Let it Snow

 Good morning! We had snow this week again but it's warmed up as the week has progressed.

This is my first post for Chicca's Tree House they have some adorable character digital stamps. Today and I am going to show you how I made this card using the cute little Silvia Snow:

I started my card by printing out Silvia onto stamping card, I chose Copic Markers to color her and used an oval die to cut her offset:

Next I matted an A7 card base with some snowflake papers.

I added my image and dusted her snowflakes with glitter.

I decided to add more snowflakes so cut these using dies and glittered them also

My finished card is so sweet.

Supplies used:

- Digital Image: Silvia Snow

- Stamping Card

- White Heavy weight Cardstock For Base Card

- Copic Markers

- Oval Nesting Die

- 8x8in Frosty Paper Pad

- Wet Glue

- Snowflake Dies

- Glitter

Altenew Educators Certification Program Level 2 - Beyond Basic Backgrounds

 Good afternoon! The sun is shining and it actually feels warm when you are in it.

I completed and passed my AECP Level 1 so I'm back today with the first class of my level 2. Beyond Basic Backgrounds by Lydia is filled with great lessons and I have loved the different techniques she taught.

I chose to show case 2 or these techniques, the first one is a DIY stencil:

Using Scribbled Flowers Dies, I chose one flower die and cut this multiple times into scratch card which gave me a a floral stencil. I then took this one step further, using a pencil I traced through the DIY stencil on to a second piece of scratch card. This gave me the positions of the flowers so I could add leaves in between. I die cut the leaves into the second piece of card so I have a stencil with leaves.

I then taped the floral stencil to a piece of 4x5.5in card stock and inked through the stencil. I repeated this with the leaves stencil. Once the ink was dry I used the coordinating stamps, versamark ink and clear satin embossing powder to give a subtle image of each flower. This was added to a cream A2 card base with foam tape.

Using the green ink I inked all over a piece of white card. I then die cut this with Happy Die and stamped the Halftone Happy stamp with versamark and embossed it with the same powder as my floral design.

Using foam squares I added this to my card. Anniversary was stamped in black ink, cut into a strip and added to the 'Happy'.

I finished the card with some sparkly gems.

My second card used the Matt Watercolor Resist technique. 

I die cut Ornate Cover die into a folded piece of freezer paper. I then laid these onto  A2 pieces of white watercolor cardstock. Lydia uses a Minc machine to melt the wax from this onto the card which holds the paper in place. I couldn't get my machine to melt this so I used my heat press - the higher temperature worked!

Next I used my watercolor paints to add color all over the piece of card, left this to dry then very carefully lifted the freezer paper. This leaves a matt version of the die pattern on the card, a similar effect to emboss resist but without the shine embossing powder gives.

I added this and a color coordinating mat to a white card base.

 I didn't want to cover much of the pattern so I die cut a circle from white card and stamped this using the Mini Hello Stamp set. So this stood out I inked the edges of the circle, and adhered it to the card with foam squares.

Finally I added a few coordinating enamel dots.

As I had 2 die cut pieces of freezer I repeated the card in a blue but faded the paint towards the bottom corner:

Supplies used:

Altenew Scribbled Flower Dies and Stamps

Altenew Ornate Cover Die

Altenew Mini Hello Stamp Set

Altenew Happy Die

Altenew Halftone Happy Stamps

Altenew Inks:

    Jet Black

    Forest Glades

    Deep Iris

    Midnight Violet

    Ocean Wave

Other Inks:

    Picked Raspberry Distress Ink

    Bundled Sage Distress Ink

    Versamark

Altenew Watercolor 24 pan set

Arteza Metallic Watercolor Paints

Hero Arts Satin Pearl Embossing Powder

Neenah Solar White 110lb Cover

Fog Grey Cardstock

Cream 300gsm Cardstock

Bristol Smooth Cardstock

Watercolor Cardstock

Crystal Gems

Enamel Dots

Glue, Foam tape, Foam Squares

Thank you for stopping by I hope you like what you see if so please leave a comment to let me know.

Bunny Love

 Good afternoon! Have you been enjoying the gorgeous new release from Stamper's Delights? Today we have another surprise a new clear stamp release and this time it's the Chibi's turn check out this cutie:

Meet Chibi Rini Bunny She is available both as a Clear stamp and a digital image so the choice is yours.

I couldn't wait to color her up and make her into a super cute card:

I colored her using bright spring colored alcohol markers then trimmed the image down and used my corner rounder on the corners.

I matted a white A7 card base with yellow card and some pretty green Easter paper. Rini was matted with same paper and added flat to the card. Finally I rounded the corners of my sentiment and it's mat and added this to the card with foam squares.

A simple but cute card using an adorable image!

Head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of this week’s New Releases.

Why not stop by the Stamper's Delight Facebook page for regular news and inspiration from my Teamies you can also enter the progressive challenge there, no blog needed and receive freebies! 

 All the design team projects are available on the Inspiration blog - hop on over there for more inspiration.

 

It's A Girl!!!!

 Good afternoon! The snow finally is shrinking back, hopefully spring is round the corner although with the weather here we probably aren't out of the woods yet!

It's the first new release day over at Stamper's Delights and we are some super cute images for you. Do you need a new baby or shower card? Then this image is perfect - Meet Chibi It's a Girl:

Isn't she sweet! She comes with the sentiments shown with the image and being a digital stamp is easy to resize. 

I decided to print off a few of the images so I could decoupage them:

I colored the whole of the first image, the second one I colored the box lid and tag (which had one of the sentiments printed on it)  and the last image I just colored the box lid ribbon.

I fussy cut all of the colored parts and stacked them on top of each other in the corresponding areas

I mated a A7 card base with some pink card and a peach colored polkadot paper. Then die cut a heart bunting from the same card I used for my mat. The sentiment was die cut again with a mat. I added my image to the card and tucked in the sentiment. The bunting was added across one corner and the waste from this, the hearts were 'scattered' down to my sentiment.

If you love this image head on over to the Stamper's Delights Store to see all of this week’s New Releases.

Why not stop by the Stamper's Delight Facebook page for regular news and inspiration from my Teamies you can also enter the progressive challenge there, no blog needed and receive freebies! 

 All the design team projects are available on the Inspiration blog - hop on over there for more inspiration.