Spring birthday

Good Morning everyone

Today im sharing the cards i made for my sister in laws birthday this week.  Her favourite colour in yellow/orange so i started off with a spring crocus

4.5x6" White gold pearl card base.  I embossed the base card with a swirly embossing folder.  I then die cut 3 cross stitched rectangles, on one of them i stamped the chocolate baroque crocus stamp,  i stamped the crocus again onto more of the pearl cardstock.  I added a watercolour background with distress inks tumbled glass & cracked pistachio, i them stencilled swirls onto all 3 panels using the same inks.  I watercoloured the extra crocus in shades of yellowy orange and cut it out and attached to the base image with glue gel.

I attached the extra 2 rectangles to the card front top left and bottom right with foam tape and then mounted the crocus panel in the middle with more foam tape.  I die cut the sentiment from scraps of burnt orange satin cardstock and added some orange gems to finish.  

 

Here you can really see the burnt orange satin card, its a shame the pearl of the cardstock doesn't show up.

I had some left over pieces so made a little happy mail card to brighten a friends day, made the same way just a lovely sentiment from magazine

and onto the 2nd card i made for my sis-in-law 

DL white base card.  I first made a background which you can see below.  Using these lovely DL dies i was given for Christmas i die cut the biggest one from my yellow background and a smaller one from white linen cardstock.  From the yellow one i cut the middle out (gutted it) as i usually do as this then gave me enough to die cut my leaves from.

I arranged the leaves onto the base and glued into place and then stamped the sentiment.  I then attached to the base card with foam tape.

and this is the background i made.   I first used brushos - lemon & gambage with cosmic shimmer pixie powders in 'mango' &  'scarlet mist' Once completely dry I then stencilled over the top with a mix of distress inks & oxide inks so it has alot of different finishes and lovely shimmer when the light catches it which makes it more interesting on the eye once die cut than just a flat inked panel.   

Items Used:

Chocolate Baroque stamp 'spring is in the air'

Simply cards & papercraft mag 240 sentiment freebie (step into spring)

Birthday sentiment stamp

Cross stitched rectangle die

DL nesting dies

concorde & ninth layering leaves die set (the leaf)

A4 swirly embossing folder

Stencils

Brushos

Pixie powders

Thank you all for stopping by, i hope its a good week for you.  Emmax

Id love to enter the following with my first crocus card

http://inkspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/02/inkspirational-challenge-284-designers.html

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https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2023/03/march-challenge.html  - using blooms

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http://simplycreatetoo.blogspot.com/2023/03/188-spring-colors.html

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http://2sistersontheblog.blogspot.com/2023/03/challenge-72.html - spring card

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https://www.welovestamping.co.uk/2023/03/march-challenge.html - spring theme

 

Birthday Wheat

Morning Everyone

Today im sharing an Autumn Male birthday card, although i think you could also use it for us girlies that are into nature. 

6x6" kraft cardbase.   I attached a square of ivory card which has a light woodgrain pattern to it.  I die cut my birthday circle from the ivory card and attached to a kraft circle, a chocolate brown mirror card circle embossed with a leaf patten and a burnt orange mirror card circle frame, i attached these to my cardfront overlapping each other. 

I then die cut my wheat from chocolate, burnt orange, gold & copper mirror card and kraft card.  The die cuts have open ears so so help them stand out i added a plain one behind.  To get the plain cut i first die cut the die in kraft card and left that one in the die, i then cut the die again with another peice of card, this means that only the outside edge of the die cuts (more details in last photo) 

I then arranged 5 wheat ears, added a twine bow and 3 little chipboard birdies to finish.

Close up on my wheat.

This photo will hopefully make more sense of how i did the wheat, the left one is how the die cuts, to make a solid bottom layer i left the die cut in the die (middle photo) and cut again, this means it doesn't cut all the way through in the middle keeping the little bits attached as (right photo).  Some dies work better than others at this technique

Items Used:

Concord & Ninth leaf/wheat die

Birthday senitment circle die

Spellbinders circle dies

Chipboard birds

Payper box ivory woodgrain embossed card

CraftUk ltd Kraft card

Various mirror card

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  I hope you enjoyed some beautiful weather this week in among all the rain.  My new niece is tiny - as all babies are - we soon forget how small they are don't we.  My niece Alice has settled into school very well and enjoying it.  I hope you all have a good week. Hugs Emma

Id Love to enter the following:

https://themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2019/09/challenge-119-autumn.html

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http://diecuttindivas.blogspot.com/2019/09/ch-437-birthday.html

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http://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/09/challenge-47-autumn.html

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http://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2019/09/challenge-199-fall-colors.html

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https://creativecraftcottage.blogspot.com/2019/09/challenge-122-for-men-in-your-life.html

Leaves & Butterflies

Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing 2 cards i made with the concord & ninth 'layered leaves' die set combined with hexagons and inked papers.

