letterpress

Thanks A Bunch

Hello again. A final card using the last of the smaller florals from the Pinkfresh Studio ‘Pretty Blooms‘ suite incorporating their washi:

The green background was created using a letterpress plate from Spellbinders ‘Festive Press‘, Pinkfresh Studio green ink, and Spellbinders cotton card stock. This was cut down slightly and adhered to a white card base.

The oval was die cut from a Pinkfresh Studio nesting oval set, attached with 3D foam, and the small floral arrangement splaced where I thought would look effective.

The sentiment is gold heat embossed, die cut, and layered a couple of times, then glued down.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – make your own background

A Cut Above – anything goes with die cuts

Crafts Galore – anything goes

Beautiful Blossoms – anything goes with florals

Love To Craft – anything goes

You’re Amazing

Hello again. Another card created using the Pinkfresh Studio ‘Pretty Blooms’ suite and the washi tape:

The background for this card was created using the Pinkfresh Studio letterpress plate ‘diagonal plaid‘ and a Pinkfresh Studio green ink, onto a Spellbinders cotton card panel. I then splattered with black acrylic paint and when dry, cut down slightly then glued onto a card base.

The shaped label was also a Pinkfresh Studio die set, attached with 3D foam, the two washi floral elements also added with 3D foam.

The sentiment was gold heat embossed, again added with 3D foam – and my usual final addition was some gold gems.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – create your own background

A Cut Above – anything goes with die cuts

Crafts Galore – anything goes

A Perfect Time To Craft – anything goes

Mix It Up – anything goes, option of embossing taken (heat embossing)

Floral Hello

Hello everyone. The Alphabet Challenge is starting a new challenge. We have reached the letter ‘O’, and Helen has chosen the theme of:

‘O is for Oval and One word sentiment’

Here is my card:

For this card I chose to use the Press Plate from Pinkfresh Studio ‘Oval Blossom‘. I first used orange ink for the press plate, which colours the outside of the blossom image, then used the oval die and scalloped die which comes from the same set.

The sentiment is also a Press Plate from Spellbinders, inked with the same orange die cut with a stitched rectangle die which would leave a white edge to match the scallop on the floral image.

The background navy panel was cut slightly smaller than an A2 card size, and dry embossed using a very, very old embossing folder, which I believe is from Darice.

The final touch was to add some pearl gems to some of the background flower centres.

I hope you can come and join us with your creations following our theme. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – add some texture

Beautiful Blossoms – florals

Ally’s Angels – anything goes

Love Letters & Hearts

Hello again. The Alphabet Challenge has started a new challenge. Veronika is the host, and as we have reached the letter ‘L’, she has chosen the theme of:

Love Letters and Hearts

Here is my card:

I chose to use a Spellbinders die set for this card and wanted vibrant colours.

The dies set for the main heart and the flowers is called ‘Blooming Heart‘. I used a combination of Spellbinders card stock and Concord & 9th card stock to create the vibrant glowers and leaves, and added them to the dark blue background heart.

For the letters or handwriting part of it, I used a Spellbinders Letterpress plate twice – just moving it along to create the indents in the mustard coloured card stock behind the heart.