Francais Couture: Square Cream Card

These new stamps from Dimension Stamps work well in any colour! I have used the Francais Couture stamp set (stamp ref: 2400074a).

How To Make

• Stamp a background of the large words onto 12.8cm x 12.8cm piece of dark cream card in brown ink.
• Next stamp the back of the corset and “Have a Glamorous Birthday” onto cream card in brown ink.
• Cut out the corset and punch holes and thread gold cord over the ribbon.
• Then cut out “Have a Glamorous Birthday” and mount first onto dark cream card then onto brown pearl card.
• Next cut a 13.8cm x 13.8cm piece of gold pearl paper, and centrally attach to a small square cream card.
• Attach narrow gold edge cream ribbon down the centre of the stamped dark cream card, and across one third down on the right of the ribbon and across two thirds down on the left of the ribbon.
• Then attach “ Have a Glamorous Birthday” to the top left  corner.
• To finish off add three cream lace leaves and five small lace daises in the bottom left hand corner (use a brown ink pad on the daises), Then shape and attach the corset to the right of the card with 3D glue.

Flower Powered: I Love You Red and Black

Here is another card is made using the new Flower Powered stamp set from Dimension Stamps (stamp ref: 2400075a).

How To Make

• Stamp the flower with swirls onto a 9.5cm x 9.5cm piece of red card in black pigment ink and black emboss.
• Next stamp “I Love You” (from Grand Word Perfect 2 stamp ref: 1803069a) in the top right hand corner in black.
• Mount onto silver card and 3D gloss the flowers and petals
• Then stamp the flowers with swirls on to each corner of small square black card in black ink and black or clear emboss.
• Finally centrally attach the red card when dry.

What a perfect Valentines day card!



Francais Couture: Black and Red card

Another card made using the new Dimension Stamps Francais Couture stamp set (stamp ref: 2400074a) set.

This one is really quick to make!

How To Make

• Stamp the large words in the top right and bottom left hand corners of an A5 black card using a Versamark pad and clear emboss it.
• Next stamp the front of the corset and bow onto black card in black pigment ink and black emboss them
• Colour the ribbons and bows in red cosmic shimmer.
• Die cut a champagne glass (old Sizzlits die) and fancy circle (Grand Decorative Circle One LF-015) from white card.
• Then stamp the large words over the white circle in black ink.
• Next paint the two hearts on the glass in red cosmic shimmer.
• I then applied modpodge sparkle to the circle
• Attach the circle to the top of the card when dry, and the glass to the bottom right hand corner with a single red rose and the bow.
• Finally cut out shape the black corset and attach red chiffon ribbon to the bottom of the corset on the back, and attach to the white circle with 3D glue or foam pads.



Flower Powered: Brown and Cream Bike

This card is made using the new Flower Powered stamp set from Dimension Stamps (stamp ref: 2400075a). I think this bike looks lovely stamped in the muted shades.

How To Make

• For the background stamp the bike onto each corner of a 19cm x 19cm piece of dark cream card, in opposite corners have the seat and handlebars facing into the centre of the card, in the other two corners have the wheels, stamp flower powered on an angle on each side in memento rich cocoa, edge with a brown promarker.
• Across the bottom left hand corner attach a piece of dark cream and brown ribbon.
• Then centrally attach it to a 20cm x 20cm square Kraft card
• Next stamp the bike onto a 16cm x 10.7cm piece of cream card, colour in with brown toning promarkers.
• Then distress with tea dye and edge in a brown promarker.
• Mount onto a 16.6cm x 11.3cm piece of Kraft card edge in brown.
• Finally, centrally attach to the card and add a cream fabric flower over the ribbons.



Francais Couture: On Your Retirement

Here's the lovely sofa from Francais Couture stamp set ( Stamp ref: 2400074a) set Dimension Stamps. This time I used it for a masculine retirement card and it works perfectly!

How To Make

• First I attached a piece of burgundy and cream striped backing paper to an A5 cream card.
• Then I die cut a cream scalloped oval stamp and stamp on a background using stamps from Mr Sophisticated stamp set (stamp ref: 2400026a) and “Retirement” Grand Word Perfect 2 (stamp ref: 1803069a) in memento rich cocoa. To finish it off I distressed with Tea Dye all over and working Aged Mahogany around the outside edge to make it a lot darker.
• Next I stamped the sofa twice onto brown card in black ink and again onto red card with an extra round cushion.
• Colour in the buttons on the red sofa in black.
• Then cut out one of the brown sofas and the arms and back swirls from the other brown sofa, cut out the fabric from the red sofa and the extra round cushion, and attach to the brown sofa with the arms and back swirls, 3D gloss all the brown parts on the sofa.
• Next stamp “On Your Retirement” into the banner frame (from Grand Word Perfect 2 stamp ref: 1803069a) in black pigment ink and clear emboss it.
• Then stamp the top hat and cane (from Mr Sophisticated) onto brown card in black ink, colour in the ribbon on the hat and the top of the cane.
• To finish the card attach the oval to the bottom of the card with the red “On Y our Retirement” above it with foam pads, attach the sofa to the oval with the hat and cane on the sofa, 3D gloss the hat and cane.

