A really quick card that I put together using scraps off the desk once again.
I made this card so quickly because I had already fussy cut the dsp flowers and the Art by Marlene collage paper was sitting on the desk ready for using!
These first few photos are taken in the evening when lighting is not great … skip to the bottom to see it in the light!
I used card Candi to embellish and those True Love dsp flowers are fab against that bright background!
Love this bright card with the black and white elements. Sentiment is in white embossing on the black with a tiny pop of the Parakeet Part my as a mount to the sentiment!
Firstly I forgot how much I loved this combo of the jar of flowers stamps and the jar punch… but I also forgot how fiddly working with vellum can be if you don’t like seeing adhesive through the vellum! So let me explain what I did for this card.
Well I started with a cream base and used an old Memories and More card I had in the stash to make the background because that has some distraction just in case I needed it when it came to adhering the jar of flowers!
The flowers and stems I stamped, coloured and fussy cut from cream cardstock. What you can’t see is that I didn’t line them up to meet as I knew I would be adding the jar ‘lid’ so I skipped a bit and that helped me extend the length of the stems a little. But I actually ended up cutting them short in the end as they didn’t look right as the longer length! Ah well.
I then punched the jar from the vellum. Stampin up vellum is a nice weight of vellum to deal with and I would not want to do this with a lighter one as it would not sit as well on the card and may curl upwards or not emboss well.
I stamped and embossed the lid. Now I know if the jar did have a lid you wouldn’t be able to put the flowers in but I decided on artistic licence because I needed some part of the vellum jar to not be see through so I could use that part and the part where the twine was to add adhesive.
So once I had heat embossed I added glue behind the stamped element and then added the flowers. I then also tied the twine round so it went round the flowers as well as the jar.
Now I wanted to raise them a little off the background so I added some scraps of cardstock behind the flowers and then a little behind the stems in the jar this allowed the jar to slightly angle as I had more dimension behind the flowers than the stems which I hope means that the jar is less likely to bend upwards as I am not adhering the bottom as such!
What I did do to add to this though was to place a sentiment on both the jar and the background to try and anchor it in place further down.
I then added the little gold flower sequins as embellishment and called it done! What do you think?
I’ve made a lot of cards using the jar of flowers combo and still get pleasure out of doing so … so you can probably tell this one is staying in the stash for a little longer!
Todays blog post started because I found a piece of glossy photo paper I had obviously been using as a mop up from ink smooshing. It had been hanging around on the desk and I decided the day had come to play with it.
As you know I am assessing my stash at the moment for its future usefulness and also to make sure I get my use out of it so decided to grab this Tropical Hideaway background stamp and stamp it in black over the top of the inky background.
I don’t actually think I’ve got much use out of this stamp so prepare to see it a few more times as I want to have a few more goes with it before I think to get rid of it.
I love how the smooshed background works well at adding colour and depth to the leaves and with very little effort!
I then grabbed a couple of scraps of green and black to add the banners and the rectangle to add the focal image to.
I chose the splendid thoughts stamps and coloured the leaves with my stampin blends and then cut it out. I did choose to fussy cut as I couldn’t be bothered to grab the Big Shot and die cut it.
Next I added a little sentiment and embossed it in white on the black.
I decided the bright lime green Parakeet Party was perfect for the card base but did add a black base to the stamped background to frame it first.
Finished off with the black gems too.
Simple but I think a really interesting card especially as that glossy photo paper creates a nice different texture from my usual card backgrounds.
So I made a card that involved lots of ink on a stencil, so I put the ink to use by spritzing with water placing the stencil onto card and running it through my Big Shot to transfer the ink.
Of course this is glorious and required using!
I decided to use some die cuts I already had cut from scraps choosing a rainbow of colours and different shapes and placed them in a circle cluster… but then decided what I needed to use was a black and white flower from True Love dsp (I’ve nearly used all of this up now and not sure what I will do without these trusty flowers to turn to!)
So fussy cut a few flowers and stuck them in the middle with the rainbow of leaf die cuts coming out from underneath.
Because I hadn’t used blue for the leaves I decided that should be the mount for the sentiment that was the tiny sentiment from Happy Moments.
A few little gems and that was a perfectly pretty rainbow themed bonus card!
The theme for September in the Facebook postcard art swap group I am part of was “Let them eat cake, or bread” or “Marie Antoinette”. So I had to use the fabulous Marie Antoinette Octopode Factory digital stamp!
Of course it is very unlikely that Marie Antoinette uttered the infamous phrase “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” herself… in fact no proof at all that this was attributed to her… and that was why I went with the title I did for my postcard.
I printed her off on the linen cardstock and then coloured her using distress oxides and my waterbrush. I then diecut a frame from another piece of the cardstock and sandwiched them together with glue. This was she looks like she it looking out of a frame. I added a little ink to the edges with a waterbrush to add some soft definition.
Next I added a cake that I stamped and cut out from the Happy Moments stamp set. I did cut the candles off though and then added colour using the distress oxides and a waterbrush again. Next I added the hand stamped sentiment and edged that with the same colour ink as the frame.
I then added the topper to a piece of Berry Burst cardstock that went well with the Seedless preserve distress oxide ink I had been using.
Finally a little wink of Stella for Marie Antoinette’s crown and the cake flowers and stand to add that little bit of sparkle!
Love it! And hopefully so will Sally-Ann, the recipient of the postcard.
Tonight some friends are popping over to mine to make some cards using a masterboard as the basis.
Here is the masterboard I created for the basis of the samples.
I used Paperartsy fresco finish paints and a mixture of stencils and stamps.
Here are the samples … but obviously the end products may be very different due to the unique nature of creating a masterboard.
Card one I used Kim Dellow stamps to create the flowers and added a doily to separate the bright blooms from the background. In all except one card the feature image is watercoloured using SU inks and a waterbrush.
Card two uses the finnabair stamp to add the feature stamped onto the same yellow cardstock as the mount to the panel and sentiment.
Card three I decided to jazz up the panel by die cutting a section out. I also added some shimmer ink on top of the watercoloured presents to add some additional shine.
Card four uses the cut out from card three to add interest behind the Gorjuss Girl image.
All in all a fun set of cards made with one piece of 6 x 12 cardstock for the masterboard.
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