Colourful Anemone

I have a bright card today, which was inspired by the Fresh Picked Anemone die cut (Spellbinders) that I'd already cut out...  It's a bit of a funky colour combo, so I decided to go with it, and pulled out a bunch of Concord & 9th cardstock colours to create my card.

I placed it over my new favourite Arch Punch & Pierce Plate die, which I mounted on a larger arch created with the Essential Arches dies (both Spellbinders).

The background was created with Altenew's Dotted Tile debossing plate, and I used a gold foiled sentiment and gold paint splatters to finish it off.

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!

Hello Again...

Before the day was done, I used the extra pieces that were on my craft desk, to create a landscape version of my previous card.  Why reinvent the wheel?  I was happy with my colour combo, and loved them on the pierced background... so here is version two:

Hello.

I am using a new-to-me set from Pigment Craft Co. that I recently purchased.  This is the Spring Floral stamp set along with the Dashing Sentiments.  The base is an Altenew piercing plate.  I don't own the matching dies, so yes - this was a lot of fussy cutting!

I have been using a lot of navy in my projects over the past while!  It still seems to be something I gravitate to - even on my fall projects.  I used Distress Oxide inks for my stamping, and then added some shading with Copic markers.

A few of the flowers were mounted partially/totally with 3D foam adhesive, and a few brown jewels were sprinkled around.  The Hello sentiment was doubled up before being adhered to my base.

Craft-A-Flower: Rose

I've had this beautiful Craft-A-Flower: Rose die for a while now, and this is only the second time I've used it!  

I wanted to try doing all the layers in different shades using my Gansai Tambei Watercolour set.  The rose and leaves were all cut out of Canson XL Watercolour Paper, and after they dried, I spattered them with both the dark green and white (for the leaves), and the rose tone on the flower.

I ink blended Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink onto a piece of pale yellow cardstock, concentrating the ink in the lower left corner, and fading it outwards.  Then I used the Dotted Tile cover die to give it the background design.  *All the dies are from Altenew.

I added a Betterpress sentiment and a few Pinkfresh jewels to finish it off.

Beautiful Blooms

There's something about making a set of cards that just makes my brain happy!  I recently acquired the Beautiful Blooms stamp/stencil/die set from Pinkfresh Studio, which creates six pretty floral images.  After doing a test run using them in some soft ink colours, I started creating a card with each one. 

Using the colours that I stencilled the flowers with (all Pinkfresh Studio inks), I pulled out soft cardstock colours to match, and set about creating my backgrounds.  The blue card base was made by diecutting PF's Braided Circle dies repeatedly, then created a frame using the Stitched Scalop Rectangle die, backed with a white piece cut with Slim Stitches.  The pink card base was cut with an Altenew Coverplate die, then Spellbinders Hemstitched Oval die matted in a pale green.

For the Thank You card, I started with a warm yellow card base, which I softly ink blended the bottom using PF's peach-toned inks, then added a blue Stitched Scallop Rectangle frame layered twice for some dimension.  The Just a Note card started with a pale green base, then a layer of peach cardstock and finally a white piece cut with the PF Slim Stitches die.

The Congrats card may be my favourite in the set!  I used Spellbinders Essential Arches dies for the green and blue panels, which are popped up with 3D foam adhesive over a white base cut with the PF Diagonal Stitched Plaid coverplate.  The floral is also on 3D adhesive, tucked inside the window.  The two negative arches were used for the second card, adhered with 3D adhesive over a peach cardstock panel cut with an Altenew coverplate die.

All of the cards were splattered with gold paint, and had gold pearls added for decoration.  The sentiments are all PF's Perfect Sentiments that were gold embossed, and all attached with 3D adhesive.
 

World Cardmaking Day

Happy World Cardmaking Day!  It was actually two days ago, and I had most of my card assembled - but finally got it completed and photographed today.

I have a nice mix of products from several companies: Background die is Dotted Tile from Altenew, the frame is Slim Ornate Banner from Pinkfresh Studio, and the leaves are Fall Wreath from Pigment Craft Company.  The Perfect Sentiments stamp and die are also by Pinkfresh.

I've seen such amazing, pretty colour combos on cards for fall leaves this year, that I had fun mixing a bunch of Distress Oxide inks in Seedless Preserves, Picked Raspberry, Dried Marigold, Wild Honey and Pelled Paint.

Altenew Dies

 I was lucky enough to win a gift card to the Altenew shop, so had fun picking out some new dies.  I'm using two of them on my card today, the Dotted Tile Debossing Cover Die is my background - love this!  The design is gorgeous and delicate - a perfect background.  The flower and leaves are all Craft-A-Flower: Rose, cut in various cardstock colours and layered together.  I added some gold paint spatters, plus a few pearls and a sentiment from Pinkfresh Studio.