A Nod to Andy

Hello everybody, it's Maria here and for today's post I have been influenced by the style of Andy Warhol in making a picture made from the Campervan stamp set from Colourific.

To make this 8x8" picture you will need:

Colourific Campervan Stamp set

Stamping white card

Masking paper or fluid

Clear Embossing Powder

Coloured ink pads 

(I used Spectrum Noir Harmony ink pads in Lemon Tonic, Ocean Blue, Grasshopper and Fushia)

Versa Fine Onyx ink pad

Silver gel pen

Paintbrush

Brayer and Gelli plate or just blend the colour with a blending brush or sponge

Double sided tape.

Here is how I made it:

1. Firstly cut four pieces of stamping card cut to 4" x 4" and stamp the Campervan image in the centre of each of the cards.
2. Emboss these with clear embossing powder.
3. Mask off the windscreen and the lights with masking paper or masking fluid and let it dry.
4. Colour each of the full cards with the inks. (I used a brayer and Gelli plate)
5. If you want to add texture to the inks, add a splash of water and dry with heat gun.
6. Take off the masking paper or rub off the gum and colour with the inks in a corresponding colour.
7. Using a paint brush add more of the same colour to the flowers of the campervan to make them stand out more.
8. Once dry, attach double sided tape to the back of each of the cards and stick them to a piece of 8" x 8" card.
9. Frame - I bought this one for a pound in the Poundshop.

There you go, all done.  This makes a great picture for a teenagers bedroom wall, or wherever you want really.

Bye for now

Maria

With Thanks The Colourific Way

Happy Colourific Thursday to you 

Today I am sharing with you some Pinkness

I have used the lovely Stamp Set

Chrysanthemum

I stamped and fussy cut the flowers layering them for depth

My background paper is one that was recommended to me I totally love B n M's cheapy 12 x 12 the quality is so very good and they’re double sided

Someone said try the Works, No local Works but there were a few other bits I looked at so I placed an online order, a code popped up free delivery over £10 ~ pretty good so far of course I spent a lot more than £10!

There wasn't much variety in 12 x 12 pads to be honest and the one I had my beady on was Out Of Stock, grrrrr I did spot another called Summer Dreams so popped that in my basket

and this is one of the sheets , I don't think its as good as quality as what I normally use but perfect for card making and this sheet fitted perfectly with my pink theme.

I used some random dies and finished it off with some sparkly gems

This Stamp Set is sure up there in my Top favourites

See you Next Week for another Colourific Thursday

Marleen DT - Christmas is coming..

Hello Bloggers
and welcome to my blog

It's once again wednesday and my turn to share some inspiration for Colourific.
For today I have a couple of christmas cards to share using a few of the christmas stamps. Its never too early to start the christmas cards is it? lol You can find the stamps I've used and all the other fantastic stamps in the STORE.
For my cards today, I have used the following:
A6 -Holly & Berries Background
A6 - Xmas text Background
A5 Stitched Friends

 

 

 
Both cards has been made the same way. I started by stanping the background strips with the background stamps. The red one is coloured with distress oxide "mop up" and the green one was coloured with water colour pencils. Both of my stiched friends was stamped, coloured and fuzzy cut before being added on top of a die cut circle from vellum.

And that is pretty much it.. If you wanted to take this card to the next level, you could finish it with a few gems and even a greeting but I tend to keep my christmas cards extra simple.
And that is it from me for today.

Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

Don't forget to come visit me on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube or my FB page.
 Happy Crafting

Perpetual Calender

Good Morning all...

Caz  here today to give you some inspiration...I'm trying something new with this and used some water paints i got last week..Not sure i like, but they do say practice makes perfect, if anyone can be perfect..

I wanted to do something bit diffrent and thought i would make a perpetual calender..I stamped diffrent size flowers here n there, painted and added gems to centres..Can you guess when i made this ..lol..This is a sil file and cut on my portrait cutting machine..

What i have used..

A5 Chrysanthemum Stamp Set
Water card..
Water paints..
Gems for centre of flowers

Thank you for looking

Caz

P.s  dont forget our challenge only have till thursday to enter..

Friendship Makes Life More Beautiful

Good Morning

Alice here, how did we get to the last week in August so quickly.  I guess it's getting to that time where I need to think about Christmas Cards.  Maybe I'll wait until middle of September!!   Thought I would have a go at some up cycling this week.  I have had a few empty reels from Red Liner tape in the Craft Room for a few weeks.  What to do with them?  This is what I came up with.  You can find these stamps and many more over on the Colourifc Shop here

Materials Used:

A5 Hibiscus Stamp Set
A6 Leaves Stamp Set
Sentiment Stamp
Black Embossing Powder
Piece of Spotted Green background paper
Copic Pens
Nuvo Drops
Empty Red Liner Reel
Length of Natural Jute
Piece of Ribbon
Gems

• Wrapped the Empty Reel with the Jute.  
• Added the piece of ribbon to top to make a hanger
• Stamped 1 middle and 2 small hibiscus stamps.  Coloured 2 small ones with yellows and middle one with Purples, then fussy cut out.
• Stamped 4 leaves in various colours and fussy cut out.
• Using a circle die, I cut out a piece of background paper that fitted on the back of the reel.  Stamped the sentiment in the middle of the paper and embossed with Black embossing powder.
• Glued circle piece onto the back of the reel. Arranged and glued flowers around reel.  Added butterfly onto opposite side.
• Finished off with some gems from my stash.

Thank you for looking.

Hibiscus on vellum

Hi everybody, Maria here!  

It's Friday so its my turn to show you what I have made this week.  I love the black and white look with a hint of metallic, so I tried the Hibiscus stamp from Colourific on vellum with gold and silver pixie powders.

To make this card you will need:

A5 Hibiscus stamp from Colourific

Sheet of white vellum

Onyx Black Versafine ink

Mirror Card in Gold and Silver

Grey Pearl card

Small piece of black card

Versamark

White Card Blank

4 x Brads

Black Card

Gold Embossing ink

Sentiment out of stash

Gold and Silver Pixie Powders

Water Spritzer

Heat Tool

3D foam pads

Double Sided sticky tape

Here is how to make it:

1. Sprinkle the gold and silver pixie powder onto a piece of white vellum 13.5cm square.  Spritz the powder with water and either let it dry on its own or use a heat gun.  nb.  The vellum will crinkle more with the heat gun - but this all adds to the texture.
2. Stamp the flower head, the small stem and flourishes randomly on the vellum using the versafine ink.
3. Lightly spritz the vellum with Pure Pearl Mist ink spray from Pearlywinks and leave to dry.  
4. Attach this to the mirror card which is cut to exactly the same size by using brads.
5. Mount this onto a piece of pearl grey card and then onto the 6x6" card base.
6. Stamp the sentiment onto a piece of black card by using Versamark and emboss in Gold embossing powder.
7. Cut into the shape of a banner and mount onto gold mirror card.
8. Attach the banner to the card using 3D foam pads

That's it, all done.  You will find the card looks better in the flesh as you will be able to see all the shimmer and glitz from the pixie powders and the pearl spray finish.  Hope you enjoy making it.

Maria x

Sending You an Invoice

Happy Colourific Thursday Jan here today

 today I am sharing with you my Invoice card, I do like cards that are a little different

I have used the stamp set

Say It With Flowers

I coloured the leaves with Polychromo pencils a mixture of blues/greens

And I have used Nuvo Drops Gloss Blue Babe

Have you seen all the lush stamps in store??

Be sure to take a peek and remember Free Delivery in the UK 

See you next week

Marleen DT - A bottle of love

Hello Bloggers
and welcome to my blog

Todays post is another tag. Im really enjoy crafting on tags and they can be used for so many things.
As per usual, I have used a selection of stamps from Colourific and you can find them all in the STORE.

The specific one I used for this tag is:
A6 - Grunge Background
A6 - Borders & Stems
A5 - Champagne & Cocktails

I used a tag cut from canvas paper, I really like working on this surface due to the way it takes the ink but also for the texture. I started by stamping my bottle with Archival (waterprrof) ink.

I then used Distress Stains and water to create my background. If you have ever used Distress products you will know that once you add water, the ink has a mind of its own lol, so there is no way to ever recreate a background fully.

Once I liked my background I stamped the details with Distress Oxide Inks.
I kept my stamp on the backing card as I stamped. Added a bit of ink and simply rolled the stamp over the corner of my tag. I find that not using a stamp block give a softer egde to the stamping.

I then took a bit of distress ink and coloured my bottle. It was already green from the background ink but I wanted it to pop a little bit.

