Peony With Love

Good Morning

Alice here, hope you are all well this morning.  Here is my blog post for today.  Had another play with the A5 Peony Stamp Set.  Just love this versatile little stamp set.  You can find this and many more on the Colourific Website

Materials Used:

A5 Peony Stamp Set
6x6 Black Card Blank
5.75 x 5.75 Gold Mat
5.5 x 5.5 White Mat
Embossing Folder
Scraps of Gold adn Black Card
Distress Inks
Copic Markers
Glitter Glue
With Love Sentiment Die
Black Thread

• Matted the gold then black mats onto the 6x6 black card blank
• Used the embossing folder to emboss the white mat
• Placed some pink and yellow distress inks onto a blending mat and sprayed with water. Used the edge of the embossed mat and pulled it lightly through the ink, so give a distressed look.
• Used the yelow and pink distress inks to ink around the remainder of the card.
• Stamped the Peony out with Memento Ink and coloured with copic markers. This was then fussy cut out.
• Stamped a stem with green distress ink and fussy cut out.  Attached the stem to the right hand side of the card.
• Placed some glue gel at the top of the stem and added some scrunched up black thread.  Arranged this so that it would pop out at the sides of the Peony flower then added flower on top.
• Used dies to cut out three different width banners, layered them together and added to left hand side of card.  Cut out the With Love Sentiment and added to centre of banner

There is Beauty in Simpicity

Good Morning

Alice here with my Monday morning Blog.

Materials Used:

A5 Peony Stamp Set
Black Memento Ink
Copic Markers
White Card

• To make the gift bag, I cut the card into the appropriate sizes and scored and folded where appropriate.
• Before assembling the bag, I stamped the Peony flower 3 times across the top of the front and back of the gift bag using a masking technique.
• I coloured with copic markers then fussy cut out along the top edge of the card, keeping the remainder of the flowers attached.
• I felt the front of the bag was very plain, so I embossed a sheet of white card and stuck it on before I did the next step.
• I stamped I stamped 5 more Peonies and coloured them in with copics and fussy cut them out.  I also stamped and coloured an assortment of leaves and fussy cut.
• I joined all the pieces of the gift back together and made it up.  
• I punched  2 holes in the front and back of the gift back to attach the ribbon.
• I arranged the 4 of the remaining coloured peonies along the front of the back raising them with foam pads.  Evenly attached the leaves evenly around the raised peonies with some glue.
• Finally cut out a die shaped tag, embossed it with the same embossing folder.  Coloured the tag with Oxide Ink, the stamped a sentiment from my stash.  Added the final Peony to the front of the tag.  Finally punched a hole, threaded some ribbon through and attached to the bag.

Live The Dream

Good Morning

Alice here, it's hard to believe we are in September now, where do the weeks and months disappear to!  Here is my project for this week.  Decided to have a play with the A5 Peony Stamp Set, you can find this and many more fabulous stamps here.Quite like the way this one turned out.

Materials use:

A5 Peony Stamp Set

6 x 6 Brown Card Blank

4.75 x 4.75 Brown Mat

5.75 x 5.75 Kraft Card Mat

4.5 x 4.5 Kraft Card Mat

Versamark Ink Pad

White Embossing Powder

Copic Pens

Sentiment Stamp

2 sizes of circle dies

•   Take the 5.75 and the 4.5 pieces of Kraft card.  Using a small piece of double
  
          sided tape centre the smaller one on top of larger one.
•    Using Versamark Ink pad, randomly stamp the Peony flowers and leaves over the         card, making sure to overlap the small square onto the larger square. 
•    Emboss the images with white embossing powder.  When this is done colour in the       flowers and leaves with copic markers.
•    If you wish you can go over the images with a sparkle pen as I did, but this is not         necessary.
•    Carefully remove the smaller Kraft Card from the larger one.
•    Mat the larger card onto the 6 x 6 brown card blank.
•    Mat the smaller Kraft square onto the 4.75 x 4.75 Brown Mat
•    Apply the smaller mat to the card ensuring the images match up.
•    Cut one large circle from Brown card and a smaller one from Kraft Card.  Stamp the     Live the Dream sentiment in the middle of the smaller circle and emboss with gold       embossing powder.  Mat the 2 circles together and attach to card.
•    Finish off with some gold gems randomly scattered over card

Thank you for joining me.