Weather With You

What glorious weather we're having at the moment! I was so inspired by the lush greenness and spring colour yesterday, that I made this little beauty AND I managed to remember to take photos as I went along - I know, shocking!

I started with Coconut cardstock slightly larger than the mask (ornate frame), and ran it through my embossing machine with the embossing mat underneath to push the cardstock through the mask.

Next,  keeping the mask in place, I used Squeezed Lemonade and Scattered Straw DI to highlight the raised areas.

Added clear embossing powder and heat embossed.

I stamped the Daisy Spray (UMS116) stamp onto coconut with sepia Archival, coloured the image with Distress pens, cut them out and clear embossed them.

I lightly inked the centre of the card panel, then using a deckle edged oval Spellbinders die, I cut an aperture, added more ink and some random stamping with the daisy stamp to give texture. I mounted the images onto foam and added a twine bow.

Finally I photographed the finished card in an exotic location - our garden!

Also this week, I've been colouring leather with Alcohol inks and overstamping it with Stazon. I make the finished leather into travellers notebook covers.

Sparkles

This week I'm sharing a candle project with you AND I've done a tutorial , so if you want to have a go, you can see how I did it

Here's the link to the tutorial (you'll need to download the link rather than just view for better picture quality)

Have a great day!

Sue Wilson Goodies

This week I'm sharing a couple of projects using the new dies and stamps by Sue Wilson - what Sue doesn't know about Spellbinders aint worth knowing, so having her design dies is a no brainer! And of course I threw in some gilding!

Dream

My Creative Expressions project for this week takes the form of a plaque and of course I used some of my favourite products!

I sprayed the mdf with cosmic shimmer mists, then applied clear texture paste through a mask. Whilst that was drying, I made some flowers using blossoms 2 and kraft card, embossed them with the Celtic rose embossing folder. I then sprayed them and some seam binding with the mist, before assembling. The greeting is a Wendy Vecchi stamp, into UTEE and highlighted with gilding wax.

I wonder if.....

Something a little different for you today, using Creative Expressions goodies. I was inspired by a photo on pintrest and got to wondering if the fabulousity that is Flake and Glitter glue would work on pebbles - turns out it certainly does. What joy, now not only can I guild on paper, wood, acetate, and metal but pebbles too. Not tried fabric yet, but I might give it a whirl, you don't know if you don't try!

Busy Bees

This week, I've been having a play with the Botanical spray stamps from Creative Expressions, as well as Cosmic Shimmer ink sprays.

First I stamped and clear embossed the spray onto white card, then randomly sprayed the inks.
I stamped the bees randomly onto a square of kraft card, then for my focal point, I drew a circle and stamped the bee around it.

TFL

All Yellow

I've been making backgrounds again this week, playing with my masks and getting inky - no change there then!

I embossed my cardstock using the mask, then keeping the mask in place, I stamped, then added perfect medium so that I could heat emboss the pattern. I then went over the whole background with ink. I stamped my images and clear embossed them, mounting them onto foam for added dimension.