Celebrate

Recently I was inspired by a post on the Passion 4 Paper blog which gave a tutorial on a resist technique.  I created this card based on the technique blogged here.  If you follow my blog you know know that I love resist techniques – especially embossing resist.

I used the Darkroom Door Happy Birthday word block stamp and once stamped and embossed with clear powder I coated the card front with delphinium turquoise Starburst Stain. It is really hard to pick up from the photo but it gave a gorgeous shimmery effect.

The flourishes were die cut using a My Favorite Things die called Fancy Flourish and accented with adhesive pearls.

The flower was made using a stack of die cuts done with the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die.  I had sponged each layer with some Distress Ink (Dusty Concord & Chipped Sapphire) and once layered with the pearl brad I spritzed it liberally with some Starburst spray in sweet violet purple teal colour.  Isn’t that just a divine name?

Once totally wet, the flower was scrunched up, layer by layer and allowed to dry.

You can hurry the drying a bit with a heat gun if you want to be quick.  Once dry, just flatten and shape and attach to the card front. The pearlized spray gives a lovely shimmery effect to the flower.

Guest Designer Challenge at My Favorite Things

One of my plans for last year was to get published more often and participate in some design teams.  I achieved that wish so I wanted to aim a bit higher this year and participate in a few more challenges and design team calls, I figured I have nothing to lose but a bit of time. 

Here is an entry I finished yesterday for a guest designer call for My Favorite Things.  I love these cute images, they are so easy to colour with my Copics and with a bit of cutting they become really versatile to use on cards.  The company also makes a wonderful range of dies.

The theme of the guest designer call was to use the technique of paper piecing.  If you have never tried the technique it might seem a little daunting but the finished result is well worth the effort.  Essentially you replace parts of your stamped image with paper instead of colouring.  This is done by selecting the papers to be used and stamp each ‘part’ onto the paper and cut out.  Then each part is layered over the corresponding spot of the stamped, coloured image. 

Like this:

I then cut out each piece, including the girl (I coloured her first):

The finished result:

The stamp used was Pure Innocence – Calendula from My Favorite Things.  You can buy them from Stamp Art Studio if you have to have them!

You Make Me Smile

I have been waiting to use this dear little girl again and the Inkurable Stampers challenge this month was a good opportunity.  The challenge for June was to use spots, dots & circles.   

I embossed the front using Sizzix Flourish & Dots embossing folder – it is perfect as a background and needs no further embellishment. This was layered with a darker colour cardstock and mounted onto a tent folded card base. The greeting is new one by Hero Arts and it has been layered over a scalloped die cut (Eyelet Circle by Spellbinders). The dear little girl is a My Favourite Things stamp and I have coloured her with Copics. Her top is paper pieced from some pattered paper. It went so well with the cardstock colours and the pattern was perfect.

Toetally Fantastic

I recently saw some paper piecing done in a magazine using lined stamps so I thought I would give it a go. I was quite pleased considering it is a first effort. The images are My Favourite Things and are coloured with Copics.

Hoot Hoot!

Recently I got my order of new My Favourite Things stamps and just had to make an ATC with these fun owls. The owls were coloured with Copics.

I made this ATC to share with Stamphappier Adrienne.