WLS Oct #2 Autumn

Good Morning everyone

Time for some mid month inspiration for We Love Stamping where the theme is 

AUTUMN

or we always have the anything goes option as long as you use stamping

Ive got quite an eclectic card today using lots of different brands.  

Card Size approx 5x7" Cut from maroon cardstock.  I raided my stash for a previously made background, this green and copper one was made using brushos & copper pixie powders.  I then stamped the spiders web onto it with black ink, die cut to fit the cardfront and adhered.  I then die cut a frame from the same maroon card smaller than my background panel and adhered with foam tape

I stamped the pumpkins watercoloured with distress inks, cut them out and adhered into place with pinflair glue gel.  Stamped the sentiment onto orange inked card, die cut into fishtail banner and tucked behind the pumpkins. 

I then raided my stash of leaves ive cut from scraps over the years to find some that co-ordinated and adhered in the corners and some smaller ones floating around the pumpkins. 

Sadly the photos don't pick up the mica powder shimmer in the background and some of the die cut leaves are from gold glitter card and copper satin card so both dance when the light hits them.

Items Used:

aall&create spider web stamp #572 'spooky sky'

Stampendous stamp #CRP371 'pumpkin night'

Clearly besotted stamps 'seasonal sentiments'

Brusho powders - moss green, lime

Cosmic shimmer pixie powder - copper

Distress Inks 'spiced marmalade, dried marigold, wild honey, dusty concorde, black soot'

Spellbinders die 'little leaf sets'

MFT fishtail banner die set

?? Nesting die set ??

Stamps not to scale

The prize this month is these beautiful stamps from Lavinia so hop over to

 We Love Stamping to join in for a chance to win. 

Thank you for stopping by once again.  I hope you have a good weekend. Big hugs Emmax

 

 

WLS Sept#1 - Cute

Good Morning everyone

Time for a new challenge over at We Love Stamping where the theme this month is 

CUTE

So right out of my comfort zone , if cute is not for you, you can always go with the anything goes option as long as you use stamping

Looking through my stamps I don't have many that are cute, but found this cute mouse image that a friend had stamped and sent to me which is called Ballerina Mouse by Pink Ink designs.  I thought it would be ok for my niece Charlottes birthday.

6x6" card which I made from acetate.  After colouring the mouse with alcohol markers i went searching for a paper and found this one with rainbow tones which also picked out the pinks, purples and blues in the colouring.  I folded it and adhered inside the acetate card so that is shows through. 

I die cut a frame from teal and white card and added to the front with foam tape, i die cut circles from the same colours and adhered flat in the middle, to this I added the mouse on a 'wobbler' so she dances around.  I then computer printed the sentiments die cut into fishtail banners and added to the front with glue gel.

2 pink glossy hearts added to the sentiments and glitter glue added to the wings to finish.

(After finishing and looking at it a while I realised that if I had thought it through I would have cut the backing paper so the circles were more even on each side.... which I could have done as it was a 12x12 paper but Im sure my niece won't even notice that)

The wobbler gives lots of dimension

Whenever I make an acetate card and added a paper insert, i will always add the frames and such to the front first as i then add the glue behind these to hold the insert in place, therefore no glue shows through the acetate.

Charlotte decided she wanted a recorder for her birthday so we all needed ear plugs! lol 

Items Used:

Pink ink stamp 'ballerina mouse'

Spellbinders and MFT circle dies

Fancy square nesting dies

MFT fishtail banner dies

Alcohol makers

Make & Create Patterned paper (the works)

hunkydory acetate

CraftUk ltd white linen card

Jellybean teal pearl card

Wobbler

Heart gel stickers  

We have this fabulous prize of house mouse stamps this month kindly supplied by oakwood so hop over to We Love Stamping to join in and be in with a chance of winning.  Get as creative as you can with your stamping and have fun.

Thank you all for stopping by once again. Crafty hugs Emmax

 

Kitty-Bea bunting

 Good Morning everyone

This week my 2nd youngest niece is 7.  At the moment she is really into garden birds so instead of a card I made some bunting with her name on and lots of lovely birds. 

Trying to get a decent photo of this not been so easy.  This is it hung up - ive left the ribbon long on one end so that they can adjust it if need be for hanging up, then they can trim the excess.

As Kitty-Bea has an unique name its always nice to make something with her name on it.  She also has an abstract art style so the funky colours of these digi birds are ideal for her. 

They are Mixed Media Birds clipart from etsy shop Double Helix digitals   I printed onto digital printer paper, cut them out and sealed with mod podge.  I flipped some of them before printing and printed at different sizes so that i could have them looking at each other like a pair etc...

I made a box using feather printed kraft card and used a tag I had left over from the bunting

I used a couple of beads on the ends of the bunting for some interest. I die cut the cross stitch effect fishtail banner dies from 350gsm kraft card.  I found a very old paper pad in my stash which has some of Kitty-Beas fav colours and went well with the birds. These i die cut into a smaller banner and adhered to the kraft card.  Circles die cut from the off cuts and alphas die cut from white and kraft card, matted together with a drop shadow and covered in glossy accents to give an enamelled finish. 

As well as the panels with the alpha's on I added a blank panel each end so i could add a bigger bird.  I added bronze effect eyelets and used organza ribbon to join it all together. 

Ive used different birds on each panel.  Although they aren't real to life colours you can easily tell by the shape and stance of each bird which type they are based on.  Kitty-Bea is lucky that where they live they get alot of different garden birds.

