I managed to see the Craft Roulette show live yesterday ...
Sunday 17 March 2024
Craft Roulette #206
Saturday 16 March 2024
Easter cards for the Grandies
It's time for me to share my sample for Sweet Stampin' Challenge.... Our theme is Easter.
I have two similar cards to share.... I made the same design in different colours.... blue for Archie & Finn and red for Grace & Florence.
The main image is a Penny Black cling stamp called Hello Dear. I stamped in onto some Fabriano Mixed Media paper and then painted with Distress inks. I used a lot of different colours - and used a Catherine Pooler green ink for the grass. The sentiment for the boy's card was from a very old Hero Arts 2" x 3" set and the girl's card is from a Verve stamp set.
I'm entering this into the Penny Black Saturday Challenge
Monday 11 March 2024
Success from a failure.
On Saturday, I watched a great session from the Card Makers Success Summit by Tiffany Solorio - Tiffany uses Distress Sprays in all sorts colourful sprays and layers. I only have two Distress Sprays in Brushed Pewter and Tarnished Brass. I tried my Lindy's Gang Mica sprays but they are all very muted colours. I added a splotch of Adirondack Color Wash in Purple Twilight. But my panel of mixed media paper was very pale and blah looking with a few blob of purple. So what to do?
Die cut with Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms!
Here's the card I made with all the bits I die cut and glued together
Sunday 10 March 2024
Fractured card technique - Hello sweet friend
Well the best laid plans of mice and men!.. My yesterday did not go as I planned... happily though!
I did watch a couple of the sessions from Card Makers Success Summit.... one in particular from Tiffany Solorio using Distress Sprays. I only have two distress sprays - brushed pewter and tarnished brass . Tiffany used all sorts of pretty colours and did heaps of layers. I pull out my Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays - but they are all very muted colours - added a splotch of an Adirondack Color Wash in Purple Twilight - but my panel of mixed media paper was very pale and blah looking. Watch out for another post with what I did with it! Any who I had great plans to try out some more cards from some of the sessions.....
But... my son texted to say he and the girls were on their way over to visit.... so my Saturday afternoon was spend playing in the craft room with Grace and on the floor with Florence...
I did get a message from Suna - to whom I sent a card in my NZ swap group. It was my turn to chose a challenge - and Fractured Cards was what I chose. Here is the card I made and sent to her.
I started with some papers from DCWV= Ba;; & Bloom paper. I picked it up recently on sale. Just love the touches of foil on it. I used some white card for my centre square. I then used cream card and gold peelcraft lines for the fracture lines. I used some of the flowers from Spellbinders Geo Floral Frame die set - cut with some pink card from Scrapbook.com Sprinkles paper pack, I die cut the leaves from some 160gm Fabricano paper and used a varied of Altenew green inks to blend over them. Fussy cut the butterfly from some of the same paper pack. The sentiment is from Altenew Engraved Flowers stamp set. And a few metallic gems finished the card. Suna has let me know she got it and loved it.
And here's why not much got done yesterday
Friday 8 March 2024
Friday fun - Two cards - two challenges.
HI there. I managed to make two cards today, in my breaks from work and after work. Perks of working from home -early starting and finishing!
My first card came about as on my Facebook post of one of my lily cards, I mentioned that I was going to do pink lilies and one of my commentor asked if I had done it. So I decided to make a card for The Flower Challenge with pink lilies. Their challenge is to use a square card.
I cut the square die from Gina K Master Layout 3 and embossed it. Used Altenew Pink Pearl and Coral Berry for the flowers and Frayed Leaf and Forest Glades for the leaves. I used a Prismacolor pencil to add the colour for the stamen and to add extra texture lines on the flowers and leaves. Finished with a little Easter Wishes sentiment from a Verve stamp set.
Wednesday 6 March 2024
Shades of Teal
Hi there. I got new dies and inks last week and on Sunday I played. My last Krafters Cart purchases were Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms and Altenew Fresh Die inks - Sweet Dreams - so thought I could combine the two.
Saturday 2 March 2024
Craft Roulette #204
second post for today.... see my first one HERE
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I haven't had time to take part in the Craft Roulette challenge for a few weeks - but today I watched the replay this afternoon. As soon as I saw the parameters I knew what stamp I wanted to use.
I recently got some of the Spellbinders House-Mouse Designs and I had them sitting on my desk. There was one super cute mouse with some flowers so that became my main image - and meet the Ears element.
Thinking of you sentiment, Fairy Tale colours - soft blues, greens, pinks and purple (Princess colours!), Mouse has cute little ears and I stamped a scripty background.
I started by stamping the Spellbinders House-Mouse - Bouquet for You in Versafine Onyx Black ink onto some mix media card by Fabriano. I then took some Speckled Egg Distress Oxide inks and lightly sponged around the mouse. I then added the script stamp from a NZ company called Rubbadubbadoo. I used Altenew's Gray Denim ink for stamp with. Just needed something light. I then got out my Distress inks - Tea Dye, Worn Lipstick, Wilted Violet, Sage Green, Mowed Lawn and added little blots of colour onto my painting palette and used a brush to paint the image. All these colours are inspired by Fairy Tale Princess. My Thinking of You was from a LDRS Creative Anytime Stack - stamped in black and clear embossed before cutting out with the matching die set. Bonus is I now have a lot more sentiments done. Really pleased how it all came together nicely.
Thanks for visiting today. Hope your weekend is crafty.
Woodblock Wednesday - February 2024
Hi. Time to pull out my woodblock stamps for Amy's Woodblock Wednesday challenge for February.