vintage wedding

Oh its been such a long time since i used this stamp and indeed its been such a long time too since ive indulged in such a fancy card.

I seemed to spend most of my crafting time designing for splodgeaway, and because their masks are so detailed you dont need to use an awful lot of embelishments on your cards, but now ive given up my design team position its back to very pretty over embellished cards, its was great letting myself go adding more and more to this card.

The stamp is lili of the valley, coloured with distress inks, lots of flowers from wild orchid crafts the papers are October Afternoon, lots of diamond stickles have been added for a little bling. All the blending on the papers were acheived using the amazing SplodgeAway mat. 

The distress inks ive used are:
waethered wood. black soot, broken china, walnut stain, tattered rose, fired brick and mowed lawn.

Sunset with Distress Inks

It was time to get out my brayer as its been a while since i used it, because of the lovely pink shade in the new summer limited edition distress inks i had the idea to create a sunset scene, the colours of distress i used for the sky were

Picked Raspberry

Spiced Marmalade

for the grass i used a mix of

Shabby Shutters

Mowed Lawn

Scattered straw

The stamps ive used are all from an inkadinkadoo set, a hobbycraft set and artist impressions set ive stamped with versafine black.

The pearls are from wild orchid crafts courtesy of Sue Jimson

Making backgrounds

Ive been using my splodgeAway mat to make some backgrounds for cards, i inked up some stamps with versamark and then embossed with white embossing powder, i then painted the flowers with distres inks and also added a few drops from the reinkers to the white space, i then spritzed with water before dabbing and drying, i do quite like the effect, then i over stamped with a small inkadinkadoo butterfly stamp, a few pearls, stickles and layers of bazzill later and viola a card was created!

Masking fluid and inks

Its the first time I've used masking fluid, i always dismissed it as unnecessary as i could always cut a mask out of a stamp if i wanted to mask something out, but it has a much better use than that.

After seeing a link on split coast stampers about using masking fluid i wanted to give it a go too.

The results were amazing i love the different layers of colours achieved, and the thrill of rubbing away the masking fluid to see what patterns you finished with.

Ive used a mix of chalk ins, adirondacks and distress inks, the wooden embellishments on the nature card are by kars available from Papermaze, they are raw wood ready for you to finish as you wish, i have used acrylic paints. Sue Jimson if your seeing this, ive got some for you too :)

The white hearts on the Love card and the faux stitching on the nature card were achieved by using a Tim holtz white distress pen.

I know i will be using this technique a lot in the future, i just need to invest in some large fauna and flora stamps.

UP, UP and Away

Wow I can’t believe splodgeAway is now into its 4th week, I hope you’re enjoying your weekly creativity, I love seeing everyone’s different takes on the SplodgeAway products. This week I’m using the Balloon and cogs mask.

I started by taking a piece of SplodgeAway easy ink card and placed the balloon mask on top , using tattered rose distress ink I blended ink over the top of the card, and removed the mask. Next place a random selection of the cogs around the edge and use black soot over the top and remove the mask. Then I randomly stamped a small clock image around the edge. I tore the bottom edge of the card and used a distress tool to distress all 4 sides of the card. Using black soot ink I then blended it around all 4 sides and along the torn edge, this gave it an aged effect.

Then came the card assembly taking an A5 card I used a matt of peach card and then a piece of Webster’s pages in the bottom corner, using a strong glue I adhered the balloon piece on top and peeled back the top corner, using glossy accents I covered the cogs and outlined the balloon the sprinkles a little black glitter over it, then everything was edged in black stickles, I was trying to create an image of peeling wall paper, the idea I had in my head was a very old building being redecorated and as you peel away the layers you have different generations of memories. I love this mask it is by far my favourite up to now.

And just because i do love this mask i made another card this time using websters pages and a crafty individuals stamp.

Make sure to stop by the SplodgeAway blog and see what else the design team have been up to.

