Car & fence dies: Tim Holtz Bigz dies
Patterned paper: Basic Grey
Sentiment stamp: CZ Designs
Tree dies: Couture Creations
Also: Distress inks, metallic watercolour paint, white pen, curvy dies
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Welcome, I'm so glad you're here! Being creative is a big part of my life, and this is where I can show you some of the things I do.
Car & fence dies: Tim Holtz Bigz dies
Patterned paper: Basic Grey
Sentiment stamp: CZ Designs
Tree dies: Couture Creations
Also: Distress inks, metallic watercolour paint, white pen, curvy dies
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Gatefold card fold, monochrome. DI's brushed all over the front, edges, and inside leaving a blank circle in the middle, trying to get an ombre look Dragonflies stamped in blue, covered in Stickles when dry. Sentiment stamped. Quite a challenge to keep it simple, monochrome and still be interesting. A flange inserted in the gap so it closes nicely, edge cut with fancy cutter. Ribbon closure.
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Always about the animals! Animals must be the focus of the work.
Check your animal into the challenge at Critter Crazy, here: crittercrazychallenge
The image is stamped, coloured with copics in fine feather strokes. Then fussy cut. The background EF is a hessian pattern and I have sanded it to get the white core showing and matted it onto a green card just for a change. The stamped sentiment is matted onto black and slightly offset to look like a shadow. All popped up on foam tape. Also white pen, gems. I like it standing on the sentiment strip.
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Having a bit of fun with three stamps. The focal flower is heat embossed with three colours (turquoise, lime & gold), and the edge also roughly heat embossed. The background is stamped in script with Versamark ink and dusted with mica powder with edges fuzzed. Sentiment heat embossed.
Stamp: THoltzBg stamp:
Sentiment:
Also: Mica powders, EP, gold pearls
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Gotta love this big smile. The background is silver textured iridescent paper, croc is paperpieced from dappled paper (same as the oval of the sentiment). Fussycut croc, diecute ovals, stamped sentiment. A red mat, gem. Does anybody know where this stamp is from? I've had it for ages.
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This is for Ian's cousin Kevin who turns 80 today, hence a mancard. We all play cards together fairly regularly which is why I chose the Kaisercraft embossing folder for the background.
The background is embossed then sanded to get the texture. The numbers are diecut from tartan/plaid paper with a stitched die and stacked. The embossed sentiment is Tim Holtz Bold Sayings - stamped onto card inked with blue DOxI's, edges inked then matted onto black card. Holographic star and silver twine tie it all together.
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A tag made in the middle of the night with elements from the Bitz Box on my desk. A diecut tag (from a [reviously made stencil print) & stars from AALL&Create, a stamped whale, some itty bitty sentiments, a bit of netting, some silver dots (drop-outs from a die), and some ribbon & yarn. I was inspired by a post from Brenda who described stand up tags (which I'd never heard of before) - thanks Brenda stamping-fantasies-stand-up-tag
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Old friends are like sunshine! Enjoying each other's company, a bit of sunshine, bare feet on the sand.
I stamped the image, paper-pieced their outfits, sponged some clouds (Unique Creations) using a diecut as a stencil, and did a little Copic colouring. Stickles on sentiment, white pen highlights, base card is red.
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The background is stamped text with distressed edges. AALL & Create diecut panel is pale blue, stamped in black. At the bottom, the border is an old TimHoltz rosette die, partially folded with a contrast strip. Silver dots are drops-outs from a die. Black pen doodles randomly on the background. Design based on Sketch Saturday - I like simple designs.
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For lovers of purple. "A Dream is a Wish your Heart Makes" says the sentiment. Heat embossed in purple sparkle on a slightly textured card, it's a little hard to read in the photo. The front panel is diecut (Crafter Companion), laid over an iridescent watermark silk paper and the main butterflies are put back in, wings opened. Those main butterflies are bejewelled. I felt it was all that was needed. I will use the drop-out butterflies in other projects.
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I made this for a friend who turned 90.
The stamps are Art Impressions coloured with copics and fussy cut. For the background panel I diecut numbers and used them as stencils, brushing over soft patches of DI, a bit of shimmer spray. Edges of panel inked. On the insert I burnt a corner. I have covered up the private message with loose strips.
Even at 90 you can have some fun.
Sentiment (front): Art Impressions
Sentiment inside: Kaisercraft I think
90: stencilled over diecut numbers
Also: Copics, D.Inks, Shimmer spray
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Lots of patterned paper and flowers to say hello in a pretty, floral way.
Torn and sliced papers patchwork style, splattered. Diecut flowers (wet & crumpled), leaves and stacked sentiment. I doodled some stitching, the dots are drop-outs from other dies. I was able to use up a lot of leftovers/snippets for this.
I made this for our daughter who is one of five finalists in NZ Hairdresser of the Year. We are so proud of her, and whether she wins or not, we think she deserves a crown anyway.
I used DI's to puddle the colours in the background, and stamped over with the chicken. Copics used here and there to accentuate colours, white pen and black pen doodles, snipped up stamped sentiments, and some Stickles.
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