Elegant Potted Lavender

You may have seen this card HERE from earlier today.

Well, I have to confess that I loved the image so much that I made a second card.

I have used the Potted Lavender digital stamp by A Day For Daisies to make a tall A5 CAS birthday card.  I opened the image panel on my Silhouette Studio design mat and sized it to fit on an A5 panel.  I added the sentiment then printed the image panel on a sheet of A5 X-Press It blending card.  I coloured the image with Copic markers then embellished with some score lines.  I adhered the image panel to an A5 card base using liquid adhesive.

I really like how the score lines add an elegant touch

... but they sure are difficult to photograph.

Click HERE or on the image below if you would like to learn more about my square card with striped corners or the Stripes With Team Lou challenge on the Southern Girls Challenge Blog

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*** INGREDIENTS ***
A Day For Daisies - digital stamp - Potted Lavender

X-Press It A5 Blending Card

Copic markers - pot - E11-13-15-17-18
Copic markers - foliage - G40-43-46-29
Copic markers - flowers - BV02-04-08
Momday Font - The Hungry JPEG

(I was super lucky to get this font as a freebie)
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the image panel to card base

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges:

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A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge - Challenge #94 – Anything Goes
A Gem Of A Challenge - Wk 12 Anything Goes
Allsorts Challenge Blog - Week 525 – Soft Pastels
Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog - Challenge #230 Anything Goes + A Sentiment
Colouring In Scrapland - June Challenge - Anything Goes or Watercolours
Crafting From The Heart - Challenge #246 – Anything Goes
Crafting With An Attitude - Challenge #52 – Anything Goes
Creatalicious Challenges - Challenge #165 – AG optional Spots and/or Stripes
Digi Choosday Craft Challenge - Wk 26 – Anything Goes
Inkspirational Challenges - Challenge #189 – Garden

Love To Scrap Challenge Blog - LTSCB #122 – No Rulz 3
(use anything from your stash)
Penny’s Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog - Challenge 436 – Anything Goes
Polkadoodles Craft Challenge - Wk 25 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp – Wednesday Challenge Blog - Simon Says: Anything Goes
Tuesday Throwdown - Challenge #434 – Keep It Simple
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes - Weeks #392-#393

Rabbits, ribbon & lace . . . oh my

It's time for another challenge with us at the

Crafty Gals Corner

This week we are letting our creative juices flow with
Challenge #148 - Lace and Ribbon

The sponsor for this challenge is:

Fabrika Fantasy

Prize: 3 digital images

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Today I have used the Easter Bunny digital stamp from Fabrika Fantasy,
one of our generous sponsors this week, to make an easel card.

Our challenge for this week is calling for ribbon and lace, so I had fun weaving black satin ribbon through the paper lace panel of my card.

I planned my card on my Silhouette Cameo design mat, starting with an ornate panel (Laced Topper, free cut file, details below) that I converted into an easel card.  I sized the digital image to fit inside the front panel and added a pretty green background using digital paper (details below).

I printed the image on X-Press It blending card, heat set then coloured with Copic markers.  I trimmed the panel down and matted with black cardstock.  I thought the black tied in well with the image, as it has quite solid lines.  I added some Wink Of Stella sparkle to the egg.

Next came the card base.  I cut the base, inner lacy mat, top lacy panel and top mat using my Silhouette Cameo.  I scored the base halfway along to make the top fold, then scored the in the 3rd "valley" of the design to make the "easel" fold.  I took the inner matting panel and trimmed off the top edge (just below the circles of the lacy pattern) and adhered it inside the card.

I tried several different black satin ribbons and ended up using a 3mm spool to weave through the circles of the lacy pattern for the top front panel.  As each corner ended with a circle, I used four lengths of ribbon, pulling the ends back and adhering them securely in place with liquid adhesive.  I adhered the matted image panel in place then decided that it needed some bling, so I added tiny rhinestones to the tips of the design of the lacy panel.  I used liquid adhesive to secure the panel in place on the matting layer, then adhered the bottom half of the panel to the bottom half of the card base (I applied liquid adhesive to the card base then aligned the front panel on top).

I trimmed layers for the sentiment panel and used my MISTI to stamp the sentiment (and really appreciated that I could repeat stamp it perfectly several times, as the textured cardstock really didn't want to be stamped).  I adhered the layers together and popped it in place with foam dots.
 Once all the pieces were in place I decided to add more bling, starting with a fancy black bling pattern to the Easter egg and finishing with black rhinestones to the circles of the inside matting layer.

