More use from my favourite set..

Was busy the last three days making this card, you can imagine how busy I must have been last week huh? I only got to craft late in the night... Works just drowning me these days.

So as always the trend seems to be, reaching for my 'Sweet wonderful you' set.. As some might know, this is a stamp I won from Hero Arts for one of the monthly challenges.. I love that company I tell ya:-) their stamps ROCK!!

Now last week I got a load of Maya Road Chip board, and I happen to get the Windows chip set.. Awesome for scrap booking.. but when I sat down to craft I thought it would look amazing on a card, so I painted it with some Tim Holtz Picket Fence Crackle paint and got crafting..

Here is what I cam up with!

I used a fab Hero Arts woodblock stamp for the flowers as well as their wood grain stamp. The wood panels are individually pieced for an authentic look. I used Tea Dye distress ink to get a lovely woody finish.. I added some nails to complete the panels, mighty happy with the results:-)

The little curtain is a part of the chipboard window, I covered it with some cutesy pattern paper.. And few punched butterflies were need to jazz things up:-)

The little girl was stamped inside the card along with a pretty red balloon ( slightly visible in the first pic).. I also added some grass on with my Copics to finish it off..

So that's my card for you today! Hope you enjoyed:-)

Supplies:

Designer wood grain stamp, Sweet wonderful you, Monster fun and Pattern Flowers stamps all by Hero Arts

Maya Road Chipboard Windows Chipboard set

Tea dye distress ink and Picket Fence Crackle paint by Ranger

Martha Stewart butterfly punch

My Minds Eye Lush Rhinestones in pink

Copics for colouring

American Crafts Dear Lizzy Patterned paper

Doggies day out

Finally a sunny morning, hope the trend continues though out the weekend:-) These are the final shots I got of my layout on the doggies day out layout..

I used my trusty Hero arts stamp set, Circular designs as a jumping off point and stamped all over the right bottom corner with white chalk ink.

I them stamped with some bubble wrap on the top and bottom corners with some white Ranger acrylic ink.. (I used their paint dabblers) I also added some paint splatters too, This is the first time I tried that technique and I must say it's so much fun!!!



I punched out a bunch of butterflies with my Pink Paislee 365 degrees paper and added them all over for a fun element.

Everything was handstitched, I added some pretty pearls on the paint splatters.

Here's a close up of the butterflies I used to embellish my journalling, I stitched them with red crochet thread by Anchor. ( don't you love the distressing on the paper? it came that way..)

Here's a view of a punch out I added for embellishment. it was stamped with a Studio Calico butterfly stamp in London Fog Memento ink.

You can also see the stamping on the layout very clearly in this pic, I love that this stamp set is great for adding a background in a jiffy!

So that's the layout for today! Thanks for dropping by:-) and have a great Friday night!

OWH/ Virtual Cardmaking party submission!!!

All weekend long Hero Arts is sponsoring a card drive to collect 500 cards to send to the troops, so here's the first one I made:-) and here is the link to join this great cause,

http://www.flickr.com/groups/heroarts/discuss/72157624798847357/#comment72157624804629311
The cards could be pretty much any theme, Miss you, Congratulations etc.. basically these cards are for the troops to send home to their loved ones who miss them while they are away:-)

So get cracking and join the fun,.. so many challenges to join..

I first created the tag, for this I used Sticky Back Canvas and some Basic Grey paper..

To make the tag:

Paste the pattern paper on the Sticky Back Canvas, (pattern side facing the sticky side) then you lightly score a few marks on the back of the paper and spray with water.. once its a bit soggy you can roll off the paper and at the end you are left with the gorgeous pattern on the Canvas..

So once the tag was dry all I had to do was stamp away!! I did a collage style tag attached it to my prepared card:-)

Stamps used here are:

Antique Engravings , Friend Definition, Starburst Lace and Everyday sayings by Hero arts

And also their Flutterbies Digi Kit..

I also used a Tim Holts stamp ( the tall grass)

Patterned paper was by Basic Grey, the Porcelain Collection.

Ribbon:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/PrairieBirdBoutique


So that's the first post for the day!! Have a good one:-)

Play date cafe challenge : take two

Another submission for the Play Date Cafe challenge this week, love the colour combo so I just couldn't help myself!

I made the focal point a huge Inkadinkado sunflower, love that its detailed and the petals gave lots of room for manipulating it:-) Since the challenge colours were pink grey white and black, I thought I should colour the sunflower in pink!! It looked very pretty in pink. My Copic shading came out really well this time, (If I say so myself:-) he he)..

