Looking through the fence - Summer Silhouettes

Hello and welcome. 

I have been busy getting ready for my craft sale, but have managed to steel some time to make this birthday card.

The trees in the distance are from the stamp set Lovely as a Tree and have been stamped in River Rock and Old Olive inks.

In the foreground I have used stamps from Summer Silhouettes in colours of River Rock, Soft Suede, Pumpkin Pie and Real Red. For the raised flowers I used Raspberry Ripple ink and after cutting them out I added Glimmer Brads to the centre and fixed them to the card with foam dimensionals.

I lightly sponged some Bashful Blue ink for sky at the top of the card, and River Rock in between the trees.

Card colours: River Rock, Raspberry Ripple and Tempting Turquoise.

Ribbon: Satin Stitched in Raspberry Ripple

Sentiment stamp set: Perfectly Penned 

Punch used for blue border: Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border

Have a good weekend.

Julia

Shimmer Paint Snowflakes

Hello all, showing another card today using the Shimmer Paint (main cat. page 158) technique.

Scroll down to see matching tag.

For the card I made a 'masterboard' of snowflakes (this stamp was free with my recent craft magazine), by just stamping the same snowflake at random over an entire piece of card with different colours. I then poured a small amount of frost white shimmer paint onto a craft sheet and scrunched up a piece of cling film. I used the cling film to apply the paint to my cardstock between the snowflakes with light dabbing motions. If you want to keep your background 'clean' be careful not to transfer ink from your stamped image, or if you do transfer some ink use it as a feature and dab away all over your card.

And here is the tag made from the same masterboard.

Inks and card: Real Red, Soft Suede, Pool Party.

Background paper: Natural Composition Speciality papers.

Julia

Snow Festival Bauble

Hello everyone,

This is a quick and simple card using the Snow Festival papers.

One of the paper designs is split into 9 squares of different designs which correspond to many of the products in the Autumn/Winter catalogue. 

After trimming the square I rounded two of the corners to add some detail and layered it onto Gumball Green card. I then stamped and punched out a bauble (from the Tags 'til Christmas set) and fixed this to the topper with dimensionals, adding a rhinestone for some sparkle. The 'merry christmas' is already printed on the paper. 

I then added a layer of Cherry Cobbler to my base white card and fixed my topper again using foam dimensionals. The 'just for you' was stamped and then punched using the Modern Label punch.

Ink (for bauble and sentiment): Cherry Cobbler.

Back soon,

Julia

    

Shimmer Paint - Tag Pocket

Hello again. 

I have been trying out a technique featured in the latest copy of my stamping magazine. Here are the results, a little tag pocket.

Sorry, not a very clear picture. The shimmery background is achieved by scrunching up some cling film and using it to dab patches of Shimmer Paint (I used the Frost White) on to your card stock. Heat set the paint and then dab ink (I used Pretty in Pink) all over. The paint acts as a resist for the ink and you have a lovely shimmery two-tone background. 

Obviously if you do then stamp over this you will need to dry your image thoroughly or even use a permanent ink. For the tag I just 'shimmered' the left hand side and stamped my image to the right.

All products used from Stampin' Up.

Julia

  

Candlelight Christmas

Hello, the end of another weekend and I hope you have had a good one. 

Showing a second Christmas card made with the Candlelight Speciality Designer papers. Just a simple design making a feature of the sentiment. 

To make the card first mat and layer your Raspberry Ripple base card with Lucky Limeade card stock and the designer paper.

Then cut a label with one of the new Apothecary Accents Framelit dies in both paper and card and stick the two together to make a firm base. 

Next cut some equal size squares from left over scraps of  paper (for this I used the 1 3/8 " square punch) and roll them up diagonally across the paper, glueing as you roll, to form the 'tubes' (I rolled mine round a piercing tool or you could use a cotton bud with the ends cut off).

Now fix the tubes to your label using super sticky tape. Layer up several foam dimensional pads on the top of your label in the area between the the tubes (this stops your sentiment from squashing). Then add more tape on top of the tubes and fix your sentiment. You can now punch some holes in your label, wrap around some bakers twine and fix to your card.

Please note that becuase of the depth of this card it would cost extra to post, so is best hand delivered to someone special.

The sentiment used here is from the Open Sleigh stamp set. 

All items from Stampin' Up.

Colours used:

Card - Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade

Ink - Raspberry Ripple

Back soon,

Julia

Easy Events - Merry Christmas

Hello to you all. 

Well the clocks have changed, so I suppose it is on with winter and cosy evenings to make Christmas cards. Showing a card today with an image from the Easy Events stamp set.

Here I have used papers for the background from the Candelight Christmas Speciality designer paper pack, and stippled some white ink around the edges of the lower paper. If you use the white craft ink remember it is a pigment ink which stays wetter for longer and so needs to be dried with a heat tool. 

This paper set is on a gift with purchase offer at the monent so please go to www2.stampinup.com if you would like more details.

These papers are in colour combinations of Early Espresso, Lucky Limeade, Primrose Petals, Real Red and Very Vanilla, which is a little bit different for Christmas and are currently in the Autumn/Winter mini catalogue, see the left hand side of my blog. I stamped my design above in Always Artichoke ink and lightly water brushed Lucky Limeade for the leaves and So Saffron for the berries.

I added one of the new Dahlia Adornments, but only one because they are precious little things.

Back soon,

Julia