Yes I know that 2023 is no spend on new craft stash but I bought these between Xmas and New year so they don’t really count as spends! Anyway … I bought the Boho Butterfly layered stencils, dies and stamp set and this was my first play with the stencils and the dies (I used a few of the stamps the other day).
Do I love those layered stencils? Yes, yes I absolutely do! They are amazingly easy to use and the results are gorgeous!
I teamed these three with one of those spray backgrounds and some scrap orange cardstock and a Lawn Fawn sentiment I cut apart and mounted onto black to go with the black card base.
Each of the butterflies is stacked a few times and I used one of the sentiments from the stamp set to add to the background to also add in the pink colour.
Love how it turned out… and if you fancy watching the process there is a long craft with me video which shows me making it, along with my usual rambling and also a little tidy up section and haul section!
Todays card was actually inspired by Martin from a Christmas card he made … my result is very different but I think you can see where the inspiration came from.
Look at the colour on this!
I am so pleased with this one I have to admit. So I started with a square of white cardstock and inked it up using a rainbow of colours… the tip to this kind of inking is to keep adding more and going back and forth with the colours so they blend and a decent amount of ink is laid down.
Then I laid the stencil over the top (think this is a Claritystamps stencil) and went back over the colours again adding more yellow where the yellow is, green where the green is etc.
Then when the stencil is removed you get the stencil pattern darker than the background.
This does leave a fair amount of ink on the stencil … so I sprayed it and then ran it through the Big shot to adhere the ink … hey presto a second background created … put this aside for now but sure it will make a pretty card sometime soon!
Back to the actual card… Once I had trimmed it down a little I decided to make a mini shaker and to add a black and white butterfly as the main feature … to be honest I just wanted to enjoy the background! Lol!
I ended up watering down some black gesso and splattering and then die cutting and stacking lots of the black squares to make the shaker element. Then I added some of the die cut stars I had in a pot on my desk and added those both inside the shaker and added a few on the outside too.
I used the Butterfly Brilliance stamp and die to create the butterfly and then grabbed the Lawn Fawn stamps and dies for the sentiment.
I mounted the panel onto another piece of black then onto a 6×6 card blank.
Love how this came out … so vibrant and fun. Looking forward to creating with the bonus panel too!
One of my crafting raggy doll sisters has recently moved home so I made this card for her. I was inspired by another Jennifer McGuire YouTube video technique using distress oxides.
I must admit for a while I’ve mainly been using my Stampin Up inks and so neglected my Oxides and distress inks … this might well have got me to fall in love with them again… they do have some fabulous properties that make them fun to play with!
So I started with some mixed media cardstock and blended a heavy amount of the oxides on in the Picked Raspberry and Frayed Burlap. Then I chose my stamps (Visible Image) and inked them in Twisyed Citron and gave a spritz of water before then stamping them. This creates a kind of bloom to the image but still sits some of the pigment on the top.
I then did more stamping with the word stamps and added some drops and splatters of water to give the nice finish to the oxides.
Then I decided on the focal image. I wanted to use the Lawn Fawn sending hugs sentiment but wanted a nice bold flower … but needed something to give it contrast. So I chose to die cut a ring using the stitched framelits out of white. Then used my Pierced Blooms flowers and leaves (I have a big pile of these I die cut from scraps ages ago) and created my flower focal image.
In the centre of the flower I added this little resin flower with a gem (I’ve recently rediscovered a lot of old stash like these flowers and am trying to remember to use them!).
I then raised the panel on foam to give it some dimension.
The envelope I added and image where i added the ink using blending tool so it is multi coloured.
So happy with this cute card. Happy New home Jackie.
Hello… and here starts the 2nd half of the year… can you believe it? I can’t quite get my head around it!
So as it is the 1st of the month it is time for another Craftyhazelnuts patterned paper challenge blog design team contribution and once again I am working with old Making Cards magazine stash and these fun confetti themed papers and sentiment panels.
Aren’t they fun papers?
Because the sentiment panels do most of the work and the large one covers most of the front of a 5×7 I had some trouble working out how to decorate them so they were a bit special and not just paper layers.
