Beautiful You Silhouette with Rainbow Inking

Good morning!

I held a class at my home a few weeks ago and I just wanted to share one of the cards we made. I totally love creating this kind of background so I thought I would get the ladies to get all inky!

To create the background I simply used sponges to swipe colour across the card. I then stamped my dancing lady from Beautiful You, and coloured her with my Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker to make her into a silhouette. I then added a few strokes of Wink Of Stella to give a little shimmer to the card.

The sentiment was stamped in Versamark and then I added various Stampin' Emboss Powders to create the rainbow effect.

*TIP - I masked off the word 'gorgeous' on the stamp using a Post-It note so I had the sentiment I wanted.

I love using this technique...have you ever tried it? If not, give it a go and let me know how you got on!

Hope to see you soon!

Golden Feel Goods

Hello peeps!

I have something a little different for you today...a commissioned Stampin' Framed I made a couple of weeks ago.

This is made using the ever stunning Swallowtail stamp and one of the verses from Feel Goods...there are some lovely verses in this set!

I was asked to make this for a Golden Wedding Anniversary, with the theme of red and gold. The Swallowtail is stamped in Real Red and the sentiment is heat embossed in Gold Stampin' Emboss. I got perfect placement of my sentiment using my Stamp-a-ma-juig...I don't know what I'd do without it!

Here is what I used...

Swallowtail Clear-Mount Stamp

£12.95

Feel Goods Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£17.95

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

Versamark Pad

£6.75

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

£4.50

Stamp-A-Ma-Jig

£10.95

Keiran has his school photos today and he was left at school with strict instructions not to remove his jumper before his photo is taken...given how warm it is I fully expect him to and for him to have a Mohican in his pictures! 

All Is Calm with Endless Wishes

Hello everyone!

As it's Thursday it's time for a new challenge at CAS-Colours and Sketches, and it is sketch week.

I had a good crafting session yesterday, making 4 cards, and this was one of them...

It actually came together very quickly because I knew exactly which stamps I wanted to use! The snowflakes and sentiment all came from the Endless Wishes set. I heat embossed the snowflakes in Siver Stampin' Emboss.

The sentiment was easily placed as the stamps are Photopolymer...you can see through them so you know exactly where you are stamping :) The DSP is All Is Calm again. I have to say that I really love this paper! The colours are so pastelly (that's a word right??) and the designs aren't just Christmassy. I reckon I may be using this a lot in the next few months!

Here is what I used...

All Is Calm Specialty Designer Series Paper

£11.50

Endless Wishes Photopolymer Stamp Set

£13.95

Silver Stampin' Emboss Powder

£4.50

Versamark Pad

£6.75

Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

I am entering this card into the challenge at Colour Throwdown this week...

So how are you getting on with you Christmas crafting? Are you well on your way or still living in the summer??

Have a lovely Thursday!

Bright & Beautiful on a Friday!

Good morning!

I have a lovely card to show you using the lovely new Bright & Beautiful stamp set from the brand new Autumn/Winter catalogue today!

Isn't that star just gorgeous?!! I have stamped it in Lost Lagoon, then heat embossed the sentiment from the same set in silver Stampin' Emboss Powder, after first stamping in Versamark.

You can see the embossing better here. It is really lovely and gives quite a shimmer to the card. I finished with some stars punch from Silver Glimmer paper using the punch from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack. The whole panel was then popped up on Dimensionals onto a Lost Lagoon card blank.

If you would like to order anything from any of the catalogues, please do feel free to contact me, or click on the links on my sidebar >>>>>>>>

Do you have anything planned for today? I am working, gym, then crafting some commissions, then it's the final of Got To Dance...yay!

Enjoy your Friday!

Golden Poppies

Hello everyone!

As you may (or may not) know, I have a lot of commissioned projects that I am working on, which is really keeping me busy! I have got one of them to show you today. I have, as always, asked permission to show it so all's good :)

The brief for this one was to use the 2 photos, poppies and it was for a Golden Anniversary. I did struggle for a while, I think because I was trying to come up with something using red poppies. Then I realised that I needed to forget red, which is when I came up with stamping them in gold Encore, which I think really works, don't you?

I printed the photos in sepia which worked better than colour, then added the 'Mr & Mrs', which is gold embossed onto Vellum cardstock. The Crochet Trim and Gold Sequin Trim are perfectly placed to ground the poppies.

Here is what I used...

Pleasant Poppies Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£12.95

Gold Metallic Encore Pad

£8.95

Versamark Pad

£6.75

Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder

£3.95

5/8 Inch Crochet Trim Victoria

£6.25

Gold Sequin Trim

£4.50

Brushed Gold A4 Card Stock

£7.25

The customer has received the card and is thrilled with it...so another happy customer! :)

Stippled Blossoms bringing sunshine

Hi, hi, hi everyone!

I hope your weekend is going well? I have so far spent it working, crafting, getting Keiran through a tricky level of Skylanders and catching up on 3 episodes of Nashville! And work tomorrow!

For now though, let me show you one of the things I made last night...

This is a frame I have made for Keiran's Nanna and Grandad for their wedding anniversary on Tuesday. They are two very cheerful and fun people and they help me so much with looking after Keirna so I can work both on my job and my Stampin' Up business, so this sentiment is perfect for them! They have recently had their living room decorated so I took inspiration from this for the frame.

I used Feel Goods and Stippled Blossoms, teamed with the leaves from Secret Garden and Summer Silhouettes which were stamped in Sahara Sand. I stamped the sentiment in Real Red and heat embossed it in clear Stampin' Emboss powder. I finished with Real Red Candy Dots.

Here is a picture of their living room to show you where the inspiration came from.

That wallpaper is practically Stippled Blossoms isn't it?

Here is what I used to create this frame

Summer Silhouettes Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£17.95

Feel Goods Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£17.95

Stippled Blossoms Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£18.95

Real Red A4 Card Stock

£6.25

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

Brights Candy Dots

£5.50

Versamark Pad

£6.75

Clear Stampin' Emboss Powder

£3.95

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

£7.50

Secret Garden Clear-Mount Stamp Set

£17.95

Secret Garden Framelits Dies

£20.95

Sahara Sand Classic Stampin' Pad

£4.95

I hope they like this frame because I really do love it!

Have a lovely Sunday...I'm off to church now, then work.