Beautiful Mystery

I love pearlescent embossing powders, in fact I love anything with a sheen or a shine and this was the inspiration for this little 6 x 6 inch plate.  I found a swirl stamp on my workdesk and used this as the main stamp.

I started with a piece of 6 x 6 inch double sided printed paper with an intricate design in maroon and cream on one side and a distressed ledger print on the reverse (My Minds Eye - Stella Rose/Mabel).

In the bottom left corner I used the swirl stamp (?) and inked with Versamark and stamped 3 times, heat embossing each time with a different pearlescent embossing Powder.  I overlapped the stamped image in a few places.

I then folded the opposite corner of the square toward the front exposing the reverse print and scored across the fold.  I used fired brick Distress ink and cut'n'dry foam to apply an edge colour and then stamped a couple of times with the same stamp and ink.

I then cut a piece of textured cardstock to 6.25 inches square and inked a PaperArtsy architecture stamp of arches with fired brick and stamped this top left, drying with the heat gun to show where the folded paper would be when matted.

The words are from the same PaperArtsy set and were stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with detail gold embossing powder on a piece of the maroon textured card. This was matted onto a piece of cream card.

Before assembly I cut a final mat of 6.5 inches square from the cream card and matted all three pieces as shown.  The triangular fold was held in place with foam pads and the wordplate was embellished with a gold swirly clip before applying on foam pads.

The final touch was to add a fab brass mask as shown.

Sid xx

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'Light Flight' Gift Box

Wanted to do something with a little gift box that originally had some tealights in it.  It has sat there for ages so I picked it up ans actually did something with it !!  This one also is my entry to the Just For Fun Challenge blog whos subject this fortnight is 'Oh for the wings of a bug'.

I gave it two coats of pale blue acrylic paint and allowed it to dry thoroughly.  I then took some glossy cardstock and applied Alcohol Ink in juniper and cloudy blue with an applicator and felt until happy with the finish.  I also used some blending solution.  The colour is very subtle actually. This was trimmed into 4 panels slightly smaller than the base sides.

I took an acrylic poppy stamp and stamped twice with Archival black onto each of the panels and the edges of the card were lined with fine gold pen and a metal edged ruler.  These were then adhered with double sided tape to each side panel as shown.  A small half pearl embellishment was added to the bottom left of each panel. 

The 'to you from me' labels were made using the same AI background and a nestability die which I also embossed before stamping with the words in Archval black ink.  Again a half pearl was added to each of the panels.  These were stuck in place with DS tape as shown.

The butterflies are made using Martha Stewart punches in two sizes.  The background paper used was made by scanning three pieces of cotton printed material that I had bought as fat quarters in Skipton.  They were printed with the inkjet printer onto plain 80gsm copier paper.  I liked the colours which all compliment each other.  The back of the paper was painted with some more of the pale blue acrylic paint to add a little more body to the paper.  Once dry I used the two punches and punched out large and small butterlies, some of which were to be layered.

I edged the large butterflies with Stickles diamond glitter glue and once dry layered the small onto the large punched out pieces with glossy accents.  Each of the layered butterflies had a half pearl added for a head before sticking in place on the box to decorate.

The top of the box was held shut with two gold swirly clips either side of the two butterflies.  I was going to add ribbon but decided not to.  Light and Airy I thought !

Sid xx

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Hearty Valentines Card

Happy Valentines Day !!

Here is one of the cards I made for Valentines Day this year. I wanted to make a card using opulent colours so I chose black, red & gold. I started with some black opalescent cardstock cut and folded on a score board to A6 size.

Once again I have used a single damask heart stamp from Elusive Images which was inked with versafine ink and stamped four times down the right hand side of the front of the card. I have reversed the stamp so as to interlock the stamp. These hearts were then heat embossed with gold embossing powder using the heat gun.

Next I positioned a piece of double sided tape on the left from top to bottom and used this to adhere two strips of luscious red narrow velvet ribbon as shown.

The heart embellishment was stamped onto gold mirri card with Versamark and this time heat embossed with red embossing powder. This heart was trimmed out, embellished with a piece of the same velvet ribbon and a gold swirly clip before applying foam pads and placing as shown.

Sid xx

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'Summer' Art Raffle piece

Here is my 'Summer' inspired piece for the 'UK Art Raffle' where you send in a piece of artwork of any type and the lucky winner gets all the art ! Costs nothing to enter and it's a fabulous idea and a fabulous prize to the winner each month.

This piece is made on a piece of artboard 4 x 5 inches in size. The background was first painted with pale blue acrylic paint and allowed to dry. I then applied two colours of distress Crackle Paint in faded jeans and weathered wood in a thick uneven coat down the left hand side of the board. Once dry the board was coloured around the edges with cut'n'dry foam and Adirondack inks in stonewashed & wild plum, going over the crackle finish to get some ink into the cracks.

The little house was cut from chipboard and covered in gesso. Once dry this was stamped in black Stazon with a PaperArtsy stamp and coloured with cut'n'dry foam in stonewashed Adirondack Ink. The roof was masked with sequin scrap and inked with Versamark and finally heat embossed with dark blue EP. A flower snap was added to the bottom left. The edges of the house and window were inked in dark purple ink. The lady in the window was stamped and applied behind the house with glossy accents and a flower covered in glitter with a flat backed gem as the centre was added on the roof.

The background was then stamped on the right side with swirl and bud stamps (Wendy Rhodes). The summer word ( Making Memories magnetic alphas) was stamped in black Stazon on a scrap of card, trimmed and clipped into place with a swirly clip.

The glitter flowers were applied in abundance as shown with glossy accents over the stamping and the house stuck in place also.

Good luck to the winner this month.

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Sunday Challenge No 6

These three tags were done as my entry for the UK STampers Sunday Challenge. Basically the challenge was to produce three tags in leaf shapes and Autumn colours.

My three tags were cut with the Sure-Cuts-a-Lot program and my Cricut using SVG files. One cut in green, one cut in yellow and one cut in orange textured card. I then used various Moonglow Glitz Spritz sprays in copper, antique gold and green, dried in between coats with the heat gun until very sparkly.

I then used one of the images from the Stampendous foliate quad cube stamp (TC51) with Versamark ink to apply various Moon Glow EP's in Tannenbaum Green Gold, Holly Berry Red Gold, Orbit Olive Gold and Midnight Teal Obsidian along with Adirondack Butterscotch and Bottle EP's all heat embossed with the heat gun and applied in layers.

Colobox Chalk Ink in peach and tangerine was added to edges of leaves and patches on the leaf surfaces.

Finally some red and green organza and orange grosgrain ribbons were added along with a gold swirly clip.

Hope you like them :)

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