A Magical Bird

Next we had a play with some Magicals powder, a powder made by Lindy’s Stamp Gang which complements the Starburst Sprays.  I covered mine with some rock candy Ranger Distress Crackle for some added texture.  It was quite effective!

 

Dylusions

Next we created a background using the new Ranger Dylusions sprays – the colours are really vibrant!

Once I got home I stamped some of the Dylusions leaves over a sprayed background made with Starburst spray and popped them along the side.  The mushroom spots were outlined with my new Molotow white ink pen.  It is so easy to use and created a good, solid white line on my image.

Sparkly Magic

If you attended the Brisbane Scrapbook & Papercraft show you would have seen the wonderful Kate Palmer demoing sparkly Starburst Sprays & the new Ranger Dylusions Sprays for Passion 4 Paper.

Each afternoon, Kate ran a class featuring these gorgeous sprays and I was lucky enough to secure a spot in the first Saturday class.  Boy we had lots of fun!

I wanted to show you the cards we created and I will do three posts so that I can link each of them to the Passion 4 Paper blog.  Anyone who did the class has been invited to share their creations.

This one features the glossy embossed papers from Pink Paislee.

Copic Style Watercolours

I was playing with a stamped watercolour technique using my Distress inks recently and thought I would try the technique out using my Copics.  It created a lovely soft image.

Firstly I coloured my image (Hero Arts) with a selection of Copics, it didn’t matter if I was quick or the ink dried, the next step reactivates it.  I spritzed my X-Press It cardstock with some rubbing alcohol and then quickly stamped the image. 

As you will see from the close-up, the image isn’t quite distinct, more watercolour like.  I find the technique can be a bit hit and miss, sometimes it is more ‘watery’ and sometimes the image is too indistinct to use but mostly it works well.

A solid image works best and this one is perfect as it is just about impossible to ink so many colours using a stamp pad.

Christmastime…

We are done to counting sleeps until Christmas so I thought I might share some of the Christmas cards I have made over recent months.  Some I taught in classes & others were just playing with techniques and stamps.

First up is a real simple one using a Stamp It stamp.  I stamped with lime Brilliance ink to give a pearlescent effect and layered the image up with red and green Bazzill. The green layer is Bazzill bling.

 

Next up is another simple one.  I used a piece of Basic Grey paper, tied a ribbon across and added a stamped, embossed and layered greeting (Stamp It).  The glittery edge was created by putting a line of glossy accents around the paper and sprinkling with glitter.  The most time consuming part was waiting for the glitter to dry!

Another in a glittery theme is this dove themed card.  The image was coloured with Smooch paints – these are so easy to use and give a gorgeous shimmery effect which is just perfect for Christmas! The close-up of the shimmer actually worked this time but is so much better IRL. The image is from Stamp It.  I thought the card didn’t have enough shimmer so I added a strip of thin X-Press It tape and sprinkled with glitter.  The pic looks a bit yellow but I think that might be the light and the gold flecked glitter I used.  The ribbon was also held nicely in place with another strip of X-Press It tape.

Accordion Fold Birthday Wish

Ages ago I did a class on accordion fold cards and as I am about to give this one away I thought it a good time to share.

The card is made from a 10cm wide strip of A4 length cardstock, folded into an accordion.  Before folding I stamped the Autumn Leaves floral flourish and coloured in a few places to highlight the flowers.  The greetings are Hero Arts.  The card band was made by embossing a strip of cardstock with the Cuttlebug & wrapping it around to fit.  The Happy Birthday greeting was popped on the front and then it was done. 

Seashells

While I have this set on loan from Stamp Art Studio to work on some class samples I thought I would play a bit more with a one-layer card.  This time I used a technique from Lucy Abrams that I saw a while ago on the Hero Arts blog and adapted it a bit.

Firstly I ripped a rough rectangle from some scrap paper to form a reverse mask for my card front and attached it to the card base with temporary adhesive.  Using Versamark I stamped three shells in the open space & embossed with clear powder.  Leaving the mask in place the open space was sponged with tumbled glass distress plus a bit of pool Adirondack ink.  The base card is lightly textured so this showed nicely with the sponging.  The mask was removed and a fine line of Glossy Accents was applied as a border around the shells – it doesn’t have to be straight!  Glitter was dusted over and the card was set aside to dry thoroughly – don’t rush it or you will have smudge everywhere :).  The word was stamped with black Brilliance and clear embossed.

A Birthday Wish

It always seems a while between posts but I appreciate that I have had a few visitors in-between posts. 

Recently I had a recipe on the Tarisota blog.  Tamar does a yearly Christmas recipe book and I was lucky enough to be able to contribute this year.  You can see the post here.  The recipes are all fabulous and worth trying over the holidays.

Now to sharing a card I made recently for daughter of my cousin.  The girl is a Hero Arts stamp and it has been coloured with Copics.

Thanks Darkroom Door!

 

Earlier this year I was lucky enough to win the Prague UM plate from Darkroom Door during a giveaway promotion Rachel was running. This is a really lovely plate of stamps and so easy to use! The cards almost make themselves and I was quite pleased with the outcome of this one.

A Special Day

It was a special day for a special friend recently - here is the card I made for her birthday.

The bird was painted with Ranger daubers and then over painted with some Ranger crackle paint. The branch was also painted with some distress crackle. Check out the close up of the bird: