More Lotus Field cards

 I made two more cards using the Lotus Field press plate/stencil bundle from Hero Arts.

This amazing shimmery pink card was pressed using Lisa Horton metallic ink in Lovestruck.  It gives amazing coverage.

I actually Googled photos of lotus flowers, and there are quite an array of beautiful colours!  It inspired me to experiment a bit with the stencils, and go bold with my inks.

For my tan background card, I pressed the plate with Betterpress Tawny Brown ink.  This was the first press that I ever did with the plate, so the coverage is not perfect (press plates need seasoning, just like stamps do), but I actually love the mottled look that it gives.

Even the image itself is not great, I rolled it through my die cut machine twice (which isn't recommended!), and the plate shifted a little.  I finished it up, and loved how it looked anyway.

Both sentiments were glimmered, the bottom one being a reverse glimmer image.  You can find the Lotus Field bundle at The Papercrafter's Workshop.

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.