Who knew.......

Well who knew....that crayons could be so much fun?? Well the white one that is!
Today's resist is called wax crayon resist and is oh so simple. Stamp your image onto white card, I used both shimmery card and Whisper White,  then highlight the areas you want to remain white then apply ink over the top either with a sponge,  a  dauber or a brayer.
Once you've  applied the ink gentle huff over the highlighted areas and buff.
The effect is fab! My first attempt was the card with the rose. Very simple  and quick.
The second card using the leaves was a little messy but oh so worthwhile  in my opinion.
Finally I had a go at freehand doodles with the white crayon then over stamping and blending in shades of rich Razzleberry, Blackberry Bliss and basic grey to create a distressed look.
I had great fun making these projects and hope you will be inspired to have a go yourself.
Have fun
Cary ☺ xx

Another go at double embossing

Following on from yesterday's inspiration using heat and dry embossing on card stock I had a play with the same technique but on designer series paper.
I love messy crafting!! My fingers were a lovely shade of yellow by the time I'd finished sponging! Lol
Are you a messy crafter ? Or a neat precise crafter?
What ever type you are have fun
Cary ☺ x

Making your crafty stash work harder...

Don't you just love it when you can use a product in a different way?
To create the background for this card I Versamarked one side of an embossing folder carefully placed my card in then ran it through my big shot.
I then took the card and covered it with clear embossing powder and heated it.
I then took n ink pad and gently dragged it over the card. I then buffed it with kitchen paper to remove the ink from the embossed areas.
It is not a very precise technique but I think it creates a lovely vintage, shabby chic effect that I find appealing ☺
In real life the debossed areas have a subtle textured sheen that looks like worn enamel.
Have fun
Cary ☺ x

Who can resist......

How can you resist......The resist technique? ...
This week it's all about the resist technique.
Today's project shows how I created an ombre effect using 3 different inks sponged  over clear embossed images then buffing with a clean piece of kitchen towel to remove the ink from the embossed areas.
This card was a little messy, well I always manage to get inky when crafting lol 😉, but quick to create ☺
Hope you're all having a happy Easter weekend
Have fun
Cary ☺ xx

Weekly Inspiration

Due to a technical error (otherwise known as a cock-up) this post didn't appear.

Today's card is one of the simplest cards I think I have ever made.

Daffodil Delight for the card base and a Whisper White mat which I have stamped the message from  Botanicals For You. 

For this card, I heat embossed Just For You in Silver embossing powder then

 using a sponge, I sponged Daffodil Delight from the ink pad over the messsage.

It is always advisable to rub over the embossed area to take off any excess colour.

A small strip of Silver Satin ribbon finishes off the card.

Botanicals For You is one of the FREE products you can chose from in the Salebration range each time you place an order of £45 with Stampin' Up!

This offer sadly ends on 31st March.

Please pop by tomorrow for some more projects.

Gill and Cary

Weekly Inspiration

Due to a technical error (otherwise known as a cock-up) this and tomorrow's post didn't appear,

Daffodil Delight and Botanicals For You

Continuing on with this week's theme, I made a double Z card for a friend who 

passed her driving test.

I actually thought that this would be quite fiddly and tricky but 

once again surprisingly straightforward.

A C6 card base * cut from the full length of an A4 sheet of Whisper White. 

Folded it in half and then one of the sides folded in half again.

I then added 2 pieces of Designer Series Paper from the Schoolhouse DSP range

.These were both trimmed down to show a small border.

The 2nd Z band across the front, is 2.5 cm wide by 29.7 cm long. 

Also folded as before as the card base. 

I stamped the little flowers and leaves across this and stuck it to the card.

2 simple messages,1 from Botanicals For You

 and the CONGRATS from Party Pants stamp set. Both stamp sets are FREE from the Salebration offer which ends 31st March.

I finished off by adding a few Enamel Dots from the It's My Party range.

The Botanicals For You stamp set is another of the FREE 

products you can get when you place an order with Stampin' Up

of £45 or more during Saleabration.

*A C6 card when closed/folded measures 10.5 cm by  14.85 cm

Open, for this style of card it measures10.5 cm by  29.7 cm.

Please pop by tomorrow to see what else I have managed to make.

Gill and Cary

measures 10.5 cm by  14.85 cm

Weekly Inspiration

Daffodil Delight and Botanicals For You.

This is the last card from me for this week. Rather more fiddly than the rest of this week's projects but I rather like this one.

Again a *C6 card base but this time it was cut across the wider part of the A4 cardstock

 and again folded in half.

 In addition, I have used the Botanical Builder Framelets Die.

Using 2 mats (1 Basic Black and 1 Whisper White), I die-cut the flowers 

and leaves then paper pieced them together as you see. 

