Give Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving to American friends celebrating today.

The card template was cut with a Silhouette Studio design. The leaves were coloured with ProMarkers and stamped with gold paint. The the middle layer was sprayed with Color Bloom in golden walnut and fire needles. The sentiment was computer generated and cut out and the background coloured and stamped in Distress Ink. All that was left was to assemble the pieces.

It's always good to take the time to reflect and be thankful for what we have. xxx

Materials used:

Silhouette Studio digital die cut

white card

patterned paper

small texture stamp free with magazine

Color Bloom sprays

Distress Ink

Viva Decor Maya Gold

Enjoy the Day

More cards using one of my current favourite techniques, not least because once you get started you can make quite a few cards fairly quickly. The wording is cut on a digital die cutting machine and coloured with alcohol pens. The backgrounds are stencilled using Distress Ink and stamping or ink splatters added. Gel pens add a little more interest and depth and a few sequins finish it all off.

Materials used:

GiogioCraft stencils: floral circle, vortex spiral

Distress Ink pads and reinkers

ProMarkers 

sequins

gel pens

Destined for Greatness

Congratulations to all of the young people out there who have worked their socks off to get the best exam grades they can; especially to one particular young lady this card is for. For those who didn't do as well as they hoped, take comfort in the fact that the web is littered with examples of millionaires who left school with few qualifications and still made good. A great mantra from the Why Try programme is It's better to work hard than be smart. Don't give up, success is just around the corner.

Materials used:

wording cut with Silhouette

ProMarkers

Distress Inks

GiogioCraft stencil: butterfly

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

I started by stamping the leaves on to a sheet of copper and heating it with a heat tool until the copper started to change colour.  The copper turned first deep orange, red, purple and then blue so by lingering over different parts a multi-coloured effect was obtained.  The leaves were cut out and the main patterns traced with a fine embossing tool on the front of the copper.  A larger embossing tool was used on the back to create even more dimension.

A leaf pattern was stamped in Distress Ink on to a card blank and shading added with a waterbrush.  A little more colour and shading was added with an orange pencil and a digitally cut sentiment adhered to the bottom.

 Finally the copper leaves and a cord bow were fixed on with Glossy Accents.

Whether this is a festival you celebrate or not it's always good to take time to celebrate and appreciate the good things in life, many of which are intangible and easily forgotten.

Thanks for taking a look x

Materials used:

Magic Metal: copper sheet

Ranger Archival Ink: jet black

Ranger Distress Ink: wild honey

Spectrum Noir Colored Pencils: 021

Woodware Clear Stamps: leaves and swirls, leaf quartet

Silhouette Studio: Be Thankful phrase

Ranger: glossy accents

Orange cord

Hello
Just a quickie. Not much time for crafting or blogging this weekend.  Just a few minutes to make a birthday card for my favourite 7 year old!  Cut with the Original Silhouette out of white card and coloured with Promarkers. 

A bit fuzzy as I struggled to get the stars and springs in focus.

Thanks for taking a look xxx

Time to Be Thankful

It is about this time of year my sister puts in a request for some Thanksgiving cards for her American friends, so I thought this year I would get a head start.  First the Sizzix Fern embossing folder was used on white card.

Distress Ink was applied and built up in layers, the embossed areas coloured with Promarkers and  leaves stamped around the edges.  The stamped leaves were partially coloured in.

 

Treasure Gold was lightly rubbed over the embossed area and smeared more along the edges.

Two set of leaves were stamped, cut out, coloured and curved using an embossing tool on a foam mat.  More Treasure Gold was applied to the edges of the leaves.

Distress Ink was used to create a co-ordinated coloured background on a card blank and the leaves adhered with silicone glue.  The wording was cut on an Original Silhoutte digital cutter.  And there you go!

 Recent events have given me reason to reflect and be thankful I have such a great life.

Materials used:

Sizzix Embossing Folder: fern

Distress Ink: weathered wood, dusty concord, salty ocean, squeezed lemonade, fired brick

Woodware Clear Stamps: Leaves and Swirls

Promarkers: tulip yellow, gold, pumpkin, orange, berry red, lush green

Treasure Gold: white fire

silicone glue and adhesive tape

Making your own stencils

This started off as a Gelli Plate background using PaperArtsy Fresco Finish chalk paints with some additional stamping and stencilling.  The cricketer was taken from a clip art image, printed on to card and cut out to leave a  stencil.  More paint was sponged through the aperture.  The wording was cut from white card using an original Silhouette digital craft cutter.