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

It's Your Special Day

Hello Everyone

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.

Thank you for looking.

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 

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 

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.