Lotus Field

What a beautiful press plate this is from Hero Arts!  This is the Lotus Field plate and coordinating stencils.

It is an all-over background plate, so you need a lot of ink coverage.  I used Distress Oxide inks to do both a solid Peacock Feathers background, as well as a three colour ombre ink blend.

The coordinating stencils allow you to ink blend the petals as well, but there is also a detail layer.  Quick and easy to complete an entire panel.

For the ombre background, I used Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn and Peacock Feathers.

I did minimal colouring of the flowers on this one - just a little soft yellow behind the centers.

The sentiments were all done with gold foiling on Spellbinders black cardstock.  You can find the set at The Papercrafter's Workshop.

Baggage Cards

I pulled out my favourite baggage dies today to put together a couple of cards.  These are from the We All Have Baggage collection from Sheri Ballantyne for Spellbinders.

This is the Retro Suitcase and Sentiments die, which is the sweetest little piece of luggage!  It's so cleverly designed, and is such fun to assemble.  

This is the first time that I've used the little sticker/decal images that come with the set.  Such great details!

And here is the fun Designer Purse die:

The sentiment is from the Keep Calm Sentiment set by Hero Arts (part of the same Spellbinders collection).

You can find the whole collection at The Papercrafter's Workshop!  And if you're on the internet this Thursday at 8:30pm, Meghann Andrew will be creating with it on the SCT Youtube channel.

Buon Appetito!

I absolutely adore the Buon Appetito collection from Spellbinders, and when my niece received it as a gift, she graciously allowed me to die cut a bunch of the bits (before she'd even used it...).  They have been sitting in my craft room for weeks, and I finally had time to assemble the MANY tiny pieces, and got them made up into cards.

 

I wanted to keep things fairly simple, so went with a primary colour scheme for the most part, and looked through my stash of papers to find some 'tablecloth' looking prints.  An old pack of Graphic 45 paper to the rescue.

The cutlery is an old Your Next Stamp die set, and the square and oval dies are from The Greetery, but otherwise all products used were from Spellbinders.

The sentiment set that is in the collection is amazing!  Hilarious and punny to go with such cute images.

As always, the sets are so well thought out - right down to the little piece that goes under the rosy cheeks.

Shower Invitation

This is just version number one for a shower invitation I'm creating for a girlfriend... I will post the final product when I start mass producing in a few weeks.

Forget-Me-Nots are meaningful to the bride & her Mom, so I got as close as I could with Spellbinders Fresh Picked Buttercups.

I used an Altenew piercing plate for the base, with a little ink blending to warm it up.  I cut and stacked two frames using the Essential Arches dies, with a little blush ink in the corner, then layered my floral sprig overtop.  I cut the Celebrate from metallic gold cardstock, layered twice, and added a few gold pearls.

We are tweaking the colours a little to match the bridal party colours, which should be lovely!

Craft Your Stash!

I am playing along with a couple of challenges today (haven't done that in a while!).  The Craft Your Stash challenge is a just for fun group on Facebook - that asks you to use something from your stash that you've never used.  I am also playing along with the Alphabet Soup challenge on the Papercrafter's Inner Circle group, with E is for Embossing Folder!

 

I have had this Carta Bella embossing folder for many years... and once I decided on using one for my card, I dug it out and pressed it with some soft green cardstock.  I pulled out the 5835 Mini Paper Pack from Art Impressions to die cut the Happy Birthday (Lawn Fawn), and matted it with the same green over a gingham oval.  

I wanted a simple colour palette, so I added a larger pale yellow oval, and used the Floral Spray dies from Spellbinders to cut the flowers and leaves.  I darkened the smaller flowers with some Scattered Straw ink, and added a few champagne pearls as their centers.

Cozy Toes for a Baby Girl

 And these make for a total of five baby cards made in the last few weeks!  I've mainly needed baby boy cards, until a friend saw my girl version a few days ago, and asked for another...  So I have two baby girl cards to share with you today, made with the Cozy Toes stamps and dies from Cocord & 9th.

 I once again pulled out paper packs from Art Impressions - as the coordinating smaller scale prints work SO well with this design.

The use of patterned paper with the dies also make these come together really quickly.  I loved making a couple of non-traditionally coloured baby cards.

Happy Bee Day

It's been a week of last minute card requests!  (I love making specific cards for people...)  I have been teaching my girlfriend's daughter to sew, and she had created a couple of bee-themed projects for her sister, so I offered to make a bee-themed card to go with the gift.

I knew that I had this large Bee die from The Greetery, and realized that I had the honeycomb stencil too.

The sentiment I needed was a no-brainer, and since I needed to create it fairly quickly, I took 'happy' and 'birthday' word dies, and trimmed off  'birth', then pulled out the small font die, and already had the yellow letters cut and ready!  Voila!

One of the best things about my card, is that I used products from six different companies to bring it all together.  The Greetery (Bee), Pinkfresh Studio (White circle), Spellbinders (Word dies), Art Impressions (Small font), Lawn Fawn (stencil) and Tim Holtz (Inks).