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

It's Time to Party

Good Morning

The Christmas Season is Party Time, so I thought I would leave the Christmas Theme behind and make something different for my last post before Christmas.  Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and Santa Claus is good to you.  You can find this "Party" wordage stamp on the Colourific Website here.

Materials used:

A6 Party Stamp set

DL White Card Blank

20.5 x 9.25cm Yellow Mat

20 x 9.2 cm white mat

Perlywinks Sherbet Lemon Chalk Spray

Perlywinks Candy Floss Chalk Spray

Wow Sparkle Silver Embossing Powder

Pink Copic Marker

Versamark Ink Pad

Foam Pads

Gems

•  Matted Yelow Card onto DL Card Black with Foam Pads.
  
• Sprayed Candy Floss Chalk Spray onto blending mat and inked the edges of the 20 x 9.2cm with mat.  Used a piece of bubble wrap, dipped it in the remainder of ink and dabbed onto white mat.

• Cleaned blending mat and sprayed Sherbet Lemon spray onto mat.  Used the piece of bubble wrap again to add Sherbet lemon colour onto mat.

• Using Versamark ink, stamped “Party” onto the middle of the mat, and embossed with the Sparkle Silver powder.

• Coloured the middle of the Party work with pink copic marker

• Inked edges of the white mat with versamark and embossed with Sparkle Silver embossing powder. 

• Glued the Party mat onto the lemon background.

• Stamped “It’s time to” and “Enjoy your Day” and embossed with Sparkle Silver powder.  Inked the edges of the sentiments with a Lemon Sorbet Spray and matted onto a piece of scrap pink card and attached to card with Foam Pads

We Wish you a Merry Christmas

Hello Everyone

The last Monday Morning blog before the "Big Day".  I am going to finish off Christmas with this little shaker card using the A5 Trees Stamp Set.  You can find this stamp set and many more fabulous stamps on the Colourific Website here.

Materials Used:

A5 Trees

Cut n Emboss Christmas Folder

6 x 6 Card Blank

5.75 x 5.75 Blue Glitter Mat

5.5 x 5.5 White Mat

5.25 x 5.25 Light Blue Mat

5 x 5 Pearlised Mat

4.5 x 4.5 Pearlised Mat

4.5 x 4.5 piece of Acetate

Silver Sparkle Embossing Powder

Broken China Embossing Ink

Foam Tape

• Layer up Blue Glitter, White and Light Blue mats onto base card
• Use torn paper to ink hills onto 4.5 x 4.5 Pearlised Card then stamped Medium tree with Versamark ink and embossed with Silver Sparkle Embossing Powder
• Used embossing folder to cut and emboss 5 x 5 Pearlised Mat, then inked edges with Broken China Embossing ink. 
• Attached Acetate, behind the cut out oval
• Used 3 layers of foam tape around back of cut out oval to create the shaker element.  Used 1 layers of the foam down each edge so that I could shape the mat.
• Placed some extra-large glitter flakes onto centre of stamped Christmas Tree, and attached embossed layer to top.  Press firmly to ensure all glitter has been trapped inside the foam.
• Made a sentiment banner with stamps from my stash and added along the top of the oval.
• Finished off with some gems

                    Wishing you all a Merry Christmas.

Christmas Tree and Baubles

Good Morning Everyone,

The countdown to Christmas is definately on.  This morning's blog, as you would probably guess, still has a Christmas Theme.  I love black and silver together for cards, so absolutely loved making this card.  You can find the both stamps sets here on the Colourific Stamps website.

