I’ve had a little dig through the preprepared backgrounds and grabbed this one that I made using gelatos and Paperartsy stamps ages ago and decided it was time to get it used!
I’ve had a thing about rainbows recently … and on this I love both the rainbow background and the shimmer from a few of the colours which were metallic gelatos.
I decided to keep this one simple grabbing a chipboard heart some die cut leaves and a little stamped sentiment.
I added a little bit of white paint pen doodling too to finish up.
Simple and another of those prepared background used up! 😀
Hello! Welcome to my blog. Obviously welcome back if you’ve popped by before.
Today is the first of the month, importantly my Mum’s birthday, but the card I have today isn’t my Mum’s birthday card …. I’ll share that another time, instead it is a card I made using elements cut from a sheet of 12×12 dsp. I’ve been doing this every month this year as I got organised last year so I wasn’t having to do too much thinking about what to create when the end of the month comes around and it is time for a patterned paper playtime.
This months dsp of choice was an old favourite … True Love DSP. I must have used this paper for so many projects because I bought a few packs and think it is so versatile with being just black and white and so you can leave it without colour or add colour using whatever medium you fancy.
This time I added colour to the reverse of the paper … and left the flowers plain.
I love adding rainbow colours for a dramatic impact, especially against black. I used the stampin blends to add the colour to the striped side of the dsp and then die cut it using the stitched shapes. Then stacked that up with two more so it was a nice sturdy element. I added some of the black and white gingham ribbon and then two of the flower elements.
I decided that I wanted to add some texture in the background but kept it black. I decided to add versamark to the folder and use clear emboss to add some shine to the texture. This is just like the way that I did it for the recent Christmas card inspired by Jennifer McGuire video.
Inside the card I added white with a strip of the coloured dsp and another floral element.
I finished off the outside with the black gems and a stamped sentiment I raised up on foam.
I do love this way of creating a card by having ready cut out elements ready to go. Plus when you prep it like this you end up with very little waste. But many many elements ready to work with for other projects!
I decided to end this month as I started it with the bits and bobs in the pouch from the patterned paper playtime and created two cards using the leftover pieces.
Kept them both quite simple teaming the lovely spruce and pine cone themed paper with Blackberry Bliss and Rich Razzleberry.
I added an embossed sentiment and some gems for bling but otherwise let the paper do all the work.
Hope you’ve enjoyed my Christmas in July and hope you got some inspiration for your festive projects along the way!
Tomorrow back to a more appropriate for the time of year type of crafting… but you know me Christmas card making happens all year round for me so you never know when snow and Santa may appear on the blog!
Watched a Jennifer Maguire video … got inspired! No surprise there! The woman just makes the best cards in my opinion!
So the video (hopefully this link works) was all about different ways of embossing and she started by using an embossing folder and debossing with versamark so the embossing powder sits in the crevices… hopefully this makes sense … and if not just go watch the video – she explains it so well!
I grabbed some pool party cardstock that was on the desk and a snowflake embossing folder and then silver embossing powder… and very quickly had a very cute background!
So I kept it quite simple to finish off … white swirly die cuts, a grey die cut panel and the lovely die cut sentiment from Tonic which I stacked for dimension. Then sequins for added shine.
So nice to use the embossing folder in a different way. I actually remember learning this a long time ago but then forgot!
Today I have quite a simple card to share using some of that leftover sheet load of cards template I have been working my way through with a bit of sewing and some of the fab Tidings and Trimmings stockings.
I really love the more muted navy and crumb cake colour scheme of this card and the bit of hand sewing makes it a bit different.
I’m close to the end of the Christmas in July series now and must admit I still have quite a few of these backgrounds left but going to put them away for now as I feel like I need a break from these papers and this sheet load of cards that I cut over 6 months ago and still haven’t used up. Do you get like that when you’ve had the same thing staring at you that you can’t quite work out how to use them? The good news is that I have a box for my Christmas stash so I can just put them away and pull them out whenever the inspiration strikes rather than them going to waste.
Final piece of the brusho masterboard I made finished into a card for todays Christmas in July post.
This time I chose the starry sky to be the main colour with both the sentiment embossed on it and the card blank too.
I also added the white star die cuts from the Tidings and Trimmings set.
Added some more of the iridescent snowflake embellishments too. Not sure what I will do when I run out of these – they are so pretty!
Hope you’ve liked how I used this masterboard. It was so fun to play with the brusho background and the grunge type stamps to create something really interesting to play with.
Hello! Today I have another design team contribution so a little break from the Christmas in July projects … I mean I could have done a Christmas image but it was nice to give them a break today!
The challenge for the next two weeks is to make your mark … basically colour in! and here is the card I made using an image from All dressed up and coloured with my prismacolour pencils.
I stamped a grunge background using a mixture of stamps and then cut the girl out. I pierced some holes either side of her waist so I could add the silk bow as if it was around her waist.
I found the cut heart gems in my stash and added them for a fun embellishment.
The Kraft base I pierced around the outside to give some extra detail and texture.
Remember the masterboard I made a few weekends ago …
… well I played with another piece and made another card for my Christmas in July challenge.
I decided to take the bigger of the two pieces left and it pretty much filled the front of a C6 card with enough room for a mat. I did a mat using the soft sea foam and then made the card blank from starry sky, remembering of course to add an insert of white so there is something easy to write on.
I then added a die cut wonky circle and a white tree die cut that I stacked up a few times to give dimension. I also added wink of Stella on the top to give it sparkle.
I then chose a Tim holtz sticker sentiment and some enamel accent hearts for the embellishments.
I might get a chance to finish the other piece off too before the end of the month as I’ve already started on it … but this is todays contribution!
Had a few days away in York so no crafting was done … but back again now so carrying on with the Christmas in July projects… today another of those sheet load of cards leftover cards for you … this time kept it simple with the added fussy cut sentiment and the reindeer as the main focal elements but also added in some cute shimmery sparkle with the little banner and the stars.
It did make me wonder why I don’t add little banners more often as they look so cute!
Hello … a small interlude from all the Christmas themed blogs … although clearly I could have made these a little Christmassy with the star theme…. But I didn’t!
I made my inchies for the uk stampers forum and I thought it would be odd to do Christmas in July for that!
So I made an inky background with oxides and then stamped the star randomly before adding the packaging inchies to the background and cutting them out.
I then added a stamped word using little alpha stamps. I decided to emboss them and turn them into little tiles but I added the little silver stars first which then I had to be really careful with as the heat warped them slightly!
So these are this months inchies … slightly but not really Christmas during my Christmas in July season … but hey another blog post coming soon!
Also this is another of those Craft Stamper stamps that I’ve had a try of and decided it stays and I think that star will definitely come in handy again in future!
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