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Seaside wedding card

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Our wedding card for Angharad and Hugh who were married today at Polhawn Fort.
I wanted to make it a sea side theme so used stamped images of shells and a few small real shells as embellishments.

Inks: Stazon Timber brown, Archival coffee, Versafine onyx black, marvy pens to colour and bleach to lift off colour, tiny bit of sparkle to parts of the plants
Card: White aperture card, white watercolour paper
Stamps: Stampin up curvy verse and pocket silhouettes, The Artistic stamper seaside No1
Other: thick string, shells, glossy accents, sand

Mothering Sunday

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My Mother’s day card for Harry’s mum.
The frame is stamped and embossed then coloured using copic pens. The centre is cut out to reveal the message.

Inks: versamark with pearl violet embossing powder, green and yellow copics
Cards: white card, old olive for base layer
Stamp: Michael Strong’s cloisonné frame
Other: blue ribbon and Scottish thistle, computer generated message

 

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And a slightly different card for my mum. I thought I would go for a bit of urban grunge for my mum for a change. Mum is an artist and is very creative so I hope this will appeal to her.

Inks: versafine onyx black, Distress inks; tattered rose, mustard seed, fired brick, peeled paint, Brilliance lightning black, bleach,
Card: white textured, acetate, yellow vellum, luggage tag
Stamps: Stampers anonymous (Tim Holtz) Urban tapestry and Fairytale frenzy, Stampin up canvas background, RS tapestry nature plate 5 (butterfly)
Other: ribbon, washers, brads, large eyelet

The images are stamped first then the colour is added using colour dusters (small bristle brushes). Small areas are then highlighted with bleach. Edges are distressed using sandpaper block. The tag is made using the same technique with the addition of stamped wording on the top and on an acetate tag behind, fastened together using the large eyelet. The greeting is computer generated onto vellum which is then torn and layered with stamped, coloured and distressed card. The washers and brads hold the greeting together and this forms the pocket for the tag. Some tiny areas are highlighted with a bit of sparkle.

The wrong colours CBC challenge

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Today I am hosting the CBC challenge 91 – it’s the wrong colours Gromit!.
For this challenge I would like you to use the wrong colours when colouring in an image for a new crafty item, this can be a card, scrapbook page or any other crafty project. For example no green grass or blue sky but you can have green cats or blue dogs, purple people etc.

Inks: versafine onyx black, various copic pens
Card: white and black
Stamp: Heritage rubber stamp Co.(?) castle landscape
Other: silver foil (embossed), paper lace border covered in silver coloured foil tape then embossed and rubbed with black acrylic paint (for the corner pieces), glaze

t’wit t’woo guess who’s 2

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Noah will be two on Friday. Clare’s CBC challenge is to make something childish so I made Noah’s card for this challenge.

Inks: black document ink
Stamps: Woodware clear stamps Nature fun owl, Cute companions Patchwork numbers
Card: white card stock and coloured card (unknown)
Colour: pencils and neon pink pen
Other: eyes, computer generated wording

Valentine card

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Ok so I don’t really agree with the concept of Valentine’s day but my husband and I do exchange cards (just so we can say we received one!).  I made this one to fit Carolyn’s CBC challenge – what no red. The blue wire and bead heart is recycled from a previous wedding invite. It may be recycled again once Valentine’s day is over.

Ink: dark blue Marvy pen
Stamps: Michael Strong’s Cloisonné Mosaic Frame, PapertreyInk Out on a limb sentiments
Other: blue ribbon, gems, wire and bead heart

Pocket full of posies challenge

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It is my friend Pat’s birthday on Friday so I made her card to fit this CBCC080 challenge. The pocket is made from bright yellow vellum and you pull the flower up to reveal the message.

Inks: Versafine onyx black, Colorbox fluid chalk sunflower yellow
Stamps: Stampin up birthday wishes, Sugar Nellie flowers and kitty, The Artistic stamper Stitchels Daisy dot and Dashy dot
Colouring: Prisma pencils and whispers pens

Template Challenge

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Two cards I made for friends birthdays (they are brothers and have the same birthday but a year apart) using Clare’s template for the CBCC081 template challenge.

Inks: Tim Holtz Distress inks black soot and weathered wood, just to smudge around the edges.
Card: DCWV The Far East stack, white, black
Blue skeleton leaves and circles.

Water colour dragonfly

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I made this card a few days ago for a friend’s birthday using the water colour technique on Tim Holtz blog September 2008 technique challenge

Inks: Adirondack; red pepper, bottle, lettuce, oregano, stream, stonewashed, terra cotta and wild plum, and Archival coffee for the quote
Stamps: Lavinia stamps dandelion, Stampin up Pocket silhouettes and a free dragonfly stamp from craft stamper (I think)
Cards stock: old olive, plain white and scraps of brown paper
The scrap of paper and a beige brad have been coated in embossing ink and distress powder to give a nice texture to the embellishment..

Ghost swirls

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Finally I had a few hours to do a bit of crafting today. After flicking through my mum’s new book, Magenta Style Paper Magic, I was inspired to try some ghost stamping.

Cardstock: white and black
Inks: white Stazon, Colorbox chalk lime pastel and rouge, Versafine onyx black, Stampin’ up mellow moss
Stamps: swirls from Dovecraft fantasy emblems and dragon flies (unknown)

Hell’s Angels

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This was made for the Sunday challenge No. 20 on UK Stampers forum. It had to include an angel.

Stamp: bikers from xelacraft (ebay)
Inks: black stazon and red stazon
Colour: Prisma pencils with sansodor
Material skull: from a fat quarter of Mexican day of the dead sugar skulls.
Embellishements: gun metal chain, screw brads and painted grunge board (Tim Holts elements; wings).
The heading was generated on the computer in Old English Text, the MC is stamped in red stazon with silver highlights.