You're Like A Flower..... Digistamp s.w.a.l.k

Hello bloggers I hope you are having a good weekend crafting.  I had a chilled Sunday apart from cooking the Sunday roast which is a must.  Today's card is the same image as yesterdays but a smaller version and coloured with a different medium.

This card began as a white 8x8 card blank.  First with a sheet of A4 Topsy Turvy card stock I cut this down to 8" square and then randomly stamped it with a flower using Stampin Up 'love & laughter' stamp set and staz-on black ink pad.  Next I cut a strip of striped paper to 3" wide and adhered it to the Topsy Turvy card stock.   Using an off cut from the Topsy Turvy card stock I cut a 1" strip and adhered it down the centre of the stripped card stock.   This was then all adhered to the card blank.  Next I die cut a mat for my topper using some pale blue polka-dot paper and Spellbinders 'grand scallop circles' die set.   The topper was printed from Crafter's Companion 's.w.a.l.k digistamps' CD-ROM and then coloured using pencil crayons.  Once coloured it was die cut using the same die as above for the mat.  The topper and mat were then adhered to the card.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Wedding Day ~ Stampin Up love and laughter

Hello bloggers today's card is a wedding card using stamping and die cuts.

This card began as a white 5x7 card blank.  First I cut down some floral patterned paper as a background for my card and adhered it to the card blank.  Next from silver holographic mirror board I die cut a mat for the cake topper using Spellbinders 'butterflies circles' die set.  I then stamped out the cake using black soot and Victorian velvet distress ink along with Stampin Up 'love & laughter' stamp set.  I stamped the cake out three times and chopped it up and reassembled it like decoupage to get a different coloured layer in the middle.  The completed cake was then adhered to the butterfly circle mat.  Next on handmade rose paper I stamped the wedding couple using a free stamp from a magazine and black soot distress ink.  This was then die cut using Spellbinders 'heart circles' die set and was adhered to the card.  Finally I added a  congratulations sentiment from my stash.

Happy Crafting xx Hazel

Wedding - Love and Laughter Stampin up

Hello, for today's card I have done a wedding themed card as the wedding season is fast approaching us, I thought it was quite appropriate.

This card began as an A6 card blank which I then embossed with Creative Expressions 'Tied Together' embossing folder.  I then used Cosmic Shimmer Pearl glue to add a faux pearl to each intersection of the embossed detail.  I then left this to dry and began stamping up my images using Stampin up 'Love and Laughter' stamp set.  Using some plain white card stock I stamped the cake three times once in each of the following distress ink colours, victorian velvet, black soot and tumbled glass.  I then cut them out and snipped pieces off to make my own decoupage.  The first tier is the whole cake the middle tier is the middle and bottom and the bottom tier is just the bottom tier.  I adhered the layers together using foam pads.  Next I stamped out the sentiment using black soot ink and then cut it out and rounded the corners with a corner rounder.  The dress was stamped by inking up the dress in two colours tumbled glass and victorian velvet and stamped onto white card stock.

Using Spellbinders 'Asian Motifs' dies I cut out of handmade rose patterned paper a square shape to mount the dress and sentiment onto.  Finally I adhered all the pieces to the card blank.

Happy Crafting  xx Hazel