It's Official...

Hello. It's Liz here today. I have stamped my flowers from the Moderne Flowers set onto gingham paper. This is a good idea if you don't have time to colour, just remember you need to choose paper with a small pattern!

Thanks for stopping by today, happy crafting!

Build a Wreath - A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set and A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set

Hi everyone, Alice here,  A bit late in getting this on for today, but thought I would post it anyway.  I was having a little browse through some You Tube tutorials on inking techniques, when I stumbled across a fabulous tutorial.  No, it's not what you think, absolutely nothing to do with Inking techniques at all.

It was a tutorial on how to make a "Build a Wreath Template" for a stamping platform.  I studied the tutorial, but way too much measuring for me.  I went to the Scan n Cut and produced my own template using square shapes.  Probably not the best in the world, but it worked for me.

I knew instantly, that this would work well with the A6 Moderne Leaves from Coulourific which you can find here.  I also used some of the small flowers from the A6 Camper Van and A6 Blossom and Grown Sets.

Here are some of the samples I played around with, some are better than others, but I am just learning!!  I have made one into a card which you can see in one of my later blogs.

Honey I Shrunk The Campervan

Happy Colourific Thursday Jan here today

Am here to share with you today my Travel Journal page 

I had tons of fun with this using the

Campervan Stamp

Eeek how small did it shrink!! Perfect for my project though

Watch my little slide show for full details

Thanks for stopping by

Moderne Flowers - again - A5 Moderne Flower Stamp Set

I just love this stamp set it's such a beautiful and versatile little flower stamp.  To create the background paper, I stamped the A6  Leaves Stamps onto pink paper, then embossed with white embossing powder.  I inked the paper with green and yellow distress inks.  I stamped the A5 Moderne Flowers 4 times with versa mark ink pad and embossed with white embossing powder.  I cut each flower out with a hexagon die and inked the background with yellow and green distress inks.  I coloured the flowers with water colours.  I used a larger hexagon die and cut out 4 in black card, and layered the flowers on top.  I used black card and layered the backing paper on top of this, then cut out the sentiment with a die and made a messy bow.  Once it was all assembled, I thought that for balance, I should just have used 3 hexagons!  Lesson learned.  You can find this Stamp Set and many more here.

Thank you for looking.

Alice xx

Blossom Flower with Seasons Text - A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set A6 Seasons Text Stamp Set

Good Morning

Alice here to show you my latest DT Sample.  This was made using the A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set and the A6 Seasons Text background stamp.  You can find these stamps and many more fabulous stamps by clicking here

Materials: A6 Seasons Text and A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Sets.  6x6 blank card, black card and white card, Butterfy Die, Embossing Powder and some Gems.

Stamped and embossed the Seasons Text background and matted it onto black card.  Stamped the Blossom Flower head, masked it off and added half the leaf stem.  Embossed this with black embossing powder and matted onto black card.  

Matted and layered the background paper onto black card, and attached to card blank.  Made a little border by stamping one of the smaller flowers onto white card, then matting it onto black card.

Attached the border to centre of the card and attached the background and blossom layers to the card.  To finish off I added a little die cut butterfly and some gems.

Thank you for looking,

See you all next week
Alice xx

Best Wishes

Hello. It's Liz here, today I have a card featuring the Moderne Flowers stamp set. I stamped the flowers slightly off the squares, love the effect you get! Because the squares have rounded corners I used my corner rounder punch to make the card base match. Another quick and easy make from me, I hope you like it! 

The stamp sets are available here and postage to UK is free on orders over £5!

Pizza Box

Happy Colorific Thursday to you all

I am here today to share with you a gift box in the shape and opens like a pizza box 

(hmmm I always wonder about Pizza boxes being square and Pizza's being round and not only that we cut them into triangles to eat.....Yes I really need to get out more....)

 don't forget it's

 free delivery when you spend over £5 UK
Check out the store here
For todays make I used
Say it With Flowers (contains 8 stamps)

and
Art of Life (contains 4 stamps)

Pizza box or not I was going for the classy look and I always think Black/White fits the bill.
So I cut my box using black card stock and cutting a layer of white for the top panel

I stamped my flowers and sentiment
Painted the leafs and dotted around them

Then I used the wonderful nuvo drops
Crystal Drops - Gloss - Ebony Black
I love them they really shine

