So many 21st birthdays recently and this was one of the cards I made. This beautiful watercolour effect was initially created with distress oxide ink colours directly onto the watercolour paper, stamping over the colour and then adding more colour to the relevant areas to give the depth.
As well as the colour depth with the inks. I created a mask from the stamp , laid this onto the floral image which allowed me to stamp some background text around the petals in grey ink to help the flowers stand out. I really love that the colours are also in the background and everything blends beautifully.
Hi there, I thought I’d pop by and share some pictures of my design team cards from the last Stamp Addicts show on Create and Craft.
These first four cards were made from rubber stamps designed by Sherry West and American designer and artist. I’ve also used a chicken wire stamp in a couple of these cards too as well as the sentiments use here.
The chicks are so cute and they are not just for Easter, but for the whole year round.
Along with the chicks and sentiments were some other birds designed by Teri Sherman. They are true British birds and I thoroughly enjoyed colouring all of these stamps for the show.
All of these rubber stamps are fabulous to work with and a deeply etched and I hope you enjoy this inspiration.
Hello – long time with no blogging for me. It all got a bit like I was having to do something all of the time and that wasn’t healthy so I stepped away. There’s been a lot going on in my life since then too so hence I’ve not posted on my blog in a long time. I stopped creating for all of my online design teams last year and concentrated on me and the physical design team I am a part of with Stamp Addicts. I just wanted to create for creativity and not for the sake of having to hit so many deadlines.
I’m currently recovering from Covid again (rolls eyes) as it seems to hit me hard and it’s not at all nice. So I thought I’d write this post while I am sitting down and getting better and wish my mum a happy birthday! This card is the one I made her and it’s still in the postal system…..first class…. sorry of you see if here first mum!
The stamp is one from Crafty Roo Designs called bulb border I created an inky background on some watercolour card with some of mums favourite colours in Distress oxide. Stamped the image in Versafine Clair Nocturne and then stamped again on another piece of watercolour card so that I could cut the focal part of the image out and overlay it.
The background image has more detail and into this I added a text stamp, stamped with Versafine Clair morning mist which is a grey ink. The grey adds depth without overpowering the actual focal image. Also around the image I added some Distress Oxide in Black soot and watered this out to add a shadow. The top layer I watercoloured with the same distress inks, cut out and sprayed with a pearl shimmer spray. Between the layers I added some black cotton and gold thread. I sandwiched the threads between the layers with some 3D glue to add some height and added some bling to finish.
I really enjoyed making this card and hope that you liked it too. Perhaps you can let me know in the comments!
Creating and personalising cards for people I know (and don’t know) is part of the pleasure I believe. It’s not just about creating for the sake of creating it’s about making someone’s day and about making them smile. The card I’m sharing today was for a really good friend of mine.
I chose to use the Pink Ink Flamingo from their Wings Series of stamps. I stamped the gorgeous flamingo in kitsch flamingo (what else??) distress oxide onto a piece of watercolour card that was already in my stash from where I’d been making backgrounds with Brusho. I wanted a mat that wouldn’t take away from the focal point, but nothing I had seemed to work. So looking through my stash a saw a roll of washi tape. I used the washi tape wrapped over the edge of the card so that it was thinner and am amazed I’ve not thought of it before. I think it’s a fabulous way to frame the image!
The stamp set comes with other stamps like the flower and the crown so I utilised these too in my design. I am really pleased with the end result and hope it’s inspired you!
I’m back making another Christmas card again in March…. It is cold enough to make me think its the right time of year for Christmas. Maybe next month it will be warmer?
For the DT challenge this week the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #670 is All Dressed Up (ADU). The theme this week is “Christmas”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image from ADU
High tack glue
Base card – 300gsm
Coloured pencils
Glamour dust
Background paper
Pencil and paper stumps for shading
Sentiment strip
I love this digital image and have used it before. It doesn’t take much colouring, but is coloured with coloured pencils and cut to a square topper. It helps that polar bears are white I guess!! I’ve chosen some subtle colours which tone in with the background paper that the image is matted onto. To add some sparkle to the image (as it is Christmas) I used a quickie glue pen and some glimmer dust.
