A bit of 3D embossing, inking, diecutting, sponging (DI), misting, splattering (gold interference & red DI), stamping and sparkle (tiny heart diecut drop-out bit). I re-discovered this scribble heart die (TimHoltz) when I was looking for something else, I haven't used it for five years or maybe longer, so neglected. Bought in 2017.
Lots of using up stuff. Gorgeous patterned paper, silver strips, home made flowers out of snippets with inked edges, bits of card main one distressed, and an embossed senti stamp I've had for a long time and hardly used. I reckon when you're doing flowers, greenery is a neutral.
Oval dies: Spellbinders
Leaf die: Couture Creations
Big flower: Dienamics
Centre of flower: Couture Creations
Also: Silver EP, silver strips, gems
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The panel is watercolour paper that I smooshed a while ago and splattered. Die cut with hearts panel die. Single heart is stacked. I think they look like they are raining. This is for my special man.
Matted onto pearlescent card. Heart is stacked diecut, stamped with senti and made into a tag with silver cord.
Heart:
Senti stamp: Taylored Expressions
Also: DI's, snippet of red card and silver cord.
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CAS, red & white, hearty.
The stamp is a new one, coloured with copics. Stamped sentiment underlaid with a scrap of tulle. White pen dot shine on balloon.
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A new stamp, coloured with metallic watercolour paints - I'm sure robots would be mostly metal. The background is smooshed in DI's pale pinks, then diecut with panel die. Image coloured, masked, background flicked with gold paint, highlighted with white pen. The little hearts are dropouts from a Sizzix die. Panel popped up on 3D foam tape with edges left free. I hope they look like rusty old battered metal... a bit like us really!
A hug would be quite clangy between these two (certainly would'nt be a secret) and I'm sure the holding hands would be easy if the metal was magnetised!
Die: ALL&Create
Hearts: Sizzix
Metallic Watercolour (cheap kids paint set)
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I've had this owl stamp a while now and never used it before. The set has 3 cute owls and some sentiments; I also used part of one senti (Hoot) on the heart. The background is diecut tag (NCraft), painted, splattered, overstamped with random stamps. Moon is punched (Fiskars) from marbled card, the sentiment is a strip sticker (Tim Holtz). Also: Copics, metallic watercolour paints, DI's, dye inks, Dylusions acrylic paint, white pen, ribbon & string. Owl fussy cut, popped up on 3D foam.
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Image stamped and partially coloured with Copics. The sentiment is embossed using a die for subtlety. A bit of an experiment. Embossing is weird, I've noticed that in photos it often looks pushed in when it's really pushed out, the same happens with photos of quilting. The pic of the angled card looks better.
I love these dancing sheep; I think one is doing tango, one the cancan and two are line dancing!
Birdhouse: Doodle Pantry
Fence image: Digital Scrapbook
Sign: Digital Scrapbook
Also: Copics, black pen, Bakers twine, WoS
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I stencilled using Distress Oxide inks in two colours, sponging in from the edges, and fine splatters. The main heart has edges inked, the centre of the heart with the sentiment softly brushed with the paler ink (it doesn't show well in the photo). Coordinating papers for the smaller hearts. Pearls.
Two different heart dies:
Corner dies: Sizzix
Stencil: TWC
Senti: Taylored Expressions
Also: DI's, pearls.
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I was inspired by a sketch for this card, also made it CAS. I used a stamp/die set that was a magazine freebee from Practical Publications a long time ago. I haven't used it for ages and decided it needed some mileage.
I diecut the image three times, once in dark green for the stems & leaves, once in red for the strawberries, once in white for the flowers, then assembled it. I stamped & fussy cut the bee, painted it's wings with WoS.
Also: Copics, white pen, WoS
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This is monochrome and CAS. I don't usually work in this colour range, but the subject dictated (and I do love a latte). Envelope to match. Maybe for a man?
Also: DI's, versamark sepia to stamp.
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Stamped, masked & stencilled, paper-pieced, and hand coloured.
That's how I would like to learn to do housework - in a pretty dress with high heels and sitting down with my feet up! ... not going to happen any time soon.
Stars: drop-outs from a die
Stencil: Rosies
Also: Copics, PPaper, DI's, white gel pen, Stickles
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This is the whole collection of Scrap Bust cards, minus the first one I had made for a card swap and had mailed - which incidentally started the whole thing off!
Thank to all of you for your encouragements and comments along the way! You are amazing.
This is a seagull fold chosen by Dawn for our NZ cardswap. Wow, looks complicated but not. Lots of photos for this one. Feathers cut from vellum, the papers have soft sparkle. I kept the diecuts within the colour palette of the striped paper and used up various snippets. Lots of tutorials if you google seagull fold, also an upright version called Finch fold. Edit: before posting, I added another vellum feather at the bottom right of the front panel - but forgot to photograph it (sigh).
Feather die: Spellbinders
Little bird dies: Craft Creations
The beautiful papers: My Minds Eye
Punch: woodware
Stamps: unknown
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