Have a lovely day

Here is my last attempt at Bleaching for the CAS Mix UP challenge.

I thought that this was the same shade card as the one I had used on my previous submission, but when I got around to adding the sentiment, I realised that the two were in fact different and I had chosen the wrong one for it. This one is slightly more teal in shade. Fortunately as the sentiment is tiny (Sugar Pea Designs), I had just enough to do it.

Anyway, I stamped an Impression Obsession background stamp and embossed in Gold.

After the bleach had dried I added a little clear Wink of Stella, but I can't get it to show up very well on a photograph.

People often ask what cardstock I use. Practically everything I own is from Paper Mill Direct. They used to have stores around the country (UK) but for the most part now everything is online. (I believe that there are a few craft stores which have a Paper Mill Direct concession.) I still have boxes and boxes of coloured card which I bought in store (there used to be 2 stores within striking distance of my house), which sadly closed about 8 or 9 years ago. I just couldn't resist filling a box each time I went in!

Goodness knows how much I would have if they were still open!

I think the card I used today is called Hemp.

Stay safe everyone!

Hello There

Here is another card for the challenge at CAS Mix Up

I stamped the background stamp in Versamark and then embossed in gold. Using a tiny brush I painted the leaves with bleach and dried it off with my heat gun. To add a little lustre to the leaves at went over them with some clear Wink of Stella. 

The panel was cut with some Pink Fresh Studio frame dies and mounted with one frame raised to add a little dimension. A die cut olive branch (Alexandra Renke) and a tiny sentiment (Sugar Pea Designs) finished the card.

Rudolph

I wanted to use this little MFT image of Rudolph, but couldn't work out where I wanted to put him. I tried him beside a Christmas tree, overlooking mountains, standing with Santa, but in the end I decided to try to make him fly. To give this impression I cut the roof off a die cut house and added it to the bottom of an embossed black square and added Rudolph as though he was leading the other reindeer (out of the picture) on their merry way! Not sure if it was successful, but I think he looks cute!

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All Square

I love square cards, but somehow it seems a little wasteful. I cut my card blanks from sheets of A4 which is roughly 8.25ins  x 11.75ins. I use the card folded in half widthways and cut to a square. There is always a strip left... I have a drawer full of strips and seldom get to use all of them! If I cut rectangular cards I can get two cards from one sheet of A4.

The  challenge at Just US Girls is to make a square card and use at least one additional square.

I began by cutting a square from a piece of card that I had smooshed some colours onto, I think it was Brushos but the scrap had been in my left overs drawer for ages so I'm not 100%positive that this is what I did! When I get messy with lots of colours, I take prints on lots of pieces of card and keep them filed away in colour coded drawers until I find a use for them.

Next, I die-cut two, square frame, flower dies and layered them to add definition, and adhered them over the coloured square. I flooded the tile with Nuvo Crystal Glaze and added some gems which had been self adhesive at one time, but which has lost their 'stickability'. This seemed like a good way to use them!

I die cut two additional pieces of card, from scraps, to mount the tile onto.

The flower die and the diagonal slashed die are from Pink Fresh Studios and the stitched one from SSS.

This is one of my scraps' drawers, you can see the piece of card which I cut the base square for this card from and I'm too mean to throw the rest away!

I hope everyone is staying safe through these extraordinary times, I really hope that people will heed the Government's pleas to stay home this coming holiday weekend, although for people without their own outdoor space it must be very difficult. 

Take care everyone!