A slightly more complex but still simple card. On black card, I used a bubble template and used Cosmic Shimmer embossing paste - Icicle Blue sparkles and left to dry. I hate waiting but it has to be done. I cut out the twisted metal tag from Spellbinders in white and black using the white outline and the black insert. On the black insert I stamped the sentiment from Clarity stamps in silver and used a silver pen to add stitching. Black and white layering.
A simple card for my husband's birthday. I stamped distress ink pads - walnut stain, antique linen, tea dye and pumice stone - direct to a piece of white card and then covered with sparkling embossing powder. I left a space for the Happy Birthday stamp from Clarity and the die cut Dad from Britannia. Then I added three Spellbinder die d-lites "cattails" - two in black and one in white - swiped with the walnut stain to the front. I mounted this on black card before completing.
As a meerkat would say "Simples".
Materials used:
Spellbinders poinsettia die
Red stickles
Picot edge circle die - largest
Word dies from Britannia
Entered in R for Red Poinsettas from ABC Card Challenge
Materials used:
- Sizzix Hero Arts framelits with stamps
- Green mica powders
- Gold embossing powders
- Black card
Entering in Daring Cardmakers September Colour Combo Dare
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| Front of card |
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| Inside card |
Materials used:
- Diesire Nouveau Stamping frame - rectangle
- Dylusions ink spray - cut grass
- Walnut Stain DI
- Spellbinders Back to basics tags
- Creative expressions gilding wax
- Bakers twine stained with Dylusions ink spray - cut grass
- Free stamps from Creative Stamping issue 17
- Clarity stamps (happy birthday)
Entered in Less is More Colour challenge 188
I bought the stamps used in the card a few weeks ago, just because they are so pretty. Of course, I put them to one side as I tried to come up with a plan to use them so I sat down this morning and decided to put stamp to ink. The Allsorts challenge seemed the perfect opportunity.
Elements used:
- Artemio stamp set (sorry no name on the pack). The main stamp and the butterfly were used and stamped on white card using Encore Gold ink and then embossed with clear embossing powder.
- Tumbled glass distress ink was used to edge and colour the stamped images.
- Background was created using the That Special Touch eyelet mask and tumbled glass DI. I also edged the background with faded jeans DI to add dimension.
- The flowers are prima flowers coloured with tumbled glass DI and a candi centre.
- The flourishes are from Marianne creatables elegant elements.
- The sentiment is, I think, from Red Hot Bed which I have had for ages.
- Some white ribbon, lace and clear dew drops to finish.
I am entering the card in the Allsorts challenge - white, gold and another colour.
Another Christmas card.
The picture looks so dimensional but apart from the embossing is flat. Its the quality of the stamp more than my colouring efforts that achieves the effect. Having done this though, next time I plan to try a decoupage version of the image.
Elements used:
- Sheena - Bah Humbug 1 stamp for the scene plus the star and the sentiment.
- Big and Juicy Mountain Meadow ink pad, sponged on to create the sky above the masked stamp.
- Scene stamp coloured in with spectrum noir pens.
- Then embossed with WOW white puff embossing powder to create the snow in the sky and on the buildings.
- Stickles also added for sparkle but it doesn't show up on the photo.
- The scene is matted onto some white card and some blue shiny paper, as is the sentiment. I also used a gold marker pen around the edges.
- Sue Wilson 3D lattice bow from the same blue paper.
- Britannia Xmas flight die cut from black paper and highlighted with white pen.
- Clear gems and blue ribbon to finish.
Some close ups:
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| Sentiment |
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| Christmas rooftops |
I am entering the card in the Winter Wonderland "A Christmas Scene" challenge.
