Snowman Tag

Hello once again. I have been busy making tags the past couple of days and I have one here to share:

This cute little snowman is one of the dies from the Gummiapan Advent Calendar. As soon as I opened him up – day one I think – I began thinking of how to use him.

I took a medium sized tag and ink blended with a couple of blue Distress Oxides. I then used the same blue Oxide pads and ink smooshed on top of the blending, also adding some water droplets. I used my heat tool and set it off ot the side.

The snowman was die cut from white glitter card stock, and another layer of white card for a little bit of stability for the arms. Before adding the white card stock layer, I stuck down some black card to go behind the eyes.

The hat was die cut from Spellbinders black glitter foam, and attached. There is a little slit in the base of the hat so the snowman head can be inserted just a tad.

The eyes and buttons are little black gems, and the glitter carrot nose was coloured with a Copic marker.

The background tag was dry, so I added some silver low-shed glitter card for a little hill, and added the snowman.

The snowflakes were die cut with a Simon Says Stamp snowflake tag set from the same glitter low-shed card and adhered with glue, snipping off where they hung over the edges. and an iridescent gem added to each of the centres, and few tiny gems around and about the background for more sparkle.

The final touch was to add some blue ribbon from my stash.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Addicted To Stamps and More – Christmas

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – winter blues

Creative Fingers – anything goes

Mix It Up – anything goes – option of paper piecing not taken

Ellibelle’s Corner – I Spy – something for Christmas

Creative Inspiration – anything goes

MAWTT – Christmas Characters

Dragonfly Dreams – Christmas

2 Sisters On The Blog – Christmas with blue tones

Gift Tag Scene

Hello once again. I have a good excuse to play in my craft room due to the sever weather we are having. I created a few gift tags. I wanted to use my Altenew embossing paste, and found it was useable – I have had it for quite a while – but I needed to use it up pretty pronto. I took a whole host of tags and stencilled a lot of them with several stencils I had, and set them all aside to dry overnight.

Today I created this tag:

This manila tag I left the top part unshaded, and used the Brutus Monroe ‘Starry Night‘ stencil with the Altenew embossing paste, then used the paste to create a thick and uneven bottom to it. I wanted this bottom to look like a snowfall – all the ridges and peaks. This was left to dry overnight.

The houses were created using Spellbinders ‘Mantle Village‘ die set, card stock from Concord & 9th and Heffy Doodle. The houses have a second whole layer behind the front so I could piece back in the windows, using Spellbinders brushed gold card stock, or replacing the grey ones. I pictured some rooms with lights on, and some rooms without – that sounded good in my head, anyway!

I am more partial to gold, silver less so, and really do not like to use glitter. I don’t mind glitter card stock – but glitter in it’s loose form – no thank you. I find it too messy, and difficult to control.

The trees were die cut and assembled, and as the Altenew paste was now dry, I created my scene. The houses and trees adhered as you see with a mixture of wet glue and a little 3D foam behind to top of the upper two houses.

It was then I found out the bottom paste was not completely dry – even left overnight – I must really have put a thick layer down there – so some of the white paste found it’s way onto a tree or two – darn those mucky fingers…..I decided to carry on and finish anyway.

I added some Pinkfresh Studio glitter gems – these gems are silver and gold but I do like how they sparkle.

The finishing touch was to add a red ribbon from my stash.

It was only when creating this post did I realise a little red bit of fluff from the ribbon had found it’s way onto the bottom of the tag – that paste is a magnet, I truly think it is…..!

I had a house left over, so used it on this smaller tag – very simple – paste through he same stencil, paste on the bottom to create the hill, house and trees adhered, and some little gems to fit in-between the stencilled stars:

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Addicted To Stamps and More – Christmas

As You Like It – gold, silver, or glitter – explained above – no glitter for me thank you :)

Paper Minutes – Christmas – not a card

Inkspirational – Mood Board – inspired by the houses

Mix It Up – anything goes – option of paper piecing taken

Ellibelle’s Corner – I Spy – something for Christmas

Everybody Art – house/home

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge – option anything to do with presents taken

12 Months Of Christmas Link Up – anything goes Christmas

Guest Designer Creative Artiste Mixed Media

Hello there. I was thoroughly pleased and excited to be offered a chance to be Guest Designer at the new Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge, when THIS card was chosen as winner by their Design Team.

The theme is always ‘anything goes mixed media’. Here is my creation:

I started by creating the background by using a snowflake stencil from Funky Fossil and Distress Texture paste in ‘Sparkle’. This set off to one side to dry and I then moved to creating some panels with Colorsparx watercolour powders in red and green – these were then set to dry, and for the other foliage, I created some panels using Distress Inks and Distress Mica sprays.

