Marleen DT - Stiched Friends in the snow.

Hello Everyone
and welcome to my blog.

Today I want to share a quick little card I made with stamps from Colourific.
Annelies have a great selection of stamps in the STORE, but the "Stitched Friends" are one of my favourite sets.. I have also used the "Christmas Minis" set for my card today.

For this little card I started by making a background of snow. Its made by simply tearing a piece of copy paper into something that resembles mountains. Then simply swipe your blending tool, starting on the paper and out onto your card, so you build up colour. Move the paper around and repeat till you get the desired effect.

I used the "Spotty Background" stamp to create the snowfall on the background. I simply stamped with versamark ink and set with white embossing powder.

My little stitched snowman is stamped and coloured with watercolour pencils on to water colour card stock, as is my little robin.
The candy cane I stamped with red distress ink and just dragged a bit of the stamped colour around.

I added them all to my snow background with foam tape, mounted the background at an angle on to my mat and then stuck to my card.

And that is all from me for today.

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 Happy Crafting

A5 Trees - Christmas Greetings

Hello again,

Alice here with Monday morning's blog post.  It's getting nearer and nearer, so sharing another little Christmas card with you today.  This was made using the A5 Trees and the A6 Christmas Minis.  I absolutely love using the Christmas Minis.  They can be used for borders, background, build a wreath and you can also hang them from words like, JOY, and NOEL.  Fabulous little stamps set.  You can find all the stamps on the Colourific Website here

Materials Used:

A6 Christmas Minis

A5 Trees

A5 Peace and Joy

6 x 6 Red card Blank

5.5 x 5.5 Gold Glitter Mat

5.25 x 5.25 White Stamping Card

Piece of Gold Foil

Bonding Powder

Versamark Ink Pad

Various Distress Inks

Copic Markers

Gold Glitter Pen

•  Matted Gold Glitter Card onto Red Card Blank
•  Used Christmas Minis to stamp background and coloured in using Copic         Markers
•  Flicked the Gold Glitter Pen over the background and attached it to the Gold Glitter   Mat.
•  Stamped the Medium Tree onto a scrap of Green Card. Added Bonding Powder and   heated. Quickly add the foil to the heated bonding powder and rub gently over it.           Removed the foil and you have a foiled tree.  I fussy cut around the tree.
•  Stamped out the Christmas Greetings from the Peace and Joy Stamp set and matted   onto scraps of gold glitter and red card.
•  Attached the greeting to the bottom of the card with foam pads.
•  Attached the Tree with foams along the edge of the Greeting to give it something to     stand on.
•  Finished off with some gems

           Thank you all for having a look.  Happy Christmas Crafting 

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.

The Last Rose of Summer

Morning everyone, Maria here, it’s Friday so it’s my turn to blog. I’m having a rest from the new launch stamps to make a card inspired by my garden - in particular my Happy Anniversary rose bush which has had its final flourish this year.  This card is made using the Blossom and Grow stamp set from Colourific, and I wanted to give it the Autumn feel so I used Craft card and Distress Oxides to give it that muted look.

Here’s what you will need:
A4 sheet of Craft Card
A4 sheet Black Card
A4 sheet of yellow Card - the one I used is patterned and perfumed.
Versamark
Gold embossing powder
Distress Oxides - Candy Apple, Peeled Paint and Brushed Corduroy
Blossom and Grow stamp set from Colourific.
Glue and 3D foam pads.

Here’s how I made it:

1. Cut a piece of Craft Card 4.5 x 4.5” square, stamp and emboss two of the roses, crossing the stems by shaping the polymer.
2. Colour the petals using the Candied Apple and the leaves using Peeled Paint.
3. Using the small spiral stamp, randomly stamp in the brown corduroy randomly around the roses.
4. Distress the edges by blending the brushed corduroy.
5. Stamp the sentiment on a separate piece of craft card using the brushed corduroy and mount on a piece of the yellow card.  Adhere this to the card using a 3D foam pad.
6. Mount this topper onto a piece of black card leaving 0.5cm border and then onto the Yellow card, leaving a 1 cm border.  Attach this onto a 6x6” card base.

All finished, now back to the new stamp launch. Not long now 😁

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.

When Stained Glass becomes a Flower ~ Colourific

Happy Thursday Everyone

This week I have had great fun playing with the stamp set

A6 Stained Glass Kaleidescope

With a few snips here and there

I turned it into a flower!

How many possibilities with this Stamp set

I coloured up using Distress Ink refils  and using the same colours as I did for the flower did a few splashes for my card background

I also used stamp set

Say it with Flowers

for the sentiment.

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&

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Marleen DT - Flower Hello

Hello everyone

Its once again my turn to share a bit of inspiration using the stamps from
Colourific
For today I have used the stamp sets called
A6 - Moderne Flowers
A6 - Alphabet & Numbers
Find them in the STORE along with all the other amazing stamps.

 

I used a strip of watercolour card I had lying. I used a couple of different Distress inks and made a basic mop up of the colours. Once dry I stamped my flower repeatedly and also a spare oneon white card stock.

I covered the white flower with a couple of coats of clear embossing powder and stamped the the wee center and added on top.

The strip now stamped, I matted and layered on black card stock and stuck strait onto my card blank.I made my greeting by stamping the individual alphabet stamps to write the word "hello" onto a strip of white card stock. Last I finished with a bit of glotter glue here and there.
And that is it from me for today.

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 Happy Crafting

 

Campervan Stamps

Hi there Jan here *It's my Colourific Day*

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This week I have been playing with two stamp sets

Campervan (contains 22 stamps)

Say It With Flowers (contains 8 stamps)

For my project this week I made 3 cards

These cards are 6" x 6"

I stamped using Archival Ink onto water colour card

Using Distress Inks to colour and white posca for fine detail

(loving the colours)

I adored the campervan there is so much detail and the set contains so many stamps .

Included is a set of numbers and another number plate so you could fully create your own to match the recipient

I finished of using the large sentiment from Say it with Flowers

It is so good how the sets can be combined and work so well with each other

Thank you for stopping by today

xx