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Monday, April 30, 2018

Snow Board Birthday

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I have been MIA as I took time out last week to indulge myself in another passion - embroidery - and went on a four day retreat to simply sit and stitch. Bliss.

I made this card for a young man who loves his snow sports when the family heads up to the Central Plateau (in New Zealand) to stay on Mt Ruapehu.


I started by blending my Broken China, Faded Jeans and Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks  on the blue cardstock... I was not happy with the result, but had to leave the project to have a meal, and when I came back I was very surprised to see they had dried and looked wonderful!


The snowboarder image is from an Avery Elle Stamp set Stoked, and coloured with Polychromos, and his visor was given dimension and shine with some Glossy Accents


The sentiment was embossed with gold on the white, die cut 'slopes', which were edged with
 Kindy Glitz


The stars were embossed with platinum embossing powder.

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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Little Birdie Birthday

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And a special welcome to my newest follower, Ishani, who's blog is called Quillish.  Please pop over and visit, her work is a delight to the eyes.

I made this card for a friend who loves greens! 

Hence why another Alcohol Ink background in these tones.  This time the inks were dropped onto a surface of hairspray and mixed with my finger, then sprayed again to get a less distinct pattern.  I learnt of this technique here on the Ink Stains Blog by Roni. His results differ from mine, but I am happy with my end product.  
I did learn that the gold and silver mixatives don't play well with this technique.


I tried no-line colouring with this wee bird from a Sweet n Sassy set Birds and Blooms. I stamped it with Desert Sand Memento ink and coloured it with my Polychromos.


I die cut the image with a die from the S/B Marvelous Squares set, then painted the edge with Semco Mica paint.  This was mounted onto the background with two gold glitter 'corners', which were made by cutting an old Cuttlebug /Provo craft square die cut diagonally.


The sentiment was embossed in gold and mounted over some organza ribbon across the top of the alcohol ink background.


This panel was mounted over gold glitter cardstock, and then onto dark green cardstock, and some small champagne pearls added.


I stamped and coloured a floral branch from the same stamp set as the bird, and coloured it with polychromos.  The sentiment was a SnS stamp from the Prayerful Thoughts Set.





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Saturday, April 21, 2018

Windows

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This card was made for a New Zealand swap group I am in - and the theme for the month was Windows.  I used a die cut for mine, but others have been very innovative as to how they used the theme - I don't think anyone used the Windows computer operating system for inspiration!


The window was die cut using a S/B Die D-lite Windows 2 from a pale tan cardsatock. 


I then backed the die with kraft paper at the top, a snippet of blue card and I fussy cut the rose from some paper from the MME 6x6 pad In Bloom


The background paper and the sentiment (stamped/sponged with Rhubarb Stalk ink) both came as a freebie from a magazine. 
The card was finished with some bling in opposing corners.

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Monday, April 16, 2018

Essentially Black and White

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 I recently taught how to use scoring to add interest to a card, and in the same class, I wanted the participants to just use black and white and a touch of colour.


I needed another sympathy card,  so that's what I made.  


I stamped the large image from the SU set 'Lovely as a Tree" in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, and also the sentiment (an unmarked stamp)  Unfortunately as they are both wood mounted stamps, I could not repeat the stamping, so the images are not as crisp and black as I would like. 

I added a wee touch of olive green under the trees with my Polychromo pencils.


Here you can see the scoring that I added - there was also one scored line above the image.  the scoring added interest without detracting from the image and sentiment.

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(the stamp set is one of my originals, over 10 yrs old)

Friday, April 13, 2018

Wrapping Paper Sympathy

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As you all know, inspiration can come from anywhere. 
I was out shopping with a friend recently and we spotted some very interesting wrapping paper - it was fairly expensive, and it was being sold by the sheet, so we decided on two designs that we both liked, bought them, then halved the sheets, and told ourselves we were shopping wisely!


I made this sympathy card for the family of a lady who had loved gardening, and one of the sheets of wrapping paper was a perfect background, 


as you can see in the above photograph, it had gold highlights on it.


The butterfly die is Pippi, by Memory Box. I sprayed a snippet of card with red perfect pearls, and then with an old silver spray I have.  (The perfect pearls sprays seem to be off the market now) and mounted it over a twist of metallic thread, with three Champagne pearls for the body.


The sentiment, by Our Daily Bread Designs was gold embossed, trimmed, and the edges of the panel were also gold embossed , and this was finished with a strip of Champagne adhesive pearls.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Gold Baptismal Card

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Just a short post today, and only one photo!!
I made this for a woman who was baptised in our church recently.


The card base was white, and I sponged the edges with Delicata Gold ink
The next layer was textured using a CTMH 3-D embossing folder
The ribbon was a sheer white with gold on the edges
The cross was gold embossed, and painted with Gold Paint, and mounted with a layer of thin cardboard under it, and on foam dots, to give some dimension.
The sentiment was computer generated and gold embossed on vellum, and adhered using a scotch tape  especially for vellum. 

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Friday, April 6, 2018

Seas The Day

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Sorry I have been slow in posting again - I have been having major email issues which have thankfully now been resolved, but they have taken time.


I bought a magazine recently that had a fabulous set of stamps in it with a beach/nautical theme 
by Clear Impressions.


I stamped the images in blue, and then coloured them with my Polychromo pencils, and added a few highlights with my white Signo pen.


While I was colouring the circular image I kept the negative of a circle die cut at the edge of the image to keep the colouring inside the unmarked border.   I then framed the image with a double die cut circle, and added the champagne flat back pearls to give the impression of  a view
 through a  porthole.


The sentiment was stamped in the same blue ink.


I used a lighthouse image from the same set to make a pop-up element on the inside of the card,


and also completed the sentiment on the inside.


The final detail was the coarse linen twine used as an embellishment on the outside of the card

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