Butterflies and Flowers

Hello, today I have a card made with a Sizzix Thinlits Butterflies and Flower Vine die.

Looking at it again, I think a lighter colour would have worked better for the embossed Core'dinations card.  I have used an Embossalicious 6x6 Floral folder.

Cheshire Branch

Hello, today I have an anniversary card made with two more dies from the latest Memory Box release - Cheshire Branch Outline and Hopmeadow Circle. The roses are made using Britannia's Large, Medium and Small Rose dies from Joanna Sheen.

The paper is First Edition's Spring Feast and I have put orange stickles into the "wells" of the 2 flowers.

Birthday Patch

Hello, today I have a card I made for my nephew.  I have used one of the images from LOTVs new Art Pad Set 2 Jack, Patch & Puss which are ready-coloured.  

The background paper is also LOTV and from the "Bear Necessities" pad.  The lettering is Memory Box Typewriter letters and I have cut them out of craft card.

Hasn't the sunshine and warmth today been brilliant - everything looks so much brighter and the trees are beginning to come into leaf but it is a real shame all those plants have been dumped.

Distressed Thank You

Hello, today I have one of the cards I made following a Distress Ink workshop  I did on 10th April which was tutored by Karen Lines, a Ranger certified ink and embossing tutor.  It was a very enjoyable class with an easy pace and you leave with 10 tags of distress ink techniques and a couple of cards made using some of the techniques.  Karen is doing another workshop in June at the UK School of Craft held at the J&C Creations warehouse.

I have used a Sunshine Designs stamp (CSD071M) (on special at the J&C warehouse but you will need to phone them to order it) which I have embossed and inked using brushed corduroy.  The main background is inked with brushed corduroy and faded jeans and I have stamped again using distress embossing powders in the same colours.

Frangia Bouquet

Hello, today I have a card made with one of the new release Memory Box dies called Frangia Bouquet.

The backing paper is from a cArt-Us paper pad called Romantic Flowers and the white roses are made using Britannia dies in three sizes of Roses from Joanna Sheen.

J&C Creations celebrating Pet Owners Day 18th April 2013

Pet Owners Day is celebrated in the US as a special day to celebrate responsible owners for all of the hard work put into keeping their pets healthy and happy   It is also a good time to give a pet some extra attention. 

I decided to use this stamp as it's different from the usual pet ones and a lot of people like hedgehogs in their garden where they mop up the slugs and snails!

Items from J&C Creations:

Penny Black wooden stamp "a trip" (4246K)

Best Creation Inc paper (GP065)

Pink card

Pink gingham ribbon

Sentiment from Penny Black T for Transparent "teddy & company"

6x6 blank white card

Memento Tuxedo Black

Coconut card

Method:

• add the ribbon to the pink card and paper and mat onto the base card
• add the bow
• stamp the image onto coconut card and colour with alcohol pens
• mat coloured image onto pink card and attach to the base card
• stamp the sentiment with Memento ink, cut out and colour around the edges
• add a pink button to the centre of the bow

Sing your Song

Hello, today I have a card using an old Chocolate Baroque stamp called Sing your Song (Elusive Images) from 2009.

The biggest stamp in the set has been stamped using Versamark, embossed with black powder and I have used Squeezed Lemonade and Dried Marigold to colour.

The backing paper is also from an old Memory Box pad called Nightfall which you can still get.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set.

J&C Creations April Challenge - Nurturing

Items from J&C Creations:

6x6 blank white card

Coconut card

Memento Tuxedo Black dye ink pad

Wild Rose Studio Bella Sleeping stamp

Pink paper

Dark and pale green card

Pink flower (pack of 2 medium)

Dark pink glitter

Glue pen

Stickles Crystal

Marianne Creatables LR0227 Anja’s Leaves and LR0151 Garden Branch

Also needed:

Alcohol markers

Sentiment – this one is from LOTV

Method:

• Mat and layer pink paper onto green card and then to the base card
• Stamp the image with Memento ink and colour with alcohol markers
• Die cut the Marianne dies using pale green card and cover with Stickles
• Take the medium pink flowers and carefully separate the layers
• Use the glue pen to go over the printed darker pink lines on the edges and centres of the separated petals
• While the glue is still wet, cover with glitter and press down gently
• Shake off the excess and leave to dry.  Once dry, reassemble the flower but using both flowers to make one as in the picture

Add the image, sentiment and embellishments to the mats

Blooming Wheelbarrow

Hello, today I have a card made with mostly LOTV products.  The image is one of the previous release of stamps called Blooming Wheelbarrow and I have used Promarkers to colour it.  The paper is their 8x8 papers called Crab Apple Lane - Country Lady which are gorgeous "crafty" colours so go brilliantly with craft card which I used for the fishtail (Die-Namics die).

The sentiment is also LOTV from their new Set 8 General Sentiments preprinted so all you have to do is cut them out and for this one I used the smallest Classic Scalloped Circle from Spellbinders.

The flower is made using the Tonic Punch and Stamp set 701e which Brenda uses over at Floral Fantasies.  My roses are not presentable yet but this is a Camellia and I have a couple of Pansies which I am pleased with so another card is in production using them.

Sweet Pea

Today I have a card made with a Stampendous Stamp called Sweet Pea.  I have to thank my Blog friend Brenda (Floral Fantasies) who led me to the Cheddar Stamper website when she posted "Tonic meets Stampendous" on 27th March.

When I saw the flower stamps, like her, I had to have some and several fell into my basket!  This is one of them - they are beautiful stamps.

I used Promarkers to colour the image and the background paper is Bo Bunny Isabella.

J&C Creations Celebrating National Garden Month 8th April 2013

Every April communities, organizations, and individuals nationwide celebrate gardening during National Garden Month. Gardeners know, and research confirms, that nurturing plants is good for us: attitudes toward health and nutrition improve, kids perform better at school, and community spirit grows. Join the celebration and help to make America a greener, healthier, more livable place! (Quote from the National Gardening Association website). 

We don’t have a national day in this country as gardening is all year round in most gardens but the growing season for hardy plants is the time between spring and autumn when plants do all their growing and  gardeners do most of their work. The rest of the year is the dormant period when (most) plants and gardeners are resting according to Alan Titchmarsh.

Items from J&C Creations:

6x6 white blank card

Heartfelt Creations Posy Patch Flowers

Heartfelt Creations Posy Patch Clusters

Gold pearl pen

Memento ink pad Tuxedo Black

Archival ink pad Jet Black

Black card

Coconut card

Sticky fixers

Spellbinders S3-028 Standard Tags

You will also need:

Alcohol markers – flexible brush type are best for this method

Suitable sentiment

Glamour Dust in Crystal

Double-sided adhesive sheet

Method (This is adapted from the article Tipsy Glitter from May’s edition of Craft Stamper):

• Cut the black and coconut card to fit the 6x6 blank white card.
• Stamp one of the Posy Patch Flowers using Tuxedo Black onto the prepared coconut card in a random pattern, add gold pearl dots if required.
• Stick a piece of double-sided adhesive sheet to a piece of white card a little bigger than the Posy Patch Cluster flowers.
• Peel off the top release sheet and stamp the cluster using the Jet Black and leave for a few moments to dry.
• Sprinkle the Glamour Dust over the whole image, rubbing with a finger in a small, circular motion to get even coverage and leaving the surface smooth, shake off the excess.
• Starting with the darkest colour and using a very light touch, add colour to the centres of the petals over the Glamour Dust.
• Continue working outwards using the mid-orange and then the yellow.
• Colour the leaves using the same light touch.
• Finish the flower using brown for the centres.
• Cut the posy out.
• Place onto your stamped coconut card with sticky fixers and add the sentiment.

Take on Clarice Cliff

Hello, today I have a card made with a stamp in the Clarice Cliff style.  The stamp is called "Pastel Autumn" and produced by The Artistic Stamper.

Clarice was known for her extreme boldness of design and colour, "Bizarre" being the first range of hers to be produced by Wilkinson's Newport Pottery in 1927/8 where she became Art Director in 1930.

I coloured this image with Flexis and the background paper is Authentique's Delightful pad.  I used 3-D Gloss on the image which I painted on to look like glaze used on pottery.

I used Sizzix dies for the border and the cut out shapes made the 4 flowers.

Spring

I hope everyone had a nice break for Easter.

Today I have this card which I made for J&C Creations but have not posted on my website.  It uses Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz Alterations dies: Tattered Florals, Tattered Leaves and Elegant Flourishes.

I cut them out using grungepaper, painted them with Distress Paints: Peeled Paint, Black Soot, Picked Raspberry, Picket Fence, Spun Sugar and Victorian Velvet and then "stickled" the petals.

The letters are Tim's idea-ology Kraft Resist Chipboard Letter Numbers which I have gone over with Black Soot.