By the light of the silvery moon

Hi everyone Maria here, today I’m sharing my card I’ve named ‘By the light of the silvery moon’ and yes, I love Doris Day 😁. I used the A5 Houses stamp set from Colourific.

Here’s what I used:

A 6 card blank

Black card for mounting 

White stamping card

A5 Houses stamp set

Versafine Onyx Black

Coloured pencils

Watercolour ink brush pens (I used Spectrum Noir)

Kitchen roll

Adhesive

Double sided tape

Here’s what I did 

1. Stamp and fussy cut out the small house, using the Versafine ink.
2. Colour in using the coloured pencils (I drew in the curtains).
3. Using the watercolour ink brushes, I added the blue to the top of a piece of stamping card and blended with a large flat brush and water - then I repeated with the amber colour and the green, making sure I blended the blue and amber colours for the sky but not the green.
4. Dry this sheet using a heat gun or leave to dry naturally before you do the next step.
5. Cut out a circle of card for the moon template - I used the top of an embossing powder lid to draw round.
6. Place the moon template onto the sky - mainly into the blue section, and with a small wet paintbrush draw round the moon.
7. Then with a medium sized brush wet the ink inside the circle and blot with kitchen roll - this brings the colour out of the moon giving it a faux bleached look.
8. Glue the house onto the backing sheet.
9. Mount onto white and then black card and then onto the card blank.

Hope you enjoy making this card.  Join me next Friday for more Colourific inspiration.
Maria x

A5 Gnomes - Christmas Greetings

Good Morning

Alice here.  Hope you are all getting well prepared for Christmas.  Sorry about my picture today, it seems to be very light.  It is a much deeper shade in real life!  I used the A5 Gnomes Stamps for this and the small tree from the A5 Trees Stamp Set.  You can find all the stamps I used and many more on the Colourific Website. 

Materials Used:

A5 Gnomes

A5 Trees

11.5 x 21cm Kraft Card Blank

10.75 x 19.25cm Gold Mirri Mat

9.5 x 19cm Kraft Card Mat

Various colours of distress inks

Glitter Glue

• Using a little piece of double sided tape I secured the smaller piece of kraft card centrally onto the card blank then secured these layers onto a Stamping Platform with magnets.
• Stamped the Gnome with Vintage Photo Distress ink onto 9.5x19.25cm Kraft Card.  Leaving the card on the stamping platform  I Sprayed with water and let the dye seep outwards.  Used a paintbrush to bring it out a little further. 
• Keeping the card still in place on the stamping platform, put some Vintage Photo Distress Ink and Green Dye ink onto glass mat. Using water and paint brush I painted the Gnome with muted colours of the inks.  When this was dry, I stamped over the image.
• Still keeping the work on the Stamping Platform, I put a mask over the Gnome and used the small Christmas Tree to stamp a border around the 2 layers of card.
• Remove from stamping platform and separate the 2 layers of card.  Mat the image onto the Gold mat, and using foam pads mount it onto the Kraft Card making sure the border of trees match up.
• To finish off I added a Christmas Greeting layered onto a piece of gold mirri card. 
• Used glitter glue for the pompom, beard and stars.

           Thank you for looking, and happy crafting.

Evergreen

Hi, Maria here with my Friday post.  Today we have the Evergreen card which is made using 3 different Colourific stamp sets - Winter Wonderland, Beach Borders and A5 Rings.

