Waffle Flower Balloon Cluster

Hi Lovelies...

For my card today, I've used this gorgeous set from Waffle Flower called Balloon Cluster - it includes a die set and a stencil.  I decided to cut the balloons first, then stencil as I found this worked best for me.  

For my first card, I wanted to use pastel colours from my Distress Oxides..  I think I managed that!  I just used blending brushes, keeping the side away from the light slightly darker.  After the colouring, I popped the second stencil that has the light reflection patch in place, and used sparkly embossing paste through it.  Then I used an embossing tool to shape the balloons, before adhering them to my panel with foam pads.  Lastly, I added a sentiment which I heat embossed with silver embossing powder

Card Info:

Waffle Flower Balloon Cluster

Distress Oxides -

Shaded Lilac/Dusty Concord,

Spun Sugar/Kitsch Flamingo/Picked Raspberry,

Saltwater Taffy/Rusty Hinge,

Cracked Pistachio/Forest Moss,

Broken China/Twisted Citron,

Sentiment - Gina K Fancy Phrases

My second card is very similar, I just wanted to use more bold colours on the red background.  I'm sorry, but I didn't note the Distress Oxide colours!

Hope you like my balloon makes today as much as I enjoyed making them!

Happy Crafting...

Altenew Painted Petals Stencil Set

Hi Lovelies..

Sorry, I have a very picture heavy post today..  I've been playing with the beautiful Painted Petals Stencil Set from Altenew...  there's three different stencils included in the set... so  I got out my Distress Oxides and stencilled!

I think you can see on most of my cards, how they were made, so I won't list all the information... just a bit for each card.

Info:

Die - Catherine Pooler Ruffles for Rectangles

Sentiment - done on PC

Distress Oxides - Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry, 

Bundled Sage, Forest Moss

Info:

Die - Waffle Flower Lacy Layers A2

Sentiment - Wow Happiest Day

Distress Oxides - Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry, 

Bundled Sage, Forest Moss

Smooshed Background

Rose Gold Matt Mirri Card

Info:

Waffle Flower Piercing Elongated Oval Die

MFT Sentiment (embossed in gold)

Swiss Dots Embossing Folder

Distress Oxides - Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo, 

Picked Raspberry, 

Bundled Sage, Forest Moss

Info:

Waffle Flower Extended Oval

Sentiment done on PC

Altenew 3D Embossing Folder Linked Ovals

Distress Oxides - Shaded Lilac, Wilted Violet, 

Bundled Sage, Forest Moss

Thanks for staying with me to see all the cards... hope you like my makes! The stencil set is so easy to use, I couldn't stop playing!

Happy Crafting...

LOTV Ballerinas

Hi Lovlies..

Today these gorgeous Ballerinas have taken over my craft room!  Everywhere I look there is a tutu!  They're from LOTV - and are digital stamps, which I've coloured (in pink of course), then fussy cut, adhering them to my cards, before giving them lots of sparkle!

For my first one, I've used this die from Waffle Flower, with a corresponding frame cut from silver glitter card.  I used pink dottie cardstock for the background.

Then for my second, I've just kept her CAS (as much as any ballerina could be THAT!)  Again, coloured and fussy cut, adding her to the Stitched Square panel, then stamping the sentiment and heat embossing with silver.

Lastly, I used another stitched square panel, again adhering the ballerina with foam tape, but this time I added some gold glitter stars, and have heat embossed the sentiment in gold to match.

Card Info:

Images - LOTV Ballerina Digital Stamps

Sentiments - Paper Smooches

Colouring - Copics

R81/83/85 and RV52/63/55

E000/000/00/11 R20

E30/31/33 and 40/41/43

Hope you like my troupe of ballerinas as much as I enjoyed making them!

Happy Crafting... 

Pink & Main Flower Seed Packet Dies

Hi Lovelies..

I'm back with another card made using the Pink & Main Flower Seed Packet die set...  this time I've used a smooshed background.  

I die cut and coloured the flowers, adhering them to the scalloped oval that is also in the set.  I placed the oval on the background, then die cut a sentiment I'd also recently used from Memory Box - I cut it from rose gold matt card three times and layered it up which gives a nice effect.  

