Glittering Snowflakes !

This Christmas card meets the requirements for the City Crafter Challenge blog week 241 whose theme is 'Glittering Snowflakes'.

I trimmed a piece of blue pearlescent card and matted this onto a white card blank.

The snowflake was diecut and treated to a coat of ice blue glitter.  This was positioned and stuck in place centrally.

Some faux gems were added around the edge and a silver embossed plate added on foam pads in the middle. Very glittery !!

Sid xx

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Key to Your Heart

This little chipboard heart is the basis for this 'Key to Your Heart' creation.  I started by covering the heart in paper from the Tilda Kitchen Garden 12 x 12 inch pad.  Once adhered to the heart it was trimmed out, sanded and edged with lilac posies Memento ink.

I then used some diecuts to build up the design, an open heart (stamped with more Memento ink - Paper Artsy), a gold heart  and two layered flowers.

More Memento ink was used to colour tint each piece before assembling as shown.  The metal key was tied through with some fine maroon grosgrain ribbon before sticking in place over the gold heart.

A pale pink pearl was added in the centre of the flower.

Finishing touches were to add a sentiment plate and edge exposed edges of the heart with pink Stickles glitter glue.

This piece will fit the bill for the City Crafter Challenge Blog challenge for this week which is the same as my blog post title too.

Sid xx

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Just Because .....

Here is another square CAS card made for a birthday !

Simply stamped with a PaperArtsy vine stamp selectively inked with a rainbow of dye inks.

A printed sentiment plate was added on foam pads to complete.

Sid xx

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Happy Birthday CAS Card

 

This Happy Birthday clean & simple card was made using a white 12 x 12 cm square card blank.  Two pieces of Washi tape were trimmed and applied first as shown.

Three paper flowers were made using a die and these were rolled and stuck together with Glossy Accents and were then mounted on glue dots as shown after edging in alcohol ink.

 

Finally the word plate was edged in the same alcohol ink and then this was stuck in place on foam pads. Once more, no stamping on this one.

Sid xx

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On Your Birthday Card

Yet another clean & simple card made using a 12 x 12 cm square card as a base.  I have used a Hero Arts stamp a number of times inked in different colours of dye ink across the card.

I have joined these with a black Micron pen to form a fence (of sorts !).

The round 'On Your Birthday' sentiment has been edged in black alcohol ink with a marker and mounted on foam pads and stuck in place as shown.

Imagining this as a balloon I have then added a gold string freehand with a Posca pen and tied it around the fence to finish the card.

Sid xx

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Birthday Wishes CAS Card

This clean & simple card consists of a white card blank a Hero Arts stamp which has been stamped with Versafine onyx black, a piece of Washi tape and a Birthday wishes sentiment plate.

I have simply used an orange alcohol ink pen to outline the sentiment plate and a spot on one of the leaves and mounted the plate on foam pads.

Sid xx

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Leaf & Branch

Love some of the dies that you can use through a diecut machine !!  The main image on this simple card is one of my favourites and is quite intricate.  It's by Marianne Designs and was diecut from lichen green textured card through the Sizzix Big Shot.

A strip of coloured striped paper (reminds me of the Paul Smith signature stripe) actually from a 6 x 6 inch paper pack from Websters Pages was cut, edged with green alcohol ink and stuck in place at the near bottom of a 12 x12 cm plain white card.

The die-cut tree was then stuck in place with Quickie glue pen.  The printed sentiment was edged with the same alcohol ink pen and mounted as shown on foam pads. I am also entering this card into The Craftroom Challenge for this month which is Trees and/or leaves.

No stamping on this one for a change !

Sid xx

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Bunting ........

Another simple card, this time done to celebrate any occasion.  The stamp used is a Lynne Perrella one by PaperArtsy and is stamped using Versafine onyx black on a blank 12 cm square card.

I have selectively coloured in the flags with various Posca pens.

A gold foiled sentiment was added on foam pads to finish.

Sid xx

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Kind Thoughts Card

Christmas has now passed and the New Year is just around the corner so I decided a change was as good as a rest. One of my friends has not been too good over the break and I wanted to do a card to cheer her up.

I used a stamp called 'Natures Little Helper' from The Artistic Stamper which I won from the very kind Jennie. I used acetate, glitter and souffle pens to colour in the image (attributed to Mabel Lucie Attwell).

I took a mottled pale blue cardstock and trimmed/scored to make a 4 x 4 inch square card as the base.

I took a piece of acetate and stamped the image with black Stazon. I then used dries clear art glue and applied a number of colours of ultrafine glitters on the reverse of the acetate, allowing them to dry between colours. The body, ear and paint tin were coloured with Sakura Souffle pens and allowed to dry. I then trimmed out the image to leave around a 1/4 inch border.

Next I took a piece of K&Co printed cardstock trimmed as shown and cut an aperture top right with a large square punch. This was rubbed over with broken china Distress ink applied with cut'n'dry foam. This was then matted over some dark plum coloured card and the same aperture cut again with the punch.

The matt was applied centrally with DS tape, the acetate applied over the aperture with glue applied behind the glitter and the card finished off with a 'Thinking of you' sentiment mounted on foam tape and matted onto the same dark plum card.

Hope she likes it !

Sid xx

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