Getting into the Olympics Vibe

I'm not the sportiest of people and I do hate snow but for some weird reason I do love the winter Olympics and keep trying to stay awake to watch the curling.....   So this week I thought I'd get into the Olympic vibe with a fun card seeing as team GB just won it's first ever medal on skis!

I combined MFT's Ski-sons Greetings with Mama Elephant's So Many Snowmen to provide the crowd for my ski jumping Olympian.  I did a quick inky background (masking off the snowmen on the top row) and added some water drops for snow.    Some of the snowmen have little bits of holly in their hats so to make it less Christmassy I just made a couple of score signs (hand drawn) and stuck them over to cover up the bits I didn't want to see.  It's a good way of getting a longer season out of your stamps ;-)  There's often an easy way to "disguise" some odd bits!

I also wanted to share a card I made for the current Less is More Challenge as it's their 7th birthday this month and I am sponsoring their current "dry embossing in a CAS way" challenge.

Here I've used the Full of Heart Stencil and run it through my Big Shot with a tan mat so you get a really subtle embossed effect of hearts all over the background.

For the focal element I've used the gorgeous Mosaic Dome die from AlteNew and embossed it using the tan mat again into some thick card.   I've then used an embossing pen to colour in the raised elements and used different embossing powders to get an enamelled look to the dome.  I really like the soft blue shade which came about by accident - the embossing pen has a slight blue hue and I used satin pearl embossing powder over the top and the blue showed through - one happy accident!

I added a blue glitter banner and then the two part sentiment using Waffle Flower Crafts really useful Congrats stamp and die sets.  All layered up with tiny bits of foam tape for dimension and interest.

Hope you like it and hope you are inspired to join in the challenge too - it's a really fun one!

NEWS FROM THE STORE

We will have the new release from Hero Arts in store this week as well as the Lawn Fawn release on Thursday.

We may also get a few more arrivals but it all depends on how much time we have to get those opened and loaded in amongst those two major releases which equate to a days work each to load to the store never mind pack!   We'll get everything else online as quickly as we can.

As always new arrivals will be reported on our Facebook page as soon as they are available in store to purchase.

Catch you next weekend

Tara

Ombre Flowers

Hello there and Happy New Year to you all :)

There's not been a lot of free time for crafting in our house over the Christmas period so I'm sharing 

a birthday card I made a few weeks ago.

I've used the Scandinavian Prints Stamp set to add the black details but the coloured flowers are made using the coordinating Scoops Stencil from Neat and Tangled.... it's perfect for using with the stamps to make floral patterns :)

I inked through the stencil using three shades of Distress ink and then added the extra detail with black ink. The scalloped frame is cut three times and layered for dimension and I stamped and embossed the sentiment from Waffleflowers Congrats set onto black card and made it into a small tab to fit inside the frame. The whole panel is mounted onto a black card base.

    

Thanks for stopping by, catch you next week :)

Jenny x

Hands Up!!

Hello there :)

I have a couple of cards to share with you today using a new stamp set called 

Hats Off from Avery Elle... I was quite excited when I saw this set because those hands in

 the set are going to be soooo useful, come and see.....

How about a group of party-goers to celebrate a birthday..

yay, put those hands in the air:)

I stamped, coloured and die cut the arms twice, the first layer are left as is

 but I trimmed the second layer apart in places so I could swap the arms around.. 

Lol, not as painful as it sounds :)

For the sentiment and balloons I used MFT's Birthday Wishes & Balloons.....

 I think the font is a great match for the style of card :)

One of the hands in the set is drawn to hold an item so I embossed a sentiment from 

 Mama Elephants Photo Bomb onto black card to make a small placard for that person to hold :)

For my second card I went quite calm and neutral and made a wedding card....

how about those hands throwing confetti.....

 This card is simple and almost one layer.... I've kept the colouring monochrome 

so the confetti adds a splash of subtle colour and the sentiment is from Congrats by Waffleflower.

I used Polychrome pencils to freehand draw the confetti and I love 

how the oil based pigment has resisted the ink when stamping the sentiment.

I also have to confess to loving the scalloped rectangle die I used for this card, I'm not usually

one for a scalloped edge but I think I've been swayed by the current trend. This die comes in the MFT Blueprints 27 which contains lots of other useful dies too :)

         

  

Have I got you thinking what else those arms and hands can be used for?

It's such a useful set :)

Thanks for stopping by

Jenny x