Francais Couture: 70th Birthday

Francais Couture is a new stamp set from Dimension Stamps (stamp ref: 2400074a). I really like the sofa as it will work for men and women of any age!

 

How to make:

• Die cut a scalloped oval in the front of a cream A5 card.
• With the card landscape stamp, Dream, Hope, Cherish, Believe, Magical and Birthday (from Grand Word Perfect 2 stamp ref: 1803069a) onto the front of the card in memento rich cocoa, and distress the front of the card making around the die cut oval darker (put a piece of scrap paper inside the card while distressing ).
• Next attach a piece of patterned backing card to inside front of the card.
• Stamp the sofa twice onto brown card in black ink, and onto cream card in brown ink and the round cushion once more.
• Cut out one full brown sofa and then the arms and back swirls from the second one. From the cream one cut out only the fabric part and colour the buttons brown, do the same with the round cushion.
• Next attach the cream fabric part to the brown sofa, then attach the arms and back swirls, 3D gloss all the brown parts on the sofa.
• Die cut 70^th from brown card and attach it in the bottom left hand corner of the card and add 3D gloss.
• Next die cut three brown fern leaves attach to the bottom right hand corner, with a fabric flower and a cream brad.
• Finally attach the sofa to the middle of the oval and add some flowers and a present  on the sofa.

December Project Club - Cream and brown boat/lighthouse

 

 

How to make

• Onto a 7x5 inch cream card using versamark, stamp the lighthouse in the bottom right hand corner, the boat in the top left hand corner, the ships wheel in the other two corners and fill the gaps with the other stamps and clear emboss the card.
• Stamp the boat, lighthouse, anchor and a lifebelt onto cream card in memento rich cocoa, colour parts in using two shades of brown cut out and back onto kraft card, cut out leaving a very narrow border.
• Shape the lighthouse and attach to the top right hand side of the card with 3D glue, shape and attach the boat centrally down the left hand side of the card with 3D glue.
• Die cut two pilings (Sizzlits Coastal Set 38-9692) one in kraft card and one in cream card, cut the rope from the cream pilings and glue onto the kraft card pilings shape and attach using 3D glue to the bottom left hand side of the card so the top is in front of the boat.
• Finally tie a piece of brown string to the lifebelt and anchor and attach the anchor next to the pilings and the lifebelt under the lighthouse.     

December Project Club - Square Blue Boat

 

 

How to make

• Stamp three lifebelts and two anchors onto white card in memento tuxedo black, colour in the bands on the lifebelts in red and blue and parts of the anchors, cut out the holes leaving the rest on the card and 3D gloss them.
• Cut a 14.2cm x 14.2cm piece of pale blue hammer finish card, using memento London fog stamp the ships wheel in the top left and bottom right hand corners and the anchor and ropes in the other two corners, using a medium blue colour in the thin ropes, stars and the shaped parts on the ships wheel edge the card in the same blue, and distress with stormy sky.
• Centrally attach to a 14.8cm x x14.8cm square white card.
• Stamp the boat onto pale blue card in memento Paris dusk, using the same blue as before colour in parts of the boat, mount onto white card and cut out leaving a very narrow white border.
• Centrally attach to the top of the card with foam pads.
• When dry cut out the lifebelts and anchors and tie them on to a piece of string and attach to the card under the boat.

December Project Club - All Aboard

 

