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.
Hello there … thought I would start this post with a happy birthday … to me! Yup today is my birthday so unlikely to be crafting today as spending the day with my family. But I did get prepped and so wrote the last weekend when I made this card using old Making Card magazine image and other magazine kit papers.
I kept it quite simple but big in size with an embossed panel and some ribbon for texture and then the image with the paper and some cardstock for mounting.
I used Tim Holtz sticker sentiments and then gems to embellish. Simple but super cute!
Last weekend I made a masterboard playing with brushos and a set of Indigo Blu stamps I got in a magazine kit. I added some additional colouring with the inktense and some texture with embossing powders too.
Then I cut it up into different sized pieces to make into cards… I only got round to making two so far but the others will no doubt follow!
This is the first one and the biggest piece of the background…
I decided to add this lovely tartan ribbon and then one of the fancy stars from the Trimmings and Tidings set … I die cut this from the soft sea foam cardstock twice and then embossed it with a pearl embossing powder so it’s a really pretty embellishment.
I added the sentiment sticker from Tim Holtz and then added the little iridescent snowflake embellishments across the card.
The next card used the smallest piece of the masterboard.
This I turned into a panel on a 4×4 card with a piece of the dark green cardstock which I embossed with a snowflake embossing folder. I again added the tartan ribbon but only a little bit on the front and the rest wrapped at the back but most of it ended up being covered so not really visible.
I also added a sparkly wooden embellishment from the stash that I think I was gifted in a swap.
Decided against added another sentiment as the panel had the embossed Peace & Joy so it worked well as a sentiment already.
So I have two pieces left to play with … might get to them before the month is out … let’s wait and see! I am already wondering if my Christmas in July energy is running out or whether I can keep going for the full month! Again let’s wait and see!
Another delve into the preprepared backgrounds pouch and more of the painty backgrounds today but I wasn’t as keen on showing much of this one so had fun with the Merriest Moments die cuts and stamps and created this card instead…
So the painty background is still very much there but now added in is the die cut and embossed frame and the stamped and die cut flowers and sentiment.
I decided the flowers would look better in the Rich Razzleberry rather than red for the background to work. I also added two layers for the diecuts so they were a little sturdier. I added some white doodled lines and also the gems and ribbon too for some added texture.
The strip with the sentiment on is a different cardstock but in real life the different white doesn’t look as different as it seems to do on the picture.
Once again I am back with the papers I cut into using a sheet load of cards template from ages ago and never ended up using until now. Quite pleased I’ve managed to use three backgrounds up so far … only about 10 more to go!
This one I decided to go piercing mad on! I pierced round not just the edge of the topper but each of the three panels on the inside … why? Well just cos I fancied it! 😂
Once I had done that I had little energy left for the rest of the card so went for fussy cut image and printed sentiment from the card kit. I did raised up the panel onto foam though and added some clear gems as embellishments.
I am a little bit stumped on some of the remaining layouts I have left to play with but going to try and get at least a few more done this July.
I’m back again with another Christmas card for my self imposed Christmas in July challenge. Today I have a card made for a ‘special’ recipient. I won’t share who as yet but the reason it is considered worthy of the special recipient is because it is a bigger 7×7 inch card.
I made the card as follows…
A piece of dsp from the stash as the backing. Then a panel of mixed media cardstock on which I added some stencilling using the texture paste.
Then some gorgeous die cut flowers and an embossed sentiment.
I added the glittery card stock trims and then some clear gems for the flower centres.
Following on from yesterdays projects here is another one of the inky backgrounds using distress resist and the gorgeous Snow Crystal stamp.
I used Dylusions spray inks for this one and although I adore the effect I do not enjoy the mess that using these sprays creates … there is blue EVERYWHERE as a result of this one project and my cloths just constantly run blue!
Anyway after drying I then did the ghosting technique with a stencil and water and this makes it look like a tartan in my opinion… so cool.
I kept the card design itself quite simple with a sari scrap ribbon bow and a little banner sentiment. I also added some iridescent gems for sparkle.
How gorgeous?
If you fancy watching this come together I did video it for my YouTube channel.
Well I’m starting this one with an apology as I messed up the dates and should have posted this a couple of days ago… it’s my design team contribution for Creative Knockouts.
The challenge is to finish the inside of the card and we were kindly sponsored by SheepSki designs who gifted me this Clematis Trellis image to play with…
Given I was late creating the card I kept it pretty simple… rainbow colouring and black and white with a simple twine bow … there is a little dimension to the card as the layers have either foam or using pinflair to give dimension.
Inside the card I kept to the rainbow theme and stamped the Birthday using the stampin write markers so I could add different colours to the stamp. You can also see the dimension on the front of the card on this pic.
I finished off the card with some tiny pearls scattered all over the card … pretty but small so not in your face amounts of bling.
Hope you like this… if in doubt rainbow colours always seem to work well against a plain black and white background in my opinion!
Todays Christmas in July is also a video … and a very inky messy play! I made four backgrounds but am just sharing two today. I’ll share one other tomorrow but not sure when I will share the last one as still not made anything with it!
As you can see two very bright cards with funky non traditional colours for Christmas cards but I love them.
I started by heat embossing the Snow Crystal stamp four times onto the mixed media cardstock and then added colour in different ways.
Let’s start with my favourite and the most simple one…
I used three colours of distress stain added using a paint brush and then when dry a splatter of Tranquil Tide ink and stamped the sentiment in the same colour ink.
Kept it simple with no further embellishment and a flat card onto the square card blank. Simple and beautiful.
Next the funky hot colours using distress oxides…
There are also some tiny blue speckles of the delusions ink that I sprayed for another background that get EVERYWHERE … but it looks quite nice still. The distress oxide I just added a spray of water afterwards to make it nice and chalky as a finish. Then I added the ribbon, die cut and the fussy cut embossed sentiment.
I did mount the panel onto white and then onto the black card blank to keep it modern and funky. Of course I also added an insert of the white so there was something to write on.
Hope you like these inky emboss resist cards… there is one more coming tomorrow and another sometime in the future!
Todays Christmas in July project was using a few old Craft Stamper magazine stamps as part of my sort out project I’ve been doing for a while now which I stamped, cut and added as a background mat layer.
I stamped the main image two times using Starry Night ink that I blotted a little first so it was a bit paler.
Then I cut the panels into different sizes for the different cards.
One I added the Joy stamp which I stamped and fussy cut, and the little sparkly stars.
The next I cut smaller and added onto the silver glimmer mat.
I then added gems to bring some more sparkle but decided against adding the Joy stamped word.
Fairly clean and simple cards for me this time. What do you think? I must admit as much as I like that Joy word I can’t see me using it much. The other one though I can imagine using albeit not that often as I tend to make OTT cards for Christmas rather than these simple ones… maybe that stays but the Joy stamp gets added to the go pile!
Have plenty more of these craft stamper magazine stamps to sort through and assess … but that’s two more sifted! and two more cards made.
Hello. Today was a delve into the backgrounds already made pouch and I found some bits of the painty and embossed background I made in May for an Addicted to stamps and more challenge.
I decided to use two pieces and like last time teamed them with a JoFY star image which I inked in similar colours to the background.
I added the white cardstock mat to both pieces to frame them and also the white doodled lines. I then added some flat purple sequins for embellishment.
As there is lots of writing on both the star and the background I decided against adding a further sentiment. Quite unusual for me as I usually always add a sentiment.
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