Pearls and Lace

Some cheerful flowers to brighten things up for this card made with Clarity Stamps and stencils and a Heartfelt Creations sentiment stamped onto a die cut.  The background has been created by covering a piece of Clarity Geli card in Worn Lipstick Distress Ink and dry embossing with a leafy swirl stencil from Clarity and matted onto some dark blue card.

To stamp the flower I've used a technique I've not tried before with any success.  I coloured the stamp with my limited number of Distress Markers eg Meadow for the leaves, Worn Lipstick and Persimmon for the flowers. I am saving up to get some reinkers to try out the method of stamping onto a piece of felt and colouring with the inks but at the moment its not something I possess.

There is a small pearl in the centre of each flower both in the main image and border.  I've die cut a fancy border in dark blue and added a lace border to the edge of the card. Finally I've gone round all the edges with some stickles glue to add sparkle.

Thank you for looking, your comments will be very welcome.

I am entering this card into following blog challenges
Fuss and Fancy Tic Tac Toe - I have used the vertical line Lace, Pearls, Sparkle
ABC Challenge - D for Die Cuts
Crafty Boots - Use a sentiment
Avenue 613 - Anything Goes - birthday
Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes
Crafty Calendar - Anything Goes

Daisies

This is my entry for the February Clarity Stamp Challenge to make something using flowers.

For this card I have used the ClarityNew Design Club stamps for January. The flowers on the background have been stamped with the solid stamp in Mountain Rose Adirondack and Broken China Distress ink using a second generation ink onto a piece of peach card. For the flowers on the topper I stamped the outline in black Archival and the solid part of the flower in the same colours again but heat embossed them with clear detail powder then cut into the petals to make them more dimensional. I've used a spellbinder die for the flourish behind the flowers in gold mirri card and added a gem to the centers.  The sentiment is from the Clarity Happy set.

New Grandparents

Now this is a card I made recently for some friends who have just become very proud Grandparents.

The image is from LilioftheValley and the background is from a stamp set I bought last October from Inkydoodles.  This is the first time I've used the stamp and was quite pleased at how it turned out for a first attempt.

For the inside of the card I used the Clarity alphabet set stamped onto Clarity tags which I've threaded through with bakers twine.  The sentiment stamps are from a set of Heartfelt stamps.

Thank you for looking, your comments will be very welcome.

I am entering this card into the following challenge
Crafty Calendar blog challege - what's new?
Simply less is more - little ones

Three Years old

I've used some stamps from a Holly Hobbie stamp set which came free with a Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine and the card design is very similar to one of the inspiration examples in the magazine. 

I've made the background papers using some of the little flower and butterfly stamps in Dried Marigold and Broken China Distress Inks, and the little girl has been coloured with Promarkers.  

The flowers are stamped and cut out from a set of Dreemees stamps using versamark and gold embossing powder, and I've put some little gems into the centre. The foliage is cut from Craft Card which I've also used to back the pieces of background papers onto.  Finally I used some bakers twine behind the image of the little girl.  

Thank you for looking your comments will be very welcome

I am entering this card into the following Challenges

The Fashionable Stamping Challeng - Numbers

Butterflies

Hi, here is an early Mother's Day card. I cut a lacy edged Spellbinder die several times extending it so that it fit the outer edge of the card and covered with some peachy gingham paper I had.  The central image is an Inkylicious stamp on the same Spellbinder die and colured with Promarkers.  The butterflies are from a set of stamps by Chloes Creative Cards and they have been coloured using Mica Powder and water.  

Thanks for looking, your comments will be welcome.

I am entering this card for the following Challenges
Crafty Boots - Butterflies
Allsorts - Flower Power
Through The Craftroom Door Anything Goes

Flowers

For this card I used an Indiglblu stamp with some gilding flakes on a Spellbinder Die cut for the central topper. The flowers were made with some Dreemees flower stamps and coloured with Adirondack Mountain rose, with a turquoise gem in the centre, and the foliage coloured with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink.

This is another background I created myself this time by stamping the swirls from the main stamp randomly around with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink onto a piece of card which has first been coloured with Adirondack Mountain Rose and then finished with Peacock Feathers around the edges.

Thank you for looking, your comments are very welcome.

I am entering this into the following challanges:

Allsorts - Flower Power
The Crafter's Cafe - Make your own background
Crafting from the Heart - Anything Goes
Simon Says Wednesday Challege - Anything Goes
Through the Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Things with Wings

Well here we are nearly at the end of January and this is my first post of 2015, but I haven't been idle, far from it, and I've even managed to make a few cards, in fact I have quite a few birthdays to make cards for around the beginning of the year.  My New Year's resolution - to try out more techniques and varied types of craft.  I've already finished a baby scrapbook of my Granddaughter's first year (she's 3 now) and I've a huge pile of photos ready to scrapbook.

On the technique side this is my first attempt at making a background using cling film spritzed with water on top of a piece of coated Clarity Card brayered over with Adirondack inks in lettuce and stonewash blue.  This is something I've seen done on the TV before but was reminded of it I think on Barbara Gray's blog recently.  Moving the wet cling film around on top of the ink leaves some lovely patterns once dry.

I used the top strip to stamped the Clarity Celebration stamp,first time I've used this.  On the remainder of the card I stamped the line of trees club stamp and some foliage from the garden and birdhouse set around the edges. I stamped the blooming corner and border onto Theuver card, colouring and cutting out to create a 3 sided frame and mounted this onto the background with dimensional glue to give a 3D effect and hopefully the impression that bird feeder is hanging from it.  The little blue tits are stamped separately, coloured with Promarkers, cut out and covered with glossy accents before I added them to the scene along with the little bees and ladybird. Both pieces of the picture are mounted onto some dark green card.

I hope you like the finished card, your comments will be very welcome.

I am entering this card into the following challenges

Clarity Blog Challenge- things with wings
Country View Challenge - Use something new -( this is a new tequnique to me)
Fussy and Fancy Challenge - Things with wings