Paperbabe Stamps December Release - Fabulous Everything!

Hi everyone, I'm back today with my sample for the final gorgeous sentiment set from Kim at Paperbabe Stamps which is on sale from tomorrow with the other sets and is

Fabulous Everything! 

Once again a great large solid stamp of the word together with the beautiful swirly outline stamp and lots and lots and lots of small words to make a card for every fabulous occasion.

 To achieve this effect for the Fabulous word I first inked up the diagonal stripe kissing strip then I touched my fabulous solid stamp onto the kissing strip to pick up the inky pattern and stamped it onto white card (Kim has a lovely photo step by step on how to do this on Paperbabe Stamps blog today). Next I inked up the swirly outline with embossing ink and positioned it over the stamped fabulous then stamped down. I used some WOW turquoise embossing powder which is a really gorgeous fresh colour and heated it to melt then I cut the sentiment out leaving a border around the edge.

The background panel is made up by stamping the various outline clouds from the High in the sky set in black ink and I also stamped the rest of the sentiment stamps that I wanted to use from the Fabulous Everything set. I added some silk ribbon around the panel and mounted on dimension foam over the card base then added the fabulous cut out and finished off by embellishing with silver sequins.

Gorgeous inspiration from Kim is over on the Paperbabe Stamps Blog and more details about the stamps. I'm back tomorrow for release day with some absolutely gorgeous Paperbabe Stamps winter cute! Thanks for your lovely comments, they always make my day!
 

JM Hearts and flowers, CCT 97 Blooming gorgeous, MTTCC Elegant rose, SCSC Hearts,

Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend. A card today for four challenges :D, Just Magnolia is hearts, CCT is blooming gorgeous, MTTCC is elegant rose and SCSC is hearts, it’s not often I manage a multiple challenges!
I’ve used the absolutely gorgeous ‘Right through my heart’ Tilda from Raising the ceiling collection which I think is going to be available to buy here in the UK this week. Tilda is coloured with distress inks, glittered and gilded around the image edges and on her bow with gold embossing powder although I don't think a girl this sweet should need her love bow and arrow! The background paper is also by Magnolia and I embossed the edges of this too, it worked really well as the paper is a nice thick quality, almost like card. I die cut a nestability frame, sponged with gold ink and then cut off the top and bottom and added to the top and bottom of the image just underneath, I think she looks a bit Grecian and needed framing :). The bullseye circle and the sentiment are also Magnolia stamps and also embossed in gold. I added some criss crossed dotted ribbon too to finish off. TFL and thanks as always for your lovely comments which I hope to return as soon as I catch up with things.

Craft Barn Blog and a decorated frame

 

Hi everyone, hope you’ve enjoyed your weekend. Some news about the Craft Barn today and their brand new blog which has just started this week. To celebrate the opening there are three Craft Barn online vouchers to be won so if you fancy a chance at winning hop over to the new Craft Barn blog to enter.

From the Craft Barn blog:

 

Hellooooo!
We can't start a new blog without some kind of celebration and something for you to win, can we?.
There will be a £10 voucher
for 3 lucky winners to win!
All you have to do is to write on your blog (real post, not side bar ;) ) using the image below to mention the new blog and the prizes to win.
Once this is done, come and post your link in a comment here to let us know.
Draw will be next Wednesday 13th January
And don't forget, our online sale has started!!! Don't miss out!!

I decorated the blank frame in the first photo a while ago for the Craft Barn blog using one of their plain wooden frames with a heart shaped aperture. First I painted the frame with white gesso, let it dry and then sanded it a little to give a smooth surface to stamp onto. The stamp is from a gorgeous Inkadinkado set ‘gemstone flowers’ and I stamped this around the frame using versamark ink and then embossed with clear detail embossing powder. The whole frame was then sponged with Black Soot Ranger distress ink and when dry I used an iron (no steam) and copy paper to remove the embossing. To finish off I added some white flowers edged with black distress ink, beautiful amber crystal brads for the flower centres and some half pearls also from the Craft Barn, then inserted my photo. TFL.

BasicGrey Challenge 19 - Recipe Challenge

Hi everyone, Saturday and time for another BasicGrey Challenge.
I hope you can join in, the DT have some incredibly beautiful cards for inspiration and there's a great prize too.

For this weeks challenge we would like you to follow a recipe, you can of course add more embellishments etc to your creations but please make sure to use all of the ingredients in the recipe on your creations, and of course not forgetting to use at least one item from BasicGrey

Ingredients

2 Patterned papers
1 Button
1 Ribbon and Bow
3 Brads

For my card this week I haven't used an image, I wanted to use the Granola papers which I think are gorgeous and I wanted to highlight the lovely flower pattern. All the layers are matted on black card and the edges distressed on the smaller panel. The sentiment is Penny Black stamped in Timber Brown Versafine ink, sponged with distress ink and mounted on dimension tape as is the flower paper panel. I added three small gold brads and gold ribbon to this panel and made the button from a punched out flower of white card and only because I wanted a gold button and didn't have one! It was fun to do and very quick and you can even see the dimension tape I mounted it with if you look closely LOL. ah well, too late now. I punched the four holes with a piercing tool and then double heat embossed with gold embossing powder. TFL. Back soon, Chris

Materials:
Paper and Card: BasicGrey Granola 6x6 pad, black canson card
Stamp: Penny Black, versafine timber brown ink
Embellishment: Doodlebug gold brads, scissors for distressing, dimension tape, wide gold ribbon, stampendous gold embossing powder, piercing tool, Ranger Distress ink: old paper, sponge

Elzybells snowgirl

Hi everyone, thank you for all the absolutely wonderful comments as always and sorry if I haven't managed to get round to everyone's blogs the last couple of days, things are a bit manic!

Today's card is for an SCS limited supplies challenge which had to include eyelets, the colour blue, only one piece of patterned paper and one ribbon. I failed on the ribbon I realised after upload as I have two. For the background/paper, I stamped Elzybells large snowflake with versamark and heat embossed with Kaleidescope ep, I repeated this over the first snowflakes and used snowflake ep onto the blue card blank. I stamped the cute Elzybells girl and robin with versamark and versafine blue lagoon together and heat embossed with the Kaleiescope. I wish it would show up better in the photograph, it's lovely and Christmassy, shimmery and sparkly! I liked the image as it was and haven't coloured it. I put the eyelet (crushed to bits!!!) on the left of the image panel and the sentiment then tied blue and white organza ribbon through the eyelet hole. TFL.

Back soon,
Chris

Snowman's Hat

The challenge this week on A Spoon Full of Sugar is 'So charming' and to use a charming character or charms on your card, I've used a little candy cane charm brad on my card. The image is by Elzybells from the dinky Christmas set and stamped in black versafine, water coloured with distress inks. The card blank is embossed with a square nestability (not my idea, I saw it somewhere but can't remember where, thanks to whoever it was) then stamped with an Elzybells snowflake in Versamark and heat embossed with Kaleidascope EP. TFL.

Back soon,
Chris