Reindeer Dies & Sparkle

Hi there crafters, it's Friday again and my little offering for the blog.

 

A nice simple little card today but using some super little Marianne dies we worked with at the September class last Friday.

 

 

Using a 6" x 6" white card, I taped around all four sides of the card using double sided tape.

 

 

Then I burnished some fine glitter from the Encrusted Jewel Kit onto the tape.

 

 

Next came some matting and layering, I used some sparkly red card from my stash, then created a white sparkly matt by using Woodware Double Sided Sheets and the glitter again.

 

 

Next I die cut the dies as follows using the red sparkly card again:

Marianne CrafTables Tiny Reindeer

Marianne CrafTables Ivy Corners

And a sentiment from my stash

 

 

Once I'd cut the dies I ran them through again using the embossing mat to create the detail.

 

Next was to put the card together by matting the white sparkly card onto the red then onto the main card.

 

Using Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue I placed the little ivy die cut into the corner and then the sentiment before deciding where the reindeer where going to go.

 

 

 

I decided I wanted to flat mat the female reindeer and double 3D the male reindeer with  Mini Mount Pads. You can see the shadow it created in the next photo

 

 

Voila all done, as I say nice quick little card to batch make for Christmas I think.

 

I'm looking forward to the Paper Artsy class on Saturday I hope some of you are there too.

Take care and see you again very soon

Love Jan -x- 

 

 

 

 

 



Hobby Art Framed Poppy

Hi there crafters, I hope you're all well and looking forward to Spring even though it's been quite cold this week.

Today's little card is made up of Hobby Art Stamps and Imagination Crafts Starlights.

So first of all I took a 7" x 7" white blank card and then cut a square of White Super Smooth card to about 6" x 6".  Then took the Hobby Art In The Cornfield Stamp set and stamped the largest poppy in the centre of the card using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink and the Stampeazee

I then stamped the image again onto some Mask-it and covered the poppy head and stamped another large poppy to the right.  I then stamped the poppy seed head on the second poppy and the small poppy to the left of the first poppy.  Once that was I done I stamped the little poppy head onto a post-it note and cut it out to use as a mask.  I covered the small poppy head and stamped the large poppy again but on the right.................phew, too many poppies sounds like I'd stamped a field of them.

I coloured them all in with a wash of Red Starlights and water to bring out more sparkle for the head and Menthol for the stems.  Left that to dry for a while then run them through with a die cut frame from my stash to create the frame.  I purposely made sure the frame covered the flowers.

I raised the frame with 3D foam pads before putting it place on the blank card then flat matted the main image inside the frame.

And there you have it, a simple and easy little card.

I hope you enjoyed it today and see you again very soon

Love, Jan -x-

 

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Hobby Art Poppy Heads



Hello crafters, well new month new blogs, as you know it's all about Hobby Art.

I took a 7" x 7" white card blank and folded the front in half to form a small concertina. 

 

The next thing was to stamp the inside of the card, so using the largest Poppy flower head from the Hobby Art Corn Field Stamp set, I started on the left of the card and stamped just the head of the flower using Black Versafine and Wow Clear Embossing Powder.

I then stamped it again onto Mask-it and used that to mask the first image

 I carried on along the bottom of the card.

The final image I decided to give a little dimension so stamped it onto another piece of card and measured where it would go in the bottom right had corner.

I placed the cut out image onto the card and firmly holding it in place I turned the card over and marked the edges in pencil to cut out.

 

Once cut out I 3D it with foam and placed onto the card.

 

The next thing was to stamp the focal element of the card, so cut a strip of black then white card which I passed through with an embossing folded then placed onto the folded strip and flat matted it onto the card.

 

I stamped the Poppy head again, but this time, using water colour pencils, coloured it in then once it was dry I cut it out and then covered it in Glossy Accents.

 

I then took the Imagination Craft Script Art Stamp using the same ink and powder and stamped it onto a piece of white card about 5 x 5 cms, then matted that onto some black card, then 3D that onto the top of the folded card before placing the cut out poppy head into the centre.

Thank you for dropping by the blog today, hope you enjoyed it.

Love Jan -x-

 

 

 

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***On the website, some Hobby Art stamp sets have been reduced in price by 25% - 40%.***

Lavinia Hares & Fairies

Hi crafters, well it's workshop day, hope you're all looking forward to it like me.

This is my last post using the Lavinia Scene Scapes and Stamps and it's another quick card.

This time I've used the Lavinia Sacred Scene Scape and the Hares, which were in stock at the time I made the card, take a look there are plenty of other creatures to use.

So I stamped a few of the Lavinia Willow on both edges and along the top of the card using Black Archival.  Then placed the Dancing Fairies over the moon, the stamped the Hares as if one of them was looking up at them.

As the scene scapes and stamps seem to speak for themselves in the way of simplicity and effects I thought I would just add a little sparkle by using a ruler and a quickie glue pen and running from top to bottom of the card and started on the right hand side of the card, I drew in some lines and sprinkled  some Glamour Dust over them to look like rain.

I then mounted the whole thing onto some black card before placing on to the 7" x 7" card blank, and the card was done.

That's it for today, hope you liked it and thank you for dropping by the blog today.

Love, Jan -x-



Lavinia Scene Scape

 

Hello there crafters, Friday again.  Today's card show's how to use the simplicity of the Lavinia Scene Scapes and one Lavinia Stamp Set.

 

 

To be honest I got the inspiration for this card by going on the Lavinia website.

 

So I started with the normal 7" x 7" white card blank, I then matted the Lavinia Celestial Scene Scape onto some white card and then on to some black card. 

 

I then simply stamped both sizes of the Lavinia Fairy Pods randomly at different heights for interest using Black Archival. 

 

 

I felt that it didn't really need much else apart from a little highlighting using a white pen, which brought it to life.

 

 

 

Well that's it for today, sorry it's such a short blog this week, but I think these Scene Scapes and Lavinia stamps are a joy to work with and give such stunning effects too.

 

Thank you for dropping by the blog today and see you again soon.

Love Jan -x-