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.
Todays design team contribution for Happy Little Stampers is the card I made for my cousins daughter last month but I saved blogging it till now so that I could share it on this DT post.
I love this image that I’ve had for quite a while and decided to team it with some quite elegant papers from the stash and made a pretty pink and purple themed card.
Of course as this is a anything goes with dies theme I used some of the Splendid Stems dies to create the embellishments and a spray of flowers down one side.
I added lots of dimension on this bigger card (7×7) and some pearls and a ribbon to finish.
I’m sure Eleanor would have loved this more grown up looking card for her birthday.
I decided to reach for the Hanging houseplant stencils and have another play with them and ended up creating four houseplants in total so made some cute sending hugs cards.
This time after inking the plants through the stencils I added some details using promarkers that colour matched with the inking. The result is very subtle but has given some more definiton to the leaves so I am pleased I tried this.
Kept the theme similar across these with Parakeet Party and Kraft with the pop of some Hello Honey cardstock too.
This one I inked up the background panel of parakeet party using three of the layered stencils to add some fun background to the two plants. I also used the Pinewood planks embossing folder for some texture.
The sentiment stamps and dies for all three came from a Lawn Fawn set.
I took another little panel and did the same inking for this as the last one using those layered dies.
This time used an old Sizzix embossing folder and inked over it lightly with the white pigment ink to make the embossing pop a little more.
This final one I used a different stencil to create a panel of images down the back using the same green inks as used for the leaves on the plants. Then I found some old patterned paper to mount them against the Kraft.
I chose a different sentiment die this time but from the same set. I then added some die cut circles from Kraft to embellish.
This started with me just wanting play with the Concord and 9th butterfly stencil and dies I got some time ago and really haven’t done much with … and ended up being lots of fun with leaves and pretty yellow butterflies!
In total these three cards probably took over 6 hours of work but they were made in stages. I actually had made all three backgrounds in a completely different playtime and stuck them in my backgrounds to finish off pile with no knowledge I would end up grabbing them all in one play session to play with the butterflies!
I have done posts on using the zero waste leaf die before so please check them out. These were three in one go type of things … a green mop up piece, a Kraft one and then plenty of white versions underneath for dimension. The third panel is the leftover bits from the other two.
Now onto the stars of the show … those butterflies.
This was my first set …. Soft yellows with a touch of pink added in … then die cut. Then used the same colours to ink some cardstock and that’s where the little ones got die cut along with the mat layer for the sentiment.
Stacked up lots of white butterfly die cuts under the inked version for dimension.
Then loads of tiny pearls into the space around the leaves for embellishment.
I love that soft background with the subtly patterned butterflies.
Next up this Kraft quite bold background onto white. This time used the patterned dies and also die cut the bodies for the three main butterflies from the Kraft to coordinate them with the background.
Again stacked the die cuts for dimension and also raised the centre of the sentiment too.
Just three pearls for embellishment that I added some peach alcohol ink to so they coordinated.
And finally this was a really busy background with both the green and the Kraft.
So it needed bolder butterflies. In addition to the stencilling I added gold wink of Stella to some of the pattern which gave depth of colour and some sparkle.
I didn’t bother adding die cuts under the butterflies … I figured this had enough going on to not need the additional dimension to them… I did however add a little foam under the sentiment strip.
As the background had both glittery circles and glossy circles I didn’t add any more embellishment.
Love all three of these cards and really surprised myself as I wasn’t expecting this was what would happen when I sat down to play with the stencil. It has however cemented my belief that having backgrounds ready to go is super helpful when making cards … so need to make sure I routinely sit and just create backgrounds so I can easily get a card made that is extra special like these without 6 hours worth of work all in one go!
Many years ago I was gifted a laser cut sheet of wreath type images and it’s sat in the stash … well I finally decided to use it.
Yes I went this overboard and used almost all of it on one card … just the middle section unused … but I made this 8×8 card for my auntie and so I think she deserved all the layers and elements.
I started by die cutting a few circles of the tidings and trimmings dsp so that I could layer up the middle section with some dimension.
Then I glued the laser cut elements into place.
The outer striped panel was from a different dsp set but the colours worked with the other paper so I think it is fine … albeit it is very busy!
I decided to go with the Tim Holtz dies for the sentiment as it needed something big and bold and then the Peace and Joy for the “and” to finish off.
