Crafty As L

This week’s card was one I needed for a very dear gentleman’s 101 st birthday.   Since he is a retired Naval officer, I decided on a sea theme and dug through my stash to find some appropriate gear for the card. To make the background, I used Weathered Wood and Salty Ocean for the sky and Salty Ocean, Stormy Sky and Chipped Sapphire Distress Spray Stains for the sea.   I blended a little ink over the edge of a piece of paper to make the horizon and stamped some wave tops from Inkylicious By The Sea.   After planning to make a square card, I changed tack and decided on a DL card so had to make some beach from the overspray area by blending some Mustard Seed Distress Oxide over the area.   I also added a little Peacock Feathers at the edge of the water. Once the blended ink was dry, I used Versamark and white embossing powder to stamp the waves at the bottom of the panel.   After stamping, I used markers to add some shading to the waves. For the top of the ...

Mr L and I are both fortunate to still have our Dad around and in good health so this weekend, I’m sharing the cards I made for them for Father’s Day.   They each have completely different interests so rather than my usual two same-but-different cards, I opted for completely different cards this year. For my F-i-L, I used Visible Image’s 99% Chance of Wine stamps and dies.   I started with the background, using Versamark ink and clear embossing powder to give a tone-on-tone look and repeat stamped the wine bottle. Next, I stamped the bottle and wine glass separately, colouring the bottle with markers and adding the wine stamp from the set. As you can see from the finished card, I had to redo the glass as when I added clear Nuvo Drops, the water-based ink spread and was really blurred so I restamped and coloured with alcohol markers instead.   The sentiment is from the Time To Par-tee stamp set. For my Dad’s card, I used the Fisherman Boating stamp set by Inkyl...

It’s been all change at our house this week with the arrival of our 8-week-old Cocker Spaniel puppy, Delta.   She’s such a cuddle-monster and loves nothing more than going to sleep on your lap!   However, trying to get her to sleep in her bed is tricky as she’s such a nosey whatsit so I set her bed under my desk so she’s near me and she finally went to sleep.   As a result, my card making had to be quiet so no heat-embossing.   Argh!!   It’s good to have a little challenge now and again though. My plan was to use the Windswept stamp by Inkylicious which is a silhouette stamp so I needed to make a background.   Whilst it is technically summer, that cold wind has taken the edge off the summery feeling so I decided to create a sunset scene to warm me up!   To begin, I masked off the horizon and used yellow, orange and red Distress Oxides for the sky.   The sun was a negative mask, simply a hole punched out of a piece of paper.   For a bit more...

After another tidying mission in my new craft room, I rediscovered this stamp set, Daydreamer by Inkylicious, yet another that I bought a couple of years ago and have never used.   I had an inky background lying around which I thought would pair perfectly with it. These were one rainbow panel that I’d made using Distress Stain Sprays in Lumberjack Plaid, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Broken China and Dusty Concord. Using my MISTI, I stamped the main image using Versafine Onyx Black ink. After stamping the sentiment, I stencilled ink around the panel, fading out to the stamped areas. To finish the cards, I blended black ink around the edges of the panel before attaching to a rectangular card base and embellishing with a few gemstones.