Babies arriving are a great reason to celebrate.
Here I used a Cuttlebug Embossing Folder on pale blue-green pearlescent card for the background panel. The diecut bootee (Marianne 'eline sock') is pieced, then ribbon threaded through and pearls added. The Hero Arts sentiment is silver embossed.
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I go through stages of re-discovering stash I haven't used in a while, getting inspired by it and trying to use it. That's how this one happened.
Here I started with a rich dark green border frame diecut I had in the Bitz Box on my desk (stuff that gets done for some reason, discarded and thrown in the Bitz Box for another day). Sometimes it's a long time until that day comes. I cut a shadow for the greeting from the same card, and the words from gold mirror card. The leafy patterned paper was sitting handy too and they just went together so nicely. The whole panel got wrapped up with lighter green cord and gold pearls added. I love gold pearls.
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The background is stencilled with DI's, some stickles here and there on the sun rays. Stamped image and sentiment, matted onto black.
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I have an affinity with bees, gotten as a child from my granddad who was a beekeeper. He used to tell stories about the bees, and lectured about bees at the local Agricultural College. They are so importaant to human survival.
The background is smooshed DI's misted with perfect pearls. The sentiment stamp is a magazine freebee gold embossed. The panel is diecut and matted onto copper metallic card. A dot of Ranger Stickles on the layered diecut bee, popped up on dimensional foam.
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Soft yellow panel embossed. Sunflower stamped onto a scrap of ink smooshed card and fussy cut with a bit of Copic marker shadow colouring, gold metallic pen stamen dots. The sentiment is matted onto black card to show up the sentiment. A diecut bee with vellum wings ( from my BitzBox) visiting the flower.
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One of our grandchildren is away to university this week. I made this CAS card for her.
The image stamp is a magazine freebie from Practical Publishing - a bunch of wonderful peanuts images. I cut a mask for around the image and coloured the background with brushes and DI's in blues & greens. The hearts have Stickles sparkles.
She is well organised and has lots of stuff to take with her. I made a bag of goodies to go, including a small first aid kit, playing cards etc. and cuddly crochet throw, Ian had made some wood turned pendants and she chose one of those to take with her. So, something handmade from nonna & poppa.
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Things got a bit fishy around here.
The aqua coloured panel is smooshed with several colours of DI's and misted with Perfect Pearls, then given embossing that looks like fish scales; the sentiment (Acid Drops & Whatnots) stamped & diecut and misted as well. The fish are diecut from a Daphne's Diary paper, assembled using snippets of coordinating shaded card for heads and tails. Put onto a black base card to make the colours pop.
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The panel and additional flower is made by smooshing JuiseyArt inks and Distress Inks, allowing to dry and stamping over; Copics are used to add shadows to flower. I fussy cut the flower and used 3Dfoam to pop it up. The centre is highlighted in gold pen and the berries & acorns in white gel pen. Sentiment embossed and gold cord tied around. Matted onto lemon textured card, then onto black base card.
When I was finished I thought maybe I should have done gold embossing to go with the gold cord, and could have easily put another on top with gold embossing. I decided not to as I like the not-matchy-matchy thing, and think it adds a bit of zing and I like unpredictable!
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A pretty bold paper, and in colours I would not normally choose. So I let the paper do the talking and made the stacked sentiment bold too, in pewter metallic. The paper has some textured parts, not exactly glittery, more gel-like.
Shared on challenges:
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The background is painted with pearly watercolour paints on watercolour paper. I has a lovely sheen.
The diecut balloon from Joanna Sheen is cut in two different patterned papers and reassembled using both papers. A stamped diecut tag (NCraft) tied up with gardeners twine.
Here in Hamilton, NZ we have a hot air balloon festival in April, our southern autumn.
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This sweet little house mouse has 'presented' herself for someone's birthday complete with a gift ribbon.
The House Mouse image is stamped on white card and coloured with Copics with a soft brush of DI colour around the edges of the diecut oval. The oval is popped up on foam and placed on a blue & green checked panel that is scored around all the edges, and then onto a diecut lacy panel. The Papercraft diecut tag has a computer made sentiment, and a cute little snippet of ribbon bow. White gel pen highlights.
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asyoulikeit/favourite-colouring-medium-and-why I like Copics because they are instant, saturated colour and easily blended.
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A clean and simple floral in beautiful colours inspired by a couple of challenges.
The white panel has an embossed border (a really old Cuttlebug EF). Firstly white card is coloured with JuiseyArt hybrid inks, then stamped with the outline peony stamp & diecut (Couture Creations stamp & die set). I used Copics to add shadows and detail to the flower & leaves, and Wink of Stella to the petal edges for a bit of sparkle (see detail pic). Leaves stamped on a snippet of card, and on a snippet left from that, the sentiment (Waffle Flower) is stamped & die cut. The flower is popped up in foam tape to create a soft shadow.
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The flowers are diecut, misted with Perfect Pearls and arranged randomly as they would grow, some of them are popped up on foam. A diecut border in white, and a stamped & embossed sentiment with a handcut fishtail end.
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