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Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Ink blended Sweet pea Slime line card

Hello there!

I got out the sweet pea stamp set to create another slime line card, creating slim line cards are really addictive at the moment. And today’s card is a quick and easy design.

TUTORIAL:

With Catherine Poolers mini inks in Lime Rickey, Melon, Tiara, Bellini and Tutti fruity I created 2 ink blended panels.

Once the ink is completely dried, I dusted one of the panels to prep for embossing. Then I stamped and black embossed the sweet pea image onto the centre. I then drew some flicks on the petals with my black fine liner pen, and coloured in some parts of the small folds of the petals. This creates a bit of detail without going overboard.

Next I trimmed the stamped panel down to 3 x 7.5 and mat it on to some gold mirror card stock, creating a thin border. Then I flipped the second inked panel and matting it on to another gold mirror card stock. Now that each panel has a frame or border, I can start layering them with some foam tape.

Before I finish of the card with some gold rhinestones, I stamped and gold embossed a thank you sentiment from clearly besotted and Matt that on to gold card as well, then foam mounted it on to the bottom of the card.

Now how quick was that? It’s such a good feeling when you can create a byeautiful card in less than an hour (considering ink drying technique used). When life gets busy and having time to craft gets lesser and lesser, this is a great card to make, I hope you’ll have a little bit of time to give It a go!

x Ali x

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Disclaimer: This card is created as part of my DT work and the stamp set featured are sponsored by Sunshine & Bee Designs. Products used to produce this card will be linked and highlighted (if available).

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

SBD you brighten my day butterflies

Hello there, it’s Ali and this week Im back on the butterfly stamps from sunshine and bee designs to show you a new design. This time I’m making it colourful and bright using the ink resist technique.

TUTORIAL:

For the ink resist background I masked and clear embossed the butterflies around the edges of an A6 white card to create a frame, then I did some rainbow ink blending using Catherine Pooler’s spring fling mini ink pad collection.

Once the ink blending is done I then splatter some water onto the background and I used a paper towel to lift the the excess for a somewhat distressed look. I then cut out the background using a scalloped edge die and adhered the background onto a sparrow grey card base.

had die cut some thin frames out of gold mirror card stock and adhere the 2 smallest thin frames onto the ink blended background to frame the sentiment that has been foiled onto some sparrow grey card. I then attached some gold metallic rhinestones to complete this card.

This card were created inspired by hope, hopes for brighter days for everyone going through a hard time while social distancing. I truly believe there is always hope even in the most difficult situation. Thank you for passing by & Stay safe.

x Ali x

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Tuesday, March 10, 2020

SBD Fluttering By

Hey there!

I’m so excited to share with you some product release from a new stamp company based in U.K called Sunshine and Bee Designs created by Jeni Machon. I love love these photopolymer stamps and simply could not wait to start having fun with them. There is a total of 8 sets and are all made in the U.K. Here are 3 out of 8 samples of the stamps that I will be using to make some cards to showcase the new stamp sets that’s to be released on 25th February 2020.

‘Fluttering By’

Today I am starting with the ’Fluttering by’ butterflies set to create an ethereal shaker card with a spring inspired pastel colour pallet. I start by creating a background with an A5 sheet of mixed media paper using distress oxide ink in Cracked Pistachios, tea Dye, Spun sugar and Worn Lipstick to create a transitional colour blend.

As I left the blended paper to settle and dry. I start with the vellum window. First I stamped all three of the butterflies in various positions on vellum before heat embossing the images in ‘Lapis Pearl Lusture’, then I used a stitched scallop edge die and manually created a border with white card stock to frame the embossed vellum paper with glue before adding super thin foam strips beneath the border to create a ‘pocket’ for the shaker elements.

I then carefully adhere the inked background on to the vellum window with the shaker elements in place and attached it to a white card base. Now to add a focal image and sentiment, I heat embossed two more butterfly images on vellum paper and on white card stock in Rose Gold then fussy cut all four images out and stacked the butterfly vellum on top of the matching solid images ensuring only the bodies are attached and not the wings, I noticed that some of the embossing had flaked off from the vellum from careless handling but I liked the edgy look it gave. Finishing off, I heat embossed the sentiment ‘Fluttering by to say...’ in rose gold on a black flag strip and added some gems to the butterfly bodies and sparsely on the vellum window for some sparkle.