Good Morning All and a very Happy Thursday and a Very Happy December!
I'm still bobbing around the Caribbean but made a few quick cards to tide you over until I get back!
Unfortunately, I don't have step by step photos for this one, but it should be easy to follow.
Die cut a square of Silver Mirror card using the large Noble Pierced Square Dies.
Cut a smaller square of Coconut White card and emboss with the A4 Twinkle, Twinkle Folder.
Pick up some Flake and Glitter glue on a piece of Cut 'n Dry Foam and dab over the embossed card.
Sprinkle Cosmic Shimmer Diamond Snow Glitter Jewels over it.
Matt and layer onto the gold card.
Place a piece of Double Sided Adhesive onto some white card.
Die cut the Festive Collection - Christmas Tree Greeting.
Carefully peel back the protective layer from the double sided adhesive from the base up to the top of the word "Christmas".
Sprinkle Cosmic Shimmer Polished Silk Glitters on.
Peel back to the top of the next word and apply a different colour glitter.
Keep going until you've covered it all. I've used a mix of blues and purples.
Glue the tree onto the embossed background and add a star embellishment.
And that's all you need to do!
The good thing is that it's flat so easy to post! It's also handy to be able to make your own glittered, embossed backgrounds!
Everything used (except for the silver card) is from Creative Expressions.
Well, that's it for this week. I'll be back next Thursday with another card. Many thanks for stopping by and leaving comments...always much appreciated.
Until next time, have a happy, crafty week!
Good Morning All and a very Happy Thursday!
I'm back with another one of the new Sue Wilson Festive Collection Dies and this one is gorgeous!!!!
So without further ado...let's get started....
Apply swirls of Broken China, Faded Jeans and Dusty Concord Distress Inks to a piece of Coconut White Card.
Spritz lightly with water, dab with a piece of kitchen towel then dry.
Go around the edges with the Faded Jeans Distress Ink. Use Cut 'n Dry foam for applying the inks.
Apply some Cosmic Shimmer Flake and Glitter Glue to the small star stamp (designed by Sam Poole last year for Creative Expressions....still available!). Stamp onto the distressed background and add Cosmic Shimmer Silver Moon Gilding Flakes,
Matt and layer onto Foundations Vintage Silver Card then glue onto a 6x6 card blank.
Die cut the Festive Collection-Dove of Peace (which includes the word "Peace") twice from Coconut White card.
On one of the doves, lightly apply some Broken China Distress ink.
Glue the 2 doves together leaving the wings free.
Glue into position on the card and shape the top wing.
Glue the words onto position and you're finished!
I hope you like it! It was really nice to get inky...sometimes we forget to use the older techniques but this worked so well with the dove.
Well, that's it for this week. I will be giving away one of the cards again this month so on the blog for the 27th, tell me which one is your favourite from this months selection and it could be winging its way to you!
Until next time, have a happy, crafty week!
Good Morning All and a very Happy Tuesday!
I though that this week I'd revisit a favourite technique of mine that works brilliantly with silhouette stamps and that's faux brayering.
I've used the new Singles stamps from Creative Expressions and this one is called "My Ex".
Anyway, here we go...............
Mask off an area of gloss card with stick notes.
Starting with the lightest colour at the top, apply stripes of ink across the card using Cut 'n Dry Foam. Go back over with the lightest colour to blend.
I've used Sunshine Yellow, Peach Bellini and Citrus Adirondack Inks. This works just as well with Distress Inks.
Remove the sticky notes.
Ink up the stamp with Black Archival and stamp so that part of the image goes outside the coloured area.
Stamp the sentiment with the same ink.
Stamp dots from the A5 Doodle Flower set with Black Archival Ink.
Matt and layer onto Black Foundations Card.
Emboss a piece of Coconut White Card using the A4 Rows of Bows Embossing Folder.
Matt and layer onto black card.
Add a length of Black Seam Binding before gluing onto the blank card.
Add the stamped image with 3d foam pads.
Tie a triple bow with the seam binding and glue into position to finish.
And there it is! It's such a quick card to make and you can get some fab backgrounds in all sorts of colours. I hope you like it.
Well, that's it for this week. I'll be back next Tuesday with another background technique, hope you'll stop by.
Many thanks for visiting and leaving comments.
Until next time, have a happy, crafty week.
Good Morning All, it's Tuesday so it's Creative Expressions Blog Day! Hope you all had a great week.
The Design Team were sent some Masks to play with this month and it's been terrific fun trying to come up with new ways of "playing" with them!
This week I've gone for Distress Inks. Anyway, enough chat, let's get on with it!
Place the mask over a piece of Coconut White Card. Ink through the flower head parts of the mask with Cut 'n Dry Foam using Squeezed Lemonade, Barn Door and Rusty Hinge Distress Inks. Move the mask around to put the flowers where you want them. Add in some of the leaves.
Distress the edges with Rusty Hinge.
Matt and layer onto white and orange card.
Using orange card, cut out Spellbinders D-Lites Medallion 2.
Stamp "Just a Note" with Black Archival ink onto Coconut White Card and heat emboss with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Powder.
Use a Spellbinders die to cut out. Leave the die in place and distress with Rusty Hinge Ink.
Attach to the Medallion with 3d foam pads.
Attach to the background card with pads.
Using Coconut White card, die cut flowers from the Spellbinders Finishing Touches Faux Quilled Flowers and leaves from the Faux Quilled Leaves sets. Cut the leaves to make smaller pieces. Glue to the card with Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue.
Add a few of the flowers with 3d foam pads.
Add some Creative Expressions 8mm faux pearls to the flower centres to finish.
And there's the finished project!
It's the same mask that I used last week but looks completely different.
I hope you've enjoyed this week's project. I'll be back tomorrow with another project for the Creative Studios team.
Many thanks for visiting and until next time, have a happy, crafty time!