Odd for me to not add gems to a card but I think I had already thrown the kitchen sink at it and so pleased to have finally used the laser cut elements.
A few weeks ago I made use of the zero waste leaf die cut shapes but never got round to finishing up with the actual background I created.
Here is the starting point once I had adhered it to the green cardstock. The other card I finished up has already been on the blog.
I decided to stamp the large Stampendous thank you and cut it out so that could be the top element. Next I used the die to die cut some rose gold speciality paper to add some embellishment.
I poked these all under the sentiment and then called it done!
Hello! Thanks for popping along to my little bit of the internet. Today I have a fairly simple card I made.
I used a scrap of mixed media cardstock and smooshed some distress oxides onto it using different greens (including my favourite Twisted Citron).
I added this down the centre of the card blank (it’s a 5×7 card blank) and then started grabbing some bits and pieces to add to it.
I started with the piece of white embossed cardstock and then I grabbed the Happy Birthday die cut that I had actually cut for another project and not ended up using. I didn’t want the black that it was cut from however so I added two coats of the pearlescent embossing powder which gave it a lovely texture and finish.
I added this at an angle across the embossed piece and then looked for an image I could use to finish off.
I decided that this cute little Altenew flower piece was perfect for the job and offered a nice contrast in colour with the coral/brown colour.
I then added some light green card Candi as embellishment.
So quite a simple and yet a bit arty with some texture and shine.
This time it is a birthday card for my cousin and I know she will love this card … but shhh don’t tell her you’ve already seen it as it’s not her birthday for a 21 more days! 😂
I used lots of the Paper Blooms dap with fussy cutting and then those fabulous Biggest wishes stamps for the sentiment.
As I had already done all the fussy cutting as part of my patterned paper playtime this came together so easily … I am so pleased I could get some more of this stash used up.
I found some card Candi that coordinated well with the colours.
I actually made this and gave it last month but only just getting around to blogging as I forgot to edit the photos and write this up.
I used the waffle flower die and stencil and made a very green bunch of flowers using distress oxides to layer the inks. I decided to add some pattern to the balloons by adding a stencil on top of the stencil so there are striped and dotty balloons in the bunch.
I die cut the balloon four times to stack the die cut background but then also decided to add stencilling in the background using normal die inks and a lighter application of the pale green.
Next I die cut the numbers and then gave them two coats of embossing with an emerald green colour powder. I used the same powder to emboss the sentiment too which I cut as a panel and raised up on foam in the middle with the ribbon behind. I then added a little bow of the silver ribbon and some transparent green sequins for embellishment.
Love how you can change up the balloons for this both by colours and also adding pattern with other stencils.
As with other months this year I’m starting the month with some patterned paper playtime… I took a piece of dsp, had a cutting apart session and popped all the bits into a pouch so that I could grab that and just have some fun playtime to create a card easily.
This time it was a piece of the Paper Blooms dsp (I’ve used this dsp pack a few times as almost all the papers had big easy to cut apart images!).
This time I kept it pretty simple by just creating a cluster of the elements around a panel for the sentiment and raising it up on foam and then adhering to the background. It’s pretty much my favourite quick way of making a pretty card.
Of course what makes it extra fabulous is the embossed and inked background panel, the dimension and the fun two colour stamped sentiment!
Oh and the sparkle of course!
Inside I just picked one of the larger images and added that as a fun element inside the card.
Also can I just say I love this Orchid Oasis colour card … so lush!
Todays post is all about using pencils on Kraft cardstock … not something I am brilliant at doing … but it’s always fun to try!
I wanted to use some of the tidings and trimmings dsp pieces and teamed them with Kraft cardstock then I grabbed the Avery Elle North Pole friends stamps and stamped out a reindeer. I then grabbed my Prismacolor pencils and gave the reindeer a covering of white before adding in the other colours. I did have to go over the line art with a darker pencil at the end to make sure you could still see the eyes and the details.
I then covered the whole image with wink of Stella so he is a sparkly Rudolph!
I fussy cut him out and added him to the card then also fussy cut some images out of a sheet of the dsp and added those to a Kraft circle I had punched out as an embellishment cluster.
I then grabbed the metallic card Candi which I have in my stash to add those to finish off!
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