Snowflakes, Embossed and Die Cut

I'm playing with snowflakes today.

I dry embossed a piece of vellum with a snowflakes embossing folder.  The embossing seemed to stand out more with a darker background so I put a piece of silver cs behind it.  Then added a silver heat embossed sentiment to a strip of vellum and layered that over it. I die cut a silver cs frame using two rectangle dies and used it to hide the tape that shows through vellum.  I die cut a large snowflake out of glitter cs and a small one out of the silver cs and layered them on top to finish it off.

It's going in last minute card for CAS Mix Up "Embossed Vellum".

 

And it's also for the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown "Snowflakes" challenge.

Supplies:
Stamps - Old Island Stamp Co. sentiment
Ink - ColorBox silver
Paper - white and silver cs, vellum, glitter cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Embossalicious snowflake embossing folder, Spellbinders snowflake dies and rectangle dies, silver embossing powder, fun foam

Iris Thank You

The Paper Players are asking for a Clean and Simple Thank You card.

Here's my card:

I stamped and heat embossed the iris in white, then watercoloured both iris and background, and then splattered some blue in ink.  I stamped the sentiment on a piece of white cs and die cut a window in it.  I popped the window up over the iris image and added it all to a white card base.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamps - unknown
Ink - ColorBox white,
Paper - watercolour paper, white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - white embossing powder, watercolour paints, rectangle dies, foam tape

Framed Spaniels

Just Us Girls is asking us to add a frame to our cards.

 

 

I needed to make a thank you card for my dog breeder so decided to frame the two dogs.

 

 

I stamped and fussy cut the two spaniels - one looks like Tessa and is in her colouring, and the other looks like dear old Will who passed away two years ago.  I die cut the pierced frame die three times and glued them together to give substance to the frame.

Here's a photo of the two of them together - Tessa still a puppy, Will a tired old fellow - but they loved to snuggle together.

I sure do miss sweet Will.

Supplies:
Stamps - Grey Wolf Graphics dog stamp, Raintree dog stamp, Memory Box sentiment
Ink - Archival Jet Black, Distress Vintage Photo
Paper - white cs
Size - 5.25" square
Accessories - MFT pierced square frame die

Jingle Bells

A quick reminder about the CAS Christmas challenge that is running until June 24th.  This month the theme is Bells.

I stamped the bells on watercolour paper and painted with my Gansai Tambi paints that include metallic gold and copper paints.  I used them on the bells - in real life, there is more shimmer than in the photo.  I fussy cut the bells, popped them up on a cs square with "Jingle" stamped on it, and bordered with gold shimmer cs.

You have until June 24th to enter our "Bells" CAS challenge.  Please check out the other samples from the Design Team if you want more inspiration.

Supplies:
Stamps - SU bells, unknown sentiment
Ink - Archival Jet Black
Paper - watercolour paper, gold shimmer and white cs
Size - 4.75" square
Accessories - Gansai Tambi watercolour paints, foam tape

Nice Colours

Sneaking in at the last minute to enter the Color Throwdown challenge.

 

 

I really like the blues and purple together, and came up with this card:

 

 

First I made a smooshed background on watercolour paper with various Distress Oxide inks to get the shades of blue. Then stamped the grass, smaller flowers, and butterfly. I then sponged the purple and green (and brown for the flower centre) through a cone flower stencil, cleaned the stencil, and went over it again with clear embossing paste.

I added a narrow black border, a sentiment, and a TH clipping sticker.

 

I hope everyone had a good weekend!

 

Supplies:
Stamps - various small wildflower and grass stamps, TH thank you
Ink - Archival Jet Black, various Distress Oxide inks
Paper - white and black cs, watercolour paper
Size - A2
Accessories - clear embossing paste, cone flower stencil, TH clipping sticker

Dogs Running on Ribbon

The Jingle Belles Christmas card challenge wants to see cards that incorporate ribbon.

I had a great scrap of paw-printed ribbon that I decided to pair with one of my favourite Christmas stamps.

Stamped, watercoloured, the strip of ribbon to ground the dogs, and a black sentiment border die cut on the top.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamps - Penny Black
Ink - Versafine Onyx Black
Paper - watercolour paper, black and white cs
Size - A2
Accessories - Penny Black sentiment die, paw print ribbon