Cloudy Day.

Hi, it's Carol here today! Hope everyone is well and looking forward to the new week ahead of them. Exciting times for some of us #TeamHurley girls as we are all heading to Birmingham at the weekend for a meet up...totally hyper in this household...anyway I digress.

Today I am going to share a  card I made using the stunning new Large Tiger Butterfly stamp,  Doodle Home Stamps and Sentiment Stamps. I even got out the Distress Inks and got inky!

1 Stamp the gorgeous butterfly using embossing ink, cover with clear powder and heat. Take a piece of 5 3/4" square card and stamp with the 3 different clouds from the Doodle Home set, cover with embossing powder and heat.

2 Look out the colours of Distress Inks you would like to use and get inky!

3 Fussy cut the butterfly, add to the card using 3d foam. Stamp a sentiment onto some card, punch it out then distress the edges. I popped some wee sparkly gems on the antennae of the butterfly and the sentiment.

Ingredients

Large Tiger Butterfly Stamp

Doodle Home Stamps

Sentiment Stamps

Perfect Medium Ink Pad

Beacon 3 in 1 Craft Glue

Distress Inks; Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers & Broken China.

Punch

Gems

3d Foam 

Thanks for popping by today, why not have a look at some of the other posts from my fabulously talented teamies, and remember to pop by soon for another new post.
Carol xx

Shaker card

Happy Saturday!

Its Ria here today.

Shaker cards seems to be on-trend now and I'm sharing today my take in doing one. My first attempt to make one can be found here.

My process:

• I die cut my paper with the rectangle shape, then a square die cut for my window.
• I then stamped the flamingos and leaves that will go inside the window including the hill shaped die cut. For the 2 flamingos? I fussy cut them after stamping, then adhere them direct to the background base paper
• I put the clear acetate in the window, then flip them over to put the beads in there
• I put the dimensional foam, securing all the 4 sides to keep the beads from falling. Then adhere the stamped background to seal the window
• I added the birthday sentiment and gem stones for some more embellishment 

 I got the beads from my local store but you can also use sequins as you wish.

Great way to add more fun to a birthday card

And the full card

Until then! Enjoy the rest of the weekend :)


Supplies used:
Special Edition stamps: Cupcake by Jaine Drake
A Few of my Favourite Things paper
Memento Texedo Black Inkpad
Rectangle & Square Dies
Colored Beads
Embossing folder

Happy Sunday everyone! It's Ria here today.

Christmas is just few weeks away and I have started creating my holiday cards to be sent out to family and friends.
I'm looking at my stash and I was thinking of using the stamps and papers that I already own to use in my Christmas cards. There will be other ways that you can use stamps other than what they are by changing the colors and adding other elements in the project.

Here I used the Doodle Doll Wish Upon a Star stamp set and colored her with Christmas colors, red and green. The other elements you see such as the stars and flag banner are from non-traditional paper packs that I already have from Sarah.

I used a die cut snowflakes to cut the papers also from Sarah and added some texture in my card base by using an embossing folder.

I wanted to mimic an angel for this doll so I also embossed an vellum that served as her wings.

This is a quick holiday card and I think the same can be also replicated in a Project life page isn't it?

Here's the full card..

A closer look at the details..

Until next time!

Supplies used:

Doodle Doll Wish Upon a Star Girl stamp set
A Few of my Favourite Things March kit
A Few of my Favourite Things April Happy kit
Embossing folders, dies, washi tape, vellum

Flamingo love

Hello everyone! It's Ria here today.

I'm sharing a card project today using Sarah Hurley's A Few of my Favourite Things July - Tropical Favourites kit.

I fell in-love with the pink Flamingo the first time I saw that in the set, what a better way than to do highlight her in today's project.

So here are a quick look of the supplies I used

One thing I love above Sarah's kit is the that it includes a Snip 'n' Stick sheet with great print images ready to use in just any project. I love combining different collection to make as embellishment. See how I can just select the element I wanted to use?

I used one of the journaling card with life is beautiful already printed on it. I just added a white embossed sentiment from the July's Add-on Exclusive stamp. Love the chalk board look of that journal card.

I then took a pink paper and emboss the piece with hearts from the Be Mine collection. 

Adding a clear embossing powder add some texture to a plain paper piece. 

Love how the clear embossed piece add life to a plain paper.

I also cut the paper strips I'll be using for my card background. I also used a paper from the Neopolitan set. Love that Love print background :) Just perfect for my pink flamingo love.

I assembled my card pieces: my paper strips, embossed journal card, and my cut embellishments.

I just arranged the rest of the cut pieces in the main card, popping them with some dimensional. Fussy cutting may be a challenge to some but I find it therapeutic? Cutting those small sections of the flamingo just makes me concentrate on what I do, keeping my mind off to stress. Love fussy cutting, or is it just me?

So here's a detail of the arranged pieces. Makes me smile :)

and the finish card..

That's it for now. I'll catch up with you again soon!

     

Me & You card

Hello there everyone!  It's Ria here and I'm sharing another card project using a combination of different papers from Sarah Hurley.

First off is selecting random papers that complements each other. For this card, I used a selection from A Few of my Favorite Things Caught on Camera (this is one of my most loved kit plus stamps) and another from the 8x8 Paper collection. I also got another paper from the Curio collection.

I played around these papers and die cut them too for some fun shapes. The hexagon shapes somewhat mimics a quilt so using different papers is like choosing different fabrics too don't you think?

I embossed the sentiment from the Sentiments stamps with white embossing powder, and I also embossed the couple from the Expedition stamp set. What I love about stamping and card-making in general is I can mix and match stamps and papers from different collections without limits.

A closer look of the embossing, the silver sequin is also part of the Sarah's kit.

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The stamped star is from Wish Upon a Star Girl stamps.

This is it for today and thanks again for stopping by.

Embossed Background

Hi it's Lisa here with my first inspiration post on the new look blog.

We have already shown you a couple of posts on ways to create texture using masks, one from Jaine here and one from Jess here. I wanted to try and show that you don't always need to get messy (although sometimes that is fun!) to create a cool background.

Completed Card

Here's what you'll need:

• Chevron Stripe Mask
• Sentiments Stamps
• Yellow, Orange and Black Inkpads
• Stickles Glitter Glue and Viva Decor Pearl Pen
• White and Orange Card
• Die Cutting Machine

Step by Step:

1. Take a 14cm square of white card and place onto the mask, securing with some low tack tape. Run through your die cutting machine to emboss. I used a Cuttlebug and the sandwich was as follows A plate, B plate, mask, card, embossing mat, 2 card shims and a B plate.
2. With the mask still in place use a stencil brush to apply the ink. Remove the mask and mat onto orange card. Fix to your card base.
3. Take a strip of white card and stamp with various sentiment stamps. Mat on orange card and fix to the card base.
4. Stamp 'Surprise' onto a thin strip of white card and trim ends into fishtails (I used a square punch for this). Fix to card base using 3D foam pads.
5. Decorate with pearls and glitter glue.

A close up of the embossing.

I'm not sure that the camera has truly picked up the texture but it looks lovely in real life and makes you want to stroke it (sad as that sounds!).

Hope you are inspired to try something different with your masks and if you give this a go leave a link to your project in the comments below as I would love to pop by and take a look...nosey? me? ;-)

Thanks for stopping by and come back soon for more inspiration from the fabulous Hurley Girlies!

Lisa