I realised at the weekend I still hadn’t done my August Make it Masculine card so grabbed the Lighthouse die set I bought a little while ago and hadn’t used and decided to go with the nautical theme!
Of course like the others in this series I did a video showing this card come together!
I really love the final card and the addition of the tag as I was putting it together came as a nice surprise but I think was exactly what was needed.
I love the combo of that die cut background, the cute lighthouse and then the Kingston Crafts summer collection paper with the waves to make the card base.
Was also good to have the extra texture from the waxed thread too.
Definitely a different feel from the last Make it Masculine with all the leaves and the mixed media feel … but I think it works well!
And so now that’s 8 months done on my self inflicted challenge of making at least one masculine themed card a month! No idea what the theme for next month will be but hopefully I can come up with something! Ideas of course always welcomed!
You can see this is a swing fold card and I used the gorgeous bright yellow cardstock and the beautiful slimline cardstock from Kingston Crafts.
I used the kite themed paper mainly but also added the strips of the rainbow too.
I then fussy cut the larger side of the kite card to cut out some of the kites to add to both the front of the card with adhesive foam and then inside to decorate.
I added a strip of the hearts card and then cut out the word Happy from the text print paper too.
Hot on the heels of the previous use up the scraps project I did another one!
This technique I saw on Sarah’s video and decided to do it with the little bits still left on the desk from the last few projects of the Crafters Companion magazine kit I am working my way through!
After sticking all the pieces down where there were little cracks I added some gilding flakes in to make it really fancy!
I then made a card blank out of brown cardstock, embossed a panel of green with a Spellbinders folder and then added the panel with some dimension.
I then added a sentiment label cut out of the magazine cut apart pieces. I added a few of those leaves I had embossed and coloured with brushos a few projects ago when I made a Make it Masculine project!
I then added the gems to finish off!
Love how the tiny shiny cracks of gold make it a little bit special!
Ok I am putting the pouch with all the magazine kit elements in it away for a while as I’ve done quite a few the last few weeks so time to rest it a while and play with other stash instead!
So over in the Facebook group for Christmas in July we decided to go with a monthly prompt to keep people going for the other months of the year! And this month I chose Christmas Florals!
I let people know at the beginning of the month and finally got around to doing my response! It is a video to keep my YouTube followers in the loop on this too as not all the followers have chosen to join the Facebook group.
I wanted to use my new stampwheel to create a wreath but didn’t think it through when I placed the cardstock in the stampwheel so as the wreath was then not central I decided to cut the panel in two and make two cards instead!
I used three stamps from a Spellbinders stamp set and created my wreath but didn’t have the stems from two stamps overlapping the main poinsettia image but decided rather than faff with the masking to then stamp those images again, fussy cut them and add them as a separate layer.
I love how they came out!
I finished both differently although clearly very similar! This first one I added dimension with both the poinsettia elements and the sentiment raised up on adhesive foam.
I also tied the waxed thread into a bow for under the sentiment strip.
I kept the rest of the card very simple with just some gems (which I coloured with the alcohol markers to make them red).
The second card I kept flat – I used glue to adhere the poinsettia and then glue to add the sentiment with the thread nested underneath. This does give a little dimension to the sentiment but not much!
For those concerned about postage thickness this is the reminder that you don’t need to add dimension! My issue is that I love it so much I just have to take the hit and pay for the large letter postage on most cards I make and send by post!
As I had an extra poinsettia stamped and coloured (my ‘in case it goes wrong extra’) I added that to the inside of the flatter card on the insert panel.
A lovely set of cards using florals (always my favourite type of card to make).
Please do come and join us over on Facebook as I would love to see how you interpret Christmas Florals too!
You will absolutely have seen me use this technique with scraps before but when tidying the desk I had a lot of strips of paper and rather than throw them away or keep them in the pouch and possible bend or tear them I decided to make a quick card using them!
Because I have made quite a few cards recently using the magazine kit using the KCC19 sketches this was a nice change of pace to just do something quick and simple!
After creating the panel with the strips I mounted the oval cut apart onto cardstock and cut it out. Then raised that on foam adhesive.
I then added the ribbon bow and some gems to finish off!
Don’t think many cards come together as easily as this and it was great to use up the scraps and then be able to tidy away the pouch with the magazine kit in to come back to another day!
Today is another Scrappin Saturday where I went back to using up scraps from the pouch from other previous pages to make up this page!
I added stencilling to the back and then used the larger panels of the patterned paper (this definitely was old SU paper in the main but some little elements from other pages.
I videoed the process of putting it together. Love how the colours worked together with the photos of the woodland walk.
Another tidy up project from Christmas in July for today’s Festive Friday … and actually it is a few different projects!
