Love Life

Good Morning

Monday again.  The weather here has been awful, rain, hail, snow, and sunshine all in the one day! Too wet and cold to go out, so spent the day in the Craft Room.    Thought I would try something different with the A6 Love Hearts stamp set.

Materials Used:

• Using the mask, I stamped the Large Love Heart 5 times down the edge of the card, about an inch in from the edge.  I fussy cut out the card along the edge.
• Stamped the large Love Heart 5 times on different papers and fussy cut them out.
• Inked up the front of the card with pink ink and randomly stamped heart stamps over it.  Used glitter glue on the larger hearts.
• Added a white border and a piece of ribbon around the card
• Finally added each paper heart over its corresponding shape along the edge of the card.  Added a gem to each heart
• Stamped out “Love” and “Life” and attached to card.
• Added some gems to bottom of ribbon.

Thank you for looking.

Filled with Love

Good Morning

Been made several Simple Cards lately.  I think it shows that simple cards are just as effective as detailed ones.  You can find all the stamps I used here on Colourific website.

Materials Used:

A6 Singing Hearts

A5 Love Hearts

A6 princess Text

6x6 White Card Blank

5.75 x 5.75 Black Mat

5.5 x 5.5 White Stamping Card

Fine Liner Pen

Water colour pallet

Glossy Accents

• Attached Black Mat to 6x6 Card Blank
• Drew a border all the way around the 5.5 x 5.5 White stamping Card
• Randomly stamped a selection of the smaller heart stamps dangling from the top border of the card at various different lengths.
• Coloured hearts using water colour paints
• Stamped Sentiment in bottom left hand corner
• Stamped and extra heart out and stuck to side of sentiment with foam pad, then added glossy accents.
• Used sparkle pen to colour in some hearts
• Finished off with some gems.

Thank you for looking.

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.

Happy Anniversary

Good Morning Everyone

Sharing a card with you today made using Colourific Stamps.  You can find all the stamps I used here on Colourific Website:

Materials Used:

A6 Singing Hearts Stamps

8 x 8 White Card Blank

7.75 x 7.75 Black Mat

7.25 x 7.25 White Mat

6.75 x 6.75 Red Mat

6.5 x 6.5 White Mat

2 sizes of Heart Die

Gilding Flakes

Flitter Glue

Red Ink

Black Ink

Happy Anniversary Sentiment

• Attached Black Mat onto white card base
• Stamped Happy Anniversary centrally along each edge of White 7.25 square mat.  Stamped decreasing dots stamp in each corner with versamark ink and embossed with rose gold powder.  Attached to centre of black layer.
• Attached Red mat on top of Happy Anniversary mat with foam pads.
• Using middle heart stamp and Build A Wreath Template, stamped around the 6.5 square mat with 4 red and 4 black hearts. Attached this on top of the red mat.
• Cut large heart die in white card, stamped with flitter glue, and added gilding flakes.  Cut smaller heart die in red card. Using foam pads attached to gilding flake heart. Attached to heart wreath layer.
• Stamped large singing heart with flitter glue, added gilding flakes, fussy cut and attached to centre of red heart with pinflair glue.
• Used a red glitter pen to colour alternate layers on singing heart
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• To finish off I attached some small gold gems randomly over card.

Thank you for looking,

A6 Happy Birthday Wordage - Candles

Good Morning

Alice here with my Monday Blog.  Used this stamp previously, and it made me think of Birthday Candles on a cake, so that's where the inspiration for this came from.  A little bit of fun, I think.

Materials Used:

A6 Happy Birthday Stamp
6 x 8.25 Card Blank
5.75 x 8 pink Mat
5.5 x 7.75 White Stamping Card
Coloured Blending Pencils
Glitter pearl mist spray
Lemon, Candy Floss and Bubble Gum ink sprays
Paper Straws
Gold Glitter Card
Clear Embossing Powder
Gold Embossing Powder
Black Versafine Ink pad

• Attached pink mat to white card blank
• Using large oval die, I cut out an oval shape towards the top of the 5.5 x 7.75 White Stamping Card.
• On the cut out Oval, I stamped "Happy Birthday", embossed with Clear Embossing Powder and coloured with the blending pencils.  I sprayed this with Glitter Pearl mist and left to dry.
• Sprayed a Glass mat with some Lemon, Candy Floss and Bubble Gum ink sprays and swished the 5.5 x 7.75 stamping card in it.  Dropped some splashed of each colour ink onto this background and left to dry naturally.  When dry, I stamped "Wishing You a" along the top of the card and embossed with Gold Embossing Powder.
• Attached inked Layer onto pink mat with foam pads
• Stuck the Happy Birthday oval into the space it came out of.
• Cut the paper straws to required length and attached along the bottom of the crd.
• Used gold glitter card to cut out some flame shapes and added into to top of candles straws.
• Finished off with some gold gems.

