A 'Dressy' Celebration!

My card today is one I made a few weeks ago for a friend who reached the grand age of 50! She's a very modern lady so I needed to make something a bit special and sparkly and this was the result. It uses the Dress Up Framelits with the dress made in Basic Black and the shrug in Silver Glimmer Paper. For the sentiment I inked part of a stamp from Create a Cupcake, the 'you're' is a stamp from Oh,Hello which I masked and inked in Stazon and the 50 was cut with the now retired Timeless Type Junior Alphabet dies.

Thanks for stopping by

Margaret x

 

Simples Sunday Rainbow

Following the LIM challenge theme, Rainbows, I have a couple of cards to show you and a little technique tutorial. The card above is a super simple one and very quick to make. I stamped a flower from Petite Petals in a 'rainbow' of colours and punched them out with the co-ordinating punch. On a card blank I stamped one of the Gorgeous Grunge stamps in Smoky Slate across the card and a sentiment from A Dozen Thoughts underneath. All that was left to do was to position the flowers and finish them with a Basic Rhinestone.

My second card is an easy one as well but a little more difficult than the first! I used an acrylic block and markers for the background, cut out a frame with the Squares Collection Framelits and added some tiny flowers punched with one of the Itty Bitty Shapes punches, finished with a tiny Basic Pearl for the centres. The sentiment is from the Hostess set, Express Yourself.
For those of you who may not have seen the technique to make the background above I have taken a 'step by step' set of photos, shown below.

                       Colour the block with markers           Spritz generously with water       
                  (this can also be done with ink pads)        

                          Press firmly onto cardstock                 Carefully lift the block
                           leave for a few seconds

                                 Cut to size                                   Make your card!!

Tag Card

Today's card is probably one of the most difficult I have ever had to make and is for a lovely lady who has recently had some really sad news.
I took inspiration from a card made by Catherine Pooler (her video can be seen here) and, although I didn't use the same technique, I did use a similar colour combo.
First I cut a tag of Whisper White with a brand new punch, which will soon be available in the new Spring/Summer catalogue, then stamped the flowers and stem from Field Flowers. For the flowers I inked the stamp with Pool Party then added Island Indigo and Elegant Eggplant using sponge daubers and the stem was stamped in Pear Pizzazz. The 'hello' from Oh, Hello is stamped over the stem in Elegant Eggplant. I tied some Bakers Twine at the top of the tag before fixing to a panel of Pool Party, which had been randomly stamped with the other image from Field Flowers, and then onto a white card blank.
In this particular situation no words will make anything better so I plumped for a retired sentiment inside the card which says just about all there is to say.

Back soon

Margaret x

Thanks for Simples Sunday & Less is More!

I have made two cards today to combine 'Simples Sunday' and Less is More where the challenge is a One Layer Thank You card. Both cards are simple but the one on the right is even more simple than the other!

The first card uses a card blank made with Naturals White cardstock which was masked with a post-it note before stamping the flowers and leaves from Stippled Blossoms in Primrose Petals, Raspberry Ripple and Old Olive. I then drew three lines across where the mask had been with a Raspberry Ripple marker and stamped the sentiment, from Four You, also in Raspberry Ripple. The only thing that makes this card slightly more difficult than the other is because Stippled Blossoms is a two-step stamp set so you need to use a stamp-a-ma-jig to get the positioning right.
The second card is made with three stamps from Oh Hello. The chevron oval was stamped in Wisteria Wonder with the sentiment stamped on top using Elegant Eggplant. I then coloured the flower stamp with Elegant Eggplant and Pear Pizzazz markers before stamping to overlap the chevron oval.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend

Margaret x