Saturday Afternoon crafting.

 It's been a cold and wet Saturday afternoon here in Auckland.  So I tucked myself into the craft room and had a play!  Yesterday afternoon I had spend some time cutting out some Spellbinders Be Bold Flowers from some Francheville Ombre Blue card.  It's 176gms so perfect for layering flowers.  I made up a pile of them, despite keeping losing dies... all good by the end of the evening- they were all there.  So, this afternoon while hubby was out watching some local rugby I made a card. 

I made my background by taking a piece of patterned paper and used Altenew Dotted Starburst Debossing die to add some subtle texture.   I found a blue circle in my scrap pile and used Altenew's Sentiment Strips - after a bit of stamp surgery so I could stack the sentiment.  I smudged it a bit, so took the big ball of my stylus and some Altenew Galactic Stream Fresh Dye ink and made some dots.  Added to the BG and then added the flowers.   

I'm adding this card to AAA Birthday Challenge - Fabulous Flowers.   

And to The Flower Challenge

I also found a 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" panel that I had hot foiled Altenew Vibrant Florals onto with some black foil.   I decided that it would look good in the July Inspiration Challenge colours. 

So pulled out some ink pads so I could use the matching stencils to add the colour.  In the end I used - Coral Bliss, Coral Berry, Orange Cream, Misty Moor and Sweet Leaf inks.   Once I done the colouring, I cut the panel to make two cards. 

I added an encouraging sentiment.  It's from the Altenew set - Monstera and Quotes.  A few Altenew enamel dots finished. 

and the second one 

The sentiment this time is from Altenew - Classic Greetings set.  Again, finished with some enamel dots.  Just love that I got two cards from the one hot foil image.  

Off to make dinner and then watch the All Blacks versus England in rugby.  

And I've got another post scheduled for later this evening. 

Painted Vibrant Floral

 When I was foiling the Altenew Vibrant Floral Hot foil plate, my first one had a bit of overfoiling so I put it aside.  When Grace was doing her painting the other day, I took it, used my sand eraser and removed the extra foiling.  The paints I used are Student grade by Koh-i-noor 

I have two sets - the one above and another set of brighter colours.   Perfect for Grace to use, but also easy for me to use. 

The paints are very grainy but give a really interesting look.  This one is on plain white card (Frenchville 300gms) so not bad with the amount water used.   I trimmed down the panel to a 5" square card before matting onto black card and then onto a white base. A little blue ink that was on my blending brush gave me a soft background.  Stamped a sentiment from the Altenew mini set "Best Sentiments" and glued it onto the card.   

Thanks for stopping by.  I appreciate your visit.  

One Hot Foil plate - 3 cards

 Hi there from a cold wintery night here in NZ.   I recently got a new hot foil plate from Altenew called Vibrant Florals and it's co ordinating stencil.  It's a beauty  - quite large too.... so I pulled out the Go Press and Foil machine on Monday and some WRMK's Rose Gold Foil and put it through it's paces...I managed to make three cards -

I placed the Hot foil plate in the middle of a half sheet of 8.5" x 11" card - foiled and then used the stencil to colour.  I then cut the panel in half to get two panels 4.25" x 5"  

This panel had the larger amount of the foiling which I trimmed down and matted onto some black card.  I then took some blue card and die cut the hello from Altenew's All About You word die set.  I then add a sentiment strip from Sentiment Strips 3.  Finished with a few rose gold sequins.

The second one used the smaller portion of the foiling.  The one was trimmed slightly and matted onto blue card.   The sentiement used was from Altenew's Just a Number stamp set.   I then added lots of Navy blue ink splatters.

And of course, I could not waste the foil left over.  I have the Pinkfresh solid foil plate and heated it up and added the foil to some card. 

I trimmed the panel down and matted onto some off white card before adding to a white base.  I used a Spellbinders foiled sentiment die cut with a Spellbinders oval die.  Have to say it's very difficult to photograph foiled cards especially on a winter's afternoon.  

Thanks for visiting today.