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Annual Catalogue Sketches – Sketch #20

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Hi and welcome back, here is the sketch for today, sketch number 20 of 22.

This is a great sketch that opens up all sorts of possibilities.
I am in a pink mood at present, and have another pink card for you today, using the colours Pretty in Pink, Petunia Pop and Granny Apple Green.

Because most of my stamping ended up being on the left hand side, I decided to move the flag over to the right.
My cardbase is Thick Basic White cardstock, and the focal image is also done on Thick Basic White, which is over a layer of Petunia Pop cardstock.
I have gone back to one of my all time favourite stamp sets, the Stippled Roses stamp set, which I have stamped onto the cardbase in Petunia Pop ink, after stamping it off once onto scrap paper.
The focal image is heat embossed with white embossing powder. I’ve then used a Water Painter and ink to put down a light wash of colour. The reason I have used the Thick Basic White is that it does absorb some water and so it is possible to do some very light watercolouring onto it, as long as you don’t add too much water, and don’t work it too much.
Using Watercolour Paper is better of course, because it absorbs as much water as you want to use and you can work as many layers into as you need to. However it is more of an off-white colour and I preferred the Basic White colour for this card.
I put down a light layer of Pretty in Pink ink on the flowers, and then added some Petunia Pop ink to the centre of the flowers to give them some depth. The leaves use only Granny Apple Green ink.

That’s all from me for today. Happy stamping,
Chris

Annual Catalogue Sketches – Sketch #10

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Hi and welcome back to the daily sketches from the Annual Catalogue, with Sketch 10.

I am in a purple mood today, and have used heaps of inks to create my background and focal layer.

The cardbase is the usual size (21cm x 14.5cm, which is then scored at 10.5cm on the long side and folded, so when it’s folded, your card front will be 10.5cm x 14.5cm) and today I have used some Highland Heather cardstock for the base.
Over that is some Watercolour Paper which is 10cm x 14cm. I would normally use (and highly recommend) the Fluid 100 Watercolour Paper, it is the best I have ever used. However, I ran out, so had to use some that I already had in my stash.
I used the Stampin’ Up! Glass Mat (fantastic tool, if you don’t have one already), sprayed some water directly onto with a Spritzer, then added some drops of Highland Heather ink, Fresh Freesia ink and Petal Pink ink, swirled the ink around in the water, added a bit more water, generally had a play with it until I was happy, and then laid two pieces of the Watercolour Paper directly into the inky mess!
Once I was happy with the spread of colour, I dried it with a heat tool, distressed the edges with my Paper Snips Scissors, sponged some Highland Heather ink around the edges. Before applying the background layer to the cardbase with adhesive, I heat embossed the sentiment.

With the smaller piece of Watercolour Paper, I stamped the small flower from the Poised Peony stamp set using Versamark ink, sprinkled white Embossing Powder over it, and set with a Heat Tool. After distressing the edges and sponging with ink, I then used a Water Painter Brush to paint colour onto the flower – Lost Lagoon ink for the leaves, and some Highland Heather and Fresh Freesia for the flower.
This smaller piece of Watercolour Paper is 5.5cm x 5.5cm, and the Basic White layer behind it is 6 x 6cm, and sponged with Highland Heather ink.
Behind the focal image layer is another layer of cardstock, again in Highland Heather, measuring 5cm x 10cm, which I have cut at each end with Paper Snips to form the flag ends.
Some Linen Thread and Purple Shimmer Gems finish the card off.
Oh, and I almost forgot the splatters, which are done with the Water Painter with some Highland Heather ink on the brush, and I just knock the brush against a hard object such as a ruler or clear block, and the ink splatters – often in places you don’t want it!!

Hopefully I have inspired someone to try out a different layout for a card.
Stay tuned for the next one.
Happy stamping,
Chris

Colour Creations – Pretty Peacock

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Another of the gorgeous new In Colours to share with you today.
And I love this one, too, such a gorgeous colour!  I think its my favourite of the new In Colours.
Ok, I will probably say that about all of them.
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I have been keeping busy over the last week or so, there is a Jazz Festival which is held locally at this time each year, and this year my son and I performed on two days with a visiting band.  So that has kept us busy practicing our parts and then performing.

Not that it has stopped me from crafting, I just didn’t have a lot of time for blogging, so that’s why I have been a little quiet.

On the subject of crafting….
Today’s card uses the totally gorgeous Pretty Peacock, combined with Bermuda Bay and Coastal Cabana.  Gorgeous, gorgeous, I love these colours!!
Pretty Peacock Butterflies
Butterflies from the Butterfly Gala stamp set have been heat embossed with white embossing powder, and then punched out with the matching Butterfly Duet punch.  The white layer behind the butterflies has been run through the Big Shot in the Pinewood Planks embossing folder.

Make sure you check out the rest of the Pretty Peacock inspiration by going to Catherine’s blog.

Happy Stamping!
Chris

New In Colours

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With the release of the new Stampin’ Up! catalogue only a few days away, I thought I would introduce you to the new In Colours for 2015-2017.

 

I have made a card using a combination of Mint Macaron and Tip Top Taupe.

The flower is from the Butterfly Basics stamp set, which has been heat embossed with white embossing powder.  The flowers have then had some Mint Macaron ink painted onto the cardstock to give a little depth of colour, using a Blender Pen.
I will be back with some more ideas using some new goodies over the next few weeks.  Contact me if you live locally (Canberra, Cooma area) and would like one of the new catalogues.
Happy stamping!
Chris

Winter Wonderland Christmas Cards

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Winter Wonderland is the theme this week at Crafty Boots Challenges.
I know a lot of people in Australia think it’s wrong to have Christmas cards made with winter themes and snowmen, but I think a lot of us have friends and relatives who live in other countries where it is snowing at this time of year.  I know I do.  So I have made a couple of “snowy” Christmas cards.

