Friday 30 September 2022
Festive Friday, BA Inspiration using Winter Foliage
Thursday 29 September 2022
Throwback Thursday - Doodle Flower
Hello & Happy Thursday!
Today I thought I would do a little Throwback Thursday. I chose the Doodle Flowers clear stamp set as my muse and this card...
Do you remember this card?
On it I used the heat embossing, masking and blending technique and too those to create this new version.
What do you think?
Tuesday 27 September 2022
Two For Tuesday - Pure Florals Cosmos
Happy Tuesday!
I seem to be on a creative Two For Tuesday roll, and this week it is Pure Florals Cosmos getting the creative attention.
Monday 26 September 2022
Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Three Ways with Pure Florals: Lily
Saturday 24 September 2022
Slimline Thank you!
Happy Saturday.
Autumn is here, I love the change in season. The cozy nights, the crisp air & change in colours. But I am still all for the bright rainbow colours!
With The Beans out for the day with their grandparents, I've been in the studio preparing for the Autumn & Winter season, but I also had some creative time. It's been a while since I used this set, so decided to ink up the Just Because clear stamps to create a rainbow slimline card.
I enjoyed inking, stamping & fussy cutting to build this card. But dies are definitely on the mind for this set!
I used Concord & 9th Ballet Slipper, Honeysuckle, Buttercup, Aqua Sky and Oceanside. I then added a the Thank You sentiment from Everyday Sentiments and finished off with some sparkly clear Nuvo Drops.
What's coming up?
October sees a fresh batch of show prep with the Stamping Together show in Port Sunlight first on October 8th, just 2 weeks away!
Friday 23 September 2022
Floral Friday - Hello Lovely
Happy FriYAY!
With an extra Bank Holiday due to Queen Elizabeth II funeral on Monday, this week seems to have gone by in a flash.
Today I have another card I made last week using Hello Lovely.
As you know I am often inpatient when it comes to colouring, so I often overlook stamps (even ones I have designed) that require patience to colour! Mainly because I forget about all the fun and quick ways to add colour.
I think todays card really shows how colour can be applied in a fairly quick way to add impact to a detailed floral image.
Thursday 22 September 2022
Thoughtful Thursday
Happy Thursday.
Today I have a sympathy card to share. The colours, floral choice and theme inspired by the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
I chose Pure Florals Lily as my flower choice as to family Queen Elizabeth II was known as Lillibet. I stamped the lily onto my white card panel in black ink and created a mask to place over the stamped image.
I then ink blended some soft purples around the lily and then stamped a variety of the sentiments from the set onto the card using the two darker shades of purple. I used Altenew Shades of Purple ink collection. The panel is then mounted onto a purple card base.
Thanks for stopping by today.
Tuesday 20 September 2022
Brand Ambassador Inspiration - Techniques with Embossing Glaze
Hi there,
do you love Embossing Powders as I do?
Have you ever heard of the special one called Embossing Glaze?
If not - it's a translucent but colourful Embossing Powder with some more special effects.
In the first card I made for you I created amore or less translucent rainbow with the "Rainbows & Clouds" Stencil over a very soft pastell blue background.
But first I had stamped and heat embossed the "Large Background - French Script" in white.
After the melting process of the powder I used the Stencil again and added some fluffy clouds with white Embossing paste.
The sentiment "Time to celebrate the good times" is one of the "Birthday Sentiments", heat embossed in a fitting light blue.
For some more interest I added some clear little rhinestone drops as raindrops.
I planned to add embellishments in the same colours, so I took twelve white sequins, added sticky ink to them, dipped always two of them into one of the powders and heathed them up. Then I put a drop of clear glitter glue to them.
The sentiment of the "All Occasions Set #3" is stamped with the same Ink I used for the background on Vellum and then I added the same colour of Embossing Glaze to it (hickory smoke).
I glued the edges of the Vellum on the backside of my layer and embellished it with my "special gems".
For the next card I created a blended Sunset scene and added plants and shadows with different stampsets - "Just because", "Happy Days" and "Natures Treasures I".
The lighter shadows of the black embossed plants are made with the Glazes.
For this glazed "Pure Florals - Peony" I added several times Embossing Ink with a Dabber and then thin layers of Glaze.
I was able to mix and match the colours with every layer and then melted every one on top of the black stamped flower.
With every layer it went darker and more intense! So beautiful! Love this kind of "watercolour look".
This time I didn't add the embossing Ink with a dabber (I tried, but it was too much ink for a stencil and turned out in a mess!), instead I used a pen and "coloured" the areas very quick and in a distressed way. I added and mixed the red and orange Glaze powder for the petals and the yellow for the center.
Melted every layer and as a last step I added black Embossing Powder to get some wild and dramatic lines to the flower.
Love this big and bold flower!
Hope I brought you some ideas to use the Glazes in different ways... there are many more to try!
For those of us who love Embossing Powders they are a very "nice-to-have" and "test and try" medium to play with.
Greetings from Wiebke
Two For Tuesday - You Are, Yes You
Happy Tuesday!
A few weeks ago when the clear stamp restocks arrived, I had a little creative spell and I made a few cards for the Harrogate Crafterama show, which I forgot to share here on the blog.
One of the stamp sets I reached for was You Are, Yes, You. Here are two cards I made using it...
Such a fun little set that has lots of pairing opportunities, but also has a lot of potential on its own.
Thanks for stopping by today.
Monday 19 September 2022
Brand Ambassador Inspiration : Pure Florals Gerbera
Hi there!
Hannelie here with inspiration using the ever so popular Pure Florals Gerbera stamp and die set !
- Pure-florals-gerbera stamp set (only the leaves)
- Background-blocks-splatter
- Simply-said-blocks-iii-clear-stamps
- Distress inks : Peeled Paint - Vintage Photo - Dried Marigold
- Versafine black ink
- Black rhinestones
- Misti
- Pure-florals-gerbera stamp set
- Background-blocks-splatter
- Floral-vines-clear-stamp-set (sentiment)
- Distress inks : Peeled Paint - Vintage Photo - Dried Marigold
- Versafine black ink
- Misti
- Rhinestones
- Craft foam
- Background-blocks-splatter
- Pure-florals-gerbera-clear-stamp-set-die-bundle
- Simply-said-blocks-iii-clear-stamps
- Distress inks : Peeled Paint - Vintage Photo - Dried Marigold
- Versafine black ink
- Rhinestones
- Foam squares for dimension
- Misti