Meandering Meadows to brighten a dull dreary day

 

Hey Crafty Friends welcome to the October Totally Techniques blog hop. We are sharing the Bordered Sentiment technique.  It's very simple. All you need to do is create a mask across your design layer and then stamp above and below or if you do it vertically to the left and the right. 

For my mask I used some masking paper and first stamped the wheel barrow above the mask.  I adjusted my mask to then stamp below it allowing the mask to stop any part of the stamp image I didn't want to show.  If you look carefully you'll see I used the wheelbarrow stamp upside down to just stamp the flowers on my card.  Both images were stamped with Tuxedo Black Memento ink and coloured with alcohol markers.

I used a strip of white card to go over the area originally masked.  I didn't quite get my initial wheelbarrow stamp to drive right on the line of this piece so stamped the wheels and cut the card to make the partial image connect with the full wheelbarrow.  A mishap recovered.   I finished by stamping my sentiment which is part of a new online exclusive stamp set and suite of products launching on 7 November called Meandering Meadows.  

I added a matt layer of Lemon Lime Twist card and some gold brushed dragonflies which are in this new suite and some gold thread to highlight the sentiment add on piece ie border it. 

It's been a busy week here with lots of local flooding. Thankfully we only had a small issue which pumped out quickly and is drying, but our thoughts are with those more badly hit.  

Take care all and keep stamping.  

Zoe x

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Lemon Lime Twist card

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Gold and Silver trim

More Wishes to celebrate the season

 I recently saw someone stamp Happy several times and add birthday for a fun trendy birthday card and thought I would try similar with a festive, non traditional handmade Christmas card.  

I used a stamp positioned to stamp the Christmas alternately with pink and purple along with a sprig of holly from the Sending Cheer stamp set.  I used rhinestones for the berries because I love bling and die cut the Happy from silver foil card.  TOP TIP add double sided adhesive sheet to your piece of foil card before die cutting as it makes it much easier to adhere to your project and removes sticky smudge risk on the foil. 

I matted my stamped layer on to some patterned paper (DSP) before adding to my base card, and a simple quick design was made.  My customers have enjoyed making this card at the Christmas Card Buffet sessions also as they love the speed but the wow factor.  It would look great in traditional festive colours too don't you think? 

Keep dry all, it's raining all day here and one of those dirty days.  My thoughts are with customers and local folk who have been flooded recently.  We got off lightly so are very grateful.  I hope everyone is able to keep as dry as possible. 

Take card and keep crafting it is good for the soul. 

Hugs Zoe x

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Graduation Cards

Graduation for our gorgeous girl was a long wait.  Covid meant it was postponed for two years including two cancellations. However we got there and it was such a special day.  We are like all parents so proud of Liv and her achievements.  She has now flown the nest of home and is loving her job.  Naturally as a card maker I couldn't let the day go without a special handmade graduation card which I can now share.  I cased and adapted a card I spotted in a demonstrator email from Stampin' Up!

Proud mum and of course Dad couldn't resist a try of the hat as he was already working by the time his graduation happened and so missed out.  He even admitted he was sad now not to have been able to go all those years ago. So make sure you go to yours if you have a great achievement like this to celebrate.

The card itself has tone on tone stamping on the background paper and then a fussy cut flower from the same paper pack  is adhered to a Stylish Shapes circle die.  The fussy cutting with these gorgeous printed flowers isn't difficult and you can of course choose how far you want to go with cutting out every little piece. Adding to a white background disguises some of the not so easy to cut out parts and saves you the time.  Finishing touches include some basic pearls and a double bow of white bakers twine.  

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Happy days and now to create happy scrapbook memories of our day too. 

Keep safe and keep stamping

Zoe x

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You might have just left Nina's blog. Isn't her share great!  It is now allowed to say Christmas I think now we've past Bonfire Night and so time to start making your cards and other festive paper craft items if you haven't like me been doing them all year.  

Today I'm sharing a card using the very popular Peaceful Place DSP (patterned paper) and a simple addition of a sentiment, ribbon and partially fussy cut holly sprig from the Happy Holly-days stamp set.

I used a Real Red card for a square card base and added a matt layer of black card before adding my DSP layer with the ribbon fastened behind this layer.  

I stamped the sentiment and holly sprig on the same piece of white card and then used my Stampin' trimmer to remove excess white around the sentiment and keep the holly attached to the sentiment.  I used that good old punch/die called scissors to remove most of the white around the holly, but left it attached to the sentiment. 

Below I've  adapted the ribbon usage by just looping it across the back of my sentiment, used a banner punch to decorate one end and added a few rhinestones to coordinate with the silver embossed background DSP.  This paper is so beautiful and one sheet makes 4 good sized square cards, you just have to cut it which I know for some is very challenging as you prefer to stroke it, but at least this way just about the whole sheet is used and minimal wastage.  Even the thin strips cut off can be used for another card or too as borders.  