I already had an ink smooshed panel of lighter brown and dark splatters which I dug out ready to use.

Once all the panels were dry, I used Tim Holtz ‘Holiday Brushstroke 3‘ die set for the poinsettia and leaves, Spellbinders gold card stock for the centre of the poinsettia, and Sizzix ‘Buds and Branches‘ for the other foliage. The layers of the poinsettia glued together, and the edges with a Brutus Monroe Tricolour ink pad for more shadow.

The snowflake panel a was adhered to a square card base, and the floral and foliage images around to my satisfaction then attached with either 3D foam pieces or glue.

Some snow effect was added splattering Liquitex acrylic iridescent ink in white and gold, a foiled sentiment attached, and then some Pinkfresh Studio ombre glitter drops – I do like sparkly gems.

I absolutely loved creating this project. Mixed media is quite scary for me, but I have found that if I just go with my gut – it usually turns out reasonably good.

I hope you can have a go yourself and join the challenge this time round. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Try It In Tuesday – traditional Christmas

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Crafty Gals Corner – anything goes – option of three or more layers taken

Beautiful Blossoms – florals

Love To Craft – anything goes

Ellibelle’s Corner I Spy – something for Christmas

Stencilled Bauble

Hello once again. The Alphabet Challenge has reached the letter ‘R’, and Veronika has chosen the theme of:

R is for Round

Here is my card:

I used the Bibi Cameron ‘Snowflakes Ornament’ stencil set from Spellbinders.

The stencils were used direct onto the card base, and Pinkfresh Studio inks. There are several layers to each stencil, for different parts of the bauble. There are actually two bauble sizes, and I chose to do the largest.

Once the bauble was stencilled, I then used the mask over it and splattered with silver sparkle acrylic paint, and then again with one of the blue inks used for the stencilling.

The sentiment is foiled using a Lawn Fawn hot foil set, then die cut with the matching die and attached with wet glue. I then added some clear gems for a little more interest.

I hope you can come and join us following our theme. I shall be entering the following challenges:

12 Months of Christmas Link Up – Christmas, option of stitched up not taken

Stencil Fun – use stencils, option of sparkle or shine taken

Everybody Art Challenge – blue tones

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge – anything goes, option of blue Christmas taken

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Ellibelle’s Corner I Spy – something for Christmas

My Favourite Colours

Hello again. Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge. Johanna has chosen the theme of:

Your Favourite Colour Combination

Here is my card:

As you know, I like to make cards with florals, and the best way to showcase my favourite colours was by using the Concord & 9th ‘Party Hats Inlay’ die. These colours are what I tend to use when I make floral cards using die cuts.

I have made a couple of cards previously using the inlay dies and this was just as fun – fiddly, but fun.

I used the die on all of the colours you can see – pink, dark green, light green, yellow, purple, lilac, and I did use some ‘Press’N’Seal’ to try and keep the pieces under control.

To be able to inlay the pieces a little quicker, I used a white A2 card base, and added double sided sticky sheet to it, placed the background die cut panel on there, then started inlaying.

The sentiment is from a package of Pinkfresh Studio pre-foiled sentiments.

This green one is my favourite of all I created – but here are the rest:

I hope you can come and join us by creating a project using your favourite colour combination. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Avenue 613 Create – anything goes – option of ‘thanks’ not taken

Here Is A Place To Start – anything goes option of thanks not taken

Paper Funday – anything goes – option of tags not taken

Fab’n’Funky – dies or punches

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Crafty Gals Corner – anything goes with option of three or more layers

Mix It Up – anything goes – option of paper piecing

Love To Craft – anything goes

Thinking Of You

I had more time to use some new products from Altenew yesterday:

The image is a combination of an embossing folder and layering stencils to colour the image. I tried a couple of ways of doing this – stencilling first then embossing, but for this version I used the embossing folder first, then used the stencils to colour. I liked how the embossing enabled some colour variation within the leaves themselves.

The leaves were ink blended with pink, and the Pinkfresh Studio frame was die cut using a teal card stock. The panel and frame were layered onto a white card base, the foiled sentiment added, and three silver Pinkfresh Studio silver gems also added for a little bling.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Color Hues – Pink and Aqua

Creative Fingers – anything goes

A Perfect Time To Craft – anything goes

CYHTP – embossing folder – option of winter fun not taken

In My Thoughts

Hello everyone. I was able to create yesterday using some Brutus Monroe products:

I followed the colour scheme from the current Color Throwdown Challenge.

