Cards

Here are some recent cards I have made.....

The Bee one is using JOFY stamps from Paper artsy painted with fresco paints; then in the background is a die cut honeycomb on a painted background.

This one is random inks then a honeycomb stamp and I used some Splodge away numbers as a mask for the 50's and then outlined them with a white pen. Then stamped the Happy Birthday on another background and added some metallic gelato as well.

This one is birds die cut from patterned paper; with some washi tape, a craftwork cards greeting and a little distress ink

This one is JOFY stamps again coloured in with promarkers and a I hand drew the Happy birthday and mounted it one some bird house paper and added a few buttons.

Gilding flakes are ace!!!

Hehe erm well they are.......here are a couple of cards I made with my new favourite technique you don't want to stand to close to me in case I try and gild you mwahahahahahaa!!

Anyway I got the Indigo Blu starter kit with gilding flakes and it it brilliant, here is a card I made with an Indigo Blu stamp and mega flakes and I also used some free hand in the corners with a quickie glue pen. Also I got some new dies and I really love those as well especially the holly wreath, which I used on some Coredinations, and finally I added a Craftwork cards greeting in the centre.

I used the same stamp on this one ( sorry the lighting is a bit funny on this photo) only with a different colour gilding flake and then I used some of the silver around the edge as well. I stamped the Get Well Soon with an alphabet set and archival ink. Oh and the background is just distress inks.

More Christmas Cards!

Here are my final lot of Christmas cards.......with the robin on the mushrooms being my favourite card this year. The robin is a Little Claire stamp, the mushrooms are dylusions coloured with distress inks, perfect pearls and some glitter, and the snowflakes are a Tim Holtz stamp embossed with white embossing powder and the robin was coloured with distress inks too....using a cut n dry nib; and little bit of fake snowy stuff that I forget the name of.

The penguin card is using distress stains and inks, I forget which set those stamps are from, and I went round the edge with perfect pearls.

The next one I created a background with gold paint and I can't remember if it was metallic glaze of shimmer mod podge, then I stamped the snowflakes and added some ribbon and cut the greeting out using a nestability.

The final one was simply a shape cut out on the cricut and some background paper, another snowflake with glitter on and a greeting.

Some more cards....

Here are some cards I have made....

The top one I just used some pastels to draw in the background, and painted the number one and cut out the elephants and stuck on the greeting.
The next one I drew the little crab, not sure what a crab has to do with Christmas but I thought it turned out OK and I kept to the sea theme with the starfish.
The last one I was pretty pleased with the background I creates using some gloss mod podge through some sequin waste and once it had dried going over the top with the distress inks picked raspberry and I think there is some dusty concord in there too. The I stamped on the stars which was the free cover stamp with Craft Stamper this month and then I sort of splodged on some gold perfect pearls. I decorated the snowflake with pink glue and glitter and then stuck a greeting in the middle.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday Mom!!

Here is my first foray into waxed kraft paper.....I dyed it with alcohol ink and then die cut some shapes......the letters were plain chipboard that I coloured with distress ink and glitter......then the background is sanded C'oredinations and I used an Edgability to die cut the edge of the card

 Here is a wedding card I made for my cousins wedding......I think it was distress strains in the background and some gesso and a spritz of purple dylusions.....then I cut out the flower using grunge paper and a spellbinder die and coloured it with distress ink and I drew the little stick people, die cut that also and lightly went over with spun sugar distress ink I think it was.... then I stamped on the congratulations which is from a Paper Artsy set and I used Staz On and glued down some ribbon and sprinkled some glitter on whilst the glue was still wet.

This was a birthday card for my dad......pastels in the background and then mostly Hobby Art scene its which I love.....and a bit of paint and micro beads around the edge of the card...

Wooooooooooo new goodies..........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Check out this card......I got some really cool new stamps Inkadinkaclings - kinda like zentangle on animals.......I used the parrot and stamped it on grunge paper and coloured with distress inks - dusty concord, barn door, scattered straw and spiced marmalade - where would we be without distress inks?! Oh and of course I went round the edge of the parrot with walnut stain....Also I got some new Spellbinders and cut out all those leaves on white card and I coloured them with distress stains - peeled paint, vintage photo and walnut stain and I used a nib to just add a bit of walnut stain ink around the edge too. I used the Forest moss ink pad directly on to the card, which itself was already a light green colour. Finally I added the sentiment from Craftwork cards. All in all a celebration of distress.....can't wait to use the other animals in that stamp set too....and I got a couple of other new sets too.....although I am already thinking about all the other things I really "need"......arghhhhhh!!

Here are two more cards that I made recently. The top one was inspired by me playing with distress stains which I used to create the background to the stamped image; which is a Paper Artsy hot pick stamp and then I built up the card around that. The background on the card itself was one of a set of Lindsay Mason stamps of background squares. I dyed the edge of the large flower with distress strains, and then used some more stamps to make the sentiment.

 I then returned to my pink and purple roots to create the second card as I was having withdrawal symptoms hehe! Again the main flower stamp was a Paper Artsy hot pick and I stamped the middle image with paint from a paint dabber and then the two either side with distress ink; then I used one of those above mentioned background squares to go around the edge. I embossed the glitter card and used an edgeability and finished it off with the flowers and ribbon.

Here is a selection of last years Christmas cards.....a variety of stamping, distressing, brayering and colouring...

Here are two more cards......first a brayering attempt.....I got the sky a bit too blue but I hand drew the scarecrow and field of corn which I was quite pleased with. The second was for my sister's 40th and I cut the numbers out of glitter card on the cricut, put it on an embossed background also on glitter card and then behind that I made an alcohol ink background on glossy card

This was my favourite of last years Christmas cards that I made....it was a Lili of the Valley stamp coloured in with promarkers then die cut, and then with a bit of distressing round the edges and a few embelishments and some background paper.

Here's a few more cards.....I think I must have had my big shot around this time....as there's quite a bit of die cutting and embossing going on. Also a few perfect pearls experiments too; not forgetting the pro-markers of course! I think the brightly coloured happy birthday was coloured with gel pens.