Take flight card

Good morning everyone, hope you all have a fabulous weekend. Today I have my last card to show you  as Guest Designer  for 'The Craft Barn' for this month. This time the theme is  'take flight' so I have used an old airplane stamp coloured red  ( so many of the old ones seemed to be red when I looked  at them.) This stamp is no longer available btw. ( cArt Us one)  so I am giving an alternative below.The  red is more pink  looking  here for some reason ! There is pink in parts from  the sun  but  as I look at it irl. it IS red at the edges.....honestly! Anyway come  and have a closer look........................  

  Card Recipe I first made a  white texturized card base ( 13cm x 15cm) & used  it tent fold. Then I cut another piece of white card (12cm x 13cm)  and cut a border from the bottom.I sponged the spare piece of  card  around the edges to give it  more  of an antique look.I shaded  the border piece in pink then  in a brown shade to match the main  card. I cut a circle then sponged it  in pink then in a brown shades  around the edges to give it a distressed look. I stamped the plane then
 coloured it , shading it as I did so. I printed a sentiment and used a corner rounder on the edges then gave it a  distressed  look also. I  used small 3d pads to stick the spare piece of card to the base  card to give it a bit more dimension. I stuck the border down using  some spray adhesive as it was less fiddly than using glue ( handy tip) .
 I stuck the circle to the spare card using  3d pads to raise it up a bit.  I did the same with  the plane image. After adding the sentiment I  added a few birds for extra interest, using a black permanent  pen, that completed my card. ps. See below for special offers at 'The Craft Barn'.     Our special offer this weekend: Spend and save

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 25th April and 

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 White textured card

                                        plane stamp alternative: Warehouse District

Nestabilities  Parisian accents ( used for border),

 Plain round circle, used for sun.

Inks: Memento Angel Pink, Distress ink ( Antique Linen & Frayed Burlap.)

Promarkers Lipstick Red & Cocktail Pink ( used on plane image).

Sentiment computer generated

Birds hand- drawn Permanent pen black

3d pads

   

Small scale projects

Hi everyone, here is my third post as Guest Designer for 'The Craft Barn'. The theme this week is 'Small scale'. So I made small cards ( 9 1/2cm x 9cm) with tiny butterflies on,  also matching little tags and  bookmarks also. I used a citrus  colour theme this time, nice and Spring like I thought ! Anyway  come and have a closer look................ See below for special offer details at 'The Craft Barn'  Special offer for this weekend is 10% off Shrink Plastic
Just enter SHRINK10 at checkout  

Here they are all together.  

 

I used the waste card etc. to cover this cocktail box also.
Card, Tag, Bookmark Recipes

Cards I first made three white card blanks using some texurized card  to measure 9 1/2 cm x 9 cm and used them tent fold. I stamped a
 large butterfly on a matching piece of card ( approx 7 cm x 6 cm).  I love how the stamp has writing on to add a bit of interest
 too. I used a Memory Box die to cut some tiny butterflies. I  stuck four of the largest butterflies to the body of the large butterfly
stamped earlier. I added two smaller butterflies to the middle  of the other four. The last butterfly I coloured to match the large
 butterfly and stuck that one to the centre of the large butterfly  stamp. I added a clear gem ( coloured to match using a
 Promarker pen),..... handy tip. I used small 3d pads to stick the  butterfly topper to the main card. I used three nice bright
Spring coloured inks to make three matching little cards.  I am so temped to make three more now....blue...pink.... lilac ! Tags  I first printed a few sentiments onto some white texturized card.  I then cut it to (8 cm x 2 cm) and used a corner rounder to round
 off the edges. I sponged some ink to add a bit of distressing  to the edges. I punched a small hole for the ribbon and stuck a tiny
butterfly to the tag ( after first colouring using more  ink to match).  I coloured some narrow satin ribbon ( using same method as  when  colouring the gem) and added that to the tag. I made three tiny  tags in all to match the cards. Bookmarks I used three of the smaller butterfly stamps ( from same set as  the large one used earlier) to stamp on to a piece of white  card (13 cm x 4 cm.)  I stamped a sentiment from the same butterfly  set also. I rounded the corners again then inked the edges.  I punched a hole and added some matching ribbon ,( coloured to match) .

