by Barbara | May 4, 2018 | 3D projects, Birthday cards, Cards
This morning I watched a video tutorial of an open stepper card, which prompted me to ‘have a go’. The tutorial was in inches, but I prefer to use cm’s and although some of the measurements were converted, not all of them were. For starters the card base was not a half A4, so as I don’t like wasting little bits from the edges, I have adapted it to metric, thus using half an UK A4 sheet to make it.
And this is the result!
I used Thick whisper white for the card base as this is nice and sturdy, and the discontinued (from the end of May) Elegant Eggplant card stock and ink. The black and white DSP (Designer Series Paper) is from The Petal Passion series (also discontinued from end of May).
The Yellow flowers are die cut in Daffodil Delight with Garden Green stems, both from the Bouquet Bunch Framelits and the sentiment and stamped flowers are from the Beautiful Bouquet Stampset. The ovals are die cut, but in this instance not with Stampin’ Up! product (as I have yet to buy them).
Bank Holiday Mondays Coffee and a Card will involve making this card. If you fancy coming along, then please do…. The Mallard, Westwood Lakes, Boston UK! (the original Boston!).
Thanks to Jan B Cards for the idea.
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by Barbara | Apr 16, 2018 | Birthday cards, Cards
A lovely crafty morning at The Mallard, Westwood Lakes. The sun was shining, no coat needed and 3 lovely ladies for company.
For our first card we used ‘Flying Home’ stamp set from the Spring/Summer 2018 catalogue (only available til end of May).
We stamped in memento black onto whisper white card stock and then used blender pens with ink pads to colour the card. I used some of the colours that are retiring this year….wild wasabi, rose red, perfect plum, pink pirouette and chocolate chip. You can get lighter shades using this technique by picking up smaller amounts of ink and colouring on scrap paper until the ink has dispersed a little.
After colouring, we used some (very) old rose red ribbon across the front, and then mounted it onto some rose red cardstock.
The sentiment was done using the fabulous stamparatus….available from June, with another discontinued set Endless Birthday Wishes and this was stamped directly onto the card front, before mounting the rose red card on some dimensionals.
Our second card used Touches of Texture stamp set…a very versatile set in my opinion, with the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Sentiments.
A textured back ground was stamped in Crumb Cake ink onto the crumb cake card base.
The flower stem was stamped in Wild Wasabi, the 2 step flower in marina mist, the splattered background again in crumb cake and the bee in archival black, all onto a whisper white background.
After attaching this to the card, a strip of Burlap ribbon was added below the picture, a sentiment was stamped in marina mist and placed on top of the burlap with dimensionals.
For finishing touches a gold faceted gem was placed in the middle of the flower
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