Crafty As L

  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...

My card this week was a commission from a lovely lady who wanted a special card for her Mum’s 90 th birthday.   The brief was food, fireworks and celebrations!   For the food element, I used Visible Image’s Blow Out The Candles stamp set. At first, I stamped just one cake but I thought it looked a bit meagre for a celebration cake so I got out my stamping platform and did some partial stamping and masking to create a 3-tier cake, drawing in the centres and bottom edges with a fine liner. I coloured the cake with Copic markers before fussy cutting along the lines and then I went around the edge with a black Sharpie.   To make the cake even more celebratory, I added Nuvo glitter drops all over the icing for some sparkle. Next, for the background.   The fireworks were created using the Paper Rose Fireworks stencil and a combination of Distress Oxides in Picked Raspberry, Salty Ocean and Mustard Seed. Since this was a very special card, I thought a slider ...