Crafty As L

Our Design Team theme this week is ‘Valentine’ and my brief is a non-card make so I’m making a tag that could be used on a gift or a bottle of fizz.   I had to think outside the box a bit as I don’t have any romantic stamps but that’s where Visible Image stamps are so versatile.   For my tag base, I used an inky panel that I’d sprayed with Picked Raspberry and Lumberjack Plaid Distress Stains and Barn Door and Picked Raspberry Distress Spritz for a little shimmer.   I then used the typewriter from  One Kind Word which I stamped and clear heat-embossed.   I repeated the stamping and heat-embossing on a sheet of white card, adding a sentiment, and fussy cut the paper.   This was adhered to the tag. Using the two hearts in the set, I repeat stamped these all over the tag to add more interest to the background. Finally, I wanted “love you” at the bottom but there isn’t that in the set.   There is, however, “you are loved” so I did some partial...

One of my recent purchases was from last year’s Tim Holtz/Sizzix vault release called Fresh Brewed, which includes a mini embossing folder and a collection of dies to make mugs and take-away drink cups.   I paired it with sentiments from MFT Coffee Order. For the backgrounds, I used the embossing folder and a variety of complimentary coloured card.   Once embossed, I snipped out each coffee cup, making irregular shapes. These shapes were glued onto white panels.    I left the centres uncovered so that the sentiment could be stamped there. After realising that most of the sentiments wouldn’t fit in the gap (doh!), I die-cut a selection of the coffee cups and attached them to a stamped sentiment.  These were adhered to the cards using thin foam tape. Mr L bought me a new gadget for Christmas – an embosser with my ‘Crafty As L’ logo for making my envelopes fancy! These were the cards with the bright backgrounds which I mounted on a black background th...