Materials Used:

A5 Trees

A5 Peace and Joy

8 x 8 Card Blank

8 x 8 Silver Mat

6 x 6 Silver Mat

5.75 x 5/75 Black Mat

5.5 x 5.5 White Mat

5,25 x 5.25 Black Mat

Silver Sparkle Embossing Powder

Versamark Ink Pad

Sparkle Pens

Large die from my stash

•  Matted Silver Card onto white card blank
•  Cut out Large die with black card, added to Silver mat
•  Used Scrap card to make a silver and black banner, attached across centre of         card. 
•  Using foam pads attach the 6x 6 Silver layer centrally on top of border.  Add white   mat to black mat and attach to silver mat with foam pads.
•  On last black mat stamp large tree off the edge of the paper and emboss with silver   sparkle powder.  Used a mixture of baubles from Peace and Joy stamps and   randomly stamped towards left hand side of card and embossed with silver sparkle   glitter powder.  
•  Added Christmas Greeting to bottom of card and again embossed.
•  Attach the mat with foam pads and finish of with some gems

           Thank you for looking, hope you all have a great Christmas and Santa Claus is good to you.

Foiled Christmas Tree Greetings

Hello again,

Another Monday morning's blog post.  It's getting nearer and nearer, so sharing another little Christmas card with you today.  This one was made using the A5 Trees and the A6 Christmas Minis.  I absolutely love using the Christmas Minis.  They can be used for borders, background, build a wreath and you can also hang them from words like, JOY, and NOEL.  Fabulous little stamps set.  You can find all the stamps on the Colourific Website here

Materials Used:

A6 Christmas Minis

A5 Trees

A5 Peace and Joy

6 x 6 Red card Blank

5.5 x 5.5 Gold Glitter Mat

5.25 x 5.25 White Stamping Card

Piece of Gold Foil

Bonding Powder

Versamark Ink Pad

Various Distress Inks

Copic Markers

Gold Glitter Pen

• Matted Gold Glitter Card onto Red Card Blank
• Used Christmas Minis to stamp background and coloured in using Copic Markers
• Flicked the Gold Glitter Pen over the background and attached it to the Gold Glitter  Mat.
• Stamped the Medium Tree onto a scrap of Green Card. Added Bonding Powder and  heated. Quickly add the foil to the heated bonding powder and rub gently over it.      Remove the foil and you have a foiled tree.  I fussy cut around the tree.
• Stamped out the Christmas Greetings from the Peace and Joy Stamp set and matted  onto scraps of gold glitter and red card.
• Attached the greeting to the bottom of the card with foam pads.
• Attached the Tree with foams along the edge of the Greeting to give it something to  stand on.
• Finished off with some gems

           Thank you all for having a look.  Happy Christmas Crafting 

Peace on Earth

Hello Everyone

Christmas is edging ever closer and I am still on the Christmas Theme.  I love the simplicity of the A5 Trees Stamp and used it to make this simple Christmas card.  You get 3 different sizes of stamps in this pack.  You will find this stamp and many more super stamps here on the Colourific Website.

Materials Used:

A5 Trees Stamps Set

15.5 x 15.5 White Card Blank

15.x 15 Silver Mirri Card

14.5  x 14.5 White Stamping Card

Peace on Earth Embossing Folder

Piece of Christmas Ribbon

Silver Gems

Veersamark Ink Pad

Silver Sparkle Embossing Powder

•  Added Silver Mirri Card to White Card Blank
•  Embossed White Stamping Card with the Embossing folder
•  Stamped Medium Tree on bottom left hand corner with Versamark Inkpad and   embossed with the Silver Sparkle Embossing Powder.
•  Using a craft knife, I made to slits at each side of the tree and threaded the   Christmas  ribbon through and attached at back of card.
•  Inked the edges of the card with versamark and embossed with the Silver Sparkle   Powder.
•  Added this layer to the Silver Mirri Card and finished off with some silver gems
  
  
  Thank you for looking, remember to pop over to the website to see lots of very versatile stamp sets.

Christmas Tree Love

Good Morning

It's Monday morning again and time for a new blog.  Lots of Christmas tasks to do at this time of the year, but still find some time to craft.  I really like this Christmas Tree stamp from Colourific and was excited to play with it.  You can find the A5 Trees stamp here on the Colourific website.  I love this stamp set, its such a lovely tree.

