Mother's Day - No Stamping Required!

Hi there

Back again with another Mother's Day card I made this week, I will be back after Sunday to share the others.

I wanted to make a card using one of the images from a set of Rub-ons I have in my craft stash.  This is the Iris from the Tracy Hollins Elegance Collection of Textured Floral Rub-ons.  I generally don't use rub-ons but I make an exception for these as the images are gorgeous.  They are textured and glossy, hopefully this shows in the second photograph below.

 

 

This is a great example of how many of my cards used to look when I first started cardmaking, before I discovered stamping.  I matted and layered the different cardstock, accenting with silver mirri card.  I have a very limited stock of Mother's Day sentiment stamps and didn't want all my cards to look too similar so in this case I used peel-offs, coloured first with a Promarker.  I think on this card the peel-offs work quite well as they tie in with the silver accents.

 

Materials used:

• Image: The Tracy Hollins Elegance Collection Textured Floral Rub-ons (Iris)
• Cardstock: Kanban 300gsm Brilliant White Cardstock; Bazzill Basics Cardstock (blue); Silver Mirri from stash
• Peel-off Silver Sentiment stickers coloured with Promarker (bluebell)
• Grosgrain ribbon from stash

 

As most of you are such talented stampers I appreciate this card probably isn't for you but it was interesting to see that this was actually the first of my Mother's Day cards to be selected for purchase!

 

Thanks for visiting, I'm hoping to be back very soon with at least one challenge entry this week!

 

Take care

 

TTFN

 

Neet x



Best Friend Hugs

Since starting my blog I think this has to be my favourite card so far, I'm really pleased with the result.

I am entering this card into the following two challenges:

 

The Paper Players

Clean & Simple Sketch

 

 

 

"Less is More"

Week 103 Theme - Friends

 

 

So here it is

 

 

 a closer view...

 

 

 

When I saw that the latest Less is More theme was 'Friends' I knew exactly which stamp I wanted to use, its called 'Best Friends' by Wild Rose Studio.  Its such a fun and girlie stamp, I love it!  I stamped the image and coloured with ProMarkers and although still a novice I really enjoyed colouring this one.  I chose the patterned paper I wanted to use before I started colouring the image.  I still only have a few ProMarkers in my collection but managed to match it up ok.  The design paper I used is from a paper pad by First Edition Paper and has glossy, glittered accents.  I took the following photo using the flash to try to pick up on the glitter.

 

 

 

I die cut the image and popped it up on 3D foam and then finished off the card with some peach grosgrain ribbon, an extra large brad with a rub-on sentiment and an adhesive pearl.

 

Woohoo, actually really chuffed :)

 

Materials used:

• Design Paper: First Edition Paper - Spring Feast Paper Pad
• Cardstock: Kanban 300gsm Brilliant White Cardstock
• Stamp: Wild Rose Studio - Best Friends
• Ink: Impress - Jet Black
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities - Reverse Wonky Rectangles
• Brad and Rub-On: Hot Off The Press - Words, Hearts & Flowers
• Ribbon and pearl from stash

 

Thanks so much for visiting, I really appreciate your interest.

 

Neet x





Oldies...When Peel-Offs Ruled!

Hi guys

Today I thought I would share with you some of my cards from back in the day, when I first started creating.  I used to work in a large office and colleagues would buy cards from me so I always kept a stock of cards with me.  I now wish I'd taken photos of them all because I can now only share the ones that nobody wanted! :)

I was a bit scared of stamping back then so used to use many peel-offs.  I still have hundreds which have now been pretty much abandoned since I've discovered how beautiful cards can be when using stamps.  That said, these cards are quite handy to look back on as I really like some of the layouts.

So here we go:

No. 1

I actually love this little card.

 



 

I used a slim pearlescent card base and glittered transparent peel-offs which I adhered to clear vellum and coloured from behind and matted on mirri card

 

 

No. 2

Same peel-offs as No. 1 matted onto a mottled base card, with yes you've guessed it, more peel-offs behind the mats to add interest.  I secretly quite like this one too!

 

 

 

 

No. 3

A bit of ripping and tearing, metallic peel-offs coloured with permanent pens and a few quilled toppers

 

 

No. 4

I trimmed the edge of this card and overlapped the topper over the outside edge.  The image is a glossy embossed rub-on

 

 

No. 5

This is a textured silver card base with a debossed panel.  I added a topper, gem, bow and of course a peel-off!

 

 

No. 6

Simple slim card with die cut shapes and peel-offs

 

 

No. 7

A peel-off matted and layered over mulberry paper

 

 

No. 8

Another glossy embossed rub-on as in No. 4, layered over adhesive ribbons

 

 

No. 9

 Embossing using brass stencils over a light box then basic matting and layering, and vellum secured with brads 

 

 

No. 10

This is a tiny little notecard and on this occasion not a peel-off in sight!  I stamped with black ink and embossed with clear embossing powder before colouring with glaze pens

 

 

No. 11

Coloured metallic peel-off and again, the edge of the card was trimmed to show the back inside edge

 

 

No. 12

An attempt at creating a masculine card.  The ribbon on the tag was tied through an eyelet

 

 

No. 13

I was shown how to fold this little shirt by a demonstrator at a local craft exhibition.  I have my 'master' copy in a safe place so I can always refer back to it.  I used brads to create the shirt buttons.  And yes, more peel-offs!

 

 

 

Well there you have it, I hope you didn't find these too cringeworthy! 

 

I still can't part with my many peel-off sheets, perhaps they'll make another appearance on my blog, watch this space!

 

Thanks as always for visiting.

 

Neet x