Birthday Cards

Second Monday and it's time for some Die Cuts... as per Darnell's IDEAS prompt ---  so I've had some fun with the Cut Out Leaves dies (Sizzix)... had to hand cut around the leaves to have them stand along.

For the first card I inked up the leaves with Distress Inks then used the same colours to paint a leaf shape on my card front panel.. decided to add some sparkle after I'd stamped the sentiment in Silver EP, so added a little EP to the bottoms of the leaves too

With the second card I used coloured EP... mistletoe green and fir tree (Sizzix) on the leaves, that blended well with the smoochy background from my stash.  Added some more die cut leaves (Sizzix Winter Woodland) from shiny green card and finished with a cluster of green pearls and stamped sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by my blog... have a wonderful day

Cheers Robyn

Happy Birthday to You

An effective way to use a lovely floral die cut like this one from Paper Rose - Blooming Flowers background, is to simple add lovely colour background to a white diecut 

 

• I used Distress Oxide inks to blend a rainbow of colour on white card
• Die cut the image in white card and attached to the background leaving a border of colour
• Stamped and clear embossed the sentiment from Hero Arts on a die cut label (Project Life set) 

I am playing along with The Flower Challenge #59 - Use a Die

Thanks for visiting, and have a Wonderful Day, cheers

     

Christmas - Watercolour Die Cut Prints

The Design Team at CAS Mix Up Card Challenge are celebrating their 5th Birthday this month... a Big Congratulations from me, I so enjoy their challenges and wonderful DT inspiration.

This month the challenge is to use watercolours with  die cut printing, so for a change rather than my favourite flowers I've chosen a textured fir tree die to make Christmas cards... yes I've a Twofer - in the process I had made a not very CAS panel so cut it in half...

A die cut the tree ( two different sizes of the three in the set) in thick shiny card (recycled packaging) which gave me a stronger die cut to ink and wet.  Cut a mask to create the snow slope and smooched two shades of green DO and one dark blue on my plastic sheet and then lightly spritzed the die cuts, smooched them in the inks and "stamped" over the mask - the indents on the die cuts left some areas white so it looks like snow.  I die cut a single tree from watercolour card and used the left over smooch ink to watercolour it.  Watercoloured in the blue sky and shadows with a brush.  To finish I mounted the panel with foam sheet to a die cut layer and stamped and silver embossed the sentiment and attached the tree with foam dots.

For my second card... I repeated the process to create the scene, stamped and clear embossed the sentiment, added a die cut frame and attached the tree with foam dots.

I am playing along with CAS Mix Up March challenge - Watercolouring/Print Making with Die Cuts.   and also  Christmas Kickstart challenge #48 - Green Christmas

Thanks for stopping by my blog  --  have a Wonderful Creative day

Card Recipe 

Stamps:  Sentiments:  card 1 - Crafters Choice - Rustic Christmas, card 2  Kaisercraft - Nordic Christmas

Dies: set 3 tree dies -unknown,  Poppy Craft - stitched rectangles, Distress Oxides - rustic wilderness, mowed lawn, chipped sapphire

Inks: Versmark, Versafine - black

Other:  silver embossing poswder, clear embossing powder

Big hugs

Big celebrations at Stamplorations as it is their 5th Birthday... wooohooo Congrats to Sheri and the team.
I was inspired to make this card by Vicki with her Birthday Wishes card (below) on day one ... to use my fab new dies... I cut my die in black and used a bright painted panel (from my experiment stash) to highlight it and then added my large die cut sentiment.  Thanks for visiting and join in the celebration

 

Happy Mother's Day

This lovely ANZAC Day afternoon I have a shaped card for The Flower Challenge #19, and I am also posting to Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes with Dies Challenge for April.  I folded my white card and the largest die from this set and cut the card through both layers.   Then I die cut the second largest die in green DP and then traced around the outside of the die on pink card and cut it out.  I stamped my floral image and used Distress Oxides to watercolour it and then roughly cut it out.  I stamped my sentiment on a different die cut and sponged the edge with pink ink.  Lastly put all the layers together and used foam tape on the image and sentiment.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

 

Noel..

OOOH wow, a card without Ink - that doesn't happen very often for me because I'm a rubber stamper, but a couple weeks back I got this freebie die on a magazine.. so I had to try it out.... it's fiddly, changing colours and collecting all those little bits - happy that I used the double sided adhesive tape before I die cut...i used different types of shiny metallic card even for the card base. And so I have a Christmas card for this weeks Shopping Our Stash - SOS #347 - No Ink.
I am also playing along at Watercooler Wednesday WWC163 challenge- All About Christmas - Anything Goes and also to Rudolph Days challenge for March - Anything Goes.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your Easter 

  

Shopping Our Stash #347 - No Ink

March Rudolph Days Challenge

Wishing you well

SOS #160: Can't Put It Down (or Away)

Hi and happy Tuesday... I'm waiting to go to the airport to pick up hubby, so of course I'm at my desk making cards.... Don't know where this card came from... last night I was thinking about making a scene with a stamped image in the forefront. Anyway my can't put down for Shoppping Your Stash #160 - is my distress inks and die cuts - they've both been coming out lots lately. But this card isn't actually made with distress inks - this morning I wanted to know if my dried up, faded old Adirondack Inks would work like DIs if you sprayed water on them... guess what they do.

I sponged ink over some water colour cardstock kinda like a garden off to one side, then just sprayed on water...whooppie my pads are not juicy enough to stamp with but they'll be getting used for backgrounds now. When it was dry I added some "flowers" - just dabbed the corner of a paper scrap in the ink and filled in the flat colour areas and some drag lines for stems. Stamped on a simple sentiment and finished off with a die cut flower spray that I cut and re-positioned to fit the space. That was fun... Thanks for taking a peek Robyn