Card Info:

Image - Pink & Main Flower Seed Packet Dies

Sentiment - Memory Box Posh Script Happy Birthday

Colouring - Copics

RV52/63/55 Y1838 G21/24/43

Distress Oxides - Spun Sugar, Kitsch Flamingo

Hope you like my second card using this fabulous die set!

Happy Crafting..

Pink and Main Flower Seed Packet Die Set

Hi Lovelies..

For my card today, I've used a gorgeous die set from Pink and Main called Flower Seed Packet dies...  it has so many different dies in it - I haven't used them all this time, but watch this space for more!

I coloured the flowers (in pink of course!0, then adhered them to a scalloped oval.  I added that to a rectangle of dottie cardstock, then onto gold mirri card.  I used the corner dies and a Thanks sentiment die - also cutting them from gold.

Card Info:

Image - Pink and Main Flower Seed Packet Die Set

Sentiment - Thanks - Altenew Sweet Sentiments

Scalloped Oval Die - Spellbinders

Dottie Card

Gold Mirri Card

I was really happy how this turned out.... I mean, what's not to love with pink and gold - ooh and a little stickles in the centre of the flowers!

Happy Crafting...

Gina K Designs Delicate Flowers 1

Hi Lovelies...

I decided to make another card with the Gina K Designs Delicate Flowers stamp set, seeing as I'd coloured and fussy cut more than the one I used last week.  

This time, I decided to use an embossed background to sit the flowers on, with a sentiment cut from rose gold card, adding a tiny heart too.  I matted and layered the embossed panel onto rose gold card, then onto pink.

Card Info:

Image - Gina K Designs Delicate Flowers

Sentiment - Memory Box Posh Script Happy Birthday die

Tiny Heart Die

Embossing Folder Altenew Mod Squares 3D folder

Colouring - Copics

R81/83 G21/24/43

Rose Gold Cardstock

Hope you like my make today as much as I enjoyed making it!

Happy Crafting...

Gina K Designs Delicate Flowers

Hi Lovelies...

For my card today, I've used the gorgeous Gna K Designs Delicate Flowers stamp set - I coloured the images with Copics, then fussy cut the flowers ready to adhere to my card.

I created the background using my arch dies, cutting two close together from gold mirri card.  Then I cut a further arch from white cardstock, adhering the gold frame onto that.  I stamped the sentiment with Versamark and heat embossed with gold embossing powder.

I decided to use pink dottie card for my base, adhering the arch, then added the flowers using sticky dots.  Then I added some gems and some splattering in gold.

Card Info:

Image and Sentiment - Gina K Designs Delicate Flowers

Colouring - Copics

Leaves - G43/24, Flowers R81/83

Arch Dies

Gold Mirri Card

Gems

Gold Watercolour Paint

Hope you like my make today.... I've been patiently(!) waiting for this stamp set to be back in stock, so couldn't wait to use it when it actually arrived!

Hugs...

The Wedding Cake

Hi Lovelies...

My eldest daughter asked me to make a card for a wedding she was going to - and she wanted 'Clean and Simple' - I know that's her favourite style!  So I decided on just the cake... with a tiny sentiment.

I created the background by smooshing Distress Oxides onto a card panel, then splattering gold watercolour paint on to the coloured base.  Then, after colouring the image, I used a scalloped circle die (cut three times and ahered together) to frame the cake, which I'd also cut in a circle.

Lastly, I added a tiny sentiment which I did on the PC, and, apart from a bit of twinkle on the cake, it was finished.

Card Info:

Image - All Dressed Up Digital Stamp - The Wedding Cake

Die - Sunny Studio Designs - Fancy Frames Circles

Stamping Up Punch for Sentiment

Colouring - Copics

Cake and Shadow - C0/1/2/3 R81/83/85

Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide

Gold Watercolour Paint

Glitter

The wedding was on Friday, so I know I'm safe to show the card now...  hope you like!

Hugs...

Hero Arts Here For You

Hi Lovelies..

Today I'm sharing a card I made using some gorgeous flower stamps from Hero Arts - that I coloured with Copics then fussy cut.  I added a tiny bit of gold stickles to the centres - well, we have to have a bit of sparkle, don't we?

I created a background using an embossing folder on white cardstock then I adhered the flowers with foam tape.  I found the sentiment cut from gold mirri card and backed with vellum in my box of bits - it's from a set by Kristina Werner/Concord & 9th and I thought it was perfect for my card.  I used liquid glue to adhere it over the stems - just dotting the glue behind the letters so it couldn't be seen.

