Beautiful Life

 

This is a card made from an ancient set of ephemera (just unearthed in a cleanup, likely 15-20 years old).  Lovely paper strips, sentiments and butterflies.   About time I used it - the glue had evaporated off the back!  But isn't it pretty?  Snippety strips put together into a background panel.

It was in an unmarked cellophane pocket so is likely to be a magazine freebee.  There were three 5 x 5" sheets.  The hearts are drop-outs from a die, sentiment popped up on on foam tape, organdy ribbon.

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Ferny Frond - Koru

 

Inspired by a "follow my lead" challenge.

Diecut koru from previously smooshed card, background slightly splattered using watercolour paints.

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Citrus Cheers

 

I love working with analogous colours and citrus is perfect.  I used a stencil and Distress Inks, with interference gold and black splatter. The drink is Memory Box cut from white sparkle card.  The lime is inked and has Opal Dust for the juicy sparkle.  The sentiment is cut from pearlescent card and stacked with black for a shadow.  

The temperature here is about 27 deg C and I'd like a cool drink right about now!

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UR Amazing

 

Most families have someone who is amazing at some time in their life.  This is for that person.

I stamped & diecut the image & sentiment, coloured with Copics.  Stencilled background with DI's, black paint splatter.  Image & senti popped up on foam tape.  Highlights in white pen.

Stamps:      

Stencil: Rosie's Studio

Also: Copics, DI's, white pen

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Floral Spinner

 

Not my usual style, but now and then I like to get out of the box.  This is way outside my box.

The PPaper is double sided so I used it for the flowers as they look the same when they spin. I also used it as a panel behind the flower topper. The leafy bits were diecut from snippets of leftover card from the bitz box on my desk.  Leaves and flower edges softly inked.  I have made this fold a couple of times just because it's fun to make.

Oval dies: Spellbinders 

Flower Die: unknown

Leafy dies: 

Sentiment:

Also: DI's, dental floss, gems

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Congratulations Driver

 

A grandson has just got his driver licence ... he is so happy.  They live out in the country, and he has school and activities in town, so it means a bit more freedom for parents too!  There is no bus service where they live.  The whole card is designed around where they live in green fields with a picket fence.

A green base card, green DI stamped sentiment, Tim Holtz diecut fence, car stamped (magazine freebee) onto snippet of smooshed card, popped up on foam tape.  Copics to finish.  Gold pen handwritten Brmm brmm.

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Pinky Thanks

 

Very pink; not my usual colour choice at all.  The image (an oldie but a goodie woodie) is out of my Bitz box and is from Penny Black, coloured with watercolour paints (cheap kids set).  Background pinprick panel is MFT.  Sentiment in pink and grey, stacked.  All popped up on foam, ribbon to tie it all together!

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Birthday Disgrace

 

This is one of the great images for seniors from Art Impressions.  Respectful but fun!

The p.paper is a vintage map (appropriate huh?) all held together with metallic studs and belt.  Panel is diecut and stamped, coloured with Copics.

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Birthday Star

 

I always have a stack of birthday cards for when I need them, counting our kids and grandkids only that would be 15.

The background is stamped with typed text in the same colour as the card.  It hardly shows in the photograph but does IRL.  The swirls are the drops outs/snippets from a diecut, reassembled in the same pattern,  and inked in from the edge.  The sentiment is diecut from glittercard and stacked, the little star cut from a fragment of dropout from the sentiment and stacked.  So mainly made from snippets.  I get a great deal of satisfaction in finding ways to use stuff you'd normally throw away.

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Lucky Green

 

A lot of Kiwis are of Irish ancestry, and we have a lot of Irish pubs who have a big party at this time of year.  I have Irish matrilinealy and patrilinealy (as well as french, english and scottish). 

I used an EF for the background, splattered with Glimmer Mist green.  Shamrocks stamped, heat embossed, painted and fussy cut.  The diecut sentiment (stacked) is painted with pearlised watercolours.

Shamrock stamp: Joanna Sheen    

EF: Darice

Die word

Also: Glimmermist, pearlised watercolours

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Leafy Green Hello

 

A bit of spring feeling with fresh leafy greens.  The diecut background is lightly brushed with green DI and cut to fit panels.  The leaves are diecut from smooshed glossy card, sentiment diecut from sparkly card.  Random clear gems.

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Ferny Thanks

 

Cool green ferns p.Paper showcased in a dark green stitched frame die with an offset cream frame underneath.  Word diecut "thanks"  stacked and top layer painted with pearlescent watercolour gold.  Gold pearls.  Set on a cream card base.  

I find monochromatic cards more difficult to make because they can end up quite flat looking and need a bit of something to set them off like metallics ...

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Shamrock Cheers

 

Shamrock time of year again.  It just so happens that it's also our daughters wedding anniversary, so that's a "cheers" occasion.

I stamped and gold heat embossed the shamrocks (a very old rubber stamp), fussy cut and painted with pearlised watercolour paints.  Diecut circle  and sentiment, I like how the green shows up through the pinholes in the die.  I like CAS.

Shamrocks stamp: Joanna Sheen

Circle die: Sizzix

Sentiment: Poppy Stamps

Also: cheap pearlised paints ($2 shop)

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