Be My Valentine

Hello again

Love playing with the Heart Stamps.  I made this one for Valentine's Day, but forgot to post it.  It could just as easily be adapted for an Anniversary Card, or a "Just for You" card.  This was made using the A6 Singing Hearts stamps from Colourific.  You can find this and many more here on their website

Materials Used:

A6 Singing Hearts

A6 Love Hearts

Sentiment Stamps from Stash

6x6 White Card Blank

5.75 x 5.75 Black Mat

5.5 x 5.5 White Stamping Card

Gold Embossing Powder

Clear Embossing Powder

Fired Brick Oxide Inks

Versmark Ink Pad

Circle Mask

Pearl heart Gems

Black String

• Attached Black Mat to 6x6 card Blank
• Using Fired Brick Oxide, inked lightly across the whole card.
• Attached Circle Mask to centre and inked the card again, emphasing the area around the circle mask.
• Remove mask and stamped middle size solid heart from Love Hearts three time along top of circle using red/pink ink.  Stamped over these again with versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder. 
• Stamped the string stamp in Versamark coming from each heart and embossed with gold embossing powder.
• Stamped small heart on a string from Singing Hearts stamps at each side of the heart balloons and embossed with gold powder.
• Stamped large Love Heart stamp with versamark and embossed with gold embossing powder.  Coloured with pink alcohol makers. 
• Attached large heart to circle with foam pads.
• Stamped middle Love Heart onto scrap card and fussy cut.  Used versamark to ink edges and embossed with gold embossing powder. Stamped “Valentine”  and added to centre of heart.
• Inked edges of stamped card with versamark and added gold embossing powder.  Added string around bottom.  Attached to card.
• Used Glossy Accents on large heart and 2 small hearts
• Finished off by adding “Be Mine” banner and gem to large heart.  And adding “Valentine” hear to bottom right with a heart gem.

Thank you for looking.

A5 Gnomes - I'll be Gnome for Christmas

Hi All

Alice here another little Christmas Gnome for you.  You can find this stamp and many other fabulous stamps at here on their website.

Materials Used:

A5 Gnomes

A6 Christmas Minis

DL Card Blank

9.5 x 20.25cm Red Mirri Mat

9.25 x 20cm White Stamping card

Various Patterned Christmas Papers

Red Gems

Various Distress Inks

Piece of Christmas Ribbon

•        Matted the Red Mirri Card onto DL card blank
•        Masked off Oval at top part of stamping card, inked around edges using distress ink.
•        Removed mask and using torn paper inked snow hills inside the oval.  Using a tree   stamp and second generation ink add few trees along the bottom of the hills.   Stamped the Snowman and Reindeer from the Christmas Minis to each side of the   oval.
•       Stamped the Gnome onto a piece of white card and 2 pieces of Christmas paper and some brown paper.  Fussy cut out all the layers and placed onto the original image.  Used flesh coloured pens to colour face.  Attached to main card.
•      Glued the Gnomes beard and added some fun flock.  Added some fluffy stuff to pompom and heated.
•      Added piece of Christmas paper to the bottom and secured a piece of ribbon around it. Attached mat to main card and added a Sentiment to the bottom.  Finished off by stamping the small holly stamp from Christmas minis to each corner and added some gems.

Hibiscus - Thinking of You

Good Morning

Alice here, Monday Morning again, and another Blog from me.  I started this sample out as CAS, but as you can see, as always, it didn't work out.  Guess I am not so good at clean and simple.  Another little card using the A5 Hibiscus Stamp set.  You can find this stamp set and many other fabulous stamps here

Materials Used:

 A5 Hibiscus Stamp set
A6 Leaves
A6 Borders and Stems
Parchment Paper
Distress Inks
Clear Embossing Powder
Nuvo Drops
Square Dies
6x6 White Card Blank

• Used the A6 Borders to stamp around the edge of the card
• Used A6 Leaves and 2 colours of distress ink to stamp out leaves, then fussy cut out.
• Using distress inks, stamped the Hibiscus flowers onto parchment paper, then embossing with clear embossing powder.  Flowers were then fussy cut out.
• Cut out a black frame using square dies and attache to centre of card.  Added a sentiment die cut to the top left hand side of square.Stamped and cut out the stamens to add to centre of largest flowers.

Peony With Love

Good Morning

Alice here, hope you are all well this morning.  Here is my blog post for today.  Had another play with the A5 Peony Stamp Set.  Just love this versatile little stamp set.  You can find this and many more on the Colourific Website

Materials Used:

A5 Peony Stamp Set
6x6 Black Card Blank
5.75 x 5.75 Gold Mat
5.5 x 5.5 White Mat
Embossing Folder
Scraps of Gold adn Black Card
Distress Inks
Copic Markers
Glitter Glue
With Love Sentiment Die
Black Thread

• Matted the gold then black mats onto the 6x6 black card blank
• Used the embossing folder to emboss the white mat
• Placed some pink and yellow distress inks onto a blending mat and sprayed with water. Used the edge of the embossed mat and pulled it lightly through the ink, so give a distressed look.
• Used the yelow and pink distress inks to ink around the remainder of the card.
• Stamped the Peony out with Memento Ink and coloured with copic markers. This was then fussy cut out.
• Stamped a stem with green distress ink and fussy cut out.  Attached the stem to the right hand side of the card.
• Placed some glue gel at the top of the stem and added some scrunched up black thread.  Arranged this so that it would pop out at the sides of the Peony flower then added flower on top.
• Used dies to cut out three different width banners, layered them together and added to left hand side of card.  Cut out the With Love Sentiment and added to centre of banner

Hibiscus in a Row

Good Morning

Alice here, with the usual Monday Morning Blog.  Halfway through September already, where are the weeks and months disappearing to.  Thought I would have a little play with the A5 Hibiscus Stamp set for this blog.

