Elephant themed cards

Hey!
I made these fun elephant themed cards a few days ago on order….

This cute little elephant is a cut using a cuttlebug die. The paper I used is a sheet of glossy photo paper which I coloured using wet wipes and photo inks. To give it added dimension, I popped up the elephant using a technique that Jennifer Mcguire demonstrated in this video recently. 

The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp and the card stock is cut using simon Says stamp stitched squares dies.

This adorable elephant is a stamp from Kaisercraft which I fussy cut and to which I added a googly eye for fun. the flower stamp is from Stampendous.

This background stamp used here  is from Penny Black.  I inked up with Memento inks and spritzed with water  before stamping onto the card stock. the elephant die is from Cuttlebug, which I coloured using Memento London fog ink. The got the idea of creating a vellum bubble from this video by Jennifer Mcguire. The sentiment is a peel off sticker from Anita's stickers.

Hope you enjoyed these cards as much as I enjoyed making them.

I am submitting the first card for the

simon Says Stamp 'in the middle' Mondaychallenge.

Thanks for stopping by…

Have a great day!

Distress Mask

Hey there!

Today I am playing the Addicted to CAS code "Distress" challenge.

To make this card, I die cut a circle in the centre of a square piece of card stock  and used it as a mask to ink in some distress ink (Worn lipstick and Victorian Velvet from tim Holtz) in the centre of my card topper.

I then added a stamped and fussy cuts rose (from Stampin'UP) which I water coloured using the same distress inks. 

The other stamps I have used are from Inkadinkado and Studio G.

To create some interest, I coloured the edges of the card with the same distress inks mentioned above and placed the card topper at an angle.

I learnt this technique from Jennifer Mcguire. I couldn't find the specific link, but have linked to her her blog.

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Have a great evening!

Valentine week- Day 4

Today I have a card that is as Valentiney as you can get!!!! 

Falling pink hearts and a real mushy sentiment!

The hearts are from Inkadinkado and the sentiment from Studio G. 

I used  Memento inks…Rosebud, Lilac posies and Angel pink. 

I followed Jennifer Mcguire's idea of making shade cards for my inks and this helped me choose the colours I wanted for this card.

While I took the idea from her video, I decided to stamp my colours using a solid stamp on blank visiting cards. I have then stored them in a visiting card album, arranged according to colour.

I realised I had forgotten how many inks I had!!!

I am submitting this card fort the CASology challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Good night!

Mint cupcake and macarons!

My mojo has gone for a walk and is taking its time coming back!!!
I am trying to cope by making tags!(among other things!)
They are smaller projects which seem less daunting!

So, I made this tag today for the "Less is More" Chocolate and Mint challenge.

The tag was cut using Spellbinders nest abilities. The Chocolate cupcake wrapper was cut from a paper I downloaded from Sandra's blog 'MeinLilaPark'. It was a free DIY print.

Perfect for this project I thought!!
As I did not have mint coloured paper, I cut out the 'cake' from white paper, covered it with versa mark and heat embossed it with mint embossing powder.
The entire cupcake and rose bud etc is cut using the Scrapping Cottage Cottage Cutz 'Stacked candies' die.
The sentiment is from Kaisercraft and the background is from Hero Arts 'Designblocks'.
I used chocolate coloured Rafia and mint coloured bakers twine to finish the tag.
Fun, isn't it?!

Oh dear...I just realised I have used colours other than the specified chocolate and mint.

So, I made another card for the same challenge...

For this card, I heat embossed the macarons (from the Avery  Elle 'bonjour' stamp set.)with mint embossing powder. I coloured it in with brown water colour and stamped the sentiment from Hero Arts (Be happy today) stamp set with Rich cocoa ink from Memento. The paper is the same I used above and for the mint coloured strip, I used a technique which I learnt from the awesome Jennifer Mcguire...to heat emboss a piece of paper with the required colour and then cut a strip from it. 

I am so happy with this card!!!!!

Am also entering the tag for the Case Study challenge.

Thanks for stopping by...
Have a good evening!