Old Bear

Good Morning everyone

Mid way through may we have another vintage make for we love stamping

.   I wanted to go completely different to my first card and looking through my stash had this lovely old bear which reminds me of my teddy bear as a child so i went with muted colours, old script, torn paper & vellum for a vintage vibe.

7x5.5" cream card base - I went with cream as softer for a more aged feel.  I watercoloured the bear with distress inks ' dusty concord, stormy sky & forest moss' and a little 'black soot' for shadows, then cut him out. 

I found this old script paper in my stash and tore around the edges for it to fit my card and blended the same distress inks around the edges and then adhered to the card front. I then tore a piece of vellum big enough to fit the bear and added this to the card with a little scrap of the script paper.  I then gently curved the bear and added with pinflair glue gel. 

The bear saying came with the stamp so i cut it out, lightly inked, matted onto some of the cream card and added to the top left corner with a little blue button to finish.

Just a close up on Mr Bear, you can see the vellum behind him better here

Items Used:

Pink Ink designs stamp 'bear hugs'

Papermania script paper & vellum (very old!)

Distress inks - dusty concorde, stormy skies, forest moss, black soot

cream cardstock

blue  button

Thank you for popping by once again.  I hope you all have a good weekend and upcoming week. Emmax

Id love to enter the following

https://cutiepiechallenge.blogspot.com/2024/05/challenge-no-194-themebear-hugs.html

https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2024/05/challenge-86-anything-goes-with.html

https://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/2024/05/200-add-animal.html

 

Coneflower

Size 6.5x3".   I got this fab tonic studios cone flower die in a sale, for its first outing i decided to make a couple of small thank you cards that I needed.  I dug through my backgrounds and found this lovely piece which id made with brusho powders & pixie powders so it  has a lovely shimmer from which i die cut the mat layer for the flowers. 

I die cut the flower panels from black card - ideal for using up little scraps & snippets. I adhered these to the base panel and then die cut the flowers again from a pale peach paper again from my snippets drawer and inlaid these into the black outline.  I raided my snippets and found a small piece of copper satin card which was perfect to die cut the thank you from.

I die cut the base layer twice from more black cardstock, i adhered one to the back of the green panel offset to give a shadow which helped it to stand out. The 2nd one i score half inch from the top edge, folded and adhered that top flap to the back of the card front to make my shaped stand up card.

Sadly the photo doesn't show the amazing shimmer from the pixie powders or the copper satin i used for the sentiment. 

this shows how i made the card back and it stands up, I lined the inside with white so easy to write my greeting.

Items Used:

Tonic Studios die set 'coneflower floral split strips' #4800e

Spellbinders thank you die

Brusho powders 'sea green & turquoise'

Cosmic shimmer pixie powders 'peacock & copper'

Black cardstock

Thank you for stopping by, i hope you enjoy your sunday and have a great week ahead. Emma

Id love to enter:

https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/05/cut-it-up-challenge-303-add-sentiment.html

https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/05/challenge-114-flowers.html

https://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2024/05/may-challenge-166-flowers.html

https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/04/beautiful-blossoms-challenge-anything.html

https://creativecraftinguncles.blogspot.com/2024/04/52-thank-you.html

https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/05/miucb-71-anything-goes-optional-inlaid.htmll

 

Dragonflies

Good Morning everyone

I dug out an old aall&create stamp set with these fab dragonflies on.  I stamped them in a dark purple ink and the card bases are also a dark purple not black -difficult to get good photos with all the grey days we had.

DL cardblank made from deep plum cardstock.  I stamped the images onto white card with versaclair 'monarch' ink.  These are A5 stamps so i decided which area i wanted and die cut with a stitched edge DL die.  I then added some light stencilling with oxide inks - cracked pistachio & shaded lilac and adhered to the card front.  

I stamped the dragonflies again, watercoloured with wink of stella pens, cut out and decoupaged onto the base image with glue gel.  Glossy accents added to the bodies and some white pen highlights to finish. 

