Saturday, 3 May 2025
Chess Art
Monday, 28 April 2025
Group of Seven - Gilding Flakes on Acetate
Friday, 11 April 2025
Flying Pelican
Tuesday, 8 April 2025
First Christmas Card for 2025
I am entering the following challenges:
Group of Seven Cardmakers - March Technique - Using Embossing Paste.
Friday, 28 March 2025
Group of Seven - Embossing Paste Product Focus
I cut a piece of card to fit a 6" square base card and then added the paste through the taped down stencil masking off the rest of the card. I used a small palette knife to spread it, and it worked quite well, though I do think that I found it easier the few times I have tried this before by using an old plastic store card at a slight angle to pull the paste across. When dry I decided to add the extra hearts placed on the ends of some flower stems and balloon strings. I cut off the branches on the flower stems to give one long stem, and they were a bit shorter, and I also used the balloon strings from the other set but as they were rather thin and seemed a bit flimsy I glued two back to back on three of them..not the easiest thing, but they look OK I think. I also used the stencil and pencil marked around one of the larger hearts cutting two with my small decoupage scissors which I doubled up for more dimension. I then found various little die cut hearts which I keep in a pot and used some in three different sizes and I coloured them with a couple of pink alcohol pens. I used a lighter pink then decided to darken them a bit so added another colour over the top of each. I then added a heart to each of the stems, and I decided at this point to add some Glossy Accents to all of them for a bit of pretty shine. I also used some of the Glossy Accents as a glue over the right hand heart and stuck the heart stems down to it before adding the double layer pink heart over the top and used it behind each of the hearts to stick them down to the card..it is good for something like this as it sticks extremely firmly. I didn't like the look of the stems beneath the heart so I cut them off so that they emerge from under the heart, and I also added the sentiment heat embossing with WOW Metallic Silver Embossing Powder, and added the five tiny hearts around it. The titanium colour of the paste does look more silver in reality than it does in the photo which has given it a more beige tone for some reason, so the silver embossed sentiment does look a better match than it appears here.
Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Week 4 - A = Anything Goes.
Simply Clean & Simple Challenge - March'25 Anything Goes/Shades of Green.
Thursday, 20 March 2025
Birthday Squirrel
Hi everybody. This is a masculine card featuring the same squirrel stamp used on my last card here, and this was supposed to be on the card but I decided this darker shade of blue didn't look right so it was left sitting on my table. I also used the set of Torn Edge Squares..I'm a bit obsessed with these at the moment..lol, and also a Lavinia stencil called Laurel. I'm still keeping it simple at the moment.
I began by die cutting the piece of card with the squirrel on using a smaller Torn Edge Die and then added the sentiment using the same Versafine Majestic Blue Ink..both the squirrel image and the sentiment have been heat embossed using WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder. I then die cut a larger one from the set, about 5" square and then dry embossed the leaves onto it. I accidentally did it wrong and got the raised leaves on the reverse of the die cut but decided that I would leave it like this and I ink blended using several green Distress Inks to highlight the stencilling, namely Twisted Citron, Lucky Clover and Pine Needles. I gradually darkened the look until I was happy as I wanted to make sure that the leaf shapes showed up sufficiently which I think they now do, but without making it too dark wanting to keep the fresh spring colours. I put the 6" square card together and raised up the central mat with some craft foam for added dimension.
Just before I finish I have noticed that over the last few weeks my follower numbers have dropped, only by a few and maybe they have just decided to leave, but then within the last day they dropped by two more which does seem a bit odd. I wondered if others have notice that suddenly the number of followers has changed. Maybe this is down to blogger so I had a look at a few of the ones I follow to compare and all seemed OK, so it is a bit of a conundrum.
Anyway thank you for visiting me today and I'll see you again soon.
We Love Stamping Challenge - March'25 Hello Spring/Anything Goes.
Stamping Sensations Challenge - March '25 Hello Spring/Anything Goes.
Allsorts Challenge - No. 819 Feminine/Anything Goes.
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Have Fun With Stencils.
Stencil Fun Challenge - Anything Goes/Splatters.
Try it on Tuesday Challenge - Spring Fling.
Darnell's I.D.EA.S. - Week 3 Embossing.
Tuesday, 11 March 2025
Spring Flowers
I am entering the following challenges: