Floral Shaker Card

Hi friends and crafters, I am back today with another project for you. Today I have made a shaker card using dies from 14 Craft Bar along with Foamiran for the floral embellishments. For the base of my shaker I have used dies from Sue Wilson, here the die set is Scattered Leaves background die set.

You will need:

Green Foamiran

White Foamiran

Pink Foamiran

Flower dies

Stamens

Shaker Content

Oil Pastels Dark Red, Light Pink and Mid Green

Sue Wilson Scattered Leaves

Foam Roll

Acetate

Hot Glue Gun

Cream and White Card

Step 1: Cut all of the elements you need to create your base card, using the cream and white card stock.

Step 2: Secure the cream card behind the decorative designs using Tacky glue

Step 3: Secure a piece of acetate behind the window, this will be your shaker section.

Step 4: To position the back panel in place, position it face down in the window, then place your backing card over, this will give you the correct position.

Step 5: Add foam tape, approximately 1'' all around your window, making sure there are no gaps. This will also mean that you need to use less for your shaker. Add your chosen elements and secure to the backing card.

Step 6: Add your chosen sentiment to the card, then secure to your base card.

Step 7: Colour your petals using deep red on the very edges. Then use the pale pink on the front and back edges of your petals. Finally add the green to the center of your smallest petals.

Step 8: Fold the leaves together, twist and manipulate them, then leave them twisted.

Step 9: Gently unroll the petals, they should all now have a bowl shape in the center.

Step 10: Layer the petals and secure with hot glue, add matching stamens to your flowers.

Step 11: Position your flower onto the base card and when you are happy secure them in place.

Here is the finished card:

Thank you for joining me today, I do hope you have liked the tutorial and the finished card. I hope you will join me again very soon. For now take care and Happy Crafting.xx

Hydrangea Easel Card

This Easel card is made with JustRite Stamps. I really like the JustRite stamps and thought I would share this card with you today.

I used versamark to stamp the background on the blue foundation cardstock from Creative Expressions, then used fine detail embossing powder and heated with my heat gun. I used the labels 7 coordinating die to cut out the centre and a ruler and craft knife to cut around the background.

 

On 300gsm Supersmooth card, I stamped the hydrangea twice (the second is for decoupage) and the label with a Memento Black Tuxedo. I used the best wishes sentiment from the set within the label, stamped in blue. Then I coloured all my design with a selection of blue and green alcohol markers. I only coloured the flowers I was going to use for the decoupage from the second hydrangea. I then completed my decoupage with 3D glue gel.

For the stopper, I used the inside of the label along with the beautiful thought from Rabindranath Tagore. This was stamped and embossed onto white card with versamark and white fine detail powder. Then I used Salty Ocean Distress ink to colour the stopper blending from darker around the edges to lighter in the centre.I did this because I wanted a similar colour to the base but not the same to allow it to stand out ore than if I had have used the same foundation cardstock.

On white card, I stamped 2 butterflies with Memento black and coloured using alcohol markers and stuck to the background. I created my easel base card using white 300gsm card and matted using the blue Foundation cardstock. Th top image was matted onto white cardstock using Foam tape to lift it from the white and the best wishes topper was glued inside this, onto the white card using cosmic shimmer glue. To the base I added my stopper and finally finished off with a large Navy bow made with double sided satin ribbon.

I hope you have enjoyed your visit today and really hope that you will come back again soon.

Black & White Zentangle Using Stamps from Leonie's Launch

How Excited am I. Loved Leonie's Launch show and I am sure you did too. Now I have the opportunity to share some of the samples I made.

These stamp collections and Stencils are so versatile. I have to admit when they first arrived, I was suffering from Craft Block. But once I got going, there was no stopping me. Dont know why I was so worried about completing 6, I could have done 60.

I have been playing with them for weeks. I have 17 projects to share from this launch. Some of them are very simple, using only one stamp and others are more elaborate. I have to let yo know how easy it has been to create such a variety of looks and styles. Well done Leonie, a great collection.

For this card, I started out by marking out the square for the finished card. Then with hardly any pressure on a pencil (Almost resting between your fingers) I marked out the  main focal point. Then I added a couple more around the edge. I have made the pencil lines a bit darker so they show up.

Taking the first stamp I made a couple of masks as these are needed as the images overlap. Then I stamped along the line being careful to make sure the right images were masked. I then did the same with the other stamps I selected on the other main lines.

When I had completed that, I took my other stamps to fill in the spaces. Then took graphite sticks to add shade and dimension. In areas that I wanted a more dramatic look I used black fine liners.

This would look stunning in colour maybe monotone and completely different using  mixture of vibrant colours.

I am entering this card into the Suzy Bee's Challenge.