Happy Birthday

Here I used a little more of the distressed shaving foam technique print, (which I used on the card in my last post) but sadly picked a background stamp to emboss over the top which was too busy, so you actually can't see too much of the blues beneath...But I thought I would use it anyway!

I took a strip of card and die cut the tips of the butterflies' wings from it then dry embossed it. I cut two butterflies from the blue/gold embossed card and popped them into the gaps, adding bodies and a sentiment.

AAA Cards

Do butterflies count as critters? I guess they might!

Here is another card made with a similar layout, similar shaving foam print and similar technique of partially inlaying the dies. This is my attempt at the Photo inspiration at Just Us Girls.

I think it's quite a tricky one! The DT inspiration is awesome... do take a look!

This card base is one of the two different types of linen-y card that I'm using to try to replace the one that Paper Mill Direct has ceased producing... much to my chagrin. This one is from Amazon.

 

Thanks

These fish were cut from some of the shaving foam prints as on my previous card.

I took the sketch from CAS Colours and Sketches and played with it a little.

PS Just realised I missed the boat on this one!

The Card Concept

I took the sea theme from this photo!

The seaweed escaping from the frame were unintentional, but somehow a tiny smidge of ink found its way on to the card! SO rather than make a new frame (I had to fiddle around extending the length of one die cut) I decided to disguise the boo boo on this one!

 

Happy Birthday

I was having fun with the Shaving Foam technique the other day, after I discovered that if you leave the foam mixed with the colour for a few hours before taking a print a different effect appears. Rather than the traditional marbling, a looser more bubbly print is achieved. I grabbed all sorts of scraps of paper and card and popped them onto the foam to take prints and they are all slightly different and I really like the range of effects which occur. I rather thought that this looked like swirls of water, hence the little fish. I have so many prints from the one plateful of foam, that I'll be making watery cards for a while methinks.

Inkspiration - Maritime

Addicted to Stamps and More - Birthday

 

Thanks

This is Phil and me at the Gala Dinner of our Portsmouth Choral Union tour to Derbyshire, which was held at Chatsworth House. It was a truly memorable occasion and our thanks go to all those involved in making it such a success. Here we are enjoying champagne and canapes in the Painted Hall, prior to a sumptuous dinner. It was a fabulous evening towards the end of a super trip during which we sang evensong at Derby Cathedral and gave a concert at St Mary's Church in Nottingham.

Following that, here is a simple Thank you card, made with panels using the shaving foam technique, overlaid with a Cuttlebug die cut sentiment and a SSS butterfly.

It follows the sketch at CASe this Sketch

I am adding it to the challenge at HLS Anything goes with Dies challenge

Take three stamps!

I found a piece of card which I had coloured with the shaving foam technique and thought that the colours were great for trees in new leaf. Spring is just beginning in the UK and the colours on the trees look so fresh and new!

...Like my stamp set here from Simon Says Stamp., I used two of the tree stamps, but I can't remember the make of the sentiment. If I don't write the name of the make on the carrying sheet I often find it difficult to identify some sets. Sorry!

A simple one layer... tulips from an old Hobbycraft stamp and sentiments from Stamplorations. Coloured with watercolour pencils and blended with a water brush, then gently twinkled with Glamour Dust!

"Less is More" has a challenge to use just  three stamps, so these are my renditions this week.

I am helping dog-sit my granddog Minnie for a couple of weeks, whilst my son and daughter-in-law are on holiday in Italy.

Here she is! She has boundless energy and loves lots of chasing around after tennis balls!

Citrus

It's colour week again at Less is More and this time we are joined by our new Designers with the emphasis  on Citrus... not necessarily the fruit, just the colours.

I have had fun with my husband's shaving foam this week... I  have seen the technique used SO many times but never actually tried it for myself.  I intended using Alcohol Inks, but absent mindedly used Distress Inks instead, but it seemed to work well... so the alcohol inks will have to wait for another day. I merely squirted a bunch of foam onto my craft mat, dropped a few drops of Twisted Citron and Squeezed Lemonade inks onto it, swirled it around a bit and took prints from it, scraping the excess foam off after a few moments.

One thing I discovered was that my ATG gun didn't want to release the adhesive onto the treated card and so I had to use Glossy Accents to adhere the coloured card to the cardbase. I over stamped with a silhouette flower from Unity and clear embossed it as it didn't seem to be drying readily. I added a sentiment using a freebie stamp from a magazine.
This is for Just us Girls - Flowers

Here is a little more of the background paper used for a Shaker card. The sentiment and the dies are from Wplus9.

I love this delicate butterfly from Concord & 9th,  it's cut from some faux mother of pearl card and accompanied by a sentiment from Avery Elle.

This is a simple card with images from Clearly Besotted and a punched border from Martha Stewart.

Another piece of smooshed card here which I used for the die cuts from Cuttlebug (thanks) and All Occasion Dies (the butterflies) The embossing is from a Sizzix folder.

Next week I shall be in Bath looking after my grandchildren for the week whilst my daughter is off "team building" with her company. I'm not sure of the resort this time but there's likely to be lots of skiing and related activities!
She is having a loft conversion at the moment and I think she has chosen the right week to be away... when the ceiling comes down and the stairs are installed!
What fun!