Embossing Paste - With Love

Hi there and thanks for dropping by.  I am back today to share another card created using embossing paste.  I just love using this product as I tallows me to incorporate an added dimension to my cards.

 For this card I used Wendi Vecci White Embossing Paste and an MFT Stencil.

 

The added embellishments on the card was made with a selection of my MFT dies and a few Martha Stewart punches.

 

 

 

The flower was the smallest royal rolled rose and I teamed it up with the bitty tag from their blueprints 6.  I also used two of their delicate doilies (one of my newest purchases which I know I will use over and over again - they are so cute).  The heart, leaves and circle were all made with MS punches and the word love was an MFT die.  I added some buttons, washi tape and a teeny peg.  The word with was from a sticker collection by Authetique.  The papers were from the Authetique Flourish Collection.  I love the 6x6 paper pad from the collection - the colours and patterns are so soft but bold in parts too.  Love the colour scheme of the collection - greys, mustard, pinks and green. 

 

 

Once again thanks for stopping by, would love to hear from you if you would like to add a comment too!

 

 

 

Scrapmatts Guest Designer - Christmas in July

It was my turn to post again over at Scrapmatts so as promised here is a corresponding post with some additional pics.

Wow I can’t believe it’s the middle of July already …… time flies when you are playing with Scrapmatts goodies.   I really love the Scrapmatts Christmas themed pieces so for this post I decided to create some “Christmas in July” projects.  Keeping in mind it’s cold and chilly in Melbourne I decided to include some of the snowflakes on my projects as well as using papers with a cool wintery feel to them.

Gift Box  – Merry Christmas

 

You know when you have a creative vision and you start playing and your project just takes on a whole new direction?? Well believe it or not this little angel made from the sewing inspired collection initially was going to be an angel card.  As I began to make it I just decided it would be more fun to make a decorative gift box that can also double as a Christmas decoration/ornament. 

 

The wings are painted and glittered and the backing piece was covered with patterned paper.  I then placed them in between the two dress form pieces.  The bodice of the dress form was punched from a Martha Stewart heart punch which gave you the perfect neckline to add bling to.
 

 

 

 

  

The box was painted and papered then I added some of the other sewing set pieces to finish it all off.

Scrapmatts products used:

CB1194 Sewing 02

CB1193 Sewing 01

CB1052 Words 07 Merry Christmas

CB6037 Dress Form 02

CB1120 Wings 01

 

 

Card – Merry Christmas Window (double)

 

We lived and worked for two years in the US and one of my fondest memories was spotting a red cardinal outside our family room window one snowy morning just after Christmas.  This memory inspired me to make this card.  The tiny little bird was inked and the frames were painted and used as the window.  The Merry Christmas sentiment was also painted.

 

 

The fronds were punched with a Martha Stewart punch.

 

Papers by Doddlebug.

 

Scrapmatts products used:

CB1052 Words 07 Merry Christmas

MC1028 Micro Chips 20

CB1163 Ornate Frames 14

 

 

Tag – Merry Christmas Window

 I love the versatility of the ornate frames in the Scrapmatts collection.  This tag features the single square frame (which I used as another window) in the white coloured chipboard along with the inked Merry Christmas sentiment piece.  I couldn’t resist adding some of my rolled flowers and the green inked leafy spay Scrapmatts chipboard were tucked in behind them with some punched fronds.  I love the way you can layer the Scrapmatts chipboard with punched leaves to give some texture and depth to a project.

 

Papers from Authentique and digital image by Iralmajay.

 

Scrapmatts products used:

CB1052 Words 07 Merry Christmas

CB1146 Leaf Spray 01

CB1163 Ornate Frames 14

CB3004 Tags 02

 

Card – Snowflakes

 

Even though there is never a white Christmas in Australia I still love the cards you can create with wintery feel.  More often than not our American friends are the recipients of these cards that I create.  I love how the snowflakes that Scrapmatts have are just so delicate and intricately cut and the one that I chose for this card was white and I just added some liquid glitter to it.  Each snowflake on the patterned paper was also trimmed with a miniature rhinestone to add to the frosty feel.  Couldn’t resist adding some of my favourite border pieces as well. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Papers by My Minds Eye, bling from Kaisercraft and Mollossi.

