Eucalyptus

 I felt like doing a little ink blending, so pulled out five Distress Oxide inks and tried blending on watercolour paper - worked beautifully.

I pulled out the Eucalyptus die from The Greetery and cut it from my panel - you may see the negative used on something, it's very pretty.

Before die cutting, I spattered my panel with water, and both Villainous Potion and White ink - which gave a really great effect.  I mounted it on a white panel cut with The Greetery's Nordic Frames die that was popped up with foam adhesive.  The sentiment is in brushed gold, and is by Studio Light.

For Dolly

 After seeing so many artists creating artwork online to honour Dolly, I thought I'd do my own little version.

I pulled out my Art Impressions supplies, as I knew I had this little cowboy boot that I stamped twice and added a few flowers to.

I've also seen many people represent her as a butterfly, so I added one to my card.  I thought the sentiment fit, so die cut the One Line Sentiments from Kristina Werner in matte silver cardstock.  I popped up my arched piece with 3D foam adhesive.  I also used a silver gel pen to add a few rhinestones and other sparkly accents to my scene.

M is for Martinis and Metallic Cardstock

Finishing up the Alphabet Soup summer challenge letters in the Papercrafter's Inner Circle Facebook group.

This is the Olive Martinis die set from Spellbinders, cut in various metallic cardstocks.  I made two regular martinis, and two espresso martinis!

The papers are the very pretty In Bloom pack from My Mind's Eye - I've had them for years!  They brought just the right amount of glam to my cards.

Happy to have four more in my stash (but these are probably going to be gifted!)

N is for Navy

I am playing along with the Alphabet Soup challenge in the Papercrafter's Inner Circle group on Facebook.  This is 'N is for Navy':

I pressed the Lotus Field press plate from Hero Arts in Faded Jeans Distress Oxide ink, then used the coordinating stencils to colour it in.

This is such a pretty background, that I don't like to do much to it.  I added a vellum halo behind the black greeting from Kristina Werner's One Word Greetings dies, and a few pink jewels finished it off.

Vintage Postage

I don't often grunge things up when I'm crafting, but I wanted a vintage vibe to today's card.  This is the June Betterpress Society plate, Delivering Wishes.

I pressed the plate with Speckled Egg Distress Oxide ink onto some cream cardstock, then used Vintage Photo to age it a little with a foam applicator.

I used the Bold Diagonal Stripe stencils from Pigment Craft Co. to create my postal background on another piece of cream cardstock, using Faded Jeans and Lumberjack Plaid inks.  Since I wanted the sentiment mat to match the blue, I swiped Faded Jeans onto some cardstock, then cut out the mat with the die (Studio Light).  I had a few matte enamel dots to add a little something extra.

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Postage Card

This is the pretty June Betterpress Society plate, Delivering Wishes.

I used the Nature Tones set of four Betterpress Inks (Tawny Brown, Saffron, Wild Berry and French Blue) to ink up the large plate, and pressed on regular white cardstock.

I used the Nested Postage Labels & Tag dies from Spellbinders to cut out the background cardstock as well as all the little stamps, in coordinating cardstock colours.

The sentiment was pressed in Tawny Brown, cut out with the coordinating dies, and popped up with 3D adhesive foam.  You can get a Betterpress Society subscription from The Papercrafter's Workshop.

Fourth Sweet Stems card

 I made a fourth one!  I had die cut the Sweet Stems background die from Cocord & 9th in five colours of cardstock, and I like to use up all my bits and pieces if at all possible.  This time I used the coordinating stencils to ink in the flowers and foliage, and used the outline, background and middles from my die cut pieces.

I added a sentiment that was hot foiled in gold on black cardstock from the You Are Everything Sentiments set from Spellbinders... plus a few black gems.