Stampbord

I love playing with Stampbord, I blended fluid chalk inks over the Stampbord then stamped the largest of the Spiral bouquet stamps over the top in black ink, once this had dried I added Opalite Ink (this ink adds a pearlescent finish) by patting the stampbord untill it was fully covered I stamped the rest directly onto the card and added stickles, and a few pearls to the Stampbord to finish.

New Home Card

This has to be one of the fiddliest cards I have made in a long time, The house was stamped twice and cut both out and I decoupage the bottom half so that it had a 3D effect I coloured them both using Tombo brush pens then added Glossy Accents to the beams.

I then stamped the fence onto a seperate piece of card stock and coloured between the fence in green for the grass, I then cut this out and added a couple of folds at the sides so it would wrap around the house.

On a seperate piece of card stock I coloured the bottom quarter green for the grass and added blue to the top of the card for the sky.

I made a gate fold card in a light green then stamped the wording around this I attached a ribbon to the back of the house long enough to wrap around the card and tie in a bow and only stuck one half of the house to the card.

All supplies are from Papertrey ink

Continuous Cuttlebug Embossing - Tutorial

After being asked many times how to create a continuous background using the Cuttlebug A2 folders I thought I would show you how I do it. One thing to bear in mind is that it will only work with repeated patterns, and word folders just won't cut the mustard with this technique

I started with a 14x14 cm tent fold card

Wrap the cuttle bug folder around the card, this card is a tent fold card so I am wrapping the folder with the closed edge of the folder at the bottom of the card.

Next run this though the Cuttlebug.

You can see that only part of the card is embossed

Next move the embossing folder across the card to emboss the other side matching up the dots by overlapping the folder over the already embossed dots.

Then run this through the Cuttlebug.

You can see from where the arrow is pointing that the folder has flattened some of the embossing, this is easily fixed as shown in the next step.

Match up the pattern by wrapping the folder around the card where you first started being careful to match up the embossed parts, this can be easily seen through the folder as it is transparent.
Once you have matched up the folder run your finger down on top of where the flattened embossing was, this will easily pop back up as it has already been embossed once.

as you can see no gaps can be seen

& there we have it, the finished card

Creating a Background Pattern

Using the new Guide lies stamp by PTI I created the backgound pattern on the card using the versamark ink pad. I stamped up the OUT on a Limb stamp set using Spring Moss and Lavender Moon Palette inks and added dimond stickles over the blossoms to make them pop. I added a couple of stones to the corners and finished with a Plum Pudding Grosgrain Ribbon.

Friend Card - Lilac's

I used the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder to emboss the base card then tied the ribbon by PTI (Plum Pudding Satin) around the bottom and tied into a knot.

The stamp set used is Blossoms Abound by Stanping Up I started with the branch inked with Papertrey Ink shades spring moss then used the lighter shade Lavender Moon on the bottom lilac then used the plum pudding shade on the top lilac the my friend was also inked with plum pudding.

I layered the stamped images with Plum Puddding and an Olive colouered card stock.

The first card you see is my 2nd attempt at the stamps the one below was my 1st.

I always get Chris my Hubby to comment on the cards and I'm afraid that he wasn't keen on these, but as I liked them I thought I would show you all anyway ( a good example of You can't please all of the people all of the time)

This card was the 1st card I made with the stamp set.