Interference florals

Welcome, and thanks for calling by.

I had fun recently taking a class on how to use Opalite inks - they are an interference ink, and I had owned a pad for some time and had not used to to it's full potential, so jumped at the opportunity to learn more.

This is one way of using them - I embossed the matte black card oval with the fantasy floral folder, then rubbed the Glacier Blue Opalite ink over it.  This does not really do justice to the sheen you can achieve with these inks.

I had seen this technique for a card online, and had also used it in the class. The originals used a circle, but as I don't have circular Nesties, I used oval instead.

This is a close-up of the smallest oval, with the sentiment stamped in Memento Pearlescent Poppy ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.

And here is the card opened up - it pivots on the floral brads you can see at the base of the top layer, and there is one base of the central panel.

I am linking this to:

One Stop Craft Challenge #149 - Girlie

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Challenge #9 - Birthday

Sweet Stamping Challenge - flowers

Totally Gorjuss Challenge #98 - Nothing square

Crafty Ann Challenge #49 - Make yourself uncomfortable - trying new technique

If The Shoe Fits Challenge #91 - Bejewelled blue

Patti's Creations Challenge #30 - Girlie things

Stampin' for the Weekend Challenge #16 - Tickled Pink

Cute & Girly- September Challenge - All Things Bright and Beautiful

Creatalicious Challenges Challenge #26 - anything goes

Thanks so much for visiting - may your day be blessed

Bookworm and Petal Plucker

So do I have your attention with the title? I find I have to be careful with titles or the spammers have a ball...

My first card today uses an image that I can relate well to - a lass with her nose in a book - a constant for me when I was young.

This image is being released this week by McMahon Vintage under the title of Story Time.  I coloured the image with chalks, a soft mauve, although the camera shows it as blue, and pink.

The image was then mounted on a soft lime green card, which picked up one of the colours from the Prima Fairy Flora  design paper.

This was mounted on a doily cut (with a newly purchased die at a local Craft Fair last week) from a very pale mauve card stock.

The purple chiffon ribbon was some from my stash, and threaded through a buckle that adheres to the card.

The tassel I made from four shades of purple embroidery floss, which was then 'combed' with a needle to separate the strands to give a softer appearance.

The wee butterfly was another recent purchase.

The  second release this week is also from McMahon Vintage and is titled Mary Mary.

Again the image is coloured with chalks, with orange being the predominant colour used, and then mounted on a layer of soft orange card.

The base is a gentle lime green with a very subtle sparkle in it.  I stamped it with an Hero Arts stamp, Ivy Leaves, using Memento Cottage Ivy Ink.  

Where the images crossed, I placed a flower made with two white paper flowers wiped over a Whisper Orange ink pad, and then a Prima Fairy Rose mounted in the centre of those.

The card was finished with some piercing in the top corner.

Thanks for calling by - May your day be blessed.

Red and Brown for Him - C4C77

Welcome once again, and thank you for visiting. 

I did not think I would be blogging again for a while, but as I live by the motto "have computer, will travel" I thought I would write up this entry while away from home for several days.

I had this card photographed and ready to go, so here it is.

The sketch challenge this week at Crazy 4 challenges really inspired me. I had a card to make for a man, so found it a great starting point.

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The cad base I used is a lightly grey speckled cream card that I got from the local printer.  I used a metallic red fibrous 'stuff' for the left triangle - it has a real sheen to it IRL, but the camera does not pick it up particularly well.

Here is a close up shot of it, showing some of the sheen

The top triangle is cut from an old dictionary page - the dictionary was found at a garage sale by a wonderful friend!!  

The centre circle is white card on which I stamped a world map on using tea stain distressing ink and cut using a Spellbinders lacy circle, and then sponged with Adirondack Espresso ink.

The verse was  stamped and embossed in copper.

The sentiment was also stamped and embossed in copper, and distressed with the espresso ink.

The ribbon is a dark brown and the brads just gave it the finishing touch.

I am linking this to:

Crazy4Challenges #77 - sketch

Craft Your Passion #48 - Anything goes

Oh La La Creations #75 - It's a Man Thing

Simon Says Stamp and Show - some metal - copper embossing

Aly's Sunday challenge - Anything Goes

Card Cupids challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Pad #111 - Use ribbon

Lets Ink It Up #10 - Show us your embossing

Thanks for calling by - may your day be blessed.

