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.
Here are the remaining cards I made from Kendra’s card challenge.
These are pretty much more of the same but each card is unique in terms of layout and so even where elements chosen are similar the cards all have their own charm!
I think this is one of my favourites and I changed up the design to have the wonky strips of the dsp. Love how whimsical it is.
These Woodware deer stamps are so beautiful and also those gorgeous floral stamps … they add a lovely focal point to the cards.
Hope you have liked these cards as much as me. They are actually going to be gifted to one of my aunties for her use this Christmas.
I finished off another set of cards using Kendra’s template #11 this past weekend that have been on the desk for months. it was a good way to get back into crafting and being creative after an absence from crafting in the past few weeks.
As usual with these things I will share over a few days as the template made a lot of cards!
So here are the first set I am sharing …
I am not sure which templates each are now but I really liked how they all turned out and how the various papers worked out with both the Woodware deers and the creative stamping magazine floral images.
I also used a few embossing folders and sentiment dies to add in texture and fun elements.
I used a mix of glossy accents and the wink of Stella for the added shine and shimmer.
Occasionally I added in ribbon and some extra elements like the Merriest Moments holly leaves.
I enjoyed mixing up the sentiments too adding in words from different sets to compliment the die cuts.
I sometimes added in some little embellishments but mainly I kept to the use of glossy accents to make them a little more special.
As I said before I loved putting these together and it helped get the creative juices flowing after my break from crafting!
A while ago I made a masterboard inspired by a Jennifer McGuire video … well I set aside the last 2 panels and have now finished off using them to create these two cards. Actually managed to get to craft this weekend so hoping to get back to daily posting!
I kept them both pretty simple and allowed the backgrounds to show off by just adding a stamped image, a sentiment and little embellishment.
The green I added to some white cardstock and then added the Christmas Flower stamp from Altenew which I had stamped on a scrap of cardstock which I had wiped the brayer off when creating these backgrounds. This just added some subtle colour on this.
I did add the green ribbon and then the sentiment from the same Altenew set.
The red card I embossed the image in white onto the same wipe off piece of cardstock.
I created another sentiment stamping onto white and then layered on a piece of inked cardstock scrap to coordinate. I added the sparkly rose gold die cut circles as embellishments.
So that’s this piece of Masterboard finished off and nine cards in total made from the two pieces of A4 I created. Love these. Thanks for Jennifer for inspiring me to just have fun and get inky. I also love the mica spray idea to make the whole piece super sparkly!
Been spending again … but this time it took me a while to put something together from this kit as life got in the way! But I finally did it and I videoed the whole thing (minus the stitching which I did off camera) so check that out on YouTube.
I ended up doing this pretty much as per the example on the packaging but you will hear on the video I had a few other ideas on how I might use the dies in future.
I still am unsure about the background element but it is such a fun idea with the stitching on the tree and baubles.
Loved grabbing an old die for the sentiment too … not used this set for a while!
Hi and thanks for popping to my blog to see what I’ve been up to! Today I have a design team contribution for Creative Knockouts using an image gifted from LeAnn’s world 101 called Presents.
Our challenge for this week was Lots of Layers and so I started with the background and added lots of layers of inking, stamping and stencilling.
Then I added some bits of cardstock in red and Kraft to give something for the sentiment and the image to sit on.
I coloured the image using stampin blends markers and then cut round it with a nice white border.
I die cut the merry using a lawn Fawn die and then added the Christmas embossed with white to pick up on the white border to the image.
I chose a brighter green card base and then went a bit made with wink of Stella on the image to make all the baubles and presents sparkle (although as usual the photo doesn’t really show that).
I like this mix of grungy and cute and a fun layered card.
Hello! Thanks for popping over to my part of the internet. Today I have my design team contribution for Addicted to stamps and more and the challenge this fortnight is Christmas. I shared this incorrectly a few weeks ago so some of you may have had a peek at this already!
I actually went a little overboard and ended up making four cards but you can never have too many Christmas cards, right?
I started as I often start challenge cards by delving into the pouch of ready made backgrounds and grabbed a teal one and a green one. These were originally gelli prints made with ink and water and are great for die cutting… so I went to town with white cardstock and these and my wreath dies and some leaves and flowers…
I then die cut four backgrounds with the snowflake impression die and started clustering together the different elements. I also grabbed some die cut bows from the pouch of pre- die cuts.
