Celebrate!

Hello everyone!

Its Ria here again for a birthday card tutorial.

I used mostly stamping, some coloring, a little bit of fussy cutting and just full fun playing with colors.

Here's a quick look of the items I used on this project

 I started off with stamping the cupcake in plain white cardstock, then another to two different patterned papers. The plain cardstock will be the base later for my cut patterned papers.

I then fussy cut the cupcake topping and paper that I will assembly later.

For my sentiment, I made a custom one using Sarah's Outline Alpha stamps. I stamped it in a watercolor paper using waterproof ink.

Here's the complete sentiment that I colored using watercolor. You can use other coloring medium that you may have. I just wanted to play with watercoloring today :) I put a based yellow color then later added light shade of green, then darker green.

For the green background paper, I stamped it with the texture background stamp and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. I used a die cut to cut this green paper with stitching detail on it.

I then moved to stamped my card base using the star in Jaine's Cupcake stamp set using the Pool and Lime ink pad colors.

As the stamped area being seen later will be the sides only and on the slant cut piece, I stamped only the areas being shown around the base.

So here are the pieces I have so far..

I assembled the card and added some clear sparkling sequins for some texture and bling :)

And here's the full card

So fun! That's it for now. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Until then.


Supplies used:

• Outline Alpha stamps 
• Special Edition Stamps - Cupcake by Jaine Drake
• Bookprint Background - Texture stamps
• Sarah Hurley papers
• Watercolor set
• Ranger Black ink, Sequins
• Clear embossing powder

Neon Zendoodle Card.

Hello, and Happy St Davids Day! Who can believe it is the 1st of March already? It's Carol here today sharing a card that is a little bit different from my usual makes.

I love Sarah's Zendoodle range for the Silhouette and was delighted when the range of stamps was released, even more so with the set of Zendoodle Borders & Bits Stamps. They are great for making your own backgrounds as they have lots of different sized circles, hexagons and 2 borders.  I recently visited my local craft shop and totally fell in love with neon embossing powders...who wouldn't? and knew I had to use the two together!

I actually got so excited making it, I forgot to take my usual step by step pictures so will do a few wee bullet points.

1. Cut a piece of black card to fit onto a C6 card and wipe it with an anti-static bag.

2.  Ink up the Zendoodle Circles with Perfect Medium Ink then sprinkle over your embossing powder, I did each colour separately.

3.  On a separate piece of black card make some extra neon circles to cut out and pop onto 3d foam to give your card some dimension.

4. Use the "Woohoo" from the Everyday Saying Stamps and ink up with the Perfect Medium and sprinkle with embossing powder. I made a custom mix from all 4 colours.

5.  Stick your black layer onto your card, punch out your sentiments and there you have it! A neon zendoodle card!

Ingredients

Sarah Hurley Zendoodle Borders & Bits Stamp Set

Sarah Hurley Everyday Sayings Stamp Set

3 in 1 Advanced Craft Glue

Perfect Medium Ink Pad

Embossing powders

Stampin Up Punches

Stix2 3D Foam

Thanks for popping by today, I hope you like the card. Remember my lovely teamies will be posting new projects regularly using Sarah's gorgeous products.  See you all again soon, Carol xx

Butterfly love

Hello there!

Its Ria here. For today, I continue my love for Sarah's Butterflies Stamp Set.

I just wanted to play with the stamps and colors so what I did, I randomly stamp the butterflies in different colored inks. Quick and easy to do. You can even do a lot of these to make a set of cards.

For the sentiment I heat embossed the Happy Birthday greetings one of the banner from Sarah's previous kit. I also stamped the heart in two colors and added them as accent above the sentiment.

Here's a closer look at the stamped butterflies..

and the final card..I added some sequins for some texture.

That's it for now and have a nice weekend!


Supplies used:

• Sentiment from Charm Street Cuties Thinking of You stamps set
• Butterflies Stamp set
• Sequins

Butterfly Birthday card

Hello there! Its Ria here today.

 I’m sharing today a quick birthday card using double stamping. 

