E for Ebony

Good Morning everyone

Time for the Alphabet challenge again, i had the choice to pick for the letter 'E' so went with 

EBONY

Use a Majority of black

I had great fun with this one.

6x6 Black base card.   I used an old core'dinations cardstock pack called gemstones for all the coloured card here they have a lovely shimmery finish which pops against the black - photo really doesn't do it justice!.  

I cut a square slightly smaller than the card front and die cut the leaf die from it 3 times, i then added 3d foam on the back and mounted onto a panel of lime green card and added to the card front.  I stamped the greeting onto yellow card and die cut into a fishtail banner.  I die cut the butterfly from 3 colours of card and added onto a white circle.  I added a white pen doodled border to finish. 

A close up showing the layers of the butterfly. 

Items Used:

Core'dinations gemstones cardstock

Memory box 'cottage leaf' die

Spellbinders butterfly die

Dienamics fishtail banner die

Justrite sentiment stamps

So if you fancy joining in and seeing what everyone comes up with using mainly black please do hop over to alphabetchallengeblog

If you are wondering where the letter D went as i last uploaded C for cows we work in a 2 team rotation so im doing every other letter. 

Thank you for stopping by.  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Emma

Make My Monday #42 - white embossing

Good Morning everyone and welcome to another week. 

So today the challenge at Make My Monday this week is WHITE EMBOSSING, if you fancy joining in and seeing what the rest of the design team has come up with please do pop over, using the link above or on my side bar.  Everyone is welcome to join in, we set a new challenge every 2 weeks. 

I decided to go with bright vibrant flowers against a black background.  First i stamped and heat embossed my flowers in white onto black cardstock.  I then to make the colours pop more painted them with white gesso, once dry i used pebeo acrylic paints in hot pink and yellow.  Yellow enamel drop centres.  I shaded around the edge of each flower with a white pencil and white gel pen doodled accents.

I then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment on a die cut rectangle and mounted on foam to finish. 5x5" Card size. 

A close up of the flowers

Items used:  Flower stamps - the works

MFT stitched panel dies

Pebeo acylic paints

Stampendous fine white embossing powder

Sakura white gel pen

Inktense white pencil

Viva paper pen

Thank you for popping and i hope you all have a wonderful week. Emma 

In the black

Good Morning all and welcome to a new week. 

Thank you to everyone who popped by to say hello last week, lovely to see you.

So today i am sharing two little thank you cards.  Inspired by a talented craft friend, who's got me addicted to imagination crafts starlight paints, she sent me a jar of the gold for christmas and since then ive added a couple more colours. She also used them on the black and got my ideas going, so thank you friend😊

 The photos don't really do the shimmer justice. 

First i painted the thistle die cut (tattered lace i think, was sent to me by another generous friend), these paints dry super fast so no hanging around waiting for paint to dry.  I stamped the sentiment with the paints too, just to see if it would work, best way to get used to a new product i think is to play, some ideas work, some don't, but you are learning as you go

.  Using black card for the base and layer, edged with gold starlights too.  Size approx 3x6"

Trying to show the light hitting the starlights.  I added a touch of the red paint to the blue to get the purpley thistle colour, the colours blend well together to create new colours.

Version 2, again die cuts sent to me, i think they are memory box, just checked and they are actually simon says stamp, but this would work with any flower die cut

I tipped the blue flowers with the gold to add interest and how the light does hit the petals on flowers. 

So if you've been looking at these starlight paints, id say go for it, they are lovely to work with👍

Items used:  Imagination crafts 'starlights' - 133 red, 134 blue, 135 green, 136 rich gold

Thank you for stopping by and taking a peek.  Wishing you all a good week. Emma