Friday, 25 July 2008

Little Lady - Just a note

I love the cleaness of this card (notelet) the Stamps are By Papertrey Ink and called Little Lady Stamp Set and it is such a dream to work with.
I stamped the dotted trail directly onto the base card with black archival ink, I then added the small ladybird first staping the boddy in red rocket ink then used the black archival ink to add the head and wing dots.
I stamped the large Ladybird onto scrap card stock and cut around the shape then added it onto the card with foam pads.
The wording is stamped with the black archival ink directle onto the card.


Thursday, 24 July 2008

Embossed Vellum Wrap & H2O's

I created a vellum wrap for this card by embossing the top part of the vellum with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder and the bottom half with the Stylised Flowers folder leaving a little bit of vellum at the top to overlap and attach at the back of the card.
I then painted the flowers and vines on the vellum with H2O paint cakes, mixing them to a very thick creamy consistancy first.
Once the paint had dried I turned it over and with a ball tool I re-embossed over the flowers and vines then attached it to the back of the card with wacky tacky tape.
I punched out 5 small flowers and attached a pearl to each centre and stuck them along the top of the card spacing them evenly, I punched 2 holes at either side of the vellum and slotted the ribbon through the holes and fastened it over the top of the vellum with a knot

Beaded Humming Bird

Well tonight I've been relaxing and doing a touch of sewing and beeding, I haven't made a card with it as yet but I thought you may like to see what I've been up to.

I find humming birds quite fasinating on the pattern that I bought from http://www.stitchingards.com/ the beak was also beaded but I just couldn't get it to look right, so, I just added a couple of extra stitches.

Tuesday, 22 July 2008

Sundown - Stampscapes

I just love building up these images with the scenery stamps from Stampscapes call me daft but I try to create a place I'd like to be & this one is so peaceful, I could all but dip my toes in.

I started by creating the colour base on a smooth white card, I used the ranger cut n dry foam to blend the inks onto the card, starting with the lightest first I used lemon, sunset, blue and lavender coloured inks.
I used Archival Black ink and started to build up the image started with the sea then the sky and then added the fence, rocks and reeds and lastly the trees, I then blended the blaack ink around all of the edges.

Monday, 21 July 2008

Floral Punch Craft - Pink Poppy

I used a 14cm x 14cm square card and used the Scor-Pal to make the lines on the bottom half of the card, added a silk screen pinted paper to the top half. I cut out 3 circles with the Nestabilities in contrasting card and added them to the centre of the card, I tied a polka dot ribbon around the card and knotted it over the circles.
Imade 2 pink FPC Poppies and added them to either side of the ribbon on top of the circles. Using the word slot punch by SU I stamped Happy Birthday then punched it out of white card stock and mad a little FPC flower to sit on the edges of it, I added this with foam pads to make it pop out from the card.