboard with the higgledy-piggledy.
I dry embossed and white piece of card then splattered it with a bronze metallic acrylic paint. Whilst that was drying, I die cut and assembled the poinsettia and the added foliage, splattering the poinsettia with the same bronze paint.
I then die cut a square into a panel that was slightly smaller than my card base, added the splattered embossed piece behind the opening, then arranged the flower and foliage as you see.
The sentiment is a previously foiled strip.
I am hoping you can join us and start to create your Christmas card stash ready for the end of the year. xx
Hello. I have a slimline card to share with you today incorporating some new products from Spellbinders – dies and embossing folder:
Onto a black slimline card base I adhered a dry embossed panel with 3D foam – this card has a lot of dimension – this is just the beginning….
I die cut the flowers and leaves from various Spellbinder sets in black, magenta and grey, played a little with which colour for which layer, mixed and matched, then arranged them onto the card base.
The flowers were adhered with 3D foam squares, with the leaves and stems attached using glue.
The sentiment is from the Spellbinders Advent Calendar, die cut with a top layer of magenta, two layers of white, then a bottom black layer – slightly off-set.
A final touch was to add some gems – in groups of two – around the sentiment and the floral arrangement.
Hello. I hope you are well. I am having a small group of friends round tonight for a New Year’s Eve get-together – some drinks and nibbles and we usually play some games. I thought I would create a card for them all for the occasion.
I used a previously created background panel – a black piece of card, a Spellbinders stencil, and some gold paste.
I then die cut the white oval using a Gina K Designs Master Layout die as a base for the main images.
The bottle and glasses are from Charlie and Paulchen, and I die cut the bottle out of white, then the bottle top and label out of shiny gold card stock, and the glasses out of a matt gold card stock.
I like how the word for the bottle label has ‘Prost’ embossed into it, and the details on the bottle cork and glasses are really very effective and detailed. I can see I will use this die set more in the future for celebrations and birthdays.
I wish you all the very best for the New Year…… xx
Hello once again. The Alphabet Challenge has started a new challenge. We have reached the letter ‘T’, and Caz has chosen the theme of ‘Thank You’. Here is my card:
I dry embossed a white panel and adhered it to a white card base. I then die cut the elements from the November 2022 small die of the month in varying colours of card stock, and layered them all together. I did play with the colours and layers a little until I came up with a colour scheme I was happy with, and then repeated that to create two of the floral designs.
To create a little more stability in these I die cut the same base layer a couple more times in white card stock and layered them behind.
I decided which orientation I wanted for these two florals, and added a foiled sentiment across the middle.
I hope you can come and join us this time round – I look forward to seeing you in our gallery. xx
