Fun with Geometrics

Happy Thursday!

It's Bev here today with a FUN geometric and masculine birthday card. It's my Dad's birthday at the weekend, and so I needed to make a card for him.

I was looking though my supplies to make my card and with limited masculine themed products, I was inspired to use the Waffle Flower Color Combos For Inkpads stamp set. As I've not got round to my intended purpose for using these stamps (swatching all my ink pads), it was nice to ink them up to create this fun background. 

I decided to use the Altenew Lapis Lazuli collection which features two bright blues and two softer shades creating a fun combination. I used my stamping tool to stamp all of the shapes, this was to ensure I achieved even coverage with them being solid and new stamps. 

The 'Happiest Birthday' sentiment is from Concord & 9th Confetti Turnabout stamp set and the DAD is die cut using the My Favourite Things Impact Alphabet dies and adhered to the card using foam adhesive for a little dimension.

This card would look great in all kinds of colour combinations, for women and all different occasions. Geometrics are my 'go to' for masculine cards and they come in all types of products too, not just stamps. 

I hope I have inspired you today & I hope to share more masculine makes with you soon. Until next week, thanks for stopping by today.

Crafty Hugs

Bev

Products Used...

Autumn Flowers

Hey!

I don't know about you, but I am trying to soak up a little more of Autumn before Winter really takes hold on the weather here. The weather here in the NE of the UK has gotten colder and I felt it last night as we watched the fireworks at the beach. 

Anyway, I decided to take the Hero Arts / Gina K collaboration stamp set Friendship Blooms for a spin and created a card with an Autumnal colour scheme in mind.

The detail on the floral stamp is exquisite and I reached for my VersaFine Onyx Black ink to stamp it onto some white card. It is a really big image, but I left some space for a sentiment. 

My 'go to' medium for colouring these days are pencils, I find them quick and easy. I might not be the best at colouring, but practice makes perfect, right?

As you can see I chose the grateful sentiment from the set. Also intentionally chosen with Thanksgiving in the US coming up and harvest festivals and celebrations of remembrance not far away here in the UK.

Just the one card from me today. I have so many ideas and plans for this stamp set, which I will share soon, but due to recovering from the Flu this past weekend, creativity has taken a back seat :( 

Stay warm & thanks for stopping by today!

Crafty Hugs

Bev 

Share Handmade Kindness

Hey!

I'm here today to Share Handmade Kindness with you all, hopefully it will inspire you to send out some handmade kindness to someone this week :)

This week Jennifer McGuire is celebrating 3 years of sharing handmade kindness and I thought it would be lovely to honour this anniversary too, using the Hero Arts Acts of Kindness clear stamp set and the Share Handmade Kindness fancy die.

I've a trio of cards to share using a combination of the stamps and dies seen above paired with other awesome products.

The Hero Arts Acts of Kindness clear stamp set is mainly sentiments, apart from the few heart accents. With sets like this, it can often be difficult to know how to use the sentiments in a creative way. One thing I love to do, especially with bolder sentiments is shadow stamping.

This is super easy to achieve using a stamping tool, a coloured ink and black ink. Once I stamped the sentiment I felt it needed a beautiful butterfly to accent it, I chose one from WPlus9 Beautiful Butterflies was the perfect choice.

Next, I wanted to use the 'Throw Kindness Round Like Confetti' sentiment, as I had the perfect choice of stamp set to pair it with...

I think this is the first card I have made with one of Concord & 9th turnabout stamp sets *shocked face*. Obviously the best choice was the Confetti Turnabout clear stamp set.

I used a selection of Altenew inks to stamp the confetti and then over stamped the sentiment in VersaFine Onyx Black ink. I finished the card with a small hear accent filled with glittery dimensional  drops and also added some to a few of the confetti drops.

Lastly for today I had to use the Share Handmade Kindness fancy die...

This is a wonderful sentiment in a beautiful font and I instantly thought to showcase it with the inlaid die technique. I used Hero Hues Azalea card stock and it looks shockingly pink against black. But I love it! 

I finished this card off with a sparkly embossed heart, fussy cut and adhered to the card using foam adhesive.

All the products I've used can be seen below. I hope you find some creative time today and that you are inspired to share some handmade kindness.

Crafty Hugs

Bev

Sweater Weather on Safari

Hello crafty people!
Hope that you all doing great.

I'm back with another card today, which features MFT Sweater Weather on Safari stamp set.  

As usual, I started from stamping all needed images from the stamp set on to piece of watercolour paper. I used distress inks for colouring and scissors for fussy cutting. ( you can always use coordinating dies )   

My next step was to do ink blending for the background. I used distress oxides in warm colours to create a sunset impression and added water splatters for more interest.

Once my background and images were dry, I die-cut window from kraft card panel made out of Hero Arts Hero Hues Sand cardstock with a circle die and adhered my blended background piece behind it with craft foam. I also added critters to the front with a little bit of dimension and drawn faux stitching details around the window itself.

Last but not least, I stamped the sentiment with black ink and adhered the whole card front to the card base.

That's all for today!
Thank you all for stopping by.

 

See you all next week.
Anna 

Simple birthday card

Hello and welcome back everyone! 

Hope you're having a great day. 

 Today I'm back with a simple birthday card, featuring MFT Up In The Air stamp set and ink blending.