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read your comments. Please let me know whether this has inspired you!
Hello friends. I know, I know. We all want better weather here in the UK and I’m talking about snow!! I’m back making Christmas cards again for this challenge, but actually having to make Christmas cards through the year for the challenges is helpful as then you have actually made some when it gets to December.
For the DT challenge this week the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #666 is DRS Designs. The theme this week is “winter”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image
High tack glue
Base card – 300gsm
Coloured pencils
Tumbled glass distress ink
Snowflake border die
Cream shiny paper
I combined an image and a sentiment from our sponsor. The digital image is coloured with coloured pencils and cut to a square topper. I’ve then inked some shiny paper with distress ink so that it takes on a blue colour before die cutting this with a snowflake border die.
The snowflake border was cut 4 times and stuck down so that it was off the edge and framing the image. This was then mounted onto some inked card and added to the base card.
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments. Please let me know whether this has inspired you!
Hi everyone. I hope you all had a good festive season however you celebrated. It’s now a new year full of new challenges and new inspiration! Hopefully you can take a look at older posts and find inspiration there too. Since this challenge is about being inspired it’s fitting that this is my first challenge for the year and has the theme “inspired by a song”.
So I chose the song “flowers” by Sweet Female Attitude and it is also my mums birthday this week so I chose this for her. She can’t have real flowers due to her allergies, but she does like them.
For the DT challenge this week the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #664 is All Dressed Up (ADU). The theme this week is “inspired by a song”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image
High tack glue
Base card – 300gsm
Coloured pencils
Backing paper
An edging die to add the border to the topped
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments. Please let me know whether this has inspired you!
Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. It’s two weeks to Christmas
For the DT challenge this week the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #662 is Trimgym . The theme this week is “anything goes”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital image
High tack glue
Base card- 300gsm
Distress oxide inks
Sentiment from Stamp Addicts
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.
Hi everyone. Thanks for stopping by. I saw a post today to say that it’s only 2 weeks until we start opening out advent calendars!
For the DT challenge this week the sponsor for trimmies CRAFT challenge #658 is The Cutting Cafe. The theme this week is “for the children”. Each week we invite you to join us at Trimmies Craft Challenge going with the theme.
This week I chose to use this 3D rudolf card cutting file. The file has a trap door on the inside of the card so that the cup can be refilled! There are videos on the website which show you how to make the projects up so go and check them out!
So here’s a summary of the materials used to make the card:
Digital cutting files (svg) – but this comes in PDF if you don’t have an electronic cutting machine
High tack glue
White card for the base – 300gsm
Red card
Acetate
Snowflake card
2 colours of brown card
1 gingham bow
I hope that you feel inspired and it would be lovely to read you comments.
Hi there, and thank you for stopping by. Today sees Stamp Addicts back on tv and these are some of my samples I’ve made for the show. You’ll also find these on Instagram @d_e_crafts so I hope you’ll follow my creativity and leave a message!
Chrysanthemum skull
The chrysanthemum skull rubber stamp is a deeply etched and as you’ll see it’s very detailed. I’ve used distress inks here to watercolour this image and have added a second layer which is raised as you’ll see below.
In the background you’ll also see the background which is “porcelain”, stamped in black onto grey water-coloured ink.
Another sample with the porcelain background is this one:
Porcelain background
More of the skulls and also some of the sentiments from Stamp Addicts
Chrysanthemum skull with lace border
The other stamp for this show is a fuchsia and this one also features another background “papyrus”. For this image I’ve cut several layers of the flower and decoupaged it up to give it some depth.
The last card below also uses the papyrus background as well as some keys which are also Stamp Addicts rubber stamps. Instead of stamping the papyrus as one whole background this time I’ve inked a section and used that section to fill the card from. This gives a more random pattern.
I hope you liked the stamps and the samples. Let me know if you have any questions and I’m happy to let you know what I’ve used and answer any questions.
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