Mother's Day

This is my card for my mum - I've gone for a really simple layout and colour scheme to highlight the embossing and texture.

I used the Celtic flower embossing folder to give texture, and embossed my stamped image with gold powder - the image is Ivy Corner and I added a few punched flowers and seam binding for dimension.

Swoosh!

More inky fun for me this week. I've been playing with some new Cosmic Shimmer Vintage ink sprays and of course, my favorite, it has to be masks - this time it's Swoosh. I sprayed my card, dried it, resprayed through the mask, then applied perfect medium through the mask so that I could clear emboss the design.

Did I mention I love gilding flakes!

I think I just might put them on everything lol. If you've never tried them, you must - it's the law! For me, it wouldn't be possible without the Flake and Glitter Glue and for this card, I used the Red Blaze flakes but they're available in some stunning mixes, so take your pick - Red blaze seemed to go so well with the Mirano Perfume bottle stamp

Thank you

I made today's project using some lovely new stamps I've been playing with - they're by Creative Expressions and Sue Wilson - you can see the range here

I stamped the image and embossed with white, then coloured the card with Victorian Velvet distress and added colour to the flowers with Cosmic Shimmer Drawing Inks. I've matted onto cardstock coloured using shaving foam and Cosmic Shimmer mists.

Flowert Power

I got my lovely melt pot out this week to make a brooch.
To start, I stamped both sides of a piece of card using the floral background stamp I added more colour with distress inks and then cut out three spiral blossom flowers. I wound them, glued them and then dipped them into clear utee. For the leaves, I simple dipped metal leaves in the utee and then coloured them with alcohol ink. Finally I assembled the brooch with hot glue.

In the Frame

This week I've been playing with one of the Creative Expressions MDF blanks.
Here's what I did

First I used the Newsprint background stamp in my hand to randomly stamp all over the frame.

Next I used clear embossing paste through the That Special Touch Swoosh mask

After allowing the paste to dry, I went over the frame with Distress Paints.

Finally, I added Gilding Wax to highlight the raised texture

TFL

Texture

This month the Creative Expressions DT are going off the page, so today I have a canvas to show. Although it's only small, I've used lots of different products and techniques - embossing folders, masks and texture paste to add interest to the bare canvas, distress paints and gilding waxes for colour, and finally UTEE, metal embellishments and beeswax for embellishing.

TFL