To finish, I stamped the little details of the bottle on to scrap card and coloured with gold Distress Stain and oce dry, fuzzy cut and glued on top of the bottle. I added a few gems and Voila.. all done.

Oh before I go.. I just wanna mention our FaceBook group. Colourific now has a group for anyone who is interested in the products. There is a competition over there and the Desgin Team shares their projects every day. And we would love to see your Colourific creations too. Come and join us.

And that is it from me for today.

Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

Don't forget to come visit me on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube or my FB page.
 Happy Crafting

Baby's First Christmas

Good Morning everyone...

Caz here with some inspiration for you..This week i decided to make a 

Pull Up Accordian Card..For this i have used some of the stamps from the 

A5 Baby's First Christmas Stamp Set..

Firstly i cut the card out on my portrait, including the designer paper..

Then after using some of the stamps on plain bits and colouring with promarkers..

I stuck all together..Envelope also part of file and again cut out..

You will see more detail on my blog..Just click my name at top..

Thank you for looking

Caz xx

Happy Birthday - Black Ice Technique

Hi Everyone

Alice here, can't believe we are in the third week in August!  

Materials Used:

A6 Kaleidoscope DoilyStamp

6 x 6 White Card Blank

5.75 x 5.75 Black Mat

5 x 5 Glitter Card

4.5 x 4.5 Black Mat

4.25 x 4.25 Gold Mirri Mat

Sentiment Stamp

Couple of Circle Dies

Stazon Ink Pad

Versamark Ink Pad

Clear Embossing Powder

Gold Embossing Powder

•    Matt larger Black, Gold Giltter Mat onto white card blank.  Using foam pads add            small black mat onto card.
•   Using stays on ink, hold it lightly and drag it down along the length of the gold mirri      mat.  Add a little extra black Stazon at the top and bottom edges of mirri card.              Stamp the Kaleidoscope Doily onto the centre of the mirri card.  Ensure all ink of          mirri card is dry before moving onto next step.
•   Using the Versamark ink pad drag it from top to bottom of mirri card. Ensuring you        do not overlap.  Do not push down on ink pad, let the weight of the ink pad do the        work.
•   Sprinkle clear embossing powder all over the heat with heatgun.  This produces the      iced look.
•   Mat the finished piece onto the raised black mat. 
•   Stamp the smaller circle with your greeting and emboss (I also embossed the                outside edge of the circle).  Using foam pads add this to the larger circle and glue        onto centre of doily.

Thank you for popping by to look.

Christmas Girls Night Out

Good Morning

Alice here, adding a sneaky little extra post this morning.  I had some fun with a few Colourific Stamps sets when making this one:

A5 Girls Night Out
A6 Moderne Flowers
A5 Mr & Mrs Snow
A5 Peace and Joy

• Stamped the show 3 times, once on patterned paper, once on glitter card and once of mirri card.  Did a bit of fussy cutting and paper pieced together in layers.
• Stamped the moderne flowers 3 times in red mat mirri card and fussy cut.  Stamped the moderne flowers again 3 times on heat resistant acetate and embossed with gold powder.
• Stamped out the Christmas branches 5 times with 2 different colours of green ink.
• Layered up the flowers
• Cut out some 2 red, 2 white and 1 gold glitter mat in various sizes.  Embossed the smallest white mat with a holly embossing folder to add some dimension.
• Arranged all the mats onto the card base, adding foam pads so some to raise them up.
• Built up the 2 layers of flowers with pinflair glue.
• Added the branches around the side of the card and added the flowers on top.
• Added the shoe with foam pads and some glue gel.
• Finally stamped out the Christmas Wishes sentiment and die cut with a die from my stash.

Thank you for looking

Christmas Deer

Hi everyone, Maria here.  It's Friday which means it's my turn to spread a little Christmas Cheer this week.

I know it's only August but now is the time of year that some of us crafty folk start thinking of Christmas cards.  With that in mind, I have made a start with this card featuring the Christmas Deer and fawn from the Winter Wonderland stamp set from Colourific.

