Colour challenge time and of course the Alex Syberia dies came out to play again – for the fifth time this month!
My interpretation of these colours … wildberry because I actually own that, then Lost Lagoon for the Lakefront and then Smoky Slate for the Harbour alternative. It looks like it is more of a blue than a grey from Martin’s cards he has made but never mind – I went with the grey tone instead!
So I die cut the flowers from white and then painted them with the wildberry and lost lagoon – I then also added a painted layer of the shimmer spritz in lilac and hydrangea to make them super shimmery!
The flower centres were then circle die cuts which were already cut out of the glimmer cardstock. I used the same for the letters.
Then I worked on the background.
The smoky slate lightly brushed through a Tim Holtz stencil. I then also added versamark through the stencil and added clear embossing to add texture.
I took a piece of pink cardstock and inked the edge with the wildberry and then spritzed the lilac shimmer spritz all over to give it a good coat of the mica.
I then splatter some of that onto the white background too.
Just love how this card came out and the pretty colour combo!
And as much as I don’t enjoy working with glimmer paper – those letters do look fabulous!
This is the final colour combo challenge for this month and I must admit I’ve loved doing these so much! Thanks Martin for the great combos!
And I am so pleased I got myself ahead on this challenge and made this early as my IBS has flared up again and been fit for nothing the past day and a half. At least I can look at the pretty card I made and that will help cheer me up!
I knew I wanted to go with Christmas lights for this theme and originally thought I could go with die cutting but instead remembered this stencil from Claritystamp and used this instead!
My card ended up very clean and simple for me – the stencilled background, a doodled frame and then two die cut sentiments!
Oh and lots of glitter glue!
I had to make it in a couple of sessions as I needed the glitter glue to dry on the bulbs before I accidentally put my fingers in the glue and messed it up!
And then I needed to set aside to dry after the second session with the glitter glue to add to the sentiment!
Just love the jewel coloured lights and the sparkly finish!
To see the process video please check out my YouTube channel 🖤
Back to a sketch! And back to using the Christmas tags and more dsp kit.
This time I chose to not actually use the patterned paper and instead used the die cut elements from the kit to create the sketch elements.
I decided to create the panel from the sketch using masking and inking with a subtle pattern of the snowflakes.
I raised up the central element for the sketch; the wreath and bird with the sentiment. Behind this I added the ribbon.
I also added splatter to the card which I think gave a lovely extra touch!
Especially as it is shimmer splatter!
Inside the card I added a strip of the paper and some more die cut elements to finish off!
If you want to see how I made this all though please check out my YouTube.
And so this is another lovely card using the speciality dsp – I didn’t think that this was the SU paper I bought that I would use the most – can’t believe I haven’t touched the Modern Christmas dsp yet – although that might be because I am hoarding it to stroke! 🤣
Anyway that’s another sketch challenge done and I think this one is probably the one I’ve kept closest to the original sketch!
Today was our Warrington crop and it was our charity Christmas one so a day full of chatting and creating and wearing our Christmas attire!
I did a couple of page kits and then one using my old papers … but only sharing the first page now … you’ll have to wait for next week to see another one!
So this was a page kit Sarah designed and I kept it fairly similar to the original … just added a few bits, moved the photo cluster further to the top, changed the colour to the background and side and used different embellishments from the kit Sarah included!
But other than that … kept it simple and similar ! 😂
Loved scrapping this pic of hubby and princess with the busty snowwoman that they made at the beginning of the year!
I did add in a couple of bits and bobs from new stash I bought at the crop – but really most of the design came from the kit Sarah designed ❤️
Despite my immediate reflex of grabbing those Alex Syberia dies I managed to instead use something different for the theme of Festive Flora for today’s #30daychristmascardmakingchallenge
I instead went for some oldie but goodie stamps from Creative Stamping magazine and decided to do the messy watercolour embossing technique I find so effective for floral images.
I stamped on watercolour cardstock, used inks to water colour and then stamped again using the gold embossing powder.
I love this technique so much. I then added the sentiment and the splatter using Gorgeous Grunge stamp, also embossed with gold.
I then trimmed the panel down to be slightly smaller than the card base. I used a dark green base which framed it nicely.
I then added those lovely enamel dots to finish off.
Inside I stamped the images again on a panel for the inside but this time in a light green.
A fun and quite easy card but I think effective!
Probably the best way to understand how this came together is to watch my video so please do check it out.
Decided to make some cards inspired by Tim Holtz’s Simon Says Stamp class he did on Facebook. Except I totally didn’t have either the watercolour pencils or the stamps he used – but hey that’s ok – I made it my own! I videoed the process if you want to follow that!
I used distress ink for stamping all the foliage elements spritzing them with water and doing two stamping per inking to get some with different levels of saturation. I used the Painted Christmas stamps which I think are not too dissimilar to the ones Tim was using.
I kept to three colours of distress ink – Shabby Shutters, Evergreen Bough and Candied Apple. I love the mix of tones.
I kept both cards similar with the layout of the foliage and just turned one upside down to make them a bit different.
The red ribbon, die cut circle and the red card blank really help make the cards pop.
For the background I used the two greens and also some tumbled glass and then ran them through the fern embossing folder for the texture. Love how this came out.
I also added the small panel of the gold angel hair ‘paper’ to ground the foliage but probably should have made it a bit bigger as it’s barely visible!
Inside the card I added a little more foliage just to the corner to keep the theme going inside!
Cute and I think a fun technique – could absolutely have filled multiple sheets of card stock with the stamping. Really fun to do!
Today’s theme is North Pole Workshop and I remembered that there was a North Pole signpost in the acetate and vellum kits from Kingston Crafts – and that became the idea for this card!
It really was a simple card to put together – lots of the acetate bits, two of the sentiment banners, a couple of pieces of card, patterned paper, some shimmer splatter and of course the waxed thread bow!
If you want to see me put it together – check out my YouTube.
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