I like the fact that you can have a card, a matching tag for a  gift and even a bookmark as the gift itself maybe :)

White texured card

Memory Box 'Butterfly delights'

Stamps: Woodware  clear stamp set 'Butterfly medley'

Inks Memento (Dandelion,Tangelo,New Sprout, Tuxedo black)

Corner rounder

Clear gems

White narrow satin ribbon

Hole punch

3D pads

Glue  

Wild blooms card

Hi everyone, this is my second card  as Guest Designer for  'The Craft Barn'. This week it's 'circle' week so I decided on a circular card. I made a tent fold card using the 'Lacey  circles' die & using some textured white card.I layered  another piece of white card cut using the 'Fleur De Lis'   die using some tiny 3d pads. .I shaded the Fleur De Lis die  cut just at the edges using some Momento Angel Pink'  ink and also a touch of Heliotrope at the very tips.  

 

    I layered another circle using some lilac card & cut using  the plain circle nestabilities. I cut another plain white circle which  I had first used the flower die to cut out the flower impression,   I used tiny 3d pads to layer again. I then used two Flexmarkers
(Aquamarkers) to shade just the tips of the flowers through the die  cuts. I stamped a small butterfly using the Heliotrope ink and  cut it out,I covered it with some glamour dust using a quickie glue  pen.I stuck the butterfly to the card. I attached an off-cut of  some lilac ribbon to the card and also added part of a heart from  the 'Precious hearts' set. I added a few clear gems to the heart. That completed my card. ps. See below for special offer at 'The Craft Barn'   

Our special offer this weekend is 10% off all Spellbinder dies 
(not Grand Calibur)

Just enter 10SPELL at checkout

Card Recipe List

Textured card: white, lilac card off cut.

Nestabilies dies: Large Lacey circles, Large plain round,

 Large Fleur De Lis Motifs.

Memory Box dies: Wild Blooms, Heart, Precious Hearts.

Woodware clear stamps: Butterfly Medley.

Memento ink: Angel Pink

Versacolor ink: Heliotrope

Glamour dust ( Clear)

Aquamarkers

Ribbon

Clear gems

 

Purple butterfly card

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well today. This is my very first  Guest DT post for 'The Craft Barn'. I was  so thrilled to be asked  as you can imagine :) The theme this week is  'Upcycle week' so I  decided to upcycle a lemonade can. Not done much of this but I  quite like the idea of it now.Anyway come and look what I made....

Card Recipe First I made a 144 mm card base and used it tent fold style.  I used an old lemonade can , I cut the top and bottom part off, then cut the cylinder in half using scissors.  

 I punched three butterflies from the metal,

   then  ran  those through an embossing folder for  texture.

   Using some TH alcohol ink in purple, I dabbed some onto the butterflies. I used a heat gun to set the colour.

    Then I used three Promarkers to add colour to each butterfly  & heat set those also. I used a dark blue Promarker to colour the separate body and feelers. I heat set these again and then glued these onto the main butterflies. I printed a sentiment  and glued it onto the card, after first distressing it with some TH purple ink. I cut two more strips of white card & used  3d pads to raise it  above the main part of the card either side of the sentiment. I cut  a strip of purple card & added that to the side of the other two strips.  A few clear gems added to the butterflies completes this card. Also see below for free P&P offers at 'The Craft Barn'.   "As part of our Grand Opening celebration following our move,
from 6pm on Friday (5th April) to 6pm on Monday (8th April) 
we have
free P&P on all UK orders 
(for customers outside the UK shipping is free for orders over £30)"

 Supplies 144mm white textured card base

Purple card off- cut

Empty lemonade can

Memory Box Moonlight Butterfly die

Cuttlebug embossing folder Script

TH Alcohol ink Purple Twilight,

TH Distress ink Dusty Concord

Promarkers Cobalt blue, Carmine, Forest green, Indigo blue

Clear gems

 PP sentiment    hugs Viv xx