Trenouths Crafty Creations: lace

Saturday, 12 April 2025

Easter egg cards

Good Morning everyone

Today im sharing a batch of Easter cards I made using these fab bird images again, I made a little shaped card with my oval dies for an egg like effect and dug out some lace and feathers.

Card size approx 4x5" I cut 2 large ovals from kraft card, on one i scored a line half an inch from the top and adhered that bit to the back of the 2nd oval, thus making my card base.

I die cut a piece of white with gold foiled marbling into a fancy oval, added a little stencilling with chalky actylic paints in some teal & yellow and then added to the card front. About a third of the way up i added some feathers - glued in place with pinflair glue gel and then added a strip of lace over the top which helped hold the feathers in place, hides any glue and gives somewhere for the birds to sit.

I then added the birds with glue gel and a stamped sentiment to finish.

Version 2

Version 3

Version 4

Version 5

Version 6 - I actually made 12 varieties, all slightly different colours and birds. These digital birds come looking one way but I reversed them in my graphics program so that I could have them facing both ways. They were printed onto Craft Master digital card from Highlight crafts.

Items Used

Digital bird images from double helix digitals on etsy

Spellbinders grand plain ovals & grand fancy oval dies

Clearly besotted sentiment stamps 'seasonal sentiments'

Various patterned papers

CraftUk ltd kraft card

Feathers

Papermania lace

aall&create diamond stencil

Sunflower stencil

Plaid Folkart chalk acrylic paints

Thank you all for stopping by once again. I hope you have a lovely weekend. Emma

Id love to enter card #1 into the following:

https://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2025/04/challenge-614-think-spring.html

https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2025/04/double-d-easter-challenge.html - 2nd entry

https://creativecraftinguncles.blogspot.com/2025/03/63-spring-and-or-easter.html

https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2025/04/april-2025-challenge.html - 2nd entry

https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2025/04/4925-springtime-designer-paper.html

https://theoutlawzchallenges-friday.blogspot.com/2025/04/festive-friday-challenge-4-april-2025.html - Easter & Birds themes

Sunday, 5 May 2024

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.