I have this Large size butterfly stamp from Sarah that has been calling my name for some time to use up. Rather than stamping only in one color, I double stamped the same butterfly with 2-3 different ink colors to give some color variation.

After stamping the base color (lighter shade), I stamped another darker color on top of it to give different color look. I then fussy cut them and made another stamping that went beneath the other butterfly. This adds dimension and another color underneath the top butterfly.  

I added Wink of Stella clear glitter pen on the butterflies for subtle shine.

For the card base, I used three (3) different patterned papers from Sarah. I also have a yellow satin ribbon that I added in the strip to make cleaner division between the patterned papers.

Some red, pink and white sequins were added for some finishing touches. And the white embossed sentiment of course to complete the card.   

That’s it for now and I hope you can experiment with double stamping. It’s fun!  J

Enjoy the rest of the week!

Supplies used:

• Large Tiger Butterfly Stamp
• Sentiment from Charm Street Cuties Thinking of You stamps set
• Satin Ribbon
• Sequins

Super quick Valentines Day Card!

Hello, and Happy Saturday! It's Carol here today and a wee while ago Sarah asked us to have a wee think about things we could do on the blog, one of my ideas is "10 Minute Makes" and the other will be revealed on the 1st of February!

This is a super busy birthday weekend for me, but I thought I would share a very Clean & Simple Valentines Day Card with you all. Though it can be used for any occasion to be honest. I will take you through the various steps I used to make the finished card. 

1 here is my assortment of pretties that I used. I find it easier to look things out first once you have an idea.

2  Wipe your piece of white card with your anti static bag, stamp your Zendoodle Heart from the Zendoodle Fashion Stamps with Perfect Medium Ink or whichever embossing ink you have. Stamp them onto your card, cover with embossing powder, tap off the excess and heat.

3  Measure a piece of red card as a banner across the card, roughly place your hearts where you would like them and add some bakers twine to make them "dangle" from the big heart. Place some foam squares behind the hearts to give you some depth and dimension.

4 Stamp the "Me & You" sentiment from the Sentiments Stamp Set using black ink and there you go.

Ingredients.

Zendoodle Heart from the Zendoodle Fashion Set

Perfect Medium Ink Pad

Sentiment Stamps Set

Card Blank, red card and bakers twine from stash.

Thanks for popping by today and I hope this inspires you to try heat embossing, a 10 minute make, a clean and simple card or all three.

Have a great weekend,

Carol x

Christmas Word Art stamp

Happy Saturday! It's Ria here today.

I'm sharing a very quick holiday card using minimum supplies. I'm also playing with the new stamp I got from Sarah called Christmas Word Art stamp set.

For my card base, I embossed it using an embossing folder. Then I used one of the sentiment in the stamp set and heat embossed it direct to the designer label paper from Sarah.
I added a red patterned paper behind the gray paper to add more Christmas color to it.
Final touch is to add a twine and sequins.

A closer look at the card details

 That's it for now and I'll catch up again soon :)

Sneak peak of something new.

Hi, it's Carol here today. And I thought I would be naughty(again) and use a stamp from a set that hasn't been released yet. I really had to have a play with these as soon as Mr Postman had delivered them.

I decided to heat emboss with them, which isn't easy to do with a clear stamp with lots of details, but thankfully Sarah's stamps are lovely and deep so it easily picks up the details. I was going to take step by step piccies but got so excited doing it that I completely forgot, you know what it is like when the mojo is with you.

I stamped out the image onto pre-cut white card using Perfect Medium Ink Pad, then covered the image with embossing powder. I used gold, silver and bronze seeing as I live in Glasgow and we have the Commonwealth Games coming here this summer! I then used the heat gun to melt said powders. I layered it onto matching cardstock, popped foam pads under them for dimension then placed them onto the card.

I added some accent sequins(I thought they looked like wee medals) and heat embossed the "Create" sentiment from the Doodle Doll Art Girl Stamps. 

 

Keep your eyes on the website for these fab new stamps, this is just one of them and there are lots more in the set.

Remember there is still a few days to enter our Anything Goes Challenge this month.

Thanks for popping by, Carol x