Love Hearts

Hi everybody,   I have an anniverary card today using a heart die from Crafter's Companion called Love Hearts which I got a good few months ago but being used for the first time.  

I cut the heart from a snippet of white card cut to it a 6" square card and I found a snippet of pink holographic card which I have had in my stash for years and just a fraction larger than the white top layer.  I then found a snippet of light grey card to mount that on to, and then I found another smaller snippet of the same grey card and I die cut the central heart from this and then fussy cut round it to fit inside the original heart.  I finished by stamping a sentiment onto it using Versafine Smokey Gray Ink and heart embossed it with WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder and then added it over the heart, and as I had a few hearts which came out of the die cut heart using the grey card I added these to the top right and bottom left corners.  A fairly straight forward card and a bit different using the pink and grey colours.  It was supposed to be for the Color Hues Challenge but I just missed the closing date...drat!!

I am entering the following challenges:

Snippets Playground Challenge - No. 512 Where we use our snippets of paper and card etc.

Allsorts Challenge - No. 829 Animals/Anything Goes.

Cut It Up Challenge - No. 336 Add a Sentiment.

NBUS Challenge - No 77 Where we use our Never Before Used Schtuff.

Simply Clean & Simple Challenge - Aug. '25 Anything CAS Goes/Cute Animals.

I am also joining in with Darnell's I.D.E.A.S.  This is Week 2 - 'D' = Dies.

Northern Lights Technique

Hi all.  I decided to try to make a card featuring the Northern Lights and I looked at lots of photos to get an idea of colours and then set about replicating it.  There are also lots of YouTube videos which I looked at, and also Loll and Susan have recently put up their versions which are all beautiful, and they have both mentioned videos which you could look at.  I also used three different tree stamps..two from a Stampscapes set and one from a set by Chocolate Baroque.  Two out of three of the tree stamps are being used for the first time.

I started with the green and pink colours in the sky for which I used Distress Inks in Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, Picked Raspberry and Wilted Violet.  The Twisted Citron is a small ink cube and building up the colour took quite a long time and that was one of the reasons I added the Mowed Lawn which I have in a normal sized ink pad and which made it a bit faster, though I did want to keep the colour as light as I could.  I then added in the Chipped Sapphire DI which is another ink cube and I filled in the gaps and around the outside edges, and darkened it up with Black Soot DI which I added to the bottom section too.  Unfortunately I have managed to create a bit of brown between the green and pink because I accidentally laid one over the other and it has made the join a bit muddy, but apart from that it went quite well.

I finished it off by adding the different trees across the bottom at different heights for a bit of variation using my Misti so that I could stamp them several times, and I used Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink.  I also added some Posca Pen stars and finished with a birthday sentiment using Hero Arts Unicorn White Ink and heat embossed it with WOW Clear Gloss Embossing Powder.  It does have a slightly grey look but I didn't want it to be a stark white so I think that works OK.

Thank you for visiting me today and I will be posting more frequently again.  I have had rather a long break as our son came to visit from Australia for three weeks which was lovely, so cardmaking was suspended, and I always find it hard to get myself revved up again which is silly as I do enjoy being creative, but once I start I am generally fine and the mojo mostly works..lol.  

I am entering the following challenges:

We Love Stamping Challenge - Aug. '25 Flowers/Anything Goes.

Stamping Sensations Challenge - Aug. '25 Birds, Bees and Butterflies/Anything Goes.

Allsorts Challenge - No. 829 Animals/Anything Goes.

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge - No. 498 Birthdays.

NBUS Challenge - No. 77 Where we use our Never Before Used Schtuff.

I am also joining in with Darnell's I.DE.A.S. and this is Week 1: 'I' = Inking/Color Mediums