Colourful Butterfly

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good weekend, and have been enjoying the sunshine.

I thought I would share this bright and colourful card today, that I made using a stamp and die set from a recent copy of Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine. Issue 178.

Firstly I used a Mandala stencil from Aladine which came in the Spring Wow Embossing Members kit.

I taped the stencil onto white card and then inked through it with a small round blending tool using Fossilized Amber and Wild Honey Distress Oxide inks.

I cut the card to fit an A2 note card, leaving it slightly short on the sides so I could see the edges of the black note card beneath. 

I stamped and die cut my butterfly three times with thick white card, then I coloured the top layer using Copic markers. I stacked the three layers together to give it dimension and placed it on my card with a simple sentiment.

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

xxx

Anniversary Drinks

Good morning folks, I hope you are having a good week. We have been having a bit of bad weather lately, snow and ice, so not been great to go out, but on the plus side, it has meant more time in the craft room lol.

Today's card is one I made a few weeks ago. The stamps and dies came from two craft magazines that did complimentary free gifts. One was Die-Cutting Essentials issue number 27, and the other was Simply Cards and Papercraft issue number 166. One magazine had the dies, and the other had the labels and stamps.

I used the dies to cut the glasses from acetate and the wine bottle from a green silk paper, then added red panels behind them to look like the wine.

I stamped the label with the included images and then die cut it with the matching die. Then I inked it with Antique Line Distress Oxide Ink, to age it a bit.

The seal and strip at the top of the bottle are cut from a bronze pearlised paper, to give them a metallic look. Then I stamped one of the sentiments and added this to the top of the card.

Hope you like it, take care and Ill see you soon.

xxx

Sparkly Leaves

Good morning folks, I hope you have all had a good week and are looking forward to the weekend. We've had a busy week here with the boys being over, but it's so lovely to have them here, and it does go far too quickly !

Today's card was going to be a white on white, with just a pop of colour, but in the end it had more colour than I had intended, but I still like it.

I used a small tree die, that I think came on a magazine a few years ago. Either that or it's a Cheery Lyn die, I can't remember lol. 

Anyway, I cut it from plain white card and then using an embossing pen I coloured some of the leaves and then added Wow Red Pearl embossing powder. Unfortunately the embossing pen turned the leaves blue and the powder wasn't enough to cover it, so the leaves ended up a shiny blue lol. So, when I repeated this for the rest of the leaves, I added silver embossing powder instead!

I used stitched rectangles for the background and frame and added a sentiment cut with a Cut n Make die, I left one part plain white and then embossed the other part silver.

Then I added it all to a plain white A2 note card.

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

xxx

Christmas Round Up No' 1...

Good morning folks, I hope you are having a good week. These are some of the rest of the Christmas cards that I made this year. More another day lol. I won't describe each one, but I will list the supplies/techniques under each.

Watercolour background, Marianne Designs Santa Sleigh Die, Landscape die free with a magazine. Cut and Make sentiment die.

Same as above, but with a Marianne landscape die and Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements background.

Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements background. Lawn Fawn Toboggan Together and Happy Howlidays, Simon Says Stamp Sentiment.

All three are printed with the Laser Jet printer and then foiled using the Minc Machine. Then I stamped the Altenew Build A Flower Poinsettia around the sentiment using Altenew Crisp Dye Inks and Embossing Powder. 

Lawn Fawn Toboggan Together and Snow Cool, with Simon Says Stamp Sentiment and Wow Embossing Powder.

Alcohol Ink Background on photo paper, Spellbinders bauble Die, Marianne Landscape die and Cut and Make Sentiment.

Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements background. Lawn Fawn Toboggan Together and Happy Howlidays, Simon Says Stamp Sentiment. 

Marianne landscape die and Santa Sleigh, with a watercolour background and a Cut and Make sentiment.

Avery Elle Wonky Stitched Ellements background. MFT Stamps Zigzag Stitched Circle Die, Silhouette free die from a magazine, Spectrum Noir Glitter pen and a SSS sentiment.

Large Snowflake Border die, (I think it's either a Marianne Design or a Joy Craft die). Wow Sentiment Stamp and Embossing Powder. Snowflake Sequins.

Alcohol Ink background, Avery Elle Snow Capped Mountains, Lawn Fawn Toboggan Together, Marianne Design Trees and a SSS Sentiment.

Thanks for dropping by, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

PPPPPP - Pick up a Penguin

Good morning folks, I hope you have had a good weekend. I managed to spend some time in the craft room yesterday, so today's card is one of the ones I managed to finish.

I love doing ink blended backgrounds, and using the Distress Oxide inks from Tim Holtz makes them so easy, this one used, Faded Denim, Broken China, Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean.

Once I had all of my colours down on watercolour card, I spritzed it with water and then laid a plain piece of paper straight on top to soak up any excess. Then when it was dry it gave this lovely mottled effect.

I used a white Wink of Stella shimmer pen to add the drops, I just squeezed a few drops out onto my desk and then used the brush nib to splatter all over the background.

While that was drying I cut the penguins and fish using a magazine freebie set we got recently and then stamped a couple of ice floats from the Avery Elle Polar Pals set.

I cut the ice out with their matching die and then inked around the edges with more distress ink to help blend them with the background.

I placed all of the images on my background and added that to a pale blue card blank. Then to finish off I stamped a simple sentiment, added some snowflake sequins and a few drops of Nuvo White Blizzard Glitter Drops. 

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

xxx

Decorated Door

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week and are looking forward to the weekend. I know I am lol. 

Today's card was made using a free gift set from a magazine, which I think was last Christmas. It contained the door and frame embossing folder and some decorative stamps and dies.

I embossed the door pattern onto white card and then embossed it again on red card, then I cut the red door out and stuck it on top of the white one.

I ran around the grey frame with a cool grey Copic Marker to add a bit of shading and then stamped a letterbox and door knocker on to the door with Versamark ink. Then I heat embossed this with gold embossing powder.

I used the wreath and holly dies with some white card that I shaded with green Copic markers, so that they wouldn't be all the same colour.  

I added this to the door and popped on some red pearls and a gold bow to finish the wreath off. Then I white heat embossed the simple sentiment and popped it all on to a cream 4 x 6 note card.

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

xxx

Puffy Heart Panda

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. We are soooo looking forward to a long weekend again, unfortunately they flash past so quickly. lol. But anyway, tomorrow is my niece's birthday and this is one of the cards I made for her.

Isn't that little panda just so cute? This whole card was made using an embossing folder, and stamps from a papercraft magazine. I really like this set and can see it getting lots of use.

I started by embossing a piece of white card with the heart embossing folder, before I stamped the Panda and a sentiment in the middle, with Tuxedo Black Memento ink.

I used a couple of Copic markers to add some colour to the balloon, bee and butterflies, and then used a white gel pen and a black fineliner to add a bit of detail.

I found a nice shade of yellow Coredinations card to sit behind the front panel and then made a square card blank from some black spotty card.

Then to finish it off I added a few dots of Glossy accents here and there to give it a bit of shine.

Hope you like it, and a very happy birthday to a very special niece for tomorrow.

Take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx