Love Life

Good Morning

Monday again. one day! Too wet and cold to go out, so spent the day in the Craft Room.    Thought I would try something different with the A6 Love Hearts stamp set.  You find these stamps on Colourific.co.uk

Materials Used:

• Using the mask, I stamped the Large Love Heart 5 times down the edge of the card, about an inch in from the edge.  I fussy cut out the card along the edge.
• Stamped the large Love Heart 5 times on different papers and fussy cut them out.
• Inked up the front of the card with pink ink and randomly stamped heart stamps over it.  Used glitter glue on the larger hearts.
• Added a white border and a piece of ribbon around the card
• Finally added each paper heart over its corresponding shape along the edge of the card.  Added a gem to each heart
• Stamped out “Love” and “Life” and attached to card.
• Added some gems to bottom of ribbon.

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Live Love Laugh

Hello Everyone

Sharing another card today using the A6 Singing Hearts and the A6 Spotty Background.  A simple but effective card.

Materials Used:

A6 Singing Hearts

A6 Spotty Background

Large Alphabet Stamps

Dotty Stencil

6x6 White Card Blank

6.75 x 6.75 Pink mat

6.5 x 6.5 White Stamping Card

Pink Oxide ink

Sparkle Pen

Sentiment Stamps

• Added Pink Mat to White card blank
• Inked up White Stamping Card with pink ink.  Used a stencil to add some interest. 
• Used A6 Spotty Background stamp to add some extra interest
• Stamped out the word love using large alphabet stamps and one of the heart stamps as the “o”.  Embossed the letters and heart with clear embossing powder.  Cut the word out using a craft knife.
• Attached a double layer of foam pads to the letters and heart and placed them back in place.  Coloured each letter and heart using Alcohol Markers.
• Stamped out “live” and “laugh” drew a scribble box around each work and cut out.  Attached to card with foam pads.
• Stamped out some small hearts, cut out and attached to card

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Be My Valentine

Hello again

Love playing with the Heart Stamps from Colourific.   I made this little card for Valentine's Day but it could just as easily be adapted for an Anniversary Card, or a "Just for You" card.  This was made using the A6 Singing Hearts stamps from Colourific.  You can find this and many more here on their website

Materials Used:

A6 Singing Hearts

A6 Love Hearts

Sentiment Stamps from Stash

6x6 White Card Blank

5.75 x 5.75 Black Mat

5.5 x 5.5 White Stamping Card

Gold Embossing Powder

Clear Embossing Powder

Fired Brick Oxide Inks

Versmark Ink Pad

Circle Mask

Pearl heart Gems

Black String

• Attached Black Mat to 6x6 card Blank
• Using Fired Brick Oxide, inked lightly across the whole card.
• Attached Circle Mask to centre and inked the card again, emphasing the area around the circle mask.
• Remove mask and stamped middle size solid heart from Love Hearts three time along top of circle using red/pink ink.  Stamped over these again with versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder. 
• Stamped the string stamp in Versamark coming from each heart and embossed with gold embossing powder.
• Stamped small heart on a string from Singing Hearts stamps at each side of the heart balloons and embossed with gold powder.
• Stamped large Love Heart stamp with versamark and embossed with gold embossing powder.  Coloured with pink alcohol makers. 
• Attached large heart to circle with foam pads.
• Stamped middle Love Heart onto scrap card and fussy cut.  Used versamark to ink edges and embossed with gold embossing powder. Stamped “Valentine”  and added to centre of heart.
• Inked edges of stamped card with versamark and added gold embossing powder.  Added string around bottom.  Attached to card.
• Used Glossy Accents on large heart and 2 small hearts
• Finished off by adding “Be Mine” banner and gem to large heart.  And adding “Valentine” hear to bottom right with a heart gem.

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It's Your Special Day

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Monday morning seems to have come round so quickly this week.  Hope you're having a good day.  I used Colourific stamps Aztec Borders stamp set for the panel in this little card. I then stamped the Champagne glasses from the A5 Champagne and Cocktails stamp set to the side to finish off.

Materials used:

A6 Aztec Borders

A5 Champagne and Cocktails

6 x 6 Card Blank

5.75 x 5.75 Gold Mirri Mat

5.5 x 5.5 patterned paper mat

3.25 x 5.25 White Mat

3 x 5 Gold Mirri Mat

2.75 x 4.75 White Stamping Card

•     Stamped Champagne Glasses onto right hand side of patterned paper and                  embossed
•     Attached 5.5 x 5.5 patterned paper onto 5.75 x 5.75 Gold Mirri Mat and layered
      onto card blank
•     Used all the Aztec borders and stamped onto 2.75 x 4.75 stamping card.
•     Used Perliwinks spray inks to colour the border mat.
•     Layered up the 3 x 5 gold mirri mat onto 3.25 x 5.25 white mat then added Aztec          border mat to the top.  Attached this layer with foam pads to left hand side of card.
•     Used some stamps from my stash to create the creating banners and attached to         the card.
•     Finished off with some gems and glossy accents to the glass.