Next I had to decide on how to add a sentiment and I wanted to use the fabulous Colorado Craft company stamp and die so I embossed them in silver and then die cut them out.
This one I layered the Natures print wreath with the simple one in teal and then added the green leaves to surround the flower, the BlackBerry bliss bow and some teal sequins to finish. All of the cards I used Smoky Slate as the base.
This one I also used the Natures Print but this time the bobbly looking wreath and kept all the colours similar with the teal and the turquoise. I added clear gems for the embellishment which reflect the colours surrounding them.
This time I cut down the panel into a square and added some embossed vellum behind. The wreath is the bobbly one from green and added some of the teal separate leaves around the flower. Added the clear gems again for finishing off and love the navy bow too!
This time I did something a little different. First I added navy foam behind the panel so the dots in the background show up more and it gives dimension … I also added a vellum strip on to which I added the sentiment to give it more dimension and interest. I added green gems this time and think that the colours in the wreath are more mixed so it worked well with the additional leaves.
Love how they all came together … a really pretty set of cards.
Now regular readers of my blog will know I don’t tidy my desk after every play and so I often end up making cards from scraps leftover from other projects … and here is one such card!
The patterned paper is a bit leftover from a project in August, the rose gold circle is similarly leftover from something I made in the summer.
The two die cut leaves are leftovers from using the zero waste leaf die and have been in the bits and bobs plate for a while.
The white embossed cardstock came in a parcel with a swap. Then the background Kraft cardstock was just sat on the desk… so I embossed it with the Christmas greeting folder and then went over it with my white Kraft ink dauber … it gives a little highlight to the embossing when you do this… although it is quite subtle and the key is to only add it lightly.
The green pearlescent vellum has also been on the desk for a while and it finally got its use here today with a brad to adhere it in one corner and the rest of the glue hidden behind the sentiment label which I embossed with the sentiment once I had die cut it out… it was cut from scrap but was intentionally made for this project at least!
So a fun and I think interesting card mainly made from scraps!
And now I come to a little break on my blog as straight after my holiday we got an inspection at work so I’ve not been able to craft and have not many premade things left to share … it’s been a good run I think I’ve managed to post daily for at least 3 months but sometimes life gets in the way! So give me a couple of weeks to get things sorted and then I will be back!
When I use distress oxides I often use a piece of glossy photo paper to mop up any excess ink and this background started like that and has been in my stash of pre-made backgrounds for quite a few months. I decided to grab this and make something from it.
I decided to emboss it with a snowflake folder and then sand off the raised areas to remove the colour and shine.
As the background was quite bold it needed a bold image to go with it so I chose this Altenew Christmas flower image. I stamped it first onto a piece of scrap that had leftover ink brayered on it. Then I also stamped it onto white with Memento so I could colour the flowers with SU Blend markers.
Once coloured I then fussy cut the flowers so that I could paper piece them onto the other piece.
Next I stamped and embossed the sentiment layering it up to add some dimension.
I then coloured some gems with the same stampin Blends pens so they would match with the image.
I mounted the panel onto black so the line art and the sentiment strip all pulled in together.
I had printed this onto quite a thin paper and coloured it with promarkers including a nice shadow outline.
I decided to cut round the image to give it a white halo and then stick directly onto a mix of patterned papers. I particularly love the dotty one with all those cool colours. So as I had coloured the girl in a mix of bright colours this worked fab. I grabbed some Sweet Sorbet cardstock and made my cardblank and then thought it would be good to do the peep of the paper at the edges by curling it back and this created both some dimension and interest.
I added a sentiment in bright pink and then some enamel dots to add to the “dottyness”.
Inside I just added a strip of the paper… but look at the dimension to the front of the card … you can really see it on this photo.
What doesn’t quite show on the photo is that I added wink of Stella to the flowers in her hair and the bow on her top… so in real life they are quite shimmery.
Super cute image and pleased that even though it took up most of the card front I was able to make a card this size using the image.
I am doing well in my using up stash I’ve got challenge I set myself for 2023 … and really enjoying playing with stash I had forgotten about and lay around unused for years.
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