I first coloured a piece of white card with green shades of distress oxide inks and then die cut lots of leaves out of it - my little baby die cutting machine comes in useful when cutting lots of smaller dies, i can do it on a lap try in front of the tv.  

I die cut a piece of white linen card into a stitched hexagon and arranged my leaves across it, trimming any overhang.  I then die cut a circle into the middle.  I added foam tape to the back and adhered to a white linen card blank also cut with a larger hexagon die.  The centre piece i cut with the circle die i adhere flat back into the middle, so it gives a bit of a recess.

I die cut the birthday circle sentiment from gold mirri card and adhered into the centre.  I then die cut and layered up a butterfly from contrasting inked card, this is glued into the recesses middle.  Bling stone added to finish. 

Close up, you can see how i die cut the centre and replaced better here, just to add more interest to what is quite a simple card.  

And version 2 using one of the other leaf dies from the set and a piece of previously inked card in tones of reds and oranges. 

Items Used:

Concorde&Ninth layering leaves die set

MFT birthday circle sentiment die

Sizzix butterfly dies

Spellbinders circle dies

XL stitched hexagon dies

Thank you all for stopping by again, i hope you all have a wonderful weekend when it arrives. Emma

Marbling Fun

Good Morning everyone.

I recently lost my mojo, so i decided to have a play with a technique thats been on my to try list for eons - yes im well behind the times.  Shaving foam marbling.  So after finally finding the right shaving foam i dug out the aqua tints and really old mica sprays to have a play.  

Well what a mess, i was covered, the carpet was covered and so was the cat, actually it reminded me of my first outing with brusho's where the kitchen lino was red and looked like id got blood everywhere - they went to the back of the cupboard then for many many months until a craft friend convinced me to try them again and now i love them so i wasn't going to be so easily put off this time and coming up with a plan tried again the following day to slightly less mess. 

I cut white card to A6 size (4x6") so easier to handle.  Spray a layer of shaving foam onto a wipeable surface, even out with a spatula, then add your chosen ink colours and swirl around into a pattern.  Place your white card onto the surface and gently push into the foam, you only need to touch the surface, peel off and scrap off the foam.  You are left with a marbled pattern on your card.  Magic really.  You can keep using the foam, as the colour fades add in more ink and swirl again.  

2 Simple cards to start with.  I had some not so great looking marble which i decided to die cut into these leaves and its amazing the difference die cutting can make.  I picked a piece of marble for the background which used the same colours as the one i die cut the leaves from.  Attached it to a white DL cardblank.  

I added the leaves to 3 die cut stitched squares which i attached to the base with foam tape.  I die cut the sentiment from the same card i die cut the leaves from.

A blue/purple version.  I only added glue down the centres of the leaves and gently curled up both sides to add interest and dimension. 

Just a few of my marbled papers.  Like all new techniques to us, we learn each time and hopefully improve.  I need to find something better to scrape the foam off so its easier.   LIke die cutting up the not so nice pieces, even if the whole piece isn't so good if you look you can usually find part of it that you like so cut that piece into a square or rectangle.  I tend to use a view finder like you do if you are painting a picture/landscape. If you fancy a play all you need is cheap shaving foam not the gel and a liquid colour medium - reinkers, sprays, food colouring, liquid paints.

Items used:

Concord & Ninth layered leaves die

Wonky stitched square dies

Simon says sentiment dies

Spectrum Noir aquatints

Cosmic shimmer mica sprays

H2O's radiant rain inks

Cheap Shaving Foam

CraftUk Ltd smooth white card

Thank you once again for stopping by and all your amazing comments.  I hope you all have a good weekend. Emma

Spring Greens

Good Morning everyone, i hope you are having a good week.  Thank you for your amazing comments on my last card the slider - honestly the die does the work so its easy.

Today im sharing the second card i made for my parents neighbour Harry, he is an avid gardener so i went with a green leaf theme and kept it CAS. 

I actually used my large oval dies to make this shaped card,  I folded a piece of white A4 in half and then over hanged the top and bottom of the oval die over the edge so it kept the spine in tact.  I then cut the other layers with smaller ovals.  I coloured a piece of white card with various green aquatints and added a touch of gold mica spray. 

I die cut a oval from white linen card and cut off the top and bottom, i then die cut my leaf die 3 times from the middle.  I then die cut the leaves again from gold mirror card, i added the white to the green and then inset the gold leaves, i then mounted it all on the base card. 

I die cut a white tag and stamped the greeting.  Although with the 3 leaves i had planned to have them top and tailed but after looking at it after id made it i thought if id cut all 3 leaves the right way up then could almost look like trees. 

