Personalized Birthday Card

Hey stampers, Anni here!

Today's card was inspired by the amazing Kelly Latevola. The technique called watercolour bleaching I learned from her.

I started by stamping the beautiful flowers from Altenew`s Adore You on a piece of water colour cardstock (with a little bit of masking) and heat embossed them in white. Then I added some ink blending to the flowers, to the leaves and to the whole background. For the bleaching you add water to the flowers and leaves and dabb it away. This way you take away some of the colour.
Then you add some shadows with alcohol markers.

I made this card for a special friend and wanted to personalize it. So I added the name. I die cut the letters that I needed from the background I created. For this I used Altenew`s Caps Bold Alphabet. Unfortunately they are out of stock at the moment (but will be back in stock mid-September) but the lower caps would work just as well for this technique and are in stock now: Altenew's Bold Alphabet Die.

I also die cut it from white cardstock and from vellum. I stacked up the white die cuts, on top I added the ones I die cut from the background and then the vellum ones. I didn't want to cover too much from the background but on the other hand I wanted to make the letters to stand out.

For a birthday sentiment I stamped one from Altenew's Birthday Builder on black cardstock and heat embossed it in white. Then I assembled the card.

Thanks for stopping by and have a crafty weekend.
Anni

         

Playing with pattern

I'm continuing my theme from Friday of doing more with backgrounds than just backgrounds today by playing with patterns.   I created a 6x6 patterned piece using the Concord & 9th Retro Petals Stencils and inking it with my favourite 5 colours and then used that to make two quick cards.   I love how you can get so many different patterns my layering up the 3 stencils.

I used AlteNew's Bold Alphabet die to die cut "hello" from the patterned piece and also a few little stars.  These simple elements on a black card make a really bold statement.  If you use the negative space of your die cut to help align the letters then the pattern moves seamlessly across the gaps.

I still had a strip of pattern wide enough to fill a 6x4 card so decided to do a reverse of the first card cutting the letters from black and using the pattern as a background.  I added a cute heart from Waffle Flower crafts and the word "lovely" spelt out using the Birdie Brown Alphabet and Numbers stamp set - great to spell out words you can't find stamps for especially if you have other birdie brown stamp sets as then the fonts match!

That's all I had time for this weekend as we've been stuck in the hot attic building ikea furniture!

NEWS FROM THE STORE

• Our AlteNew shipment is still stuck in customs.  I will try again to speak to them tomorrow to get it moving.  
• We have had a very large delivery from Tonic - we'll get it online as soon as we can this week.
• We have a restock order coming from SugarPea Designs with the items that were on back-order this month.
• We have a large restock order from Lawn Fawn on order - awaiting a shipment date but it tends to take them 2-3 weeks to process orders.
• We have the latest release from Neat and Tangled on order and hope to have it shortly after release.
• As it's the first week of the month we'll have lots of new items to order as the brands release details to us mostly during the first week of every month.

Catch you next week
Happy Crafting
Tara

Summer Time Tropical Leaves Card

Hi everyone, Taheerah here wishing you a happy Thursday!

I have been desperately clinging on to what little Summer we've had in the UK. It's been nice to have some sunshine but I'm really craving some tropical heat!

Seeing as a trip to an exotic island isn't on the cards right now, I decided to recreate my wanderlust in card form using the awesome Waffle Flower Greenery dies:

Doesn't this take your mind on a trip to a Miami skyline?! I'm there already!

I die lots of leaves and then coloured them to the shades of green I wanted. It's a really useful trick if you don't have a million different colours of cardstock! I did the same with my background too, but blending a couple of shades of ink together to give that pale pink/lavender hue.

I have found the Altenew Bold Alphabet dies to be such a fantastic staple in my collection! I die cut my letters from both black and white cardstock, and adhered the black letters underneath for just a touch of depth and interest.

I love the bold statement these alphas make! No stamps at all on this card - shocking, right?!

I'd love to hear what you think of this card. Is there someone you know who'd love to receive it? Thanks for stopping by!

Floral Stamping On Die Cut Letters

Hi there everyone and happy Thursday! Lydia here with you today and I've been playing round with stamped die-cuts and I totally love how this come together.
 

I started by cutting the letters for 'hello' five times using 'Altenew Bold Alphabet Die Set' as I wanted a stacked sentiment once I had finished my stamping. To create the continuous flow on the letters I took I piece of scrap paper and draw a straight line on it and lined up the letters to spell out 'hello'. I only used one set of the five I die cut and adhered them to the scrap paper with re-positional adhesive.
 

I then stamped my floral images using Wplus9 'More Fresh Cuts' with Altenew Crisp Inks, Lavender Fields, Deep Iris, Cotton Candy, Coral Berry, Mango Smoothie, Bamboo and Olive. Once I was happy with the amount of stamping I then stacked up the die-cut letters, adding the stamped ones on top.

All that was left was to add the letters to my card..... simple but effective! For a step by step on how I created this card, you can go watch the video at my blog.

Please leave me a comment as I would really love to know what you think of my card!

Hugs Lydia xxx

Altenew- Bold Alphabet Die Set	Wplus9- More Fresh Cuts Stamp Set (SHC)	Altenew- Red Cosmos Crisp Ink Set	Altenew- Shades Of Purple Crisp Ink Set
Altenew- Four Scoops Crisp Ink Set

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Monogrammed Congratulations

Hi there everyone and happy Thursday! Lydia here with you today sharing a pretty and kinda modern wedding card.

I firstly stamped 2 clusters of flowers and leaves in black using images from Altenew 'Painted Flowers', this was my very first set fromAltenew and I still love and use it. I then stamped in the layers to the flowers using Altenew Crisp Ink- Frosted Pink and Cotton Candy for the pinks, Buttercream and Mango Smoothie for the yellows and Frayed Leaf for the leaves. I do love how soft this colour combo looks.

I then cut the 'm' from       from black card and some black foam and stuck the card on top of the foam shape to create a dimenional piece. I added a thin strip of card across the letter to help the sentiment stand out that I had stamped on vellum using a stamp from Altenew 'Persian Motifs'.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you have a beautiful day!

Hugs, Lydia x

Altenew- Painted Flowers Stamp Set	Altenew- Persian Motifs Stamp Set	Altenew- Bold Alphabet Die Set	Altenew- Red Cosmos Crisp Ink Set
Altenew- Summer Afternoon Crisp Ink Set	Altenew- Green Fields Crisp Ink Set	Altenew- Four Scoops Crisp Ink Set

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