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. 

Craft Roulette #206

 I managed to see the Craft Roulette show live yesterday ... 

Great parameters this week!  So much so I made two cards!   

Here's the one I made yesterday and submitted to the challenge

I started by making my background.   I was inspired by a video from Natasha Foote  - making a background with just one ink.... mine was a very old Hero Arts ink called Cup o' Joe.  I've had it for around 10 years.., and it still going well.   I smooshed it onto my craft mat and spritzed with water and dipped my Fabriano 160gms paper.  Dried and dipped again.  Then using a couple of lids to stamp circles and used a Catherine Pooler stamp set - Birds of a Feather to added some script and the Love postage stamp. Vintage colours ✓   I added a lace border using a Hero Arts wooden stamp called Lace Flower Cluster embossed with Ranger Vintage Pearl powder. - Lace on the Base ✓  It wasn't showing up so well... I added some extra ink blending to make it stand out.  Gave the background a bit of an ombre look.  I die cut a leaf cluster from the Fabriano paper with a Pinkfresh Curvy Leaves die.  I added a little bit of ink blending to the leaves.  That is my plant element.✓  My sentiment is from a Lawn Fawn stamp and die set - Magic Messages.   Again cut with the Fabriano paper and ink blended.  

Finally added a some little Hero Arts gems hearts to the centre flowers of my lace - Heart element ✓

And today - I made this one...

I've been seeing lots of cards using a birdcage and flowers... so that was my inspiration.  My patterned paper gave me a vintage vibe.  It was an A4 size so I cut it down into a 4" x 5.25" panel.  ✓  Used the same lace stamp and embossed it with the Vintage Pearl powder, ✓I have a very old Tim Holtz/Sizzix Bigz Die of a birdcage and bird.  I used some of the Fabriano paper ( it's a lovely light cream colour) to cut the die.  Added some gold gems along the bottom of the birdcage and a little bow from a bit of burlap.  My little grey heart from Altenew is added just under the bow ✓  And finally my plant element is the flowers and leaves.✓  The big green leaves are the Pinkfresh Curvy Leaves and the flowers are from the Spellbinders Be Bold Blooms.   I had them cut from some water colour paper and used Jasart Voyager Metallic paints to colour them.   I added a pre-printed sentiment from Creative Expressions - Everyday Wordies.

It was such a fun card to make.  I did some earlier in the day and the hubby and I meet up with our son and Grace at our local pub - The British Isles Inn just up the hill from us.  The boys had their glass of Guiness - to celebrate St Patrick's Day!  The pub was quite full of people dressed in green.  And there was a bank singing Irish songs.  Grace loved the music.   Florence didn't come with them as she is - unwell... ear infection and chest infection - poor wee mite.

Happy St Patrick Day 

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

I used some of the dark purple blobs to cut the bigger flowers and the other more softer colours for the leaves and buds. I used some pinky lilac card from Scrapbook.com  Purple card pack for my background panel.  I die cut it with one of the Altenew Mix and Match Frames and embossed it with a Cuttlebug folder.  I slightly sanded it for an even more textured look.  I then added my bouquet down one side, and added a circle die and layer die cut from Gina K Master Layout #3 and used a Gina K sentiment.   So a success from a failure!