CAS style.
The acorn is a diecut punch-out from Daphne's Diary, a diecut leaf from my Bitz Box, and a simple embossed sentiment. Faux splatters are handdrawn.
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Owl stamped on various scraps, snippets of paper/card. Tiny diecut heart and snippet of embossed strip (Cuttlebug). Sentiment is bordered in gold embossing. WoS for shine, white gel pen for highlights.
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I made this for our son who is mad on cricket, has been since a small kid and was an under 18 rep, now in his 50's and still playing. Cricket season has started here, so we won't see much of him over the southern summer, as in addition to working he practises on a weeknight and then plays at the weekend. His son plays in the same team.
I made the background using smooshed DI's and black DSpray. The sentiment is stamped randomly across the outfield and gold embossed; I think it looks like the crowd cheering. The cricketer is diecut and coloured with Copics.
Beautiful roses for a lovely lady. This fold is the NZ card swap for November, the fancy fold is on youtube called Slide and Lock by Jacque Williams and is easier than it looks. The centre piece slides and holds the front edges together. The flowers deserve a butterfly to visit them.
I used watercolour diecut card flowers & leaves (a prize from Stix2Anything) with watercolour paints. The beautiful papers are fromWeRMemoryKeepers pad, the diecut label is Spellbinders, other diecuts are a flourish and an aqua butterfly (BoBunny) from my Bitz Box. Stamped sentiment (Rosies Studio) cut to shape has gold heat embossing around the edges. All put together embellished with gold pearls, a gold brad and Ranger Stickles. The sliding piece could be re-used if wanted.
I made my own background paper using Ranger DI's. Frog stamped and fussy-cut. Sparkly mist, all the frogs I've seen sparkle.
Shared on challenges:
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A moonlit forest.
Tim Holtz bottlebrush trees stamped with Ranger DOxInks also stencilled with Tim Holtz mixed media stencil. Corner die: Tim Holtz/Sizzix with an interference gold mist on inset pieces. Metallic watercolour paint splattered in turquoise and gold. Panel set on pale blue base card. Sentiment intentionally left off so it could be used for any occasion.
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Doc Martens, fairly CAS. Inspired by the SOS challenge. I didn't realise I had this many shoe stamps!
This could be masculine or feminine.
Usually workmen's boots, I don't know if these are still a thing or not, but I was always amazed at how young women could wear these with floral skirts and skinny tops and still look gorgeous.
Doc Marten Stamp from Deep Red, left uncoloured. Stamped sentiment. Wrapped twine. Thin strips of dark plum and matt silver laid along the edges. Card base is glossy purple. That's it.
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Back panel is red, embossed with a scripty EF nibbled at the edges, misted with Ranger Perfect Pearls and put on black card base. A leafy die cut in three colours, a sentiment diecut, stamp from PrintWorks. Sentiment 'dirtied' with DI's, perfect pearls, A tangle of gold thread behind the senti.
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The background is card that has been inked (Ranger DI's & DOxideI's), smooshed, dabbed, ink blended, inked on the edges. The stamps are all Dare 2B Artsy. Broom & shoe stamped onto coloured card, with ink blending & gold pen. Sentiment stamped and gold embossed. Insert has the second half of the sentiment. Spiders are shiny with Glossy Accents, insert has the second half of the sentiment. Stars are leftover dropouts from various dies.
Shared on challenges:
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The background is watercolour card, smooshed,ink blended and stencilled over using Ranger DI's. The edges are diecut with Tim Holtz edges and sentiment heat embossed with Zing lime green EP. I diecut a sunflower in a not-perfect colour - I know that will annoy some folk - but I wanted it to be not-perfect amazing. Hmm maybe I should have made the leaf hot pink.
This is going to a teenage grandaughter who is going through "that" stage, where I hope this will encourage her.
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For one of our NZ cardswaps we made Momagami paper. I made mine into a little booklet so my swap partner could use the papers if she wanted to.
The papers are from Bella! paperstack, so they all coordinated. I treated them to Momagami and myself as well - what a soothing process and they smell delicious. I stitched the collection together adding a Tim Holtz butterfly, hello sentiment, twine, gold dots. I stuck it on a top-fold card. Other odd items got added in as I went, things I thought would bring a smile or thoughtful contemplation.
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This was my offering for a recent NZ cardswap which had to use the Shadow Block technique. The person I was sending to makes the most beautiful floral cards, so I decided she deserved one back.
The watercolour-look paper is from Rosies Studio Indigo Mist pad, gold & green figured papers from a Sizzix pad. Paper cut into 1" squares, assembled with dark green as shadow. Sentiment is gold embossed with a bit of EP splatter & layered with vellum. Gold pearls and thread/twine.
The sentiment started "It's your day " ... and inside says " to get some real mail".