Here’s what you will need-

6x6” Card Blank

5x5” White Stamping Card

5.5x5.5” Dark Green Card 

Winter Wonderland Stamp Set

Beach Border Stamps

A5 Rings Stamp Set

Black Versafine ink pad

Clear embossing powder

Tonic Nuvo Drops in Gold, Turquoise, Light Green, Dark Green, Silver

Clear sparkle Glitter Glue

Green Versafine

Watercolour paints

Here’s how I made it

1. Using the 5.5x5.5” stamping card, stamp the Star Ring in the centre of the card using the Versafine black ink and emboss with the clear embossing powder.  Fill in the stars using green watercolour paint.
2. Stamp a Medium Tree and two smaller trees, from the Winter Wonderland stamp set, into the middle of the Ring and colour in using the Watercolour paints.
3. Using the green Versafine Ink, stamp and emboss the sentiment from the Winter Wonderland stamp set just under the ring.
4. Now take the pebbles border from the border stamp set and stamp and emboss around the outside edges if the square.
5. Using the Nuvo drops, randomly fill in the pebbles.
6. Add some clear glitter glue to the trees and under the trees to ground them - to look like snow.
7. Leave this to dry for a few hours to make sure all the Nuvo drops are dry.
8. Mount onto the dark green card then adhere to the card blank.

There you go, all done, hope you like it.  Tune in next week for another card.

Maria x

A5 Trees - Peace on Earth

Hello Everyone

Alice here with today's blog post.  Still on the Christmas Theme.  I used the A5 Trees Stamp set to make this simple Christmas card.  You get 3 different sizes of stamps in this pack and you can find this stamp here on the Colourific Website.

Materials Used:

A5 Trees Stamps Set

15.5 x 15.5 White Card Blank

15.x 15 Silver Mirri Card

14.5  x 14.5 White Stamping Card

Peace on Earth Embossing Folder

Piece of Christmas Ribbon

Silver Gems

Veersamark Ink Pad

Silver Sparkle Embossing Powder

•          Added Silver Mirri Card to White Card Blank
•          Embossed White Stamping Card with the Embossing folder
•          Stamped Medium Tree on bottom left hand corner with Versamark Inkpad and             embossed with the Silver Sparkle Embossing Powder.
•          Using a craft knife, I made to slits at each side of the tree and threaded the                   Christmas ribbon through and attached at back of card.
•          Inked the edges of the card with versamark and embossed with the Silver                     Sparkle Powder.
•          Added this layer to the Silver Mirri Card and finished off with some silver gems
  
  
  Thank you for looking, remember to pop over to the website to see lots of very versatile stamp sets.

Celebrate Your Special Day

Hello everyone, Maria here, for today’s card I’m bringing you a card using 2 sets of Colourific Stamps. I used the Celebrate Wordage stamp set and the A5 Champagne and Cocktails Stamp Set to make  this Special Day Card, but you can be more specific and make it an Anniversary/Wedding/Engagement/Birthday Card.

Here’s what you will need:

Celebrate Wordage Stamp Set
A5 Champagne and Cocktail Stamp Set
8x8 White Card blank
White Stamping card
Black card for mounting
Watercolour paints
Versafine
Distressed Oxides, peeled paint
Gold and silver Gel pens
Clear glitter glue
Double sided tape
3D Foam Pads

Here’s hope I made it.

1. Using the black Versafine ink pad, stamp the Celebrate, Champagne bottle and two champagne flutes onto a piece of white stamping card.
2. Colour in the bottle and the glasses using watercolour paints and fussy cut out.
3. Colour in the word Celebrate using the silver and gold gel pens then cut this out leaving a 4cm border around the outside.
4. To make the background, stamp the Peeled Paint Distress Oxide Stamp Pad onto a as blending mat and spritz with water.  Swish and swirl a piece of 7”x7” White Stamping Card through the ink. Dry with a heat gun and repeat the process until you reach the desired effect.
5. Adhere the Celebrate, Champagne bottle and glasses onto the background using 3D Foam Pads.
6. Using the ‘your Special Day’ Stamp, Ben’s and shape it on your stamping block to make the words wave, and using the black Versafine ink, stamp onto the background card.
7. Mount onto the black card and onto the card blank.
8. Finally, add some sparkle by adding spots of glitter glue to the area just after the bottle top to make it look like you’ve just opened the cork and the fizz is coming out of the bottle, to the Champagne Glasses and the stars around the word Celebrate.

I hope you enjoy making the card, why not try the different colour backgrounds or use your alcohol pens to colour. The main rule is, just play and have fun.

