Mothers Day

With Mothers Day fast approaching I got on and made a card for my Mum. After buying these wonderful stamps and dies from Heartfelt Creations, I stamped and cut out loads before thinking about how to put them together. The stamps have a wonderful paper pad that came with them but after buying a collection of embossing folders from Crafters Companion I thought I would try and combine the two. Although the embossing folder I've used is like Parquet flooring, I also thought it looked like fence panels. So with this in mind I embossed some craft card and then distressed with Vintage Photo, going around the edges with renaissance gold gilding wax. Next I coloured the stamped and die cut pieces with spectrum noir pencils, I also edged the flowers with Crystal Stickles to give it a bit of a sparkle, they were then all shaped with a large ball tool before placing onto the card base. I finished using die cuts from Tonic which I cut out of Gold mirri card and black card, placing the gold over the black to give it a bit of a shadow.

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Sue

Tulips

The other day I received my new stamps from the Chocolate Baroque Stamp Club and decided it to ink them before I put them away. So using the small stamp and Versafine Black Onyx I stamped out twice onto some smooth card stock, and coloured them in using Spectrum Noir pencils. The first I coloured using the colours from the current Chocolate Baroque Challenge and then made a background for it using Distress Inks in co-ordinating colours. Then I added a sentiment the from new Thinking Of You sentiments and a ribbon to match. This will be sent out today to a friend who has just received some very bad news.

 The second I coloured in shades of red and I made a background using Distress Inks in Lipstick Red and Abandoned Coral, I overstamped in Fired Brick Distress Ink with a swirl from the Patchwork Butterflies stamp set. This time I added a sentiment from the new Card Sentiments stamps. Both cards were made using 5x5 card Bases.

I would also like to enter the top card into the current Chocolate Baroque Challenge.

Just need to get the large stamp out and ink that one now.

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Sue

Everything Stops For Tea

The current challenge over on the CD Sunday blog is Everything Stops For Tea. So when I had to make an Anniversary card for FIL to send to someone I made a card around this theme. I hope I will be forgiven, as my cup does not hold tea but flowers instead. It was a very flat card so it could go through the post easily, the flowers being the smallest on a set of four from Crealies. I've matched them to the backing paper which were blue with yellow centres and added a ribbon the same colour as the flowers in the cup. The Cd that I used for this card was Jane Shasky From The Heart Of The Garden.

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Sue

Anniversary Card

March 1st sees the first anniversary of my Daughter and Son-in-law, so this card has been made for them. At the same time I've used the colours for this month's colour challenge on the Chocolate Baroque challenge blog. I started with some plain white card and Distress Inks in Dusty Concord, Shaded Lilac, Spiced Marmalade and Mustard seed, with a blending tool I coloured the background. I used stamps from the Fluttering Hearts and Punky Hearts sets, first over stamping the background with the Harlequin Hearts and True Love stamps. Then I stamp the Heart Flowers with the Bird and Butterfly onto the background and coloured with matching Distress Pens then cut out and added with glue gel. Lastly I stamped the Bird and Heart onto white card and again coloured with matching Distress Pens. I just need to add the sentiment when I find where I put the stamp.

Luckily my daughter does not read my blog so I'm able to post this card on here now.
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Sue

Heartfelt

I love the stamps and dies from Heartfelt Creations, so when Create and craft had a show from CHA at the beginning of the year I just had to buy the 2 kits that they showed. With March and April being very busy month Birthday and Anniversary wise for me, I thought I would make a head start on the cards. I'm not sure who this will go to yet, so will leave the sentiment until later. The card is an A5 white card base and the backing paper from the collection. I edged the paper in a cerise coloured marker, before attaching to the card. I stamped the image with memento Black Onyx and coloured with spectrum noir pencils. I used a die cut by X-cut once the image was coloured and also another larger layer. I stamped out the branches, leaves and flowers in white card again with the memento and then used inks and daubers to colour them. I added the corners which are Tattered Lace dies then the branches and flowers.

I'm going to enter this into this months challenge at Stamping Sensations which is Anything Goes,
and Creative Fingers which is also Anything Goes.

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Sue

Better Late Than Never

Last month when the Chocolate Baroque challenge blog posted the colours for the current challenge, I sorted stamps out that I thought I would use. Then they sat on my worktop unused. I realised this morning that the time was nearly up for this challenge, so after a quick play here is my entry. I used Distress inks in the following colours, Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Barn Door and Vintage Photo along with the Wild Meadow set of stamps and the Amazing Birthday set for the sentiment. I must get more organised for the next challenge and hopefully I won't be so late.

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Sue

Bright And Beautiful With Lavinia

I've had the brayer out again today and also my Gelli plate for the current challenge over on the Lavinia Challenge blog, which is Bright And Beautiful. I put a base colour onto the Gelli plate using a Stampin Up stamp pad Tangelo Dream, and then using a template for hills and using the same colour continued with a blending tool to complete the background. Then I added the fairy, flowers, fern and mushrooms, finally adding the sentiment and the butterflies. I added a little glitter to the wings and used stickles for the butterfly trails. When I had finished I went around the outside with a blending tool and more of the same coloured ink, then mounted it onto a brown 6x6 card base.

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Sue

Floral Frenzy With CD Sunday

This card has been made for the CD Sunday challenge this week, which is Floral Frenzy. I've used Joanna Sheen's The Janet Kruskamp Collection for this card. It's on an 8x8 card base with gold mirri card for the matting, layering and corners, and ribbon from my stash. The flowers are Arianne Blooms from Heartfelt Creations as well as the leafy swirls. I don't know where the time has disappeared to the last couple of weeks. I'm hoping to have a day crafting tomorrow, but you never know what is about to crop up.

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Sue

Some New Stamps

Last week I ordered some new stamps that have just been released by Inkylicious. And as you know from previous posts I have been having a bit of a sort in my Craftroom. These new stamps were sat waiting to be put away, but before doing so I had found enough bits scattered around to make this card. The white stamp card was an off cut from a previous project and after stamping and colouring  I popped it onto an off cut of gold mirri card. The backing paper I'm sure was from a Joanna Sheen CD, but it's been printed off and left for so long I can't remember which one. I even had an A4 sheet of card floating around on the worktop which I folded in half to make the card base. The sentiment stamp is from Chocolate Baroque called Fairyland Words.

 

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Sue

A Very Important Date

Well I'm still trying to clear my Craftroom and still getting distracted. This time making a tag for the challenge over on the CD Sunday blog. I've used MCS and A very Important Date for my tag. First I printed off a backing paper, topper, playing cards and three more of the characters. I stuck the backing paper to a card tag, then after cutting out the various pieces I arranged them onto the tag. It's a long time since I've used this CD, but was reminded of recently when a fellow blogger used it for a couple of card. So I'd like to say thank you to Val for jogging my memory.

Thank you for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreiated.

Sue