Celebrate Wordage Stamps on Coral and Amber

Everyone needs some word stamps and these from Colourific are just what you need.  You don’t even need a picture on these cards as this next one shows.

Here’s what you will need:

A5 Dark Red Card Blank

White Stamping Card

Black card for mounting

Distress Oxide inks - Abandoned Coral and Fossilized Amber

Blending mat or glass mat

Red Harmony Ink pad

Red and yellow fineliner

Onyx Black Versafine

Peach and yellow Nuvo drops

Gold gilding wax

Here’s how I made it:

1. Stamp the Distress Oxides onto the stamping mat, spritz with water and swish the stamping card through the ink. Dry the ink off and repeat until you are happy with your background.
2. Make sure the ink is completely dry before you stamp the Celebrate stamp onto the middle if the card in the red harmony ink. Colour in the gaps of the word with the red fineliner and the flourish and the stars in the yellow fineliner - see picture.
3. Stamp the Congratulations and your special occasion in black versafine.
4. Distress the edges with the Gilding wax.
5. Mount onto black card, then into the dark red card blank.
6. Distress the edges if the card blank with gold gilding wax - I use Pebeo gilding wax.
7. Finish off by adding co-ordinating Nuvo drops in the corners of the dark red card and the inky background.

This is a stunning card which doesn't show up well in the photograph - messy and fun to do. Just remember to make sure all the inks are dry before moving to the next stage.

See you soon for the next tutorial

Maria x

Gatefold Deer in the Forest

Hi everybody, 

It's Maria here, my turn to show you a card.  I've used the Winter Wonderland stamp set from Colourific to make this lovely gatefold card.

To make this card you will need:
A4 White card
A5 Winter Wonderland Stamp set
Co-ordinating winter backing paper
Die cuts of Reindeer and snowflakes
Distress Oxides for colouring
White Pen
Grey Alcohol pen
Versafine Smokey Grey ink pad
Catherine Pooler Aquatini ink pad
Tacky Glue
Green Sparkly paper/glitter card
Frame Die
Gelly Roll sparkle pen
Black Fineliner

This is how I made it:
1.  Cut a White card base 294mm x 150mm - to make gatefold, score at 73mm and 220mm.
2.  Cut a piece of stamping card 92mm x 135mm and stamp the deer onto the card, then make a mask and cover the image.
3.  Using a blue Distress Oxide ink pad, gently blend the top of the card to show blue sky, fade out towards the bottom 1/4.
4.  Stamp the bare trees using the grey Versafine in the two different sizes and with a grey alcohol pen draw shadows under the trees.
5. Remove the mask from the deer and colour using the different colours of Distress Oxides.  I used a Gelly Roll sparkle pen for the antlers and a fineliner for the nose.  I then coloured the trees and added white pen to highlight areas of the trees.
6.  Blend around the outside of the topper with the Aquatini ink pad.
7.  Cut a piece of the green sparkle paper to 100mm x 143mm and mount the topper onto this.
8.  To make the shaped card base, I folded along the fold marks to make the gatefold shape, I slipped the frame die in the middle, cut side up so that it cuts the front two flaps, then put it through the die cutter.
9.  Next I cut 2 pieces of one backing paper and 1 of the corresponding paper to 5mm smaller than the back panel.  Take one of each paper and die cut a frame in the middle (line up to the card base before you cut). Then cut down the middle so you have 4 pieces.
10.  With the other square backing sheet, blend the edges with the Aquatini ink pad.  Centre and glue the topper to this sheet and glue to the inside of the card blank.
11.  Glue the cut pieces to the front gatefold flaps, leaving a small border on the inside of the cut.  Make sure you put the same pattern on the inside of the flap as the paper on the back panel.
12.  Glue two die cut reindeer to the front two flaps with a snowflake die cut at the top of each gatefold flap.
13.  Finally, add different sized snowflake die cuts to the outside of the topper on the back panel and add Gelly Roll sparkle pen onto the snowflakes.

There you go, all done. It does take a little time but it’s worth it. Don’t forget to give me a shout if you’re stuck.

Marleen DT - Christmas is coming..

Hello Bloggers
and welcome to my blog

It's once again wednesday and my turn to share some inspiration for Colourific.
For today I have a couple of christmas cards to share using a few of the christmas stamps. Its never too early to start the christmas cards is it? lol You can find the stamps I've used and all the other fantastic stamps in the STORE.
For my cards today, I have used the following:
A6 -Holly & Berries Background
A6 - Xmas text Background
A5 Stitched Friends

 

 

 
Both cards has been made the same way. I started by stanping the background strips with the background stamps. The red one is coloured with distress oxide "mop up" and the green one was coloured with water colour pencils. Both of my stiched friends was stamped, coloured and fuzzy cut before being added on top of a die cut circle from vellum.

