We Wish you a Merry Christmas - A5 Trees

Hello Everyone

The last Monday Morning blog before the "Big Day".  I am going to finish off Christmas with this little shaker card using the A5 Trees Stamp Set.  You can find this stamp set and many more fabulous stamps on the Colourific Website here.

Materials Used:

A5 Trees

Cut n Emboss Christmas Folder

6 x 6 Card Blank

5.75 x 5.75 Blue Glitter Mat

5.5 x 5.5 White Mat

5.25 x 5.25 Light Blue Mat

5 x 5 Pearlised Mat

4.5 x 4.5 Pearlised Mat

4.5 x 4.5 piece of Acetate

Silver Sparkle Embossing Powder

Broken China Embossing Ink

Foam Tape

• Layer up Blue Glitter, White and Light Blue mats onto base card
• Use torn paper to ink hills onto 4.5 x 4.5 Pearlised Card then stamped Medium tree with Versamark ink and embossed with Silver Sparkle Embossing Powder
• Used embossing folder to cut and emboss 5 x 5 Pearlised Mat, then inked edges with Broken China Embossing ink. 
• Attached Acetate, behind the cut out oval
• Used 3 layers of foam tape around back of cut out oval to create the shaker element.  Used 1 layers of the foam down each edge so that I could shape the mat.
• Placed some extra-large glitter flakes ontocentre of stamped Chrismas Tree, and attached embossed layer to top.  Press firmly to ensure all glitter has been trapped inside the foam.
• Made a sentiment banner with stamps from my stash and added along the top of the oval.
• Finished off with some gems

                    Wishing you all a Merry Christmas.

Christmas Trees and Baubles

Good Morning Everyone,

Alice here with a Monday Morning Christmas Blog.  I loved making this card.  Just love, black, white and silver together.

Materials Used:

A5 Trees

A5 Peace and Joy

8 x 8 Card Blank

8 x 8 Silver Mat

6 x 6 Silver Mat

5.75 x 5/75 Black Mat

5.5 x 5.5 White Mat

5,25 x 5.25 Black Mat

Silver Sparkle Embossing Powder

Versamark Ink Pad

Sparkle Pens

Large die from my stash

•  Matted Silver Card onto white card blank
•  Cut out Large die with black card, added to Silver mat
•  Used Scrap card to make a silver and black banner, attached across centre of         card. 
•  Using foam pads attach the 6x 6 Silver layer centrally on top of border.  Add white   mat to black mat and attach to silver mat with foam pads.
•  On last black mat stamp large tree off the edge of the paper and emboss with silver   sparkle powder.  Used a mixture of baubles from Peace and Joy stamps and   randomly stamped towards left hand side of card and embossed with silver sparkle   glitter powder.  
•  Added Christmas Greeting to bottom of card and again embossed.
•  Attach the mat with foam pads and finish of with some gems

           Thank you for looking, hope you all have a great Christmas and Santa Claus is good to you.

A5 Trees - Christmas Greetings

Hello again,

Alice here with Monday morning's blog post.  It's getting nearer and nearer, so sharing another little Christmas card with you today.  This was made using the A5 Trees and the A6 Christmas Minis.  I absolutely love using the Christmas Minis.  They can be used for borders, background, build a wreath and you can also hang them from words like, JOY, and NOEL.  Fabulous little stamps set.  You can find all the stamps on the Colourific Website here

Materials Used:

A6 Christmas Minis

A5 Trees

A5 Peace and Joy

6 x 6 Red card Blank

5.5 x 5.5 Gold Glitter Mat

5.25 x 5.25 White Stamping Card

Piece of Gold Foil

Bonding Powder

Versamark Ink Pad

Various Distress Inks

Copic Markers

Gold Glitter Pen

•  Matted Gold Glitter Card onto Red Card Blank
•  Used Christmas Minis to stamp background and coloured in using Copic         Markers
•  Flicked the Gold Glitter Pen over the background and attached it to the Gold Glitter   Mat.
•  Stamped the Medium Tree onto a scrap of Green Card. Added Bonding Powder and   heated. Quickly add the foil to the heated bonding powder and rub gently over it.           Removed the foil and you have a foiled tree.  I fussy cut around the tree.
•  Stamped out the Christmas Greetings from the Peace and Joy Stamp set and matted   onto scraps of gold glitter and red card.
•  Attached the greeting to the bottom of the card with foam pads.
•  Attached the Tree with foams along the edge of the Greeting to give it something to     stand on.
•  Finished off with some gems