Here are some more pics.
Click on the images if you want to see the detail in full screen view.

   

*** INGREDIENTS ***
Fabrika Fantasy - digital stamp - Easter Bunny

X-Press It A5 Blending Card

Sparkle N Sprinkle - digital - Watercolor Papers Purple & Pink
I used the "Splatter Green 3" paper as the background for the image
Copic markers - bunny fur - E30-31-33-35
Copic markers - inner ears - RV00 + R81-83-85 + E30
Copic markers - mouth - RV00 + E30
Copic markers - overalls - B91-93-95-97 + YR23-24 + Y35
Copic markers - flowers - Y13-15-17-35
Copic markers - leaves - YG67 + G46

black satin ribbon
black rhinestones
Wink Of Stella Clear Glitter Brush
Martha Stewart Scoreboard + Fiskars embossing stylus + cake of soap
Silhouette Cameo
Monica's Creative Room - FREE cut file - Framed Toppers 10b
MISTI
Memento Tuxedo Black ink
Fiskars - Simple Stick Repositionable Rubber Stamps - Holiday Hooplah
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers

Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Adhesive - to adhere the sentiment

foam dots - to adhere and pop the sentiment panel

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Sending a big Thank You to Fabrika Fantasy for supplying the digital stamp I used today and for being a sponsor for Challenge #148 - Lace and Ribbon with us at the Crafty Gals Corner.

    

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges (alphabetical order):

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2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Challenge #8 - Anything With A Critter Goes
Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 502 - Anything Goes
Digi Choosday Craft Challenge - Wk 44 - Anything Goes
Get Creative Challenges - Challenge #64 - Holidays
Morgan's ArtWorld - Challenge #22 - Anything Goes
Not Just Cards Challenge Blog - Anything Goes Challenge 11th Oct
Pammie's Inky Pinkies Challenges - PIP Challenge 1745 - Anything Goes
QKR Stampede - Challenge #268 - Angels or Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Challenge #317 - Card For A Child
Through The Craft Room Door - TTCRD Anything Goes for the week of 11-7-17

Southern Girls - Challenge #156 - Use A Die Cut with Team Lou

It's time for another challenge with us at the Southern Girls.

This fortnight Team Lou have created projects to inspire you for the new challenge

Challenge #156 - Use A Die Cut with Team Lou

Our awesome sponsors for this challenge are ...

Krafters Cart

KennyK

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Today I have used the fun "Elfie Selfie" digital stamp by KennyK Stamps, one of our generous sponsors this fortnight.

I placed the image panel on my Silhouette Studio mat and adjusted the film strip cut file to fit perfectly.  I cut the film strip out of black cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo.

I coloured the image panels with Copic markers, adding Stickles to the trims on Santa's hat and clothes, then smothered them with "Snow" glitter.

I die cut a bundle of alphas using my Sizzix Big Shot and Kaisercraft Uppercase Alphabet dies, so that I could make a variety of hashtag sentiments from #ELFIESELFIE and #HOHOHO to #SANTA and #SANTASELFIE 

The patterned paper panels are from the Kaisercraft Holly Jolly 6 1/2" paper pad, so I made my card bases 6 3/4" square to fit the sheets perfectly.  The size worked perfectly with the 1" alphas I used to make the hashtag sentiments too.

   

*** INGREDIENTS ***
KennyK Stamps - digital stamp - Elfie Selfie
X-Press It A4 Blending Card
Copic markers - skin / bodies - E50 E51 E01 E04 E93 E0000 E000 E00
Copic markers - eyes - B23 B26
Copic markers - hair - "0" C00 C0 C1 C3
Copic markers - hair - YR 24 YR27
Copic markers - hair - E30 E31
Copic markers - hair - E23 E25
Copic markers - clothes - R24 R27 G46
Copic markers - presents - Y06 Y08 YR07 YR09 B23 B26 BV02 BV04
Copic markers - background - B0000 B000 B00
Sizzix Big Shot
Kaisercraft - decorative dies - Alphabet Uppercase
Kaisercraft - 6 1/2" Paper Pad - Holly Jolly
Silhouette Cameo electronic cutting machine
Silhouette Design Store - cut file - Design ID #12558 - Film Strip by Jamie Koay
Frosted Lace Stickles - added to the trims on Santa's hat & outfit
WOW! - glitter - Snow - added on top of the Stickles to give a solid white finish
Martha Stewart Scoreboad -  to score the back panel to make the top fold
Helmar 450 Quick Dry adhesive - to adhere the layers
Helmar Professional Acid Free Glue - to adhere the top "fold"
Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue - to adhere the sentiment
and adhere the image panel to the film strip

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Sending a big Thank You to KennyK and Krafter's Cart for sponsoring
Challenge #156 - Use Die Cuts with Team Lou with us at the Southern Girls.

