Toucan

This card was heavily inspired by the ideas sheet enclosed with the toucan die (Creative Expressions)

Instead of the background they had shown though I made my own using a green spray ink on plain white card. I then used a leaf stencil (brand unknown, think it was a magazine freebie) with Colour Cloud ink on top of that.

The flower dies are SU and all other dies are Creative Expressions.

 

Friend

More playing with inks and Pixie Powders
Sentiment dies by Sue Wilson
Seahorse by Lavinia stamps, I've heat embossed with black powder
Finished card is 8 x 8 inches.

Explore

Tag is from AliExpress
I made the background using spritzing ink by Tonic, and Pixie Powders, on Papermill 'hemp' cardstock.

Best Wishes

More playing with spritzing inks.
Sentiment is by Hero Arts

Butterfly dies are by Memory Box and I've used Glitter Kiss (Creative Expressions) on the die-cuts.

Friends

Background card was made with spritzing inks, Tim Holtz Mixed Media die was used at the bottom.

Sentiment stamp is by Hero Arts.

Leaf stamps and matching dies are from the latest Crafter's Inspiration magazine.
I used spritzing inks to colour plain white card before stamping the leaves.

Sentiment is a Cuttlebug die.
Card is 7 x 7 inches.

Hello

This one was a bit of a happy accident, I was playing with some spritzing inks on watercolour card.
The bottle of ink hadn't been used for a while and the nozzle was clogged so when I sprayed it I produced a big blob of ink on the card, I put it to one side but because it was such a blob it ran down and made a 'stem'.


From this I thought it looked like a dandelion and so decided I would stamp an actual dandelion over the top.
I used Personal Impressions stamps and instead of using ink and embossing powder I tried using glue direct to the stamp and then copper gilding flakes.

The sentiment die is by Cuttlebug.
I did try recreating the card but with green ink and this time with embossing powder but I prefer the look of the gilding flakes as the shine is much better.

Hugs

Background made with various inks, smooshed about a bit with a spray of water.

'Hugs' die is by Simon Says Stamp. I've layered three or four of the die-cuts, heat-embossed with gold powder, and then covered with Glossy Accents.

Thanks

It's so dull here at the moment, nightmare for trying to take photos!

Anyway, sentiment stamp is by Waltzingmouse. Card it's stamped on has been spritzed with mint and gold inks.

Birthday Wishes

Playing with some spritzing ink.
I've heat-embossed Personal Impressions stamps, the sentiment is by Waltzingmouse.

Birthday

I had some left-over scraps of spritzed cardstock from previous cards plus some left-over glitter card.
Normally scraps get thrown into a baggie, all the baggies sorted by colour, but this time I decided to use them straight-away.

The 'happy' die is by Simon Says Stamp and the 'birthday' is Papertrey Ink.
The scallop border is Spellbinders.
Spritzing ink by Docrafts.

Thinking Of You

Don't know why the ribbon looks very odd on here, it does 'go' better in real life and doesn't look so lost! How strange (I think I need to learn how to take photos, my snap-and-go is just not cutting it, is it?)

Sentiment die is by Tattered Lace, 'Willow Twigs' stamp is by Inkylicious

Hugs

Sentiment die is Simon Says Stamp
Doily die is X-Cut
Spritzing ink is gold Artiste by Docrafts

Hugs

This is the die-cut related to the previous post, die is by Simon Says Stamp.
I used spritzing ink by Docrafts and the left side of the card had a heavier layer of ink so I chopped it off and re-mounted it to the right for a bit of interest before adding some sequins.

Hugs

The 'Hugs' sentiment was made by spraying ink through the negative of a die-cut.
The die itself is by Simon Says Stamp, I'd cut it to use on another card but rather than throw the negative away I was experimenting with a new bottle of spritzing ink.

The ink is from Docrafts Artiste, colour is 'mint', and it has a lovely shimmer to it that the photograph does not show. It's the first time I'd used this product, I think it's good value at £4.95 a bottle.

I know some people aren't keen on Docrafts, when I first started crafting it was so readily available that I bought a lot of it (Anita's peel-offs and rubber stamps that I couldn't stamp without getting a halo round each image!). My local garden centre is just over a mile away from our house and they stock Docrafts so it's really handy for nipping in for basics.

The other dies I used for layering are by Quickutz and the butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch.