A Vintage and Pretty Card: Rice Paper, Florals and PaperArtsy

Good morning all! I have a vintage card over on the Lisa B. Designs Blog today (one of my favourite themes!). I have used Imagination Crafts Rice Paper together with Starlights Paint, Sparkle Medium, a PaperArtsy stencil and some Heartfelt Creations Sunkissed Fleur flowers/stamps. Please pop over to the blog to see how the card below came together!

Love

Martina

xxx

Birthday Sweet Poppy Butterfly Card

This card was made with a Sweet Poppy stencil for the main image. I have used an 8x8 card blank and matted and layered centura pearl purple and white card stock. One of the layers has been embossed with a rose-patterned Embossilicious folder for some added texture. The main panel has been made using Sweet Poppy translucent paste through the filigree stencil, and then removing the stencil to apply some super fine glitters. Once you tap the glitters off, they become mixed into another combined colour. I have used this new colour to make the best wishes sentiment, also from Sweet Poppy. The final touches are some flowers from the Heartfelt Creations 'Sun Kissed Fleur' range, stamped onto shades of purple vellum and heat embossed with Wow white detail embossing powder. In the middle of the flowers I have some purple stickles to draw the eye in. A few gems to balance the card and all done.

A Box of Friendship

This project came about after I was asked to make a box to hold a present for someone. My brief was to make a box with some friendship quotes on it. The cogs starting whirring and I decided I might have a go with my new Cricut Mini Books cartridge on my Expression machine. Whilst looking through I noticed an exploding box and the rest is history!














I chose purple colours and papers from the First Edition pad 'Dreamcatcher'. The Cricut worked out all the layer sizes for each part and all I had to do score and cut the right bits with the right colours! Each inner tab had a flower on it with several layers behind it. Although not obvious here, each layer then had a friendship 'quote' on it. There were different quotes for each layer. The quote theme continued on the outside of the box, with matching flowers on the lid. All the flowers were stamped using Versafine and were from the Heartfelt Creations Sunkissed Fleur plate. The matching die was then used to cut them out and purple Distress Inks were applied for some shading. The green foliage was cut using the Tattered Lace Ornate Leaves die and the pearls were from a Hobby House pinwheel set. Once all finished the gift was added to the centre all ready for the box to explode with quotes! I am glad to say the recipient liked it.

A Bit Purpley, Pearly, Turquoisy Extravagant?

Now, I have to be honest, I like this less and less the more I look at it! I decided that I wanted to use a purple and turquoise theme and went with that. I chose the two colours and then matted them with a main feature centre panel (it is an 8x8 card). With the main section I have first placed a swirly Stamposaurus stencil over the card and spritzed some Cosmic Shimmer Misting Ink sprays in Blue Cotton and Clover over the top to get the multi-coloured swirl effect. I also darkened the corners with Distress Inks and then ran the paper through the Crafts Too Lattice embossing folder. The flowers are made using the Heartfelt Creations Sunkissed Fleur stamps and cut out with the matching die set. The flowers have then been coloured with Distress Inks and highlighted with some dazzlers, pearly pins and pearly swirls. The sentiment is from Just Rite Grateful Heart set cut with the matching Vintage Labels Two die. A bit OTT I think: but I was trying to be a bit brighter!!!

 

Festive Sparkly Greetings

This is another 8x8 card (I'm getting more comfortable with this size now!).  I have cut some ivory Centura Pearl cardstock to fit my card as a topper and cut an aperture using a Labels Thirty Two die. I have then run the card stock through an Embossalicious Mistletoe Moments folder and run over the design with some gold gilding wax. The cut label shape has then been recessed back onto the card and the aperture raised up using foam pads. The flowers have been cut using Heartfelt Creations SunKissed Fleur dies, pressing Versamark through them and finally gold embossing to make them stand out. The sentiment is from the Die'sire Sentimentals Mistletoe Moments set, again heat embossed. A lot of gold and maybe could do with raising a little higher, but I quite like it.

Cosy Friendship Cuddles

Sometimes I think we underestimate the pure value of sending a card just to put a smile on someone's face, so I thought  I would make one to do just that! Feeling in a pinky mood, (can you tell..?) I chose an adorable LOTV image (Milly Cuddle Time) that can make anyone smile! The main image has been coloured with Promarkers, lightly edged with Spun Sugar Distress Ink and cut with basic Spellbinders circle dies. This main topper has then been layered onto a piece of dark red paper cut into a square shape with a border on the side (the fancy border section is a Tim Holtz On the Edge die - Scrollwork); Matching background paper has been matted on top, along with pink lace and thin satin ribbon to edge the work. The large red swirl is a Tim Holtz Bigz die - Elegant Flourishes. The sentiment is another LOTV stamp from a fantastic sentiment set that has a brilliant range to choose from. Again, I have used Spellbinder dies to layer. Finally the flowers have been cut from coordinating plain cardstock using the Heartfelt Creations Sun Kissed Fleur die. I have added little 'stitch' like lines to accent the flowers and papers, along with more Spun Sugar Distress Ink to bring in the edges. The flower centres have been done using Liquid Pearls Rouge. The background papers are from the First Edition Sweet Owl pad.