You can just about make out on the right of the wings but the wink of stella pens give the most amazing shimmer in real life

Version 2 using the 2nd dragonfly stamp in the set

and version 3 i went with green wink of stella pens this time for the wings and pink for the body and spiced marmalade & salvaged patina oxide inks for the stencilling 

sadly again all the shimmer does show

Items Used:

aall&create stamps #230 'On dragonfly wings'

Various stencils

Distress oxide inks - cracked pistachio, shaded lilac, spiced marmalade, salvaged patina

Kuretake wink of stella pens

DL stitched edge dies

Dark plum cardstock

White super smooth cardstock

Pebeo white pen

Thank you all for popping by. Emmax

Id love to enter the first card in the following:

https://www.stampingsensations.uk/2024/05/may.html - anything goes option

https://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2024/05/may-2024-crafts-galore-encore-challenge.html

https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2024/05/challenge-86-anything-goes-with.html

https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/ltccb-80-anything-goes-ltccb-79-winner.html

Paperminutes - https://paperminutes.blogspot.com/2024/05/paperminutes-845-insekteninsects.html

 

Vintage coffee

Good Morning everyone

I am honoured to be starting on the design team at We Love Stamping

 and the theme for this month is Vintage.  Slightly outside my comfort Zone but decided to use this fab vintage coffee grinder stamp, using kraft card and a bit of old lace to add to the vintage feel.

5x5" kraft card base with i rounded the corners on.  I took a smaller piece of cream cardstock and again rounded the corners and stamped the image with a dark brown ink, i stamped the image again onto more of the cream and kraft card.  On the cream version i watercoloured the flowers with distress inks and on the kraft version i added a little colour with vintage photo distress ink and a touch of pistachio oxide ink and cut them out. I also stamped and coloured some coffee beans.

On the base image i splattered on some of the inks i used to colour the images, added a strip of kraft card and the lace and adhered to the card front.  I added the flowers and coffee grinder with glue gel for a little dimension.  Added the coffee beans to finish.

Just a close up.  This is a great image with the good morning to say hello to a friend and maybe a catch up over a coffee or two

Items Used:

aall&create stamps 'caffeinated' 

Distress inks - wild honey, ripe persimmon, vintage photo

Distress Oxide inks - cracked pistachio fossilised amber

Kraft & cream cardstock

Lace

WRMK corner chomper

So please do pop over to welovestamping to join in with your vintage makes.  The prizes this month are

Thank you all for stopping by, i hope you have a great week. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://farmquesthomestylekitchenchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/05/fq-homestyle-kitchen-challenges-5-with.html

https://kraftychickschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/05/krafty-chicks-challenge-714-stamps.html

https://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/05/mttc-533-theme-is-mothers-day-or.html - gone with the friendship option

 

Vellum butterflies

Good Morning everyone

After making my last card i had some left over pieces and off cuts so decided to use them up on 2 little cards.

4x5" cream card base.  I layered a peace paper onto the base.  I then tore a piece of the printed vellum, layered onto a piece of torn cream card by gluing the ends of the vellum behind the cream card so no adhesive on show, then matted onto a different printed paper and then added to the left hand side. 

I die cut the 3 lacy layers of the butterflies from the printed vellum and the base layers from more cream card and added to the card with just a dab of pinflair glue gel under their bodies so the wings are free.  By adding the cream card behind the patterned vellum it helps keep the colours clean and crisp. 

Stamped sentiment in grey to finish.

Card 2

4x4" cream card base.  I added 2 of the papers to the base, the peach one on an angle so you can see a bit more of the lovely pattern on the black one.  I tore one edge of a piece of vellum and pale peach paper and added to the left edge with another piece of grey paper - using up all the off cuts

I had die cut the hello sunshine die from the middle of the black paper i used for my first layer on the card - a good way to make it go further and no one would know as its completely hidden! I then matted this onto a larger circle die cut from more of the cream card and added to the front with glue gel.  Butterfly die cut from vellum matted onto cream to finish. 

Items Used:

Kanban paper pad & velum 'Apricot dreams' (very very old!)

Studio light 'just lou' dies - Butterflies

Hello sunshine die (memory box?)

woodware sentiment stamp 'Curly greetings' FRS850

Cream cardstock

Thank you all for popping by my little crafty space in blogland.  I hope you all have a good week. Emmax

Id love to enter the 1st card in the following

https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/04/cut-it-up-challenge-302-starts-with-b.html - butterflies starting with B

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https://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/04/challenge-254-anything-goes.html

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https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2024/04/i-spy-with-my-little-eye-something-with.html

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https://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-challenge-use-die.html

 

Creative Creases

 Good Morning everyone

Today im honoured to be a guest designer over at creative-creases-challenge

I decided to try a new fold for me a 'double vertical stepper card' which was perfect for using this beautiful peach and grey paper pad from Kanban which ive had for years.  I love with this fold that i get to use lots of the different papers together.  

