A Thought

Probably the hardest card of all to make, made simple by Papertrey Ink.

Sometimes you just need to let a friend know that you are thinking of them at this time and Papertrey really knows how to help with this Everyday Blessing stamp set.

Inside sentiment.

Lime Green Glimmer

I started this cardby playing around with the Glimmer Mists using gold, lemon zest and honey dew I spritzed of some white card stock until I got the colour I liked I then dried it using my heat gun so that I could get to work on the stamping.

I used my favourite Clarity rubber stamp inked with black archival ink to stap the image onto the card that I had used the glimmer mist on.

The picture doesn't show to well the glimmer and twinkle this has but believe me it is scruptious.

Using a lime green base card and contrasting black card I layered up the image and then punched out the blossoms from the left over black card.

I added some coloured pearls to the centre of the blossoms.

I punched some holes to the bottom of the black card using the Creative Memories Geometric Cutter and wove a lime green Ribbon through the holes then tied a knot to secure it.

I used a DMD border stamp along the base of the card, inked with Archival ink.

Sketch Challenge

This is my first Sketch Challenge is was challenged by Em and as she is so sweet I just had to give it a go.

The Sketch to copy from was made by Lynn.

It was nice to have a layout already designed and just to find the right bit to pop onto the design.

I started with a 5"x5" card and used brilliance peacock ink to stamp the PTI butterfly as a background on the card. I then punched out slots along the opening edge on the front panel of the card. I then cut a strip from some brown card stock to weave through the slots, this gave me the 3 squares that were needed for the edge then punched out the blossoms from the same blue card stock as the base card stuck them to the center of the brown squares then dro[[ed a coloured pearl into the centre of each blossom.

Using my scalloped nestibilies I cut out 3 ovals in brown, blue and white and layered them on top of each other.

I used the same stamp as I did for the background to adorn the ovals , and then layered up a sentiment for the bottom of the design.

Dancing in the Rain

I had a little play with the Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists tonight and have the very inky fingers to prove it, I keep promising myself to wear gloves but it never happens.

I used tissue paper to absorb the mists layering it up from lightest in the centre and spraying the darker colours to the outer edges it was all a bit trial and error but however I use them the results are always a spectacular mingle of twinkling colours.

I wasn't patient enough to wait for it to dry so out came the faithful heat gun to dry it ready to use.

The stamp is Large Willow Lady by ClarityStamps whick I inked with Black Archival Ink I love this ink as it always gives an even coating and doesn't run when using wet colours along side it.

After the image had dried I started over again with the glimmer mists only this time I blotted it with kitchen roll to get it to dry.

I then traced and filled in the image with a black Sakura gel pen as some of the colour was misting the image (note to myself mist first stamp later)

Opps nearly forgot, the words were typed using microsoft word onto the card befor any image or colour was added.

I added a close up picture to show you the sentiment.

Friendship Card

I bought these pretty round Bauble Stamps from Graphicus they have seperate hanger cap which can be added to the top of the bauble to make Christmas tree baubles but I thought they were to pretty that they just cried out to be coloured with my Prisma Pencils.

The only tricky part was cutting out the round baubles once I had added the colour but I find that the larger the scissers I use the neater the cut.

The black border stamp is by DMD and was a delight to use it stamped so cleanly and it joined perfectly which is another good reason to use clear stamps being able to align them and see exactly where you are placing them on your card.