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Peaceful Place DSP

Happy Holly-days stamp set

Gift Packaging idea using Stampin' Up! set Happy Holly-days

 

So can you spot my error in my rush to get this cute sour cream gift packaging idea shared with you for November's Moving Along with the Times challenge?

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To make the sour cream container I stamped tone on tone onto red card and then added tear and tape to three  connected sides of the card.  Roll the card into a tube and adhere with one side of the tear and tape.  Then peel off the backing on one other side and gently squeeze the sides together.  Do the same to the other end of the tube, but squeeze the sides in the opposite direction to the other end.  Of course one important thing to remember is to add your gift before you seal the second end.  

I decorated my container with DSP from the host pack Pattern Play, die cut circles and some stamped and fussy cut holly from the Happy Holly-days stamp set which I coloured with Stampin' Blends alcohol markers.  The card coordinates and the sentiment is not actually upside down, just photographed in haste.  As a wise old man said to me as a young child ''More haste less speed!"

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Keep stamping and keep safe 

Zoe x

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Layering Stencils for different inking technique

Hi there friends and happy weekend especially for those of you in the UK as it is a long weekend here. Tell me if you live elsewhere if you have Monday as a holiday too. 

At Totally Techniques this month we are sharing double stencilling. I used shades of green and created a circle stencil using a piece of vellum and a circle die and also used one of the Basic Patterns masks for my other layer of stencilling.  

I began with embossing the flower onto white card using clear embossing powder.  I then used a blending brush  ( shh they are back in stock if you want some add a gentle layer of Soft Succulent ink before moving on to add more  ink using the spotty stencil and a blending brush  and then over inked using the circle stencil I created.  

I left the circle stencil in place to add the text stamp in Evening Evergreen ink to make it appear to only be on the circle.  I added some splatter stamping and also some gilded leafing using versamark and heat and stick powder with a heat tool.  

The finishing touch was to add second and third generation stamping of the small flowers and love stamp before adding a stamped die cut tag and a fussy cust stamped flower.  The flower I stamped three times and cut along different petal edges to lift each one differently and add dimension.   

 All the stamps are part of the Quiet Meadow stamp set which is part of the bundle including the Meadow dies.  The shades of green are both from the new 2021 - 2023 in colours and you can see more the dies in use on my earlier stamping scene post.

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Bouquet of Blooms for MAWTT Challenge

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For my design team card I chose to use this fabulous die set called Many Layered Blossoms.  The dies are part of a bundle called Blossoms in Bloom and coordinate with a stamp set called Blossoms in Bloom too.  I used double sided adhesive sheets to die cut the outside layer and added Gilded Leafing once I had stuck the outside 'rim' to the navy layer.  This allowed me to then remove the other layer of backing to add the gold. The whole bloom was then stuck to a white card base. 

I used blending brushes to add colour to the flowers and leaves and also a marker pen to add some splatters for a little more detail.  

My sentiment is white heat embossed and is from the same stamp set.  It's a simple but effective card and I just love the gold.  

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Keep safe and keep stamping. 

Hugs Zoe x

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Beautiful Autumn Leaves, but what colour?

I've had a great week so far including a fun online card club class and team craft and chat.  For both I made these cards sharing simple layouts adding simple stamping and simple embellishments to make them even more effective. For the team event I asked my team members to cut their own choice of colour combos to a certain recipe of sizes and use a stamp set and inks to coordinate.  It was awesome to see how different the designs were by just changing the colours and stamps.  Of course there were some other variations as folk added their own twists which is always fun too as you get lots of ideas.  

Using the Beautiful Autumn stamp set and coordinating punches I went for a twist on colour from the usual autumn colours and used Rococo Rose, Blackberry Bliss and Rich Razzleberry or as one of my ladies calls it 'Razzle Dazzle' .  Mixing strips of card and stamping then cutting strips you can use up off cuts of card as well as create some fun colour block back grounds.  

On this one I used Versamark ink to stamp a tone on tone background and create a subtle addition of stamping.  The Cinnamon Cider ribbon also added a splash of colour to highlight the sentiment and I love the copper Star Designer Elements for a touch of lux.  Add in some embossing of matt layers and there's lots of interesting texture. 

On the last card I used all the inks to stamp different elements of the set and used two card colours for the acorn using just a partial punch of the whole acorn to add the cup in a different colour.  The ribbon edging also adds more detail along the bottom of the sentiment and is a good way to use odd ends cut from over exuberant bows.  

 I'm also grateful to my hubby for the wood disks that I'm using for some photos at the moment which work so well with this stamp set. 

Here are a couple of the team pictures.  Remember they didn't know what they would be doing with the bits of cut card and their chosen set, but I love how theirs turned out and challenge you to try these layouts with your choice of colour and stamps. 

Linda used Dove of Hope stamp set with Highland Heather, Pool Party and Blackberry Bliss.

Lauren used Peace and Joy stamp set with Petal Pink, Just Jade and Cinnamon Cider.

Thanks for visiting today and be sure to join me on Sunday for Christmas Card Club shares where we are focusing on Christmas sentiments.

Hugs Zoe x

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