I ended up using the cute Lawn Fawn robots to add embellishment … after all I haven’t played with these in a long time!
This one I added the bow tie to the head so maybe a more feminine robot … and the cute present and cupcake.
The second one more of a masculine robot with the balloons!
On the second one I also added embossing to the red panel and thought this pattern worked well with the confetti feel.
I embellished both with card candi from the stash which I thought complimented the colours!
Inside the cards I added coordinating panels…
And the envelopes I added strips of the paper.
All done and I must admit I am happy with how these came out… cheery and fun!
Clean and Simple design with one focal point, lots of white (or open) space and minimal layers and embellishments
Probably for this one I added more than might be considered clean and simple but I just felt it needed the border stamping to finish off.
So for tropical I wanted to use the pineapple Lawn Fawn stamp and for some reason fancied a diagonal layout. I did a bit of planning for all the themes and this is one I had planned out in advance.
I stamped the pineapples and then watercoloured them using distress inks.
Once they were dry I added the border stamping using a BadAss Art Chick stamp.
Then I stamped the shades and die cut those to add to the cool pineapple on the end.
Once I had added the shades I added glossy accents to make them shiny!
Next I chose the hello stamp and die set from Avery Elle to finish off!
For the envelope I did simple stamping of the pineapple in green down the side of the envelope.
So a fun and I think definitely tropical card for this months CAS challenge.
This month I made yet another 16th birthday card, and even though this was for Niamh’s birthday in November I wanted it to be bright and cheerful and tropical.
Now I must admit this project used up some table decorations I had made for a fun night my daughter had had with Niamh so it was a case of just deciding on a layout and putting it all together rather than making from scratch… bit it was fun to do!
All the leaves in the background were made by stamping and then smooshing the inks onto the paper and then fussy cutting them out. These were originally made as table confetti. I then glued them to the white card square and turned them into a patterned paper background.
Next I stamped and embossed the Happy from Biggest Wish onto Polished Pink cardstock.
I then created a banner and added the die cut 16th using the Playful Alphabets dies.
Onto the top I then added the focal cluster of the pineapple and flowers. The pineapple is a Lawn Fawn stamp and coordinating die. I stamped this onto some glossy cardstock I had used to wipe up the ink smooshing (love this for creating a different texture and fun patterned paper). The bottom flower is actually a poinsettia flower from Tidings and trimmings which I fussy cut and then the top flower is from Sweet Strawberry. I added a gem to the centre to finish that element off.
I then decided I wanted a more graphic finish to the sentiment so chose the accompanying stamp from Happy Celebrations and stamped that onto the same Petal Pink card I made the 5×5 card blank from.
Next I rummaged in the ribbons box and found a scrap of ribbon that I thought worked well with the colours.
Next I created a panel for the inside of the card and added three of the leftover leaves to decorate.
Oh and of course some additional gems added for bling to the outside.
Delighted with the final card and the fact I could reuse some of the fun elements was a bonus.
Made a quick card using some bits of book paper I had previously collaged and sewn and then chopped into a s tag. They were leftovers from another project.
I added stamping and ink, and more bookprint and an old postage stamp. Then added the die cut hugs and the stamped word.
I then chose to add it to a scrap of cardstock I had embossed with a new embossing folder, before adding it to the card blank.
I also added the punched heart and added glossy accents to finish it off. It was such a quick card as it was made from scraps off my desk. Simple!
I decided to just start layering up pink colours on my coins and see where I got to with it… no plan!
As you can see I also added black and white to my pink themed coins.
I started with coins cut from packaging so gave them a coat of gesso. Then added neocolours and water, followed by stamping in a different shade of pink. Then patterned paper which I added the neocolours to. I punched part of a circle out of cardstock I had coloured with dylusions inks in pink and purple.
I had a hunt in the box of used foreign stamps and found three in different shades of pink. I also added washi strips too. I didn’t mind that I was mixing different shades and tones of pink… it all worked together.
I hunted in the box where I keep die cut scraps and found flowers and leaves I could also use.
Then I finished off with the hugs die cut (lawn fawn) and the friend stamp (avery elle) and the pink coloured pearls.