Daisy Sparkle

Hi there crafters, long time no see.

 

 As the sun has been shining and it's lovely and warm now, so I thought I'd do a card with a lot of sparkle.

 

 

First thing I took a pieced of white Super Smooth Card and cut a piece 5.5" x 5.5" and placed it on my Blending Mat  and decided to use the  Imagination Crafts Crackle Mosaic stencil tapping it down on all four sides using Repositionable Tape and three of the Ranger Distress Inks in the same tone of colours as follows:

Antique Linen

Gathered Twigs

Tea Dye

 

 

 

 

 

 

I randomly spread the inks through the stencil using a smoothie, by starting with the darker colour around the edges, then the next tone down and finally finishing with Antique Linen and blended that all over.  I then wanted a bit of sparkle so I did some foiling using Imagination Crafts Silver Dollar Sparkle Medium and an old, hard piece of cut n dry giving the effect below.

 

 

 

Next was to stencil the Imagination Crafts Large Daisy Stencil onto a piece of acetate, so again placed the acetate on the blending mat and tapped down all four sides.  Using a pallet knife I spread the Silver Dollar medium evenly over the stencil until it was completely covered.  Once the stencil was removed I set it to one side to dry completely.

 

 

 I thought I'd add a couple of die cut butterflies so created a small piece of glitter card using Silver Dollar again and a brayer to spread it evenly, again leaving it to dry.

 

 

For the sides of the card I cut two borders from a punch in my stash but I think using the new Crealies On the Edge Dies would also work great.

 

 

Next was to assemble the card by placing the acetate image across the background to measure how it was going to bend slightly.  Then folded the left hand side and placed the two borders down the left and right hand of the card.  Laying the acetate flat and measuring the overlap on the right, I cut it down slightly to create a small curve when the card was open and could be laid flat for posting.

 

 

Once that was done it was all about finishing, so matted the card onto some gold mirri then onto some black card and then mounted the whole lot onto a 7" x 7" card then embellished with a few gold holographic spot stickers and a sentiment, I die cut a couple of butterflies from the prepared glitter card and placed one under the acetate and the other on top and the card was done.

 

 

Thank you for dropping by the blog today and look forward to seeing some of you at the class.

 

Love Jan -x-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Imagination Fairy

Hello again all, hope everyone is doing ok.  Today's blog is a dreamy image using the Imagination Crafts Bluebell Fairy.

Sorry but I've been quite busy this week so it's a very quick and easy card today.

I started with a 7" x 7" white card and cut three smaller pieces of white card as follows:

The first was 6.75" x 6.75"
The second was 6.5" x 6.5" which I cut down using one of my square pierced dies
The third was 6" x 6"

The first and third sizes I wanted to  make them look like background cards, so used the Black Starlights Paint with a piece of cut 'n' dry and dabbed it around all four edges of each card.

I think this is a nice easy way to create your own backgrounds.

The next step was to have a another pieces of white super smooth card cut slightly smaller than the 6 x 6 and I taped it to a blending mat placing the Imagination Crafts Bluebell fairy stencil over the top and using repositionable tape on all four sides of the card.  Using the Black Stars Sparkle Medium I spread the paste across the top of the stencil and drew it down using a spreader.  Sorry I forgot to take a photo at this point but I think we've all had a go at this before.

I left it to dry for a while, in the mean time I matted all the layers together before placing the fairy image on top and finishing with a little bit of bling.

A very basic, easy card but using some wonderful materials from Imaginations Crafts.

Thank you for dropping by the blog again today.  See you next week.
Love Jan -x-