Alcohols inks and acetate

Over at the Craft Barn blog, the challenge this week is to use alcohols inks choosing one of the methods presented in 6 lovely projects.
My attempt below very nearly qualified for the Clean and Simple, but no, I couldn't help it and let it snow!
And yes it is this time already... at Craftyfield the Christmas Card making season is opened...

For the design I have used a Katzelfraft stamp and traced over it (from the reverse) with my outliner, before filling/painting with the inks. The stamp represents baubles but I decided to turn it upside down into balloons or abstract trees.

So have you started your Christmas makes ?

Teacher's Card

Not sure the card says "Teacher" when you look at it but I have made it for a teacher so...

I have used my favorite cardstock (Core'dinations from the Chocolate box and Whitewash collections) chosen to complement the patterned paper and add texture with embossing.

The brown and pink Core'dination piece has been die-cut with a Spellbinder Nestabilitie die and the right edge has been die-cut with the Fleur de Lis border from the same brand.

Hope you'll like it,

Glittered Butterflies

Here is a card for my "I need a card right now" stock. I have left a space bottom right for a greeting and the theme isn't male or female specific and could be used for all sorts of occasions.

The small butterflies have been punched out of the card base and the ribbon has been stuck down behind this line of butterflies allowing the bodies to appear darker. On a separate piece of card placed behind the butterflies apertures, I put some glue down and applied the glitter. Finally I put some glossy accents over the glitter, this avoids glitter falling off when the card is handled and it gives the butterflies more dimension.
The main image had been stamped with a sepia ink for the body and antennae and a light color for the wings. I then used coloured pencils over the wings.

Thanks for stopping by,

Bon Voyage card

First of all thank you my first follower! This is encouraging and gives me an incentive to keep blogging.

For this card, I designed a mini postcard on my computer and printed it on off-white card before distressing with ink. I also printed a small map. For the pretend road, I used 2 widths of ribbon and stamped some "trees" with acrylic paint. The stamp is actually a heather type flower stamp but I masked the stalks. The car is made of shrink plastic, colored with permanent pens and clear embossed on the windows.

Thanks for coming by,

Smile Scrapbook Page

I wanted to do a sunny page with lots of bright colours and fun, so here goes...

The stamps, chipboard letters and patterned papers are all from My Mind's Eye Bloom and Grow collection.

I didn't really achieved what I had in mind as I was thinking lots of empty space, maybe a bit of spray painting, but somehow these empty spaces called out to be filled in and I could not resist! Hope you like it.

Card with a formal look

I wanted this card to be unfussy so I have only used matting and embossing (rather than using printed papers) as techniques to let the stamped image pop out. The main point of interest is how I did the greeting and flower label, using 2 dies but making it look like one die has been used. This will be my favorite technique from now on...

The photo is quite dark which make the base card look black... in fact it is burgundy, but with more light the embossing was disappearing.

Acetate Challenge

Over at the Craft Barn Blog this week's challenge is to use acetate.
I have used several of the techniques demonstrated by the Craft Barn blog's contributors, as I had never played with acetate before. First, I used acetate as my base card and folded an A4 sheet in two to form an A5 card. I then embossed the top and bottom and swiped these areas with  alcohol inks. I decided to try stamping but with only Brilliance inks and no Stazon the result isn't fantastic.

The flower is made with 3 die cut flowers, embossed and inked to which I added a center with thin strips that I could curl with heat easily.

I have enjoyed the challenge but the next time I use acetate I will be stamping with Stazon !

Black and white card

I have meant to make a card only in black and white for a while but never got around to do it. I nearly didn't managed it this time either, as I was sorely tempted to add a red ribbon, just because the theme of the stamp and printed paper was chinese and I was thinking red, gold etc... Thankfully I resisted, and the card has much more of an impact for it. The background is printed vellum edged with black pen, the black card has been stamped and embossed in white then edged in white pen and the white card die-cut with Spellbinders Banner 2 and stamped in black. Hope you'll like it.

Blog Candy at the Craft Barn

Just back from 3 weeks off  so this is a quick post to tell you about the £ 50 candy at the Craftbarn .They are celebrating their 500 followers et there is still time to enter until the 19th May.
Good Luck!

And now for the second peacock...

Here is the photo of the second card I made during my workshop:

It still is the Katzelcraft stamp wich has been stamped with a blue Versafine ink (it is the only one that kept all the stamp details) on vellum. I then painted with cosmic shimmer powders over some areas, the peacock in particular and unfortunately the shimmer gets in the way of the photograph!
A silver mat has been cut and embossed with some Spellbinders dies and a blue mat has been adorned with the Vine X-Cut corner punch. The rose has been made with organza ribbon and sits on 2 leaves die-cut with a Joy Crafts die.

Enjoy!

Simply Squares

I have taken up the Crafty Individuals first Challenge and put together this card with "squares" as inspiration.

I used the CI-207 stamp sheet, which I have completely dismantled in lots and lots of small stamps in order to create backgrounds. For this card's background I have first stamped and embossed in clear 2 of the stamps and inked the whole square (I have masked a small border all around the card) with varying shades of blue. I then over stamped in dark green and antique linen other elements.
For the main image I made a frame using 2 sizes of spellbinders dies and embossed it using Cosmic Shimmer Aurora powder in Lapis Black and some sprinkling of gold embossing powder. Inside the frame, the square has been distressed with Antique linen and a selection of the CI-207 elements have been stamped in green and blue inks. As a fun twist I then stamped a butterfly that would look sandwiched in the frame.
In the left hand corner I placed the small ferns squares which are also from the same plate and the dinky squares are double sided adhesive sheet cut into squares and foiled.

I love Crafty Individuals stamps and I thoroughly enjoyed making this card.

Thanks for stopping by,

All that Glitters...

This is my entry for the Craft Barn Challenge running from the 8th to the 10th of April 2011.

 

The Flower detail

  
















I have used 3 sizes of punches, the biggest to cut out the doubled sided adhesive sheet, the other two to cut masks from the adhesive backing only. I then applied the biggest mask first and glittered in pink, then the smallest mask and glittered in blue, removed the mask and applied the final transparent glitter. 

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