Flower Trio

In the Sizzix Ink Bloom set there is this flower die, I cut it out three times and then using a Zig pen covered them in Wow Sparkles glitter. The dies that have been cut on the black and white card are from Lisa Horton .

Products used:

Sizzix Ink Bloom stamp and die set

Lisa Horton Nested Postage Slim dies 

Wow Sparkles Peachy Keen 

Sentiment from stash

Zig glue pen

 

It's Snow Time

 I have made another few cards using the Snow stamp and die set from Crafters Companion. This time I stamped the image with a Wow embossing ink pad and sprinkled it with one of my favourite Wow powders Platinum Sparkle.  After heating with a heat gun I die cut the word out with the matching die. I dug out some old glitter card and die cut my snowflakes using a John Next Door die and arranged them around where my Snow word was going to go. The snowflakes are flat and the word is on foam pads. I finished it off with some extra wording stamps that come in the set and added some gems to the snowflakes.

Products used:

Crafters Companion Gemini Snow stamp and die set

John Next Door Snowflake dies

Presscut Stitched Square dies

Wow Platinum Sparkle Embossing Powder

Wow Embossing Ink pad

Gems and Glitter card from stash

Cupcake card

Happy Monday, start of another week. I have a turnaround stamp from Concord and 9th that I hadn't used yet....shock horror!!

The idea is you place it in your stamping platform, ink with one colour, stamp and turn the cardstock  45 degrees, clean and ink with another colour and so on. I had found this cupcake stamp set in my stash whilst having a major sort out a few weeks ago . It was a gift from a friend and I'm pretty sure its not available now but there are plenty of similar stamp sets from UK companies. I think I brought the turnaround stamp to use on some childrens cards, but I think it works well with this stamp and I have some ideas for christmas cards using it. I used a set of Altenew inks for both the cupcake and the turnaround stamp. The glitter frosting is done using Wow embossing powders, the great thing about using a stamping platform is you can re ink your stamp. So I inked up the top of the cupcake stamp with pink ink, stamped onto white card, cleaned the stamp and reinked with Wow embossing ink pad and then over stamped. I then covered with embossing powder and heated. I dont have a die for this stamp so I cut it out with scissors. I wanted a topper, so I dug out an old scalloped circle die, run it through my machine, left the die cut in the die and blended ink around the edges with the lightest colour in the collection. The sentiment stip has been done in the same way. I found this great sentiment on a set but it was on two lines, so I carefully cut it half and stamped side by side.

Products used:

Concord and 9th Bitty Burst Turnaround stamp 

Verve Cupcake Affair stamp 

Simon Says Birthday Messages 3x4

Wow Embossing Powder Clear Sparkle

Wow Embossing Ink pad

Archival Black Ink

Altenew Red Cosmos Ink set 

Spellbinders Scalloped Circle dies

Nuvo Bubblegum Blush Crystal Drops

Cardstock from stash

Sam's Starz part 2

Happy Sunday, hopefully you would have remembered the clocks went back last night if you are in the UK ! I have another card today using the John Next Door Sam's Starz die. This card is flat, no foam pads etc, so ideal for posting. I die cut the whole Star die from double sided adhesive and attached to back of panel. I then covered it with Wow Sparkles glitter and layered some navy blue card behind. Its simply finished off with sentiment, great idea for a quick and easy card.

Click on the following links to buy

John Next Door Sam's Starz 

Wow Stroke of Midnight Sparkles

Double Sided Adhesive Sheets 

I also used :

Woodware Heartfelt Christmas stamp set

Archival Black ink

Tis the Season

I have set myself a goal this year of using up my Christmas patterned papers. I have an A4 box full of 6x6 and 8x8 pads. Today's card uses some of the papers I had left over from last year from Amy Designs. I loved the colours in this pack and thought it would look good with Silver and White. The Poinsettias are stamped and embossed in Wow embossing powders. I have added stamens to the centers with silicone glue. I then used a variety of foliage dies using mirror card, glitter card and white cardstock. Probably not the easiest to send but I will make a box and give it in that.

Products used:

John Next Door Poinsettia die and stamps

Creative Expressions Holly Sprays, Winter Foliage, Tis the Season dies
Nellie Snellen Bare Branch die
Wow Silver Sparkle embossing powder
Amy Designs Christmas Wishes 6x6 paper pad
Mirror and glitter card from stash
Stamens from Stash

Have a great weekend and hopefully you will get some time to craft.

Bright Rosa Elongated Hexagons part 2

Carrying on from yesterdays post, here is another card using the Bright Rosa decorative panel from the Elongated Hexagon die set. This time I used just the panel on its own and attached it to a 7"x 5" card blank. Once again I backed it with double sided adhesive and covered it with more Wow Sparkles. I die cut one of the smaller panels in White card and then die cut my John Next Door Deer die from Silver mirror card. The sentiment has been stamped on the smallest die in the collection. I finished off with some gems.

