Card-io Stamps: Bugs and Wild Flowers!

Good morning crafty peeps!

I have a post using some Card-io Stamps over on the Lisa B. Designs blog today, please pop over and take a look if you would like to see a step-by-step for the card below.

Love

Martina

xx

That's Crafty! MDF meets PaperArtsy - 2 Favourites Together!

Hello all! Today I have a blog post on the Lisa B. Designs page featuring the MDF upright project below. Please pop over and let me know what you think (good or bad!). Thank you!

Love

Martina

xxx

A Rebellious Hare: MDF Altered Art with PaperArtsy Products

Good morning all!

I have a post over on the Lisa B. Designs Blog today, taking you through how I created the MDF upright tag below. Pop over to take a peek and find a full product list!

Thank you,

Martina

xxx

LOTV friends at Christmas

Nearly there! I had a few special cards left to make, here is one I made for my Mother-in-Law. There are lots of layers to this one; apologies I was engrossed and totally forgot to take photos along the way!

I started with some pale blue Christmas paper from my stash and attached some raffia ribbon across the lower half. I stamped and heat embossed some Indigoblu snowflakes onto some plain card, shaded with some Distress Ink and cut out each one before sticking across the top of the card. The image is a LOTV stamp which I coloured with Distress Markers onto watercolour card. This was cut out and matted using Spellbinders Dies, before adding some sparkle to the snowy areas with Imagination Crafts Diamond Sparkle Medium. Around the image I have arranged some Tattered Lace star embellishment springs, some Sue Wilson holly sprigs, wired flowers and dried flowers. The finishing touch was some die-cut layered snowflakes with blue pearls in the centres and a sentiment from LOTV.

I wasn't sure at first, but I like it now. A bit fussy, one of those you need to step away from... I do love those cuddly friends though!

Watercolour Tonal Florals and Butterflies

Another simple design to follow the same theme as the last one. Difficult to see from my photograph I admit, but the large background is watercolour card distressed with Dusty Concord and Milled Lavender Distress Inks. I have also used a swirly stencil over the top in tones of the same colours to make a feint pattern. The main panel Indigoblu 'Summer Lovin'' stamp has been stamped with Versafine black ink and embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Clear Sparkle Embossing Powder. I have picked out the different flowers and coloured them with the same colours using Distress Markers this time (with water, as my watercolour medium.) Once dry I have used Stickles in the flower centres. The sentiment is also from Indigoblu and the different butterflies are from The Artistic Stamper 'Encyclopaedia Botanica' plate. The butterflies have been watercoloured in the same way as the flowers, cut out and then made '3D' with Pinflair gel. The card has been layered onto an Anne Marie Designs black 6x6 blank and some small Perfect Pearls dots finish two edges off. I am not used to using such subtle colours, but I quite like the effect on this one...
I am going to enter this into Lisa Baker's Challenge 'Spring Watercolours'.

Sledging Away with LOTV

I love all the craft card that is about at the moment, and I fancied teaming it with some other earthy colours. I have used Distress Inks to bring out the different layers and also to define the Spellbinders die-cut image. The image and the sentiment are from LOTV. I love this stamp because it reminds me of our little dog and my boys having fun; one of those sweet moments in time that we cherish. I have coloured the image using Distress Markers in coordinating earthy, pastel colours. The watercolour card has then been cut-out using Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles. The flowers are die-cut poinsettias from a Marianne Creatables die. The papers are from a DCWV pad and the snowflake edge is a Memory box die. The seam binding bow, some pearls and some die-cut lea'bilities trees were the final touches, along with some glitter, of course!