I took my chance and used the fab Washi tape again ( if you need to know where it can be purchased feel free to ask me would be more than happy to help) and used the black and white stripes this time. I made a border with it to frame the card to help the sentiment stand out.

I used my Prima stamps and stamped the music notes, then used Black soot Distress ink and shaded the corner where the flower would sit. I adhered the flower and stamped additional butterflies and bees, again by Prima.

I lastly stamped the sentiment in grey, this is a Heidi Swapp stamp set.. Its the best alphabet stamp that I own. love love love the mixed letters.. Its the same set I used for my Venice layout for NSD.

Anyways,

Hope you enjoyed my card, and hope you have a fabulous day!

Sending you sunshine and laughter on your birthday

Here's a pretty card that I am super excited to share with you:-) Love love love this butterfly Digital stamps set by Hero Arts. . This is for the everything but the kitchen sink challenge, at http://www.ebtkschallenge.blogspot.com/ . It was to make a card incorporating an envelope into the design.


I made a small white envelope first and stamped the inside with my trusty script stamp. then I printed out my butterflies and coloured them, used Copics to colour in the little envelopes and added a little heart seal at the back of each one.



I also used my new Washi tape to adhere the little envelope to the card ( those stripy little strips), the top flap I used dimensional adhesive so that it sticks out of the card like a natural envelope would, however mine seems to be lost in the photograph!!

Supplies list:

Hero arts stamps: Flutterbies digi kit, La Lettre, Everyday Saying set

Flowers and pearl by Prima

Basic grey Kioshi Paper in orange and Kraft.

Memento Ink in Tuxedo Black and Desert sand

Washi Tape

Happy stamping everyone!!

More Mothers day!

Hi again, been totally inspired to make mothers days cards.. woke up with a head full of ideas:-) Don't you just love days like that?

I made this to enter the Hero Arts challenge, I wanted to do something with more dimension and layers this time around.. I used two background stamps, the Ledger cling stamp and the La Letter wood block stamp. The blue background is from Pink Paislee, finally put it to good use:-)

I stamped the blue base with gold ink with the letter stamp twice, this is to cover the larger area used here.. the woodblock stamp is quite small for a project like this.

I cut out the flowers from the Pink Paislee papers and set them aside. I needed butterflies to give some texture, so I bought the Flutterbies Digital set by Hero Arts for this. They are soo awesome! I printed two whole sheets in different sizes for later. They are real value for money:-) I Coloured them in with my Copics.

I stamped a few tiny bees and butterflies from a Prima stamp onto the blue background. Cut out a piece of creamy coloured card stock and tore off the top edge, stamped the sentiment and embossed in gold embossing powder I picked up from my visit to Thailand. After embossing I stamped the Ledger. I then distressed with some Tea Dye Ranger ink.

With my finger nail I distressed the edges of the blue base card to look a bit rugged. I have seen Jennifer Mcguire do this and it works wonderfully, she has some great tips on her blog check it out, its on my blog list.


So here is the card,



Here is a close up.,

Supplies:

Flutterbies Digi kit by Hero arts

Ledger Cling stamp

La Letter stamp

Prima stamp ( not sure what its called)

Gold Ink by Colourbox

Chestnut roan ink by Colourbox

London fog Memento Ink

Versamark ink

Gold embossing powder

Pink Paislee Papers, Queen bee and 365 Degrees.

Technique Tuesday sentiment stamp: Everyday words

Thanks for looking!!

Fun with frames!

This is what i got up to on friday night.. The Prima stamps i ordered from Two Peas arrived and i had to make a card ASAP.

Since i dont have a butterfly punch, I hand cut the little butterflies. The frames were cut from textured black cardstock. Basically you have to take a rectangular piece of cardstock and keep cutting frames of whatever thickness you prefer till you get as many graded frames as you desire.

I stamped the Notary background stamp on some white cardstock and used some light pink chalk ink to add some shading to the right corner. I cut it to fit under one of the black frames, stamped the sentiment and glued the frames in place, and used dimentional foam adhesive to raise up some corners of the frames.

The Kraft card was embossed with clear embossing powder for some added interest.


This is a closer look at the frames and butterflies... and please excuse the yellow hue of the images:-)

List of supplies:

Kraft cardstock, Black Cardstock Bazzil, Sugar Rush paper from Basic Grey, Prima Notary stamp, Mimmosa stamp set from SEI, Adhesive stones, Chalk ink SEI (colour Taffy), background floral stamp is by Kelly Panacci .