Creative Expressions Thursday.

Hello my lovelies

Wow doesn't time disappear fast these days, I can't believe it is already Thursday again can you?
well as you know this month we have been using the Handbag stamps and the Vintage dress form  stamps by Creative Expressions for our design team inspiration and as I used the handbag last week I thought I'd use a couple more of the dress forms , I also found a real vintage looking metal cameo so I of course had to use that too.
Soon it will be show time ( pardon the pun ) again  and it is also my birthday on the 26th so in aid of all this, starting Monday 27thjan at 8.a.m and running all week until the 31st Jan at about 6pm I am going to have another little competition running and again all you will need to do is make sure you are a follower on the blog and leave me a comment on Mondays competition post and we will have one 1st prize and I will also send out a few of my cards I have made for the shows etc all signed to you too so don't miss out it will be a great prize which I will announce nearer the time.

So here is today's vintage card.

I used several of the elements that I used like the little scissors everyone loved  a couple of weeks ago but this time I added some wax to change the colour a little to a golden tone. I used some ripped paper from the Teresa Collins pad created for Creative Expressions too.

So here we go with the step by step for you bloglies hehe.

 I used one of Ali's Masks from the Special touch masks range which looked a little like stitching of sorts to me and embossed a piece of thin plain white card stock I left a thin border and ink ed it to bring out the embossing with Frayed Burlap and Tea dye Distress inks and a piece of Cut and dry foam a little but not too much yet.

 When I ran the above white piece through my GC to emboss I added a piece of soft gold card also too as a shim but it actually picked up the embossing a little just lightly and at this point I decided to use it in my design so I cut it to size and added a piece of measure tape ribbon to the top, I would only see the right piece so I wasn't worried bout covering the entire length.

Next I took a piece of the Teresa Collins paper and tore it toward me  until it was long and fairly thin and had pieces I could ink and spritz with water and curl up and as the paper is extremely good quality it takes well to this technique and doesn't just go soggy as it were.

 So I then took a piece of corrugated paper (from RYMAN stationers , it comes in a five metre roll for 4.99 so you could maybe go halves with a pal or something to get this if you like its look as I do) and tore a piece of this too in almost an L shape , I also got a large piece of black for the back of the card(81/2 by 81/2 inches) and a smaller piece to go behind the corrugated piece for stability. I also wanted to add more of the measure tape ribbon.

 So I added the gold piece to the top right of the black card I then added a small piece of black card down the left hand edge. on top of that I used a wet glue to secure the corrugated card and on top of that I added the TC paper which I inked with tea dye and Vintage Photo Distress inks and spritzed with water to make the ink wick and start to curl up.

I then wrapped some natural raffia around the first piece of card three times and tied a couple of small pieces into a knot or two on the right and i took another piece of inked paper and stuck it to the back of the card, I used a piece again from the TC pad this time with words on it, I made a hole in it and the embossed piece and used a small bead to secure the turn back in place, I then added 3mm thick foam to the back and stuck this piece down too, So this was to be the backing piece.

I stamped out my 2 vintage dress forms and used the Becca Feeken Vintage filigree labels die from Just Rite to cut it out with the largest shape, once cut out and embossed and inked through the die with Vintage photo Distress ink I took the die and turned it upside down on some black card and drew around it in white pen, I then cut it out with scissors to create a faux nestie and give just a tiny black border to separate the colours slightly. I also cut out 1 shape from the Heartfelt Creations Raindrops o roses die which is fabulous and I then snipped it in half and added it behind the foam on my main image.

 Here is the raffia bow with a measure tape bow and some twine added with the thick metal cameo with the gilding wax on top of the face, it had a hook to hang it from a chain i think which I snapped off very easily before adding the wax.

I stamped my sentiment from the Vintage Dress form pack and cut out with a little label pack from spellbinders die cuts ( I really love this font, so elegant)

 At this stage the corner looked like this with the word paper and turn back , held back with a small brad etc  but I decided I didn't just want to leave it plain so I went ahead with a few additions.

I added more measure tape ribbon, a large metal Creative expressions corner and a wooden peg which at the end I added gold wax to also.