Materials Used:

A5 Hibiscus Stamp Set
A6 Campervan Stamp Set
A6 Moderne Flowers
6x 6 card blank
5.75 x 5.75 Black Card
5.5 x 5.5 Stamping Card
Pink, Blue and Green Distress Ink
Black Versafine Ink
Grey Versafine Ink
Gems
Happy Birthday Die Cut

• Use a piece of torn A4 copy paper to mask off the top and bottom third the of card.  Used Pink Green and Blue Distress Inks to ink up the middle third of the card.
• Using Black ink, I stamped 3 mall Hibiscus flowers on top of the inked background, then masked them off, and stamped in between these with 3 grey Hibiscus flowers.  Used one of the stems from the set to add a stem to each with the appropriate colour.  Used some small leaves from the Camper Van set to stamp on leaves.  Removed the top and bottom mask.  Got an inky mark on the white part of card, so used the grey ink pad to ink the edges of the card.
• Attached black layer to white card base.  Use versamark ink pad add ink to edges of stamped layer and added some silver sparkle embossing power.
• Cut Happy Birthday Sentiment and embossed with silver sparkle powder.
• To finish off, I stamped 3 little butterflies from the Moderne Flower Stamp set, coloured with the three shades of ink and attached to the card.  Added a gem to the centre of each flower

Hibiscus Blossom and Grow Crate - A5 Hibiscus Clear Stamp Set

Good Morning Everyone

Alice here with my first Monday Morning Blog for August.  Where do the weeks all disappear to?  This week I had a little play with the A5 Hibiscus clear stamp set.  This is a lovely stamp to use, and I love all the little swirls and stamens that come with it.  I decided to make a Popup Box Crate with this set and here it is:-

You will find this and all of the stamps used on the Colourific Website here.

Materials Used

A5 Hibiscus Clear Stamp Set
A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set
A6  Moderne Flowers Stamps Set
A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set
Pieces of scrap Acetate
White Card
Scraps of Patterned Paper
Some Die Cut Butterflies
Double Sided Red Tape
Glitter
Gems

• Stamped 4 of the large and 4 of the small Hibiscus Flowers in different coloured inks.  Also stamped various sizes of flowers from the Moderne Flowers onto scraps of patterned paper.  All flowers were fussy cut and attached to small strips of Acetate with double sided tape.
• Stamp out various sizes and shapes of the A6 Leaves using different coloured inks to shade the leaves.  These were fussy cut out.
• The flowers, and some of the leaves were attached to small strips of Acetate with the double sided tape.
• The box is made using:-
  8 - 6in x 1/2in strips (long sides)8 - 2in x  1/2in strips (short side)
  4 - 3.75 x 1in strips, scored at 1/2 in down long side (for corners)
  2 - 7in x 1/2 in strips, scored at 1/2in and 6.5 in (for inside slats)
  Box is assembled to look like a crate as in the picture.
• Add the flowers, leaves and butterflies whichever way you wish, making sure that when you fold the box flat it will still go in the envelope.
• Added some gems and glitter to the centre of the flowers to add some sparkle, then finished off with the Blossom and Grow sentiment.

See you all again next week.  Thank you for looking.

A Little Note To Say - A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set

Good Morning

Alice here, hope you are all well and ready for another Monday morning!

A week or so ago, I found a new technique to make a wreath.  You can make your own Build a Wreath template by following tutorials on You Tube.  I knew this technique would work well with the Colourific A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set.  You can find this stamp set, and many more super stamps  by looking on the Colourific Website here

Materials Used:

A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set

A6 Camper Van Stamp Set

A6 Border and Stamp Stamp Set

6 x 6 White Card

5.5 x 5.5 White Mat

5.5 x 5.5 Green spotty mat

5 x 5 White Mat

Butterfly Die

Various coloured inks

• Inked the largest mat with sage green ink and the smaller one with lilac ink.  
• Used my stamping platform and my homemade template to make the wreath using various sizes of leaves and flowers.  Using a scalpel I carefully cut out the centre of the wreath.  
• Using the stamping platform, I stamped the border around the edge of the 6x6 card, then layered the largest mat onto the white card.  
• Stamped the sentiment onto white card, cut it out and inked the edges with lilac ink.  I shaped the sentiment using a bone folder and attached it through the wreath, then used foam pads to attach the wreath mat onto the green spotty mat and attached it to the card. 
• Finished off with a die cut butterfly which was inked with green and lilac inks. Finally added small pearls to the card and the centre of the butterfly.

I really liked this card and hope you do too.