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



Mother's Day Floral Background

Hiya

Here's another card I made for my collection of Mother's Day cards, I made a few so my friends could have a few to choose from.

I wanted to use this lovely stamp I bought second-hand from eBay not long ago.  Its quite a large stamp but I think it creates a gorgeous background.  I wanted to white emboss the image before colouring it in but then discovered I don't have any white embossing powder! So I improvised and instead I used white ink and clear embossing powder, I think white powder would have worked better but the general effect is the same.  I then coloured the flowers and leaves with Promarkers.  I die cut the sentiment panel and finished off with ribbon and pearls.  Took a while to make but was all fairly straight forward :)

Materials used:

• Stamps: Elzybells - floral background (sorry, don't know what its called); Marion Emberson Designs - It's all in the Words stamp set (happy); Clearly Besotted Stamps - Framed Sentiments stamp set (Mother's Day)
• Ink: Versacolor - White, Lavender
• Embossing Powder: Rubber Stampede - Clear
• Cardstock: Papermania Premium Textured Cardstock (green)
• Die: Spellbinders - Classic Rectangles Large
• Coloured with Promarkers
• Ribbon and pearls from stash

As always, thanks for looking.

Neet x

Mother's Day Embossed Vellum

Hi guys

I had some requests for Mother's Day cards this week so I will be sharing these in the next few posts.  I will have to wait until after Sunday to share a couple of them though, as the lovely recipient (my Mum) may have a sneaky peek at my blog before then!

I decided to have a little play with some vellum to create this one...

and a closer view of the embossed vellum...

 

This card took a while to make but I really enjoyed creating it as I hadn't worked with vellum for a long time.  I dry embossed the vellum flowers, leaves and butterfly using a couple of embossing boards I got free with some magazines a few years ago.  When using vellum the embossed detail also creates white areas where the vellum becomes raised.  I then cut each of these out (that was the time consuming part!) and curled the petals slightly with the stem of my pokey tool to create some definition.  The blue mat is also vellum which was die cut, and then a die cut piece of white card was placed over it.  I popped the gems on before sticking the flowers to the card, the reason for this was that I used silicone glue to adhere the vellum elements and didn't want to add pressure when sticking on the gems.

 

Materials used:

• Vellum: Anita's - Plain Pastel Vellum Pack
• Dies: Spellbinders - Labels One
• Stamp: Wild Rose Studio - Flower Doodles stamp set (sentiment)
• Ink: Versa Color - Heliotrope
• Gems from stash

 

More to follow shortly :)

 

Neet x

 

Stamped Background - CAS-ual Fridays CFC92

Hi there

The housework has been abandoned in favour of making a card for my chap to send to his mum for Mother's Day.  I chose to follow the current challenge at CAS-ual Fridays which is 'Wallpaper' - to stamp your own background on your CAS creation.

And here it is...

 

 

and a closer view of the sentiment panel...

 

 

 

I thoroughly enjoyed making this one although I still only have a small selection of ink colours.  I think I will be using this technique of masking and stamping backgrounds a lot as it was great fun and all you need is card, ink and some stamps, easy peasy.  I scored the masked panel to add some definition and finished it off with some emerald gems.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Kanban Crafts - Autumn Silhouettes (flowers); Clearly Besotted Stamps - Paired Up (tiny leaves); Clearly Besotted Stamps - Happy Everything (sentiment)
• Ink: Versa Color - Lilac, Lavender, Peony, Amethyst, Turquoise, Versafine - Onyx Black
• Gems: From stash

That really is all from me today, thanks as always for visiting and for your lovely comments, I appreciate them so much.

Neet x

More Butterflies!

Second post of the day - I'm on fire! haha

Just a quickie - After I made my card for the Muse challenge I had a few bits and pieces left over that I'd stamped and die cut so I've made another little card for my stock.

 

I'm absolutely loving the stamps and dies from Clearly Besotted Stamps and there are more available now in the latest release - and I've just be paid so it would be rude not to purchase more wouldn't it?! Clearly Besotted Stamps are also having a Spring Sale at the moment with 10% off stamp sets (excluding new releases) so get yourselves over there, you won't be disappointed!

 

For the background on this card I used Sherbert Pips cardstock by Kanban.  I bought this cardstock set ages ago from QVC and its lovely and there are some beautiful colours.  QVC no longer sell it but I think its available elsewhere online should you want to make a worthwhile purchase.

 

Materials used:



• Cardstock: Kanban - 300gsm Brilliant White Cardstock; Kanban - Sherbert Pips Glittered Cardstock
• Stamps & Dies: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Butterfly Wishes and Leafy Accents; Wild Rose Studio - Everyday Greetings
• Ink: Versa Color - Peony, Burgundy, Olive; Versafine - Onxy Black
• Twine: Doodlebug

That's it from me today, must go and do some housework!  I may be back later ;)

TTFN

Neet x

Less is More Week 109 Colour Challenge

Happy Sunday from a very grey South Devon, can't wait for Spring to arrive.

Today I'm having a go at the latest Less is More challenge.  The pastel colours are so beautiful so had to give it a shot.  To be honest I really struggle with colour challenges and have only entered one other so far.  I have loads of ideas then go to my craft cupboard and find there's always something I don't have or the colours aren't right.

Anyway, here's my attempt at this one...

 

and a closer view...

 

This is the colour palette we were given from Less is More...

 

Isn't it gorgeous - as well as making me feel extremely hungry for doughnuts!

 

 

The two pieces of pink card I used are actually quite different but they look very similar in the photograph.  The punched border is a hammered baby pink whereas the card I've stamped the image into is a more dusky beige/pink but doesn't show too well in the photo.  I stamped the image with Versamark then used a pastel peach embossing powder.  The sentiment is stamped in brown ink them embossed using clear embossing powder.

 

I'm not entirely happy with this one but thought I'd have a go and enter it anyway :)

 

Materials used:

• Stamps: Kanban Crafts - Spring Meadow; Personal Impressions - Mix and Match (sentiment)
• Ink: Versamark; Versa Color - Brown
• Embossing Powder: Personal Impressions - Pastel Peach; Rubber Stampede - Clear
• Punches: EK Success - Dotted Scallop Edger Punch; Fiskars - 4 in 1 Corner Punch Embosser 'Spiral'
• Cardstock and Pearls: From stash

 

Thanks for visiting, make the most of what's left of the weekend :)

 

Neet x 

 

Muse Challenge #6

Hi guys

Today I would like to share a card I made late last night for this week's challenge over at Muse.  This week's muse is the super talented Deanna Jean and her card is just beautiful. 

This is my take on her design...

 

 

I knew this would be a great opportunity to use my growing collection of goodies from Stephanie's range at Clearly Besotted Stamps, I love them all and couldn't wait to use the matching stamps and dies from the Leafy Accents and Butterfly Wishes sets.  This was also the first outing for the Framed Sentiments stamp set, its so versatile I know I will get a lot of use from it :)

 

Here is Deanna Jean's gorgeous card we were to use for inspiration...

 

 



 

I took my inspiration from the corner cluster, the colour palette and the central framed sentiment.

 

Materials used:

• Stamps/Dies: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Leafy Accents, Butterfly Wishes, Framed Sentiments
• Ink: Versa Color - Olive, Amethyst, Burgundy, Scarlet, Peony; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Cardstock/Gems: From stash

 

I'm loving the Muse challenge each week as it gives me ideas when I get brain block!

 

Thanks as always for visiting, have a fab weekend :)

 

Neet x