And that is pretty much it.. If you wanted to take this card to the next level, you could finish it with a few gems and even a greeting but I tend to keep my christmas cards extra simple.
And that is it from me for today.

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

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 Happy Crafting

Marleen DT - A bottle of love

Hello Bloggers
and welcome to my blog

Todays post is another tag. Im really enjoy crafting on tags and they can be used for so many things.
As per usual, I have used a selection of stamps from Colourific and you can find them all in the STORE.

The specific one I used for this tag is:
A6 - Grunge Background
A6 - Borders & Stems
A5 - Champagne & Cocktails

I used a tag cut from canvas paper, I really like working on this surface due to the way it takes the ink but also for the texture. I started by stamping my bottle with Archival (waterprrof) ink.

I then used Distress Stains and water to create my background. If you have ever used Distress products you will know that once you add water, the ink has a mind of its own lol, so there is no way to ever recreate a background fully.

Once I liked my background I stamped the details with Distress Oxide Inks.
I kept my stamp on the backing card as I stamped. Added a bit of ink and simply rolled the stamp over the corner of my tag. I find that not using a stamp block give a softer egde to the stamping.

I then took a bit of distress ink and coloured my bottle. It was already green from the background ink but I wanted it to pop a little bit.

To finish, I stamped the little details of the bottle on to scrap card and coloured with gold Distress Stain and oce dry, fuzzy cut and glued on top of the bottle. I added a few gems and Voila.. all done.

Oh before I go.. I just wanna mention our FaceBook group. Colourific now has a group for anyone who is interested in the products. There is a competition over there and the Desgin Team shares their projects every day. And we would love to see your Colourific creations too. Come and join us.

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

Autumnal Thanks - Design Team 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 Leaves clear stamp set from Colourific. This stamp set has a variety of leaves of different sizes and either as the outline or the bold full stamp. I used this stamp today with a masking and emboss resist technique to create a beautiful decorative panel. 

Autumnal Thanks card details:

To start, mask off an area for stamping - this area will be where we add colour later on. Now for this card, I used a stamping platform as I wanted to emboss the leaves where the colour was, and only stamp the leaves outside the colour in a simple ink - this area was not embossed.

Before inking, I prepped the area with an embossing buddy. The stamps were inked with versamark ink and covered in Pure Platinum embossing powder and heat set. Before moving the leaves to stamp in another area, I positioned the panel back into my stamping platform and covered the embossed area with masking tape. I removed the masking that I had originally put down to mask off the coloured area. 

With the stamps still in the same original position prior to embossing, I inked the stamps up with dark grey ink and stamped onto the card panel. I removed the masking paper to reveal continuous stamping between the embossing and the ink.  

I repeated this process of inking and embossing until I had a strip complete. To add the colour. I positioned the masking taped back onto the card cover the ink parts of the stamp and leaving over the embossing exposed. Using a blending tool and distress oxides (Fossilized amber, spiced marmalade and candied apple), I created a gradient embossed resist background. Once you have finished ink blending, removed the tape and buff the embossing with a dry paper towel. This will remove any excess ink left on top of the embossing. 

To finish the card, I added a layered 'Thanks' die cut from my stash and embellished with some colour corresponding sequins. The card panel was foam mounted onto an A6 (UK size) black card with a 1/8" border. 

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. 

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A6 Leaves Clear Stamp set

Until next time!

Verity

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Custom stamped backgrounds with small stamps - DT Member Verity (Video Tutorial)

Hello! So good to be here. It's Verity here from Pretty Little Button with another card for you today. Whatsmore, this post also features a video tutorial showing you how these cards were made. For these cards, I used a selection of stamps from the A6 Marquise petal and circular clear stamp set from Colourific. These stamps can be used in a variety of combinations to create some unique and funky flowers for your cards. However, today I am showing you how to get more out of the stamps and use these small stamps to create custom stamped backgrounds. I combined this with an emboss resist technique to create a gradient coloured background - perfect backgrounds for your sentiments to pop from. So, hit play and see just how easy they are to make!

Custom stamped backgrounds with small stamp video tutorial:

Custom stamped backgrounds with small stamp photos:

I hope you love today's cards 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. Also, if you loved this video, please subscribe to my channel, your support continues to motivate me to inspire you all!

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A6 Marquise petal and circular clear stamp set 

Until next time!

Verity

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