Time to Twirl

Hello and happy Monday to you :)

A couple of weeks ago I showed you an interactive card which had been inspired by a video tutorial from Jennifer McGuire..... well here is another, and this time its a Peek a Boo card.

I love the simple mechanics of this card and thought how the Tu-Tu Cute set 

from Waffleflower would work well for the design. When you open the card 

the ballerina changes position...

Hopefully (if blogger allows me to load it) here's a video to show the mechanism in action

I basically followed Jennifer McGuire's assembly instructions on the video which 

you can view here. I stamped and coloured the images in Alcohol markers and used circle dies to cut around the two inner ballerinas and the coordinating dies for the pair on the front.

For a subtle background decoration on the front and inside, I used the Star

 Turnabout stamp just randomly in green and lilac ink.....

Isn't it such a fun design? Can you think of a stamp set that would work 

well for this interactive card?... I hope you give it a try too :)

  

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Reach For The Stars Watercolour Galaxy Card

Hi everyone, Taheerah here wishing you a happy Friday!

I seem to be on a real watercolour kick lately. It's just one of the best mediums and so, so versatile.

I also love galaxy backgrounds. I usually create them with ink blending - but I felt like creating a watercolour version this time! So I decided to pull out the Altenew Watercolour 36 Pan set and put it to work!

Out of this world, right?! I love how this turned out!

I finally got to play with the awesome Concord & 9th Star Turnabout stamp set. This is one of the best turnabouts - totally up my street I stamped the turnabout 4 times and heat embossed the stars with a mix of white and glittery embossing powders.

Now it was time to play! I used a few of the pans in the Altenew set and painted my watercolour. The heat embossed stars just work so well with a resist technique!

Once my watercolour was dry, I painted over some of the areas with some diluted glimmer mist for some extra sparkle! The sentiment from the WPlus9 Little Dreamers stamp set was the perfect finishing touch!

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!

Trying Turnabouts!

Hi everybody,

Jill here, and this week I’m trying those wonderful Turnabout Stamps from Concord and 9th for the first time...

I’ve loved the look of these Turnabout sets since they were first released, but I have been trying with all my heart to be a good girl and use more of the stash I have, however, I simply could not resist this star pattern.

The stamp itself is in two parts so you can use the inner, the outer, or both.  There’s a load of Youtube videos to help you out on how to use them so definitely check them out before you get started.  

There are so many options with these stamps the possibilities are endless.  I decided to go with a night sky with white embossed stars which is possibly a wee waste of the thought process behind these stamps I guess haha, but hey-ho, I had fun!

I started by inking a piece of card up in an ombre burst of purples, I then covered my panel in stars using both pieces of my Stars Turnabout stamp.  I decided to only do two opposite turns to leave plenty of space for die-cutting stars also.  I then white heat embossed my stars.  Had I had more time to play I would’ve liked to have done a different embossing powder with each turn.  I think that would look incredible, and I’m already so excited to have a really good experiment with this set! 

I then took the Star Turnabout die and cut that on the two opposing sides to my stamping.  I then cut a bigger star from the centre of my panel using Lawn Fawn’s Puffy Stars.

My sentiment is from Mama Elephant’s Space Bears set and is stamped onto vellum then adhered behind my star aperture.

          

I then added my whole panel over top of some sparkly silver cardstock to allow the stars to twinkle through.  I added a ton of pink & blue paint splashes across my card and embellished with a scattering of sequins.

I thoroughly enjoyed having a quick play with this set, and really can’t wait to get to grips with it and start testing its potential.

As always, everything I used is down below.

See you next week.

Jillx