It would seem that lack of sleep can sometimes increase your productivity - this is the second card of the day! I also need to thank the "Less is More" team for inspiring me, yet again, with an interesting challenge. I promise that this will be the last as I have now exhausted all my ideas!!
Once again alcohol inks and peel offs are involved but this time with the addition of acetate. Firstly I smooshed cranberry and raspberry inks for the baubles and then lettuce and bottle for the background. I cut an aperture in the card. Added the peel offs to the acetate and them fussy cut the baubles, added some silver thread and adhered them to the back of the aperture. I cut a piece of the, now, green acetate to fit the aperture and adhered it behind. Added the sentiment and that, as they say, is that!!
This will be my third entry in the challenge at "Less is More" where the recipe for the week is to "... Use sticker, sticky label or peel-off.
All that is left to do now is to hide the peel-offs back in the deep recesses of my cupboard!
Enjoy!
When sleep alludes you what do you do? It's a holiday weekend in the UK so I should have been enjoying a lie in but my brain had other ideas and just would not go back to sleep ... so here I am having made a card already!!
Another card using my ancient stash of peel off stickers!
I haven't used the stickers in a novel or different way, I've just used them as stickers. I coloured some shiny card using alcohol inks then applied the peel offs - both the positive and negative flowers. I then fussy cut the flowers - the stems were created from the waste around the peel off sheet sliced thinly with my guillotine. The most time consuming element of the card was sticking the negative elements in place.
Thanks to the designers at "Less is More" for setting this weeks challenge - it has made me use a few peel offs from my (large) stash! Who knows whether I'll be back later with another card ...
Enjoy!
I've been trying out a new technique with brusho that Kim Dellow (Kim used PaperArtsy Infusions) explained in a you tube video - I'm not sure that I've mastered the technique but I like the effect that it creates. It involves printing the image using versamark ink then sprinkle with brusho before spritzing with water - for a clearer explanation I recommend you watch Kim's video here.
I used this technique to create the butterflies in this card:
I used the following:
Versamark
Brushos - Ultramaring, Turquoise and Lemon
CUTplorations Rectangle Die and Awesome word die
STAMPlorations Trendy Butterflies Stamp Set.
I'm entering the new challenge at AAA Cards:
Enjoy!
It's an interesting challenge this week at "Less is More" - the challenge is to use "... a sticker, sticky label or peel off" on your card. I have lots of peel offs I used to be obsessed with buying them but apart from sentiment ones I've never really worked out what to do with them! So with the challenge set I decided to have a go - at first I was just going to make a card and use a peel off for the sentiment but that would have been the easy way out. This is what I did instead:
A simple card - it almost feels like I cheated! I masked a circle and then ink blended it with distress inks. Added the peel offs and the sentiment and that was it.
Enjoy!
I took a break from gardening this afternoon ... it was just too hot! I managed to create one card ... the rest of the time I was merely procrastinating (a skill that I have mastered!!).
I used:
UNIKO Paradise: Hummingbird Stamp set
Distress Inks - Twisted Citron, Mermaid Lagoon, Blueprint Sketch, Picked Raspberry
I inked the hummingbird with three shades of distress ink which I spritzed with water - an attempt to created a blended water colour feel. The flowers were inked and stamped in the same way but with the stem of the first one masked to allow for multiple stamping. I fussy cut the hummingbird so that I could pop it up to add some dimension.
I'm entering this weeks challenge at "Less is More" - the theme is Exotic.
Enjoy!
