Cards Three & Four Of Eight

Today my friends I have two more cards made with the set talked about in my previous post.  The first is a fussier card, which would be suitable, for special occasions.  It is a soft grey and uses a vellum panel, ribbon and pearls for a dreamy, romantic look.

The second is a more straightforward design done in sunshine yellow and translucent embossing paste for a more contemporary look (I'm not sure you can see the embossing paste in the photos, but I will try to show it in the close up).  I also used a contemporary sentiment for it.  Here is the first.

 
Here is the second.

I'll be back as soon as I can with the next two cards in this series.

Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know!

One Die Set, Eight Cards & One Set

Well now my lovelies, for those of you who haven't visited here since my return and do not know why I have only managed to post once since then, I will enlighten you.

On top of all the usual things to catch up on (see previous post), and apart from the fact that my 90 year old mother's kitchen ceiling had come down and needed to get sorted out, we are now on VERY limited broadband and no land-line telephone, as, the water-board company cut through the telephone cable when they had to repair a water pipe running underneath our driveway - evidently, they decided not to bother us with such trivialities and therefore didn't inform us!!  The telephone company has  now said that it could be up to 7-10 days before they dig up the cable and replace it and return us back to 'normal'.

In the meantime I have tried to get around some of your blogs, but it has been very frustrating!

A couple of days ago I received an order from Stampin' Up and one of the things I purchased was a three-part die set called, 'Detailed Floral Thinlits' and I thought it was so beautiful I immediately set out to see how many different ways I could use it - so far I have thought of eight different ways - that's right dear readers eight!!  So far I have made two (I didn't want to make up all eight at once as the post would be far too picture heavy).  Eventually, I will box all eight as a set to gift to someone.

Here is the first.

Here is the second.

The way I made the second card, it could be used to hold a gift voucher.

Thank you so much for your visit today and especially if you have left a comment.  You are all appreciated more than you know!

Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge - Kissing

Hi, all you happy little stampers!  Another month gone and another upon us already!  That means it's time for another challenge over at the Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge blog, and this month it is for 'Kissing', no, no, not the smoochy, mmwah,  mmwah kind, stay tuned and I'll explain all.

Before I show you the card and explain the technique, let me just tell you that Happy Little Stampers are sponsoring this challenge, so there are prizes to be had!  Now, my card.

'Kissing' as used in the stamping world refers to inking one stamp and then touching it face to face with another stamp . . . hence, kissing.  I will explain the technique and the supplies used here.

First, I chose my two stamps for the technique, this was a My Favorite Things 'Cheesecloth' background stamp for the texture and a very old rubber stamp that I have had for years (of course, I can't remember who it was by, I didn't need to know in the days prior to my blogging).

Next, I inked up the image stamp in a light coloured ink, which in this case was Altenew Crisp ink in 'Buttercream' and then, I took the background texture stamp and inked it up in Altenew's, 'Caramel Toffee' . . . after using those two, I longed for something sweet, but I digress.  I touched the faces of the two stamps together and then stamped (the now textured image) on to a piece of white card-stock.  This technique can also be used by inking one stamp, but not the other, so that when the two stamps are pressed together, the un-inked one takes off some of the ink from the other one, which gives you a different effect - try both - you might like one better than the other, but I like both.  I found that if I used the second technique it was better to use the darker ink, because a lighter one is a little too subtle to notice, but you might like that effect!

Then I mounted that panel on to a panel of black card-stock, because I wanted to stamp the sentiment in black and needed to tie that in.  The sentiment was from the Happy Little Stampers, 'Birthday Friends' set, which you can find here.  Click on image.

Then. I mounted the whole thing on to a cream coloured card-stock to coordinate with my chosen ink colours.

This is a really simple technique that is a lot of fun, so what are you hanging around here for, get over to HLS, have a look at the other team members inspiration and watch some of the videos demonstrating the technique and join in fun with us!

As always, thank you so much for your visits and kind comments.  Have a lovely, crafty day!  Hazel xx