Hobby Art Poinsettia & Sparkle Medium

Hi there crafters, today's card is centred around just the large Poinsettia stamp from the Hobby Art Poinsettia Stamp Set and Sparkle Medium.

So this time I started with a 6" x 6" white card and matted it with green mirri card, then a white matt.  Followed by another matt of red mirri card then plain white for the image.

The next step was to cover some white Super Smooth Card with Sparkle Mediums to create my own sparkly card.

I used the Woodware Mini Brayer to do this and only used enough card to stamp my images.  I used the following for each element:

For the leaves - Sage Green
For the Flower - Bright Red

I left them to dry for quite a while before stamping using the large flower head and stamping that twice and the medium leaf six times onto the green, ensuring you use a lot of pressure by using the Stampeazee acrylic press.

(Sorry about the quality of the photos, sparkle medium reflects too much because it's so sparkly, in a good way)

I then cut out all the images ready to decoupage.  I decided to cut out the second layer of frons individually to create more height.

I put the Poinsettia together by adding a piece of 3D foam and then gluing the frons into place.  I didn't mind about the foam pad showing because I knew I was covering it up with a large Dazzler.

I stamped the Season's Greetings sentiment on to white card and matted it up with red mirri card.  Then just assembled the card as you can see but made sure I 3D the flower head for even more height and placed a large yellow Dazzler in the centre.

Card done, here it is again.

 I hope you enjoyed this nice easy card, look forward to seeing you next time.

Love Jan -x-

  



Hobby Art and Vellum

 

Hello again crafters.  This weeks card idea came out of a conversation with Lisa, we were talking about the Hobby Art Poinsettia Stamp set and Lisa said that she had seen it done in vellum, so I thought I'd have a go.  I made two in the end because I liked the affect so much.

 

The first was done using a red vellum:

 

 

So I stamped the large poinsettia from the set three times onto the red vellum using Versafine then embossed it using the Wow Iced Silver.

 

 

I then cut them out but in different layers so I could decoupage them, which I did using Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue, then left to one side to dry.

 

 

 

I then started on the background.  I used my usual 7" x 7" white card and cut a matt of the red vellum slightly smaller, I don't like to waste hidden card or paper so I cut an inner square that I knew I'd use later.

 

 

Once I stuck down the out frame of vellum with double sided tape near the inner cut square so it wouldn't show, I cut another piece of white super smooth card just slightly smaller than the vellum.

 

I then used the Season's Greetings from the same stamp set and stamped around the edge of the white card by layering the stamp down and putting a pencil mark where the top of the stamp would be and did this around each edge of the card.  Again I used the Versafine and Iced Silver.

 

You can just see in the photo below where the pencil mark was and I used this mark as a guide to cut another square of white card which I cut into a frame large enough for the Poinsettia to fit in and I knew the other piece of cut away red vellum would fit underneath showing a small border.

 

I then used the two little scrolls again from the same stamp set and laid them on the border of the frame in the right position, face down and then popped my acrylic block on top so I knew I had the right angle of the stamps to do each corner and leave enough room to place a gem.

 

 

 

 

Once all four corners where done, I mounted the frame with some foam, then before placing onto the vellum I used a fine silver pen and drew a few squiggly line between the sentiments and corners where I stuck some gems.

 

Once that was all assembled I added the large Poinsettia and finished off with a few more gems.

 

 

The next card was very similar but this time I used white vellum and gold embossing powder and kept it very simple by just using a favourite Christmas Embossing folder from my stash and some gold mirri for the border.

 

 

Finished is off with the Merry Christmas sentiment from the stamp set and another easy but effective card done.

 

 

Thanks as always for dropping by the blog and I hope you enjoyed the tutorials.

 

See you again very soon

Love Jan -x-

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Final Card-io Cards

Good morning crafters, Kirsten here. I hope you're having a great week. Here we are in November & the November classes are tomorrow, so I'm sharing my final Card-io Combinations cards, as well as a few others I made...................

I masked off a circle on a piece of Super Smooth card & applied Aqua Sea Sparkle Medium through an Imagination Crafts stencil.............

When the Sparkle Medium was dry, I stamped the images from Christmas Scenery 1,

 Christmas Scenery 2, Woodland Walks & Lavinia Stamps Birds with Atlantic, Cyan & Neptune Versacolor inks & finished with Icicle Stickles............

I masked off a circle for the moon & the lower two thirds of the card & just stamped the images randomly, using Weathered Wood Distress ink to add shadows & Icicle Stickles for sparkle.............

The stamp on the next two cards is Oh Christmas Tree from Stampendous.............

The patterned paper is from the Winter Wishes Paper Bloc by Joy Crafts............

I stamped two of the stamps from the Hobby Art Wildflowers set with embossing ink & heat set with WOW Bright White embossing powder. Then I sprinkled on a tiny amount of
Scarlet Brusho & spritzed with water.............

                                                         

That is the end of my card projects for October. Thank you for all the kind words & compliments this month.

As I said at the start of this post, tomorrow is class day, you can read more about it in this post. I will be teaching the classes, as Lisa will be demoing for Imagination Crafts at the Hobbycrafts show, at the NEC in Birmingham.

The current blog challenge, 'Stamped Christmas Scenes', continues until Sunday, November 8, at midnight. The winner will be announced & the new blog challenge launched, sometime on Monday, November 9.

Have a great Thursday & I will see you tomorrow in Maidstone.

Kirsten