Thank you for looking.

A6 Happy Birthday Wordage - DAD

Good Morning

Alice here with my Monday morning blog.  A nice little clean and simple card for today.

A6 Aztec Borders Stamps
A6 Happy Birthday Stamps
6 x 6 Black Card Blank
5.75 x 5.75 White Stamping Card
Gold Embossing Powder
Gold Sparkle Pen
Black Gems
Versamark Ink Pad
Black Versafine Ink Pad

• Stamped Aztec Border around the edge of 5.75 x 5.75 Stamping card and embossed with Gold Embossing Powder.
• Stamped "Happy Birthday" diagonally across the centre of the card and embossed with Gold Embossing Powder.  Coloured Centre of letter with gold sparkle pen.
• Stamped the "Day" part of the stamp twice onto black scrap card and embossed with Gold Embossing Powder.  Fussy cut the letters to make the word "DAD" and again coloured with Gold Sparkle pen.  Added this to the card with foam pads.
• Stamped "Just to say..." above the Happy Birthday with black versafine ink pad and embossed with clear embossing powder
• Added black gems to each corner to finish off.

Thank you for looking.

A5 Aztec Borders - Cocktails

 Good Morning

Alice here, hope you are all well. Christmas is behind us, so had a play with some other stamp sets.  I have used the A6 Aztec Borders on this card along with the A5 Champagne and Cocktails stamp set.  In both of these you get a lot of stamps for your money.  You can find these and many more stamps here on the Colourific Website

Materials used:

A6 Aztec Borders

A5 Champagne and Cocktails

6 x 6 Card Blank

5.75 x 5.75 Blue Glitter Card Mat

5.5 x 5.5 White Stamping Card

Distress Inks

Coloured Pencils

•  Layered Blue Glitter Mat onto Card Blank
•  Stamped various Aztec Borders diagonally on the bottom left hand corner of the White Stamping Card and coloured in with blending pencils.  Added some streamers using blue and yellow distress inks randomly over top right hand corner.  Inked edges with the blue and yellow distress inks.
• Stamped the Cocktail stamp onto scrap of white stamping card and coloured with blending pencils.
• Added some Glossy accents to the lemon and straw and umberella.
• Stamped a Sentiment and layered onto some gold glitter card, added to bottom of card with foam pads.
• Finished off with some Nuvo Crystal Drops

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

Zentangled Blossom - A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set

Good Morning, 

Alice here with my DT Card for today.  The open spaces in this card immediately made me think about the art of Zentangle.  I used the following Stamp Sets to create it:-

A6 Blossom and Grow 
A6 Border and Stems 
A6 Leaves

You can find them all here along with many other fabulous and versatile stamp sets. 

To make this I used a 6x6 blank card along with a 5.75 x 5.75 Black Layering Mat and a 5.5 x 5.5. white layer.  I used a stencil and a light grey ink pad to create a soft back ground.  I then stamped the 3 lined border all the way round.  I stamped each flower and several sizes of the solid leaves with black ink and embossed all of them.  I fussy cut out the flowers and used a black fine liner to create the Zen tangle patterns.  I used sticky pads and placed the flower diagonally across the front of the card, then placed the leaves where I thought they looked best.  I attached a crystal gem to the centre of each bloom then finished the card off with a greeting from my stash.

I like the finished card and hope you do too.  Thank you for looking.

See you next time

Alice xx

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

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.

Father's Day Sports Cars - A6 Sports Car Stamp Set

Hello Everyone

Alice here with my usual Monday Morning Blog.  Father's Day is approaching soon, so I thought I would get out the Colourific A6 Sports Car stamps to make a little card.  You can find this stamp set on the Colourific Website here

Materials:  Blank DL Card, 2 sheets background paper, A6 Sports Card stamps, Glitter Pens and Copics.  Peel Off borders.  Also used some die cut sentiments and a set of alphabets from my stash.

Measured each square of background paper 2in in from each corner and cut it diagonally. Glued the darker piece in place first, then added the 2 corners and added some peel off borders to set it off.

Stamped the cars, and cut one in half. Coloured all 3 pieces using copics and glitter pens and added Glossy Accents to the windows.  Placed the full car in the centre and raised with sticky pads.  The cut cars were placed at either side of the card.  Stamped the Triangle Warning 3 times and added the word Dad to it.  The sentiments are die cut works

Thank you for looking.
See you next week
Alice xx