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Sunday 28 January 2024

Vibrant Nasturtiums

I have made a few cards using these beautiful vibrant Nasturtiums that I have been cutting out to make into flowers which are from Opulence by Design Crafts and this colour has definately carried on being a firm favourite of mine, a change from my usual pink and purples.


For my card I used one of the dies from a past Stephanie Weightman - Tattered Lace collection, which made up a 7.5 inch x 4 inch card base.
I also used one of the very pretty 3 free floral print papers from Opulence by Design Crafts website, for my envelobox.


The Digital Florist Orange Nasturtium Flower print & cut form set comes with 2 A4 colour block sheets which are great to use to co-ordinate with your crafting or you can use one of the sheets to print on the back of your flower sheets so that your flowers have all round colour.


On this little card I layered up my flowers to add some more dimension to them. I also curled the petals gently with the end of a pokey tool as these have been printed onto 120gsm colour document Navigator paper.


The centres of my flowers have drops of glossy accents to highlight the centres.


My little card has a die cut vellum layer followed by a gold pearlescent layer. To get this colour, I used the palest colour block sheet from the Digital Florist Cream with Blush Edge Ranunculus set and printed it onto some white pearlescent paper from my stash.
I enjoy being able to print what I want onto different mediums for the projects that I am making.


For the third layer of my card I used a script embossing folder, which I also used for the matching oversized pearlescent envelope.  The flowers sit in the middle of a frame, die cut from cream glitter card.



For my final card I used a watercolour image from my stash and I thought that these flowers would look really pretty nested around the picture on my 6 x 6 inch card, so I resized them to make the flowers small enough. These are an easy shape to cut out, especially with a pair of shaped decoupage scissors.


I also used glossy accents in the centre of these flowers and a green layer behind my card topper, using one of the colour block sheets from a Digital Florist set in my collection.
With an extra piece left over from the sheet, I used it to line the envelope for my card.

I also find it handy to have my flowers in a variety of sizes, especially, smaller as I can easily mix them into other projects.

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Wednesday 17 January 2024

CAS Birthday card


Happy New Year to everone!
It's been a little while since my last post and as always, I have some catching up to do. 
So, I'm starting with as CAS birthday card that I made for a friend towards the end of last year.


 
My son bought this beautiful Ella stamp by BellaArt for my birthday which I have been really looking forward to using. It is just perfect for a CAS card and it's been designed so that you can extend it, should you wish to.

I used Tim Holtz distress inks in antique linen, tea dye, worn lipstick and scattered straw to colour my stamped image (using watercolour card) and then stamped and coloured the flowers, also in the set before cutting them out. My flowers also have gold prills in the centres for a little dimension.

This is my favourite of the 3 beautiful designs that come alive with just a little colour, which takes the stress out of colouring if you are not a natural colourist, like myself.

BellaArt stamps can be purchased via Debbi Moore Designs, where there is also a Facebook live in the Inspiration section from Bella where she demos how to colour her set of face stamps, which I found very useful.

Gothic Fairy Arch

I've finished my Gothic fairy arch and have a few pictures to share with you and I'm also going to add it to one of the monthly chal...