Wishing you Brighter Days

LGood morning blogging friends, I hope you are having a great start to this new week.  I have a card to share with you today on which I used some newly acquired stash.

I'm very fond of the sweet stamps and matching dies from Clearly Besotted Stamps and am building up my collection of them - far too easy to do when they issue brand new designs every month ! 

I stamped the brolly outline onto a piece of white cardstock using Archival Black Ink, then overstamped using DI.  I then stamped the floral infill stamp using the same DI and diecut this with the matching die.  Then attached the diecut over the original stamped image, raised up on foam pads to create dimension.  I stamped the sentiment with the DI ink then overstamped with black ink to create a shadow effect. 

The clouds were diecut using a set of Memory Box dies and I dragged DI around the edges to create a rainy day effect and stamped a few raindrops using another of the stamps from the set, using the same blue DI.  As a final touch I added Glossy Accents to the raindrops.

Tools and supplies used :

* C6 scallop edged base card

* Clearly Besotted stamps and die - April Showers, April Showers Additions, April Showers die

* Distress Inks - Fossilised Amber; Mermaid Lagoon

* Glossy Accents

* Memory Box dies 

I hope you've enjoyed today's project, if you would like more details on how I created it give me a shout.  Thanks for dropping by and have a wonderful craft-filled day.

Gold and Gems

Hi there Crafters, I have just a quick post for you today as I'm up to my elbows in wrapping paper !

I created a base card from gold cardstock just a small 4.5 x 3 inch size - not so good for sending through Royal Mail but fine for hand delivery. 

Using Memory Box dies I cut two layers from gold mirri board and layered them up.  The scrap of pretty gold ribbon was from my stash and the gorgeous gold gem added over the top was also from my stash.

I heat embossed the Merry Christmas sentiment using black sparkle embossing powder.

That's it from me today, short and sweet - I hope you like today's card.

I Won Gold at the London 2012 Olympics !

Yes, I really did win Gold at the Olympics - thanks to Oyster Stamps who very generously offered to give a prize for each of the gold medals won by Team GB during the games.  Each time our team won a gold medal Oyster Stamps posted on Facebook and one commenter was selected to receive a prize.  I was that lucky commenter for one of the medals, how cool is that ?  A couple of days later this fabulous bicycle die arrived in the mail.

There is a new challenge running from Oyster Stamps for all the lucky MB die winners, we've been asked to make a project using the prize die and this is my entry.

I created the sky using an Impression Obsession Cover-a-Card background stamp and Paris Dusk Memento ink.  The Big Ben diecut was kindly sent to me in a RAK, it's a Marianne's die.  I cut up the front cover of the Docrafts Portobello Road 6x6 paper pack to make the bunting and used a MB die to cut the fencing.  The road and grass verge were made from some scraps of paper in my stash.  After cutting the bike from gold cardstock, I cut two more of the baskets to add on the fencing as flower baskets.  The 'flowers' were created using Flowersoft. 

Hope you like my card and one again I'd like to say a huge THANK YOU to Oyster Stamps for their generosity.

Have a great day



Still playing with my Memory Box Dies !

I've got more projects using my new Memory Box dies to share with you today. 

I had a great session making a batch of Christmas cards using mirror board and some of my new dies.  For these three I also used the Fancy Labels stamps by Our Daily Bread, which are compatible with nestie labels 17 dies.  I cut the shapes first, then stamped and embossed using WOW! Platinum and Silver Sparkle embossing powders, before attaching to the base card.

For these two cards, I added the diecuts over plain white base card. 

Here's a close up of one of the cards showing the diecuts a little more clearly. 

The sentiments are from Lili of the Valley, stamped and embossed in silver.

I hope you've enjoyed today's projects, thanks for dropping by.