Thank you for stopping by today

Enjoy Your Day - A5 Girls Night Out Stamp Set

Good Morning

Alice here, showing you a Birthday Card I made using the following Stamps Sets:

A5 Girls Night Out 
A6 Moderne Flower 
A6 Leaves 
A6 Border and Stems

I stamped the shoes onto patterned paper, and also onto a cerise coloured card and paper pieced them together and added some crystal embellishments.  I cut the large Moderne Flower in Cerise Card and fussy cut them out.  I also stamped it onto heat resistant Acetate and embossed it with white embossing powder.  I layered the 2 coloured flowers together and added a crystal in the centre.  I stamped out the smaller flowers in 2 sizes and also layered them.  I inked the background card with oxide inks.  I used the Stitched Border Stamp around the edge of the white mat.  I matted the layers together them added the shoes and the floral embellishments.  I finished off with the Enjoy Your Day stamp from my stash.

You can find details of this card on my blog

Thank

Cars and Stars - A6 Sports Car Stamp Set

Good Morning Everyone

Alice here with my Monday morning blog.  I made this little Card and Artist Trading Coin using the Colourific A6 Sports Car set.  This is a great little set for those often difficult to make "Male" cards and you can find it by clicking here

Materials Used:  Black Card, White Card, Silver Glitter Card and 2 sheets of background paper.  Black and Red Glitter Pens and some Copic Pens.

I embossed a piece of white card with a star embossing folder and matted this onto a piece of black card and attached both to the card base.  I cut the background papers at an angle and overlapped them onto the bottom of the card.

I Cut out 1 large star on white card and added the cogs for the background, then mounted in onto a Silver Glitter Card Star.  I added 2 smaller black stars to each side of the larger star and place a silver glitter star in the centre.  

I coloured in the car with the various pens ad added Glossy Accent to the windows.  I also used a white pen to add some light shadows to the car.  I curled it slightly and placed it over the stars with some sticky pads.

Finally, I stamped and cut the the "Life in the Fast Lane" sentiment and cut up the words and attached to the card.  I used a "Happy Birthday" stamp from my stash.  Had no "Dad" stamps so that was handwritten.

To use up the extra papers, I made an Artist Trading Coin, and used the "Life in the Fast Lane" sentiment again.  I had a rosette in my stash and used this and added a cog on top of it.

Hope you like them 
See you next time
Alice xx

Happy Birthday Friend

Hello. It's Liz here, today I want to share a really easy card. 

I simply stamped the flower from the Sun Will Rise set over my background stamping. As the card was super quick I had time to make a little matching gift box. The gorgeous butterfly is also from the Sun Will Rise set.

The stamp sets are available here and postage to UK is free on orders over £5!

Girls Night Out - A5 Girls Night Out Stamp Set

Good Morning

Alice here, with an extra blog for you.

I made this little pop up box card using The A5 Girls Night Out stamp set from Colourific Stamps.  You can see this stamp along with lots of other fabulous stamps on their Website.

I used a die to cut out the box, and various dies to decorate it.  I also used some backing papers from my stash.  I stamped out the Lipsticks and Lips from the Girls Night Out Stamp Set and coloured them with copic markers.  I put glossy accents on all the lips to give them a shine.  I then attached them to strips of acetate and attached them to the box at various different heights and levels.  I love the way it turned out.

You can find more details here on my blog.

Thank you for looking.

See you again on Monday

Alice x

It's Christmas....

Hi there Jan here today

This week I have been playing with the amazing Christmas Mini Stamps

I had oodles of fun as you can see below

I started of by making a card and a matching bauble tag

I masked of an area and used Distress Oxides, with some splashes of water and white paint

I stamped the images to make a scene and coloured up using Distress Inks

You need to look carefully for the snowy, starry sky

*****

My second project were a couple of quick tags /toppers

Oxide background with some random stencils and some more cute stamps

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My third project some ATCoins, a big love of mine to make

Again Oxide backgound and then using the amazing Mini stamps that were painted  - I finished of these makes using Nuvo Drops

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My final project for this week is some mini cards with matching envelopes, these would be perfect for the children to colour in and give to there friends , there are so many stamps in this set (29!!) that each card could be different

