Creative Expressions Thursday

Hi Folks

Huge thanks for all your kind words on yesterdays post , It is always nerve racking creating something with lots of layers and texture as to whether your audience is going to like it too as sometimes they can be very different and I am very thankful you are all here and that you like my pieces like that too. I love writing it all out for you too in case there are even small parts you would like to have a go at after all I started exactly that way too.

 So today I am using the Vintage rose garden Paper pad from Couture Creations for the last time this month next week we start a new month on the DT and will have new items to work with. So here is my last card for March with CE.

The Vintage rose garden Pad as you know from the last few weeks has paper in these gorgeous muted coral/pinks and green papers and some fawn type beige too and I chose some pieces of paper to match each other in the coral tones again for this week. I cut out a few sections to add together and add pieces in separate places to use for edges etc.

 I like to gather most of my pieces that I may use together as best as I can to have them to hand as we build the card. I cut out four of the die from Intiricutz by Couture Creations  cut in black card.

I saw these fab little flowers and butterflies on this piece of paper so I simply fussy cut a few flowers and butterflies for today's embellishments.

 I like to lay out the pieces I like and choose to add to get a feel for how I could start  as you can see I did end up changing how it turned out but I always do that  as I move things around until I feel like it will all fit together in the best and prettiest way as it were.

The Paper pad has several pages of sentiments and I chose this one for today's card and mounted it onto a piece of Black Foundation card from the natural pack sold on Create and Craft TV or any black or dark card you love to work with.

I distressed the edges of the papers I decided I would definitely use and inked the edges of all in Aged Mahogany distress ink to match, I chose two papers and added them together wrapping a piece of the Ribbon we were also sent for March Dt work but I also added a strip of crochet ribbon made by May arts too as I like the vintage feel mixed with textures like this crochet ribbon.

Here is another view so You can see the mats and layers I used to create the base the foundation of the card as it were. At this point I decided I wanted to have the card landscape as up til now it could still could have been landscape or portrait view still.

 I darkened the edges of the next piece I had previously distressed,  By the way I use the little Tim Holtz gadget to distress the edges of the paper before inking them with Aged Mahogany again.
I also decided to have something coming out of a rather large tear in the paper so I chose one of the Postcards again from the paper pad  I laid the top piece where I was going to have it and placed the little postcard in place I then moved the top piece and glued the postcard into position before adding the top piece back raised up on foam with the tear open by spritzing slightly with water and rolling the paper back round my pokey tool to make sure it stayed in this position.

 Here is a close up which also shows the edges and inking better  The mats and layers I used were blossom pink card and black foundation card to keep it all matching with the theme.

This next stage is where I brought in the embellishments I cut using the Intricutz Daffodil spray die and the items I fussy cut earlier the flowers and the butterflies I decided to keep the butterflies as they were and not add any bling etc  just let the beautiful paper speak for itself, I did however add some iridescent white pearls to the flower centres.
I also added a strip of the paper used in the back under the sentiment section to tie in the patterns from the back and keep the whole thing grounded and not so it just looks like a hodge podge of papers. I also added a couple of the pearls to this section too.

Here is a close up of the sentiment on another distressed section made earlier.

 I added one whole section of die cut under the bow and a half piece too which I cut into sections to add randomly as needed. The centre is the Bronze button embellishments from CE as part of the Finishing touches range.

This picture is a close up on the bottom left corner and the little flowers I fussy cut out with the pearl centres, I snipped in between each petal and shaped them a little with a ball tool before turning back the edges of the petal to just make them look pretty.

I decided against glitter and sparkle on this one I just wanted it to look classic a little vintage and nicely elegant. 

Here is a couple more angles of the finished piece.

 You can see I added a tiny piece of one of the die cut pieces behind the butterfly.

So I hope you like the finished card. I love this colour and especially mixed with the Aged Mahogany edges it really makes it so pretty and just a hint of sparkle in the 5mm pearls brings that tiny twinkle that keeps it elegant.

                           Thank you so much for being here with me and I will see you all very soon.

Lots of love

Kim 

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Creative Expressions Thursday

Hi Folks

Today of course is my day to have a little something made for Creative Expressions using the wonderful Vintage pad I have been showing you the last few weeks.

This time I thought I would go with a more green theme with a few of the pages matching then I cut out two hearts with the gorgeous Heart Bouquet Intricutz die made by Couture Creations and added them onto some left over pink paper and covered them in glitter which I them let a little pink chalk paint colour on some of the flowers, which gave a really pretty effect.
I turned both the hearts to one side overlapping to make it look a little like a butterfly with the sentiment also from the page of green sentiments in the book just sat so it could be the body, depending how you look at the card.

So here it is, what do you think?

