Saturday, March 30, 2013

Nature Walk Butterfly with French Foliage

Hello,

Hope you are having a good Easter Weekend. I have been playing around with smudging inks and backgrounds today and here is one of the cards I made.


Stamps used:  Butterfly from Nature Walk, Text stamp and Ink Splodges from French Foliage
Card:  Melon Mambo, Black 
Inks:  Regal Rose, Melon Mambo, Summer Starfruit, Basic Grey, Black

Unusual for me not to have a sentiment but I just couldn't decide where to put one and I think it looks better without.

Back soon.

Julia

Monday, March 18, 2013

Weekend Workshop

Hello, just a quick post today showing two cards from a workshop hosted by a lovely friend Julie at the weekend.

I demonstrated a background technique using an embossing folder. I have not embossed this but just opened out the folder, inked the raised side and then pressed this onto a piece of very vanilla card. As this has not been embossed you can then stamp your design over the top.


The particular embossing folder used above is called Vine Street and is only available as part of the Sale-a-bration promotion until Friday 22nd March, details here. However, there are plenty of other embossing folders in the main catalogue from which you could achieve a similar effect.

My next card is one of the cards made at the workshop. This combines colours of black, white and pool party with a touch of bling added with the butterfly punched from the silver glimmer paper.


Have a good week.

Julia

Monday, March 11, 2013

Clockworks 3

Here is the final card in my series of using the background stamp from Clockworks.


Additional stamps used are the butterfly stamp from Creative Elements and the greeting from Vintage Verses which is part of the Sale-a-bration offer, details here.

The ink colour used to stamp the background, and the base card colour is Wisterior Wonder. 

Have a good week.

Julia

Friday, March 8, 2013

Clockworks 2

Hello again. Here is the second card in this mini series, using the 'Clockworks' background stamp.


The additional stamps on today's card are the seed heads and stem from Summer Silhouettes and the sentiment from Perfectly Penned.

Card and ink colours are Basic Black and Pretty in Pink.

I added three small pearls to the bottom of the stem.

Back soon with the last card in this set of three.

Julia




Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Clockworks

Starting a series of three cards using the background stamp from the 'Clockworks' stamp set. These cards rely on simple designs and colour contrasts to give a maximum effect.


All the cards in this series are stamped onto Whisper White card and layered onto a black mat. The additional colour on this first card is Summer Starfruit.

Other stamp sets used:  Vintage Verses (available during the Sale-a-bration promotion here) and Just Believe.

Since taking the photo I have added 3 small pearl gems to the card in between the leaves.

Back soon with the second card.

Julia

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Time to Enjoy

Something a little different for me. I saw these stamps used in a recent craft magazine and treated myself. I have thoroughly enjoyed trying something which is a little out of my comfort zone. 


Card used to make the base card is Summer Starfruit from Stampin' Up. Inks used are Summer Starfruit, Tempting Turquoise, Raspberry Ripple and Basic Black. Please note that the background colours on these samples have been blended and therefore 'crossover' colours such as orange and green will appear.

And a second card:


Centres of the cogs and clocks on both samples are 'poppers' used in dressmaking.

I hope you have enjoyed these cards, and I will be back soon with some samples featuring the background design in the Stampin' Up set 'Clockworks'.

Julia