Tuesday 23 August 2011

Twisted Easel Card


Take a folded 14.8cmx14.8cm square card and 14.8cmx14.8cm square piece of card, put the folded card in front you with the fold away from you, score from the top left hand corner to the bottom right hand corner of the top piece only. 

Cut two pieces of green card 13.8cmx13.8cm square and two pieces of yellow/green backing paper, mount this centrally on to the green card then mount one piece onto the 14.8cmx14.8cm piece of white card, the other piece attach centrally to the inside of the card which has not been folded.

With memento tuxedo black stamp large flower twice onto two shades of orange card, shade the centre and part way up the petals of each flower with vintage photo distress ink, stamp the large flower once onto four shades of green card.

Cut out the four green ones with leaves and the orange flower heads only, glue an orange flower to each green one, attach three flower to the single 14.8cmx14.8cm card, with the folded card in front of you with the fold to your left, put glue/double sided tape on the bottom triangle only attach square to this, turn the card so the fold is away from you open up the card and fold back the left hand corner, attach the last flower to the bottom left hand corner of the inside of the card with foam pads or glue.

          Elegant Lady

 Onto a square white pearl card using memento tuxedo black, stamp the eyes nose and mouth only, (from the flower power set of stamps), cut out a very simple hat shape in black card, shape this and attach to the card with foam pads or glue just over the right eye, stamp the large flower twice onto pink card with black ink, cut out one with the leaves and one just the flower head only, curl up the petals on the head only shape the leaves down on the other, attach to hat with foam pads or glue,

Stamp happy birthday in the bottom right hand corner with black ink.

Cream and Brown Thank You


As august is a busy month for me with family celebrations I was using the flower stamp a lot, so rang Faye to see it was available in a larger size, a few days later it arrived in the post, Thanks Faye.


 
Using antique linen and brushed corduroy distress ink randomly stamp the small flower, onto a piece of cream leather look card, with a stencil brush lightly go over this with antique linen, stamp the large flower onto a piece of pale gold pearl card using dark brown pigment ink, clear emboss them, cut out the brown one but only the flower head from the pale gold card, glue this to the brown flower, cut apiece of brown card 16.6cmx11.6cm and a piece of the cream stamped backing card 16cmx11cm go around the edge of the cream card with brushed corduroy, attach this centrally to the brown card and then centrally to a 7”x5” pale gold card, glue the flower to the top left hand corner and stamp thank you in brushed corduroy,

         Pink Quick and Simple 

Using a black pigment ink stamp the large flower once onto black card, and twice onto pink card clear emboss them. Cut out the black flower but only the pink flower heads, flat glue one pink flower to the black one, curl up the petals of the second pink one and glue onto the other one, cut a piece of black card 16cmx8cm and a piece of pink card 15cmx7cm attach the pink card centrally to the black card, glue some narrow white/silver ribbon 2.5cm in on the back from the top left hand corner go around the bottom right hand corner and back up to the top left hand corner, hold this in place on the back with some glue or double sided tape, attach this 1cm up from the bottom of a white DL card, shape the leaves down on the flower using glue or foam pads glue to the top left hand corner of the card, with a silver pen go around the edge of a white and black die cut tags, onto the white one in black pigment ink stamp happy birthday and clear emboss it, glue this to the top of the black tag with some of the black showing, using the white/silver ribbon tie them to the ribbon on the card and hold in place with a foam pad.


Lilac Get Well Soon and green Happy Birthday


These two cards are almost the same as the lilac happy birthday only I did not cut around parts of the flower just stamped more flowers and decoupage them to hold the embossed in place.

Scrap Box Bits


I have boxes of bits of card, and folded cards from old kits, the embossed A.T.C. made me think about using some up, no two cards will ever be the same.



    Blue Congratulations

Onto a piece of white card using Versa mark, stamp the flower and congratulations, clear emboss this, with stormy sky distress ink and a stencil brush, working from side to side keeping the outer edge almost white, but over the flower and congratulations needs to be quite dark so it will stand out, go around the edge of the card with black ink, using pieces of blue and navy card that tone with the stormy sky ink, scrunch up the navy card open it out and rub over it with a sanding block, now attach them to a white card starting with the navy twist each piece so each colour can be seen under the embossed card.

       Green Happy Birthday

I found a white card with a piece of green card mounted onto it almost the same colour as pine needles distress ink, stamp the flower and happy birthday using versa mark and clear emboss it, colour as above with pine needles and go around the edge with black ink. A lighter piece of green card  was scrunched up and opened out, and rub over with pine needles ink, attach the light green and white card in place, fix a light green card candy to each corner.

