Halloween House Number 1

Hello everyone, today I’m adding a couple of cards using the Houses stamp set from Colourific. I’ve made a couple of super easy cards and given them a little bit of a spooky look for Halloween.  Here is the first one and you can make it any size you want. Mine is a small A6 card.

Here’s what you will need:

Black card base

Black card stock

Orange card stock

Versamark

Gold embossing powder

Distress Oxide - weathered wood

Here is what I did:

1. Take a piece of black card and stamp a house in Versamark then emboss with an antique gold embossing powder.
2. Stamp the Weathered Wood Distress Oxide on your stamping mat and spritz with water.
3. Swish the card through it a couple of times and let it dry naturally.
4. Mount onto the orange card stock then mount onto the black card blank.

Easy and simple - you can embellish with ghosts, ghouls and pumpkins etc if you like but I wanted it desolated.

Keep an eye open later today for my second card

Maria x

Love, it’s not just black and white - it’s golden too

Keeping the colours simple today, Black white and gold. Using the Love Wordage stamp set, Beach Borders and baubles from the Rings stamp set - all from Colourific 

Here’s what you will need:

A4 White card
A4 Black card
A4 Gold Miri card
Love Wordage Stamps
A5 Rings Stamps
Beach Borders
Gold Embossing Powder
Versafine Onyx Black
Versamark
Gold Gel Pen
Black Felt Tip pen
3D foam pads

This is how I made it:

1. Cut a piece of white card 6.5x 4.5”.  Stamp the Love word using Black Versafine onto the white card and colour in the L, o and e using the gold gel pen and the v in black felt tip along with the flourish on the L.
2. On a separate piece of white card stamp and emboss 8 baubles from the rings sets as shown in the photo, using Versamark and Gold Embossing powder.  Colour in using the black felt tip.
3. Stamp 3 part borders at either side of the card and emboss in gold.
4. Stamp and emboss ‘at Christmas’ in the bottom right corner.
5. Mount onto black then gold Miri and stick onto an A5 white landscape card.
6. Cut out the baubles and apply 3D foam pads - stick under each of the borders as shown in the picture.
7. Using the black pen, draw in the strings from the borders and the flourish on the L to the top of the baubles.

Hope you enjoy making this elegant card.

Maria x

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

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 😁