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

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

Winter Scene in a Ring

Here’s another card showing you one of the new stamp sets from Colourific.

Here’s what you will need:
A5 Rings stamp set
Winter Wonderland Stamp Set
Distress Inks - any blue - I used Salty Ocean
Watercolour paints or pencils
Clear Embossing Powder
Versafine Onyx Black
Versafine Clare blue
White and blue Gel Pens
Iridescent Glitter Glue
3D Foam pads
6x6” card base
Stamping card
Die cutter - circles or punch

Here’s how I made it;

1. Cut a piece of 5x5” stamping card.  Stamp the Distress ink onto a blending mat and spritz with water, swish the card through the ink and dry.
2. On a separate piece of card, stamp the stars ring in black Versafine.  Cut out a circle around this stamp - I used a die cutter or thus or you could use a punch. 
3. Stamp two small trees, one medium tree and seasons greetings in the circle and colour with watercolour paints or pencils. Add a blue wash for the sky and draw in some grass under the trees.
4. Stamp some of the small dots for snow and glitter the top of the dots.
5. Stamp and emboss 4 snowflakes onto a separate piece of card and cut out.
6. With the white gel pen, colour in some snow on the trees and with the blue gel pen colour in the stars of the ring.
7. Mat the blue inked background onto the card base and adhere the circle to the middle of the card using 3D Foam pads.
8. Add the snowflakes to the corners of the blue background using 3D Foam Pads.

Hope you enjoy making this card - the rings are very versatile and can be used as a frame for lots of small stamps and dies.

Maria x

Reindeer in a Snow Globe

Hi everyone, Maria here with another idea for a card using the Winter Wonderland stamp set from Colourific.

Here's what you will need:

A5 Winter Wonderland stamp set

1 sheet red card

1 sheet stamping card

Silver mirror card

Snow globe and circle cutting die

Versafine Onyx Black

Clear Glitter Glue

Water colour paints

Gold Gilding Wax

Paper mask or liquid masking fluid

Water colour paints

Here's How I made it:

1. Die cut 3 Snow Globes in Dark Red card and one in stamping card

2. Die cut 1 circle in the middle of one of the red globes and one in white stamping card.

3. Stamp the image of the reindeer in the centre of the white stamping card circle and mask the reindeer.

4. Watercolour the blue sky, then remove the mask and paint the reindeer.

5. On a separate piece of stamping card, stamp a few of the medium and small Christmas Trees, water colour them in and fussy cut them out.

6. Glue the trees onto the circle and draw in some snow hills using the clear Glitter Glue.  Add some glitter to the trees and dot the sky to give snow.

7. Once dry, stick this circle to one of the red complete snow globes.

8. Add mirror card behind the base of the globe with the cut out circle, then apply the gold Gilding Wax to almost cover the red card.

9. Glue this frame onto the top of the globe with the topper on.

10. On the third snow globe, make a fold 1 cm from the top of the globe and attach this base to the decorated globe by gluing the 1cm at the top of the globe.  This will enable the globe to stand up like a card.

That's it, all done