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

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.

Marleen DT - Stiched Friends in the snow.

Hello Everyone
and welcome to my blog.

Today I want to share a quick little card I made with stamps from Colourific.
Annelies have a great selection of stamps in the STORE, but the "Stitched Friends" are one of my favourite sets.. I have also used the "Christmas Minis" set for my card today.

For this little card I started by making a background of snow. Its made by simply tearing a piece of copy paper into something that resembles mountains. Then simply swipe your blending tool, starting on the paper and out onto your card, so you build up colour. Move the paper around and repeat till you get the desired effect.

I used the "Spotty Background" stamp to create the snowfall on the background. I simply stamped with versamark ink and set with white embossing powder.

My little stitched snowman is stamped and coloured with watercolour pencils on to water colour card stock, as is my little robin.
The candy cane I stamped with red distress ink and just dragged a bit of the stamped colour around.

I added them all to my snow background with foam tape, mounted the background at an angle on to my mat and then stuck to my card.

And that is all from me for today.

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

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 Happy Crafting

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 - Christmas Greetings

Good Morning

Alice here.  Hope you are all getting well prepared for Christmas.  Sorry about my picture today, it seems to be very light.  It is a much deeper shade in real life!  I used the A5 Gnomes Stamps for this and the small tree from the A5 Trees Stamp Set.  You can find all the stamps I used and many more on the Colourific Website. 

Materials Used:

A5 Gnomes

A5 Trees

11.5 x 21cm Kraft Card Blank

10.75 x 19.25cm Gold Mirri Mat

9.5 x 19cm Kraft Card Mat

Various colours of distress inks

Glitter Glue

• Using a little piece of double sided tape I secured the smaller piece of kraft card centrally onto the card blank then secured these layers onto a Stamping Platform with magnets.
• Stamped the Gnome with Vintage Photo Distress ink onto 9.5x19.25cm Kraft Card.  Leaving the card on the stamping platform  I Sprayed with water and let the dye seep outwards.  Used a paintbrush to bring it out a little further. 
• Keeping the card still in place on the stamping platform, put some Vintage Photo Distress Ink and Green Dye ink onto glass mat. Using water and paint brush I painted the Gnome with muted colours of the inks.  When this was dry, I stamped over the image.
• Still keeping the work on the Stamping Platform, I put a mask over the Gnome and used the small Christmas Tree to stamp a border around the 2 layers of card.
• Remove from stamping platform and separate the 2 layers of card.  Mat the image onto the Gold mat, and using foam pads mount it onto the Kraft Card making sure the border of trees match up.
• To finish off I added a Christmas Greeting layered onto a piece of gold mirri card. 
• Used glitter glue for the pompom, beard and stars.

           Thank you for looking, and happy crafting.

A5 Trees - Lots of Love at Christmas

Good Morning

Alice here, with my Monday morning blog.  Not sure what happened last week, but I seem to have missed a week!  To much on my mind lately!  I used the A5 Trees stamp set which you can find here on the Colourific website.  I love this stamp set, its such a lovely tree.

Thank you for taking time to look.

Alice Mitchell – Lots of Love at Christmas

Materials Used:

A5 Trees

A6 Christmas Text

Snowflake Embossing Folder

8x x8 White Card Blank

7.5 x 7.5 Blue Glitter Card Mat

7.25 x 7.25 Pearlised Mat

4.74 x 6.25 Blue Glitter Mat

4.5 x 6 White Pearlised Mat

4.25 x 5.75 White Pearlised Mat

Stormy Blue Distress Ink

Versamark Ink pad

Clear Sparkle Embossing Powder

• Attached 7.5 x 7.5 Blue Glitter Mat to card blank. 
• Embossed 7.25 x 7.25 pearlised mat with Snowflake embossing folder and inked  edges with Stormy Blue Distress ink and attached to Blue glitter mat.
• Using some scraps of Blue Glitter Card and White Pearlised Card I made a banner to go along the bottom of the card and stamped and embossed a Greeting from the Christmas Text stamp set at the right hand side.  Attached this to the bottom of the card.
• Attached 4.5 x 6 pearlised with mat onto 4.75 x 6.25 Blue Glitter Mat
• In a stamping platform, I Stamped Large Tree onto 4.25 x 5.75 Pearlised Mat with Stormy Blue Distress ink the stamped again over the top with Versamark ink and embossed with clear sparkle glitter powder.  Inked the edges with Stormy Blue Distress Ink then attached this to the above Mats.
• Using some foam pads I attached the above mat onto the card.
• Finished off with some die cut snowflakes, a bow and some gems 

A5 Gnomes - I'll be Gnome for Christmas

Hi All

Alice here another little Christmas Gnome for you.  You can find this stamp and many other fabulous stamps at here on their website.

Materials Used:

A5 Gnomes

A6 Christmas Minis

DL Card Blank

9.5 x 20.25cm Red Mirri Mat

9.25 x 20cm White Stamping card

Various Patterned Christmas Papers

Red Gems

Various Distress Inks

Piece of Christmas Ribbon

•        Matted the Red Mirri Card onto DL card blank
•        Masked off Oval at top part of stamping card, inked around edges using distress ink.
•        Removed mask and using torn paper inked snow hills inside the oval.  Using a tree   stamp and second generation ink add few trees along the bottom of the hills.   Stamped the Snowman and Reindeer from the Christmas Minis to each side of the   oval.
•       Stamped the Gnome onto a piece of white card and 2 pieces of Christmas paper and some brown paper.  Fussy cut out all the layers and placed onto the original image.  Used flesh coloured pens to colour face.  Attached to main card.
•      Glued the Gnomes beard and added some fun flock.  Added some fluffy stuff to pompom and heated.
•      Added piece of Christmas paper to the bottom and secured a piece of ribbon around it. Attached mat to main card and added a Sentiment to the bottom.  Finished off by stamping the small holly stamp from Christmas minis to each corner and added some gems.

A5 Party Wordage - It's Party Time

Good Morning Everyone

Hope you are all well.  I'm still playing with the new Stamps from Colourific.  Here is my sample for today, using the A6 Party Wordage Stamp Set.

Materials used:

A6 Party Stamp set

21 x 15 cm card blank

20 x 14 cm Purple Mat

19.5 x 13.5 Lace Pattern Paper

2 sizes of Oval Dies

Scraps of Paper to cut 3 layers of Banner

Happy Birthday Sentiment

Fancy Oval Die for sentiment

Gems

Clear Sparkle embossing powder

Copic Markers

• Using the smaller die cut out oval from purple mat, leaving a little hanging off the paper.  Do the same process using the larger die and patterned paper. 
• Mat the patterned paper evenly onto purple card
• Temporarily place this mat and layer onto the centre of the card blank and position your stamp onto the white space.  Remove the layer and stamp “Party with a light lilac ink. Emboss with the clear sparkle embossing powder.
• Attach the matted layers onto the card blank with foam pads.  Make sure “party” is evenly centred.
• Stamp Happy Birthday Sentiment and “It’s Time to” and emboss.
• Cut up “It’s time to” into single words.  You will not require “To”.  Mat the Sentiments onto purple card and attach to card.
• Add the layered banner and the Happy Birthday Sentiment.  For some sparkle add some gems.
• I did add some Champagne Glasses on the bottom of this card, but sent the Sample off and forgot to take another photograph!!!!!!