MFT Camp Create - Divine Dry Embossing - Beautiful Butterflies

Hello!

Swinging in super quick with the last of my cards made during Camp Create 2017.

I did not get the time to do a slider or a glitter card for those classes...damn work, but I did manage the bonus class - Divine Dry Embossing.

I made 2 cards using the Beautiful Butterflies stamp and die set for both. This time I didn't use the solid layering stamps, I cut my butterflies with the die and did some ink blending and water spotting on both, stamping the markings in black ink once they were dry.

For my dry embossing I actually used stencils. This is a great way to get more life from your stencils, they really are so versatile. The top one is the Radiating Rays stencil and the other is an older one that I can't remember where it's from.

I also used a few dies from the Blueprints 31 set.

That's another badge ticked off. If you want to join in with the class you can find it here.

I really have enjoyed the classes this year and I'll be sure to join in the fun again next year, looking forward to it.

Thanks for visiting!

Seasons Greetings

Happy Christmas Eve!

I had a play with my watercolours for this card, using Worn Lipstick, Ripe Pumpkin, Fossilized Amber and  Crushed Olive laid on in loose stripes of colour and then blended with lots of water.

Once dry  I broke out my embossing folder again, to make the panel for this card but before gluing it on I gave it a liberal spray of a gold glimmer mist for a lovely sheen and sparkle (this shows up much better in real life and looks gorgeous).

I heat embossed a greeting in white on a strip of vellum and wrapped that around my panel before adhering the panel to my card base.

Then I popped on the 2 little snowmen from the Mama Elephant Polar Pals set. These were coloured with distress ink markers in Tumbled Glass, Ripe Pumpkin, and Worn Lipstick and then given a good coat of Wink of Stella to make them sparkle.

I finished off with a few enamel dots from Whimsy Stamps Summer Breeze set to echo the colours I used.

That's all from me today, I have a ton of stuff to do to prepare for tomorrow and I'm nurswing another cold, grrr I thought I was safe having already had one, hopefully I'll fight it off before tomorrow.

I hope your Christmas preparations are going well and I will catch up with you all after the big day.

Have fun!

 

Merry Christmas (Gold & Pearl)

Hello!

Today I'd like to share another card using the debossing with dies technique.

As I mentioned previously, this is a really fun and easy technique and a great was to get even more use from your dies.

I made this card at the same time as the other one and used a very similar layout but different dies and cardstock etc.

It's really very easy to use a technique and just change things up a little so that you get different looking cards with very little effort. This is a great way to get a lot of cards made in minimal time, but still keeping that one of a kind treatment.

The card today uses the Snowflakes Die from Whimsy Stamps.

This time I used some ivory pearlescent card for the debossing, cut it to 4'' x 5.25'' and mounted on a 4.25'' x 5.5'' card base made from some ribbed kraft cardstock. 

I added a die cut sentiment cut from glitter paper some sequin stars and a few pearls to embellish. This really went together so quickly. I have to say that I've really been enjoying these quick and simple makes, they are a lot more fun than I thought they would be, and while my first love will always be making softly shabby and embellished cards, particularly with stamped and coloured images, this kind of card really comes into it's own when you have a lot of cards to make and not very much time to make them. They also have the added bonus of not costing too much to post!

See you again soon!

Technique Tuesday #2 - Embossed & Blended Background with Embossing on Vellum

Morning!

It's Tuesday again and I have another of my experiments for you. Well this is a combo of technique experiments really.

Firstly I took a piece of heavy watercolour paper and blended 3 different blue/green distress inks and gave them a good wash of water to fade them out and blend them nicely. After drying I gave a little spritz with a Linday's Starburst Spray in Sea Mint Green and then dabbed it with some kitchen towel to lift the colour. This still leaves behind the shimmer and gives a lovely effect that I couldn't quite manage to show up on camera.

After drying it off again I ran it through my machine inside an old embossing folder that I've had for ages and never really used, but I thought it worked rather nicely for this.

I stamped a sentiment with Versamark ink on a piece of vellum using the Mama Elephant - Jingle Greetings Clear stamp Set, and then embossed with white embossing powder.

I adhered the strip to the embossed panel just on the edges and then covered the edges with a frame cut using the Whimsy Stamps Shaker Builder Die

Finally I mounted it with some foam tape on a little turquoise cardstock then stuck the whole thing to a white card base and added a few clear sequins to embellish.

I really enjoyed making the whole thing and I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.  One more Christmas card ticked off of the list!

See you soon!