Candi

Last week's project at card club.

This was a good session, everyone chose their own colour schemes, and they were kept quiet concentrating on their colouring in!


We used a stamp by Woodware called 'Michelle' and added Card Candi and glitter and gems, plus some colouring with pro-markers, the leaves were paper-pieced.

I should have taken photographs of all the different cards with their various colours,  never mind.

Birthday

Stamps are Waltzingmouse, butterfly dies Spellbinders
Papers are K & Co

Fabulous

Bit of an oops with this one.

We made it for our project at card club last week, and then when I got home I thought I'd be clever and add some liquid pearls...I wanted nice neat circles on every other scored line.
Unfortunately the liquid blobbed out where I didn't want it and I soon gave that idea up!

Anyway, embossing folder is Sue Wilson, sentiment stamp is Lili of the Valley, dies are by Tonic.

Courage

Background made with distress inks, all stamps are by Waltzingmouse.
(love that sentiment!)

Birthday

Last week's project at card club.
Card is 8 x 8", embossing folder is by Crafters Companion, we added Glamour Dust to highlight

Sentiment die is by Tonic, others are Spellbinders

Friends

Blue background card is Tim Holtz kraft and I've lightly sanded it.
Sentiment stamp is Hero Arts, I masked it off to use part with black ink and part with Versamark and embossing powder.

Watercolour background is distress inks patted on to an acrylic block and then applied with a water-brush. The white patches were made by small pieces of sellotape dabbed on and removed, it takes away the top layer of colour.

Congratulations

Main image is a Penny Black sticker
Sentiment and flower stamps are by Woodware (Jane's Script)

SU ribbon slot punch used on the right to thread the ribbons through, I'm wondering whether to untie them and just use a knot rather than a bow?

Sweet

Patterned papers are DCWV
Sentiment is by Clearly Besotted, a recent magazine freebie.
Die is Die-namics, strawberry charm from stash

Another of the handmade cards I received for my birthday. This one is from one of my card club ladies and she wrote a lovely message inside, thanks Margaret!

Lily

Last week's project at card club.

We used three layers of clear embossing powder on a panel cut from Graphic 45 paper to give a faux enamelled look.
Background paper is also Graphic 45 and we stamped over it with SU French Foliage

My example also had a partial die-cut (Papermania) tucked away in the bottom left but really it was too hidden to have any real impact.

We cut the card ends with a Spellbinders die, making the underneath end longer and attaching the green card, also die-cut, for a layered look.

The card blanks are available from Samuel Taylor, I haven't seen them anywhere else as yet, they are 5 x 7" but are cut landscape style so the spine is at the left not the top. They are much more stable when using heavy-ish embellishments than using the normal style 5 x 7", and obviously easier to die-cut the ends, loop ribbon round etc.

50

My eldest brother's fiftieth birthday recently, I knew he wouldn't appreciate an obvious 'age' on his card but couldn't resist hiding it down in the right hand corner (Sizzix Block Party)

I've used Sue Wilson dies with gilding flakes. I'm not keen on using glue with the flakes, I just find self-adhesive sheets easier, and I've never bought the recommended scrubby tool, an ordinary pan scourer is perfect for the job (and cheaper).

Card is 8 x 8 inches, the sentiment is a Phill Martin stamp, I masked part of it before inking as didn't want the swirls featured.

Dad

My lovely dad's birthday today.

I've used an 8 x 8 inch card, with image from Hunkydory.  I've stamped and heat-embossed the left-hand panel using JustRite stamps, the 'DAD' is Block Party by Sizzix

Birthday cards

Some of the handmade cards I received for my recent birthday, I'll show the rest in another post.

my other hobby is fell-walking so I probably resemble the above!

Thinking about you

This card was too hard to photograph, the shiny surfaces were confusing my camera. In real life the colours are plum/ purple with silver.

It was made for last week's craft club project. We cut a negative shape using a Memory Box die and backed with self-adhesive sheet before applying gilding flakes.
Bit of a mess when we scrubbed the flakes off, leading one of my ladies to declare "I'm definitely not doing this at home!"

Sentiment stamp by Waltzingmouse.

Thanks

Sentiment is a Waltzingmouse stamp and is heat embossed in white.
Circles randomly punched from scraps, real not faux stitching! (amazing for me, I can't sew for toffee)

Thanks

I struggled to get a decent pic of this card.

I've stamped a Hero Arts sentiment, covered with a self-adhesive sheet, trimmed to size, and then smothered with glitter.

Embossing folder is SU.

Silver Anniversary

A card made to order for someone so I've blurred the faces to respect privacy. They asked for a yellow and silver theme. I made a box and decorated with a Spellbinders butterfly and sentiment die from Simon Says Stamp.

I used two 8 X 8 inch card blanks and adhered one inside the other at the middle back.
I decorated the front using a Sue Wilson embossing folder and Martha Stewart punch. Sizzix Block Party for the numbers, layered four times and glazed with Glossy Accents.

When you open the card there is another layer opening the opposite way to the front. I used JustRite stamps heat embossed silver for the sentiment and added some Martha Stewart butterflies.
The silver card is from a fill-a-wallet place.

Smile

Sentiment panel and stripey card are Webster's Pages
Sizzix Sewing Room die, I've added some tulle and a little ribbon.

Thank You

I made this card using SU paper for the scallop strips and a Memory Box/ Poppy Stamps sentiment die.
Ombre paper is Webster's Pages, sequins are Doodlebug.

I then adapted it slightly for this week's card club project, swapping the sequins for buttons and the ombre paper for plain layers.

We had fun changing the colour of the SU paper using inks, and most of the ladies made a second card, using more of the paper with coral or yellow themes.

Hello

Very much a waste-not want-not card

Vellum sentiment is a sheet that came in the box with my Webster's Pages planner
The layered coloured stripes are the ID/ pricing strips that I cut off sheets of 12 x 12, again Webster's Pages (and rare for me that I used straightaway, normally papers are kept and stroked for months days)

Star paperclip is by Freckled Fawn

Congrats

Sentiment is an old Cuttlebug die
Butterfly is by K & Co
I've stamped and clear embossed the background with a couple of JustRite butterfly stamps