This first card uses the Lovely as a Tree stamp set – an oldie but a goodie, especially when it comes to snow-laden wintery trees.  I have stamped everything in Versamark ink onto some Silver Foil and heat embossed with White embossing powder, then layered the Silver Foil onto some white cardstock.  Simple, but effective.  And it’s flat, no bulky bits that stick out, so can easily be posted off without Mr Postie getting cranky!

The second card is again, predominantly white and silver, this time the trees have been stamped in Silver ink, and the cute little bird from For the Birds stamp set, has been stamped in Memento ink and coloured with Blendabilities.  I think he is off to decorate those silver trees. 🙂

And in other news, we have a couple of cheeky new members of our family….. here is one of them trying to “help” me type up this post 🙂

Happy stamping!
Chris

A New Challenge

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I imagine I am not the only one who finds the Stampin’ Up! catalogue an ongoing source of ideas and inspiration, so when I found out about a new challenge that has just started up, called CASE-ing the Catty Challenges, I had to take part.  What a great idea!
This week’s challenge is to use the Gift and Packaging section (Pages 6 – 23) of the catalogue to find some inspiration, or even to copy something directly from the catalogue.  Well, if you can’t find some inspiration in that section there must be something wrong!  I didn’t know which idea to start with!
So I am going to show you two boxes that I have decorated, and also link you to a previous post where I have used the catalogue as inspiration for some boxes.

Firstly, I liked the weaved strands of ribbon on the long yellow box on Page 15, so I wanted to give that a try.

I have then added a star, gold embossed onto Night of Navy cardstock, with a white star layered underneath. The ribbon going lengthwise goes under the acetate layer, so that the box can still be opened easily.

And the second gift box was inspired by the ribbon on the square yellow box, also on Page 15.  I had fun with this one too, but in the end it’s not all that difficult. I have used some of the Chevron Ribbon (Page 207).

These Tag a Bag Gift Boxes are available to purchase (Page 201), include the box base and an acetate sleeve, and make for fabulous easy packaging ideas.
And if you missed some of the boxes that I posted up recently, you can have a look here.
Happy stamping!
Chris

CASE Study #138

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I need inspiration!
Yes, Mojo has gone well and truly out the window of late, the last thing I have felt like doing is anything to do with stamping, papercrafting or scrapbooking…. and how rude is that? Well, maybe I just needed a break.
But in any case, after a couple of weeks of keeping busy with, well, life… I finally feel like getting some creativity happening again, so I have been blog hopping, hoping to find some inspiration, and came across this fabulous challenge site called CASE Study.

Here is the inspirational photo:

 

For my inspiration, I have used the turquoise /aqua /blue colours in the sky, along with the butterfly to create my card.

The Swallowtail stamp has been heat embossed with black embossing powder onto some watercolour paper, and I have then watercoloured using an Aqua Brush and ink in the colours Pool Party, Tempting Turquoise and Pacific Point, blended together.  I then cut out the butterfly image and adhered it to the base but only on the left hand side, so that the wing of the butterfly stands up from the card.
So, thanks to the ladies over at CASE Studies for the inspiration, and happy stamping everyone.
Chris

Easter Bunny is coming…..

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….so I thought I had better get on and make some Easter cards.
Again, I have used the Oval Framelits along with the very cute Everybunny stamp set – too cute!
I am a bit addicted to banners and flags on my cards at the moment, so I have used the gorgeous Tea For Two Designer Series Papers to create them here, and some brads to “secure” them at the top.  Little bunny has been heat embossed using black embossing powder and then coloured using inks and a blender pen.
You can contact me if you would like more information about any of the products I have used for this card, and since Easter is less than a month away, contact me also to order your Easter stamps and papers now so that you have some time to create something special for someone special! 🙂
Hope you have a crafty weekend.  Happy Stamping!
Chris

Swallowtail

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Have you noticed that I like butterflies?
Well, I do, and Stampin’ Up! keep bringing out such beautiful butterfly stamps.

What do you think?  Isn’t he just the most beautiful butterfly?
Trust me, you will be seeing quite a lot more of this stamp, it’s called Swallowtail.  Despite that it is quite large, and actually slightly bigger than our standard card size, it still looks gorgeous slightly off-set or just using half as I have done here.

I have heat embossed the butterfly using black embossing powder onto white cardstock and then coloured inside the embossed areas using So Saffron ink and a blender pen, and just gently going over and over the areas so as not to rough up the cardstock.
I have to say that Mr Butterfly looks much more stunning in real life.
Hope you are having a crafty Tuesday.  Happy Stamping!
Chris

Purple and Silver

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This week at Our Creative Corner it is my turn to set the challenge, and I have chosen a colour theme, using my favourite colour Purple, along with Silver, you can use other colours as well, just as long as purple and silver are the feature colours for your project.  Our Creative Corner will taking a break over Christmas and it is our last challenge before our break, so lets make it a Christmas project as well.

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I have had fun with the Big Shot and embossing this week on my card.  I have used a stamp from the Ornament Keepsakes stamp set which I have heat embossed with silver powder onto Elegant Eggplant card stock and then cut out with the Holiday Ornaments Dies.  The silver layer is some of the gorgeous Glimmer paper cut using the Apothecary Accents Framelits, and for the white layer I have used the Adorning Accents Edgelits and the Lacy Brocade Embossing Folder.  The greeting comes from the Teeny Tiny Sentiments Stamp Set and I have used a little bit of Pink Pirouette card stock for some interest and some non-Stampin’ Up! ribbon that I found in my stash!

Happy Stamping!
Chris