A close up on the leaves, i love the gold against the green. 

Items Used:

Concord & Ninth layered leaf dies

XL stitched oval dies

spellbinders 'Valiant honor' die set 

clearly besotted sentiment stamp

CraftUk ltd white linen card

Aquatints

Gold Mirror card

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  Have a lovely weekend. Emma

Id love the enter the following:

http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2019/05/challenge-396-cas.html

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Is anyone else finding since the change to the link up tool on many challenge blogs that the link up button is missing?  So many in the last couple of months ive gone to enter and just no link up button in sight?  Not sure if its only me with the problem or not? Thank you if you can help😀 x

Happy New Year to you All!

Good Morning all, well my last post of 2018. Sharing my last Christmas and New Year cards.

The photos don't really do these justice, i used pearlised white card, then a glitter card and then a satin board, so very blingtastic! 

4.4x6" size card.  I cut the first tree layer die from white pearl card, the second tree layer from glitter card, i mounted these onto a matching satin board with foam tape to add some dimension.  I wrapped a vellum strip around the front and then added my sentiments die cut from black card. 

A close up, this one shows the light hitting the satin board better.  This version is reds. 

And a pink version

close up

Not a great photo, this is a purple version

You can just see the purple satin board in the background here.

Bronze version with champagne glitter card, i die cut this sentiment from

 chocolate mirror card

Close up.

These tree backing layering dies cut beautifully but very time consuming poking all the bits out.

Items Used:

Christmas tree layering dies

Concorde & Ninth sentiment dies

Jellybean Glitter Card

Mirri Satin board

White pearl card  - payper box

Vellum

Thank you once again for stopping by and all your support this year.  So its time to wish you all

 A Happy & Healthy New Year! 

Hugs to you all Emmaxxx

Cheers to the New Year!

Good Morning everyone, on the countdown now to the big day. 

Its time for the last challenge of the year over at Cardz4guyz with the theme being

NEW YEAR/NEW BEGINNINGS

So very apt for the time of the year.  I went with making a new year card in black, silver & white

6x6 white cardbase.  I cut panels from frosted patterned silver mirror card, black card and white card to fit the front.  The white panel i embossed with a circle embossing folder, i thought they had the feel of bubbles to go with my champagne glasses.  As i had to extend the patterned i wrapped black twine around the join and attached to the front. Twine bow added on top.

I die cut 2 champagne glasses and the sentiments from silver card, the cheers i die cut again from black card and shadowed them.  I added the banner onto black card and cut around it.  I gently shaped the glasses and attached to the front with glue gel and then arranged my sentiments. 

Just a close up on the sentiments

On this one you can see the frosted pattern in the silver mirror card better.  Not quite as bright as normal silver and adds a bit of interest. 

Items Used:

Concorde & Ninth season of cheer dies

Champagne glass die - magazine freebie

Sizzix embossing folder

Frosted Silver card - payper box

White pearl & black card - payper box

Black waxed cotton twine

So if you fancy joining in one last challenge of the year and just see what everyone else comes up with do hop over to cardz4guyz

I hope you all have a good week.  Hugs Emmax

Into the Woods

Good Morning everyone.

Once again its time for a new challenge over at cardz4guyz with the theme for the next fortnight being:

INTO THE WOODS

Anything you find in a wood or forest, think flora, fauna or maybe a teddy bears picnic, or is there a pixie hiding among the trees.  It could be an everyday card or a Christmas card but must be for a man/boy.  

Ive gone with a Christmas card as its that time of year and although i did make this with a man in mind i think its unisex really and could be done in any colours.  Ive gone with green & gold.

4.5x6" white linen cardblank.  I made a background using distress oxide inks and let dry.  I then cut the tree background die from white linen card, this i attached over my background and mounted on the card front.

I then die cut the 2 deer from gold pearl cardstock, i felt they were a bit lost against the background so added a die cut circle of vellum to just soften the background for them.  I snipped a bit off the bottom of the vellum and placed level with the bottom of the background.  Afterwards i thought it kind of had a snow globe look.

I then die cut my sentiments and mounted onto more of the gold pearl card and added to the top.  The sentiments actually have the fishtail on both ends but i snipped off the left side.  

Just a close up and this shows the gold pearl better. 

Items Used:

MFT deer love die set

Concord & Ninth 'season of cheer' die set

Wonky stitched circle dies

Christmas Tree panel die - brand unknown

Distress Oxide inks - cracked pistachio, peacock feathers & twisted lime

White linen cardstock craftUk ltd

Gold Pearl cardstock - payper box

So do hop over Cardz4guyz and see what everyone else comes up with for 'Into the woods' and to join in, everyone is welcome to join the challenge.

I hope you all have a good week. Emma