Rings and Borders

Happy Friday everyone, what a busy week! I hope you have enjoyed looking at all the cards in the new launch from Colourific.  In today’s card I have used stamps from the Beach Border and the A5 Rings stamp sets.

Here is what you will need:

Dark red square card base

Dark red card

White Stamping Card

A5 Rings Stamp Set

Beach Borders Stamp Set

Versamark

Gold Detail Embossing Powder

Gold Nuvo Drops

Onyx Black Versafine

Clear Embossing Powder

3D Foam Pads

Watercolour Pencils

Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink

Iridescent Glitter Glue

Here’s how to make the card:

1. Firstly, stamp the star ring using Black Versafine and Clear Embossing Powder.
2. Stamp and emboss the candle from the Rings set using the same ink and powder.
3. Colour the candle and the stars using watercolour pencils.  When dry, lightly blend a little of the Squeezed Lemonade ink over the area where the flame is to give it a yellow glow.
4. I then decorated the mat layers with the zigzag and dots border around the four sides of the dark red smaller square and the larger white square, crossing the lines at the corner.  For the borders I stamped with Versamark and Gold Detail Embossing Powder.
5. On a separate piece of card, I stamped 4 baubles in Versamark and gold embossed them.  I coloured these in with watercolour pencils.
6. Cut out the ring leaving a 4 mm border and fussy cut the four baubles.
7. Mount the ring in the middle of the red square using 3D foam pads.
8. Mount the red square onto the white square and the white square into the red card base using glue or double sided tape.
9. Finally fix the 4 baubles on the four corners of the white square using 3D Foam pads, add a gold Nuvo drop to the corners of the red square and add a touch of glitter glue to the baubles and candle flame.

Watch out for tomorrow’s card!

Maria x

Reindeer in a ring of lights

Hi everybody, here is the Reindeer in the ring of lights card I made for the new stamps launch.
I used the A5 Rings and the Winter Wonderland stamp sets from Colourific.

Here’s what you will need:
A5 Rings Stamps
Winter Wonderland Stamps
Versafine
Clear Embossing Powder
Watercolour Pencils
Multicoloured Fineliners
Distressed Oxides - Peeled Paint
White Stamping card
Black Card
White card blank (I used 7x7”)
Glossy Accents

Here’s how I made it

1. Stamp the ring of lights in the centre of the stamping card (6x6”) using black Versafine and clear embossing powder.
2. Stamp the deer and fawn in the centre of the ring and emboss. 
3. Colour the main deer image in with Watercolour Pencils and the lights on the ring in felt tip pens (I used fineliners).
4. Draw in some green grass under the Reindeer so that they aren’t floating!
5. Using the Distress Oxide, blend all round the edge then sprinkle (flick) water on the ink - then blot with kitchen roll to give the white marks.
6. Mount onto black card (6.5x6.5”) then onto the card blank.
7. Use Glossy Accents on the fairy lights to make them shine - then let it dry.
8. Add the sentiments using the black versafine and clear embossing powder, mat and layer onto black card and add to the finished card.

All done - obviously you can play around with images in the rings and change the border colours - have a play.

See ya later!

Maria

Forest in Winter

Hi everybody, Maria here.  Today I'm going to show you how to make the Forest in Winter card using the A5 Winter Wonderland Stamp from Colourific.

To make this card you will need:

A5 Winter Wonderland Stamp Set

A5 Blank white card base

A5 Dark Green card

A5 sheets of white card

Onyx Black and Smokey Grey Versafine ink pads

Water colour Pencils

Clear Embossing powder

Gelly Roll Clear Star pen

Distress Oxides - Peeled Paint, Cracked Pistachio and Iced Spruce

Mardi Gras Carnivale Colourburst

Double Sided Tape

3D Glue Gel

This is how I made it:

1. Trim the A5 white card and the dark green card by 1 cm top and bottom so that it fits within the card base leaving a nice border.