Sparkles and a butterfly

Greetings - yes I have been on a roll and here is another card.  I used the sketch for the Midnight Madness Challenge #78 again I liked it so much.  This time I used one of the Priscilla Styles Butterfly stamps

The pink layer was textured with the embossing folder 

Budding Vine - the folder was slightly short, so I pierced the ends of both sheets to add a focal point, distressed and sponged the edges with Pearlescent Orchid ink.

  The iridescent plastic sheet behind this is the remains of what sequins are punched from. 

The butterfly was coloured using Twinkling H20's, and highlighted with Stickles  Kindy Glitz and Dimensional Glue, then cut using a Nestabilities classic oval, and sponged with the same ink I used on the pink paper.  This was then mounted on the purple base and Stickles added for some more sparkle.

The flowers were a totally unexpected RAK from my neighbour, and worked wonderfully well on this card.  The leaves I cut and crimped and sponged with Adirondack Bottle ink.  The same ink was used to sponge the edge of the tag and stamp the greeting, a Hero Arts Stamp.

I am linking this to 

Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge # 78

Digital Tuesday Challenge #83 - I've been framed

Anything Challenge - Letter B (butterfly)

Oldie But A Goodie - Distressing

Scrap-creations - Favourite technique - painting with twinkling H2O's

Thanks for calling by - I really enjoy the fact I can share my art on this forum and hope that you enjoy seeing my efforts.


May you day be blessed.

Sunflower Sunshine

Good day to you - thank you for visiting my blog.


I have recently been 'playing' with digital stamps, and have come to the conclusion that I enjoy working with them... after a few hit and miss experiments, some of which missed :-)  But that is all in the learning curve.


I have also been honoured to be asked to be part of the Priscillastyles Design Team, this has increased the angle of the learning curve dramatically, but I am enjoying the challenge. 


This is one my first cards using a Priscillastyles image - this is a freebie available here.

 I printed the image and  coloured it with chalks, cut it out using Nestibilities and sponged the edge of the oval before removing the die.  I mounted it onto a scalloped oval, and then added the buttons - from my inherited stash from both my Mother and Mother in Law!

Before mounting the ovals onto the green cardstock, I put several wraps of paper ribbon around it to form a background, then layered the whole onto the bright orange base - then realised I wanted a sentiment on the card.







I stamped and embossed a greeting using the Hero Arts Tiny Happy Birthday stamp, and very carefully shielding the rest of the card with scraps of cardstock so I didn't melt anything - having been there and done that recently!!


I am linking this to 
Crazy4challenges # C4C51 - sketch challenge


Thanks for calling by and I do appreciate you comments.


Have a blessed day.

CAS - Flowers and Scripture

Greetings to my cyber-friends - I do enjoy you calling by.  Today I have a clean and crisp card that I have really enjoyed making to share.

This project changed courses/morphed several times during construction - the initial thought was to use an old sketch from Splitcoast Stampers that I saw in my photo album, but it just did not happen.  Not that I mind.


I wanted a crisp colour scheme and found it with this green and lemon combination. I started with another shade of green but thought the better of it very early on!  


I stamped and embossed the text using a stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs Scripture Collection 2 set and mounted it on a diagonally cut piece of green cardstock.  


The flower is from the Hero Arts Set Fashion Flowers, being the Sunflower Style stamp.  I bought this set years ago and use it quite regularly.  The flower was stamped, embossed and then painted with twinkling H2O's.  The stem is a piece of green gingham ribbon folded to form the leaves and held together with the ubiquitous double sided tape.

These were then mounted on the lemon card which I had run through the cuttlebug with the swiss dots embossing folder. 


Unfortunately the folder did not reach to the bottom of the card, so I turned it round and added the bottom edge of the card to the folder to try and cover the whole card - it worked, but not that well, and I ended up with a blank section, so placed the red ribbon to hide that!


The final touch was to add the pearls.


I was very pleased with the overall effect of this card, and decided not to add a salutation to it - so I embossed it and added it to the insert instead.


i have also realised that this can be entered in the SSCC#25 as it has two ribbons, two colours of cardstock, two colours on the flower..... not quite two of the same stamp image, but definitely two stamps have been used... do you think they will accept it?


Thank  you so much for calling by and for any comments that you may leave - I really appreciate your thoughtfulness when you comment.