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

Love you forever

For that special someone in your life - try this quick and simple card.  I’ve used the Love Wordage stamp set, with hearts from the A5 Houses stamps these are all available from Colourific.

Here’s what you will need

Love Wordage Stamp set
A5 Houses Stamp set
A5 Cerise Card Blank and A4 card for mounting
White Stamping Card
Distress Oxides Picked Raspberry and Iced Spruce
Versafine Onyx Black
Clear Embossing Powder
Pink Gel pen
Iridescent Glitter Glue
Blending mat
Adhesives

Here’s how I made the card;

1. Stamp the distress Oxides onto the stamping blending mat and spritz with water.  Take a sheet of A5 stamping card and swish through the ink. Dry ink and swish again until you are happy with the effect.
2. Using the same colours stamp the heart stamp from the houses stamp set randomly across the sheet.
3. On a separate piece of card stamp the Love stamp using the versafine ink pad - emboss this with the clear embossing powder.
4. Colour this in with a pink gel pen.
5. Stamp the ‘you forever’ stamps in a smaller rectangle.
6. Mat the words onto cerise card and adhere to the background sheet.
7. Adhere the background sheet to the cerise card blank

Hope you enjoy making this project.

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

Marleen DT - A take on No Line Colouring.

Hello Bloggers
And welcome.

Today I want to share a take on "No Line" colouring.
As per usual I have used stamps from Colourific, and this time I used the
Hydrangeas set.
Its a technique I love the look of but just never got the hang off. I'm not a whizz at colouring in anymore, simply because I stopped doing it as it was so time consuming. Instead I now use watercolours as I love the look and also as its so much faster than markers.

 

Anyway. I was playing the other day and decided I wanted my flowers to be colourful, so I stamped the flowers with Distress Oxide inks. It looked pretty but I wanted more colour so I went ahead and used the same colour inks as the stamped lines, to colour with. I simply pressed the ink pad on to my craft mat and used a water brush to colour in with.

The oxide ink leaves an oxidiced look to the colours.. hence the name I'm guessing lol, but it gives the colouring a bit more life. As I used the same colour the lines blure into the colouring.

It was an easy way to achive the look but I also believe its may be a good starting point to really learn this technique.

If you missed my YOUTUBE from last week, also using stamps from Colourific,  pop over HERE to watch it.

And dont forget to come and visit us in the Colourific FACEBOOK GROUP. We have a monthly "Anything goes" (open to all stamps) challenge with a prize donated form Colourific.
And that is all from me for today.

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

Don't forget to come visit me on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube or my FB page.
 Happy Crafting

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

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.

Marleen DT - Girls night out..

Hello Bloggers
and welcome

Its once again my turn to share some inspiration using the fantastic stamps from
 Colourific. 
 You can find the stamps I've used and all the other fantastic stamps in the
STORE. For todays post me and my little girl had a play session together.
We both used the A5 - Girls Night Out stamp set.

Sticking to what I do best, both Abbie and I simply stamped, coloured and added a sentiment.
I stamped using distress oxide and Abbie stamped with black ink and coloured with gel pens. We both finished with a die cut greeting and a few gems.
And that is it from me for today.

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

Don't forget to come visit me on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Youtube or my FB page.
 Happy Crafting

Believe

Happy Friday everybody, Maria hereI've used the Colourific A5 Hibiscus stamp set to make this lovely card.

If you like my card and want to make one like it, here is what you will need:

A5 Hibiscus stamp from Colourific

White watercolour card

Distress Oxide inks in Candied Apple, Twisted Citron, Weathered Wood, Twisted Lemonade

Catherine Pooler Minis set - Life of the party - Lime Rickey, Tiara, Tutti Frutti

PVA Glue

Dark red card

3d Foam Pads

Coloured pencils, I have Faber-Castell Polychromos

Pink Tonic Nuvo Pearl drops

8 x 8 card blank

Here is what I did:

1. Use the Distress Oxides to make a splodgy background by stamping on a blending mat, adding water and swishing a piece of card through, just smaller than the 8x8" card blank.  Dry with heat gun.
2. On a smaller piece of watercolour card, wet it with water and stamp the inked up solid flower stamp (I used the medium one) by using the Catherine Pooler Inks, yellow in the middle and red on the outside.  Spritz with water again until the inks all blend together - then dry with heat gun.
3. Stamp the large solid flower and the swirls onto a separate piece of water coloured card and cut out leaving a small border.
4. Use a red coloured pencil to colour the inside part of the flower head.
5. Use a sentiment stamp from your stash and stamp onto a separate piece of card and again, cut it out.
6. Mount up the cut out images onto the smaller piece of background card using the glue for the flower stems and 3D foam pads for the blossoms.
7. Add small dots of the Nuvo Pearl Drops to the inside of the flower and let it dry.
8. Mount this topper onto a piece of dark red card which is cut out slightly larger to give a dark border.
9. Mount this on an angle onto the Distressed Oxide background, then attach it to an 8 x 8" card Blank.
10. Finally add the sentiment on a piece of 3D foam.