           Thank you all for having a look.  Happy Christmas Crafting 

A5 Gnomes - There's Gnome place like Home

Hi

Exciting times today, it's the 14TH OCTOBER, 2019 and that means the Launch of the new Colourific Stamps.  I was excited to get the new stamps and have been having a real good play with them.  I have chosen to use the new A5 Gnomes as my first DT sample.  Pop on over to Colourific to see the whole range of wonderful new Stamps. 

Materials Used:

A5 Gnomes

A5 Peace and Joy

Copic Markers Blue, Red and Green shades

8 x 8 Kraft Card Blank

7.75 x 7.75 Red Mat

7.5 x 7.5 Christmas Pattern paper

7 x 7 Red mat

6.75 x 6.75 White mat

Red Gems

Glitter Glue

Blue Distress Ink Pad

Tree Stamp from my stash

• Layer the 7.75x7.75 mat onto the Kraft Card, followed by the 7.5 x 7.5                          Patterned Christmas Paper.      
• Using Foam pads mat the 7 x 7 Red mat onto the Christmas Paper layer.
• Using a piece of torn copy paper and the distress ink, make a light snowy hill                 background and sky.
• Stamped the Gnome on Masking Paper and cut it out.  Stamped the centre Gnome first, then placed the mask over it and stamped the Gnomes either side.
• Coloured the first Gnome and used alternate colours on the other 2 Gnomes.
• Used the Branch from the Peace and Joy set and stamped it in various colours            along the top corner of the card.
• Masked off the Gnomes again and lightly stamped some trees behind so they looked in the distance.
• Added some glitter glue to the Gnomes Beards and the Pompoms on their hats.
• Stamped and embossed a Sentiment, matted it onto some scrap red card and attached it with foam pads     
• Finished off with some red gems on the branches.

Thank you to everyone for looking.  Remember to pop over to the Colourific Stamps website for a look at all the new stamps.

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

Friendship Makes Life More Beautiful

Good Morning

Alice here, how did we get to the last week in August so quickly.  I guess it's getting to that time where I need to think about Christmas Cards.  Maybe I'll wait until middle of September!!   Thought I would have a go at some up cycling this week.  I have had a few empty reels from Red Liner tape in the Craft Room for a few weeks.  What to do with them?  This is what I came up with.  You can find these stamps and many more over on the Colourifc Shop here

Materials Used:

A5 Hibiscus Stamp Set
A6 Leaves Stamp Set
Sentiment Stamp
Black Embossing Powder
Piece of Spotted Green background paper
Copic Pens
Nuvo Drops
Empty Red Liner Reel
Length of Natural Jute
Piece of Ribbon
Gems

• Wrapped the Empty Reel with the Jute.  
• Added the piece of ribbon to top to make a hanger
• Stamped 1 middle and 2 small hibiscus stamps.  Coloured 2 small ones with yellows and middle one with Purples, then fussy cut out.
• Stamped 4 leaves in various colours and fussy cut out.
• Using a circle die, I cut out a piece of background paper that fitted on the back of the reel.  Stamped the sentiment in the middle of the paper and embossed with Black embossing powder.
• Glued circle piece onto the back of the reel. Arranged and glued flowers around reel.  Added butterfly onto opposite side.
• Finished off with some gems from my stash.

Thank you for looking.

Baby Frame

Hello, it's Liz here,  I have something a little different to share today. I have used the Mirror Mirror stamp set as a picture frame. How cute is that? 

You could also use this versatile frame on a scrapbook page or for a baby keepsake. We would love to see if you do. Did you know you can share your makes over on the Colourific facebook page? Hope to see you there.

Thanks for stopping by today, happy crafting!

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