Products used:

Bright Rosa Elongated Hexagons die set

John Next Door Christmas Deer

Wow Stroke of Midnight Sparkles

Paula Pascual Christmas Messages stamp set

Doubles sided adhesive

Gems from stash

Bright Rosa Hexagon card

Today starts a series of cards I have made using the Bright Rosa Elongated Hexagon die collection from Paula Pascual. It comes with a variety of layering Hexagon dies and and large die that forms the card base. It also includes a decorative panel and corner dies, which I have used in today's card. The panel was cut in White card, backed with double sided adhesive and then covered with Wow Sparkles glitter. I used one of the smaller dies and cut it out in Silver mirror card. I then die cut some snowflakes and arranged those in the middle. I made the Snowflake gem by covering a foam pad with some more of the Sparkles and added a sentiment.

Products Used:

Bright Rosa Elongated Hexagon card

Wow Sparkles Twinklebelle

John Lockwood Snowflake dies

Paula Pascual Essential Christmas stamp set

Wedding Card

I made this card recently using a cut file I brought for my Cricut Air 2. I cut out the front panel and then attached it to a sheet of double sided adhesive. I stamped the sentiment and then covered it with Wow Frosted Petals Sparkle Glitter. Finished off with some gems and ribbon.

Products used:

Cut file Flourish Hearts

https://www.silhouettedesignstore.com/designs/118151

Wow Sparkles Frosted Petals

My Favorite Things Together Forever stamp set

Double Sided Adhesive sheet 

Gems and ribbon from stash  

Acetate class

Good evening, today’s card is the first from my class last week using acetate. There are several types/thickness of acetate. Just make sure if you want to use embossing powder on some it’s heat resistant ( it should say on package ). This acetate was quite thick and I wanted to emboss it with a embossing folder. It worked really well, the folder was Falling Snow from Creative Expressions and it’s 8”x8” so you need an A4 machine . Crafts too do a smaller Snow embossing folder if you don’t have a big machine. 

The Poinsettia was made using the John Lockwood Poinsettia stamp and die set. It has been stamped on White card and embossed with Silver Sparkle Wow powder. The leaves are from Creative Expressions and are called Christmas Stems but I can see them being used all year. I die cut them in White card and coloured with Oxide Bundled Sage and Peeled Paint Ink, using a dauber so as not to rip the leaves. The circle frame has been cut with Presscut Stitched Circles on Silver Mirror card. Finished off with a sentiment die from Creative Expressions die cut several times to add dimension and I added some glitter drops on the leaves using Cosmic Shimmer glitter PVA ( which I made the night before and added when hard)

Hope you like the colour scheme, thought it would make a change from Red Poinsettias. Back tomorrow night with another idea for using acetate.

Have a great weekend 

Stylish Reindeer part 3

Here is my third card using the Woodware Stylish Reindeer stamp from Woodware. 

It’s my take on a card my friend Gill designed . I used the Woodware Wood Panel stamp in the background using Versamark ink on Grey card, I stamped in twice to make a bigger piece as the card size is 7”x 5” . Then I used Wow White Embossing powder to hear emboss the Reindeer which has been stamped in my Wow ink or you could use Versamark ink.  Once heat set it has been cut out using my Presscut Stitched Oval die. Finished off with Creative Expressions Itty Bitty bow die in some patterned card from Hobby House and I stamped the sentiment in Grey ink and added a gem.

This card is too sparkly...

Sharing a card today that I actually made recently for a change!! I have had this Kaisercraft stencil for ages and only just found it again whilst routing through my stencil box. I combined it with the new Aladine texture  paste and some gorgeous Wow Sparkles glitter . Finished off with a fab saying from a Wow stamp set, ideal for anyone who loves anything glittery. 

Products used:

Kaisercraft Butterfly Skies mini stencil 

Aladine Jasmine texture paste 

Wow Sparkles Glitter Twinklebelle

Wow Born To Sparkle stamp set

Archival Black in

Gem from stash 

Woodware Cosmos Flower part 2

Back again with my second card using the Cosmos stamp from Woodware. This time I used my WRMK Stamping tool to stamp the whole image with a Green pigment ink pad. I then cleaned the ink off and re stamped with Versamark just over the flower parts. This technique is so easy using the stamping tool and they are lots of different ones on the market now. Don't worry if you get some on the green ink , as long as you use an anti static pad you can brush off any embossing powder that is in the wrong place with a fine brush.  I poured Wow embossing powder called Hot Gossip over the area I used Versamark ink. Its a lovely bright pink but has Copper running through it. I then used my stamping tool again with Black ink to stamp the sentiment. The flower centres are made using Copper Micro Beads from Creative Expressions. I filled the centre of the stamped image with some Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmer glue and then poured the Micro Beads over the top and made sure it stayed circular by just tapping around the edge with my pokey tool. Be warned best to decant them into something as they are very small and go everywhere whilst trying to get them back into the pot.....ask me how I know !!! The whole piece when dry was matted onto some Black and Green cardstock and mounted onto a 7" x 5" card base.