 How to make

• Onto a piece of pale turquoise card in blue ink stamp “OUT AT SEA......” in three lines across the card, tear the card above the words and add diamond stickles along the torn edge.
• Stamp the boat, lighthouse, two anchors  and the anchor and ropes onto white card in black ink, colour in the boat, lighthouse and two anchors and cut them out.
• Next stamp the anchor and ropes onto gray and Kraft card cut the thick rope and star from the white card, the thin rope from the Kraft card and the anchor from the gray card, colour the star gray and reassemble as on the stamp.
• Stamp “ On Your Retirement” (Grand Word Perfect 2 (Ref: 1803069a)) in black ink onto white card, cut it out so it’s about 8.5cm x 1cm edge with a silver marker pen.
• Cover a 9cm x 3.5cm piece of white card with strips of ripped pale turquoise card.
• Stamp the lifebelt into each corner of a 13.8cm x 13.8cm piece of white card and “All Aboard” along each side, repeat this on a 14.8cm x 14.8cm piece of white card.
• Colour in the bands on the lifebelts in red and blue edge both in a silver pen, attach the smaller one to the inside of a 14.8cm x 14.8 cm twisted easel card, cut away the inside of the larger white square to make a frame, edge the inside cut edge in silver.
• Onto the top half of a 14.8cm x 14.8 piece of white card attach a piece of pale blue card (leave about 1cm around the edge of the card.
• Attach the lighthouse to the top right hand side of the card (so you can see part of it when the frame is fixed.
• Stamp some flying birds in the sky, add the first strip of turquoise sea, then the boat and then the rest of the sea, glue the frame in place and attach to the easel card.
• Using 3D glue attach the anchor and ropes to the bottom left hand corner
• Finally attach the turquoise piece of card to the inside of the card, thread “On Your Retirement through the two anchors and attach to the turquoise card.

December Project Club - Cream and Brown Lighthouse

 

How to make 

• From a piece of A4 cream linen textured card cut a 13.8cm x 20cm piece stamp a background using all the stamps in memento rich cocoa, distress with tea dye and edge with a gold marker pen.
• From the remaining cream card cut off a 20cm x 3.5cm piece and stamp the lighthouse in the middle and part of it above and below in rich cocoa.
• On the remaining card stamp two lifebelts, two anchors.
• Next stamp the scroll from Grand Word perfect 2 (ref: 1803069a) to the left hand side of the frame stamp "Ahoy" and "On Your" to the top with "Birthday" under on the right hand side, cut out and edge in rich cocoa.
• Colour in parts of the lighthouse, the bands on the lifebelts and the loops and bands on the anchors, 3D gloss the anchors and lifebelts (I found it best if I cut out the holes and left the rest on the card and cut them out when dry).
• Edge the lighthouse strip with a gold marker pen.
• Cut two strips of brown checked ribbon 25cm long when the anchors and lifebelts are dry thread two anchors on one piece and lifebelts on the other.
• Attach the ribbons to the top right hand side of the card on the back.
• Attach the scroll 1cm down from the top of the card over the two ribbons.
• Attach the ribbons to bottom of the card on the back, using 3D glue attach the anchors and lifebelts to the card.
• Finally attach the lighthouse strip to the right hand side of the card.

December Project Club - Black and white Lighthouse

The lighthouse stamp works so well with this style of card.

How to make

• With black ink stamp the ends of the rope and anchor stamp across the top and bottom of a white DL card.
• Stamp the lighthouse onto a 4.5cm x 13.5cm piece of white card in black ink, colour some parts of the lighthouse in black and gray.
• Next cut into three 4.5 squares and mount onto three 5.5 black squares edge each black square with a silver marker pen.
• Attach centrally down the card leaving a 1cm space between the squares.
• Finally down each side attach a piece of black and white checked ribbon adding a dark gray card candi to each end.

December Project Club - Blue and White Boat

I had so much fun coming up with ideas for Decembers Project Club cards, my problem was deciding when to stop!

 

How to make

• Stamp a background onto a13.8cm x 20cm piece of medium blue card, using all the stamps (apart from the lighthouse and boat) in blue pigment ink and then clear emboss it.
• Onto A5 piece of pale blue thin card stamp the lighthouse in the bottom right hand corner and the boat in the top left hand corner in blue ink, use the rest of the stamps to cover the card.
• Next colour parts of the lighthouse corner in blues.
• Then stamp the boat onto white card with blue pigment ink and clear emboss it.
• Tear the lighthouse and boat corners from the pale blue card and attach over the corners on the medium blue card.
• Mount this onto a 14.3cm x 20.5cm piece of dark blue pearl paper.
• Attach four pieces of folded ribbon (blues through to white) to the top left hand side of the card with blue and white brads.
• Then attach this to an A5 white card.
• Finally cut out the boat leaving a narrow white border attach to dark blue pearl paper, cut out as before leaving a narrow boarder, using foam pads attach to the bottom left hand corner of the card.

Cake time....

A week or so back I was asked if I could make a cake for a friend, of course I said not thinking she meant she wanted it before Christmas!

Well, as you can see I managed and I am quite pleased with how it turned out!

 

It's been a while...

Sorry its been a while, but I have still been crafting away!

I decided it was about time I got around to painting some of my ceramics. I am a big snowman fan, so painting these was an absolute pleasure!

 

This fella is about 10 inches tall!

 

 

This wreath is about 12 inches wide, I have a tree to match but I haven't started him yet!