Crafty As L

My project this week was the card and ATC I made for this month’s Visible Image ATC swap.   Our theme this month was “Say it with words”.   I've found it hard to be creative as our little girly cat disappeared almost 3 weeks ago and, despite all our efforts, there has been no news and Mr L and I are feeling very sad.   Looking through my VI stash, the sentiment in Glimmer of Light   spoke to me so that’s where I started. On an inky mop-up piece of card, I trimmed it make my ATC and card front and started by stamping and clear heat-embossing the moth, sentiment and light bulb. Next, I used the Strobes stencil, with the central blob masking the light bulb, and blended Black Soot Distress ink, fading to the outer edges.   I also blended ink around the edges too. I repeated these steps on the card front too, adding a large light bulb from Shining Bright .   To make the light bulb glow, I added some gold metallic watercolour paint, flicking it out alo...

You may recall that I mentioned that I retired a few weeks ago and my card this week is the one I sent my workmates to thank them for their generous gifts. For the decorative elements, I used Visible Image’s Cocktails & Dreams stamps and dies, together with the ‘CHEERS’ from Bring On The Beers.   The cocktails were stamped and clear heat embossed. I like to clear heat emboss as it gives me options of how to colour the images and I chose alcohol markers.   My collection of markers is a mixed bunch, consisting of Copic, Spectrum Noir, Prism and Nuvo and I just mix and match.   After colouring, I die-cut using the coordinating dies, although I had to do the martini with partial die-cutting as I’d stamped the olives in the glass. For some glassy effect on the cocktail glasses, after adhering the decorations, I covered the whole glass with Glossy Accents and set aside to dry. Whilst the glasses were drying, I made the background panel by lightly blending Salty...