Fairy Tale Florals + Fussy Cutting - a fun afternoon's crafting

 This afternoon, after a quick tidy up of my desk, I carved out a little “play time” in the craft room—and I knew straight away I wanted to use the colours from Altenew’s latest Inspiration Challenge. I also decided to pair it with Jen’s Live Challenge for this week: “Fussy” (use something you’ve fussy cut on your project).

I was inspired by Natasha Foote’s YouTube video from April 21st, where she stamped a large image onto a card front and then fussy cut around the outside edge. Perfect timing, because I’d just treated myself to a new pair of Tim Holtz fussy-cutting scissors this week—and I was very keen to give them a go.

I went shopping in my Altenew stash and pulled out Fairy Tale Florals. There’s a gorgeous large image in that set, and it was exactly what I needed for this design.

I stamped the floral image directly onto my card base and coloured it with the matching simple colouring stencil. For the flowers, I blended Rubellite and Razzleberry Crisp Dye Inks; for the leaves, I used Frayed Leaf and Forest Glades Crisp Dye Inks.  I used a Gold Posca pen to add gold on the stamen and flower centre. 

Next, I drew a pencil line about 1 inch in from the edge (top to bottom) and then fussy cut around the flowers so the design “breaks” the edge of the card front.  Boy, the new scissors awesome!

To add more detail, I masked off just over 1 inch on the inside of the card and blended Rubellite ink through Altenew’s Deco Leaves stencil. I used whatever ink was left on the blending brush to softly tint the stenciled area, keeping it light and airy.

To finish it off, I added a very narrow strip of gold cardstock along the inside edge of the stenciling, then stamped a small black sentiment from Altenew’s Best Sentiments mini stamp set.

Hope you are able to get some crafting time over the weekend too.  

CAS Florals for The Flower Challenge.

 Hi - I decided to make a card for The Flower Challenge.  The challenge them is CAS.   I wanted to use my new Altenew Build a Garden - Morning Asters.  I love the look of these flowers. 

I stamped the floral directly to the front of my card base and then using a variety of Altenew inks and the matching stencils to colour the image.  One of my purchases at the Craft Fair was the Waffleflower sticky mat (got two - the 8.5" x 6.5" one and the 4.75" x 6" )  - what amazing mats.  I put them into my Misti and Mini Misti and take them out to use when stenciling.   Hold everything beautifully.   I used a ruler and a "B" Faber Castell Black Pitt Pen to make the faux matting frame.   The sentiment is from another new set  - Altenew Elegant Sentiments. 

I've been very busy with all my new stuff.   Two more cards made and photographed ready to blog over the next few days.   And lots of backgrounds done and still more Postage Collage stamped images to use.  

Birthday Fairy Tale Florals

 Hi there.   Today I'm sharing the card I made for my daughter-in-law's birthday today.   It uses one of my new Altenew sets - Fairy Tale Florals - the stamp set and simple colouring stencil.  

I stamped the outline and then used the layering stamps.... I didn't quite get the layering right, so did some stenciling and then enhanced the layering with a Prismacolour pencil.  I used the left over ink on my little blending brush to add the colour around the image.  I then used the largest of the frames on the Mix and Match Frames die set.  The sentiment is from the Classic Beauty stamp set. 

Thanks for popping by today.