Got out some old stash to play with to create a card full of movement.
I love the spring slimline cardstock for making a bright sunny card. I added the two panels to the front of the card and then added the die cuts to the mechanisms and added them to the front – so both move!
Really fun – super simple! ❤️
And nice to play with old stash again!
This card got a lot of air time on the Hobbymaker tv programme last week as Dave kept picking it up and playing with it! 🤣 love it!
The layering flower embellishments pack from Kingston Crafts comes with so many lovely delicate paper flowers (not surprised it sold out on the show on Friday) and so my first thing I wanted to make was a card with a wreath type embellishment with the flowers as the decoration.
I grabbed cheerful patterned cards and made layers for the card base which is 5×5 and then die cut the swirly oval for my wreath type focal point from the foiled cardstock.
I then chose three flower shapes and took three of each and lightly inked the centres using three colours of ink.
I then adhered them to the wreath in three clusters.
Next I added yellow glitter glue to the centres – this adds the perfect touch of sparkle!
Next I stamped and embossed the sentiment and added that too!
Seriously cute little flowers (these are the smaller sizes of the flowers in the pack) and I love the delicate nature of these against the bold patterns on the cardstock.
Martin didn’t get a chance to share many samples as these flowers sold out so quickly! So you are seeing it here first!
I played with the shimmer spritz on some dark green cardstock to create a really fun almost northern lights sky type effect and then I die cut it with the snowflake texture die which punches the pattern rather than cuts out a shape. From this I created the three panels for tags.
I used the solid green from the Everyday paper pad to create the tags – and then to diecut the trees for the embellishments.
I then popped the trees into a box and sprayed them with the white shimmer spritz – this gave it a lovely snowy finish!
I then took some green from the pastel cardstock and die cut some circles. I stamped the sentiment onto the circles.
Once they were all adhered together as layers I added some green ribbon to the tops of the tags – perfect for Christmas wrapping later in the year – much later in the year! 🤣
Back with a project using the spring mechanism which brings some fun movement … this time I needed the butterfly to flutter and I have to admit when I made this I was instantly hooked to using the springs on projects as it really steps it up!
I kept the card itself really simple. Dark coral red card stock cut into two panels, the smaller one then die cut with a negative die (where it takes the pattern out of the panel).
I then raised that up onto foam to give all the lovely dimension. I just love how this looks.
Next I found the butterfly sticker that went perfectly with the colour of the cardstock. I got rid of the stick with the powder from the embossing buddy and then attached the spring mechanism to the back and added it to the front of the card.
This popped it up fabulously to give plenty of space for the movement … and this is the main thing about these mechanisms … the movement is so much fun!
I kept the rest of the card simple – a sticker sentiment and some card Candi to embellish.
Just love how this turned out – so pretty!
And I must admit so happy with how it looked when I saw it on the tv show on Friday!
I actually did some crafting yesterday by pulling a few supplies from the piles in the lounge to make some Easter cards on the dining room table.
I found these cute carrot puffy fabric embellishments that had been in Hey Little Magpie monthly embellishment kit and had kept them to one side of the stash knowing I could use them for Easter. Then I grabbed my pouch of scrap cardstock and made some little layered rectangles for the embellishments to sit on!
I then pulled the pouch of ready made sentiments from the stash – I found three that said hugs that worked with the colours on the carrots and cardstock.
Next I get grabbed three of the card blanks from the Kingston Crafts ready made card blanks choosing the peach, cream and pink ones.
A simple job and perfectly spring like! Admittedly could have done with an Easter sentiment really but that wasn’t an option as would have required searching through the piles of boxes of stash to find my stamps – and that was more than I could face!
So my three Easter cards for this year (admittedly they will be late arriving with the aunties as only made on Easter Saturday!). Cute!
Last night Martin was back on Hobbymaker tv and shared two world exclusives from Kingston Crafts which included the paper layering flower kit. When I saw the butterflies in the paper flower kit I thought they would work so well for embellishing a scrapbook page – and so I decided to scrap this picture my Princess M when she was tiny … ridiculous to think that this was 20 years ago now!
I took some pink cardstock and added a rough circle using ink and a blending tool – this grounds my wreath of butterflies!
I then added stamping to the circle – again it helps to ground and gives some interest to the background.
Next I added some pale green cardstock behind the photo – these are actually cards from the Everyday Stories kits from Kingston Crafts. then adhered it into place to the bottom left of the circle.
Next I glued each of the butterflies in place to go all around the circle with them in different directions.
Then I filled in the spaces with a mix of the paper flowers and some flowers I die cut from leftover green cardstock I had added to the photo as a mat. this helped to bring the green across the page a little more
I added sticker letters for the title for the page to the centre of the circle in a higgedly fashion – didn’t want them uniformly straight!
I then used clear glitter glue for the centre of every flower and every butterfly. As it’s clear it is just a little extra touch without drawing focus.
