Perpetual Calender

Good Morning all...

Caz  here today to give you some inspiration...I'm trying something new with this and used some water paints i got last week..Not sure i like, but they do say practice makes perfect, if anyone can be perfect..

I wanted to do something bit diffrent and thought i would make a perpetual calender..I stamped diffrent size flowers here n there, painted and added gems to centres..Can you guess when i made this ..lol..This is a sil file and cut on my portrait cutting machine..

What i have used..

A5 Chrysanthemum Stamp Set
Water card..
Water paints..
Gems for centre of flowers

Thank you for looking

Caz

P.s  dont forget our challenge only have till thursday to enter..

Say Thank You Hibiscus Style

Good Morning

Alice here with another Monday morning blog post.  Had some fun, playing with the Colourific A5 Hibiscus Stamp Set.  Have a look at my makes.

Materials Used:

A5 Hibiscus Stamp Set
A6 Leaves Stamp Set
Black Card
White Card
White Embossing Powder
Washi Tape
Nuvo Drops
Thank You Sentiment Stamp
Black Fine Liner
Gems
White Ribbon

• Cut out a Black DL Card.  Cut a piece of white Card 1/4" shorter than DL card.  Placed the Washi Tape diagonally across the white card.  Randomly stamped the stems and swirls over the card and embossed.  Used Bundled Sage and Worn Lipstick Distress Ink to ink alternate corners of the card.  Stamped "Thank You" sentiment along bottom of card.  Used fine liner pen to add detail around each coloured side.
• Stamped 2 yellow and 1 pink large Hibiscus Stamp and centre stamen and fussy cut out.  Shaped the flowers with a bone folder, and attached stamen to centre of each flower.  Added flowers diagonally down centre of card, the stamped out 6 leaves, coloured with Copics and attached to card.  To finish off I added 3 gems at either side of flowers
• Made a matching tag using same procedure but using only 2 small Hibiscus flowers.
• Made the box using a die.  Made some pink and bundled sage background paper, cut and attached to box.  Stamped a middle size Hibiscus flower and attached to front of box. Added some leaves to finish off.

Thank you for looking.

Stained Glass Flowers take 2

Happy Colourific Thursday Jan here

I am here today to share with you another Colourific make

I used the Stained Glass Kaleidoscope Stamps to layer up to make flowers

this is so much fun really enjoy creating snipping away to make something different

I also used the Stem from Hydrangeas Stamp Set

It fitted perfectly

I coloured up using Distress inks

and splashed a little ink for the background

once dry I stamped the stem added a few white dots and assembled my flowers

Just love the way they pop of the page
Finished of with some red hot pearls

Thank you for stopping by

Pillow Boxes

Happy Colourific Thursday Jan  
August 1st really??

 here today to share with you some Pillow boxes I made

I do love to make these

I used two stamp sets from Colourific

Hydrangeas

and

Chrysanthemum

Both Beautiful Stamp Sets with lots of potential

I cut my boxes out using my portrait cutter and added some acetate to the windows

(For those that know me ....Yes the paper is from B n M's Bargain at £2.99 this one is called Grandma's Garden)

Very easy to make up with only one glue line needed

I then stamped up the flowers and leaves a few times so I could layer up

I coloured these with distress ink and used a white Posca pen for detail

There are some tiny little middle stamps in the sets I covered these with Nuvo Drops and left all to dry.............

I made up my flowers and attached middles , there very shiny in real life

Attached the flowers to my Pillow boxes 

A very easy, and simple project

They just need to be filled with goodies now

Thank you for stopping by

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.

Marleen DT - Watercolour Peonies

Hello Everyone.

I'm Marleen and today I wanna share my first post since returning to the design team for
Colourific

I was on the DT last year but took a break from crafting and Annelies has been so kind to offer me to return to the team. Many thanks Annelies, I'm delighted to be back x

 This card is a simple stamping and masking technique.
I started by stamping the (red) flower in the corner. I then re-stamped the flower onto a post-it-note and cut it out. Adding the post-it-note over the flower I then stamped the (pink) flower in the other corner and finished with the (orange) flower above. I made post-it-note masks for all the flowers and stamped the leaves .

Then it was a simple matter of stamping my greeting and colouring in. I tend to use water colours or water colour pencils for my colouring and that's what I used here.

A very simple card but rather effective.

I used the flowers from the - A5 Peonies stamp set
and the sentiment is from the - A6 Princess Text set.

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

Build a Wreath - A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set and A6 Leaves Clear Stamp Set

Hi everyone, Alice here,  A bit late in getting this on for today, but thought I would post it anyway.  I was having a little browse through some You Tube tutorials on inking techniques, when I stumbled across a fabulous tutorial.  No, it's not what you think, absolutely nothing to do with Inking techniques at all.