Lastly I matted the panel onto red cardstock.

Card Info:

Image - Hero Arts Here For You

Sentiment - Kiristina Werner/Concord & 9th

Embossing Folder - Crafts Too

Colouring - Copics

RV10/11/14, RV13/23/25/42

Y38 YR24/27

G21/24

Hope you like my make today...

Big hugs...

MFT Happy Birthday Circle Frame

Hi Lovelies...

I dug out some older dies to make my card today...  I used an MFT Happy Birthday Circle, plus some flowers from Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms.  I decided to create it differently than I've done before, and put them inside a diecut 'frame'... using a Craft Addiction UK Stitch Craft Fusion Frames die - which was just the perfect size!

I did all the die cutting and colouring, then decided to use a deep pink background.  I adhered the square frame onto the pink with thin foam tape, then added the circle of words.  Lastly I added the flowers, and some glitter.

Card Info:

Dies - MFT Happy Birthday Circle, Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms

Craft Addiction UK Stitch Craft Fusion Frames Square

Colouring - Copics

Stickles

Hope you like my make today...

Big hugs

Memory Box Vivienne Butterly

Hi Lovelies...

For my card today, I decided to use a colour that I don't use often, but always admire - so out came my purple Distress Oxides!

I chose to use this fabulous Vivienne Butterfly from Memory Box (a long time ago).  I diecut it from white cardstock, then wiped it over my Versamark Ink Pad, before sprinkling Embossing Glitter over.  Then I traced around the butterfly on vellum which I'd printed with some watercolours (using a download from png.wing)  cutting it out, then splattering with gold paint, and finally adhering it behind the diecut butterfly.

Then for the background, I used this die set from Waffle Flower which gave me the circles too.  I smooshed some card with Distress Oxides, again splattering with gold.  For the white rectangle, I used an embossing folder to give some texture.  

After putting it all together, I added a tiny sentiment that I'd done on the PC, backing that with a tiny bit of the purple card.

Card Info:

Butterfly Die - Memory Box Vivienne Butterfly

Background - Waffle Flower Oversized Postage Matching Die Set

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder

Distress Oxides - Dusty Concord and Wilted Violet

Wow Embossing glitter - Persian Indigo and Carnival

I absolutely loved how this turned out and can't stop checking it out!  I'm not sure I'll be able to send it to anyone... maybe I'll just keep it for a few months before doing that! Do you ever get that feeling when something turns out well?? 

Big hugs...

Heart with Butterflies

Hi Lovelies..

A very quick card from me today...  this time using another of the dies in the bundle I bought, so no name I'm afraid!

I die cut a stitched square, and then used this heart/butterflies die in the centre.  At this point I used a tiny sentiment from Papertrey Ink - so I could place it where I wanted while it was flat. 

Then I used some card that I'd previously smooshed and splattered with gold for behind the heart.  I used foam tape around the heart and around the edge of the panel.  I then added the panel to my card base... and that was it!

Card Info:

Dies - Heart/Butterfly (inbranded)

Lil' Inkers Stitched Square

Sentiment - Papertrey Ink

Distress Oxides to smoosh panel

Gold Watercolour Paint

I know we don't like making sympathy cards, but I like to keep one in stock - as I hate making them 'when needed'!  Hope you like this one as much as I enjoyed making it.

Hugs...

Spellbinders Whimsical Blooms

Hi Lovelies...

For my card today, I've used the new Spellbinders Whimsical Blooms die set - cutting all the flowers from different coloured cardstock.  

I then used an embossing folder on some white cardstock, to create a background for the flowers.  I gathered them in a group, then adhered them to the embossing background.  I added this to a mat of red cardstock.  

Lastly, I created the sentiment using this Alex Syberia stamp set, onto black cardstock - heat embossing in white.  I then fussy cut around the words, adhering the sentiment over the stems of the flowers.

Card Info:

Image - Spellbinders Whimsical Blooms Die Set

Embossing Folder - Altenew Dotty Circles

Sentiment - Alex Syberia Floral Balloon Extravaganza

Various coloured cardstock

Hope you like my card today...

Big hugs...