Monochromatic Moment.......

Good morning bloggers,

Is that a bit of sunshine I see out there or wishful thinking?......

Today I have some more of my Imagination Crafts samples to share with you from the Create and Craft weekender and I promise that I will do a tutorial on this blog next week to show you how to create the little petal flowers, like I did on the show on the Sunday as a lot of you said that you missed it or want to see it again.....no prob's I can do a picture tutorial.
The mini petal stencils will be in stock next week as well and I will get them on the website......

When I was making the samples for the show I had a monochromatic day and as you have already seen on Wednesdays Blog Post I made a black and white wedding card using the Mini Petal and Bride Stencil.

This was another card that I made using the Tile Verona Dimensional Stencil Set and Silver Sparkle Medium.....

(Apologies the picture is slightly blurred but it is the only one of the whole card but you get the idea!)

I love the way that you can cut away the layers and build up the dimension .....

Here is a closer look....

Or if you don't want it to be as raised then what I have done with this next card is to dry emboss the stencil on to a piece of Black Silk Card and then use Silver Sparkle Medium on to another piece of Black Silk Card and cut away the border and the centre and then layer on top. Then I dry embossed the small stencil in black too and added a Craftwork Cards Message on top of it......

I hope that you can see that in the close up.....

Although it is the same stencil for both cards it really gives a totally different look don't you think?

For the next one, I used the Butterfly with Love stencil ( one of my favourites that will be on the website next week) ......I used parts of the stencil to create the background using  Black Stars Sparkle Medium and Diamond White Sparkle Medium very lightly through the stencil to give a subtle look....

I then used the Silver sparkle medium on to Acetate and cut out the butterfly when it was dry and 3D'd it.

I also added a strip of Silver Diamond Mesh down the side of the card.....

I love making Acetate butterflies with the Sparkle Medium with this stencil.....

Well I hope you liked my monochromatic inspiration, I will be back next week with some more show and tells......until then......

Big Hugs Lisa.B.xx

    

      

Masking technique - spring flowers

Good morning 

This week I've used a masking technique with the 

Woodware Clear Magic Stamp called Spring Flowers

available HERE

The stamp is described as a bouquet of flowers which is a lovely stamp, but I wanted to create a
 field of flowers

A step by step follows below

Here is the Clear Magic Spring Flowers stamp

Using a Versafine Black Onyx ink pad, I stamped the image twice on to some

smooth white card

I attached four post it notes together and then stamped the image on to them

(centralising the image along the vertical join of the post it notes)

I detached one half of the post it notes from the other

I then cut along the outer edge of the two halves of the image and attached the pieces to 

the two stamped images on my white card

Next, I stamped the image again in the space between the post it notes

Above is how it looked when I removed the post it notes

I coloured the image using Promarkers

and cut to size

I matted the image on to some purple core'dinations card stock and added some

Stickles Star Dust Glitter Glue, a piece of ribbon and a Craftwork Cards sentiment

and then attached it to a card I made from an A4 sheet of 

Anna Marie Designs Lilac Dottie Card

                  

Enjoy your weekend and keep crafting

~Suzanne~

Wishing you

Hi! It's Georgina with my regular Thursday post. 

Today I have a men's card to share with you. I have used a kraft, cream and brown colour scheme.

To make the card I started by laying up the background elements. I used Letters and music patterned paper and also Graphic45 Quote Unquote and Glimpse of Paris 12x12 papers. I either added the papers flat on the 6x6 kraft card blank or I scrunched up the papers before adding to the card to add extra texture and dimension.

The main stamped music image and the sentiment are from Hobby Art's Musical stamp set. The sentiment I stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink pad onto kraft card. The musical image I stamped with a VersaMarkink pad and then heat embossed with WOW Ebony embossing powder.

I also stamped KaiserCraft Dictionary Meanings onto the card and a tag with Walnut Stain Distress ink. I also embossed the tag with a Crackle embossing folder. to finish the card I added a button and thread to the tag

   

       

     

I do like a flower or two.....

 

Good morning peeps,

 

How are we all today, are you as fed up with our lovely British weather as much as I am? Good for the garden though I suppose.......

 

Well, as a lot of you know, I very much have a love for flowers as I was a florist for 14 years and I love creating them in all sorts of ways and using them on my cards and projects......So when the lovely Sue from Imagination Crafts gave me the Mini Petal Stencil to play with, along with the Tile Petal Stencil, I soon found a use for this little one all on its own.......

 

I showed you how to make the flowers with Sparkle Medium on our Imagination Crafts Weekender on Create and Craft

and here are just some of the projects that I have added them to, just to give that added sparkle.... 

 

 



The first one is a wedding card that I made using Bride Stencil and Diamond White Sparkle Medium, I used the satin Black Card to spread it on to.....

 

 

A closer look at the gorgeous flowers.....

 

 

 

 

The second project was a butterfly wall hanging using the gorgeous Butterfly With Love Stencil and the mini petal stencil. I also used one of the MDF kits that we had on the show and distressed and foiled the background with Silkies and Sparkle Medium.......

 

I added some Rhinestone Dazzlers to the centre of these flowers......

 

 

And that gorgeous butterfly.......

 

 

 

For my last project here today, I made a little wedding gift bag from Suzanne's tutorial previously on the blog HERE

 

 

I then made a little tag to go on the bag using the Champagne and Roses stencil and Silver Sparkle Medium and then added a couple of the petal flowers to it......

 

 

They really are so cute......

 

 

 

I hope you like the inspiration, I will have a lot of the Imagination Crafts products at my workshop on 6th June at Fant Hall, Barming ME16 8NN.

Anyone is welcome to the shop there between 2.30pm and 9.30pm......

 

   

 

       

  

 

Well, that is about all from me for now but I will be back on Saturday with another post......

 

Big hugs, Lisa B xx