Firstly two cute tags … using up Painted Christmas papers and the two Santa stamped images I had left over … added some die cut scraps and some scrap ribbon I stapled to the top!
I added a little green punched circle behind the Santa images – ideally I would have used a larger circle but it is too late now! 🤣
Next up I used leftover black cardstock embossed with the stars and some splatters. I created a tag and then added a die cut circle frame leftover on the desk and then some scraps of paper stacked behind the stamp and die cut bear leftover from another make!
I found this scrap of patterned fabric and it was perfect for the tag!
And finally remember the stripy tags … this one I added to foam and to the panel of pine needles foiled cardstock … I added the knitted red rope for the top of the tag and then added a foiled die cut sentiment. Fun to put together this card using the leftovers!
Obviously these four projects have one thing in common – MFT stamps! These cute images really make for fun focal elements on all sorts of projects!
Back again with three more cards from the KCC19 sketches I used with the magazine kit to make my 11th installment of Use up a magazine kit for my series on YouTube.
This time I used sketch 4 for this lilac themed card.
I added the die cut leaves from other dies in the stash and also the sentiment is another magazine kit.
Next up is sketch 6 but this time I totally changed it up and I wanted to use the large card topper from the cut apart in the background which meant I only used the patterned paper parts of the sketch as a square card topper.
I also rotated that part of the sketch – sometimes the sketch is just a jumping off point and I don’t keep to it very faithfully – but the sketch elements are there!
I also added another card topper and raised it on foam and then added the sentiment below. A fun and quite special looking card with all those fun patterns!
Sketch 11 had the five blocks of patterned papers – and because all my papers are similar with larger prints to them they didn’t look so different but still look fun arranged like this – I added the flowers as a cluster to the top to embellish – otherwise a fairly faithful rendition of the sketch!
I chose to ink and splatter the background panel which made it special – even though I did have to do it twice as stamped the sentiment too far left originally as it got covered by the paper pieces! Doh!
So that’s another three made (9 more sketches to work through at some point) and my 11th play with the magazine kit!
Really love how different this kit is from my usual style and it is good to play with the rich colours of the papers and mix in the pastel cardstock too!
I am back with another decorated tag swap for UK Stampers forum and this time I’ve decided that I am done with this hot weather and ready for autumn!
I’ve gone for lots of the autumnal colours using a mix of paper scraps and cardstock in the background- plus the ruler ribbon and some die cuts and created a very mixed media type background.
I’ve added stamping and also gesso through stencils – both white and black – and then mounted the background onto a deep red coloured base.
I then chose to stamp succulent flower images into the centre of the Carabelle stamp stamp after masking the edge off and blended ink through the mask.
I then added lots of die cuts in both the gold cardstock and the green and black.
I added lots of splatters and then finished off with the 49 & Market sentiment chipboard and some brown string for the topper.
A fun autumnal themed tag for the swap! Hope the recipient doesn’t mind the US name for autumn! 🍂
I decided to revisit KCC19 again but this time with the Use Up A Magazine kit series I am doing over on my YouTube. So first I filmed the cutting and organising part of the project and then I started making some of the cards – I still have quite a few to go (there are 15 card sketches in total so may take me a while!) but it’s a good project to pick up and put down as each sketch element is in an envelope ready and I have a pouch of bits and bobs ready to coordinate in terms of leftover cardstock I used for the mats and layers. I actually made the cards I am sharing today over a couple of days – proving the point that it is easy to work on this over time!
I started with sketch 15 (why not start at the end!) and this is the card I made!
This had three panels of the patterned paper and suggested the placement for the sentiment and the element to the left.
I chose a Kraft card blank for this one, a cream base layer and then lilac and pink card stock for the next layers.
After adhering the patterned paper to the pink I then decided to ink up the lilac cardstock with the plum ink and splatter water to give it a fun finish.
I stamped a sentiment (from a different stamp set) onto the pink panel and adhered it all together. I then decided to take some stamped elements that were leftover from another project and water coloured them with ink before fussy cutting.
I then added them to the small square panel.
I used card candi for the centres of the flowers.
And there is the first card done!
Card two I added a large panel and then those flowers as extra but you can still see the sketch underneath.
By adding the card topper to the 6×6 card blank it does give it a very different feel – but I think it works – especially when adding the elements off the topper panel.
Card candi for the flower centres also work well!
Card three I went with the hummingbird element instead for the focal feature.
The background Kraft layer I added gold embossing to with the floral stamps – a lovely but subtle touch.
This is such a simple but effective design with just two panels of patterned paper – and really shows why I love creating with Kendras sketches – so much fun!
So that’s the first three cards of the fifteen made! Wonder how the others will come together and how long it will take for me to work through them!
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