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

Thank you for looking

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.

Thank you for looking.

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 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.

Peony With Love

Good Morning

Alice here, hope you are all well this morning.  Here is my blog post for today.  Had another play with the A5 Peony Stamp Set.  Just love this versatile little stamp set.  You can find this and many more on the Colourific Website

Materials Used:

A5 Peony Stamp Set
6x6 Black Card Blank
5.75 x 5.75 Gold Mat
5.5 x 5.5 White Mat
Embossing Folder
Scraps of Gold adn Black Card
Distress Inks
Copic Markers
Glitter Glue
With Love Sentiment Die
Black Thread

• Matted the gold then black mats onto the 6x6 black card blank
• Used the embossing folder to emboss the white mat
• Placed some pink and yellow distress inks onto a blending mat and sprayed with water. Used the edge of the embossed mat and pulled it lightly through the ink, so give a distressed look.
• Used the yelow and pink distress inks to ink around the remainder of the card.
• Stamped the Peony out with Memento Ink and coloured with copic markers. This was then fussy cut out.
• Stamped a stem with green distress ink and fussy cut out.  Attached the stem to the right hand side of the card.
• Placed some glue gel at the top of the stem and added some scrunched up black thread.  Arranged this so that it would pop out at the sides of the Peony flower then added flower on top.
• Used dies to cut out three different width banners, layered them together and added to left hand side of card.  Cut out the With Love Sentiment and added to centre of banner

Hibiscus All in a Row

Good Morning

Alice here, halfway through September already, where are the weeks and months disappearing to.  Thought I would have a little play with the A5 Hibiscus Stamp set from Colourific.  This turned out a little different from what was initially in my head.  An inky finger print meant I had to colour around the edges of the card with some grey ink.

Materials Used:

A5 Hibiscus Stamp Set
A6 Campervan Stamp Set
A6 Moderne Flowers
6x 6 card blank
5.75 x 5.75 Black Card
5.5 x 5.5 Stamping Card
Pink, Blue and Green Distress Ink
Black Versafine Ink
Grey Versafine Ink
Gems
Happy Birthday Die Cut

• Use a piece of torn A4 copy paper to mask off the top and bottom third the of card.  Used Pink Green and Blue Distress Inks to ink up the middle third of the card.
• Using Black ink, I stamped 3 mall Hibiscus flowers on top of the inked background, then masked them off, and stamped in between these with 3 grey Hibiscus flowers.  Used one of the stems from the set to add a stem to each with the appropriate colour.  Used some small leaves from the Camper Van set to stamp on leaves.  Removed the top and bottom mask.  Got an inky mark on the white part of card, so used the grey ink pad to ink the edges of the card.
• Attached black layer to white card base.  Use versamark ink pad add ink to edges of stamped layer and added some silver sparkle embossing power.
• Cut Happy Birthday Sentiment and embossed with silver sparkle powder.
• To finish off, I stamped 3 little butterflies from the Moderne Flower Stamp set, coloured with the three shades of ink and attached to the card.  Added a gem to the centre of each flower

A Little Note To Say - A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set

A Little Note To Say - A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set

Good Morning

Alice here, hope you are all well and ready for another Monday morning!

A week or so ago, I found a new technique to make a wreath.  You can make your own Build a Wreath template by following tutorials on You Tube.  I knew this technique would work well with the Colourific A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set.  You can find this stamp set, and many more super stamps  by looking on the Colourific Website here

A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set

A6 Camper Van Stamp Set

A6 Border and Stamp Stamp Set

6 x 6 White Card

5.5 x 5.5 White Mat

5.5 x 5.5 Green spotty mat

5 x 5 White Mat

Butterfly Die

Various coloured inks

• Inked the largest mat with sage green ink and the smaller one with lilac ink.  
• Used my stamping platform and my homemade template to make the wreath using various sizes of leaves and flowers.  Using a scalpel I carefully cut out the centre of the wreath.  
• Using the stamping platform, I stamped the border around the edge of the 6x6 card, then layered the largest mat onto the white card.  
• Stamped the sentiment onto white card, cut it out and inked the edges with lilac ink.  I shaped the sentiment using a bone folder and attached it through the wreath, then used foam pads to attach the wreath mat onto the green spotty mat and attached it to the card. 
• Finished off with a die cut butterfly which was inked with green and lilac inks. Finally added small pearls to the card and the centre of the butterfly.

I really liked this card and hope you do too.