Birthday Candles

Good Morning

Alice here with my Monday Blog.  Used this stamp previously, and it made me think of Birthday Candles on a cake, so that's where the inspiration for this came from.  A little bit of fun, I think.

Materials Used:

A6 Happy Birthday Stamp
6 x 8.25 Card Blank
5.75 x 8 pink Mat
5.5 x 7.75 White Stamping Card
Coloured Blending Pencils
Glitter pearl mist spray
Lemon, Candy Floss and Bubble Gum ink sprays
Paper Straws
Gold Glitter Card
Clear Embossing Powder
Gold Embossing Powder
Black Versafine Ink pad

• Attached pink mat to white card blank
• Using large oval die, I cut out an oval shape towards the top of the 5.5 x 7.75 White Stamping Card.
• On the cut out Oval, I stamped "Happy Birthday", embossed with Clear Embossing Powder and coloured with the blending pencils.  I sprayed this with Glitter Pearl mist and left to dry.
• Sprayed a Glass mat with some Lemon, Candy Floss and Bubble Gum ink sprays and swished the 5.5 x 7.75 stamping card in it.  Dropped some splashed of each colour ink onto this background and left to dry naturally.  When dry, I stamped "Wishing You a" along the top of the card and embossed with Gold Embossing Powder.
• Attached inked Layer onto pink mat with foam pads
• Stuck the Happy Birthday oval into the space it came out of.
• Cut the paper straws to required length and attached along the bottom of the crd.
• Used gold glitter card to cut out some flame shapes and added into to top of candles straws.
• Finished off with some gold gems.

Thank you for looking.

Happy Birthday Wordage Stamps

Good Morning

Happy New Year to everyone.  Not an awful lot of crafting went on over the Christmas/New Year period.  Now that its all over I hope to spend more time in my craft room.  So, its a new year and a new Monday morning blog.  A nice little clean and simple card for today.  This was made using the "Happy Birthday" wordage stamp from Colourific, and also some of the new border stamps.

A6 Aztec Borders Stamps
A6 Happy Birthday Stamps
6 x 6 Black Card Blank
5.75 x 5.75 White Stamping Card
Gold Embossing Powder
Gold Sparkle Pen
Black Gems
Versamark Ink Pad
Black Versafine Ink Pad

• Stamped Aztec Border around the edge of 5.75 x 5.75 Stamping card and embossed with Gold Embossing Powder.
• Stamped "Happy Birthday" diagonally across the centre of the card and embossed with Gold Embossing Powder.  Coloured the centre of letters with gold sparkle pen.
• Stamped the "Day" part of the stamp twice onto black scrap card and embossed with Gold Embossing Powder.  Fussy cut the letters to make the word "DAD" and again coloured with Gold Sparkle pen.  Added this to the card with foam pads.
• Stamped "Just to say..." above the Happy Birthday with black versafine ink pad and embossed with clear embossing powder
• Added black gems to each corner to finish off.

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Happy Birthday Cocktails

 Good Morning

Alice here, hope you are all well. Christmas is behind us, so had a play with some other stamp sets.  I have used the A6 Aztec Borders on this card along with the A5 Champagne and Cocktails stamp set.  In both of these you get a lot of stamps for your money.  You can find these and many more stamps here on the Colourific Website

Materials used:

A6 Aztec Borders

A5 Champagne and Cocktails

6 x 6 Card Blank

5.75 x 5.75 Blue Glitter Card Mat

5.5 x 5.5 White Stamping Card

Distress Inks

Coloured Pencils

• Layered Blue Glitter Mat onto Card Blank
• Stamped various Aztec Borders diagonally on the bottom left hand corner of the White Stamping Card and coloured in with blending pencils.  Added some streamers using blue and yellow distress inks randomly over top right hand corner.  Inked edges with the blue and yellow distress inks.
• Stamped the Cocktail stamp onto scrap of white stamping card and coloured with blending pencils.
• Added some Glossy accents to the lemon and straw and umberella.
• Stamped a Sentiment and layered onto some gold glitter card, added to bottom of card with foam pads.
• Finished off with some Nuvo Crystal Drops