Framed Flower

 Here's another card made with some of the Floral Flourish die cuts. These were in silver and I coloured them with pink and green alcohol markers. I mounted 2 of them with foam in between and put them onto some waste from another project which I embossed with a Sizzix starfall 3D embossing folder. The waste and the narrow pink border around it are part of a Sizzix snow globe die set. I mounted this onto some co-ordinating patterned paper and added a small silver embossed sentiment.

Cowboys!

 An acquaintance sent me some die cuts as a thank you and among them was this silhouette of cowboys on a fence. I wish I knew the brand of die because I love it. It was crying out for a sunset/sunrise background so that's what I did.

I punched a circle from a sticky note as a mask for the sun and then used scattered straw, spiced marmalade, worn lipstick and ripe persimmon DIs with my blending brushes for an ombré background. The tree is from a Crafty Individuals set stamped in Versafine onyx black. Then all I had to do was add the die cut and a sentiment. This one is from a die and stamp set which comes with a variety of sentiments.

Edited to add: Thanks to Clare_ M_ Allen who identified the die as Men sitting on Fence by Paper Rose item no: PAP-DIE-17283.

Monthly Tag Challenge - October

 

This month the theme is Autumn with colours of red, yellow and green.

I used a very old oak leaf stamp with a Kaleidacolor autumn leaves stamp pad on some kraft card as a background. I scribbled some Gelatos in red, yellow and green onto a scrap of kraft card, blended the colours with a waterbrush pen and punched out some small maple leaves. These were stuck onto a scrap of TH Halloween paper. The Hero Arts ginko leaves were stamped with Versamark, gold heat embossed and cut out. The quotation is an old one that I got in a grab bag years ago. Some gold metallic dots and gold ribbon completed the tag.

Chloe Stem Revisited

 This is one of my oldest Memory Box dies (Chloe Stem) and I have used it a lot but hadn't given it an airing in a while. A scrap of paper from another project was the perfect excuse to bring it out. I'm trying to make use of old paper pads that I've had for a while. It's a very CAS  card with the addition of a small sentiment from a set I bought recently. In fact I seem to have acquired (ok bought) a lot of new sentiment sets recently as I always seem to be missing the right words. This card is going to a friend who has been in hospital for a while and is a bit low. The inside reads 'if you're feeling blue try painting yourself a different colour'.  Hope it cheers her up!

Cool Colours

 After posting several cards in hot colours I've gone for a cooler coloured card. This uses some more Hunkydory die cuts, this time with silver embossing to which I've added some highlights with marker pens and gems.

I used a Sizzix 3D embossing folder called fallen leaves on some black colour core card. This is coloured card with a black top layer which when embossed and sanded reveals the coloured layer underneath. I've had it for years so it was good to get it out and use a piece. 

The black card was matted onto a piece of co-ordinating paper and then onto a white card blank. I used some silver peel-off lines to edge the black card to carry on the silver theme.

Starry Birthday

 Here's another card using my new birthday die. I had a few pieces of patterned paper on my desk and thought I'd put them to good use. They were both from a very old set of designer paper pads by Amy Butler. I die cut a rectangle with a cross stitch border and then added the birthday die cut. The die cut didn't stand out enough so I die cut another sentiment from black card and off set it slightly to give a  shadow effect. I punched some stars from the left over scraps and mounted it all a white card blank with a black border.

New Stuff!

 I recently made a couple of purchases to add to my collection (not that it needed adding to!). One was this happy birthday die which I have already used several times. The other was a tartan/plaid stamp which I stamped with twisted citron DO. The flower die cut is from the floral sheet pad I mentioned in this post coloured with alcohol markers and mounted on foam pads. The edges were sponged with brushed corduroy DI and some gems were added.