Poppy

On Friday 29th I attended a classes at Gemini Crafts with Carol. Here's the resulting card and how it was made:

 



To start with I cut all the pieces of card to size. and stamped three Fun Stamps - Simple Poppy images using memento cocoa.  I used a Hero Arts Script stamp and stamped this down the right hand side of the background card in crushed olive distress ink and then used the Poppy stamp again with fire brick distress ink down the other. I used a distressing tool and used mainly the crushed olive but as the poppy was still a bit damp, this blended to... :-)  I also distressed the piece of card that the main poppy image was on.

I coloured in the poppy in Spectum Noir CR8, 10 & 11 and DG2 & 4.

I layered eveything up wrapping the background piece in two toning ribbons and cut two flowers seperately and curled the petals before sticking them to the main card.  Carol showed me how to make a two toned treble bow to finish the card off.  The other half says it's posh". I would say classy!! Really enjoyed making this one and had a good afternoon with the ladies...

 



Evening

Hi folks

Have had an idle week in terms of card making I'm afraid, as been busy at work. Have two weeks off now though so plenty of time for crafting.

Attended a card making class today and got a few tips. Will blog the resulting card hopefully tomorrow.

Happy Crafting :-)

A Favourite

If you look back in my blogs you'll see I have done this young lady before. But she is one of my favourite images by Kenny K and she's called Troublemaker.  This time I decided to do her in greens and browns using Spectrum Noir (greens) and also some browns EB1, EB7.












I used Spellbinder Nestabilities 29 cut from white card which I printed the image on and layered it with some dark chocolate brown and marbled green card which I had in my Creative Memories file and also used the Nestabilities 29 for the tag cut in Creative Memories oatmeal with a gold "Happy Birthday" sticker added.





For the brads I coloured in some pearlised white Candi with my EB7 Spectrum Noir Pen.

I'm quite pleased with the result.It's amazing how different two cards can look that were made with the same image...

So what do you all think to this version?

Love n Light

Clare x

Tilda with Mr Rooster

Friday was a snow day! So Clare got to have an extra day card making. I rang Carol at Gemini Crafts, Sutton in Ashfield to see if she had any spaces in her friday class and she said she could squeeze me in. So there I was a quick dive to the bank and off up Sutton and here's what I made:

and here's how:  After cutting all my pieces of card to size I distressed the edges of one in pumice stone and spun sugar (which I borrowed from Sue - Thanks Sue) and then stamped it with a chicken wire stamp in the same colours. That was then layered onto a piece of grey textured card which was in turn layered onto the base card. Some textured pink card was cut using Decorative Labels 4.

I then stamped Tilda onto some card, I did a bit of jiggery pokery shown by Carol so that part of the Rooster was actually outside the diecut shape as shown below.  I distressed the edge and stamped chicken wire again with the spun sugar and then coloured in the image using, from my Spectrum Noir Pastel and Pale Hues sets, PP1 & 2, FS1 & 3 and TN1 & 2. I borrowed a grey Promarker pen from Carol for Tilda's boots and for the grey in the rooster as my greys are cool greys and I needed a warm grey.

 

The Tilda image was added to the pink shape which was stuck using 3D foam pads onto the background card. I then added a pink treble bow after being shown how to make one by Carol and added a little pink heart button to bring in the colour and did a second stamp of Tilda's hair bow and used 3D pads to lift that from the image too.

 

All in all, a lovely class with lovely ladies and a few new techniques learned x

 

Thanks for calling by

 

Love n Light

 

Clare x

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Fangtastic

I love this image by Saturated Canary it's called "My bite is worse than his bark".

 

 

I used some plain black paper for a background and then used a cutter to lace edge some rose printed paper to give more texture to my layering.

 

The little lady was coloured using Spectrum Noir FS1 only for her face and arms as I wanted the palest skin possible going for a classic pale vampire look and coloured her eyes GB2. The dress and hair were coloured with Spectrum Noir Red & Grey pens as below:

 

To embellish I used Creative Memories cutting tools to cut my oval layers after printing my sentiment. I also had some fabric flowers and hearts as below and used them to link the colours together.

 

I was pointed to a company called Dreamees run by Hayley an ex student of the school I work at and ordered these simple paper roses, shown below to complete my card. She also has rose blanks available for you to colour and make yourself along with a miriad of hand-drawn craft artwork made into CD's, stamps and accessories. Please check her out and tell her Clare at Camellia Cards sent you her way.

I'm really pleased with the end result and intend to enter into Black With 2's challenge Dominant Black with Red and White.

Thanks for calling by

Love n Light

Clare x

 

Troublemaker.....nah!!!

I spent a day chilling today and after initially struggling with the design of this card a little expertise help from Rebekah at Berrylicious was greatly appreciated.

 

The image is called Troublemaker and she's from Kenny Kiernan.  To colour her in I used Spectrum Noir Pens from the Pastel set which I bought from JGD Crafts, Sutton-in-Ashfield. The colours are really subtle but I hope, effective.

 

The background paper was a pale turquoise spotty patterned paper I had in my stock from when I worked for Creative Memories (scrapbooking). I used Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 29 for the pink layers and used a linen effect card which I also bought from Janet at JGD Crafts. I used a small round doily so that the image stood out clearly. On the corners of the pink rectangle I used Pink Candi from Craftwork Cards out of the Chocolate & Marshmallow pack shown in the close-up below.

 

 

 

For the embellies I used a number of fabric hearts that I had in stock which I believe have picked up the colors used throughout. Really quite happy with this.

 

I will be entering her into the Divas by Design Challenge "Put on Some Pink".

 

 

Thanks for calling by

 

Love n Light

 

Clare x