Birdie Christmas

Good morning everyone!

Cold and wet here in Glasgow today!

Here is today's make!

Vellum and paper stock layered up with coloured twine.

Image and sentiment cut out on cuttlebug and spellbinders nestibilities decorative elements dies.

Image is heat embossed in mirror gold.

Card finished off with Wild Orchid Crafts flowers and fabric flowers from an unknown source!

Christmas at Night

Today's make so far!

This one in my head was a simple idea and I suppose it is, but all the faffing with making a circular aperture card was just irritating!

Worth it though!

Have a look :)

The night sky was done using Inkylicious brushes with Momento and Distress inks with mountain templates.

The image was then stamped with tinted embossing ink and then heat embossed with Heat It Up Silver powder.

The patterned paper on the front section was from a Christmas signature series linen paper pack by DC and was mounted on a piece of card for extra strength as I wanted it sitting out in a 3d effect from the background.

Silver peel offs were used as an accent and then the Wild Orchid Crafts flowers were added and highlighted with diamond dust as a snow effect and the sentiment was stamped from an Inkylicious stamp set in Versafine Ink, The edges of the sentiment were distressed with the Tim Holtz paper distress tool I reviewed before (see tutorials in the menu above).

I added some sparkles with some sticky jewels at the center of the snowflakes and used some of the paper Candi dots with Anita's Glossy Accents to look like brads.

Massive Craft Sale!

Hi all!

Me and Dad found loads of craft stuff lurking in his back room left over from when Mum was alive.

I have not got the space for it and he deserves a wee treat for himself so we decided to sell it off!

We have tools, papers, inks, embellishments the LOT!

Over fifty items for sale so far and there is more to get added.

We will have a craft robo, foilit machine with laser printer and stamps added at a later date too.

Go have a nosey over on my craft sale page!! 

Click here to have a nosey

Late night crafting!

Well I could not sleep at all during the night, so here are the results of a sleepless night!

Three pretty Christmas cards!

Images are all Penny Black, coloured with Promarkers and Sakura gelly roller pens.

Various backing papers used with Anita's glossy accents on the red noses and the snow in the stamped images.

Embossing done with the cuttlebug and winter border folders.

ribbons and peel offs used.

Made on Friday

I made this topper on Friday....

Now just to layer it, glitter it and make the rest of the card!!

Image from SWALK series. Black momento ink pad.

Coloured with promarkers and then lettering is embossed with gold.

How did she do this???

OK, so looking through Mum's gallery on facebook and docrafts, there is a lot of barbera grey stuff in there.

One of the main techniques she used was the brayer.

Now, she did teach me but it was years ago and I have totally forgotten how to do this.

I have all the kit needed and all the stamps....there are templates of the words "Love" etc with the centre circles cut out....

Do any of you have any idea how she will have created this card? Just the stamping techniques I mean with masking etc...

I know that there are several layers of card here all done seperately, the main thing I am concerned with it the stamping and colouring of the inside of the letter "O" and also, how did she do the backing card?

I am guessing some kind of brayer technique with scrunched card? but how did she get the leave pattern which is a barbera grey stamp to remain clear?

Idiot's Guide....

Well, I was making my first card the other day for the first time in almost two years and lo and behold, I open Mum's box she kept her cuttlebug in to cut out my stamped image with nestabilities....

What did I find?

An idiots guide to which plates to use and in which order for all the different kinds of folders and dye cuts.

She had a mix of spellbinders, cuttlebug, sizzix and loads of other kinds of stuff! I would have been clueless otherwise!!

I was grateful and through the tears caused by a mix of sadness and amusement, I managed to get it all done!