Love you to the moon and back

Good morning folks, I hope you have had a good week. Are you looking forward to a crafty weekend? I know I am lol. 

Today's card is another that I made last year but never got blogged. I used the Mama Elephant, Up and Away stamp and die set, along with the Altenew, To the Moon set.

First of all I stamped the moon using Altenew and Memento inks, then I cut a circle mask and used Distress Inks to blend a dark background, around the moon.

I picked one of the sentiments from the Altenew set and stamped it with Versamark ink, and heat embossed it with Liquid Platinum fine detail Embossing Powder. 

Then I added drops of silver shimmer and white paint to the background to give a spacey/shimmery feel.

I stamped the bunny and balloons using Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and then coloured them with Copic Markers and cut them out with their matching dies.

Then after stamping in the balloon strings first, I added the images to the card front, backed it all with black card and added it to a white card base.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Ellie sends birthday wishes

Good morning all, today's card is one I made for my Daughter-in-law a couple of weeks ago. 

I love this little elephant set from Avery Elle, I think it is probably my most used image stamp. 

I stamped the images with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and then coloured them with Copic markers. Then I cut them out with their matching dies, and added Glossy Accents to the balloons to make them shine. 

Then I used a stencil that came free with a magazine a while ago to make the border, straight on to a 6 x 6 card blank. 

I inked through the stencil with Distress Inks, Wilted Violet, Shaded Lilac and Milled Lavender.

Then I stamped a sentiment using a purple pigment ink and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Then I cut it out with the MFT Stamps Stitched Banner dies.

Then to finish it off I added a couple of stickers to the balloons.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Magnolia pencil colouring

Good morning crafty friends, hope you are all well today.

This is one of the projects that we did at the dabble day on Saturday. It's a small acetate covered picture and is really very pretty in real life.

We started with the stamped image and coloured it with a 9b pencil, just adding the pencil where we wanted the darker colour and then blending it out using a paper stump. I have never tried this technique before and I really like it. I think it gives a lovely soft effect to the flower.

We then cut the flower out and decoupaged it over another stamp of the same image. 

We added some second generation stamping around the edge of the card and cut some butterflies from some more stamped card. 

Two of the butterflies are decoupaged below the acetate and then the third is laid on the top. I've tried to get a picture to show how the acetate curves around the pic, this enables the whole image to stand up.

Then we just added a bow and a couple of stick pins to finish it off. Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx