Welcome baby!

Challenge #48 at Keep it Simple is to make a baby card. This gave me an opportunity to use the new baby stamps from Uniko Studio. They are so versatile and great for CAS cards. I used distress inks to watercolour the image and machine stitched around the card to link in with the stitching on the circle.

Materials used:-
Uniko Studio "Sweet baby" stamps
Distress inks - tea dye, vintage photo, broken china and stormy sky
Black archival ink
Lawn Fawn "stitched party banners " circle die

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Harbour tag

This is a tag I made recently using Hobby Art stamps to create a scene. I stamped the images on to watercolour card and then used distress inks to watercolour the scene. The background is from an old chart - I often use this in projects with a nautical theme. I am going to enter this tag in this month's Country View Crafts Blog Challenge which is to create a project with a nautical theme.

Materials used:-
Hobby Art stamps - Harbour Set and Coastal Wildlife Set
Distress inks and markers - various
Dies - Memory Box dies Parker Lower Alphabet

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Chocolate and mint!

Week 188 on Less is More is a colour challenge using chocolate and mint. The hardest part of the challenge was finding a mint coloured ink. I finally settled on a metallic watercolour marker. I clear embossed the image before colouring it. Then I mounted the image on some dimensional foam and added some tiny brown pearls to the centre of the flowers to finish it off.

Materials used:-
Stamp -  Hero Arts Asian Frames
Sentiment - Chocolate Baroque Mackintosh Sentiments
Archival ink - Potting Soil
Letraset Metallic Marker - green
Die - Lawn Fawn Stitched Party Banners


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Inspired by words!

Challenge #13 on Time Out is to use words for your inspiration. So here is my card inspired by the quotation from Twelfth Night, "If music be the food of love, play on". My emphasis was on love and music.

I stamped the music through a mask I made from copy paper as I didn't want harsh lines. The heart was embossed with white embossing powder and inked with distress ink. I put it on foam pads for extra dimension. I felt I managed to achieve the CAS look I was aiming for.

Materials used:-
Heart stamp - Chocolate Baroque "Music Fanfare" set
Sentiment - Chocolate Baroque "Mackintosh Sentiments"
Music stamp - Crafty Individuals
Distress ink - picked raspberry; Archival ink - watering can

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Patchwork card

Challenge #41 at CAS on Sunday is to use black & white with one other colour. I thought this stamp suited the CAS design I was trying to create although I did wonder if I have left enough white space. I stamped the image on little squares, using distress ink to colour the hearts. These were then mounted on black and then white card. Finally I used Glossy Accents to highlight the hearts and added 2 heart gems to define the sentiment.

Materials used:-
Stamps - Stamps Away Patchwork set
Sentiment - Woodware "Tiny phrases"
Inks - distress ink festive berries and black archival
Glossy Accents


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Willow Tea Rooms

This is a scrapbook page I made recently following a visit to the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow. Everything in this tearoom, from the furniture to the cutlery, was originally designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The tearoom has recently been refurbished and is now open again as a tearoom.

I love the Charles Rennie Mackintosh style and I wanted to capture this in my scrapbook page.  I stamped the image with archival ink and then watercoloured it with distress markers, finishing off the flower with some perfect pearls. I made 2 tags for some hidden journalling. The title was printed using a Mackintosh font.

Materials used:-
Stampin Up - background paper, vanilla card and tag punch
Border punch - EK Success
Stamps - Chocolate Baroque Mackintosh Windows set
Font - downloaded from charles-rennie-mackintosh-font.co.uk
Distress markers - various

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Square Christmas Card

I'm still busy making Christmas cards and keep finding more challenge blogs to enter! For this one layer card I made a mask from copy paper which I inked through using an ink duster brush to create a subtle effect. Then I spritzed some Perfect Pearls over the square before stamping the sentiment 3 times. I deliberated about adding any gems but I felt the card needed a little bling!

I am going to enter this card in the following challenges :-
Merry Monday Christmas Challenge #124 gifts/presents
One Layer Simplicity Challenge #9 Hip to be Square

Materials used:-
Distress inks - tumbled glass and broken china
Inkylicious ink duster
Archival ink - aquamarine and cornflower blue
Stamp from Penny Black set "Giving and Receiving"

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