Jolly St Nick no.2

 Another card today using the Jolly St Nick die from Tim Holtz. This time I used the Tim's fireplace die and made a 3d scene with a tree I cut on my Cricut and I used the presents from the Santas Helper die set. I also grabbed in the Sizzix sale the Deck The Halls die for the bunting. Finished off the the Believe sentiment again from Creative Expressions. 

Products used:

Tim Holtz Jolly St Nick, Deck the Halls, Santas Helper and Fireside

Tim Holtz coloured kraft pad 8x8

First Edition Christmas Wishes paper pad

Distress inks

Creative Expressions Believe in the magic die

Introducing Jolly St Nick

I used the Jolly St Nick die from Tim Holtz to make some more special cards this year. This card is for my grandaughter. It's a stepper card and I used the same dies as fridays card for the sky and snow background. The sentiment is from Creative Expressions and so are the trees. I used a Tim Holtz Elf die in a previous card and the presents came with the set of dies. Santa is another colourize die, he does have quite a few layers but once you have done one , the rest are easier and there is a youtube video to follow .

  

 

Products used:

Tim Holtz Jolly St Nick and Santas Helper dies

Creative Expressions Believe in the Magic, Stitched Hills and Clouds and Winter Trees dies

Cardstock from stash

Distress Ink: Pumice Stone and Tumbled Glass

 

 

Introducing Theodore

 I hope you are keeping well and all your Christmas preparations are done so you can relax now. I have been using some Tim Holtz dies for some special Christmas cards this year. Today say hello to Theodore, not your usual die for Christmas but its very adapt for my son. He is currently enjoying life in snowy Alberta Canada and often see bears when he is enjoying the countryside . Theo is one of the colourize range of dies from Tim Holtz , that means there is a selection of dies that make up each layer, each plate is labelled with the colour card you need to cut. Alternatively you can cut all in white and use distress inks to colour each piece. I used the Tim Holtz 8x8 pad of Kraft coloured card and sanded each piece and then inked around edges. I made a stand up box card, it folds flat for posting. In the Sizzix sale as well as getting Theo, I got the mountains ( trees are included)  for around £3.00 extra and these work really well in the background.  I used a cloud die to make a stencil to create the sky background and a die for the snow. There are a range of other animals and for this Christmas there is a Winter Wardrobe set of dies to co-ordinate with the animals to kit them out for the seasons festivities. The earphones were a must as my son is never without them. I am just praying after all this work he actually receives it, I did send it last month. 

Products used:

Tim Holtz Theodore, Mountains and Winter Wardrobe die

Tim Holtz 8x8 Kraft pad

Creative Expressions Stitched Hills and Clouds die 

Imagine That sentiment stamp

Distress inks Tumbles Glass, Festive Berries, Pumice Stone and Walnut Stain

Back on Sunday with the Santa

Encased Oxide Ink

Hi, this is the third card I made for my recent class using Oxide inks and Marianne Twigs and Twine stamp set.  It’s layers of stamps that have been stamped with Wow ink and then heated with Wow clear embossing powder then covered with Oxide ink . Then repeated with another shade of green. I started with Bundled Sage, next Peeled Paint and finally Forest Moss. The final layer of stamps have been embossed with Wow Gold embossing powder. The sentiment is from the new Lisa Horton Mixed Christmas Sentiment stamps and have been embossed with Gold as well.

Snow word card

My card tonight uses the Stag die from within the Snowflake Wreath die set from John Lockwood. It has been die cut in Black and twice more on white card, then glued together. This is a good idea if you want to add some dimension but the image is too intricate for adding foam pads. The frame and the letters were die cut from cardstock I had inked with Oxides and water. Take your chosen colours, in this case Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean and Wilted Violet, dab some onto a mat and then spritz with water. Turn your cardstock onto right side and press into ink and swoosh around until you are happy. Heating in between and then adding more ink, creates a more oxidized effect. I stamped the Let it snow from a stamp set by Marianne called Christmas Song in Black ink across the bottom of the stitched rectangle from Presscut. Finally, added some glitter drops in the centres. 

Framed Poinsettia

My class today was based around Distress Oxides . There has been a release of new colours and I wanted to show three different ways to use these wonderful ink pads. 