         Lilac Happy Birthday

A 7”x5” lilac folded card was used as the base card, onto a piece of white card about 1.5cm smaller than the base card, using memento tuxedo black stamp a flower in each corner, with the two leaves and curled petals, facing into the centre of the card, lightly colour this with dusty concord distress ink, edge the card with black ink, cut a piece of white card to fit just over the curled petals stamped on the white card, on to this stamp the flower and happy birthday using versa mark and clear emboss it, working with stormy sky distress ink in the centre over the words and part of the flower, and dusty concord to the edge both colour need to be quite dark, edge the card in black ink, using a craft knife cut around the two curled petals and part way along the two leaves, you will now have slots to slip the corners of the embossed card in, make sure the embossed card fits before you attach it centrally to the base card.  

Saturday 6 August 2011

ATC cards

The cake ATC was made using versa mark ink and clear embossing powder, on white leather look card.

‘It’s a piece of cake’ was stamped across the bottom, with the cake on a plate just above it to the left, mask of the cake, and stamp the big cake just to the top of the plate.
Go over the whole card with distress vintage photo ink, edge the card with memento rich cocoa ink.   

The ring ATC was made using pale gold pearl card, cream lace was glued to the back of a small brown nestabilities shape, stamp the rings onto a piece of gold card using black stazon ink, stamp ’To have and to hold’ onto some pale gold pearl card in memento rich cocoa ink, cut this down to3.5cm x 3cm

Round of the corners and edge it in rich cocoa.

Cut the rings out and shape them, with a foam pad fix them to the bottom left hand corner of the brown shaped card, and the ‘To have and to hold’ to the right hand side.

Celebrate black /red and white

In my scrap box I found this backing paper which just fitted an A5 card, with 3cm folded to the back of the card.

Onto a piece of red card 14cm x 10cm, in memento tuxedo black ink, stamp the piece of cake on the plate, in the bottom left hand corner, next to this stamp ‘It’s a piece of cake’, above ‘piece of’ stamp celebrate , attach this to piece of silver card 14.5cm x10.5cm.

Stamp the heart cake, one extra flower from the top of the cake, and a heart big enough to cover the bells, on to white pearl card using memento tuxedo black ink.

Colour the leaves and centre of the flower in ice gray 3 or black promarker, colour the ribbon, heart and flower, the top edge of the cake in a red gel pen. I also drew three red lines at the bottom of the cake, colour the cut part of the cake in terracotta promarker.

Cut out and shape the cake, heart and flower, attach the cake centrally to the top of the silver/red card, fix the heart over the bells with a foam pad, attach the flower in place, fix a clear crystal gem to each corner of the red card and one on the ribbon.

Attach the silver/red card across the middle of the card.

50th Anniversary card

With vintage photo distress ink, lightly cover the front of an A5 hammer finished card, down the side of the card stamp congratulations in vintage photo ink.

Roughly tear a piece of brown card to fit down the folded side of the card, attach some gold chiffon ribbon to this and attach to the folded side of the card, place a cream card candy, to the corners of the brown down the folded side.

Stamp the heart cake, one extra flower from the top of the cake, a 5 and 0 onto some cream pearl card, using memento rich cocoa ink, go over the5 and 0 with the edge of the cake to give it some pattern.

Colour in the bells, ribbon, leaves, centre of the flowers, and the top edge of the cake with a gold pen. Cut out and shape the cake, flower head only, 5 and 0.

Onto a piece of gold pearl card 9cm x 13cm, stamp Anniversary in the middle at the bottom of the card, just above this to the right, stamp th.

Attach the cake to the top of the gold card, and the 50 just above Anniversary.

Black and white wedding stationary

Using white pearl card and memento tuxedo black ink, stamp two of the large flower, the rings and the round congratulations.

Colour in the rings, both centre of the flowers but only one set of leaves using ice gray 3 promarker. Cut out the round congratulations, and colour around the edge with the gray promarker, cut out the rings, the flower with the coloured in leaves, and just the flower head of the other one, shape the flowers and rings.

Cut a piece of silver pearl 7cm x  5.5cm, and a piece of black card 6.5cm x 5cm, attach the black card centrally onto the silver, glue the flower  with the leaves onto the congratulations, glue the flower head on, using a foam pad place the over lapping the flower, attach this to the silver/black card.
This can now be used for invitation/thank you cards, gift bags and lots more, for the place card just make the backing card smaller, for the order of service you will need to make a silver/black  band to go around the roll of paper.