Fussy cutting fun!

Good Morning!

For my official Craft Adda post today, I have a card which involves quite a lot of fussy cutting..that is cutting around a stamped image.

I stamped images from the Lawn Fawn Critters on the Savannah Stamp set and colored them using Camel watercolors. I then cut around the images and popped them up on a watercoloured panel with 3D foam tape.

I finished the card with the sentiment from Lawn Fawn.

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Have a great day!

Its a big deal!

Hi! I have a card today for the Paper Smooches Sparks Anything goes (wk5) challenge as well as the Simply Less is More 'Celebration' challenge, in honour of their 200th challenge.

The stamps I've used are from the Paper Smooches 'Think Fast' stamp set and for the background, the Hero Arts 'Its your day' stamp set.

I stamped the images on white card stock using Memento inks, coloured them with watercolours and then fussy cut them. I then popped them with some 3D foam tape. 

I cut the hexagon using Spellbinders nestabilities.

I like that this is a fun card that can lend itself to more than one occasion!

What do you think?

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Enjoy your evening!

Embossing with dies-2

Happy Sunday! Hope your day has been restful and you are ready to take on the week ahead!

Today, I have a card for the Addicted to CAS codeword DOTS challenge.

I wrote a post a few days ago about embossing with dies and this card is one more with the same technique. 

The die is from Cottage Cutz and I wish I was ble to use it for die cutting as successfully as I do for embossing!

I love the soft effect it creates. 

I used watercolours to paint around the embossing and stamped over the panel with a little stamp from the Dotty Daisy stamp set from Stampendous.

The greeting is a die cut made with Penny black creative dies.

I am planning to make these cards in a series of colours for a friend…will keep you posted!

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Good Night!

Embossing with Spellbinder dies

 Ever been frustrated with dies that don't cut properly no matter what you do?!! Or, die cuts that just won't come out of the die without tearing?!

These butterfly dies drove me to my wits' end and I was ready to give up and destash them!
Then I remembered a technique from Online Card Classes which taught us to emboss using dies and then water colour the image.

So here I have two cards that I have made with panels embossed with the troublesome butterfly die from Spellbinders Shapeabilities! It is so easy to do and so beautiful !

For the first card, I did a light watercolour wash around the butterflies in grey, popped on some gemstones and mounted the panel onto a silver card base.
simple and elegant.

For the second card, I water coloured the embossed area as well as around it and again added gemstones and popped it onto a kraft card base.

I am trying these days to make cards without sentiments…just for versatility.

I am also trying to change my style of photographing..what do you think?

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Have a great day!

Super sized hug

I have a tag today which I made for the CASology Cue card EAT challenge.

The stamp set is from Paper Smooches and the tag was cut using an old circular tag die…don't remember the name..oops!

I stamped and coloured the sandwich with Versafine Onyx black ink and Camel watercolours, before fussy cutting and popping up with 3D foam tape.

Fun, don't you think?

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Have a nice day!

Feather shaker card

I've made a card for the Simon Says Stamp Flicker challenge #6 today, which requires the use of any Simon Says Stamp die.
I just love the feather die from SSS and I came across this video by Jennifer Mcguire  making shaker cards so I decided to incorporate this technique for the challenge.

For the background, I clear embossed a stamp from Penny black and then water coloured the background (one of my favourite techniques that I learned on Online Card Classes). After it dried, I ironed off the embossing so I was left with this gorgeously soft background!

I then die cut the feathers from the panel as well from a sheet of orange fun foam.

I then sandwiched the sequins between the water coloured panel, an OHP sheet and the fun foam before adhering to the card.

The sentiment is from  the Hero Arts 'You're a rainbow OWN' stamp set.

I'm quite proud of this card…what do you think?!!!!

I am also submitting this card for the 'Runway Inspired challenge' #72.

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Have a nice evening!

Molded clay rose from Craft Adda

Hi all!
Today I have a card I made with a molded clay rose that was made by and generously gifted to me by Khyati Kothari of Craft Adda.

I combined it with the design block stamp from Hero Arts, ribbon and self-adhesive gemstones.

Pretty isn't it?

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Enjoy your day!