Patterned Papered Dreams

Merry, merry, merry!

Hello, hello! I have a fun Waffle Flower Crafts Christmas card to share with you today. I could really make Christmas cards all year round, that's how much I love this time of the year! I couldn't resist accesorizing the three cuties from Willy & Friends stamp set with all the fun stuff from Stocking stamp set and coordinating dies.

 

 

I used the partial die cutting technique with the Willy & Friends dies to make the main panel. Once the monkeys were stamped and colored with Copic markers, I stamped, die cut and colored the accessories from Stocking stamp set. The sentiment also comes from that set.

 

 

To increase the merry factor I added a red glitter strip to the panel, and finally adhered everything on a card base covered with patterned paper. Fun!

 

 

And there you go! Another one for the Christmas cards pile. Now if only I were this effective for sending them... ha! Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

Faber Castell + Waffle Flower Inspiration Week

Hi everyone! Waffle Flower Crafts and Faber Castell Design memory Craft are having a week long inspiration week and today it's my turn on the Waffle Flower Blog! I'm sharing a project using products from both companies. They work beautifully together!

 

 

This (mostly) clean and simple girl had a blast getting out of her comfort zone and playing around with mixed media products. Hope you'll stop by to see all the card details... and there's a prize up for grabs too!

Inlaid die cutting with Waffle Flower Crafts

Hi everyone! By now, it's clear that one of the big hits of the last Waffle Flower Craft release have been the absolutely gorgeous doily dies: the square and the circle. They've quickly become a favorite, right? So I thought I would share and idea to get even more mileage from the doily circle die.

 

 

I made some industrial engineering inlaid die cutting using the inner portion of the doily. To do this, I first die cut the doily from white cardstock, and carefully trimmed the outer parts. Second, I die cut the doily again from different cardstock colors and saved the negative pieces.

 

 

Next, I die cut a circle from a double sided adhesive sheet and adhered it to the back of the doily, so the adhesive face would show in the open areas. This allowed me to easily insert the positive pieces from the doilies I had die cut from colored cardstock.

 

 

Once I had this pretty and colorful doily ready I decided to keep the rest of the things simple. I stamped the "Smile" sentiment from Doily Circle stamp set directly onto the doily. Because I stamped on an irregular and "bumpy" surface, I got some gaps in my stamped sentiment. How to fix this? Easy! With a black fine point pen. It's a super easy way to fill in any areas that didn't stamp properly.

 

 

Finally, I stamped a banner and a sentiment from the same set on vellum and adhered everything on a piece of grey cardstock that I spiced up a bit by sponging white ink on the edges. I love the "smokey" result, and how much it softens the final result!

Thanks so much for visiting!

Pretty Pottery with Waffle Flower Crafts

Hello there and happy Friday! I'm on the Waffle Flower Crafts Blog sharing a stamper's version of glazed pottery.

 

 

Stop by the Waffle Flower Blog to see the whole project and five gorgeous pottery samples! Happy weekend!

Holiday Card Workshop: Bonus Day

Hi friends! Here I am with my homework for the Bonus Day we got last Saturday on the Holiday Card Workshop at Online Card Classes. Tle classes were about coloring, something I'm not very good at. But I did my best :)

This card is inspired by the amazing lesson from Kathy Racoosin. There's nothing that lady can't do with a marker and a white gel pen. Nothing.

 

 

I used a Hero Arts poinsettia and chose an unconventional color for it: shades of teal, one of my favorite colors. And well, I followed Kathy's instructions when coloring it with markers, but still I didn't get a stunning contrast in the shades. I guess it's a matter of practice :) Oh, and I can't believe I haven't a single holly outline stamp in my Christmas collection.

 

 

For the poinsettia center I used red stickles, and added a few white lines. Finished the card with a sentiment die cut with the Silhouette Cameo and heat embossed several times with red embossing powder. I love to do this!

 

 

Thanks for visiting!

Holiday Card Workshop: Day 4 - Take 2

Good morning! Hope your weekend is off to a great start! Popping in quickly to share card two for Day 4 of the Holiday Card Workshop at Online Card Classes.

I can't believe that for once I am more or less keeping with the pace! This card was inspired in the techniques shared by the delightful Laura Bassen.

 

 

I had this little houses die from Memory Box and I thought they would be perfect for this technique. First, I masked and inked the background. Then,  I die cut the houses from acetate to make my own stencil. I used the negative portion for the colorful houses, and then the positive (the actual acetate little houses) to add the doors and windows with white pigment ink. A LOT of masking tape and posts it were involved, ha!

 

 

I used all Distress Inks. Tumbled Glass, Broken China and Chipped Saphire for the background, The houses -ala Bassen rainbow style- are Festive Berries, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Peacock Feathers and Picked Raspberry. The sentiment is Technique Tuesday.

