Old Bear

Good Morning everyone

Mid way through may we have another vintage make for we love stamping or you can go with the anything goes option

.   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

 

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

 

Christmas in July

Good Morning everyone

I bought these fab Katzelkraft door stamps and the 3d tree embossing folder in a recent sale and they sat together on my desk for a couple of weeks when i thought about making a Christmas card with them both so this is the end result.  I used my crealies arch dies for the shaped card and ivory gold pearl cardstock instead of white so it all has a lovely golden shimmer.

Approx size:6x4.5"    I first die cut my base card from the ivory gold pearl cardstock and then a smaller layer to be embossed and then from the offcuts i could cut the panel that i stamped the image onto.  

For the tree embossed panel, i inked the embossing folder with evergreen bough oxide ink and ran thought my big shot.  Using oxide ink with pearl cardstock works well as it dulls down the pearl finish so where the trees are embossed and not inked they really shimmer and shine in the light.  Once the inked dried i glued flat to the front of the cardbase.

I stamped the image with fallenleaves ink so softer on the pearl than black would be and then simply watercoloured with distress inks, for the foliage i used distress ink evergreen bough so it tied in with the embossed panel.  I stamped the sentiment and added red stickles glitter glue to the red berries on the foliage to give a real Christmassy feel.  I then attached to the base card with foam tape for a bit of dimension.  

Version 2 using window stamp in the set

Im hoping at this angle you can make out the lovely gold shimmer of the pearl cardstock, in real life that and the red glitter really are lovely

and version 3 using another stamp in the set

The dimension of the embossed trees is lovely with this folder.  These cards have a bit more of a vintage feel than my usual style, not quite so bright in colours.  Something a bit different for Christmas.

Items Used:

Katzelkraft stamps 'les portes'

Sizzix embossing folder by Kathrin Breen '665254'

Ivory gold pearl cardstock

Distress oxide ink 'evergreen bough'

Distress inks 'evergreen bough, shaded violet, vintage photo, walnut stain, fired brick, rustic wilderness, peacock feathers'

Rangers stickles 'christmas red'

Thank you all for stopping by.  Hugs Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/07/week-736.html - embossing folders

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http://inkspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/07/inkspirational-challenge-293-word.html

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https://mostmagicaltimeoftheyear.blogspot.com/2023/07/challenge-10-most-magical-anything.html

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http://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/07/challenge-105-christmas-in-july.html

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http://12monthsofchristmaslinkup.blogspot.com/2023/07/challenge-102-anything-goes-christmas.html

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https://peaceonearthchristmas.blogspot.com/2023/07/peace-on-earth-challenge-43.html

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Make My Monday #47 - Victorian romance

Good Morning all, i hope you are enjoying the bank holiday weekend and having some good weather, its been a bit mixed down here.  That storm we had Friday night was something else, never seen anything like it before. 

Anyway today is the start of a new challenge over at Make My Monday

Its VICTORIAN ROMANCE

So if you fancy joining in and seeing what the rest of the design team came up with please do pop over.  

This theme is about the furthest you can get from my normal style, so looking for ideas i spent ages going through my stash and found these vintage sepia images.  Ive added lots of lace and pearls.  I imagine these ladies are daydreaming about their love.

The photos are dark but its all matted on dark brown not black as it looks.  A5 brown cardblank.  Soft peach patterned paper wrapped with pale peach lace, I then mounted the 3 images, added 2 beige crochet flowers from my stash and lots of peachy pearls. 

For the sentiment i used a wooden happy and covered it in chocolate pearl embossing powder.  

Close up.

Items used:  Doolicraft images

Paper - poundland 'pretty pastels'

happy wood sentiment - the works

Chocolate brown cardstock - payperbox

Cosmic shimmer cocoa embossing powder

We look forward to seeing your Victorian Romance entries at

Make My Monday

Thank you for stopping by and to all of you who left comments last week.  Enjoy your bank holiday monday. Emma