Many Thanks

Here is a one layer card made with the challenges at AAA cards  in mind.

One layers are quite daunting to many, but with the advent of stamping platforms, lots of problems with poor impressions from stamps have been eradicated. Previously if a stamp had failed to give a complete image, the card had to be re-thought, re-vamped or even tossed. But now that there are second chances to stamp in exactly the same place, many first time poor impressions can be remedied.... as here! The flower heads (from Darkroom Door) were not cleanly stamped on the first try. The card, from Paper Mill Direct, has a linen texture and so there were tiny gaps in the ink impression. These were easily covered by second or third attempts. The same was the case for the sentiment. It's from a little set I got in Michael's on one our trips to the US some time ago. It says Art then a C in a circle. The set came with a little tag die too!.

For the background I made a stencil from Vellum, using a Sizzix die and brushed some Shabby Shutters Distress Oxide ink through it.

I am due to have my Covid vaccine tomorrow, Let's hope they have the supplies!

Stay safe everyone!

 

2 Step Stamping

A friend asked to make a couple of cards and requested her friend's name with some flowers and sparkles on the front.

I made the name on my Silhouette from some thinnish card in Buttercup Sample font. With this particular font I only had to move the first letter a little closer to the second letter in order to weld the letters together, as it is such a flowing font.

The flowers are from Altenew; the secondary stamping with Stampin Up Baja Breeze ink, which matches the colour of card really well. Both the name and parts of the flowers were twinkled with Glamour Dust and a few tiny, tiny gems sprinkled over the flowers. She wanted the birthday greeting to be printed inside the card, so I used the same font for that.

As the flower heads are in one corner of the card I thought that I would include it in the challenge from AAA Cards

This card also has the image in one corner but as it isn't flowers I didn't think I would add it to the AAA challenge.  This one is for the challenge at CASology where the prompt word is Ring.

Here I use a simple image from Winnie and Walter and a sentiment from DoCrafts. I stamped it in Stampin' Up Baked Brown Sugar and simply watercoloured the centre.

I noticed that one of the fabulous DT has used a tree ring for her card, but it's the first thing which came to my mind which I knew I had an image for!

Daisy

At the end of the week my eldest grandchild will be 11 years old, about to leave Primary school and move on to Secondary school.  In September she will be starting at the Royal High School in Bath and she can hardly wait! We will be going to see her this weekend to help her celebrate!

For this card I made the name with my Silhouette and die cut a few daisies, I think the may be Memory Box but I'm not sure. I dry embossed the centre panel with a Cuttlebug folder, extending it a little to fit the width of my card. It's easy to emboss from both ends matching a symmetrical pattern like this.  The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted. I twinkled the name and the centre of the daisies with a little Glamour Dust.

It's based on the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches

I'm off now to buy her gift!

Memory of Africa

We recently went on a cruise which ended in South Africa and we have lots of fabulous memories of our time spent in Africa.

This card for the challenge at Happy Little Stampers is a reminder of that fabulous vacation.

I made a circle aperture mask and brushed it with various shades of Distress Inks before stamping the Tim Holtz silhouette tree using black dye ink.The sentiment is from an old wooden stamp from Sir Stampalot. I distressed the edges of the sentiment card with scissors before mounting on foam pads. 

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

Our summer has been really busy looking after grandchildren, which was great fun but extremely tiring... maybe soon things will get back to normality!

Faux mother of pearl

It's time for Happy Little Stampers March CAS Challenge

When I looked at the tutorials for this technique, I realised that I didn't have any pearl acrylic paint so I tried using plain white acrylic paint with some Perfect Pearls added and it worked really well!

The paint was daubled with a scrunched up piece of cling film and when dry inked with Distress ink applied with a sponge dauber. The card was cut using a Wplus9 Quilt cut die and mounted into the frame cut from plain card using the same die.The sentiment is a combination of Tattered Lace and Memory Box! Butterfly from All Occasion dies.

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Another simple background with a silhouette cut with my Silhouette!

Sentiment Stamp from HLS
Tutorials:
Faux Mother of Pearl by Loll Thompson (6:10)
Faux Mother of Pearl using Liquid Pearls by Sue Ralph (4:54)
Mother of Pearl Technique by Dawn

Silhouettes

For the recipe at "Less is More" this week the requirement is to include a silhouette on the card.This is something that really appeals to me so I enjoyed making cards for this challenge!

Here is a simple deer family set in a woodland scene with a snowy embossed background.

The dies are from Memory Box and the embossing folder from Sheena Douglass.

The sentiment was computer generated.

Here is a Sizzix embossing folder paired with a couple of Chess pieces cut with a Joanna Sheen Signature die

I really wish that all manufacturers would put their company name on the carrier sheets of clear stamp sets, it would make their identification much easier for blogging and magazine article purposes! I can't find the make of this sentiment for the moment, when I find it I'll amend the post.

 Here is a stamp from Rubber Stampede and a sentiment from Lili of the Valley

I love this little girl's bunches!

I did cheat with this one slightly... despite trying with lots of different ink on lots of different cardstock, I still went over the stamping with an alcohol pen to make sure it was really black!