Inspirations for Crafters Everywhere
Back to simple elegant today. The background of my card has been embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder – a damask type pattern.
I’ve used two shades of blue Bazzil cardstock to cut out my mouns from a Spellbinders Labels set.
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I’m back again with the same stamp set and colour palette as yesterday, but today working onto a linen card. Its always interesting to see how the cardstock changes the effect and colours of your inks and paints. I’ve spritzed the card with Cosmic Shimmer Misters – Rich Gold, Golden Mint and Aqua Lagoon, but kept a lighter touch as I wanted to make the most of the textured surface of the cardstock. Next I laid my Love Post mask over and sprayed again in the aqua. (more…)
Today’s creation starts with a piece of glossy cardstock.
I’ve sprayed it with Cosmic Shimmer Ink Misters – Rich Gold, Golden Mint and Aqua Lagoon. I then dried it with a heat gun. By using it onto glossy cardstock the mica pools and makes it extra shimmery! (more…)
Today’s project is created using the IndigoBlu Alice I stamps.
I have started with a piece of glossy cardstock. I have applied colour using a mix of green and blue with a touch of orange Memento Inkpads. (more…)
A different colour tone today. This is another of the pieces I started creating in the shop on Saturday. I started by applying orange, yellow and red toned Memento Inks to glossy cardstock.
Next I stamped my three stamps in Archival Black – all from the IndigoBlu Boadicea stamp set. (more…)
I have had such a lovely day today. It started with a 1-2-1 workshop with a lovely lady looking to start crafting with inks and stamps and not knowing what products to start with. We spend a fabulous two hours playing with Alcohol Inks, Memento Inks and Distress Inks to teach her some inking and stamping basics and give her a chance to ‘try before you buy’ and decide what inks were best for her – (I’ll share a few snippets of our creations later this week). (more…)
Today’s project is a bit late being published! I have spent the day so engrossed in my behind the scenes work that I forgot I hadn’t written today’s blog! You wouldn’t think that stocktaking, accounts and writing descriptions for the website could be so exciting! 🙂 (more…)
Another blog challenge entry today. This time it is for Tando Creative. Their theme is ‘Come Fly With Me’. It’s not essential to use their products, but as I happen to have one of their Gothic Arch pieces left over from a previous project – it seemed to be the ideal starting point. (more…)
Today’s creation is for a blog challenge over at IndigoBlu.
Their challenge this month is Christmas in July
I started by creating a vibrant background using Alcohol inks onto glossy cardstock. I used Stonewashed, a little Stream and the tiniest dot of Silver mixative (a little goes a very very long way!)
I dotted the inks over the surface until I was happy with the background.
Next I rubbed over thoroughly with my anti-static pad and then stamped in Versamark my Dinkie Ickle Christmas Tree. I embossed it using a fine black powder
I then used the Baubles Flourish stamp to create the swirls in the corner again with black embossing. I then used this same stamp around the edge of my 5×7 card blank and embossed in silver sparkle.
I then added some highlights with silver stickles and a fineliner border.
I like the way you get just a little glimmer of the silver on the background and the mix of blues looks like a snowy stormy sky.
I’ll be using this as one of my sample’s at Sunday’s A
lchol Ink workshop – it may be Summer – but that doesn’t mean we can’t create Christmas cards!
This is my entry to the Indigoblu Christmas in July Blog Challenge
happy crafting
Jane
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I love this piece. Yes modest I know… but I love this piece!! I’ve been having a browse on blogs, Facebook and Pinterest and one style that keeps calling me is bright colours with black contrasts and that was the inspiration for this piece.
I started with the backing card from a 6×6 paper pad I had squirrelled away in my kit. I firstly stuck dictionary pages over it with Artists medium and allowed to dry. Then I painted it with gesso (a thin coat so I could still see some text) and allowed to dry. Next I took a palette knife and scraped over texture paste over pretty much the whole surface. My aim was to get it sort of smooth – but having some rough areas too – basically take it away from being flat. (more…)