There you have it, all done.  Don't forget to clean up through the background inking process, it can be quite messy, but that where the fun is!

Hope you enjoy making this card, if you do leave me a message and tell your friends.

Bye for now

Maria

Tag It

Happy Colourific Thursday

This week I am sharing with you my Brusho tags

I have used  Stamp Sets

Art of Life (contains 4 stamps)

Campervan ~ For Sentiment (contains 22 stamps)

I punched out 3 tags and chose my Brusho colours

do love these backgrounds

I then grabbed my newspaper and stamped flower heads and did a few rips , coloured these with matching Distress Oxides

Stamped the flower onto the tags

Painted up the leafs

I stuck on the newspaper bits leaving a little border so I could colour black for a shadow effect

I stamped on the sentiment

and doodled around the edge of the tags 

Using a couple of random stamps I carried on with the background

Thank you for stopping by today

Moderne Flowers - again - A5 Moderne Flower Stamp Set

I just love this stamp set it's such a beautiful and versatile little flower stamp.  To create the background paper, I stamped the A6  Leaves Stamps onto pink paper, then embossed with white embossing powder.  I inked the paper with green and yellow distress inks.  I stamped the A5 Moderne Flowers 4 times with versa mark ink pad and embossed with white embossing powder.  I cut each flower out with a hexagon die and inked the background with yellow and green distress inks.  I coloured the flowers with water colours.  I used a larger hexagon die and cut out 4 in black card, and layered the flowers on top.  I used black card and layered the backing paper on top of this, then cut out the sentiment with a die and made a messy bow.  Once it was all assembled, I thought that for balance, I should just have used 3 hexagons!  Lesson learned.  You can find this Stamp Set and many more here.

Thank you for looking.

Alice xx

Blossom Flower with Seasons Text - A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set A6 Seasons Text Stamp Set

Good Morning

Alice here to show you my latest DT Sample.  This was made using the A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set and the A6 Seasons Text background stamp.  You can find these stamps and many more fabulous stamps by clicking here

Materials: A6 Seasons Text and A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Sets.  6x6 blank card, black card and white card, Butterfy Die, Embossing Powder and some Gems.

Stamped and embossed the Seasons Text background and matted it onto black card.  Stamped the Blossom Flower head, masked it off and added half the leaf stem.  Embossed this with black embossing powder and matted onto black card.  

Matted and layered the background paper onto black card, and attached to card blank.  Made a little border by stamping one of the smaller flowers onto white card, then matting it onto black card.

Attached the border to centre of the card and attached the background and blossom layers to the card.  To finish off I added a little die cut butterfly and some gems.

Thank you for looking,

See you all next week
Alice xx

Enjoy Your Day - A5 Girls Night Out Stamp Set

Good Morning

Alice here, showing you a Birthday Card I made using the following Stamps Sets:

A5 Girls Night Out 
A6 Moderne Flower 
A6 Leaves 
A6 Border and Stems

I stamped the shoes onto patterned paper, and also onto a cerise coloured card and paper pieced them together and added some crystal embellishments.  I cut the large Moderne Flower in Cerise Card and fussy cut them out.  I also stamped it onto heat resistant Acetate and embossed it with white embossing powder.  I layered the 2 coloured flowers together and added a crystal in the centre.  I stamped out the smaller flowers in 2 sizes and also layered them.  I inked the background card with oxide inks.  I used the Stitched Border Stamp around the edge of the white mat.  I matted the layers together them added the shoes and the floral embellishments.  I finished off with the Enjoy Your Day stamp from my stash.

You can find details of this card on my blog

Thank

It's Christmas....

Hi there Jan here today

This week I have been playing with the amazing Christmas Mini Stamps

I had oodles of fun as you can see below

I started of by making a card and a matching bauble tag

I masked of an area and used Distress Oxides, with some splashes of water and white paint

I stamped the images to make a scene and coloured up using Distress Inks

You need to look carefully for the snowy, starry sky

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My second project were a couple of quick tags /toppers

Oxide background with some random stencils and some more cute stamps

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My third project some ATCoins, a big love of mine to make

Again Oxide backgound and then using the amazing Mini stamps that were painted  - I finished of these makes using Nuvo Drops

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My final project for this week is some mini cards with matching envelopes, these would be perfect for the children to colour in and give to there friends , there are so many stamps in this set (29!!) that each card could be different

My other idea for these stamps would be an advent box with a little drawer with a stamp on each, plenty to choose from , I ran out of time this week but maybe a project for the future 

Thank you for looking today and don't forget to check out those 

 Christmas Mini Stamps

Unicorn Wings - A6 Flying Unicorn Stamp Set

Hello Again

Alice here, I had a little play with the A6 Flying Unicorn stamp sets from Colourific.  This is a great little set of stamps and will be loved by every little girl.  To find these and lots more stamps click here.

