Birthday Brights

I am taking a while to get this new blog up and running – my brain struggles with all the techie stuff. So please feel free to contact me to point out errors or suggest improvements. I appreciate all the help I can get.

As June is my Birthday month, and this year its a big one, I plan to bring you a series of Birthday cards using some of the new items in the new catalogue and also using some of the sets that have carried over.

Anyway I wanted to show you this card I came up with the other day when it was raining and grey outside. I wanted something to brighten my day up so spent my time crafting in bright colours.

The base card is in basic black and is 15cm x 15cm once folded. I added a layer of whisper white stamped with basic black using my very favourite touches of texture stamp set. The squares of whisper white are 5cm and are stamped using the texture background stamp in the colour that they are matted on to.

 The colours I have used for the 5.4 cm square mats are Lemon Lime Twist, Melon Mambo, Pacific Point and Crushed Curry.

The Greeting is from the beautiful Label Me Pretty stamp set and punched out with the Pretty Label Punch. I have punched out in Pumpkin Pie and cut that in half to make a backing for my greeting. I have then adhered that with dimensionals.

I hope you agree this is very simple to make yet very effective.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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One Colour Stamping

I was invited to a ladies craft club that meet about an hour from my hometown. These ladies have way more crafting experience than me but I was told that some of them hadn’t stamped before. I was unsure what to demonstrate so I thought use a stamp set that I love and one colour of ink and just keep it to a single layer stamped card.

Here is what I came up with – a very effective card I think

one colour stamping

The back ground is stamped using the lace stamp from Touches of Texture. I only inked the stamp once and stamped with it four times – that is how I achieved the different shades going from light to dark. I then stamped the flowers and stems and added a sentiment.

I stamped onto a piece of whisper white 10.1 cm x 14.4 cm then stuck that on to the base card with Snail. The base card was made using a sheet Rose Red card cut in half long ways at 10.5 cm then folded in half to make a tent style card.

This is a great card for introducing stamping to new people and it can easily be stepped up in many ways.

 

 

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