Pawsome Day

Hello, Gemma here today, sharing a cute kitty shaker card.

I used the fabulous MFT Blueprints 31 and the Lawn Fawn Meow You Doin' stamp set to build the card. I die cut the largest rounded rectangle from pale blue card stock. Using the radiating rays stencil, I added versamark ink. Then I heat embossed the rays with clear sparkling embossing powder.

To add the shaker panel, I die cut from white card the circle panel to go across the card. The circle shaker pouches fit perfectly in the circle.

Before adding the sequins and shaker pouch to the card, I adhered some mice from the stamp set to the card base so they’d show behind the shaker. I thought it would be fun to include them in the shaker itself, but I didn’t want them to turn around the wrong way when shaken. This solved the problem and I love how they peek out from behind the sequins.

I then added the Meow You Doin' cats and a sentiment tag over the shaker window to finish.

Thanks for joining me today,

Gemma

Happy Balloons with Distress Oxide Watercolour

Hello, Gemma here to share a card using distress oxides. Distress oxides are my favourite ink to use and it’s so exciting that they will be available in the store!

I’ve had my distress oxides for a while but I haven’t used them for watercolour before, so I thought I would try them out on my card today.

I chose two colours of distress oxide inks - peacock feathers and cracked pistachio, and pressed the ink pads directly onto an acrylic block. I spritzed the ink with water, then pressed a piece of white card down on the acrylic block. I moved the card around to make swirls of colour on the card, then dried it with my heat tool. 

I repeated this process a few times, layering more colour onto the card. I wanted to add a little of a darker blue colour so I chose blueprint sketch, which is a lovely vibrant blue, repeating the same steps to add this colour to the background.

I cut another piece of white card with a rounded rectangle die, from the MFT Blueprints 31 set. I trimmed down my watercolour panel so I had three strips of card, then added them onto the white rectangle at a diagonal.

Next, I stamped a balloon from the Concord & 9th Happy Balloons stamp set with the blueprint sketch distress oxide ink. These inks stamp very well!

As these inks have pigment properties, its best to dry it with a heat tool first before heat embossing. I stamped one of the patterns from the set onto the balloon and used silver embossing powder to compliment the blues and greens on the card. I then die cut it with the coordinating die.

On the panel, I stamped a greeting from the stamp set with black ink, then masked it before stamping the balloon string too. I added the balloon with foam tape, then used liquid glue to attach the whole panel to a white card base.

I finished the card with some enamel dots.

Thanks for joining me today,
Gemma

C&9th Happy Balloons Dies

C&9th Happy Balloons

Hero Arts Silver Embossing Powder

MFT Blueprints 31