Thanks

Hello.

Today as well as a card to share I have some news. 

I am taking a break from Seven hills crafts. 

Real life has gotten in the way of making but  you still have the most awesome talented design team.

Back to the important stuff ...Today's card features Concord and 9th.

I love clean and simple and today Ive gone for a one layer card.

I have stamped all of the images with distress inks but any water based inks will work and spritzed with water.

This gives a very different look. 

 If done with water colour card it works very well and gives a more water colour effect.

The small dots were stamped in versamark and then dusted with gold powder.

Then not being able to resist the gold water colours i splashed some gold gansai tambi paint over.

The sentiment was then stamped in black archival ink.

I love making thank you cards and I'd like to say thanks to Tara and to everyone that leaves comments.

Thanks for looking.

Stamp A Custom Sentiment in Script

Hi crafters! Today I have a very airy and light card for you – fitting that it features the wonderful butterfly from Concord & 9th as the main focal image, then :)

I started out by die cutting the butterfly and coloring it with my Copic Markers. I used light colors, nothing too intense, because I wanted to keep the overall feel of the card very bright. The sentiment was stamped with the amazing Script stamp set by Concord & 9th – it's an alphabet stamp set with individual letters, script style. As you can see, it works for every language using latin letters. I stamped "Many Thanks" in German here.

Since the card seems still a bit empty after this, I grabbed the same Copics I had used for the butterfly and started to add dots everywhere. I also added thin layer of Glossy accents on top of the butterfly to make it sparkle a bit.

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you got inspired!

Sophisticated Script

Flutter & Floral Die

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Old Chap!!

Hello there :)

I thought I'd try something a bit different.... and that's a different card size. I have fallen into always using the regular A6 card shape but I still have a variety of ready made card bases in my stash so I challenged myself to use this DL size....

I've dug out some unloved stash to make a guys card... not sure who its for but sometimes its just fun to play for the sake of it.. yes??

I've used an Echo Park Moustaches stencil with black embossing paste on the black card and the Props die set from Elizabeth Craft on the white lined paper. Both pieces have been cut using the notebook die in Waffleflower's Stay Focused which is currently out of stock but there are other options in store if you type the word notebook into the search bar :)

I used black felt for the bowler hat and patterned paper for the bow tie..... his moustache is cut into the lined paper so the black card shows through from underneath...haha, he looks like the invisible man :)

The Sophisticated Script font from Concord & 9th seemed the perfect choice for the sentiment..... it's such an easy set to use but I do recommend trying out the stamping on a scrap piece beforehand so you get an idea for space and alignment .

 I finished off with a scored border and adhered the notebook pages down leaving the edges turned up and the tops a little crumpled.

                  

                                       

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all enjoy the May Bank holiday... weather permitting (fingers crossed and big sigh)!!

Jenny x

For you

Hello.

My card today uses the beautiful Flutter and floral dies and Sophisticated script stamps from Concorde and 9th.

I have seen in blog land people using brushes with distress inks  so I bought some cheap make up brushes just to see how or if it would work, and it did work :)

I knew I wanted an inky background for my card and I think by using the brushes with distress inks gives a good coverage and can go on lighter than when using a blending tool so perfect for those not wanting heavily saturated colour.

Of course you can add as  much or as little as you want.

Once I had added the ink to my water colour card, and flicked some water and gold glimmer mists for some extra detail. 

I then stamped the sentiment in black archival ink.

I die cut two of the butterflies and made sure to keep them whole.

Next I die cut another four butterflies from thick white card and adhered two to each other.

I placed them back in to the empty space on my panel and went about assembling the die cuts back into place.

The coloured butterflies  wee given a dusting of perfect pearls and added on to the white die cuts and then covered with glossy accents.

To finish I added some sequins and dots of gold stickles.

 

Thanks for looking.