Quick and Easy Class

This time of year quick and easy cards are great, todays cards use simple designs that you can mass produce easily.

First up a stamp I saw at Ally Pally and as the Nordic theme is so popular still I had to have it. Secondly its a Stampendous stamp and they are a joy to stamp with.

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Stampendous Sweater stamp, Woodware Heartfelt Christmas Wishes

Inks: Adirondack Red Pepper ink pad, Black Memento

Punch: Martha Stewart Snowflake

Extras: Vellum, Red Nailheads, Gingham ribbon, Red and Kraft cardstock



 

 

Second card uses one of the Woodware Candi stamps that are made to co-ordinate with Craftwork Cards Candi.

 

 
Products used:

Stamps: Woodware Snow Flower Bubble Bloom { sentiment comes with the stamp}
Papers: Echo Park Reflections Snowflake cardstock, Kraft and Red card
Extras: Craftwork card White Candi, Red Gingham ribbon, Stickles glitter glue
Inks: Distress ink Brushed Corduroy, Black Pigment ink

Lastly, as these cards took hardly anytime to make we made a third using the new Craftwork Cards die cut cards.

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Indigoblu Seasons Greetings includes the tiny snowflake stamp on the background

Dies: Marianne Snowflakes LR0125

Cards: Craftwork Cards Fancy Edge Embossed cards Snowflake

Inks: Black Memento, Adirondack Viridian

Extras: Glitter card, Silver Nailheads

 



Next time I will have some cards made with embossing folders and masks.

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

Acetate class at Forget Me Knot

Last Thursday we had a class using acetate and these are the cards the ladies made. The first one uses some heat resistant acetate with white embossing powder.

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Heartfelt Creations Vintage Bold background & Floret stamps

Cardstock: Bazzill Bling and Black

Inks: Versamark Ink pad, Black Stazon

Extras:  Black Pearls, ribbon, Heat resistant aceate and White embossing powder

 

 

 

 

Products used:

 

Stamps: Stampendous Dreamy Leaves, Paula Pascual sentiment, Inkylicious Meadow Breeze

Punches: EK Success Photo label punch

Inks: White Stazon, Adirondack Lettuce, Distress Ink Tea Dye

Extras: Mark Richards Gold Nailheads, acetate

 

Everything can be brought and ordered from Forget Me Knot, have a lovely weekend

 

 

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