Hope you all have a great weekend and manage to fit in a little or a lot of crafting .

Pixie Powders

Here is my third card using Pixie Powders. I used one of the large ferns from the  Dutch Doobadoo Paper Art Fern sheets in the shop. I carefully cut it away from the sheet in comes in ( different sizes on each sheet)  I coloured it by tapping a small amount of  some Bronze Blush powder onto a plate or mat and then spritzed with water. I then dabbed it repeatedly in the wet powder, dried and then added some more to build up the colour. The background is just some white cardstock, sprinkled and spritzed with some Pale Olive powder and dried.

 I then stamped the script stamp from the Wow Wall Art stamp set with Brilliance Copper ink randomly over the cardstock. I also added a little powder to the small piece of card the fern is on. I edged both pieces with the Copper ink.

Aprils 2nd Christmas card

Back as promised with another quick tutorial for using the left over foam from yesterday snowflake card. After you have die cut the snowflake you are left with the waste part, I die cut that again using a plain circle die. In the Sweet Dixie set there is a smaller snowflake, I die cut that from more of the foam and then covered both that and the circle with more of the Wow Fab Foil in teal.

 
 I had this idea of filling in the gap between the two with glitter, so I die cut a circle from some double sided adhesive and attached that to my piece of white card that I had already cut with the Presscut stitched rectangle die. I made sure I put it further down the card so I could draw a line with a fine liner pen to make it look suspended.

I then peeled the sticky off the circle and then placed my circle of foam on top so it sticks to card. My next step was supposed to be to add the small snowflake in the middle before throwing glitter over it....but in my excitement I did glitter first then had to add some pva glue behind the smaller snowflake to stick it to the glittered area. So its a case do as I say not as I do...it would have been easier to stick the snowflake to the sticky double-sided. So pretending that I did it in right order it looks like this

 

Next I repeated the same process of die cutting some Holly leaves from a Sue Wilson die set from last year and then covering them with silver foil.

 

 

These were attached to the top and three more of the pearls I made for yesterday card were added in a cluster and one more in the centre of the snowflake. The sentiment is from Crafters Companion. In theory you could make three of these cards from the waste from yesterday card, that's three off your list.

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you enjoyed this idea, back again tomorrow with non Christmas cards I promise. 

April Christmas Card

 

Good morning, its the 25th so time for my monthly Christmas card. Its a bit of a twofer this month, I made two cards using the Craft Plus Uk product of the month Wow Fab Foils. I am posting one today and one tomorrow as they are quite photo heavy. The card uses Sweet Dixie Snowflakes die, but you can do this technique with any die as long as its not too detailed. I found some Xcut ejection foam in the shop. This is supposed to be used inside dies to help the cardstock fall out after its been cut. If you had the original Quickutz machine and dies, the same system was used for those as well. Its a thin self adhesive foam and can be cut with thin metal dies. So once you have cut it out one side has a removable sticky side. Lay your foil colour side up on top of the sticky die cut and rub all over and gently pull off.

 

 

I used the teal foil, keep the waste foam I have used it for my other card I am posting tomorrow. The sentiment was typed on a computer and then printed off using a LASER printer....not an inkjet. If you don't have one of those just type out a whole A4 sheet of lots of sentiments on your computer, print off on your inkjet and take along with some cardstock to your local printer and they can do it for you. It doesn't cost much, just make sure you leave some spaces in-between so you can trim or die cut out.

 

 

I used the silver foil, again just lay a piece over the sentiment and run it through a foiling machine if you have one or a laminator. I find it helps putting it through with a carrier sheet , if you don't have one copy paper will do. Put it through folded side first so I doesn't get caught inside machine.

 

 

 I used my Presscut stitched rectangles die on white cardstock and matted onto some black card. Arrange three of the snowflakes across the card, I used a fine tip glue applicator to get a little PVA on back of snowflakes. I wanted to add something in the middle of the snowflakes so I made some white pearls using Creative Expressions White PVA glue. Put some drops onto a non stick mat and leave to dry, I usually do it night before and come back to it in morning. Using a pokey tool lift them off and apply to card with a little drop of glue.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope you like these techniques, back tomorrow with my second Christmas card.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Product of the month class card 3

This is the third card from my recent class using Wow Fab Foils. For this technique I used up scraps of foil I had left over....so don't throw anything away.

 

The  background is from Creative Expressions Dotty Daisies embossing folder. The foiled square is Wow Blush foil on top of a piece of double sided adhesive. I die cut a heart shape from a piece of card covered with double sided adhesive. I then dabbed some of the foil scraps shiny side up randomly over the sticky paper. Once finished I threw on Glamour Dust glitter to fill in between the foiling. The sentiment is from Woodware and is called Just for You.

 

Back soon with some Easter cards.