A fun card to share today with these two quirky dogs which have been stamped, coloured and then fussy cut. The background was made by smooshing inks around and then over stamping using a variety of texture style stamps. The border was hand drawn using a fine liner pen. The sentiment was produced using MS Word, printed and die cut.
Dogs - stamp from Crafty Individuals
Background - various stamps mostly from magazine freebie sets
I've not posted for a few days, partly because I felt I should take advantage of some of the drier days we've been having and attempt to tidy up my wilderness of a garden. I know we're being encouraged to 'go wild' but a certain amount of control is necessary to keep things under a bit of control. Anyway I have a floral card to share today. I started with some Distress inks applied to one of the shapes which I made by cutting down an A5 sheet of clear stamp material into a few smaller useful sizes. Spritzed the ink lightly with water and then stamped it onto a piece of white card. I then 'smooshed' other colours onto oddments of white card and stamped the floral corner three times and some leaves, all of which were then fussy cut and arranged at the base of the shape. Using these 'inky play' pieces to die cut flowers and leaves results in interesting variations of colour without having to colour in by hand. A simple birthday greeting and a slightly larger layer of yellow card to tone and that's it - another card for the box.
The theme for the current Allsorts Allsorts challenge is **lots of layers** or as usual it could be *anything goes* and there is a Christmas related prize to be won by a lucky someone. There are quite a few layers on my card which uses some birds which were stamped onto a scrap of 'inky play' card and fussy cut; stamping again onto scraps of plain white so that I could also fussy cut the eyes. There are layers with the die cut shapes and the sentiment. The line the birds are standing on was drawn with a black fine liner pen
Background Layers - dies from John Next Door set
Birds - Crazy Birds by Tim Holtz
Sentiment - computer generated and die cut with retired Stampin' Up die
The theme for the Allsorts Challenge this week is **A Blast from the Past** and although my card doesn't feature retro or Art Deco etc it was certainly a 'blast from the past' for me when I came across a House Mouse CD from years back. House Mouse designs at one time used to appear on a very regular basis but I've not seen any for some time so I printed off an image and some backing paper to make this card, adding a scrap of embossed card from my oddments boxes and a sentiment. If this doesn't fit the theme I guess it can come into the **Anything Goes** category which is always an option at Allsorts.
Seeing the card on the screen I've just realised that the embossed design is Art Deco style 😉
Image and Background - House Mouse CD set from Joanna Sheen
Sentiment - from a retired SU stamp set
Ovals - dies from Tonic
Embossed Panel - E/F by Creative Expressions from some years ago
Rudolph Day always seems to come around so quickly but at least I've managed to make a card in time for the May challenge. As this was made entirely with pieces from my Snippets collection (apart of course for the card blank) I will be popping along to the Playground with this one as well. I trimmed the red mat to fit the card blank - this one had already had the centre cut out or 'gutted' so that I could use the resulting piece to cut out the letters. Next layer was an oddment of DSP left from previous projects, followed by a smaller dark green mat and an even smaller white one. The word was cut from a snippet of dark green and the red letters were infilled. Final touch was the addition of three shiny snowflakes left over from last Christmas no doubt.
For this card I decided to do some partial embossing. This was achieved by slicing a square of white card diagonally and embossing just the left hand side before simply sticking the two parts back together, adding a strip of ribbon to cover the join. Leaves were stencilled, stamped and die cut and a simple die cut sentiment added. Different partially embossed results could be achieved by slicing the piece of card in various places - lots of variations possible.
Embossing Folder - came free with a magazine a while ago
Leaves - stencil, stamp and die set from Globleland
Birthday Sentiment - unbranded die
I saw a video recently where Chrissie Stokes explained how she made a sentiment frame using Microsoft Word - link to video is HERE. I thought I'd give it a try but unfortunately I have a quite different version of Word so had to 'wing it' a bit to achieve a result. It seems to me that the newer versions of Word are far more complicated than the versions I've been used to along the way although they seem to have more functions these days. Anyway I achieved something usable and have printed it onto a piece of DSP and then used a square die to cut out the panel. I decided to make a postage stamp style of card using a very ancient Spellbinders die which hasn't seen the light of day for some time. A smaller square panel was cut to fit and then stamped with a text background and some other stamps, mostly magazine freebies which I have in my collection. Background DSP is from a Phill Martin pad.
