Polkadoodles Butterfly Swirls

Hi everyone, Julie here, I hope I find you well today?

For today's card I used Polkadoodles stamps and cutting dies and the Crafter's Companion
Regency Swirls 3D embossing folder, so a mix of Lisa's June and July classes.

I cut a piece of super smooth card to the width of the embossing folder and applied Versamark embossing ink to the embossed side of the folder before putting the sandwich through my die cutting machine. I sprinkled the embossed card with WOW! Clear Gloss embossing powder and heat set.

I next applied Spun Sugar Distress Ink with a mini ink applicator, the raised areas with the embossing powder resisted the ink and remained white. I  also cut down silver Mirri card and a coordinating piece of blue card - I used the small script stamp from the Polkadoodles Belle Papillon set to randomly stamp in Spun Sugar Distress Ink at the top and bottom edges of the blue piece of card to add a little  interest - for my matting layers.

I stamped the butterfly from the Belle Papillon set and the flower sprig from the Polkadoodles
 Bella Fleur set twice with Onyx Black Versafine ink, heat setting with clear embossing powder, painting them with watercolours, then die cutting the pieces with the coordinating dies Butterfly 1 and Flower Branch.

I chose the sentiment 'Have a fabulous day' from the Belle Papillion set and stamped and heat set this as well, leaving a bit of room around the edges so I could die cut the stamped piece of card an with a oval cutting  die. I added some dots around the edge of the sentiment with a black Archival Pen to highlight and die cut a scalloped oval just bigger than my sentiment in the leftover Mirri card to mat and layer this onto.

Time to put all the pieces together, with
 a little ribbon and pearls to the spine of the card and Glossy Accents to the centres of the flowers to make them pop............

That completes my project, I hope you like it.

Lisa's next workshop at Grove Green will be on Sunday, August 20. Places are still available and all the information is HERE.

See you next week!

Love, Julie x

                   

                  

PolkaDoodles Thinking of You........

Hi everyone, Lisa here again with another scheduled post and another of my sample cards for June's classes. I used stamps from the Belle Papillon and Bella Fleur sets and the coordinating Birdcage/Bird die set.

For the background I lightly blended Tumbled Glass Distress ink over white card, then applied white gesso through the That's Crafty Bubbles Dinky stencil.

I stamped the images with Onyx Black Versafine ink, heat set with WOW! Clear Gloss embossing powder and coloured them with watercolour pens.

I die cut the bird and the cage before stamping the die cuts with the coordinating stamps from the Bella Fleur stamp set. 

                              

I'm taking bookings for the next two workshops at Grove Green. You can find the information about them HERE and there are still places on the July classes.

That's all from me for this week, take care and I'll see you next time.

Hugs, Lisa B xx

                     

                                          

Polkadoodles Class Cards.....

Hi everyone, Lisa here with my cards for last Friday's classes in Maidstone.

 For the cards I used Polkadoodles stamp sets:

Belle Papillon

Bella Fleur

and the coordinating cutting dies:

Birdcage/Bird

Birdhouse

Flower Bunch

Flower Branch

Butterfly 1 

I really enjoyed working with both the stamps and the dies. They make lovely embellishments and the dies have been very cleverly designed so that it's very easy to stamp the coordinating image on to the die cuts.

                             

For the first card I applied Lavender Starlights through a stencil for the background. I stamped the lilacs from the Bella Fleur set onto white card with Onyx Black Versafine ink and heat set with WOW! Clear Gloss embossing powder and added a border with a Micron black pen. die cut and stamped the elements - using Vintage Sepia Versafine on kraft card for the birdhouse and heat setting the stamping with WOW! Clear Sparkle EP,  then I coloured the stamped images and the die cuts with watercolour pens.

The little door on the birdhouse actually opens, so I covered the back with a tiny piece of kraft card. I painted some of the circles on the lilacs with Heather Starlights to add a bit more shimmer.

I loved how perfect the die cut of the tiny flowers and branch on the birdhouse is, there's no way you could cut that out so neatly..............

For the second card I used the same stencil for the background, this time with 

Spun Sugar Distress ink and added detail with a black pen.

I die cut two pieces of oval card and stamped the branch from the Belle Papillon set on the white oval with Squeezed Lemonade Distress  Ink and the sentiment with Onyx Black Versafine.

I die cut the butterfly, flower branch and flower bunch, then stamped the coordinating images and coloured them with watercolour pens and Starlights..........

That's it from me. My posts for the next few weeks will be scheduled as I am off to Spain at the weekend. I am so looking forward to doing nothing but lying in the sun! 

I'm taking bookings for the next two workshops at Grove Green. You can find the information about them HERE and there are still places on the July classes.

Thank you for visiting the blog today, have a great week.

Hugs, Lisa B xx