Embossed background

Welcome back on this fine and sunny Monday.  Hope you've had a good weekend?

You may have noticed that we have had a theme for each of the past two weeks.  Well this week is no different!

Instead of using products from just one stamp company we will be focusing on.......EMBOSSING.

For today's card I have used a scroll design from the Mr and Mrs set by Clearly Besotted.  I stamped this on white card with Versamark ink and added Simon Says Stamp's rose gold embossing powder.

I cut down the panel and added it to a piece of embossed card.  From the paper stash I found a sheet of sentiments and cut one of these for the focal point.

To finish up I added a bit of shimmer pen to the sentiment.  Unfortunately it doesn't show up well on camera.

Hope you like my card.  I'll be back Wednesday with another.

TTFN Jude xx

Clean and Simple

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week. I finally have my voice back, although it did take until yesterday to finally start sounding a bit more normal lol. 

Today's card concludes our Simon Says Stamp kit week, and for today I have made a card using the Brushstrokes Messages stamp set that came with the October 2017 kit.

I stamped 3 of the main brush stroke images using Distress Oxide inks in Broken China, Peacock Feather and Blueprint Sketch.

Once these were dry I used two of the thinner stamps to heat emboss a couple of lines in between the blue images, using Versamark ink, and Simon Says Stamp Rose Gold Embossing Powder.

Then I used a sentiment stamp from the same set and heat embossed that in the same rose gold powder across the centre. Then I popped it onto a blue note card and it was all finished.

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

xxx

Embossed Inset Stamping

Good morning all, I hope you have had a good week and are looking forward to the weekend. I know I am, as I'm eventually getting my hair done again, after way, way too long. I can't really be that grey, can I ???? 😉

Today's card was a bit of an experiment, after seeing a new set released by Concord and 9th that I really wanted but was out of stock - hmphh. Anyway I improvised and used what I had. The set I had seen stamped a background that left spaces for you to use the infill stamps included. 

This meant you could heat emboss a background and then stamp the flowers into the blank spaces afterwards. So I used the Altenew Build a Flower - Poinsettia set, and stamped the flower 3 times on a sheet of white card. 

Then I used the coordinating die to cut them out. with the piece of card I had left, I stamped it all over using a Versamark ink pad. I just pressed the ink pad directly on to the plain paper until I was happy with the coverage. Then I covered it really well with Rose Gold Simon Says Stamp embossing powder.

This gave me this beautiful rich textured background, with spaces for me to stamp the flowers. So I added the panel to another piece of white card and then used Altenew Crisp Dye inks from the Red Sunset set, to stamp the flowers.

For the full flower in the middle I used the outline stamp with Versamark and embossing powder to make it stand out. But in hindsight this wasn't the best idea as it did cause a little bit of bubbling on my background card.

Then to finish it off I stamped a small sentiment from the SSS Falala set on to black card and white heat embossed it, then added the whole thing to a cream card blank.

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

xxx

Poinsettias All Around

Good morning, hope you are all well and had a great weekend. I have had my grandsons over for a quick visit, as it's the youngest's birthday on Thursday. It was so lovely to see them, and for them to spend some time with their cousins. 

Anyway, on to today's cards. I have three for you today as they are all using the same diecuts, just done slightly differently.

The poinsettia is a Memory Box stamp and die set, that we have had for a couple of years. For this card I heat embossed it with Simon Says Stamp Rose Gold Embossing Powder.

For this card I stamped it straight on to a red shimmer cardstock and then layered it with a red sparkle cardstock. I love the red and gold combo, and the tiny yellow brads in the centre.

The Embossing folder is the same on these two cards. It's a Crafter's Companion, split snowflake and snow folder with a plain strip in the middle, which is perfect for adding tape or ribbon. 

For this final card, I stamped the poinsettia onto plain white card and then coloured two layers with green and red Wink of Stella pens. Then I layered them onto a red glitter layer, and added tiny homemade enamel dots to the centre with Nuvo Crystal Drops.

For all the cards I used a Merry Christmas die from a Frozen Forest set and the fern leaves are a Britannia die.

       

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

xxx

Sing as if no-one is listening

Good morning all, are you glad it's Friday? I'm not as that means my week off is over and it's back to work on Monday lol.

I thought I'd give you a little break from the Christmas cards and share this lovely Altenew Winter Cardinal with you today instead.

I stamped him with Altenew Inks using the pink and red tones. Then for the final layer, I stamped it with Versamark ink and heat embossed it with SSS Rose Gold embossing powder.

I used a small deckled card base and inked all around the edge with Altenew Blush Crisp Dye ink, then stamped the branch and berries directly onto the card front, again using the Altenew inks.

I sat my cardinal on the branch and then added little accents of white gel pen to the berries, to make them a little more life-like.

Then I picked one of the sentiments from the set and stamped it under the branch.

Hope you like it, take care and have a great weekend.

See you soon.

xxx

Dahlia blossoms

Good morning all, and happy Hump day. I hope you are all having a good week. It's my short work week this week so I'm now off for the rest of the week, but I have lots of baking to do before a family Christening on Sunday. 

Today's card was one I made for a friend of mum's. She wanted one to send from the line dancing group that her friend runs, so I thought this sentiment was appropriate.

I used the Altenew Dahlia Blossoms set and Altenew Crisp Dye inks. I started by stamping a background using the bud stamp from the set. I stamped it randomly on a piece of white card using Blush ink.

Then I stamped up three of the larger flowers using Blush, Rouge, Velvet and Crimson inks and cut them out with their matching dies.

For the leaves I used Memento Dew Drop inks in Pistachio and Olive grove and then cut them out too.

I arranged the flowers to one side of the background panel and raised two of them with foam pads, then I arranged the leaves around them.

I used a sentiment from the Altenew set called Sentiments and Quotes. I inked it with Versamark ink onto a piece of Vellum and then heat embossed it with Simon Says Stamp, Rose Gold embossing powder. Then I cut it out with an MFT Stitched Banner Die.

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

xxx