You are Special

Spring
I was inspired by the Clearly Besotted Challenge #10 Spring and recently got my purchased stash, which are so pretty so thought I would enter their challenge.

I have used the Pretty Petals Plus dies and stamps to make the card.

I also like the look when you use the negative space of a die 

so I thought I would try it with the stamps.

I used Kraft card and hand embellished a stitch line with a white ink pen

and raised it up on foam to add dimension to the card.

The bright colours of the flowers represent Spring!

I enjoyed joining in your challenge and I am loving your Stamps and Dies x

Crafty Hugs  x

Hello-Round and Round

Hello-Round and Round

Today's Card has been inspired by the Lucky Dip Challenge at
 Less is more with the theme of Round and Round.
So I have made this card for their challenge.

I started by measuring and cutting out the round circles using a Spellbinders die out of white card.
I cut the word 'Hello' with a MFT Die-namics die set on black card.
I stamped the black distress splat and coffee stain using flourishes stamps and archival black ink.
The vintage cycle is a Clarity stamp.
I wanted more movement in the card so I hand embellished the black lines, representing the cycle moving.
The white card has been layered with foam onto the Kraft card.
I have tried to do a Clean and Simple card for this challenge.
I very much enjoyed doing the card and entering into the challenge.
Crafty Hugs x

Special Day

Celebrate your Special Day
I was inspired by the JustRite Friday Challenge
to make a card from a sketch using JustRite Stamps.
You didn't have to use the colours or identical shapes 
of the sketch they provided just an overall layout.
Here is the card that I made for the Challenge

The background Rectangle is cut out of Kraft card, using Spellbinders Grand Large Labels.
I lightly dry embossed it with a stencil as I wanted a subtle background.
I kept the stencil on, masked the area off that I wanted and using VersaMark and white embossing powder, heat set it to achieve the horizontal shape in the provided sketch.

I cut the next rectangle using Spellbinders Lattice Rectangle Die, which was stamped with JustRite Diamond Filigree Background Stamp and heat embossed it in white.
I love these background stamps.

The next two rectangles were die cut using Spellbinders Small and Large Label Dies.
For the sentiment I used JustRite Vintage Labels Four Die and their Birthday Vintage Labels Four Clear Stamps and heat embossed in white.
I popped the Frame One D-Lite die cut behind the main sentiment.

The flowers have been made out of glassine paper and white heat embossed. The colour and texture of the glassine paper was exactly what I was looking for.

After layering up the card I popped on some pearls, twine and white hand embellished dots using a white ink pen. I thought the introduction of the pretty pink colour just complemented the card.

I have uploaded another photo of the card to perhaps see more detail.....

I really enjoyed doing this card.
It took me ages and I have tried new techniques, learning all the time x

Crafty Hugs x

Grand Flower-Birthday Wishes

Negative Space
Update....I got a Retro Sketches Shout Out for Challenge 107 for this card...Ye Ha!!!!
I was inspired by the Retro Sketches challenge this week and thought I would make this card.

The challenge was to use the negative space of a die cut.
I began by cutting out my Grand Flower with my die out of kraft card.
I then stamped a large flower with Versa Mark and heat embossed
with gold embossing powder onto white smooth card.
I layered the negative space kraft card onto foam and popped bakers twine around it to balance the card.
I stamped the sentiment with archival sepia ink and hand applied white dots around the negative die cut to add a little more interest.
I loved the clean finish of the card and it made me think about
the possibilities of using negative space after die cutting.

Crafty Hugs x

Hydrangea-Thinking of You

Spring is in the Air
What a glorious flower the Hydrangea is...comes in so many beautiful colours.
I began with distressing and blending three mini white card squares with various distress inks.
I then stamped parts of the Hydrangea stamp onto the three mini squares using Memento Ink and to finish I layered them onto my card.
I loved the colours of the card and the gorgeous Hydrangea stamp.

I was inspired by the following challenges and will be entering my card into them:
Always playing with Paper and Less is More-Three

Crafty Hugs x