Mindful Stenciling.

 After a busy weekend and a 3 hour drive home yesterday, I needed a bit of me time.  So I gold embossed the stamp from Pinkfresh Artistic Dahlia set and did some mindful stenciling.   It was very relaxing.  It's a great stencil to add ink blending to.  Everything matches up beautifully.  Then today I made the card. 

For my stenciling I used the Altenew inks - two pinks (Rubellite & Razzleberry) two purples ( Lavender Fields/Deep Iris) and two greens (Grass Field & Shadow Creek) and then used one of the layers to add some Nuvo Shimmer Paste over the darker pink layer.   Once it was all dried I used the matching dies to cut out all the florals.   While I was in Milford this afternoon I popped into the SPCA op shop and picked up some card bases - trifolds with cut outs... some circles and some with a window type cut out.  They are lovely textured bases in 4 1/4" x 6" in a white colour.  About 10 of them for $4.00.  I used one of the circle ones.   I stamped the sentiment from the set in the circle centre and added some of the florals around the opening.  

We had a lovely time at our nephew's party.  Great to see all the nephews and nieces and hubby's siblings.  And nice to have a night out and away from home.  

On the Fence.

Recently I shared a trellis/fence card inspired by Bibi Cameron and my blog friend Betty has also been sharing her cards inspired by Bibi..  You can see Betty's cards here and here.  

Both lots of Betty's cards made me think about what floral stamps and die sets I could use. So over the weekend, I made two cards. 

My first one is a very busy focal floral bouquet.   I started by blending Altenew orange inks onto some Bristol card.   I then die cut the layers from Charming Floral die set.    I did two from dark to light an one light to dark.  I used two inks - Mountain Mist and Emerald to make the leaves and Just Green and Minty Mint for the twigs.  The sentiment is Altenew's Versatile Greetings die set.  I used the Autumn Blaze ink directly to the white card before cutting the love and white card for shadow.  I stamped the with (part of a sentiment from Altenew's Sentiment Stipes)  The "splatter" is little dots added with an Artline 0.4mm pen.  

For the second card I trimmed off the "boards" and ran them through a Cuttlebug embossing folder then used some Altenew Hazelnut and Almond butter inks to blend over the top.  The top half of the card was stenciled with a stencil from the colouring set for Grand Carnation with Jade Fresh Ink.  I then stamped the Grand Carnation with Charcoal Suit ink and then used the stencil to add the colour - Baby Pink, Fuchsia and Magenta and Green Field, Shadow Creek and Mountain Pine.   I used another of the Versatile Greetings die with a Creative Expressions Wordies - Everyday sentiment.  

I do like this design and had fun playing with it.   Thanks to Bibi and Betty for some inspiration.  

 

Playing with florals - and a card inspired by Bibi Cameron

 Over the last day or two I managed to get a small amount of time in my craft room.  I was tidying up a bit and decided to use a couple of stamp sets to just have a play. 

My first card uses a Pinkfresh stamp, stencil and die set called Just a Hello 

I stamped the image with versamark and heat embossed with Copper sparkle WOW powder.  I then used the matching stencils to add colour with Altenew inks.  I then used the dies to cut out the two pieces.  I used some white leather looking card to add them with some 3D tape.  The sentiment is a pre-printed one from Creative Expression.  I mounted it onto a red card base.  

My second card was inspired by a You Tube short I saw, by Bibi Cameron - see it here

I cut my slats at 1/2 inch wide and made my trellis.   I took an Altenew stamp (Sweetest Peas) and stamped four of the images.   I used my new Tri-blend pens to colour and then fussy cut them out and layered onto the trellis.   I used a sentiment from the stamp set.   An interesting technique.   Next time I'll make the slats a bit thinner.  

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a crafty weekend.   

Celebrating with you today.

Today I'm sharing another card made with Pinkfresh Studio Just a Hello Floral stamp, stencil and die set.  When I was making the card for my Dad (here) I stamped the Floral stamp twice and used different inks when stenciling.    This card will be heading to a friend whose birthday is a bit later this month.  

This time around I used yellow/orange and purples to colour the stamp.  I recently got the Altenew Mix and Match Frame Dies and just love the deckle one in the set.   I decided to go with a soft purple card to die cut it.  I then had this beautiful blue base.  I have a pocket full with sentiments - these two are from an LDRS set.  A few gold gems finished the card.  I'm looking forward to trying out different colour schemes with this stamp set. 

I had some fun time in the craft room this afternoon... made a few cards and now just have to edit the photos.   Hubby has plans to help our son tomorrow - so some more craft time for me!  Hope you get time to play over the weekend