Thank you for taking time to look.

Alice Mitchell – Lots of Love at Christmas

Materials Used:

A5 Trees

A6 Christmas Text

Snowflake Embossing Folder

8x x8 White Card Blank

7.5 x 7.5 Blue Glitter Card Mat

7.25 x 7.25 Pearlised Mat

4.74 x 6.25 Blue Glitter Mat

4.5 x 6 White Pearlised Mat

4.25 x 5.75 White Pearlised Mat

Stormy Blue Distress Ink

Versamark Ink pad

Clear Sparkle Embossing Powder

• Attached 7.5 x 7.5 Blue Glitter Mat to card blank. 
• Embossed 7.25 x 7.25 pearlised mat with Snowflake embossing folder and inked  edges with Stormy Blue Distress ink and attached to Blue glitter mat.
• Using some scraps of Blue Glitter Card and White Pearlised Card I made a banner to go along the bottom of the card and stamped and embossed a Greeting from the Christmas Text stamp set at the right hand side.  Attached this to the bottom of the card.
• Attached 4.5 x 6 pearlised with mat onto 4.75 x 6.25 Blue Glitter Mat
• In a stamping platform, I Stamped Large Tree onto 4.25 x 5.75 Pearlised Mat with Stormy Blue Distress ink the stamped again over the top with Versamark ink and embossed with clear sparkle glitter powder.  Inked the edges with Stormy Blue Distress Ink then attached this to the above Mats.
• Using some foam pads I attached the above mat onto the card.
• Finished off with some die cut snowflakes, a bow and some gems 

70 Celebrate 70

Good Morning Everyone
I made this little card using some die cuts and some flowers.  I hope you like it.

• I designed and cut the card using my Brother Scan and Cut.
• Assembled the basic card and layers.
• Used a die cut to make the fancy border on the white mat then put it through an embossing folder to add some interest.
• Die cut  various sizes of fancy circles and layered them together onto the card base with foam pads
• Die cut the bottle and glass in silver and pink card and paper pieced together.  Added to card with glue gel.
• Used some flowers from my stash and some die cut foliage around the edge of the circle.
• Weaved some thin ribbon through the bottom edge and finished off with a bow

Christmas Greetings

Good Morning

Hope you are all getting well prepared for Christmas.  Sorry about my picture today, it seems to be very light.  It is a much deeper shade in real life! Once again I used the Gnomes Stamps from Colourific for this card.  I have also used a small Christmas tree from on of the other Christmas Stamp Sets.  You can find all the stamps I used and many more on the Colourific Website. 

Materials Used:

A5 Gnomes

A5 Trees

11.5 x 21cm Kraft Card Blank

10.75 x 19.25cm Gold Mirri Mat

9.5 x 19cm Kraft Card Mat

Various colours of distress inks

Glitter Glue

• Using a little piece of double sided tape I secured the smaller piece of kraft card centrally onto the card blank then secured these layers onto a Stamping Platform with magnets.
• Stamped the Gnome with Vintage Photo Distress ink onto 9.5x19.25cm Kraft Card.  Leaving the card on the stamping platform  I Sprayed with water and let the dye seep outwards.  Used a paintbrush to bring it out a little further. 
• Keeping the card still in place on the stamping platform, put some Vintage Photo Distress Ink and Green Dye ink onto glass mat. Using water and paint brush I painted the Gnome with muted colours of the inks.  When this was dry, I stamped over the image.
• Still keeping the work on the Stamping Platform, I put a mask over the Gnome and used the small Christmas Tree to stamp a border around the 2 layers of card.
• Remove from stamping platform and separate the 2 layers of card.  Mat the image onto the Gold mat, and using foam pads mount it onto the Kraft Card making sure the border of trees match up.
• To finish off I added a Christmas Greeting layered onto a piece of gold mirri card. 
• Used glitter glue for the pompom, beard and stars.

           Thank you for looking, and happy crafting.