Maria x

Mini Kaleidoscope cards - Marleen DT

Hello everyone

I haven't been blogging my creations for a while as life became a bit hectic, but as its starting to settle down again, I jumped at the chance to get back again..

For this weeks creation I had a play with the Kaleidoscope stamp from Colourific.

I love this stamp. Its so pretty and great for both backgrounds and as a centrepiece.

 I decided to make a trio of this design. The cards are all the same, simply just changed around the colours.

The card base is cut at 100x100mm - the middle piece at 95x95mm and the top is 90x90mm.

I coloured each layer in one of each of my chosen colours.

For the top, I used my misty stamping tool to help me get the stamping in the same spot on all 3 cards, but you can use a stamping block as well/

I finished each card by using foam pads between each layer, adding a wooden greeting and a few gems.

Its a very simple card design that could either be strung together to a folding card or they can be used individually

And that is all from me for today.

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

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 Happy Crafting

I

A5 Trees - Lots of Love at Christmas

Good Morning

Alice here, with my Monday morning blog.  Not sure what happened last week, but I seem to have missed a week!  To much on my mind lately!  I used the A5 Trees stamp set which you can find here on the Colourific website.  I love this stamp set, its such a lovely tree.

Thank you for taking time to look.

Alice Mitchell – Lots of Love at Christmas

Materials Used:

A5 Trees

A6 Christmas Text

Snowflake Embossing Folder

8x x8 White Card Blank

7.5 x 7.5 Blue Glitter Card Mat

7.25 x 7.25 Pearlised Mat

4.74 x 6.25 Blue Glitter Mat

4.5 x 6 White Pearlised Mat

4.25 x 5.75 White Pearlised Mat

Stormy Blue Distress Ink

Versamark Ink pad

Clear Sparkle Embossing Powder

• Attached 7.5 x 7.5 Blue Glitter Mat to card blank. 
• Embossed 7.25 x 7.25 pearlised mat with Snowflake embossing folder and inked  edges with Stormy Blue Distress ink and attached to Blue glitter mat.
• Using some scraps of Blue Glitter Card and White Pearlised Card I made a banner to go along the bottom of the card and stamped and embossed a Greeting from the Christmas Text stamp set at the right hand side.  Attached this to the bottom of the card.
• Attached 4.5 x 6 pearlised with mat onto 4.75 x 6.25 Blue Glitter Mat
• In a stamping platform, I Stamped Large Tree onto 4.25 x 5.75 Pearlised Mat with Stormy Blue Distress ink the stamped again over the top with Versamark ink and embossed with clear sparkle glitter powder.  Inked the edges with Stormy Blue Distress Ink then attached this to the above Mats.
• Using some foam pads I attached the above mat onto the card.
• Finished off with some die cut snowflakes, a bow and some gems 

Bonfire Night

Hi everyone, November already! Where did the year go? I know it’s only the 1st of November but today I’m showing you my Bonfire Night card made using the A5 Houses set from Colourific.

Here is what you will need;
A5 Houses stamp from Colourific
Masking paper or fluid
Carnivale Colour burst powders - or Brusho powders
Black Stazon
White stamping card
Card to mount - I used Navy Blue

Here’s how to make it:

1. Cut your white card to the size you want to make - mine is 6x6.
2. Stamp two of the houses onto the card - you can choose any of the houses. Use black Stazon ink.
3. Mask off the stamped houses.
4. Lightly spritz the card with water and sprinkle the card with the Carnivale Colour Burst or brusho starting with blue at the top, then red and yellow then finally the green.  The colour will burst out when you sprinkle. You can add more water to disperse the inks until you get the desired look.
5. Take off the masking and colour the houses with a mix of the Carnivale Colour burst or brusho inks.
6. Leave it to dry naturally.
7. Use a corresponding coloured card to mount up.

Hopefully you have a card resembling the vibrancy of Bonfire Night!  Now, I’m off to make some parkin and toffee apples. Enjoy!

Maria x