Here is what you will need:

5x5" card base

White stamping card

Brushed Silver card

Blue card

Winter Wonderland Stamp set

Versamark black inkpad

Clear or White Glitter - I used Nuvo 

Glue pen

Watercolour paints

3d Foam pads

Doublesided Sticky Tape

White gel pen

Here's what I did:

1. I stamped the image of the deer and fawn on a piece of 3.75 x 3.75" stamping card and placed 4 of the small trees around them.  I also stamped the snow drops in the sky area.
2. Coloured the images and the sky using watercolour paint.
3. Using a glue pen I drew the lines where the snow starts/ends, the snow drops, the edges of the tree where the snow would collect and grounded the trees and deer, I then glittered these lines.
4. I highlighted areas with the white gel pen.
5. This was then mounted up onto the silver card then the blue card.
6. Finally, I stamped and glittered the With Love At Christmas sentiment and used a foam pad to adhere it to finish the card.

Hope you enjoy making the card, I'm off to create another one.

See ya later

Maria x

Don't Look Back

Happy Colourific Thursday Jan here today

I am here today to share with you my new DT Card for this week

I have used the stamp set

Say It With Flowers

The words were cut on my portrait

A very CAS card for me 

Stamped the flower and added a sparkly gem center and used Nuvo drops Copper Penny

Have you seen all the lush stamps in store??

Be sure to take a peek and remember Free Delivery in the UK 

See you next week

Im late, Im late.. for a very important date..

Hey everyone

And welcome..

My apologies, I'm late with today's post.. I had it all planned and yet it totally slipped my mind..

But hopefully better late than never.

I'm very excited for this post as it wasn't just me crafting. Me and my youngest daughter had a play together with her favourite Colourfic stamp. Abbie is 9 so I guess its no surprise that the unicorn is her favourite lol..

We both used the A6-flying unicorn set and I also used the A6-unicorn text set as well as the A6-Tiny hearts background stamp.

You can fins all the stamps in the STORE.

 

Abbie simply stamped and coloured hers with gel pens.
Me, I stamped my unicorn on to watercolour card stock and used distress ink (well watered down) to colour. My background is stamped and heat embossed with a iridescent powder. I then simply layered my background onto the card blank, stamped my greeting and finished with a few gems..

And that is it from me for today.

Thank you for popping by and for any comments left behind.

Don't forget to come visit me on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube or my FB page.
 Happy Crafting

Thinking Of You

Hello, it's Liz here today. My card features the gorgeous peony from the Peonies Set. I stamped onto watercolour card using my Versafine ink pad. Then I coloured with a Zig Real Brush marker, a little water and a paintbrush.

Have you joined in our challenge yet? 

There's a great Christmas stamp set up for grabs this week so why not get your creative hat on and make something great. Challenge finishes this Thursday 4pm GMT!

Baby's First Christmas

Good Morning everyone..

Caz  Here with todays inspiration post for you all..

For this weeks make i have used the cut clear stamp set..

A5 Baby's First Christmas

The card templates are cutting files, cut on my portrait cutting machine..

I then stamped the stamps and coloured with promarkers..I also used some distress ink on edges of bib, and backing on dungerees..

Thank you for looking

Caz and Colourific Team..

Say Thank You Hibiscus Style

Good Morning

Alice here with another Monday morning blog post.  Had some fun, playing with the Colourific A5 Hibiscus Stamp Set.  Have a look at my makes.

Materials Used:

A5 Hibiscus Stamp Set
A6 Leaves Stamp Set
Black Card
White Card
White Embossing Powder
Washi Tape
Nuvo Drops
Thank You Sentiment Stamp
Black Fine Liner
Gems
White Ribbon

• Cut out a Black DL Card.  Cut a piece of white Card 1/4" shorter than DL card.  Placed the Washi Tape diagonally across the white card.  Randomly stamped the stems and swirls over the card and embossed.  Used Bundled Sage and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink to ink alternate corners of the card.  Stamped "Thank You" sentiment along bottom of card.  Used fine liner pen to add detail around each coloured side.
• Stamped 2 yellow and 1 pink large Hibiscus Stamp and centre stamen and fussy cut out.  Shaped the flowers with a bone folder, and attached stamen to centre of each flower.  Added flowers diagonally down centre of card, the stamped out 6 leaves, coloured with Copics and attached to card.  To finish off I added 3 gems at either side of flowers
• Made a matching tag using same procedure but using only 2 small Hibiscus flowers.
• Made the box using a die.  Made some pink and bundled sage background paper, cut and attached to box.  Stamped a middle size Hibiscus flower and attached to front of box. Added some leaves to finish off.

Thank you for looking.