Lindy's Magical Powders

I had a very fun play day recently with the Amber Ledgers Magical Powders from Lindy's.  I'm not generally a messy style of crafter, but these weren't that bad!  They come in individual shakers filled with powder - a set of five.

I sprinkled multiple colours onto some Canson XL Watercolour paper, then spritzed with water, and simply let the powders melt, watching the pigments blend and move around.

Where there was just powder, I added more water.  And if an area was too sparse, I added more powder and spritzed again.

I wanted fairly intense colours - and got them!  I worried that I'd gone overboard, but they brightened up once my panels had dried.  I used various dies to cut out my panels, and then had to flatten them under a heavy book to reduce the warping.

I had thought that the brown would be my least used colour, but it turned out to be this amazing copper shade - and as everything dried, I couldn't believe the shimmer!  It led me to trying to add some leaves hot foiled in copper, wondering if I could hot foil on top of the powders.  While the results weren't perfect (watercolour paper isn't ideal for foiling), the slightly distressed look of the foiling fit the overall vibe of the cards.

To go with my cards, I hot foiled the We Are Everything Sentiments set from Spellbinders with Copper foil on their black cardstock - love the effect.  I added a few copper jewels to my cards and popped up the sentiments with foam adhesive.

You

I am playing along with the Alphabet Soup challenge in the Papercrafter's Inner Circle Facebook group.  This is U is for U... I was really struggling with what to do for 'U', so finally decided to pull out my Art Impressions font dies and cut a bunch of U's from some old Basic Grey Lauderdale papers.

I kind of love the background!  Then just decided to do something simple with the 'You' Say it with Stamps set from Photoplay.  Thinking this is a perfect nephew card.

A Yeti Birthday

I needed a birthday card for our 9 year old great nephew, so pulled out the Yeti or Not stamp set from Lawn Fawn.

Lawn Fawn never disappoints!  I coloured these cuties up with my Copic markers, and fussy cut them out, along with a few accessories.  The plaid is ancient LF paper from my stash, and I grabbed my Art Impressions font to create 'COOL'.  This came together really easily.

More St. Nick

I posted this card design a few weeks ago, and was able to revisit it to create seven more!

After ink blending with the Jolly St. Nick stencils from Concord & 9th, I stamped the Waffle Flower postage images and added a few bits of stamped greenery.  I used the Postage Rectangle dies from Spellbinders to make him into a giant stamp.

I was able to use up most of these older Lawn Fawn holiday plaid papers, and adhered the stamp down with 3D foam adhesive.

Shimmering Snowfall

 I foiled the new-to-me Snowfall Shimmer press plate with silver metallic foil - and got the most beautiful results!  Then I reverse foiled the leftovers, and also got amazing results (reverse foiling can be so iffy!)  So I made them into a couple of Christmas cards:

I used the Gifting Bow die set in a soft colour palette to add my bow and floral cluster, as well as the fun die cut sentiment strips.  The poinsettias and sentiments are attached with foam dots.

All products are from Spellbinders.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I wanted to make a card to honour two special ladies who've been cancer warriors against this disease.  I pulled out the Awareness Ribbon and Sentiments set designed by Sheri Ballantyne for Spellbinders.

The stamp & die set is part of the We All Have Baggage collection that came out earlier this year, with four amazing die sets, and a wonderful sentiment set.  Check it out - you can find them at the Papercrafter's Workshop (www.craftersworkshop.com).

I also used the Arch Punch & Pierce Plate for the arches, and some very old paper from my stash.

Oooh Baby Baby!

 I saw this idea online from the wonderful Laura Bassen (Laura Fadora), and new that it was what I wanted to create as my next fun baby card.

I pulled out my Art Impressions alphabet, and picked a soft and pretty colour palette - then die cut letters like crazy.  It only made sense to cut a whole bunch at once, so I've created six cards today!  The final card is 4 1/2" square, with a few of the letters popped up with 3D foam adhesive.