Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Mermaid Birthday


My best girlfriend and I exchange birthday cards every year and each year we go all out in making a card for one another. She is my only girlfriend that also makes handcrafted cards so you all know that this card needs to be {SPECIAL}. I made it up in my favourite colors and I believe they are starting to become her favourite colors as well too.

I first started stamping the mermaid with black versafine ink and masked her off with a post-it note. Punched out a cloud on a scrap piece of paper and started sponging from the top of the panel and then downwards to make the clouds. Then came back and punched out a cloud through the panel after my inked panel had dried. Then I went in and colored my mermaid with copics, I won't list the colors I used as I used a million. I used three colors of cardstock to make waves and offset them, I made one wave vellum to soften the mermaid and see her swimming in the water.


I used the fuse tool to make a shaker cloud, it is filled it with seed beads, sequins, glitter, glass beads. I used a piece of fun foam in behind the front panel to give the shaker that extra bit of room that it needed to move. Added a sentiment, sequins, and wink of stella to the cloud and the mermaid cause she needs to sparkle. Glued it really! really! good onto the card base cause it was thick by the time I was done.

I hope you enjoyed viewing this card thanks for stopping by,



Sunday, May 22, 2016

Mother's Day Roses


Here is my Mother's Day card I made for this year. I stamped this with The Sweet Life set from Papertrey Ink, on ultra smooth premium white cardstock by Spectrum Noir. I used Papertrey inks berry sorbet and pure poppy for the roses and spring moss and new leaf for the leaves. Dimensional's were added to the lower left roses and clear wink of stella was graciously put on all the roses for some sparkle. For the final touch, iridescent sequins!


I've been trying to learn a few new techniques off of YouTube and found a few new suppliers.  And as always everything I have found is out of the U.S. They cost a fortune as the exchange rate is just horrible right now.
Hopefully I'll get a few more projects up and posted in the future as I am just full of creative ideas at the moment :)

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Saturday, March 12, 2016

Easter's Coming


I sat down and got inky again this week and did this Mondays, Make It Monday #242: Sponged Stamping with Dawn.

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CARD RECIPE
STAMPS: PTI- Polka Dot Parade #1
PAPER: SU- Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Certainly Celery, Everyday Enchantment DSP. Cosmo Cricket- Girl Friday and Ever after.
INK: PTI- Aqua Mist, Simply Chartreuse, Berry Sorbet, Tropical Teal. Momento- Tuxedo Black.
EMBELLISMENTS: Raspberry Baker's Twine.
TOOLS: Big Kick.
SUPPLIES: Polka Dot Parade #1 Die, Gatsby Glamour Die Collection (set of 2), Pop Dots, Wink of Stella Gl. Clear.

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Butterfly by Watercolor



I've been following a lot on the PTI blog and Nichole's site and I just love there stamp sets. I haven't made any cards in a long time and I finally had an occasion I needed one made so I liked the look of the Watercolour effect and I tried out this tutorial on Mellisa Phillips blog.
I hope you enjoy my final results thanks for stopping by,

Nana's 95th Birthday Card


CARD RECIPE
STAMPS: SU- (Sab) Elementary Elegance, Create a Cupcake, Painted Petals. Recollections: Words.
PAPER: Watercolor Notecards, Vellum.
INK: PTI: Vintage Jadeite, Berry Sorbet, Spring Moss, Summer Sunrise, Raspberry Fizz, New Leaf.
EMBELLISHMENTS: Gold Pow Paper. K&co: Handmade Gem Flowers. Clear Rhinestones. Pearls 3mm. Wink of Stella: Gl. Clear.
TOOLS: Big Kick.
SUPPLIES: SU Butterflies Thinlits Dies, Pop Dots, Make up Wedges, Aqua Brush.

Sunday, July 12, 2015

Just Football!


I took part in this weeks Mojo Monday and decided I needed to make some Rider cards as it is football season right now. So here is my take on this weeks sketch,

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CARD RECIPE
STAMPS: SU- Just Football, Big Day (SAB).
PAPER: SU- Whisper White, Cucumber Crush, Chocolate Chip, Basic Black.
INK: Momento- Tuxedo Black. SU- Cumber Crush, Basic Black. Versamark.
TOOLS: Cuttlebug. Silhouette.
SUPPLIES: Spellbinders- Circles.