I am an on-the-side and increasingly up front papercrafter who loves nothing more than getting inky and creating pretty things with paper and stamps!
I am also a wife to lovely hubby and mummy to a wonderful 14yr old princess.
Carrying on with my swap makes for this month at Uk stampers forum. This time it is twinchies with the theme of spring flowers.
I decided to grab the spring slimline papers from Kingston Crafts and Paperartsy stamps and do some paper piecing.
I embossed them all and then fussy cut to add the flower heads in different papers.
I then added a little label for the sentiment to sit on.
I then used a magazine stamp to stamp onto shrink plastic and then cut them out and used the heat gun to shrink it to a size that works well for the twinchies.
I then doodled the outlines to be in keeping with the style of artwork for the stamps.
When I join in with the Uk stampers forum swaps I usually put tags etc on display on my desk and then swap them out but when I saw Lilian’s tag from February I knew I wanted to use it as a card topper and make use of it as it was the perfect size for a card topper.
I added a bit of ink to the edge of the tag and some shimmer to the colouring of the flower just so I could feel like I added a bit of me – then layered up with the handmade petal paper and some foiled cardstock. Then I added a sentiment and added it all to a card.
So thank you Lilian for the tag and I hope you like how I used it!
I am actually also then sending it onto Sid who organised the swaps at Uk stampers forum – so it’s a total Forum project! 🤣
I’ve started a new series over on my YouTube channel using up a magazine kit I bought!
I spotted this Crafters Companion kit and couldn’t resist getting it – but decided to challenge myself to use it with a series of videos using it up – goodness knows how long it will take – but hopefully it will be fun to see what I make with it all!
Please note that I rarely use the magazine for inspiration in these kits so the idea is that apart from a tiny flick through I have not used it at all! If that changes will let you know as this series progresses!
I started with this zingy green card …
I pretty much just stamped and watercoloured all the flowers and leaves and then fussy cut them all and layered them over the green base.
I had added a little interest to the back with the scored lines but otherwise it’s a simple and plain background raised up against the same colour cardstock for the base card.
I cut the sentiment from the paper pack and then mounted that on black in keeping with the black line art and then added some sequins for the flower centres.
I did choose to only glue the flowers in the centre so that gives them some dimension.
Then I raised the banner sentiment up on foam for additional dimension.
A pretty and bright start to the series!
Looking forward to seeing what else I end up making!
I am still trying to join in with more of the swaps over at Uk Stampers forum and so I made three ‘spring colours’ ATC today.
I went with some mop up paper from playing with shimmer sprays as the background and then grabbed some scraps of paper that were on the desk for the background added bits. I edged them with green and then worked on the focal feature.
I used the Altenew flower stamp and stencil I got with a magazine a couple of weeks ago and stamped it three times on different scraps of cardstock and then embossed it.
I then fussy cut it – I could have die cut it as the die in the set matches this shape but forgot!
On this one I had stamped on a sprayed piece of card so it has shimmer to it too – I also added extra colour with one of the stencils.
The other two it was a yellow cardstock – one of which I added colour using both stencils. The other just one stencil.
I then used the leaf stencil to draw the leaf shapes and add the colour and then fussy cut them out.
I added these behind the flowers.
I then embossed the sentiment and the banner – these are from a different Altenew set and I fussy cut the Hello and die cut the banners.
Two posts because I have a scrapping Saturday post as well as the card I made for Maya that I’ve already posted!
To be honest wasn’t sure I would have a scrapbook page for today or not but I did end up making a page this afternoon when I opened the Hey Little Magpie embellishment kit and felt compelled to use it!
I grabbed some old papers that I had put aside for the crop in February and never ended up using!
I videoed the process so please check that out to see how I pulled this page together.
I loved using the embellishments from both the Hey Little Magpie kit and also some perspectives from Bramble Fox.
Yesterday my baby girl turned 19! So far from a baby but you know what I mean!
I asked her for an inspiration starter for her birthday card and she said orange hibiscus!
I didn’t think I had any stamps that were hibiscus but then as I put away an old magazine stamp set I spotted a small stamp that looked just like a hibiscus! 🌺 perfect!
So this is what I ended up creating!
A 7×7 card on which I blended a circle through a clarity stamps stencil. I chose a soft green ink and then decided to use white die cuts for the tropical leaves rather than green – I just thought it gave a different look!
I decided to use the large birthday die with some gold foiled cardstock. I stacked it twice to give it some dimension though.
I then worked on the hibiscus flowers.
I stamped it three times and then watercoloured them with a mix of orange and pink colours and then heat embossed over the top.
I fussy cut them out and added them over the top of the white flower clusters with some foam tabs to raise them up.
I then added some peach coloured gems to finish up.
I really love how gentle and simple this was. I rarely do cards that look like this so it was nice to come up with something a little simpler!
And just like that her birthday has been and gone. We did have a lovely day celebrating with plenty of food and drink… scary to think the next birthday she turns 20!!! Gosh then I will feel old!
I decided it had been a while since I dug into my pouch of gelli prints I made a while ago and so that became the background for my card. I then grabbed a magazine stamp set from Altenew which features two fab flowers and a coordinating stencil (one them also has a die but I didn’t use it).
I stamped the flowers onto some pale blue cardstock and embossed with a dark blue powder and then used the stencils to add some colour.
I then used a stampin blend to edge around the outside to give it a dark edge. Then I fussy cut them out.
I then embossed the edge of the gelli print to tie into the floral elements and I mounted the background onto the same blue which I had edged with the stampin blend.
I glued the flowers into place but raised the one to the left with some scrap cardstock underneath and then decided to add my sentiment on the same pale blue but stamped in navy.
The sentiment is from Waffleflower and I die cut it four times to make it nice and chunky!
Again I added some scrap beneath one side of it so it was at a similar level to the flower on the left.
I then added the panel to a 5×7 card blank.
I used some blue gems to embellish and that finished it off nicely!
Made my inchies for the swap over at UK Stampers forum.
I made a background with some shimmer spray inks and then embossed some clock image using PaperArtsy stamps.
I cut down the inchies to size and then edged them with ink.
I then added the die cut flowers onto each one.
Love the contrast of the modern flowers and the vintage clock backgrounds – also love the shimmery finish (it doesn’t come through on the pics but in real life it is so cute!).
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