Live The Dream

Good Morning

Alice here, it's hard to believe we are in September now, where do the weeks and months disappear to!    Here is my project for this week.  Decided to have a play with the A5 Peony Stamp Set.  Quite like the way this one turned out.

Materials use:

A5 Peony Stamp Set

6 x 6 Brown Card Blank

4.75 x 4.75 Brown Mat

5.75 x 5.75 Kraft Card Mat

4.5 x 4.5 Kraft Card Mat

Versamark Ink Pad

White Embossing Powder

Copic Pens

Sentiment Stamp

2 sizes of circle dies

•   Take the 5.75 and the 4.5 pieces of Kraft card.  Using a small piece of double
  
          sided tape centre the smaller one on top of larger one.
•    Using Versamark Ink pad, randomly stamp the Peony flowers and leaves over the         card, making sure to overlap the small square onto the larger square. 
•    Emboss the images with white embossing powder.  When this is done colour in the       flowers and leaves with copic markers.
•    If you wish you can go over the images with a sparkle pen as I did, but this is not         necessary.
•    Carefully remove the smaller Kraft Card from the larger one.
•    Mat the larger card onto the 6 x 6 brown card blank.
•    Mat the smaller Kraft square onto the 4.75 x 4.75 Brown Mat
•    Apply the smaller mat to the card ensuring the images match up.
•    Cut one large circle from Brown card and a smaller one from Kraft Card.  Stamp the     Live the Dream sentiment in the middle of the smaller circle and emboss with gold       embossing powder.  Mat the 2 circles together and attach to card.
•    Finish off with some gold gems randomly scattered over card

Thank you for joining me.

Friendship makes Life more Beautiful

Good Morning

How did we get to the last week in August so quickly.  I guess it's getting to that time where I need to think about Christmas Cards.  Maybe I'll wait until middle of September!!   Thought I would have a go at some up cycling this week.  I have had a few empty reels from Red Liner tape in the Craft Room for a few weeks.  What to do with them?  This is what I came up with.

Materials Used:

A5 Hibiscus Stamp Set
A6 Leaves Stamp Set
Sentiment Stamp
Black Embossing Powder
Piece of Spotted Green background paper
Copic Pens
Nuvo Drops
Empty Red Liner Reel
Length of Natural Jute
Piece of Ribbon
Gems

• Wrapped the Empty Reel with the Jute.  
• Added the piece of ribbon to top to make a hanger
• Stamped 1 middle and 2 small hibiscus stamps.  Coloured 2 small ones with yellows and middle one with Purples, then fussy cut out.
• Stamped 4 leaves in various colours and fussy cut out.
• Using a circle die, I cut out a piece of background paper that fitted on the back of the reel.  Stamped the sentiment in the middle of the paper and embossed with Black embossing powder.
• Glued circle piece onto the back of the reel. Arranged and glued flowers around reel.  Added butterfly onto opposite side.
• Finished off with some gems from my stash.

Thank you for looking.