 

Scrapmatts products used:

CB1181 Snowflakes 04

CB4060 Ornate Frames 17

CB1052 Words 07 Merry Christmas

 

This was my last official post as a Scrapmatts Guest Designer so I just wanted to thank everyone over at Scrapmatts for making me feel so welcome and for all the lovely comments you made on my posts. 

 

Thank you to Sofie and Andrew for the opportunity to be a guest designer.  I love love love Scrapmatts products and felt very honoured to be invited to be part of the Scrapmatts community.   

Thank you again for having me - I have loved every minute of it!

 

 

Scrapmatts Guest Design Team July Creations!

Just wanted to share some of my creations as a Guest DT member  with Scrapmatts for July.  I am really enjoying playing with the new June release items and also using some of my favourites in new ways.  As promised over on their blog I am also uploading some close up photos of the elements on each card.  So here’s what I have created so far.

Card 1 - Baby Girl

 

This round card was so much fun to create and I loved being able to use some of the smaller Scrapmatts chipboard to add the finer details to this card.  All the chipboard pieces were inked, heat set and then I applied some glitter pen to each item to add a finishing touch.  The papers were from the Carta Bella Cool Summer collection and I just love the colours. 

 

The flower was from Green Tara and I used the MFT Mini Doily die for the background.  I hand cut the fishtail banners.  Some hand stitching around the card helped to frame it.  The card was cut with Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities - Scallop Circles.

 

 

I love mixing up the fonts on my cards and here is used some Quikutz and MFT alphabet dies to create my sentiment.  I used a glitter pen and white pen to add some details to the sentiment.

 

Scrapmatts products used:

 

CB1190 Scrap Words 02
CB1146 Leaf Spray 01
MC1028 Micro Chips 20

 

Card 2 – Buttons

This card has two of my favourite things - buttons and butterflies.  I took inspiration from a card I taight in a class at Scrappy Hollow and just love the button card element.  I have discovered some stamps that allow you to create your own button cards so I am itching to start creating with them too!

 

 

All the buttons and scrap word banner were inked and glittered, the butterfly was covered with paper, sanded and inked.

 

 

To highlight the cute buttons further I incorporated a crochet doily and punched shapes.  There is some hand stitching around the button card. I also used foam tape behind the button card and under the heart and flower to add some dimension to the card. The new June release tag was a quick and easy way to add a sentiment.

The papers were from Basic Grey - Mint Julep and Echo Park - This and That. 

 

Scrapmatts products used:

 

CB1193 Sewing 01

CB1158 Butterflies 20

CB1192 Scrap Words 04

CB1205 Mini Tags 01

 

 

Card 3 – UR Sew Special

 

 

This is probably my favourite card I created for my July 1st post.  This card has many elements/layers containing some of my favourite sewing themed Scrapmatts items starting with the tag in the vellum envelope, then the layered front panel on the front envelope and finally the ruler tucked under the envelope on the front of the card base. I also used foam tape on some of the layered elements to add some definition.

 

 

I decided to use all the sewing elements raw and just simply inked them with distress ink to tie them in with the papers a little. The sewing spool tag was covered with paper, sanded and inked.   

 

 

The hearts were die cut with the MFT Hearts a Plenty die. The little cotton reels were finished off with some hemp twine and DMC thread.  Each button was finished in a different way – knot behind, bow behind and knot on the front.  I cant add a button to a project without having threaded it.

 

 

My sentiment may be a little corny but I just loved the play on words and had to use it. 

 

 

The lace, seam binding, hemp twine and pinking sheared squares also added to the haberdashery/sewing theme. 

 

The papers were from Mint Julep by Basic Grey and Authentique's Strong Collection.

