Out with the old….well some of it!

by | Apr 23, 2018 | Uncategorized

What  is better after a busy weekend than to spend an hour crafting with some like minded people? Nothing….well not in my opinion! And the chance to use up some retiring stock (the ‘old’).

This weeks Coffee and a Card brought us a new lady. Her words were  ‘I haven’t got  a crafty bone in my body”, but welcome Sue, and I think you did a fantastic job and look forward to seeing you again!

As the first card had a bit of fussy cutting, this is what we started with.  The patterned  papers were from the  ‘whole lot of lovely’ designer series paper (DSP), and Pear Pizzazz card stock was used for the card base along with Pear Pizzazz Ink for the sentiment and matching Ribbon.  the Whole lot of Lovely papers are beautiful, but are on the discontinued list, so won’t be around after May 31st (or sooner if they sell out before).

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Our second card used the 2017/2019 In Color collection.  Card bases were chosen from any of the five colours, and then a flower ( from the Touches of Texture was randomly stamped on a piece of whisper white card stock (6cm x6cm) using all of the In Colors.  The stamped card was then cut into 3cm x 3cm squares and stuck onto the card base using dimensionals., leaving an equal gap between the pieces. Finally a sentiment was stamped under the flowers (I used one from the Cake Soirée stamp set.

77670C3A-3A2F-45A7-BF41-435E6601E886Apologies for the pink smudge….I dropped an ink pad as I was tidying up 🙁

I anticipate I will be using an awful lot of ‘old’ to make way for the ‘new’ – all available from June 1st!   And look out for a special early release set at the beginning of May…..details as soon as I have them.

 

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Happy Crafting!

Coffee and a Card 16th April

by | Apr 16, 2018 | Birthday cards, Cards

3CC710D8-3351-4D7E-B574-9A857CBBD00DA lovely crafty morning at The Mallard, Westwood Lakes. The sun was shining, no coat needed and 3 lovely ladies for company.

For our first card we used ‘Flying Home’ stamp set from the Spring/Summer 2018 catalogue (only available til end of May).

We stamped in memento black onto  whisper white card stock and then used blender pens with ink pads to colour the card.  I used  some of the colours that are retiring this year….wild wasabi, rose red, perfect plum, pink pirouette and chocolate chip.  You can get lighter shades using this technique by picking up smaller amounts of ink and colouring on scrap paper until the ink has dispersed a little.

After colouring, we used some (very) old rose red ribbon across the front, and then mounted it onto some rose red cardstock.

The sentiment was done using the fabulous stamparatus….available from June, with another discontinued set Endless Birthday Wishes and this was stamped directly onto the card front, before mounting the rose red card on some dimensionals.

 

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Our second card used Touches of Texture stamp set…a very versatile set in my opinion, with the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Sentiments.

A textured back ground was stamped in Crumb Cake ink onto the crumb cake card base.

The flower stem was stamped in Wild Wasabi, the 2 step flower in marina mist, the splattered background again in crumb cake and the bee in archival black, all onto a whisper white background.

After attaching this to the card, a strip of Burlap ribbon was added below the picture, a sentiment was stamped in marina mist and placed on top of the burlap with dimensionals.

For finishing touches a gold faceted gem was placed in the middle of the flower

 

To get any of the products used in either of these cards, visit my shop on the home page