I hope I have inspired you to create something with die cuts and look forward to seeing your project shared in the challenge gallery.

Remember we are not just a card blog, we love to see scrapbook layouts, artjournal pages and all types of papercraft.

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I am going to enter my card in the following challenges (alphabetical order):

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AAA Cards - Challenge #86 - Diecuts

ABC Christmas Challenge - E, F and G are for?

"E is for Edge, F is for Family and G is for Girls"

My Christmas cards are filled with Family Fun, showing Santa with his Elf Family
A Snowflakes Promise - Challenge #38 - Anything Goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge - CHNC Challenge #325
- Anything Goes (Christmas) with optional theme "No Patterned Paper"
Lemon Shortbread Challenge Blog - Challenge #37 - Anything Goes
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge - Challenge #321 - Anything Goes
Pile It On - Challenge #128 - Humor and/or Plaid

The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up - Challenge #27 
- Anything Goes (Christmas) with optional theme "Christmas Angels"
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog - Simon Says: Layer It Up
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog - Simon Says: Use More Thank One Die Or Punch

The Cutie Pie Challenge Blog - Challenge #109 - Dies & Digis

... more embossing

I was super lucky and received two images for
the Crafty Gals Corner - Challenge #86 - Emboss It,
so I have two cards to share this week.

I have used the Cirque Digital Stamp from The Paper Shelter

and the Circus Tent Frame cut file by Megan Hardy Designs
from the Silhouette Design Store

I coloured her with Copic markers, fussy cut then went around the edges with a Versamark Memento Tuxedo Black dual tip marker.  This was my first time using this marker and it worked wonderfully, no bleeding and good coverage of all the white edges ... I'm asking myself why didn't I order one of these years ago?!?!?
Needless to say, I highly recommend one for every crafty stash now that I've used it.

I also recommend that Copic markers are opened well away from your work.
I am fairly new to the wonderful world of Copic colouring and some of my markers are super juicy, leaving little splatters each time the caps are removed.
Splatters on your image are a real nuisance, especially if they land after an area has been coloured.  Even the Colourless Blender has its limitations.

I dry embossed the lines in the background, trying to make her look like she has the spotlight shining on this cute little ringmaster.  Or should I say ringmistress?

I heat embossed the die cut "celebrate" sentiment.  ... it was a fiddly job, but well worth it.  I die cut the sentiment, took each letter and covered them with Versamark Ink using the brush tip of the pen, smothered them with clear embossing powder then carefully placed them in the negative piece from the original die cutting.  I placed a strip of Washi Tape along the back, so that the letters stayed securely in place for when I zapped them with the heat gun.  It was my first time trying this technique and it worked a treat, not one letter went flying.

*** INGREDIENTS ***

The Paper Shelter - Cirque Digital Stamp
X-Press It Blending Card - A5

Silhouette Design Store - Circus Tent Frame by Megan Hardy Designs

Silhouette Cameo

Copic markers - skin - E50 E51 E53
Copic markers - cheeks - R01 R02

Copic markers - lips - R56R85
Copic marker- eye shadow - B24

Copic markers - hair - E29 E31 E33 E35 E37
Copic marker - clothes - R17 R27 Y32 Y35 Y38
Copic markers - shoes - C7 100 black
Copic markers - shorts and trims - 100 black

Copic markers - feather - B23 B24 B26 B29
Copic markers - bows - B29 B26
Copic markers - staff - C3 C5 C7
Copic markers - gaps - Y32 and tip-to-tip touch of Y35
(between right shoulder & hair, gap under left arm)
Versamark Memento Tuxedo Black Dual Tip Marker

American CraftsTextured Cardstock - 100 sheet value pack
Martha Stewart Scoreboard
Paper Smooches - Birthday Words Dies
Versamark Pen

WOW! Embossing Powder - Clear Gloss Super Fine

American Crafts - Zap! Embossing Heat Gun

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Sending a big Thank You to The Paper Shelter for supplying the digital stamp I used today and for being a sponsor for Challenge #86 with the Crafty Gals Corner.

  

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I'm going to enter my card in the following challenge
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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog
Simon Says: It's Hip To Be Square
my little Ringmistress is in the spotlight of the square circus frame
 
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