The larger flowers have a double cut in them which you allows you to seperate the petals.

*A C6 folded card base this way again measures 10.5 cm by 14.85 cm   

 but the unfolded measures 14.85 cm by  21 cm. 

       Thank you again for looking in. It is Cary's turn to show some projects next week

 so you're in for a real treat as always. 

Gill

Weekly Inspiration

Tuesday

Did you like my Dragon card from yesterday? 

Absolutely AMAZING! I love it. 

Anyway, this weeks inspiration (apart from yesterday) is Stampin' Up! Brights range of colours

Daffodil Delight and Botanicals For You stamp set.

This one is a very simple card using a Whisper White mat onto a Basic Black mat with a Daffodil Delight cardbase.

I stamped a sheet of white card randomly with the flowers and leaves and just added 2 messages to complete.

The stamp set is another of the FREE products you can get when you place an order 

of £45 or more during Saleabration.

Please pop by tomorrow to see what else I have managed to make. 

Gill and Cary

The Old Dragon!

Today is  Gill's birthday!!!
I won't  tell you how old she is but she will always be know as the "Old Dragon" !!!! Lol
Her favourite colour is real red and she loves a bit of matting and layering so here's the card I made for her!
By the time this post is published she will have opened it so it's safe to share 😉
Happy Birthday  Gill xxx

Weekly Inspiration

Today's Inspiration is using the Party With Cake, Stampin' Up! range.

The range or family includes Designer Series Paper (DSP), 2 Stamp Sets, Framelets, Embossing Folder, Party Punch Pack, Washi Tape, Enamel Dots and even co-ordinating Baker's Twine.

IT IS BRILLIANT!

For this card, I used the DSP and Framelets.  

I could have gone on and used more 

but enough is enough. 

The framelets are the PARTY POP-UP thinlets dies and they do just that. 

It has another die too which is a cake and candles but the cake reads HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

It is my birthday today and Cary and I went to our team training yesterday. 

We always make swaps to give to others in our team, so I thought that I would make myself this pretty birthday card. 

Well I think it's pretty, I hope you do.

I also used Happy Hearts embossing folder and the Confetti Heart Border Punch which I used some of the hearts from previous projects to fill in with silver Glimmer Paper.

We crafter's NEVER throw things away, do we?

 I hope you like today's project and that it can give you some inspiration.

Happy Crafting. 

Gill

Weekly Inspiration

For the last of my projects this week I used one of the large resist project life cards to create 2 cards.
First I spritzed the card with melon mambo ink and blotted it with a piece of kitchen towel then buffed it gently to reveal the resist patten. Then I used a variety of different sized  circle punches and randomly punched circles from the card.
I used the circles to create a background pattern on a piece of whisper white  card that I then put in to an embossing folder and embossed. Then I attached it to my card blank and decorated it ☺
The second card used the negative piece of the card. I popped it onto a piece of  card that I had embossed  and used it as the background for my card. ☺
I hope you've enjoyed my samples this week. Gill will be providing the inspiration for next week so make sure you pop over and say hi
Have fun
Cary ☺ xx

Weekly Inspiration

Today inspiration is a bag and set of note cards. Each card has used one of the resist background cards from the project life speciality set in stampin up 's Sale-a-Bration set. I've stamped in basic black then used a sponge dauber to highlight the blooms then gently buffed the ink off the resist areas.
The bag has a window made from one of the acetate cards from the set and was made using a gift bag punch boards and designer series paper.
Hope the photo's  aren't too bad! Hopefully my photography will improve as on Sunday I'm going to team training where photography is one of the training subjects! 😉 anyone got any good tips they want to share about how to take good shots for using on Facebook and blogs?

Weekly Inspiration

How about this for a quick card? And it's a shaker card! Lol
Using the printed acetate cards from project life makes it soooo easy!

Weekly Inspiration

Today I'm sharing a couple of project life pages.
 I'm  not a great scrapbooker so project life suits me !
It's the easiest, quickest way to memory keep.
Plus you can use the supplies to create lots of other things like yesterday's mini album.
Keep popping back all week for more other ways to use the project life cards!

Weekly Inspiration

Today's  project is a cute little mini album.
Made using the acetate overlays from the making memories project life card specialist card set that's exclusively available for free from Stampin ' Up!  Till the end of March!
This card set contains 2 different sizes of acetate cards and resist cards. Some of the acetate ones have gold print on them and it's these that I've used to create the flap pockets into which I've placed journaling cards. The space in center is where I would put photos.
The overall closed size of this mini album is a mere 8cm wide by 10.5cm tall by 1cm deep! (Or 3 1/8th inch by 41/8th inch by 1/2 inch in old money!)
Pop by for more ideas using these project life cards all this week.