I love how those paper butterflies frame it layout so well. Lovely texture and delicate as they are paper not cardstock.
Love it! So that’s my Scrappin Saturday project for this week and of course I can also say ‘As seen on Tv’ – this kit is great and I’m not surprised that it sold out last night!
Ok it’s Good Friday but I am continuing to share my festive Friday card because … well because that’s what I do!
This card was made when I was testing out the Holiday shimmer spritz from Kingston Crafts and I had these pieces leftover – one is the gorgeous sugar plum which is a messy mop up paper from the spritzing through a stencil and the other is a stamped and embossed flower where I added colour by painting with the spritz – just gorgeous and super shiny!
I decided to put them together for a funky card! And I am glad I saved sharing this till now as I have not been able to craft still as still no craft room! Might have to just play with my stash on the floor at this rate! I miss crafting so much!
Because – well why not?
I love mopping colour off a stencil like I did with this – also looks like there were some splatters and drips from other spray colours too – maybe the silvery one I’ve already forgotten the name of! Just provides a lovely imperfect mixed media look.
And I love using spritz for painting with as the shimmer is gorgeous!
The emboss still resists the liquid as it is painted in and of course the embossed lines create wells for the liquid so you get different intensity across the floral image.
I added the panel to a mat of light pink from the pastel cardstock and then raised the flower and the sentiment from my stash of ready cut and embossed sentiments up on the foam adhesive for dimension.
I then added the little silver gems to give a different texture.
The pictures really don’t capture the beauty of the shimmer and shine on this card – in real life, although simple, it is gorgeous!
I was running very behind on this project and would have forgotten if not for the prompt from Kelly – my design team for Creative Knockouts where our theme is Embossing Delight.
The challenge is sponsored by RAM stamps although I used one I already owned for this – Christmas Merry
After printing the image I coloured with alcohol markers and then went over the letters and the snowman with a heavy coating of the wink of Stella to give lots of shimmer.
I then cut it out and set aside.
I then took some red cardstock to create the card base and a panel to emboss on – I used a Paperartsy stamp and some bronze embossing powder to add some fun shine elements.
I think the squiggly nature of the stamp star/snowflake image works with the digital stamp image.
I raised both the digital stamp panel and then the background panel up on foam adhesive so it’s quite dimensional.
I then added into the inside of the card a panel with the same digital stamp – but I think enough space still for writing a message.
Quite a cute card made using my limited supplies available!
It had been a while since I had used the cover die with the little squares in it so I decided to use it to make this fun birthday card as one of my samples for Kingston Crafts using the everyday paper pad. So whilst I am not doing my usual KCC for first of the month I am at least sharing a patterned paper project!
I used the solid green for the base and then the patterned green to cut the squares panel.
I then cut it again from some scraps and stacked a few of them together in some of the squares to add different textures. Some I kept flat and some I left empty to show through to the solid green.
I then chose to emboss the big Altenew floral element in gold and then I painted it with the Holiday shimmer spritz inks. This makes such a pretty finish with the shine and shimmer!
I die cut the image out and then glued it into place on the layered panel.
The colours I chose for the floral element based on the gorgeous red and coral spotted paper which I made the 5×7 card blank from to mount the green panel.
I then used an Altenew sentiment on a scrap of cardstock that worked with the colours. I also added some cream sequins for some shine.
Inside the card I added a panel of white and a strip of the green to tie into the front of the card!
So here is my DT contribution for Addicted to stamps and more – but it is also my Mothers Day card I made for my Mum a few weeks ago but we only got around to celebrating Mother’s Day last weekend as I had been poorly.
I made this when the whole craft room was in disarray with most of the supplies already packed up in another room as I’ve been redecorating the craft room and so needed to go through everything and clear out!
I did however still have some patterned paper in the stuff still in the room so when I saw an old 6×6 pad of pink papers that made me grab two of them to make a simple background panel.
I inked the smaller panel to just give it a little definition and then glued them in place on a 6×6 card base.
Then I die cut some leaves from the Alex Syberia die that I had just bought in the sale and used for my daughter’s birthday card. As I made this on the same day there is a sense of similarity to the two cards. I inked the leaves using ink and water using Lost Lagoon and Tranquil Tide and then layered them onto the card.
I then used some little layering flower embellishments (this is a sneak peek at a future Kingston Crafts release) and inked them in pink and yellow with a small blending brush. I adhered them together and then glued an enamel dot in the centre of each as the flower centre.
Then I added them to the card along with a few of the leaves from the same kit of flowers which I inked with the lost lagoon.
Next I die cut the letters for the sentiment from pink foiled cardstock and punched hearts to finish off with the same shiny pink.
A pretty simple card but given the lack of readily available supplies I am amazed I managed this (I had contemplated buying one but that seemed like a crime given how much stash I have! 🤣)
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