So one more card down! And I still have a third one, plus all the tags from Day 5. Stay tuned and thanks for stopping by :)

Holiday Card Workshop: Day 4

Hello there! And no, the title of this post is not wrong. I've jumped from Day 2 to Day 4 because my Day 3 watercolored cards are still on the making. So today I have three cards to share from Day 4 of  he Holiday Card Workshop at Online Card Classes. This time it's all about one layer cards.

My first one is based on Jennifer's lesson, a window card with partial die cutting.

 

 

I went for a circle window where I fitted the lovely bow from Loved stamp set by Waffle Flower Crafts. I used the bow coordinating die.

 

 

On the inside I stamped some images from the same set in Christmas colors. Everything was stamped with pigment ink, so I could clear heat emboss it. The reason for this is that I left the background inking for last, and the if flowers and vines weren't protected by the clear embossing powder, they would have smudged when I started blending the blue ink on the background. Hope that makes sense!

 

 

Here's another pic. The sentiment is from a veeeeery old Hero Arts set that has lots of Christmas sentiments in every possible size and font.

 

 

Ok, so there's the first one. Back later with more!

 

 

 

Holiday Card Workshop: Day 2 - Take 2

Aaaand, here I am again! This makes my second card for Day 2 of the Holiday Card Workshop at Online Card Classes.  You can check the first card here.

This one was inspired by Chari Moss, who in yesterday's class showed how to create an adorable shaker card scene. I'm terrible for creating those super cute landscapes full of critters, but I managed to make a shaker card with two cutie birds, ha!

 

 

I used the Bannerific set from Lawn Fawn. Such a classic! I think it's one of the first Lawn Fawn sets I owned. The sentiment is from a Simon Says Stamp Christmas set from maybe 2 years ago.

 

 

To create the shaker portion, I stamped the banner on a die cut stitched panel and then trimmed just the inside portion of the banner using a craft knive. I also made a bit of paper piecing. The panel sits on a base that I embossed with a woodgrain folder to give the whole thing a bit of texture so it wouldn't look too plain.

 

 

Here's a closer look of the shine inside the banner. I combined red chunky and white fine glitters. No stars, sequins or other doodads, as they would have been too big for the size of the shaker :)

 

 

And we're done for today! Crossing fingers that I find the time for popping back tomorrow with my homework for day 3. Thanks so much again for visiting!

Holiday Card Workshop: Day 2

Hey there! As promised, I'm back with my homework for Day 2 of  the Holiday Card Workshop at Online Card Classes.

Yesterday's lesson was about interactive Christmas cards, and I made two different cards: one inspired by Jennifer with a removable ornament and another one inspired by Chari's shaker card. In this post I'm sharing the first card.

 

 

I switched the circle ornament for a star shaped one, and instead of using holly I went for a bokeh inspired background stamped over a Hero Arts starry background. The first time I stamped the dots, the starry background previously stamped with pigment ink was not showing, probably because I used light colored inks. My solution for this was re-stamping the dots again, so the impression darkened, hoping the contrast would be higher. It worked :)

 

 

I didn't have a die that would work for the size of the star ornament, so I used a small Memory Box alphabet die set and heat embossed the letters in gold. Finished the card with some pearls I turned gold with a Pilot gold marker. What are pearls, you ask? They are lovely round ornaments that existed pacifically way before the enamel dots and sequins invaded planet craft. Ask your grandmother ;)

 

 

Another thing I did was adhering a kraft die cut star behind the ornament, with a sentiment heat embossed, so that when the ornament is removed the card still looks finished. For the edges of the card I made a scor-tape frame and heat embossed it with gold powder.

 

 

And a closer look to the ornament:

 

 

There we are! Back later with my second card. Thanks for stopping by!

Holiday Card Workshop: Day 1 - Take 2

And hello again! As promised, I'm back with a second card as my homework for the Holiday Card Shop at Online Card Classes. You can check my first card for today here.

This one was inspired by Debby Hughes. Gosh, everything she makes is so perfect and dreamy!!! Not to mention the amazing photographs she takes. I highly recomment visiting her blog, inspiration abounds!

Ok, this is what I came up with:

 

 

Debby's video and card inspired me in the following ways: layout, a half gold embossed tag, die cut sentiment accross, ornament to the left.

I die cut my tag from patterned paper. Instead of the gold splatters, I decided to add some interest to the background by scoring some diagonal lines. It's subtle but gives a bit of texture, and it's fast to do.

 

 

The sentiment and berry branch were die cut with the Silhouette Cameo. Another quick way to mass produce shapes without effort. Once I had them die cut, I coated them in Versamark and heat embossed with red powder for the sentiment and white for the branch. I finished everything with some rhinestone-berries. Look at the gorgeous shine!

 

 

Ok, I'm done for today! I don't think I'll be able to share homework tomorrow, but I'll be back on Wednesday for sure. Thanks again for stopping by!