Play Date Cafe Challenge No 15

The Play Date Cafe Challenge No 15 was announced today and I just love these yummy colours.

I decided to make a cover for my Art Journal:


I stamped the medallion stamp from SU in chocolate chip ink on to kraft cardstock, then I inked in the centre using a rust ink pad and a blender pen and added some distress stickles.
I masked the medallion image and used a Tim Holtz stamp and navy ink to stamp some background patterns. With the mask still in place I sprayed the whole thing with Frosty night glimmer mist.
I coloured a page of text with Jo Sonja's jade ink and cut a zig zag pattern out of it to put on the bottom of the page. It looked a bit too bright at first so I made it a bit more "muddy" looking as below:




I spelled "journal" using mini alpha stickers on a Tim Holtz journalling tag and attached it to the page using a Tim Holtz frame.
Finally I punched holes with my crop-a-dile, and added some eyelets and ribbon, then mounted the whole thing on some rust cardstock.
Thank you to everyone who leaves me such encouraging comments - they are all appreciated. X.

How to make 3 cards from one die cut.

I made these three Valentine's Day cards by cutting just one die cut heart on my Sizzix machine. For the first card above I just used the heart shape that I had cut. Base card and sentiment is SU, and I cut a border on Kraft cardstock with my Martha Stewart heart border punch. Gems by papermania.

For the second card above I used the negative left after cutting the heart as a template and stamped through it with brown ink on to the kraft cardstock. Sentiment stamp is by Scenic route and gem is K & Co, coloured with a copic marker.

For my final card I cut around the negative so it had a square surrround and turned it over to hide all the brown ink left over from my previous card. Main heart stamp is scenic route and sentiment is by Papermania. I highlighted the card with stickles and fine red glitter.
The flash has washed out the colours quite a bit - the red is deeper in real life. They are not fussy, but quick and simple. Thanks for looking X.

Playing with Glimmer Mists, Kraft cardstock and Lavinia

Last week I decided to make some backgrounds with glimmer mists. On the card above I embossed a swirl pattern in black first, then I randomly sprayed a green, red and a brown/gold glimmer mist on to Kraft card. I love how these inks look on kraft card, it's really subtle.

For the main image I stamped foliage on the background first, again using kraft cardstock and cappuccino ink. I added some gold pigment pearls too using a fern stamp, but it's hard to see those on the photo.
Next I used a gorgeous Lavinia stamp and embossed it with gold dazzle embossing powder.
The last step was to spray the whole thing with a red glimmer mist and stamp a little more foliage in the foreground.
Finally I just layered it all up with black cardstock and some more kraft card and brown ink.



The card above on the left was made by using versamark and bronze pearl pigments on the base card itself. The main image is black embossed (beautiful Lavinia stamp again - one of my favourites at the moment) and on the background behind the flowers I have stamped swirls in versamark ink and then sprayed green and brown glimmer mists over the top.
The edges were finished with a Martha Stewart punch.
My kraft cardstock supply is getting low - only have enough left for a couple of Valentine's cards.......................think it's time to go shopping!!!!!!!!!!!!!
X

Play Date Cafe Challenge No 14

The colours this week at the Play Date Cafe Challenge are Orange, Lilac, Dusty Pink, Green and White.
I was stumped at first but then I decided to do an ATC, so here it is: Meadow at Sunset . Sounds very posh doesn't it? LOL!
I used Distress Inks, a variety of stamps and white embossing powder.
We had a thick white frost this morning, which was a bit of a surprise because it's been warmer lately. It was very pretty, but I can't wait for Spring. X

Tuesday Taggers - recycle Christmas leftovers

A bit behind with challenges this week, but this is my Christmas leftovers effort for Tuesday Taggers - Used leftover flowersoft, green ribbon and graphic45 paper on this little birdhouse from Craftwork Cards. I used Distress inks and Elusive Image stamps first though. The photo has washed out the colours a fair bit - it looks better IRL - LOL!!!!!!!
Got to dash - have to tackle my Income Tax by 31st Jan - big groans!!!!!!!!!!!!

Play Date Cafe Challenge No 12

Three shades of blue to play with this week at The Play Date Cafe.
The girl's face stamp is from Crafty Individuals, stamped on Stampboard.
The frame is by Tattered Angels, sprayed with glimmer mist, some squiggles have been enhanced with glamour dust and then a few Dew drops added.
Ink on the white card is Aqua by Adirondack, inked on over a Tim Holtz mask.
Small flowers are by Prima.
Blue cardstock is SU.
Sorry it's a it of a rushed post - trying to catch up with some work of the non-crafting kind - boo!
But needs must, have to earn a crust (not to forget stash money).
Love Anne X

Tuesday Taggers Bird and a Tag

The theme this week on Tuesday Taggers is to include a bird and a tag.
Background is Distress Inks and Studio 490 and SU stamps.
Tag is stamped with a Cavallini bird image and punched with SU tag punch.
Butterflies are also Cavallini stamps, and I punched the bottom edge with a Martha Stewart border punch.
I bought the little hanger from Crafty Individuals and I just wrote the title on the label.
After our very slight thaw we had terrible black ice this morning, so another day of work missed which is very annoying!
Thanks for looking, hope you are all keeping warm and safe. X