The little stamps were also left over from one of the pages I used last week so I cut each stamp out individually and inked the edges and then mounted them onto cream card which I also inked, I laid them at a jaunty angle on the card rather than as it was in a straight border I think it looked so much more pretty this way.

 Here is the Heart bouquet die I used to create the delicate wings on the faux butterfly.

I took a close up so you could see how the paper underneath the dies is more pink , It didn't pick up the sparkle as usual but in person it is so pretty.

 This view picks up the shape slightly better along with more sparkle.

This long view shows the whole card sits on a mat of Milk card which then had a layer of soft gold cardstock, The next layer is more milk card with a layer of green paper from the pad. I then created a distressed layer on gold card before starting the butterfly shape  with the stamps which are added simply with Cosmic shimmer glue. The last item to add was the sentiment which also had a gold and milk layer each with inked edges.This view shows the card before the last few remaining touches of pearls to finish off.

 This picture shows the layers and sparkle much more I think.

 And here is the final image again with the pearl touches in the corners etc. 

Well I hope you like today's card , it was something a little different, the pad is so pretty and you can do anything with it, the main colours are pink and green of course but you could add any number of ribbons or natural fibres for a very rustic feel you all know how I love some hessian etc but you could also go extremely clean and simple with these fab patterns too, I think Couture creations really have created a very clever pad here with this paper ad I truly love this one.

Well done Couture I think. 

Ok guys and dolls I will see you all very soon . Thank you again for your continuing comments and support I truly appreciate so very much.

Lots of Love to all.

Hugs

Kim

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Creative Expression's Thursday

Hi Everyone

Here is today's DT piece for Creative Expressions and wow I was soo pleased with this month's Goodies to create with and sooo different too.
I know you all know how I love all things Vintage especially paper and Couture Creations have a gorgeous little paper pad which is 6x6 called Vintage rose garden and yes it is as pretty as it sounds , oooo it just looks like a fancy high end chocolate box pattern it is soooo pretty and we were also sent a few dies and some gorgeous ribbon so here is the card I came up with for today and how versatile as the pad also had the little postcards and sentiments too so on this card no stamps were used at all.
Although I couldn't let go of my ink completely and had to use a little Walnut stain distress around the edges of the papers to take them a little further into the vintagey goodness and also to cover the white edges of the paper.

Here is the finished card.

The finished card is roughly just under a 7 inch square and it is so pretty, I just love these colours, the pink is very much in this years colour tone for the year which is Marsala on the Pantone colour spectrum with its mauvey clover type tone in the papers.

So I started by picking three of the papers from the pad that I liked together.

You can see the sparkle added here.

 I took the first sheet and covered it in double sided sticky sheet and some of the diamond sprinkles glitter it really does give such a pretty feel to the card. I also took my ink on some cut and dry foam after I had glittered and just dabbed it around the edges the glitter will still pick up the ink and change it to a light brown drawing your eye in.
I then gave it a mat of blossom pink card and another of soft gold card. Plus a further layer of both cards raised up on foam to create the back piece.

 Next I took the other two pieces of paper and made a smaller square ish haha and stuck them together on a piece of blossom card and then gold again , I wrapped one piece of the thicker ribbon from the Finishing touches range for Creative expressions in ivory.
I then added foam to the back and turned it on an angle to lay on top of the glittered piece.

 On one of the sheets in the paper pad there is several mini postcard pieces and some postage style stamps so I chose a couple of the cards and again added them to blossom card and inked the edges of course and added them both to the top right of the card slightly tucked under the ribbon

 I also chose the sentiment of another of the pages in the pad and inked the edges again and added to the blossom card stock ( theres a theme here haha).

I then cut two of these gorgeous little dies perfect for St Davids day with the daffodils on the very intricate little die. It is also from The Vintage rose collection and it is called Daffodil spray. I added one whole piece to the top right of the card above the two small postcards and then cut a second in half and added a piece either end of the first piece to extend it. I also inked it lightly to give it some colour on the edges. It is so delicate and pretty it suits this card very well.

 I tied a bow from the larger of the ribbons in the finishing touches set and then a triple bow from the small ribbon in the set and added them on top of each other on the bottom left of the card with a bronze flat back button to cover the knot.

 This is the ribbon I used and below are the vintage bronze button's I had in my stash already for knot coverage and other embellishment moments lol.

Here is the longer image so you can see the mats and layers and although you can only just see the glitter peeking on the central layer and the 3rd paper peeping through also  without it it would have looked really bare so it was good to add these steps in and give the card a stylish and polished look.
To complete the card I added an 8mm creamy/ivory pearl in each corner with some glue to make sure they stay on the glitter and dry nice and strong.

Here again is the finished image. 

I really hope you enjoyed this Thursdays venture into the vintage world of the rose garden and I would love to know how you feel about it.

I hope you are all having a great week with lots of love from my house to yours.

Hugs

Kim 

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