Monthly Archives: November 2010

Brayered fairy landscape card

anniversary card, brayer, card, fairy, lavinia stamps
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I love doing these brayered cards and this is a nice one for a female of any age group.  The project is from The craft stamper mag, April 2009 and at the last crop a few of the other ladies and I had a bit of a brayer workshop.  I added the punched leaves later.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black, Adirondack Red pepper, Cranberry and eggplant, Distress ink Mustard seed, Stampin up Mellow moss
Card:  white card, black card, green and black vellum
Stamps:  Lavinia stamps flower fairy, fern leaf, folliage and trailing ivy corner, (butterflies stamp was borrowed)
Other:  punched butterfly and leaves to embellish, fantasy film for fairy wings, dots of glitter pen

Wheelbarrow Christmas card

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This card is a Christmas card with a gardening theme.

Inks:  Black document ink, watercolour pencils to colour, Distress ink sky, versamark with silver to edge and with white for falling snow
Card:  white card, brown paper, pale blue twinkle, silver angel hair sheet
Stamps:  Flower-soft The wheelbarrow, The gate (bird) and Quiet corner bench (gloves), See D’s Christmas (holly)
Other:  fun flock, silver brads, diamond glaze, Distress stickles Rock candy on the wheelbarrow, ribbon

Penguin family Christmas card

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Here is another requested card, Santa has kicked the football and knocked off one of their Santa hats.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black, Versamark with black twinkle embossing powder
Card: white card, black twinkle card, snowflake background paper
Stamps:  See D’s Christmas, Tanda stamps Penguin Christmas
Other:  red stickles, white fun flock, black and orange glaze pens, clear page pebbles over football images, snow flakes, fibre

Male gardening birthday card

card, gardening, male
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I have only ever made rather floral gardening cards for women but I was asked to make one for a man this time and you know what men are like about their lawns and tools.  So here is my more masculine gardening card.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black, Brilliance Pearlescent ivy, Prisma pencils to colour, versamark with gold embossing powder
Card:  white, green (grass patterned paper background)
Stamps:  Aspects of design Gardening 2, English stamp company Oriental (grass)
Other:  diamond glaze, flower soft (on top of of small plant pot), green gardening twine

Grumpy dog Christmas card

card, Christmas, Dog
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Inks:  Brilliance Graphite black
Card:  white, red, red flock and white flock paper, silver mirri card, patterned paper Anna Griffin)
Stamps:  Inkadinkado Patterned pets, swirl baubles free with craft stamper mag,, Woodware Francoise Read A dogs life
Other:  red string, tiny tag, glossy accents, silver stickles