Today’s card uses the Framed Poinsettia stamp from Woodware . I have used Candied Apple , Mowed Lawn and Tea Dye (last two are from the latest release) Oxides and coloured with a water brush on Watercolour card. The image has been stamped with Black Versafine ink. The side panel has been created using a Versamark ink and the stamp. The sentiment comes in pack . 

John Lockwood Gerbera Square Background Die

Hi there , today’s card uses some left overs I had from preparing classes . I had created a background using Distress Oxides ( here is a link to my original card

https://www.dantanner-uk.com/2018/04/27/distress-oxide-background/ )

I die cut the Gerbera die , backed it with acetate and stamped the sentiment and butterflies in Black Stazon Ink. They are from the Butterfly corners stamp set also by John . I then mounted foam tape around the back and added glitter to create a shaker card. I finished off with a fine liner pen.

Woodware Stylish Reindeer

I am sharing one of three cards I made using the Stylish Reindeer stamp from Woodware. This card is completely flat besides the sentiment. I stamped the Reindeer in Walnut Stain ink, the foliage stamps are inked with Bundled Sage, Peeled Paint, Candied Peel and Walnut stain Oxide inks. I created a box with a pencil and then lined post it notes and when it was completed I went over it again with a Brown fine liner pen.

The sentiment comes in the stamp set and is inked with Candied Peel Oxide and mounted onto a scrap of Brown card. I finished off with some Diamond Stickles.

Unicorn card

It was my Grandaughers birthday this week and this is the card I made for her . I saw this Pink and Main stamp set at the trade show and the beginning of the year and decided it would be perfect for her as she loves unicorns . I used a Creative Expressions rainbow die and coloured each piece with Distress inks. The unicorn was coloured with the same inks and I added some Wink of Stella to the horn. Magical sentiment came in stamo set. The cloud die is also Creative Expressions.

Woodware Cosmos Flowers

I recently made two cards using the Woodware Cosmos flower stamp. I will post the other card next time but todays one uses an old technique I haven't don't for a while so thought it was time I did it again. Its a twist on the spotlight technique, I stamped the whole image with Black Archival ink directly onto my card base. I then stamped it again on some spare cardstock. I used some circle punches but you could use circle dies and punched out 3 circles containing different parts of the stamp. I used some Tim Holtz Distress inks to blend different colours over each of the circles. I used Picked Raspberry, Cracked Pistachio and Spiced Marmalade. I then covered each one with Versamark ink and sprinkled with Creative Expressions Sticky embossing powder. Different company's call it different names basically its a clear embossing powder which stays sticky once heated. I then covered it with Glamour Dust glitter, any clear transparent glitter would do....the finer the better. I like to give it another quick blast with the heat gun to make sure the glitter has adhered to the embossing powder. Its not showing up so good it photo but it is really twinkly. I then added some foam pads behind each circle and matched it up perfectly with the main image on my bard base. I finished off with the sentiment from the set just stamped and matted onto some Black cardstock.

Back soon with my second card using this stamp set.

Happy Anniversary card

Timely romantic card today, made for a class a couple of weeks ago. I used an anniversary sentiment but could easily have been Valentines or Wedding. I used distress inks spun sugar, picked raspberry and fired brick on a piece of watercolour card to create background. I splatted some of the ink afterwards from the picked raspberry and also used a Creative Expressions pearl mister to add an extra effect. The hearts are cut from watercolour card again and the same inks blended over them. I used a Stampin Up heart die set. The sentiment has been stamped on black card and embossed with Wow white embossing powder. Matted on some black card and a few gems to finish. Not my usual style but I quite like it.

Christmas ornaments

I took sometime out on Saturday to just play with some stash I have had for a year or two to make some decorations for my tree. The first ones are some MDF tree ornaments I brought from Artcuts not long after they opened. I painted the first one with some Indigoblu paint and stamped with a tree stamp from Clarity. Then attached a little MDF reindeer I had left over from a class. I used some Snowtex for the snow and sprinkled with glitter. Finished off with some ribbon .

 

Second one is covered in the gorgeous Tim Holtz Vintage glitter ( this will definitely not be put away until next Christmas) using some Indigoblu Flitterglu. Then I die cut some snowflakes from a set from Clearly Besotted in some felt like material I have for yonks. Finished off with some gems and ribbon.