I made my base card out of cream cardstock - the finished folded up size is 5x5" and it squashes closed to fit into an envelope. The side folds are  1" 1" 2" & 2" and the back panel 5"   but can easily be adjusted to any size.  The band across the middle helps it to keep its shape and easily stand up.

I got cutting up the papers for the panels, covering both the sides of the side panels as they can all be seen when its on display. 

I had some matching vellum so die cut that into a flower, the vellum has gold foil highlights as do some of the papers which is why i went with gold satin card for my die cut leaves - this also helped break up the colour a bit.  I die cut a circle for my flower to sit on and added this to the belly band of the card.  A nice peach pearl in the centre of the flower to finish. 

I stamped some butterflies onto one of the peach papers, cut them out and adhered to look like they are flying around the panels.  I added a touch of diamond stickles to their bodies and wings for a bit of sparkle. 

and the back of the card, i used more of the papers, die cut a circle from more cream cardstock as a place to write the greeting and added a stamped happy birthday in grey ink. I also added another of the smaller butterflies.

Items Used:

Uniko Ltd stamps (butterflies) 'English country garden'

Woodware sentiment stamp 'A birthday moment' JGS718

Kanban paper pad & vellum 'Apricot dreams' 

Craft UK ltd A3 smooth cream cardstock

Crafters companion gold satin cardstock

Stitched circle dies

Leaf die

Ranger stickles 'diamond'

Thank you all for stopping by and please do hop over to creative creases to join in with your fancy folds. Emma

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Id love to also enter the following:

 

https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/04/beautiful-blossoms-challenge-anything.html

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https://letscreatechallenges.blogspot.com/2024/04/challenge-206-ag-beautiful-butterflies.html

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https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-2024-challenge.html

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https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-2024-anything-goes-wopitional.html - flowers

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Yellow & Pink

Good Morning everyone

I was inspired by this challenge colour combo of Yellow & Pink over at color hues challenge 

To start with I coloured A4 white cardstock - 1 with yellow brusho powder, 1 with bubblegum pink dylusions shimmer spray and 1 sheet with a mix of the two colours and left to dry over night while i thought about what i would create.

I made 2 cards the same just reversed the colours

DL (8x4") White linen cardblank, I lightly inked the edges with picked raspberry & sqeeshed lemonade distress inks.  I die cut a smaller panel from white linen card and a stitched edge die and adhered to the card front.

I die cut a large leafy swirl from the pink card, a flower from the yellow and the sentiment from the sheet which i sprayed both colours onto.  I matted the sentiment onto white card.  To make the flower bigger and stand out clearly behind the sentiment i cut it in half and did the same with the leafy flourish so i could make it longer - the gaps are hidden behind the sentiment.   This meant i could also slightly tweak the angle of the foliage to fit the DL shape better. 

I did cut some smaller flowers from the yellow card and adhered with some pink gem centres.  I then added a few yellow enamel dots to finish which give the feel of flower buds. 

Just a close up, sadly the amazing shimmer of the pink spray doesn't show up in the photos.

and version 2

Ive just made this one the other way around. A few more pink gem flower buds on this one as the gems were alot smaller than the yellow enamel dots i used on the first one. 

We finally have had a bit of sunshine this week so hopefully winter is soon a distant memory and we get some warmer sunnier days!

 Items Used:

Brusho's pigment powder 'yellow'

Ranger Dylusions shimmer spray 'bubblegum pink'

Distress Inks 'picked raspberry & squeezed lemonade'

Simon says stamp SSSd112057 'detailed leaf cluster' die

Daisy flower die

Tonic studios (hello sunshine) 3278e 'The four seasons sensational summer' die

Stitched edge DL dies

Altenew yellow enamel dots

Papermania pink gems

Thank you all for stopping by.  Emma

Id love to enter the following:

https://colorhuesthecolorchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/04/color-hues-85-yellow-and-pink.html

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https://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/04/unicorn-97-use-dies.html

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https://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/04/mttc-532-theme-is-everything-die-cuts.html

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https://just-add-ink.blogspot.com/2024/04/just-add-ink-698choose-two.html - I chose Leaves & flowers