The scripted background is a rub-on from Brutus Monroe. I used the whole of the sheet, and cut down this panel to layer with a Kraft piece, and then layered onto the white card base.

The skeleton leaves are also from a sheet of rub-ons. I used those on a couple of pieces of card created during a crafty and inky play time. The orange is a sheet of card using Brushos, and the yellow is a crafty sheet using mica sprays.

Onto those two pieces of card, I used the two leaf rub-ons, then fussy cut them out. Yes – you heard correctly – I actually did a little fussy-cutting……!

The sentiment is also a rub-on from the same set, and using the more orange/rust coloured card. This was just trimmed with my mini guillotine.

The sentiment was added first with 3D foam at each edge, then the two leaves tucked underneath, a mixture of 3D foam and wet glue.

The idea was quite simple, the execution of the idea was a little more complex – especially the fussy-cutting – but I do like the simplicity of the outcome.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Color Throwdown – amber, rust, Kraft

Creative Fingers – anything goes

A Perfect Time To Craft – anything goes

Polkadoodles – anything goes

Here Is A Place To Start – anything goes – option of sentiment of thanks not taken

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Season’s Greetings

Hello once again. Here is another card created during my previous crafting session:

The card base was created using the same colour card stock as the background panel – I forget which particular colour it is, but it is from Concord & 9th.

The background panel was run through my die cutting machine with the ‘Holiday Diamond‘ cover plate – a product from the recent Pinkfresh Studio ‘Create and Connect‘ online event. As you can see, this cover plate cuts out some trees and some stars, as well as having a diamond pierced detail

I then took a piece of Spellbinders gold card stock, and a Pinkfresh Studio frame die to create the frame, and the piece that came from the middle of that I placed behind the panel so the gold shone through the trees and stars.

The frame was attached with strips of 3D foam to create dimension.

I then took a piece of dark teal – Concord & 9th card stock – and used a stamp from another recent event through ‘Online Card Classes’ also Concord & 9th, and heat embossed using a Taylored Expressions gold sparkly embossing powder.

This tree was then die cut, and I layered that with another couple of die cuts for stability, and attached that with 3D foam pieces.

The sentiment was also heat embossed with the same embossing powder, and a star from a Spellbinders die set, was added at the top of the tree.

Some gold facetted gems for the centre of the snowflakes and the centre of the star were the final touches.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Sparkles Forum Christmas – Christmas and Snowflakes

Aud Sentiments – glitter and/or Christmas and a sentiment

Die Cut Divas – any holiday in the year

12 Months Of Christmas – anything goes Christmas – option of stitched up

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Mix It Up – anything goes, option of paper piecing not taken

Love To Craft – anything goes

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Christmas Florals

I have been creating again, here is my latest:

It seems I am quite into using teal at the moment….. :)

The background panel is a dark teal, and embossed using a Spellbinders embossing, the panel cut down slightly.

The silver glitter frame was cut using a couple of Pinkfresh Studio dies and Pinkfresh Studio glitter card stock, then added with 3D foam strips.

The sentiment is from Concord & 9th, part of the recent Online Card Classes virtual event, a lighter teal shadow layer, and he white sentiment.

The florals are from Spellbinders, using an even lighter teal for the branches and stems, and red card stock for the poinsettias and the smaller flowers. I arranged these as you see, using a combination of wet glue and 3D foam pieces.

Some silver facetted gems to complete – the centre of the poinsettias, and three more around the sentiment.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – emboss it

Try It On Tuesday – sparkle

Peace On Earth – anything goes Christmas

A Perfect Time To Craft – anything goes

A Cut Above – die cuts, option to ‘warm it up’ not taken

Craft Rocket – Christmas and/or Winter

Aud Sentiments – glitter and/or Christmas and a sentiment

Triple B – birds and/or butterflies and/or blooms

Beautiful Blossoms – florals

Teal and Silver Christmas

Hello again. I have a card to share created during the snowy and cold weather snap we are having here in the UK. A lot of time spent in my craft room this past couple of days.

I started with a darker teal background panel from Concord & 9th, and ink blended slightly around the edges to create a central halo effect.

Whilst this was drying, I then took some snowflakes and die cut them from white glitter card stock several times, these were then adhered haphazardly to the dark teal panel using wet glue. I went over the edges with them, and when those extra pieces were snipped off, I found small places to add them too – not much wasted here.

The sentiment was die cut from silver glitter card stock, added to an even darker teal shadow layer, then attached to the snowflake panel with 3d foam.

I decided more bling was needed, so I used some facetted silver gems for the centre of the snowflakes, and smaller ones dotted here and there around the background.