Smile Please

With the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa in my mind and a wonderful weekend spent with my crafting friends in Yorkshire I created this card.

A plain Kraft card was used as a base. The flowers were white Prima which I sprayed with yellow and green Dylusions colour sprays.  They were centred with shabby shutters Distress Sticles and stuck in place with glue dots.

The stamped image (Lost Coast Designs) was stamped with Memento black ink and coloured with pale lemon Copic Marker before trimming out.  This was applied on foam pads to raise it.

All papers used were from a 6 x 6 pad by Prima (Alla-Prima).

The image was layered onto a background paper (sewn around the edges) and applied over two mats cut with the Big Shot using a Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 2 Die.

The sentiment was a self adhesive sticker matted onto pale green card and again applied on foam pads.

Sid xx

Pin It

The Only Way Is Up !

Hasn't the weather in the UK been horrible lately ........... hardly Summer in my opinion !  This creation hopefully will bring a little colour into these dull and wet days we are experiencing at this time.


This is a postcard (6 inches x 4 inches) made from mountboard as part of a monthly swap at UK Stampers Forum.  This months theme is 'In The Air' so I have loosely interpreted the theme in my creation. The card was trimmed to size and coloured with Ranger Dylusions sprays in vibrant turquoise, pure sunshine and cut grass. These were dried with a heat gun.

Next the pennant stamp (Lynne Perrella - PaperArtsy) was stamped top left with Archival black ink. The background was also grunged with  spot and fleck stamps in Ultramarine Impress ink.

A Marriane diecut was used to cut a garland from white paper and this was trimmed and was added in a couple of places as shown. A Cuttlebug cut'n'emboss folder was used to diecut the hand from dark green paper.  This was sprayed with black spray ink, blotted and rubbed over with the black Archival ink to highlight the relief.

The words were half printed and half hand-written in Posca and the same pens were used to edge and highlight the images on the card.  The card has to travel to its recipient 'naked' in the post.  I have sealed it with a light spray of cheap hair lacquer.

Sid xx

Pin It