 

 

Lastly, my favourite I think, some Perspex ornaments from The Range. Die cut some more snowflakes and covered with same glitter using glue pen. Suspended with fishing wire and then some diamond chunky glass sprinkled in the bottom and after its been sealed a pearl on the bottom and ribbon on top.

 

 

All ready on tree and at least I can say this year I used a little bit of my old stash.

 

 

 

 

 





Craft club card

This is the card we made at this weeks class, using a mask, mica powders and Tim Holtz die. I used one of my favorite brilliance inks starlight black to sponge through the mask, the corners and middle black panel were inked and dabbed with black mica powder. The dress form has the same stamped image on the dress part and some of our gorgeous May Arts ribbon to make a wrap around the top.

products used:

Dies: Tim Holtz Sizzix Die Sewing Room

Stamps: Inkylicious Filigree corners and Damask Background, Paula Pascual sentiments

Mask: That Special Touch Filigree 6x6

Inks: Brilliance Starlight Black and Perfect Medium

Mica: Cosmic Shimmer Black Pearl

Extras: May Art Ribbon and Pearls from stash large and small

Products used:

Die: Tim Holtz Sizzix Sewing Room die

Masks: That Special Touch Filigree

Inks: Brilliance Starlight Black, Perfect Medium

Mica Powders: Cosmic Shimmer Black Pearl

Stamps: Paula Pascual sentiments, Inkylicious Filigree corners and Damask Background

Extras: May Arts ribbon and pearls

Craft Club card

A card suitable for a mans birthday this week, using some fab stamps from Sam Poole from Creative Expressions. At a recent show I brought some cloud dies from Joy crafts, I used those to make a template and then using a dauber ink gently through the clouds.

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Creative Expressions Sam Poole Up Up and away

Pens: Tim Holtz Distress pens

Inks: Tim Holtz Ink pads Tea Dye, Brushed Corduroy, Tumbled Glass

Punch: Circle

Dies: Joy clouds

Extras: White and silver pen

 

Everything can be ordered or brought from FMK, details on side bar

 

 

 



Pan Pastels class

Two cards we made at a recent Pan Pastels class, using masks and stamps. First one uses some of the new Woodware stamps with lovely spring coloured Pan Pastels. Very simple, quick and easy design.

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Woodware Mini Flowers, Georgette, Text Box

Pan Pastels: Diarylide yellow tint, Turquoise Tint, Red Iron Oxide

Extras: Ranger stickles dry glitter Stardust, Black ribbon and flat back pearls

 

 

The second card uses the new Tim Holtz mask and the lovely Teasel stamp from Woodware, combined with one of the metallic Pan Pastels.

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Woodware Teasels, Inkylicious verse, Text swirl from Sam Poole

Pan Pastels : Violet, Bronze, Chrome Oxide Green Tint

Mask: Tim Holtz Faded dots

 

Everything used can be brought or ordered from Forget Me Knot, details on side bar

 

 

White on White class

I love doing this style of card this time of year, this class was quite die cut heavy as you can't use many stamps and still retain the White on White feel. I also always use the same cardstock to make the entire card, from the base up. If you use prescored cards from a pack they will be a different shade of white to your A4 card so make the cards yourself.

 

First card uses some of the new Die'sire die cuts and my old ribbler machine, had for years but always brought out to make these cards to add some texture and dimension.

 

 



Products used:

Dies:  Die'sire Trees and Ivy, Spellbinders Ovals
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug Swiss Dots
Stamps: Crafty Impressions
Extras: Stampendous Flocking, ribbler, White ribbon,gems

Second card uses my favourite Tim Holtz Snowflake Rosettes die and a new embossing folder from Crafters Companion. Its not easy to photo this one but the snowflakes are made from glitter card.

 

Products used:

 

Dies: Tim Holtz Snowflakes Sizzlet decorative Snowflake and Mini Snowflake rosette

Embossing folder: Die'sire Snowflakes 6"

Extras: White ribbon, gems

Stamps: Woodware Snow

 

Back tomorrow with some more cards.

 



All that glitters class

I am determined this week to catch up with posting cards from my classes at Forget me knot over the last few weeks.

First up is all that glitters class the Poinsettia background stamp is from Stampendous, which was coloured in with Promarkers and inked around the edges with Distress ink. We then used Ranger sticky embossing powder and Tim Holtz Distress Rock Candy glitter. Sentiment is from Indigoblu.