My other idea for these stamps would be an advent box with a little drawer with a stamp on each, plenty to choose from , I ran out of time this week but maybe a project for the future 

Thank you for looking today and don't forget to check out those 

 Christmas Mini Stamps

Birthday Wishes - A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set and A6 Border and Stems Stamp Set

Hi Everyone

Alice here with my Monday morning blog.  I am having a great time playing with this set of "A6 Blossom and Grow" stamps from Colourific.  You can find them by clicking here

Materials:  c, Green Card, White Card, Backing Paper, Copic Markers, Silver Glitter Embossing Powder, Flower Embossing Folder and a Circle Die.

I used the Border stamp around the edge of the background paper and heat embossed with Silver Glitter powder, then layered a green square and the backing paper onto the blank card. I cut a smaller green square and layered it onto the backing paper with sticky pads.  

I cut a smaller white square and die cut a circle out of the middle, then embossed it with the embossing folder.  I used another piece of the background paper and stamped the Birthday Wishes onto it and embossed with Silver Glitter embossing powder. I centred the sentiment in the middle of the die cut circle and attached it to the card with sticky pads.

The flowers and stems were stamped and coloured with copic pens.  I glued the stems onto the card and raised the flower heads with sticky pads and attached.  I added a little bow to finish it off.

Happy Birthday 60

Hello. It's Liz here again. For today's card I've used the Vintage Car set. I simply stamped onto watercolour card, coloured and then fussy cut the image. The background pieces and numbers are all diecut. 

See the full range of Colourific Stamps here.

Thanks for stopping by today, see you next week!

Milk Cartons

Happy Colourific Thursday to you all

Here to share with you my trio of Milk Cartons , I never tire of making these 

also don't forget it's

 free delivery when you spend over £5 UK

This week I have been playing with the stamp set

Art Of Life (contains 4 stamps)

I made all my boxes up that I had cut on my portrait
I used good ol B & M's card stock, double sides and a perfect weight for gift boxes and such, a steal at £2.99 ~ 12" x 12" I must re-stock

I also cut out 3 layers using Mixed Media paper
I used some various coloured Brusho's trying to match in a colour from my cardstock
I then stamped my flower's and painted them using Iridescent Shimmering Watercolour Paints.
I stamped the sentiment and decided to just use the Friends half, I attatched this and then doodled around
Tied with a matching ribbon my cartons were good to go
Thank you for stopping by today

Father's Day Sports Cars - A6 Sports Car Stamp Set

Hello Everyone

Alice here with my usual Monday Morning Blog.  Father's Day is approaching soon, so I thought I would get out the Colourific A6 Sports Car stamps to make a little card.  You can find this stamp set on the Colourific Website here

Materials:  Blank DL Card, 2 sheets background paper, A6 Sports Card stamps, Glitter Pens and Copics.  Peel Off borders.  Also used some die cut sentiments and a set of alphabets from my stash.

Measured each square of background paper 2in in from each corner and cut it diagonally. Glued the darker piece in place first, then added the 2 corners and added some peel off borders to set it off.

Stamped the cars, and cut one in half. Coloured all 3 pieces using copics and glitter pens and added Glossy Accents to the windows.  Placed the full car in the centre and raised with sticky pads.  The cut cars were placed at either side of the card.  Stamped the Triangle Warning 3 times and added the word Dad to it.  The sentiments are die cut works

Thank you for looking.
See you next week
Alice xx

For You

Hello, it's Liz here. Today my card features one of my favourite Colourific sets - Moderne Flowers. I have used this set over and over, I love it!

I stamped the flowers onto watercolour card, coloured and fussy cut. The background pieces and leaves are all diecut.

 The stamp set is available here.

Best Friend card

Hi its Alison with my regular Saturday blog. Today I'm sharing a card made using the Best Friend stamp set, the Text and Borders set and the Spotty Background stamp.
I began by stamping the spotty background with yellow ink. I then chose one of the border stamps and used it to stamp three stems, curving two of them. I then stamped and coloured the flower heads and fussy cut them out. I used glue gel to attach them to the top of each stem. I stamped the best friend sentiment using grey ink. I glued this topper to a piece of yellow card, then attached this to a card blank.