Hello Autumn

Hello.

As the weather starts to cool and the evenings get darker I was inspired to make an autumnal style card.

I have used Winnie and Walters In Bloom: Renee's leaves stamp set.

To start I stamped and heat embossed some of the leaf images in red and gold embossing powers.

I then die cut the card with the scalloped rectangles from Lawn fawn and distressed the edges.

 And then I splashed lots of the gold gansai tambi water colours on the panel before die cutting again with the stitched rectangles.

I then water coloured a panel with more gold , while that was drying i die cut the hello.

the gold panel was placed behind the hello and then I added some red twin from Lawn fawn before adhering with foam tape. 

I didn't want to added to much embellishment as the gold embossing powder has a sparkle to it.

Thanks for looking.

Renee's Leaves revisited

Hello.

Today I wanted to re-visit the In bloom Renee's leaves stamp set from winnie and walter.

I went with a very different look to my last card.

I wanted a very simple card but have added lots of interest from embossing and ink techniques.

To start I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment from The big the bold and friends.

I wanted an ombre background and worked the ink from one corner.

Then I stamped the small image from Renee's leaves and heat embossed in white.

I deliberately added some random sprinkles of embossing powder.

The aim was for a random messy feel.

To finish I added some splashes of the left over ink from blending, it was just mixed with some water and left to dry.

Lastly some sequins in the same colours as each card.

 

Thanks for looking. 

In Bloom: Renee's Leaves Watercolour wonder

Hello.

Today I have a card featuring Winnie and Walter's  In bloom:Renee's leaves stamp set.

To start I stamped the image onto water colour card with versamark and then heat embossed in platinum.

Then using the Gansai tambi water colours I coloured the images really loosely.

I let it all dry then added splashes of the white gold from the starry colours set.

The panel was die cut with Lawn fawns stitched rectangles and also a smaller rectangle of vellum.

For the sentiment I used Lawn fawns scripty thanks die. 

Its cut from water colour card and then coloured with the white gold water colour.

I adhered to the vellum and then added the same adhesive on the reverse of the vellum so nothing shows through once everything is put together.

To finish I added more splashes of the white gold.

 

Thanks for looking.

Dura-lar Flowers!

Hey! Hope you're doing ok?

I'm here with a new-to-me product called Dura-lar for the very reason that I wanted an acetate that could be sculpted.

Now you can get this look with plain acetate just without so much of the moulding. It's easy...

Stamp your images onto the polyester film.

I've used the Winnie & Walter sets In Bloom:Renee's Leaves & In Bloom:Anna's Flora

It makes these flowers even more interesting, that I can mould them. You simply dip them in hot water, mould under water and then bring out still holding onto the shape which then fixes it.

This is the completed card- I just wish you could see the shine!

The really hard bit was painting. I can't make paints do what I'd normally do with pencils or markers. To be hones, I rushed it. But there's definitely room for improvement!

Hopefully you can see on the next picture both the shine and the shape in the images

 It's so much fun creating shiny flowers by painting underneath acetate. It's a simple technique and you can use any acrylic paint. I do find the more you pay, the better the quality, but you could achieve the same look with paint nicked (borrowed) from your kid's room ;-)

It's a bolder brighter look and makes these flowers really look alive!

Do hope you'll give the technique a go!

See you soon!

xx

One Colour Wonder!

Hey! How are you?

Now whilst I can't actually claim this card is a wonder- it hopefully shows you that by picking a palette of 'one', you can actually create something quite pretty and with limited supplies.

Great news for those with smaller stashes- or just if you fancy a challenge with a difference.

I've taken my inspiration from one of the challenges at Winnie & Walter's Belated 2nd Birthday celebrations. They are such a wonderful company and well deserving of all the love that's headed their way. This challenge was all about Gold and Watercolour; fun!

Apologies for the slightly weird photos- one of the down sides of photographing this card was the camera was struggling with both the glitter and the pink. Every picture just looked like it had pink hues on the white card!

Anyhow- who'd have thought you could get away with pink leaves?!!

These sets continue to be some of my long term favourites (which with a constantly evolving stash is no mean feat!).

I've simply embossed in gold for all the leaves and white for the flowers. I could have done them all in gold but it helps delineate the flowers as opposed to the leaves which I thought was helpful when they were all pink!! 

I thought I'd show the previous version- just to show that 'more is way too much' sometimes. It took a little more paring back to get a better final result..

Adding the white panel over the glut of glitter definitely was the way to go.

Do give the one-colour a go and check out the gorgeous leaf and flower stamps too!

Enjoy your day!

Hugs...

Keren xx