To make this card, I used distress oxide inks, and made 2 rainbow backgrounds out of 5.5 square paper.  I used the Border and Stems to add a border round one of the sheets, then cut it into 4 equal squares.  

I cut out 2 circles, one from the 2nd rainbow background and the other out of white card.  I cut a smaller circle from the middle of the white circle to make a frame and stamped the border around the circle.  I embossed the rainbow circle with a star embossing folder.

I attached the 4 small square evenly onto a 6 x 6 card.  I matched up the colours of the rainbow circle, raised it with pads and attached onto the card.  

I stamped the Unicorn and horn, and coloured in with copics, and used a glitter pen over the top.  I stamped and coloured the Unicorns mane again and decoupaged it on top of the original.  I shaped the Unicorn and attached to the circle.  

I stamped out 5 of the little flowers and coloured them in with the same colours as the rainbow background and stuck them around the circle.  

I hope you like it xx

Life in the Fast Lane - A6 Sports Car Stamp Set

Good Morning All

Welcome to my first blog as Design Team Member for Colourific.  I have used the A6 Sports Car stamp set for my first card.  

·         I used a stencil to ink through the corners of a background paper and matted it onto a piece of navy card.  

·         Stamped the wheels/cogs from the same stamp set to make the little background panel and a very old background map stamp from my stash (I have no idea where it came from) for the other panel.  These were both matted onto navy card.

·          The  car was stamped and coloured with copic markers and fussy cut.  I used Glossy Accents in the windows and along the trim and round the wheels of the car.

·          Used some glitter card and matted it onto navy card for the border.

·          Finally I stamped the “Life in the Fast Lane” stamp from this set onto white card and embossed and matted onto navy card.

Here is a link to the website, where you can find all the stamps :- 

https://colourific.co.uk/shop?olsPage=products&page=1

Colourful block stamping- DT member Verity

Hello! So good to be here. It's Verity here from Pretty Little Button with another card for you today. This card features stamps from the A6 Moderne flowers clear stamp set from Colourific. This stamp set has some beautiful designs to it, but I just picked the two sketchy stamps for these cards. I wanted to show you how versatile this set is, that you can use these stamps in other ways than just the way they were first intended for. They were perfect for colourful block stamping, creating two bold and modern cards.

Colourful block stamping card details:

For this first card, mask off a square on an 8.25" x 3.5 white cardstock. Using the main flower from the stamp set, stamp repeatedly over the square in black ink. For a professional look, make sure you stamp over the edge of the square, though make sure you have masked your card beneath off as well.

Using a marker colour in sections of the flower for a modern bold look. I used a Zig Clean Clear Clour brush here but you can use any marker as long as you have used the right ink and paper for that marker.

Mat this panel with two thin strips of black card and wrap black twine around the bottom. Foam mount this panel onto an 8.25" x 4 white card base. Stamp a sentiment from you crafty stash and finish with a few Nuvo drops.

For this second card, mask off a long strip down an 8.25" x 4 white card base. Using a piece of acetate, ink smoosh selection of distress oxides onto the card. The easiest way to do this is by smooshing the ink pad onto a smooth slick surface like a glass mat. Spray this with water until the ink moves about. Place the acetate sheet down and pick up some ink. Transfer this over to your card, and smoosh down.

Keep applying colours until you are happy; you can dry the layers in between if needed. Using the sketchy petal from the stamp set, repeatedly stamp in black up and down the panel. Just make sure you haven't removed your masking tape yet. 

When happy, remove the masking tape and stamp a sentiment from your crafty stash. To finish wrap black twine around to help bring contrast to the card. 

Colourful block stamping creates bold and modern cards, perfect for any occasion. Whatsmore you can use any stamp to create these card, even if you aren't using them in the traditional way. The moderne flower clear stamp set is a perfect example of using them in a different way than intended, showing the versatility of this stamp set!

I hope you love today's card and don't forget to check out the stamp set, link below. If you loved this card please leave a comment below as we would love to hear from you. 

Links:

Colourific.co.uk Shop

A6 Moderne Flowers Clear Stamp Set

Until next time!

Verity

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Dream ~ Karen

Hello everyone!  It's Karen with you today, and I have a simple card using 3 different stamp sets to share:

 I started by die cutting a circle shape from a piece of scrap paper to create a mask, then I taped it down on my cardstock and created an ombre/sunset effect using three colours of Distress Oxide Inks (Wild Honey, Worn Lipstick & Candied Apple).  After removing the mask, I stamped the two flowers from the Moderne Flowers set, the leaves and butterfly from the Leaves stamp set, and added the Dream sentiment from Unicorns & Chasing Rainbows - all in Black Versafine ink.  I drew in the stems with a fine black marker.

I used my sewing machine to stitch the panel down to some black cardstock, and popped the whole piece up with some pop dots before adhering it to my patterned paper.  I added a few white sequins to finish it off.  You can find all of the stamp sets on the Colourific website here... or click on the stamp names above to go directly to them on the site.  Happy stamping!