It was a tutorial on how to make a "Build a Wreath Template" for a stamping platform.  I studied the tutorial, but way too much measuring for me.  I went to the Scan n Cut and produced my own template using square shapes.  Probably not the best in the world, but it worked for me.

I knew instantly, that this would work well with the A6 Moderne Leaves from Coulourific which you can find here.  I also used some of the small flowers from the A6 Camper Van and A6 Blossom and Grown Sets.

Here are some of the samples I played around with, some are better than others, but I am just learning!!  I have made one into a card which you can see in one of my later blogs.

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

Birthday Wishes - A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set and A6 Border and Stems Stamp Set

Hi Everyone

Alice here with my Monday morning blog.  I am having a great time playing with this set of "A6 Blossom and Grow" stamps from Colourific.  You can find them by clicking here

Materials:  c, Green Card, White Card, Backing Paper, Copic Markers, Silver Glitter Embossing Powder, Flower Embossing Folder and a Circle Die.

I used the Border stamp around the edge of the background paper and heat embossed with Silver Glitter powder, then layered a green square and the backing paper onto the blank card. I cut a smaller green square and layered it onto the backing paper with sticky pads.  

I cut a smaller white square and die cut a circle out of the middle, then embossed it with the embossing folder.  I used another piece of the background paper and stamped the Birthday Wishes onto it and embossed with Silver Glitter embossing powder. I centred the sentiment in the middle of the die cut circle and attached it to the card with sticky pads.

The flowers and stems were stamped and coloured with copic pens.  I glued the stems onto the card and raised the flower heads with sticky pads and attached.  I added a little bow to finish it off.

Campervan Stamps

Hi there Jan here *It's my Colourific Day*

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This week I have been playing with two stamp sets

Campervan (contains 22 stamps)

Say It With Flowers (contains 8 stamps)

For my project this week I made 3 cards

These cards are 6" x 6"

I stamped using Archival Ink onto water colour card

Using Distress Inks to colour and white posca for fine detail

(loving the colours)

I adored the campervan there is so much detail and the set contains so many stamps .

Included is a set of numbers and another number plate so you could fully create your own to match the recipient

I finished of using the large sentiment from Say it with Flowers

It is so good how the sets can be combined and work so well with each other

Thank you for stopping by today

xx

Bloom and Grow - A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set

Good Morning

Alice here, today I want to share a Card and Artist Trading Coin I made with the new A6 Blossom and Grow and A6 Seasons Text stamp sets.  The "Blossom and Grow"  is a lovely little set of stamps and is very versatile.  To find these stamps and many more on the Colourific Website click here

I had never heard of Artist Trading Coins until I saw my fellow DT members showing them.  This is a great idea for using up all the scraps.

For the card, I stamped the Seasons Text stamp onto pink card and embossed with Silver Glitter embossing powder.  I wrapped a ribbon round twice and tied it off.

I used some Inks to colour a piece of white card.  When this was completely dry, the flower was stamped to the side of the card and embossed with Silver Glitter embossing powder.  I used the more of the ink from my pallet to add deeper shades of pink on the flower and added fine splashes of pink ink onto the white space.

When it was completely dry, I attached the pink border and flower panel onto a piece of pink card then layered this onto a 6 x 6 card.  I added some pink gems to finish it off.

For the Artist Trading Coin, I cut out 2 x 2.5 inch layers of thick card and glued them together.  I had a piece of pink card that I tried to foil with the Seasons Text background.  It didn't foil properly, but I was able to cut a 2.5 inch circle from the best part and glue it onto the thicker circle and inked the edges.  I used a die to cut out a hessian piece and trimmed it down.  I stamped the "Blossom" flower onto white card and embossed with Silver Glitter embossing powder and used the remainder of my ink to colour it pink.  I finally stamped the stem with green ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.  I built up the coin using layers and raised the flower to give depth.  Finally I stamped out a sentiment from my stash and cut the words up and mounted them onto the coin.

Thank you for looking xx

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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Rambling Flowers & Leaves card

I made this card which was inspired by a video I watched by Jennifer McGuire

Used stamp sets A4 Alphabet & Numbers, A6 Leaves and A6 Moderne Flowers

The stems and centre of leaves were hand drawn with a fine liner to finish

Flowers, Flowers and more Flowers

This is the first card I made using the stamp sets

A6 Marquise Petals & Circular and A6 Borders & Stems

Firstly, I stamped the petals for the flowers with the marquise shapes

then coloured them in with distress inks using a water brush

then I added and stems and finally the leaves. The centres of the leaves

were drawn with a fine liner to finish