Stretch Your Stash

-

 

Christmas stamps aren’t just for Christmas! Obviously, you probably don't want to be sending cards with Santa on for someone’s birthday but some stamps are versatile and can be used all year round.  The focal image for this week’s card is from Colorado Craft Company’s Christmas Presents by Anita Jeram set.  The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted called Laugh Out Loud Again.  I used MFT hybrid ink for the dog and Versafine Clair heat set with clear embossing powder for the sentiment.

 

The card was for my friend who has a dog called Tilly.  Using Copic markers, I tried to colour the dog to look like her.

 

To create a mask, I stamped the scene onto a sticky note and fussy cut around the bottom.  After adding a length of stencil tape across the panel for the horizon, I used MFT Ray of Light stencil and a blending brush and some green ink to create the lawn stripes, removing the stencil and blending more green ink to complete the lawn.

 

Next, I made another mask, this time cutting around the top edge of the image, and blended a light blue ink for the sky.

 

To frame the panel, I turned it over and scored a line ¼” in from the edge all around.  The panel was then mounted on a dark brown slimline, side-folding card base.

 

Inside, I stamped the dog again (and on the envelope) and added another sentiment from the set.




Location: Fareham, UK

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

12 Days of Christmas Ornaments

-
Image
  You may recall my post back in February when I had started my set of the 12 Days of Christmas felt ornaments stating that I had started early in the hope that I might get them all finished in time for Christmas?  Well, I’ve finished them already – shock, horror!!  I’m completely amazed myself to be honest.  I think the main reason for this success is because the pattern is so well written it makes it easy and the ornaments are sooooo cute that as soon as one was finished, I immediately wanted to move on to making the next!  Whilst it’s the 12 days, there are actually 15 ornaments as the partridge has a pear, the goose has an egg and Mr. Leaping has a heart, bless him!  Well, the song is about true love after all.  In case you're thinking I've gone completely doolally and numbered the last 4 wrongly, there are several variations of the carol; these ornaments are based on the original carol from 1780. Firstly, and unusually for me, I did what the pattern said and purchased woo
Read more

Twist 'n' Pop

-
Image
I’ve been binge watching fancy fold card videos on YouTube lately.  A fancy fold definitely adds a bit of WOW! to a card.  They usually take a little longer to make but are worth the effort.  This card was made using Sam Calcott’s (of Mixed Up Craft fame) tutorial.  Her instructions are really clear and easy to follow. My theme for this week’s card was a 60 th birthday for my friend.  She’s a fun, bubbly and stylish lady so I wanted the same kind of feel for her card.   To begin, I wanted a black and white striped background.  I only had skinny striped paper so I drew some deliberately wonky lines with my black marker pen and coloured them in, several times, to give a rich black colour. Next, using my Cricut, I cut my sentiment from black and gold vinyl and stuck it onto the panel.  I added some gold dots in the corners where I would later add the decorative elements. For the decorative elements, I used Stampin’ Up! Dressed To Impress stamps.  I added a layer
Read more

Festive Floating Window

-
Image
  I saw this card style on a YouTube video by Scrimpingmommy and thought it’d be fun to try.  As it transpired, I got completely carried away with it and made 4 bases ready for decorating!  I used Stampin’ Up! Perfectly Plaid, Stitched Stars and Brightly Gleaming for my decorative elements.  Although I've made Christmas cards, this style of card can be used for any occasion. My card bases are 5¾” x 8¼”, a little less than half a sheet of cardstock, and scored at 4⅛”.  For this card, the front needs to be cut into three so I cut mine equally at 1⅜”.  For the window section, I cut a piece of acetate 1¾” wide by a smidge under 5¾”.  I discarded the centre portion and applied thin adhesive tape to the top and bottom edges of the acetate. Next, I cut some layers from card and DSP to decorate the top and bottom panels of the card. The easiest way to line up the acetate panel is to clip the bottom section to the card base, line up the acetate with the edges of the card and overlappin
Read more