Weekly Inspiration

Pretty in pink!
A soft and feminine sample today.
This one can also be a small piece of home decor just attach a small loop of ribbon and hang up.
Having seen some of the projects from some of our classes if you'd like to join us please message us and we'll send you more information about them.
Have a good weekend ☺

Weekly Inspiration

Flowers are always a good choice for a thank you card in my opinion.
 This card features the pretty Rose Garden Thinlets die and a simple water colour wash to create a pretty thank you card.

Weekly Inspiration

Do you find masculine cards the hardest to create?
I do! No matter what age the recipient is!
Today's sample is a fathers day card. A little early for tussle here in the UK but as they say it's good to be prepared!  Lol

Weekly Inspiration

Who loves a bit of sparkle?
I do!!
 The ribbon on this card is a gorgeous sparkly pool party colour and it's soft enough to tie with ease!

Weekly Inspiration

This weeks inspirations are all projects from classes we have recently held.
Today's card is a very clean and simple card.
It's also a flat card so will post in a standard postage which here in the UK is a bonus!
Do you like clean and simple?

Inspiration - Masking

Today's card I die-cut the butterfly from Butterflies Thinlits out of cardstock. 

I stuck the outer piece from the die-cutting over the white mat. As it is a smaller area, 

I used Daubers to add layers of purples. 

I added the die-cut butterfly back into the aperture on the cardstock and using Blackberry Bliss and the daubers, coloured through the butterfly.

 Adding a few Rhinestones and a message from the World of Dreams stamp set. 

I used the Triple Corner Punch on the corners of each layer.

This was matted onto Blackberry Bliss cardstock.

 

During January and March 31st, Stampin' Up! have SALEABRATION time. 

For every £45 spend on product within the ideas books and catalogues, you can choose any 1 of the FREE products in the Saleabration leaflet. 

£90 will entitle you to 2 FREE products,

 £135 will give you 3 FREE products and so on.

Interested? Please contact either Cary or Gill and we will be happy to help.

Please pop by next week to see more projects to inspire you, this time from Cary.

Inspiration - Masking

For today's card, I used World of dreams stamp set. 

I punched a 2.5inch circle out of cardstock and using low tack tape, placed on the mat while I sponged around it. 

Sponging was using Soft Sky, Marina Mist and a little Night of Navy onto Whisper White cardstock.

I removed the punched circle and sponged Crushed Curry inside, allowing a little to overlap onto the blue to give a moonlit haze. The mat was mounted onto Silver Foil.

The images were stamped in Basic Black. 

The message came from Perfect Pairings, another FREE product from Saleabration.

The message was heat embossed using Silver embossing Powder

Don't forget that during January and March 31st, Stampin' Up! have SALEABRATION time. 

For every £45 spend on product within the ideas books and catalogues, you can choose any 1 of the FREE products in the Saleabration leaflet. 

£90 will entitle you to 2 FREE products,

 £135 will give you 3 FREE products and so on.

Interested? Please contact either Cary or Gill and we will be happy to help.

See you tomorrow with some more inspiration.

Inspiration - Masking Technique

Botanicals For You is the stamp set used today. 

This set is one of the FREE products you can get through SALEABRATION. 

 

A large but very effective message, Just For You was heat embossed in clear powder. 

I used sponges to add several shades of pinks over white cardstock. 

Ending with stronger colours on the outer edges of the image and the background mat.

To finish off I used Melon Mambo ink and a mask from Happy Patterns set of 4 masks

 to give the diamond shapes on the background mat.

A piece of ribbon was also sponged the same way to give a shaded colour too.

Don't forget that during January and March 31st, Stampin' Up! have SALEABRATION time. 

For every £45 spend on product within the ideas books and catalogues, you can choose any 1 of the FREE products in the Saleabration leaflet. 

£90 will entitle you to 2 FREE products,

 £135 will give you 3 FREE products and so on.

Interested? Please contact either Cary or Gill and we will be happy to help.

See you tomorrow with some more inspiration.

Inspiration - Masking

Masking Technique

Today's card is using Celebrate Today stamp set.  

Using up to 3 masks of the balloons, I stamped balloons all over the card and mounted some more balloons over.

 It was a very simple card and easy to do.

Don't forget that during January and March 31st, Stampin' Up! have SALEABRATION time. 

For every £45 spend on product within the ideas books and catalogues, you can choose any 1 of the FREE products in the Saleabration leaflet. 

£90 will entitle you to 2 FREE products,

 £135 will give you 3 FREE products and so on.

Interested? Please contact either Cary or Gill and we will be happy to help.

See you tomorrow with some more inspiration.