Technique Tuesday - Lovely You

 Hello again, I hope that you are enjoying the mini heatwave that we have here in the UK? My room has been in excess of 30 degrees which is unusual to say the least!  Sadly, it won't last very long so I'm going to enjoy cooking myself while I craft! Today I am continuing with the Lovely You stamp set from Stampin' Up! Using Gorgeous Grape card base which is a really strong purple, a piece of the new Ombre Speciality Paper in shades of purple which also has a gorgeous glimmer to it. There are some beautiful colours in the pack all with shades throughout each 12" x 12" sheet. The sheets are blue, yellow, purple and red. They are absolutely stunning!

Today's card layout was an inspiration from Andrea at valleyinspiration.blogspot.com She has made some really beautiful cards and this is my version of one of hers. 

The technique that I have used is I believe called the kissing technique. This involves using 2 or more colours of ink. I chose the stronger colours of Gorgeous Grape and Highland Heather, which is a lighter purple. Married with the Ombre paper I think it looks a really great combination.

Cary is the one who always cuts paper at different angles and it really makes me nervous to do it but do it I did. I hope you like it.

Technique Tuesday - Snowflake Wishes

 Hello, today has been a crazy kind of day for me. My son and daughter in law have both returned to work now and I'm left at home with my grandson Theo. My son thought that I would have time to craft etc. Not a chance!! He has kept me occupied ALL day. Don't get me wrong, it's been fun spending all of this time alone with him. I can spoil him rotten if I wanted to, I won't..... but I'm just saying that I could! Today he waved for the first time! It was lovely to see and after he waved a few times and I said that he is clever, he clapped his hands together too! Bless him!! 😁😄

Anyway, today's card is more of a style than a technique really. It's not my design but one that I saw a while ago and fell in love with. I have used a few punched circles each in graduating, different sizes. I started with a 2, 1/4", 2", 1. 3/4", 1,1/2". I alternated between Highland Heather and Gorgeous Grape card stock. I know some of those sizes have retired but I always keep my punches, especially the particular shaped ones as they are still very useful. Then I took a smaller circle in 1,1/4" of the double sided paper in the Snowflake Splendour papers and added that to my pile. I took each circle and cut them directly in half and one by one starting with the largest, I glued them one on top of the other to one side only on the lower semi-circle. When the 2 half circles are complete, I fixed them so that the edges of the circles were below and to the side to give the swirly effect. Another 2 punched circles a die cut 2 snowflakes from the set of matching dies called So Many Snowflakes cut from scraps of Silver foiled card. 

 A message on top and inside, LOTS of the Snowflake sequins scattered all around has completed this card. I don't normally use that much bling but it just had to be done! 😂😂

Throwback Thursday - Christmas Rose

 Today's card is one that really threw me at first but once I got hold of the idea, I just went with it. Once again it's a completely different style of Christmas card which can be happily adjusted to become a birthday or any other celebratory card too. The card was one that I made last year of the year before. A die cut image over a doily and that was it!

This time I stamped the image in the centre and coloured in parts of it with watered down ink from a block. I stamped the image again and coloured in and fussy cut the roses only. They were then mounted over a square, vellum doily which I coloured in with Highland Heather Blends pen. 

A message added inside and out and some of the gorgeous Playing With Patterns Resin Dots again coloured in with the Highland Heather blends pen, is all that I used to complete it.

 

The card above was my inspiration for today's card.