I believe in fairies

I love Thursdays as thats the LOTV challenge day, this week was a sketch to follow. I made this  this morning before i went to work and will put it on ebay later as i have a surplus of cards and need to disperse of some.

 I have used a combination of MME, websters pages and Basic grey papers, they have all been edged in walnut stain distress ink and stickles, ive coloured the image with promarkers, the twill bow was also inked in walnut stain. Ive framed the image with a string of mini pearls and edged with distress stickles. the flowers are wild orchid crafts, the mini cameos were from ebay the sentiment stamp is also LOTV. Because the weather is so grey and wet ive struggled to get a decent photo i must of taken about 40 and i only got 2 out of them that were any good, i hate this dull wet weather.
Im also entering this into I love promarkers challenge, the theme is flowers.

                                           

Im working on Saturday, but im hoping for a nice night out with hubby and friends on saturday night, i cant remember the last time i had a night out things have just been too hectic the last few months. Sunday ive got no work and can play in my craft room and get inky and messy, thats if things go to plan. Have a nice weekend everyone x

lots of sparkle

I had a request for a large easel christening card, with only one days notice so i used my trusty LOTV image as i didnt have time to search through stamps for an alternative image. i worked on it until almost 11.00pm (and i had an early start at work the next morning) but it was all worth it when i was well received, i took the photos last night when i had finished as i didnt have time to wait until daylight, you always get a better sparkle at night but lots of shadows, during the day you get a crisp image but loose the sparkle. The picture was taken on the iPhone so its captured the sparkle but the image isnt as good quality as i prefer.

The papers are by first edition and have been distressed with walnut stain then edged in gold stickles, the image was coloured with distress inks, i will link it with some challenges when ive had a browse to see where it will fit.

Im linking it to Simon says stamp bit o green

Crazy for challenges - green
Im not sure ill have a card for to show you tomorrow as ive got an early start again in the morning so i may have an early night so that means no crafting :(

Next week there are some new release stamps at Lili of the valley so i had better save some of my pennies so i dont miss out on them

Happy Mothers Day

wishing all you mams (moms, Mums) out there a very happy mothers day. I was so busy making everyone elses mam a mothers day card that i only got around to making my mam one last night.
Again i used the sweet tilda with parasol and made an 8 x8 easel card i distressed it, glittered it used MME papers as well as the freebie websters papges, i used rafia for the bow this was a bargain from suzicrafts, the pack contained 2 pieces of material hessian, rafia, magic mesh type etc in 2 different colours for only 75p needless to say i bought a few diffrent ones. the image was coloured with distress inks.
Im going to be back later to link it up with a few challenges.

here are the challenges im entering this week

simon says stamp - bit o' green
cute card Thursday- 4th birthday celebration
Just Magnolia - green
Today im planning on visiting my mam (i visit her every day so thats nothing different) get a few bits and bobs from the shop then relax and craft, Ashleigh bought me a craft magazine as part of my mothers day pressent only it was one i already had but i was still over the moon as it was the one with the free websters pages and the rate im using them up i will be into the 2nd pad in no time.

happy Anniversary

Next week is my mother and father in laws anniversary so i set to work on their card, i used one of my favourite lily of the valley images and stamped it on craft card stock then coloured it with distress inks. The paper is K&Co. all of the flourishes, hearts and leaves were cut from the cricut give a hoot cart. flowers are wild orchid crafts, the sentiment is pink gem designs, heart pearls are an eBay purchase and stickles to finish.

Im entering this card in the simon says stamp challenge - anything goes

If you take a look on YouTube here you will see a whole host of tutorials on the new splodge away craft mat, its amazing and worth a look.

Ive had a busy week and today i am on an early shift 7 till 1 (so i scheduled this post as i wasn't getting up before 6am just to do my daily post Lol) tomorrow im going to chill and relax (after ive caught up with the housework) that will leave my evening to be able to tie up a few loose ends in my secret work ( i will spill the beans when i can) and then make a few cards just for fun instead of for commissions.