Here is a close up of the scissors and you can see the waxes on the dies cuts etc too.

 This is a close up of the mid section and all i added at this stage was three smaller metal corners and another wooden peg to finish the card.

A photo taken with a little more of the dimension on show.

Well guys I hope you enjoyed the step by step for this one and that you like the card as much as me, i love this kind of style its right up my street as it were.

How are you all this week? 

I was wondering what every ones favourite embellishments  for cards were, metal or wood, flowers or bows , please leave a comment and let me know if you can I am very addicted to embellishments but never like to go over the top, however I could buy lots and lots of them as I really love anything miniature too.

Ok lovlies Have a great Thursday and I really look forward to answering all your comments tomorrow.

Lots of love and hugs

Kimmy

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Creative Expressions Thursday.

Good Morning My Lovlies

How are you all today? Feeling crafty?
Our design team stamps for this month were The Vintage dress forms and two of the new Handbag stamps each to create with.
Today I decided to use one of the dress forms and one of the verses from the set too, Plus some nifty little embellishments and here we have it.

Hope you like.

I really enjoyed making this one.

I have a step by step for you today also so I started by getting a piece of white paper around 6x6 and stamping the little measure tape and the scissors randomly with Vintage sepia archival ink.

Next I took The Tied Together Couture creations embossing folder and ran the paper through it, which took 2 times as I had to elongate the pattern, but it matches perfectly so was easy.

So to choose some colours in Distress inks.

I chose. Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge,Peeled Paint,Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain

So to blending.

You can see the pattern I discussed before on the show that I always find works for me, side, side middle with one set of colours and the same with the other set. With the darkest at the outer edge and the lightest in the centre, we finish with a very dark colour to frame and draw the eye in. Next this piece was matted onto a very thin black mat for stability.

I cut a piece of thin corrugated card and matted it onto black also. Then took a piece of paper from the Creative expressions and Teresa Collins paper pad. I chose the one that looks like Dictionary and amused myself reading all the entries until I realised I was supposed to be making the card haha.

I cut the paper to slightly bigger than my inked card and slightly smaller than the corrugated piece, distressed the edges with scissors and inked them to match the inks used on the other piece. I rolled some of the corner around my pokey tool to age it further.

So in this picture you can see I wrapped a small piece of measure tape ribbon which I slightly coloured with vintage photo just to stain it a little. I then used foam pads to lift this piece up and added it onto the paper then the corrugated section, I also gave it a slightly wonky angle so I could keep the rolled edges, I think I quite like that look.

So then I chose which dress form I wanted to use, second left and the longest verse slightly out of shot. I stamped this and the verse again with my Vintage sepia Archival ink.

So next I needed to cut out the dress form and the verse too.

Which I did with the largest of the Just rite vintage labels 3 and inked it while still in the die. I also wanted a black matt for it to sit on so I turned over my die and drew around it in white and then simply cut around it with scissors.

I mounted all the pieces on to the card on the right side mid way. I hand cut the verse into a tag shape to tuck under the edge of the main image. Then it was just a case of dressing the card.
I used some of the half Cotton reels and full cotton reels from Creative and they are so cute, I wrapped some twine around them and glued it with cosmic shimmer glue. I also used two of the metal corners and a wooden button with a clock print which I also threaded some twine onto.I found a antique gold colour scissors and used some spider webby stuff and some raffia to make the bow and put the scissors onto this with Pinflair.

Embellishments.

So Lastly you can see I made a little soft gold flower with the new die from the new Heartfelt Creations Majestic morning collection released yesterday and don't forget you have until the 15th to leave a comment on their blog  at heartfelt as I posted yesterday so you can be one of the 2 lucky people winning the whole collection worth $180 each. I also added some Little gold pearls on some of the corners. 

And the full view once again. 

I hope you enjoyed this step by step it took a very long time to blog it so you can imagine this would not be possible every day but I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. 

Have a wonderful Thursday and I will see you very soon with more to look at and enjoy.

Please leave your comments below I don't know where you all disappeared to yesterday haha.. come back....

love and hugs.

Kim 

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