I added a small touch of stickles glitter glue to each bird just to add a little sparkle as what little girl doesn't love sparkle

Items Used:

Double Helix Digitals - Mixed Media birds clip art

MFT Xstitch fishtail banner die set

Stitched circle dies

Memory box Alpha dies

Very old paper pad from create&craft

Craft UKltd kraft card

Ranger glossy accents

Stickles 'diamond'

Thank you for stopping by once again and all your previous comments, I really do appreciate them all.  I hope you have a good week.  Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://lovethoseprettypapers.blogspot.com/2025/02/love-those-pretty-papers-february-2025.html

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https://theoutlawzchallenges-saturday.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-outlawz-anything-goes-in-card-free_02003369360.html   

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https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/02/cut-it-up-challenge-324-tie-it-up-use.html - have used ribbon

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https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2025/02/crafty-catz-challenge-688.html

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https://movingalongwiththetimes.blogspot.com/2025/02/challenge-175-feb-2025-things-with-wings.html

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https://neglectedstuff.blogspot.com/2025/02/kick-off-challenge-225.html - all papers are from a pad that is 10+ years old

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https://do-allkreatives.blogspot.com/2025/02/98-mit-flugel.html - with wings

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Oranges & Lemons

Good  Morning everyone

I treated myself to this lovely oranges & Lemon stamp set from Studio light as i don't have anything like them in my stash and saw it in a sale.  Nice to go with a fruity theme in the summer

A6 white cardblank.  I stamped the orange image onto white card and die cut with Xstitch banner die which id decided to use on its side.  I watercoloured with inktense pencils, adding a light wash of the blue just around the image and stamped the 'sunshine is the best medicine' sentiment in the bottom corner.  

I stamped the image a 2nd time, coloured and cut out the oranges and flowers to decoupage onto the base image

I coloured up 2 smaller banner die cuts with the same colour inktense pencils i used for the image, so one with the oranges and one with the greens.  As these are nesting banner dies they weren't long enough for what i wanted so i cut them in half and added behind my topper in descending size and added to the card front with foam tape.

Just a close up

version 2

approx 5x7" in size.   I stamped & coloured the image and die cut into shape, I stamped the its summertime sentiment in black in the bottom right corner.   I then multi-generation stamped 'its summertime' & 'fun in the sun' over the background with grey ink.  Once again i stamped extra to decoupage the oranges, flowers & a couple of the leaves.

Made a cardblank from white card and dry embossed with a swirl embossing folder.   I found the next size up die from my topper was too big on this occasion so drew around the inside of it onto white card and cut out with scissors, this i then coloured with the same inktense pencils i used on the image.  

and onto the lemons

2nd stamp in the set.  

card 6x4"  I stamped the image onto white card and die cut into a Xstitch tag and watercoloured with inktense pencils, decoupaged the lemons and flowers and stamped the 'easy peasy lemon squeezy' sentiment from the set with grey ink over the background.

Matted onto green and yellow card and then a white base card, using my guillotine to cut the top corners to match the tag 

and version 2

Made the same way just using a different tag shape.  After matting onto yellow i punched a hole and added green, yellow and orange ribbons tied together with a little orange twine. I then mounted onto the shaped base card with 2mm foam tape

So far this summer we haven't had too much orange & lemon growing weather in Cornwall, hopefully we get an Indian summer and lovely September😀

Items Used:

Studio Light stamp set #427 'lemon squeezy' 

Clearly besotted 'seasonal sentiments' stamp set

Various tag dies

Derwent Inktense pencils

Swirl embossing folder

CraftUk Ltd white card

Yellow & Green card

Thank you all for popping by and all your comments which i really do appreciate.  Emmax

Id love to enter the first card:

https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2024/07/i-spy-with-my-little-eye-summertime.html

  

https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/08/inspiration-station-august-2024.html

Inspired by the oranges and lemons

https://creataliciouschallenges.blogspot.com/2024/07/challenge-279-anything-goes-with.html

https://farmquesthomestylekitchenchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/08/fqhskcb-8-anything-food-related-goes.html

https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/08/august-2024-anything-goes-summer.html

https://www.stampingsensations.uk/2024/08/august-challenge.html

https://timeoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/08/challenge-269-ibw-its-always-summer.html

 

More acetate

Good Morning everyone.  

Today is another way i used up the off cuts of acetate i had, again ive used alcohol inks to colour the acetate and then over stamped with flowers.  Ive found that the alcohol pearl inks do not like acetate and rub off once dried😞

6x5" white linen cardbase.   After inking my acetate I stamped on the opposite side with black stazon ink.  I glued white linen card on either side of the acetate, added foam tape to the back of the cardstock and attached to the cardbase.  Using the foam tape allows a bit of light to get in behind the acetate panel.  Stamped sentiment die cut into banners to finish.

I love how light bounces off the acetate, i added gold glitter glue to the centre of the iris to finish

Version 2.  Here after stamping the flowers onto the acetate i also stamped it onto white linen cardstock, i then worked out where it lined up and cut the white version to fit the acetate one.  Stamped sentiment, black gems a little glitter glue on the flowers to finish. 

Version 3 just using reds and oranges instead of the blues and pinks

Items Used:

Aall&create stamp - Iris

Woodware stamp - wild meadow

Katzelkraft sentiment stamps

Tim Holtz alcohol inks

Acetate

White linen card

Stickles gold glitter glue

Thank you all for stopping by.  Hugs Emmaxxx

Id love to enter the following with my first Iris card:

https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2021/08/summer-blooms.html

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https://lovetocraftchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/ltccb-61-august-anything-goes.html

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