Crafty As L

More sewing related cards this week but this time, they’re all die-cut.   The new release from Waffle Flower featured this die set to die-cut lots of sewing notions.   I cut these out from lots of different coloured card stock and some silver foil card for the metallic parts. For the tape measure, I added a shading using a coloured marker to add a little dimension. The hole in the top of the cotton reel looked a bit strange so I cut small pieces of dark brown paper and glued them on the back.   I used some white ink to add highlights. For the backgrounds, I used pierced cover plate dies as the piercing does resemble sewing machine holes, if you used the machine without thread. To finish off the cards, I used one of my printed sentiments and added Glossy Accents to the scissor handles and pin heads. Here’s the complete collection.   For the last card, I cut all the shapes from white card and coloured them by ink blending.

Waffle Flower’s latest release featured another set of layering stencils to go with the ever-popular Postage Collage die and it was all about sewing so into my shopping basket it went!   I do love a layering stencil, seeing the picture develop as each layer is added. This set includes five stencils and I also used the blocks stencil at the end, just to frame each stamp.  Each layer is embossed with a colour suggestion but obviously you can choose your own. For the first layer, I used Weathered Wood Distress Oxide and switched to Encore! silver ink for the metallic parts. I chose two colour schemes, pink & green and pink & orange – the photos do flip between the two as I kept forgetting to snap a pic after each layer.   For the pink layer, I used Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide. The next layer was Carved Pumpkin together with some of the grey and silver from the first stage. The next stencil is the decorative pattern on the fabric, thimble and cat. ...

This week’s card is a sympathy card I made for some friends whose dog had passed away.   I like the idea of the rainbow bridge where pets wait for their humans so that was my theme. To make the rainbow, I used Newton’s Nook Pawprints stencil and blended though Distress Inks in Festive Berries, Mustard Seed, Faded Jeans and Seedless Preserves. For the sentiment, I used Waffle Flower’s Rainbow Bridge and stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne ink, added clear embossing powder and heat set. The panel was mounted on a square of black card and adhered to a 5¾” square card blank.   The card was finished with a tiny purple enamel heart after the sentiment.

The Waffle Flower Cattitude stamp set was still out on my desk from one of my previous posts so when I needed a card for a cat-lover, that was the 'purr-fect' set to use.   To start with, I made my background using Distress Stains in Lumberjack Plaid, Mustard Seed and Broken China plus plenty of water.   I was lucky enough to win a set of 12 Ranger Distress Spritz   sprays in a Facebook competition organised by Country View Crafts and so I tried the Weathered Wood out on my background.   Wow! The amount of shimmer and sparkle is amazing!   Unfortunately, the camera doesn’t pick it up but in real life, it’s gorgeous. I stamped the sentiment from Newton’s Nook Cat-itude in the bottom corner first.   Whilst I usually work in inches, when I’m making DL cards, I use cm instead.   The main panel is 9cm x 20cm and the black backing is 0.5cm bigger.   This made the next step quite simple as I cut a 3cm strip of white card and positioned it in the c...