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 

Grace - playing with some Hero Arts Rub-ons

Florence exploring Nanny and Pop's house.

WWC 269 - Fifth Week - Anything Goes Challenge

Hi there... it's time for our weekly challenge at Watercooler Wednesday... And as this is the 5th week of the month - bonus time - It's an Anything Goes....

Today I'm sharing a bit of a Shabby Chic card.... I have been watching a NZ craft company who have been doing card class on Facebook.  This card is one of the classes.

It's a bit of a fancy fold card.  The ribbon keeps it closed.  I chose to use some patterned papers from a Die Cuts With a View pad called "Spring Fling"  I took three different patterns to make each of the layers.  My base is some vanilla cream card to match the colour on the papers.  For my centre panel I used two the same papers so I could cut out the flowers to layer.  The only stamping on this is the little sentiment stripe from an Altenew stamp set called "Hello Gorgeous"    As the paper has glitter on it, I only needed a few Lucy's Little Things - Ice Cube gems.  to finish it off.

I've sent this to my Dad and Ngaire in Upper Hutt - just to give them a big hug.  I ring Dad every week, but I think he'll love getting this from me. 

Playing the Piano...

Hi there... well I wish I could play the piano.... I know the notes and keys but I simply can't read music smoothly... Anyway today's card I'm sharing is a Piano Card.   This came about as a NZ based craft store - Craftables has been having a bit of an online card classes and has provided the instructions for some of it's kits - not the full kit, just the instructions for around $5 each.  I have been watching some of Paula's classes and decided I wanted to try the Piano Kit - so purchased it.  As it did not have all the papers etc, I improvised with what I could find in my stash.  (Believe me I have TONS of patterned papers so wasn't hard to find something suitable)

So here it is....

I found some flocked PP from a Die Cuts With A View pad.  I used the template to cut the 5" x 5" black card to size and then added the flocking to the top panel.  I added the white and black keys below the top bit.   Next I did the inside

I printed off some vintage music paper I had in my computer and trimmed it to fit inside.  Added a white piece on the other side of the lid so you can write your message.  Then I added the little leg that held it open.  Once all that was done, it was time to decorate the top. I found some flowers in my drawer and added with some die cut stems and leaves.  Added a ribbon and the little clef trinket.   Not my usual CAS style but nice to challenge myself with something a bit different.   Paula's classes are very chabby chic - both her card classes and her scrapbook layout classes.  You'll probably see a few more of these shabby chic cards coming up. 

Thanks for stopping by.   I'm getting a few cards done for upcoming DT work, so enjoying some crafting today 

Happy Valentines and Happy Birthday to Linda

Happy Valentine's Day, and yes, Valentine's Day is the birthday of Linda Wetterlin, our fabulous guest designer at Die Cut Divas.   To celebrate I have made her a card - using her favourite colour PURPLE

When I got my Dreamweaver stencils, I received a technique sheet for a technique called "Embossing Stire"  The technique involves using the stencil to emboss.  I used the totally awesome embossing pad that Dreamweavers have.  It is THICK and really embosses well.  I did spray the back of the paper with a special spray (but you can spray with rubbing alcohol as well)  this helps with the embossing.  Once you've embossed, you use a stencil paint brush with a pigment ink and drag it over the image. First one way then the other way.  This gives the look of linen.  I then decided to just add some distress ink over the raised area to give some definition.  I used some DCWV paper to cover my card.  The sentiment is a die cut from Britannia Dies cut with some purple card.  I finished with some gems. 

Happy Birthday Linda. 

Make it Glitter...

The latest challenge at Die Cut Divas is underway and Arlene has chosen the theme "Make it Glitter"   Our sponsor this month is none other than Hero Arts and they have an awesome prize package for the winner this month.

Here is the card I made using some awesome glitter paper from Die Cuts with a View that my friend, Suna, gave me for Christmas.

I stamped the Hero Art rose with Stazon ink onto the 4 different glitter papers and cut each one out for and pieced back together.  I die cut the Spellbinders die and sponged it before removing the die.  I then stamped the three sentiments from Hero Arts.  

Pop over to the blog and have look, Arlene has been very generous in her definition of what consists of glitter.  

What a Sunday....

After getting only one card done on Saturday as well as trying out a new technique... my Sunday must have been spent all day in the craft room.... or so it seems as I made 3 tags and 3 cards.... I promise you, I did spend some time with the family watching rugby,  oh and a 30 mins snooze in front of the TV....

Anyhoo..  first up is the card I made with the panel I did on Saturday.  It involved Copics and was inspired by this card from Barb who had seen the technique tutorial at The Classroom
The technique used Copic blending solution but as I didn't have any, I thought that I could use Alcohol Blending Solution... and see what happened......

I stamped the HA Silhouette Corner on the panel and then as I wasn't too sure whether I liked it, left it on my desk.  Imagine my surprise next day to see this card from Sally.... we practically made the same background.  At least in that we both used Blending Solution rather than Copic solution, and used the same stamp on the background.  I finished up my card by adding my panel to a white base and stamped the sentiment in Danube Blue Momento Dye ink.

My next card was for the Penny Black guest spot challenge...

I had stamped the Hedgie and bee and I just needed to colour it in.    Just some simple layering, some pretty paper and ribbon.  My sort of card.... not too much in the way of embellishment or PP.

My final card came about because all through the day I was dipping in and out of the WCMD blog tour organised by Papercrafts.  One of the blogs I dipped into was Simply Rae.  Rae had a little challenge going on.... to use her sketch to make a card.  It is a lovely sketch and I had fun with it...

I started by finding some patterned paper for my background and working from there.  I used some DCWV mat stack card from La Creme stack.  I then cut the cream Spellbinders label and stamping the HA Silhouette Spray.  Keeping the die in place I sponged some Tea Dye distress ink around the flower.  I did the same with the sentiment tag.   The black edging is a Martha Stewart punch.  Finished with the narrow ribbon.  I was really pleased with how this one turned out.

Wow, thanks for persevering with this long post.... Today is wet and wild, so I went out to the stamp shop and the local mall... bought 3 stamps, a new Copic and Tombow markers, some Shimmer spritz. two pairs of shoes and a pair of jeans... a goodly spend!!!!!
Already inked up two of the stamps.... both waiting to dry before being made into cards~

Thanks again for stopping by...

Cheers

Dawn