Rhapsody in blue

 

Morning crafting folk, Hope you all had a fabulous weekend. Ours was very family orientated as we had 10 for lunch on Sunday to celebrate a daughters 37th birthday (makes me feel really old), so no time for crafting as lots of prep  cooking and washing up were done. It was lovely to get some of the family together though  but a pity not all were joining us as they live a lot further away. Todays card was made by cutting out the background with a Spellbinder die from the Nestabilities card creator range called  "Enchanted Labels 28. I adhered it to the blue card stock and then used the same card stock and stamped and embossed the vase onto it and cut it out and adhered it onto the card with 3d foam. The stamp collection was from a Card-io Combinations collection. I made the flowers myself by hand by drawing them onto paper and then stamping spots onto them with blue ink from Color-box. I then cut out the flowers and shaded all the edges of the petals then shaped them with a ball tool and foam pad and curled the petals to give more dimension and then  layered them onto each other so that each flower had three layers of petals. I then added a flat back pearl to each centre and adhered them to the card. To complete I stamped a small sentiment in the same colour ink and cut it out with a Spellbinder petite labels die and also added some butterflies that I'd cut out with  their "Whimsy" die collection. Hope you have a fabulous week ..

Best wishes.. Wendy

Silver wedding

Evening friends hope you've all had a good Friday, its been busy here so it's just a quick post this evening. This card is made for my brother who's 25th wedding anniversary is coming up in March and was made with my lovely new die from Sue Wilson's new  "Striplet" collection. I used this die to cut out the mirror card to make a backing layer and the striplet for the topper. I then stamped and embossed a piece of card and mat and layered them all together. I cut out the lovely leaves using Sue's lovely Finishing Touches " Faux Quilled leaves" Collection and adhered them with a sliver bow and small tag which I'd stamped " 25 years " onto. The main sentiment was stamped and cut out using Spellbinders D-Lites Petite Label one and shaded around the edge whist still in the die to complement the silver colour of the card. ....

Sleep tight .....

Set Sail

 

Morning crafters well its a gorgeous day here in Cadiff and staying on a nautical theme I made this card using the same papers and toppers as my previous card so as I am busy making my daughters wedding invites I wont go into all the details as time is of the essence but the paper range was from Pink Petticoat as were the sentiments. Right Im off to sail away into the blue yonder of my craft room... Have a great day ...

Take Time

 

Morning Crafting friends, I made this yesterday evening as I was inspired to enter it into the new sketch on Mojo Mondays Challenge blog so I hope you like it. It was made from downloading papers, sentiments and digi stamps from the "Beach Cottage" Range by Pink Petticoatand and I assembled the card following the design on the Mojo blog. The flags were made by using a Sissix Banner & Tags set of dies and the centre topper was cut using a Spellbinders Shapeability die from the "Floral Doily Motifs set and I shaded areas with Spectrum Noir pens. Happy crafting..

Monochrome Monday

 

Morning Crafters, well black and white is the order of todays card which I made by using stamps from the Hunkydory Clearly Stamps “Flutterbye Sorbet“ stamp set. I first cut a piece of white paper to fit the front of the card then stamped the grasses design along the top and bottom edges of the paper. All four edges of the paper were then inked with black archival ink to give more definition to the layers and then adhered to the front of the main card. Two toppers were cut out using two Spellbinders “Timeless Rectangles” dies and then mat and layered to the card, I then stamped three butterflies also taken from the stamp set with the black ink onto card stock and three stamped with black embossing powder onto parchment paper and cut them all out and adhered the parchment layers to the card layers and fixed them to the card using 3d foam squares. The sentiment was stamped onto Centura Pearl card stock and cut and scored to form a banner and adhered to the front.
Have a great day

 

 

Embossed watercolour 2

Hi Guys, this is the second watercolour card made from the other half of the watercolour paper so great value as you get two for the price of one and as I used three different coloured inks you get a different shade across the paper so is ideal for producing a series of cards...

Embossed Watercolour Card 1

 

Evening again everyone, well its almost Monday and I wanted to add another card to my blog before I went to bed and as I felt like doing some water colouring I thought I would combine both so made a card using a watercolour technique. I began by applying some brown corrugated card stock to my base card and then the main design was made by taking the Creative Expressions Tulip Stencil and using a Versamark pen, traced the design onto watercolour paper. Once all the tulips had been traced onto the card I sprinkled over the design with white pearlised embossing powder and after removing the excess powder, heating them with a heat gun. Once dry I spread three different colours of Tim Holtz Distress ink over the card and spritzed it generously all over with water and left it to dry. This allows the inks to merge into one another  and once dry leaves the watermarks behind. The card was then trimmed and mounted onto white card stock and adhered to the rest of the card. The sentiment was added after stamping it onto card and cutting it out with a Spellbinders Nestability “Labels 29” Die. I hope you like the simplicity of the design..

 

Regards Wendy