The second card uses a snowflake mask from That Special Touch, Cosmic Shimmer glitters and another sentiment from Indigoblu. Finished off with some Nailheads, ribbon and some mirror card. The mask are quite big so this is a 8x8 card.

 

All products can be ordered or brought from the shop, back tomorrow with more cards

Stampendous Class

Last Tuesday I had a class at In2crafting using Stampendous stamps and Frantage embossing powders.

 

First card uses a spotlight technique of punching out { I used a 1" punch} elements of the image and popping them back on the card raised so the image matches up again. This is an old Stampendous Agapanthus stamp but its one of my all time fav's and they still make it, except now its in cling form. The inks used are Milled Lavendar and Dusty Concord. The larger Agapanthus head for the background is also a Stampendous stamp. After I had coloured I sprinkled Stampendous Frantage Aged White embossing powder in areas around the card and then heated from underneath.Very simply matted and layered in black and a Paula Pascal sentiment to finish.

 

 

Next one uses the Poinsettia background stamp, this was inked with Archival black ink on watercolour card, trimmed and distress inks Tea Dye and Brushed Corduroy blended around the edges. I did the same for the sentiment which is from a Lydsay Mason set of greetings. The larger Poinsettia flower was stamped and cut out again on watercolour card and coloured with Tim Holtz distress markers Fired Brick and Pelled Paint and a water brush. I sprinkled the embossing powder again randomly over the card and sprinkled Frantage gold glass glitter in as well, so that when the embossing powder melted it incased the glass glitter. Very pretty and unusual technique but makes for a fabulous effect. To edge the sentiment I edged the card with a Tombow glue stick and dabbed in the embossing folder. The Poinsettia flower centres has encrused middles of both embossing powder and glitter. Little bit of May Arts ribbon to finish off.

 

 

 

 

Lastly, an old technique but still a Christmas favourite to make a glittery scene on Christmas cards.

I used the lovely Snowy Postcard stamp, this was stamped onto white card first, then I stamped the oval area again and cut out. Image was coloured with Distress pens Rusty Hinge and Weathered Wood and I coloured some of the sky with Broken China. The whole thing was covered with a Versamark ink pad and sprinkled with stamp n bond powder and heated then translucent glitter sprinkled all over it.  The background was sponged with distress inks Rusty Hinge and Vintage photo and the Holly was coloured with the pens as the previous card. I cut around the hollys leaves so that the oval could slip back in after. Simply mounted onto card and a sentiment from Crafty Impressions to finish off.

Back soon with my last class for this year Indigo Blu

Clean and Simple class

Last week I had a clean and simple style class at In2crafting, these cards are great for mass production...ideal for this time of year!!

First one uses the new Tim Holtz Snowflake die, Mini Snowflake Rosette, if you have seen his concertina flower die its the same sort of thing but with a snowflake style. The background is just a simple snowflake background from Paula Pascual, stamped in silver ink. The sentiment is from the Woodware Hearfelt Christmas Wishes set. I used silver elastic to hang the snowflakes.

The next card uses the Tree and sentiment stamp from the Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage stamp set and the cardstock is from the same collection. I used a glitter glue to just go along the top lines of each row...amazing what a difference that makes...its better in real life than in the photo. Ribbon is from May Arts.

 

 

Then lastly, an easy snowflake card using the Paula Pascal Christmas Frame set and this time I used a different colour combo. Adirondak Pebble and Slate, together with some Silver Pigment ink for some of the small snowflakes. The card base was on Kraft cardstock. I added some Distress Stickles in Antique Linen to the centres.

 

Back soon with my next class using Stampendous stamps.

 

 

Friends birthday card

I was going through my memory card today and came across a card I forgot to post on my blog. Its a friends birthday just before mine and I had some left over cardstock from a kit and a stamp set I had to buy at Stamperama, not used yet. Not that I dont have other stamps with alliums on...but they are all slightly different and thats all that matters...lol!!

Stamps are from Kanban

Cardstock is from Carta Bella Beautiful Moments collection

Flowers are Tim Holtz Flower Garland die

Sentiment is Paula Pascal and circle punches

Ink is Memory Sepia

 

Have a great weekend