Crafty As L

Our Design team theme this week is Messages of Congratulations.   For my CAS brief, I was inspired by Mark (aka Mr Visible Image) demonstrating on Hobbymaker TV the new metallic watercolours on black card.   I also love a pun so, when rifling through my stash for which set to use, the sentiment in Better With Ice Cream sealed the deal. I started by heat-embossing the sentiment and a couple of cones using gold embossing powder, then masking the cones. The masking and stamping was repeated until the bottom of the panel was completed. Next, I painted the ice creams with the metallic watercolours.   The heat embossing resists the paint so makes the painting really easy.   For added interest, I added some gold paint splats. To finish the card, a blue glitter mat set the sparkly paints off perfectly. Here are some close-ups of those lush paints!  

  This week’s card is one I made for one of our trainees after he passed his validation board.   A board is a big deal and is the culmination of several years of classroom learning at the college, simulator training and finally training in the Ops room with live traffic.   Provided you pass, you’re then a fully qualified air traffic controller. I wanted an aviation theme but it's easy to change the theme to whatever you want. For the plane background, I used Lawn Fawn Plane & Simple stamp set and Versamark ink on a black square panel. I repeat stamped the aircraft, banner and sentiment and heat embossed using my homemade mix of gold, silver, bronze and glitter embossing powder. This netutral colour allowed me free reign to choose my coloured glitter card for the letters. Using Julie Hickey Sweet Pea uppercase alphabet dies, I die-cut the required letters from 3 shades of glitter card plus twice from black card to make stacked letters. Once the letters wer...