Magical .......

A decorated tag made for a Swap over on UK Stampers Forum ......

The tag base was cut from black card, over this I applied a printed napkin with gel medium. Once dry I trimmed the napkin layer to leave a small black border.

I then stamped a number of times with stitched circles with Versamark ink and heat embossed these with white embossing powder. I also did a little doodling with a white Posca pen.

The butterfleis are printed and trimmed out being applied to the tag on foam pads to lift the wings. The word was stamped in Versafine black ink and matted onto more black card. This was applied on foam pads as shown.

I used the crop-a-dile to add a bronze eyelet and threaded this through with some rust coloured Sari Silk to finish the tag .......

Sid xx

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Bunny ......

Made an Easter card from a set of dies from Sizzix .......

I used a 4 x 6 inch white card base and cut a white square matt and applied this to a slightly larger black card matt as the main panel.

The dies were used to cut all components from various colours of card (some bits were extremely small to handle too !). The bunnie was put together and mounted on foam pads.

The sentiment was die-cut from more black card and applied at the top of the card to finish .....

Sid xx

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Easter .....

Made this filled dome as an Easter gift for a crafty friend at a Crafty retreat we have 3 times a year ....

The dome and base were from Hobbycraft and it contains a base with an LED light to illuminate the contents. 

I didn't make all the contents but bought the eggs (Cadbury Mini Eggs), the felt daffodils and the Chick.

The base of the dome was coloured with green acrylic paint. I then die-cut a grassy border from green card. This was applied around the base of the dome.

I then made a nest from jute twine and stuck the 3 eggs into it with a glue gun. The chick was then stuck in place next to the nest.  I then hot glued two of the daffodils back to back onto some green wire, added leaves, and bending the wire and applying to the base with hot glue at two different levels to fit inside the dome.

I then die-cut three bunnies from printed paper and coloured the ears and nose with pink Posca pen, adding white and black for the eyes and whiskers. I added white pom-poms for the tails. These were hot glued in place at the back of the dome to add interest at the back.

The sentiment was stamped in Versafine black ink on white card and added to wire and stuck in place with more hot glue.

The base of the dome was then covered with yellow Washi tape and decorated with yellow self adhesive gems to finish .....

Was pleased with the overall look of the gift .....

Sid xx

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Mother .....

This card was made for a Challenge over at Country View Crafts whose theme for the Month is 'Mothers Day' .....

I wanted to keep it simple. I used a 5 x 7 inch white card base. I cut a matt from dark pink card and then a smaller matt from white card was passed through an embossing folder. These layers were then applied to the card front.

I then die-cut 3 stitched edge white panels from white card. I then die-cut a couple of smaller matts from some rosy printed paper and applied this to 2 of the white matts. The third matt was left plain. I stamped the word in Versafine black ink on white card, this was trimmed and matted on more dark pink card to form a thin border. This was applied centrally to the plain square.

The three panels were then added on foam pads, overlapping each as shown.

Three pink adhesive pearls were added to finish the card ......

Sid xx

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Looking ......

Made this card at a recent craft retreat .......

The card base is white ...... I stamped the binoculars stamp (AAll & Create) in blue Versafine Clair ink onto a white card matt. This was again matted on blue/grey card. 

I then added a ticket top left and two pieces of printed card layered over each other.

Liking the simplicity of this card .....

Sid xx

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Friend ......

Another small collaged card ......

The base is a 4 x 4 inch white card blank ...... I then matted kraft card on black and stamped an image in blue Versafine Clair ink.

All other elements were collaged from papers along with some printed number stickers. I added a strip of black floral tape.

The sentiment was matted on black card and applied as shown to finish the card .....

Sid xx

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Peace ......

We have a Challenge running at the moment on UK Stampers Forum where we have to make a card in the colours of the Ukrainian Flag .... this is my card ....

The background is a Gelly print made with a real leaf and the yellow and turquoise colours of the flag. This has been matted onto yellow and turquoise papers.

The triangles were (PaperTrey Ink) were stamped on the same papers in turquoise and yellow Versafine Clair inks, and trimmed out, leaving a border. The ones at the top were arranged as shown and applied on foam pads. The lower ones were placed to enable the words to be positioned at an angle.

The words were stamped on white card and coloured with Distress inks and were edged with a Micron pen before applying as shown.

I added some coloured faceted gems to the background and mounted on a 6 x 6 inch square card blank to finish .....

Hoping & praying for a Peaceful conclusion to the terrible situation in Ukraine ......

Sid xx

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LIM Challenge #461

 The 'Less Is More' Challenge blog has a call for you to make a card using 'Pink & Gold'   ........

Here is my DT card for the Challenge made on a 5 x 5 inch white square card base.

The gold element of the card was made from a scribbly rose die-cut from white card (Sizzix - TH). I used Indigo Blu 'Flitter Glue' to ink up the rose and then applied gold guilding flakes to give the rose a golden hue.

I then stamped and coloured a couple of blossom stamps (Magazine freebies) in pink Versafine Clair ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. They were coloured with Distress Ink washes of Worn Lipstick with a waterbrush. Wondered whether to add some green but decided against this in keeping with the Challenge colours. The blossoms were then trimmed out.

I then cut a 4 x 4 inch matt from white card and used this as the base for the design. I applied the gold rose first as shown and then added the blossoms on foam pads also adding some metallic gold pen to the stamens in the blossoms ......

The sentiment (also a Freebie) was stamped on white card in more pink Versafine Clair and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. This was trimmed out and applied as shown on the matt.

Finally the matt was added onto the card base to finish the card ........

Hoping that you may have been inspired and please do go have a look at my fellow Design Team members makes in the theme on the Challenge Blog ..... click HERE to have a look ......

Sid xx

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Wellies .....

Made this simple card using a stamp from AAll & Create .....

The main image was stamped onto white cardstock in Versafine black ink. The base image was then coloured with Dye inks and  cut n' dry foam pad .... the image was then stamped on patterned paper and just the Wellingtons trimmed out. these were paper pieced over the originals. The soles and top of the wellies were coloured with brown Copic marker.

The background was then matted on brown card and applied to the Card blank ..... Simple .....

Sid xx

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Happiest ......

Made this card on a 4 x 4 inch white card blank ......

I stamped the word 'Create' directly onto the card front in blue Versafine Clair ink.

The other components were cut from printed papers and collaged as shown, some on foam pads to add depth ......

The sentiment is a printed one matted onto kraft card ..... the ticket has a piece of red/white Bakers Twine threaded through and the star was treated with Glossy Accents to finish ......

Sid xx

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