Scrapmatts products used:

ATC10-025 Sewing Spool 01

CB1194 Sewing 02

CB1193 Sewing 01

CB1198 Scrap Words 06

 

Thanks for stopping by to look at my creations.  If you want to see more Scrapmatts products and the creations made by the entire Scrapmatts Design Team and community head over to their blog here

 

Birthday Fun with DS99

We have another special birthday to celebrate this week so I have used the latest Deconstructed Sketch as inspiration.  I wanted to create a card that had a grungy feel to it and decided to use some heavy inking, random free hand stamping and spritzing techniques that the talented Finnabair shared with us at Scrappy Hollow back in March. I kept the stamping and spritzing quite simple compared to Finnabair's style though.

Here is the sketch from the talented Jen over at the Deconstructed Sketch Blog

And this is my creation!

 

For this card I used some of my 6x6 paper pads - MME Out of the Blue and also Authentique's Journey.   I sanded, distressed and inked the background papers.  I then free hand stamped a Kaisercraft stamp on the pieces using both tea dye distress ink and black ink. 

 

Using dies and punched I created the other elements on the card and continued to sand, distress and inks as I went.

 

 

I added some hand stamped sentiments.

 

A little foam tape added some dimension to the card as well.

To finish off I made up my own misting spray using Luminarte Primary Elements Pigment Powder (Nutmeg) and randomly spritzed the card.

 

Materials

 

Paper

MME Out of the Blue

Authentique Journey

 

Punches/Dies/Stamps

QuicKutz Nesting Flowers Die

MFT By the Numbers Die

EK Success Deco Scallop Punch

Punch Bunch Medium Balloon Punch

Marvy Ukida2 1/2" circle punch

 

Other

MFT Stamps Birthday Greetings stamps

Luminarte Primary Elements Pigment Powder Nutmeg

TH Tea Dye Distress Ink

Versa Color Black

Versa Color Lapilluso

VintageTwine

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

 

 

Sketch Fun with The Deconstructed Sketch No 93

With all my DT and class commitments under control, classes kitted up and a quiet house to myself I made a quick card tonight for one of the many "male" birthdays that are coming up in the next few weeks.

To get my card started I decided to play along with a sketch challenge that I have not used before - The Deconstructed Sketch! Although I do head over to the blog and check out the sketches and check out what the talented DT and participants create quite often!

So here i the sketch!

And this is the card I created -

The papers are from Authentique - I just love the colour combo! together with some MFT die-namics dies.

 

Instead of the three semi-circular accents I decided to add a stacked set of had cut fishtail banners.

 

I am experimenting a little with the idea of "doodling" on my die cut element and grabbed the white pen to add some random and grungy looking detail to the stars and sentiment.  The aim was to try and be "messy" to work along with the distressing and inking I already incorporated. 

The MFT die-namics dies I used:
By the Letter
By the Number
Polka Dot Greetings
Stacking Stars

Thanks to the talented Jen at The Deconstructed Sketch for the inspiration and thanks to you for dropping by!

ISSC40 - Merry Christmas

WOW!  I cannot believe it's November already!  This year is just disappearing.  As it's Friday it's iSpy sketch challenge day and here is this weeks lovely sketch:

The sketch this week was inspired by the talented Julie H. (Juble at SCS) and is based on  this card.

When you take a look at Julie's card you will see the beautiful woven background she has created using paper and ribbon - just stunning and such a cool idea.  I too wanted to create a woven element on my card but opted for a different style of weaving to Julie's.  So here is the card I created:

 

 

As you can see my weaving is a little more spaced out and I used cut strips of patterned paper which I then stuck to the back of a Tattered Angels frame.  I inked both the frame and the strips. 

Originally I had wanted to put the Christmas Tree over to the right and use that as the second embellishment but I just couldn't get it to work - so it's now part of the main embellishment and I used my stash of seam binding, stickers and twine to create the second element.

Throughout the cards construction I wanted to add some dimension and make sure each layer stood out so out came the foam tape again!

 

 

 

 

 

Materials Used:

 

Paper - Authentique Wonder

 

Dies - Taylored Expressions - Trim the Tree

 

Other - Craft Queen red seam binding and Darice hemp twine , TH Tea Dye distress ink, Tattered Angels frame, Jolee's snowflake sticker, Starform stickers Merry Christmas sticker, distress tool.

 

Now why not join in the fun and create a project based on this weeks iSpy sketch!  Head over to the blog here and let the fun begin!

 



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