I started with stamping all the critters from the "Up in the air" stamp set on to a watercolour paper with waterproof black ink and colouring them with Zig real brush markers. 

I also added details with a white gel pen.

For my background, I decided to do my favourite technique - ink blending. I used distress oxides here, as the results are always great. I added gold splatters for more interest.

My next step was to die cut oval window in the card front. For that, I chose Hero Arts Nesting Oval Infinity Dies. 
I adhered my card panel on top of the inked background with foam tape and added critters inside the window.

For the sentiment, I decided to use one of the greetings from MFT Handwritten Happiness stamp set and stamped it with black ink

To finish off this card, I added a few grey Nuvo drops.

That's all for today! I love love love this colour combination. I'm sure to be back with more cards in the same colour scheme.

Thank you for stopping by! See you soon.

Anna

Live life to the fullest.

Hello lovely people.

 I'm back with another card. This time I'm playing with Flora & Fauna Live Life Wildflowers stamp set.

My first step was to stamp almost all the images from the set on to my watercolour panel with waterproof black ink.
I chose to colour them all with watercolour markers and shimmer pen to add a little bit of interest to this almost one-layer card.

After the colouring was done, I've used Altenew Halftone Circles Nesting Dies to cut out the centre of my card panel. I decided to stamp the sentiment on to my card base.
 Before adhering notecard in place, I went and gold heat embossed along the edges and added shadows behind the flowers.

I decided to use foam tape to adhere my card panel to the card base. I also did make sure that my already stamped greeting was in perfect place inside the circle.
My last step was to add a few Nuvo drops.

Thank you for stopping by.
 Please leave a comment to let us know if you like my card.

See you soon!
Anna

Altenew Happy Bloom and watercolouring

Hello there, It's Anna here. 

 I'm covering for Anika today, and she is going to take over for me next Thursday. After that, we are sure to be posting on our regular days.
Today's card is full of florals from Altenew Happy Bloom stamp set, accompanied by Hello Friend script creative cuts from Mama Elephant.

 My first step was to stamp this huge floral arrangement twice on to watercolour paper and colour it with Zig markers. 

 I chose bright colours and scribbled with my marker where I wanted the shadows to appear the darkest. Then pulled it out with the water brush. ( You can also use a paintbrush ).

I decided to add a border around the edges. For this, I simply masked off the small area, using masking tape and coloured it with a dark marker. You can see the uneven edge here and there, but I like that it is imperfect. ( You can also use dark cardstock if you prefer more graphic look )

My next step was to die cut the Hello Friend sentiment die from Mama Elephant. I cut it three times from Lawn Fawn Kraft Cardstock and stacked together, using liquid glue for a dimensional look.
I also added a strip of vellum from Lawn Fawn to drawn attention to the greeting.
To finish off this card, I chose sequins and glossy accents over the die-cut.

That's all! This card was super fun to make.
Thank you for stopping by. 

I will be back soon with another card. 

 Anna 

Neat & Tangled Later Alligator set and simple watercolouring.

Hello everyone!

 I'm back with another card. Today's project features Neat & Tangled Later Alligator stamp set along with simple watercolouring and ink blending.

I started with stamping all chosen images on to piece of watercolour paper with waterproof black ink. After watercolouring, I fussy cut everything out and left on the side, while working on the background.

I decided to do simple ink blending on my background, using distress oxide ink and a blending tool. I masked off the top part of card panel with a piece of masking paper as I didn't want any unnecessary ink going there. I chose to leave the top portion of my card white, to give watercoloured images more attention. I also added water splatters.

 

Before attaching anything, I arranged my little scene to make sure that I was happy with the results.  

I used foam squares to adhere all the images ( except the banner, where I used liquid glue ).
My last step was to stamps the sentiment from the same Later Alligator set with black ink and add a few blue and gold sequins.
I adhered the whole card panel to the slightly larger card base with crafts foam and double-sided tape.

That's all for this project! Thank you for stopping by.
Leave the comment below to let me know if you like this card.


 

See you soon! Anna 

Dimensional heat embossing over die-cuts.

Hello everyone.

 I'm back with a very fun technique today - dimensional stamping. 

I used Christmas Rose Bouquet and No One Else stamp sets from Wplus9, along with Hero Arts Pebble cardstock. 

My first step was to stamp and colour the main image from the Christmas Rose Bouquet set with alcohol markers. After that, I fussy cut it out using scissors.
I chose to use Hero Arts Hero Hues cardstock in Pebble as my card panel.

After deciding where to position my florals, I used repositionable adhesive to temporarily adhere them in place. It is a very important step, as you got to be able to peel it off later.

 As you can see the sentiment is overlapping with the adhered image and still lines up. To achieve that look, I did make sure that my stamping on the card panel ( grey ) was lining up with stamping on my florals.  I used clear embossing ink to stamp it. I then removed die-cut and restamped it in the same position on the cardstock with the same ink.  I heat embossed it with white embossing powder. 

My next step was to adhere the bouquet to the base. I decided to use liquid glue instead of foam tape because I wanted the focus to be on the overlapping sentiment, but you can definitely use dimensional adhesive here.

 I chose to add a few sequins and sparkle to the florals with a shimmer pen.
My last step was to glue the whole card panel to the slightly larger, white card base with foam tape.
This card is all done! 

 

Thank you for stopping by today! See you soon. Anna