A5 Gnomes - I'll be Gnome for Christmas

Hi All

Here is another little Christmas Gnome for you.  I love this stamp set, you can do so much with it.  I am giving it a Christmas Theme at the moment, but once the festive season is behind us, I will try some other options with it.  You can find this stamp and many other fabulous stamps on Colourific Stamps here on their website.

Materials Used:

A5 Gnomes

A6 Christmas Minis

DL Card Blank

9.5 x 20.25cm Red Mirri Mat

9.25 x 20cm White Stamping card

Various Patterned Christmas Papers

Red Gems

Various Distress Inks

Piece of Christmas Ribbon

•        Matted the Red Mirri Card onto DL card blank
•        Masked off Oval at top part of stamping card, inked around edges using distress ink.
•        Removed mask and using torn paper inked snow hills inside the oval.  Using a tree   stamp and second generation ink add few trees along the bottom of the hills.   Stamped the Snowman and Reindeer from the Christmas Minis to each side of the   oval.
•       Stamped the Gnome onto a piece of white card and 2 pieces of Christmas paper and some brown paper.  Fussy cut out all the layers and placed onto the original image.  Used flesh coloured pens to colour face.  Attached to main card.
•      Glued the Gnomes beard and added some fun flock.  Added some fluffy stuff to pompom and heated.
•      Added piece of Christmas paper to the bottom and secured a piece of ribbon around it. Attached mat to main card and added a Sentiment to the bottom.  Finished off by stamping the small holly stamp from Christmas minis to each corner and added some gems.

It's Party Time

Good Morning Everyone

So, it's Monday again, I hope you are all well.  I'm still playing with the new Stamp Sets from Colourific.  Here is my sample for today, using the A6 Party Wordage Stamp Set.

Materials used:

A6 Party Stamp set

21 x 15 cm card blank

20 x 14 cm Purple Mat

19.5 x 13.5 Lace Pattern Paper

2 sizes of Oval Dies

Scraps of Paper to cut 3 layers of Banner

Happy Birthday Sentiment

Fancy Oval Die for sentiment

Gems

Clear Sparkle embossing powder

Copic Markers

• Using the smaller die cut out oval from purple mat, leaving a little hanging off the paper.  Do the same process using the larger die and patterned paper. 
• Mat the patterned paper evenly onto purple card
• Temporarily place this mat and layer onto the centre of the card blank and position your stamp onto the white space.  Remove the layer and stamp “Party with a light lilac ink. Emboss with the clear sparkle embossing powder.
• Attach the matted layers onto the card blank with foam pads.  Make sure “party” is evenly centred.
• Stamp Happy Birthday Sentiment and “It’s Time to” and emboss.
• Cut up “It’s time to” into single words.  You will not require “To”.  Mat the Sentiments onto purple card and attach to card.
• Add the layered banner and the Happy Birthday Sentiment.  For some sparkle add some gems.
• I did add some Champagne Glasses on the bottom of this card, but sent the Sample off and forgot to take another photograph!!!!!!

There's No Place Like Gnome

Hi

Exciting times today, it's the 14TH OCTOBER, 2019 and that means the Launch of the new Colourific Stamps.  I was excited to get the new stamps and have been having a real good play with them.  I have chosen to use the new A5 Gnomes as my first DT sample.  Pop on over to Colourific to see the whole range of wonderful new Stamps. 