2.  To make the background, stamp the three Distress Oxides into a blending mat and spritz with water, swoosh one of the white cards into it and keep doing this until you are happy with the result.  It is good to dry off the card in between the swooshes - you get some lovely effects. After you have done the last swoosh, before drying sprinkle on some of the Mardi Gras Colourburst into the wet ink and give it a spritz with water to make the colour burst.

3.  Let this dry, once dry, stamp the small forest trees randomly all over the sheet.

4.  Take the other sheet of cropped white card a cut 2 diagonal lines from the bottom left corner to either side of the top right corner in a V shape - see card.

5.  Stick this to the green card matching up the sides so that all you can see is the dark green V in the middle.  Trim the green card to 2 mm border of the inside of the white card.  See card. This gives the inside a border.

6.  Stick both these corners to the background sheet you just made, matching up the corners to give you the colourful inset.

7.  Stamp the small dots stamp all over the white triangles in grey Versafine.

8.  Stamp the Winter Wonderland stamp on the edge of the right hand triangle and emboss with clear embossing powder.

9.  Stick this to the A5 card base.

10.  On a separate piece of white card stamp 2 of the large trees and 4 of the medium trees using the black Versafine.  Colour these in - I used watercolour pencils.

11.  Cut out the trees leaving a small white border.  I then used the gelly pen to glitter the snow on the trees.

12.  Arrange the two large trees and attach using 3D glue gel to the bottom left so that it covers the bottom end of the colourful insert, add the other medium tree to the bottom right.

That's it, all done - how I wish I had photographed this one as I made it - it's so hard to explain without pictures.  If you are stuck or struggling to understand please ask and I'll try and explain.  Next time I make another one like this I will do the pictorial step by step.

Bye for now
Maria x

Time for a Road trip

21 today - time for a road trip

21 today, time for a road trip 😁.

To make this card you will need:

Campervan stamp from Colourific

Catherine Pooler mini ink set - Life of the party

Watercolour paints

Versafine Black Onyx

Clear Embossing powderBubble wrapWhite Signa penGlossy accentsStamping cardBlending toolsBlack and yellow card for mounting3D foam padsGems
Here’s how to make it:
Stamp and emboss the Campervan image onto stamping card using the versafine ink pad and clear embossing power.
Using the inks and watercolours paint  in the Campervan.  Once dry highlight areas with the white pen and add Glossy Accents to the headlights.
For the background I blended the red and yellow inks and stamped some bubble wrap in red ink over parts of the background.  Then using the versafine I added a blended border to the outside edge of the background.
Then stamp 3 of the rose heads, stems and leaves to the top corner.
Mount the Campervan onto bottom left of the card using 3D foam pads and attach the ‘21 Today’ sentiment.
Add gems to the corners of the background.
Finish off by mounting onto white, black and yellow card.
There you are, all done and ready for taking a year out and enjoying your trip around the world - IN MY DREAMS 😁. Hope you like it.

Multicoloured Hibiscus

Hi everybody,

It's Friday, so It's my turn to show you all a card.  I used the A5 Hibiscus stamp to make this card, I wanted something summery and colourful, so here is what I came up with:

What you will need:

A5 Hibiscus stamp from Colourific
Stamping card
A4 Burgundy card
Multicoloured embossing inks - I used Catherine Pooler's Minis - Party Collection
Clear Embossing powder
Sentiment stamps from my stash
Tonic Nuvo drops
Kitchen roll
paintbrush and water

Here is what I did:

1. Randomly stamped and embossed images from the Hibiscus stamp set onto white stamping card measuring 17 x 13.5 cms.
2. Blended the white background with the red ink and splashed water onto it.  Before it dried, I blotted it with the kitchen roll to leave white splodges on the card
3. I stamped and cut out a sentiment from my stash, you can use any of your own, and glued it to the card.
4. Mat and layer the card onto white card and I used a burgundy card base and Nuvo drops in each corner to finish it off.

All finished.  Time to clean up that lovely inky mess.  

Maria

x