Belated birthday wishes

Good morning folks, I do hope you have had a good weekend, and the weather has been as nice for you as it has for us. This week on the blog, we thought we would focus on florals, so here is my first take on this theme.

As I had been playing with the Brushstroke Messages stamp set from Simon Says Stamp last week, and it was still on my desk, I decided to make another card, but this time using the patterned paper that went with the set.

After A LOT of searching, I eventually found the little flower die, that also came in the October 2017 SSS kit, and I cut quite a few flowers from the papers, and used some Sue Wilson and Marianne Creative dies for the leaves.

This card was for a young lady at work, who we only found out after the event that it had been her birthday. Hence the Belated message on the inside of the card, which is from the Avery Elle set called, Handwritten Notes.

I used part of a sentiment from the Brushstroke messages set on the tag on the front, by masking off the other half before I inked it. Then I heat embossed it with SSS Steel Navy Embossing Powder.

I added a few sequins to the front to finish it off.

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

xxx

Spring daisy

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good start to the week. 

Today's card is one I made for a lovely friend who had a birthday last week. I used one of our new stamp sets, this one is Spring Daisy by Altenew.

I used an A6 card blank and matted the white card front with a piece of soft silver shimmer card. Then I stamped the flowers directly on to the card front.

For the daisies, I used Altenew Crisp Dye Inks in Arctic, Dark Chocolate and Peach Perfect.

Then for the leaves I used Memento Inks in Pistachio and Olive Grove.

I stamped an extra flower and cut it out with the matching die, and then raised it on foam pads to give a bit of depth to the card. Then I added a simple sentiment from the Altenew Beautiful Day stamp set.

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