Marleen DT, Sleigh ride..

Hello Everyone
and welcome to the blog.

Once again wednesday and my turn to share some inspiration using the amazing stamps from Colourific.

For todays card I've used the "Santa's Sleigh" set.

 Once again a very simple card.
I started with a black piece of card stock which I ran through my big shot with an embossing folder.

I then stamped, also on black card stock, the sleigh with versamark ink and heat set it using gold embossing powder.
I die cut the greeting and the holly for the corner and heat set them as well with the same gold embossing powder.

I finished by creating a mat, using the same embossing powder, by just swiping my versamark pad around the edges and heatsetting the powder.

And that is all from me for today.

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 Happy Crafting

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