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!  

My card for this week’s DT post is the one I made to accompany last month’s “Celebrations” ATC swap.   Since I thought that summer was just around the corner, I thought I’d celebrate the warmer weather with some yummy ice-cream cones using the Better With Ice-Cream set.   It seems that this corner is a very long one though as that warmer weather hasn’t quite materialised yet! I dug out some watercolour paper and used Versafine Onyx Black ink as I wanted to watercolour my cards.   Since the watercolour paper isn’t quite as smooth as card, I like to use my MISTI so that I can repeat stamp areas as necessary.   I started with the cones, added a flake on one and then added some candles from  Blow Out The Candles , since it was a celebration!   I just used some bits of sticky note to mask the bottom of the candles. I also gold heat-embossed the glow around the flame of the candles and stamped the sentiment on the ATC.   The panels were taped to a board...