Hello. A little play in my craft room created this card:
Onto a Kraft card base I stamped and white heat embossed this gorgeous – older – poinsettia stamp from Uniko. I then used a couple of colours of pencils to darken the leaves. I haven’t used my pencils in such a long time and may have to try them out again in the near future.
I also white heat embossed the sentiment, and added some white sequins.
A simple card – took a little planning – but I like the effect of the end results.
Hello there. I have been playing with a new-to-me die set from Tim Holtz:
I first created some panels of green shimmery card using Tim Holtz mica sprays in varying shades of green and one panel of orange. I let them dry overnight, as I had used Distress Mixed Media Heavystock, which would need a couple of passes through my machine – that card stock is indeed ‘heavy’.
I then die cut the wreath layers and stuck them together. Now – that sounds simple – but it took some figuring out – it’s a good job I was in a fiddly and fussy kinda mood! I then die cut the berries and used only two layers – my fiddly and fussy mood didn’t extend to the small, very small, outer berry circles!
I also used the remainder of the orange mica card to die cut the bow.
Once the wreath layers and berries were glued down, I turned to the background, and die cut this snowflake panel – again – for a white-on-white background. I thought this added interest without taking away from the wreath.
I then searched through my previously foiled Christmas sentiment stash and used the one you see.
The Alphabet Challenge has reached the letter ‘O‘, and Billie A is hosting this time round. The theme is ‘Outer Space’. Here is my card:
The panda and starship is from Clearly Besotted – stamped, coloured with Copics, then cut using my Scan-n-cut.
The purple circle is from an ink smooshed and splattered piece created previously, die cut using a large circle, a white circle then added, and I ‘gutted’ the larger circle to create the smaller circle – waste not, want not…..
It seems quite simple -and yet the placement of the rocket and panda took me – it seems – forever! I do procrastinate on occasion!
I hope you can come and join us with your ‘outer space’ creations. xx
Hello once again. Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge, and Pamela has chosen the theme of ‘Halloween or Halloween Colours‘. I don’t celebrate or doing anything with Halloween, so I chose the Halloween colours of purple, black and orange:
I used a technique learnt from Gina K during some virtual events over the past couple of years.
Onto a white card panel, I ink blended orange and purple Distress Oxides – a smoother blend in my opinion. I have taken to ink blending quite a lot recently – and I think the ink and the card stock are what makes the results worth doing – learning by previous mistakes!
I then stamped the silhouette image in black. Once dry, I splattered some Lawn Fawn shimmer and let that dry too.
I die cut this blended panel, a white panel, and also a black panel with some nesting circles, and stuck them all together.
On another piece of white card I dry embossed using an old – very old – Sue Wilson embossing folder, and adhered that to a card panel, adding the circles with 3D foam.
The sentiment was created with a die cut, and then the ‘birthday‘ white heat embossed onto black card.
I added some silver gems for some extra interest, and thought they would tie-in with the splatters.
I hope you can come and join us with your ‘Halloween – or Hall ween colours’. xx
I dry embossed a white panel and layered it with a green panel.
The leaves were heat embossed in gold, then die cut using their matching dies. The sentiment was created using a die for the word ‘peace’ – layered three times – and added to the shadow layer. The ‘love and joy’ was stamped then trimmed.
I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas/festive Creations. xx
I have a card to share today using lots of bright colours and die cuts:
The base panel is a previously created panel when ink smooshing and mixing some bright colours, then I embossed it with a Stampin Up embossing folder. I splattered this some black acrylic and set it to dry.
I then turned to die cutting all the pieces from the Tim Holtz die set – choosing bright colours – and using more previously created ink smooshed panels from my stock. I also found some black glimmer card which I had used some glimmer polish on so thought that would be ideal for the eyes.
Once all the pieces were die cut, I played with layout and decided to go with the face as you see, sticking down with a combination of 3D foam and glue.
The sentiment is also from Tim Holtz – using the letters which fell out of the metal die – a big ‘U’ instead of the full word as I felt it wouldn’t fit in and look right……
A bright and cheerful encouragement card – I have someone in mind – with a lot of fiddly work – but I like the result.
The new themes for ABC Christmas Challenge are ‘Ufor Unusual Colours‘ and ‘V for Velvet‘. I chose to go with unusual colours. Here is my card:
The two Hero Arts holly branches were created from a playtime I had in my craft room. I have done this technique before, and love how it turns out every time.
Onto piece of white card, apply PVA glue all over, add tissue paper – wrinkle it as laying it down. Then spray with water and add colour with powder – Brushos for instance. More water to let the colour soread – then leave to dry.
You end up with a very crispy and colour piece of card. I then add gilding wax to pick up all the wrinkles – then put to one side for future use.
As you can see, the top branch is using purples and browns with gold gilding wax, and the second is using different greens with gold gilding wax. You are best adding the gilding wax before die cutting as you may squash some of the texture putting it through your machine.
For the card, I dry embossed a very old Sue Wilson embossing folder, cut a panel for the card base, adhered the branches, and added a foiled sentiment – from another play session with my foiling machine.
I was going for a cleaner look this time – so ne gems – shocker!
I hope you can come and join with your Christmas/festive creations using our themes. xx
The new challenge theme at Cardz 4 Galz has been chosen by Debbie. She wants us to create a card ‘for a cause’. Here is my card:
My mum passed away earlier this year from the effects of Alzheimer’s Dementia, and so I chose to use forget-me-nots for my card, which is the flower associated with this dreadful disease.
I used the die set from The Greetery to create this bunch of flowers. Firstly, I ink smooshed some blue and some green inks onto some Distress Mixed Media card stock – trying to get some variation in the colours – but not too dramatic.
Once die cut, I assembled the flowers – I must have had some patience to do this – but maybe it was that I was inspired by the reason I was doing it – so very fiddly – but it came together quite quickly.
The sentiment is from Pinkfresh Studio, and I realise as I type this that it is very emotional, such a short time since I lost her, and I will always be thinking of her……she is the one who got me into card making in the first place too……
I hope you can come and join us with your creations following our theme. xx
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