Materials Used:

A5 Gnomes

A5 Peace and Joy

Copic Markers Blue, Red and Green shades

8 x 8 Kraft Card Blank

7.75 x 7.75 Red Mat

7.5 x 7.5 Christmas Pattern paper

7 x 7 Red mat

6.75 x 6.75 White mat

Red Gems

Glitter Glue

Blue Distress Ink Pad

Tree Stamp from my stash

• Layer the 7.75x7.75 mat onto the Kraft Card, followed by the 7.5 x 7.5                          Patterned Christmas Paper.      
• Using Foam pads mat the 7 x 7 Red mat onto the Christmas Paper layer.
• Using a piece of torn copy paper and the distress ink, make a light snowy hill                 background and sky.
• Stamped the Gnome on Masking Paper and cut it out.  Stamped the centre Gnome first, then placed the mask over it and stamped the Gnomes either side.
• Coloured the first Gnome and used alternate colours on the other 2 Gnomes.
• Used the Branch from the Peace and Joy set and stamped it in various colours            along the top corner of the card.
• Masked off the Gnomes again and lightly stamped some trees behind so they looked in the distance.
• Added some glitter glue to the Gnomes Beards and the Pompoms on their hats.
• Stamped and embossed a Sentiment, matted it onto some scrap red card and attached it with foam pads     
• Finished off with some red gems on the branches.

Thank you to everyone for looking.  Remember to pop over to the Colourific Stamps website for a look at all the new stamps.

Christmas Cards using Build a Wreath Template

Good Morning

I have put this off for as long as I could, but feel now is the time to start with the "Christmas Cards".  I made these using a "Build A Wreath" template that I made with a star shaped die.

Materials Used:

A6 Christmas Mini Stamps
A5 Peace and Joy Stamps Set
6x6 White Card
5.75 x 5.75 Red Mat
4.75 x 4.75 Red Card
5.5 x 5.5 Green Glitter Card Mat
5 x 5 White Card
2 sizes of Circle Dies
Oxide Inks
Alcohol Markers
Sparkle Pen
Silver Glitter Embossing Powder

• Matted Red and Green Glitter Card onto white card blank
• Cut larger circle die out of centre of 5 x 5 white card.  Cut smaller circle out of centre of 4.75 x 4.75 Red Card.
• Used red Oxide Ink and inked lightly around the White mat.  Using the Build a Wreath Template and the middle branch from the Peace and Joy Stamp set, I stamped it around the circle in 2 colours of green.  Used the Holly, Robin, Snowflake, and Bell stamps from the Christmas Mini Stamps and stamped them evenly around the branches.  
• Embossed the snowflake with Silver Embossing powder.
• Coloured in all the images.
• Using the Smaller Circle die, I cut out a circle of white card and stamped and embossed the Peace and Joy stamp onto the circle.  Stamped some Holly along the bottom and coloured the images.
• Matted the Red Mat behind the Stamped Mat.  
• Using foam pads matted the stamped layer onto the Green Glitter Card.  Added the Greeting to the centre.

Materials Used:

A6 Christmas Mini Stamps
A5 Peace and Joy Stamps Set
A6 Flying Unicorn Stamp Set
6x6 White Card
5.75 x 5.75 Red Mat
5.5 x 5.5 White Mat
5 x 5 White Card
3 sizes of Circle Dies
Oxide Inks
Alcohol Markers
Sparkle Pen

• Cut the smallest circle die out Red Card Mat and layered onto white card blank.  Stamped and embossed "Peace and Joy" stamp into centre of circle.
• Cut larger circle die out of centre of 5.5 x 5.5 white card.  Cut middle circle out of centre of 4.75 x 4.75 White Card.
• Used Green Oxide Ink and inked lightly around the White 5.5 x 5.5 mat. 
• Puting the larger white mat on the top and the smaller one behind, temporarily join them with a little bit of double sided tape.
• Using the Build a Wreath Template and the middle branch from the Peace and Joy Stamp set, I stamped it around the circle in 3 colours.  Used the Holly, Robin and Bell stamps from the Christmas Mini Stamps and stamped them evenly around the branches.  Also used a small flower from the A6 Flying Unicorn Stamp Set.
• Coloured in all the images.
• Carefully separated the 2 white mats.  Matted the one with the middle size circle onto the red mat, ensuring the circles were even.  
• Using foam pads matted the inked stamped layer on top of the previous layers.
• Added some red gems to the holly berries and a silver gem to the centre of the flower.

Thank you for looking