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.

New Home Cards

When I bought the Market Place dies from The Greetery last fall, they were with Christmas cards in mind.  I've since used them a few times as 'New Home' cards, and really love them for that!  Here are two more, done in the Mini paperpack from Art Impressions.

The sentiments are gold heat embossed, from the Perfect Sentiments set by Pinkfresh Studio.

I made shaped card bases by running my folded white cardstock through my die cut machine, using the outline shaped die, keeping the left edge intact.

Bright Sweet Stems

 I've only used this die once, making some pretty pastel cards, so decided to go in a brighter direction this time.  This is the Sweet Stems stamp & die set.

I cut the background die in five colours of cardstock, then started to mix and match to put my cards together.

I used my Pinterest board to find my colour inspiration, and honestly this doesn't take too long to put together!  

For this one, I added some pale blue to the mix, from a previous time that I'd cut out this set.

I used the coordinating stamp set for the 'good day' senitment, and the other two are the Dashing Sentiments set from Pigment Craft Co.

Delivering Wishes

 My first project with the June Betterpress Society plate, Delivering Wishes, was to try ink smooshing!

I pressed the plate on regular white cardstock with Betterpress black ink, then picked my colour combos of four coordinating inks.

I put some ink on my work surface, spritzed with water, then picked it up with a piece of acetate, and smooshed it onto my image, intentionally adding the ink on top of the shapes.

I cut the image out with the stitched rectangle from the Postage Rectangle and Tag dies from Spellbinders, and cut a larger shaped piece out of coordinating cardstock to mount it on.

The sentiments from the set were pressed on the same colours of cardstock.

After cutting them out with the coordinating dies, I cut two more out of black cardstock and stacked them all together so the sentiments would have more height.  I added a few iridescent sequins.

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Reverse Foil Rose

I tried a bit of an experiment today!  I used the reverse foil of a background plate that didn't turn out very well.  There were sections of it that were quite good, and others not so much - but I was hoping it would give a bit of a distressed vibe.

I first used rose gold foil to glimmer a piece of peach cardstock with the Art Deco plate from Pinkfresh Studio (love this!), and used two colours of Pinkfresh ink to colour it with the coordinating stencils.

I used the Build A Flower: Rose dies from Altenew to cut out the base layer of the rose and leaves from my unsuccessful reverse foiling.  Then cut the remainder of the pieces out from peach and pale green cardstock.  I used the same ink colours to darken the layers, and assembled my flowers.  The sentiment was also layered on the reverse foil panel, and attached with 3D foam adhesive.  I spattered some rose gold metallic paint on my card.

Not my favourite card, but the process was fun.