Bee-cause you're special

Today we have a card by the lovely Chris Scott using a technique called "baby wipe technique".

Chris has used a baby wipe to create a stamp pad by adding drops of distress ink refills in different colours onto the wipe close together. You then take your stamp and press into the baby wipe and then stamp onto your card.

 The effect is a beautiful watercolour effect and you can add lots of different colour to one stamped image.

For this card Chris has used the a clear stamp set called Busy Bee by Hobby Art which has lots of designs in the set, including the sentiment Chris used.

The tiny bee's are really sweet too and Chris used glossy accents on the wings to make them stand out more.

To finish the card a few die cut wild flowers are added using the Tim Holtz Wildflowers dies set and these have been coloured using distress inks to match the card.

You can see other artwork by Chris on her blog : 'Always About Colour'.

Products used by Chris, include:

Spiced Marmalade distress ink

Scattered Straw distress ink

Peeled Paint distress ink

Wildflowers die set

Glossy Accents

Busy Bees clear stamp set

Chrysanthemums

I love the colours of this pretty card by Sara using Sue Wilson dies.

Sara has created a aperture in the card using the Eternal Rings die by Sue Wilson.

Coloured card is used behind the aperture and pearls added to the flower centres to create

a truly pretty panel.

Flowers have been die cut and build up using the Sue Wilson Chrysanthemum die and the leaves are die cut from the Spring Foliage set.

Micro Beads are used to make the centre of the flowers and give a lovely effect.

The sentiment is from a Woodware clear stamp set called Jane's Script and is a lovely sentiment set with words perfect for many occasions and a lovely size to stamp onto cards.

Products used for this card include:

Chrysanthemum die set

Eternal Rings

Hobby House Pearls

Spring Foliage

Micro Beads

Jane's Script clear stamp set

Sara's Butterfly Magic

Today we have a very pretty card with lacey butterflies and a glittery background.

For this card Sara has removed a panel from the right side of the card and replaced with acetate.  Then on the right hand inside of the card, added a strip of glittery card so that it shows through acetate when the card is revealed out of the envelope.

A pretty border punch and ribbon add a elegant touch to the left side of the card.

The products used for this card include:

Ribbon and small pearls

coloured card stock

and

Cascading butterflies

Floral lace punch

Thick acetate

Cascading Butterflies

This card from Sara is a very pretty card and also as a touch of sparkle to it.  We all love a bit of sparkle :)

Sara has used the Meridian corner die to die cut two corners of a piece of lilac card, then used the butterflies outline die in the centre.

On some white card she has then cut a full set of the butterflies dies and replaced the pieces back in the lilac card base.

Using adhesive film and glitter a sparkling background has been created and then placed behind the lilac card.

Ribbon and pearls add a finishing touch to card.

Products used include:

Meridian edger

Adhesive film

Cascading butterflies

Glamour Dust

Card and envelopes

With Love

"Pretty in Pink" is the card for today.

Sara has made this beautiful card using just pink and white cardstock and dies.

The base is a 8x8 card and a pink slightly smaller piece of card is used for the first layer.

Sara has then die cut the heart design (from standard heart nestie) out of a slightly smaller piece of white card.

Using the Tim holtz mixed media die set she has die cut the fancy corner out of white card and used this behind the heart with some pink backing.  Doesn't it look really effective?

Shows how versatile the mixed media dies sets are.  And how you can mix and match outline dies with fancy detailed details.  Loving it :)

Then to finish off the card, Sara has used the Sue Wilson Spring Foliage die set from the Finishing Touches range and also some lace, glitter and cute ribbon.   Notice how there are 3 shades of the pink flowers and each one has a pearl center - looks so elegant.

Some of the products used for this card, include :-

Spring Foliage

Mixed Media #2

Cascading Butterflies

Classic Hearts

Self-adhesive Lace

Pearls

Good Luck

A Good Luck card for today made by Sara Rosamond.

 

This is a really lovely and quick card to make and a great way to use the Sue Wilson

Easter Basket die set in a very unusal way. Similar to our previous post where Sara has used the basket handle for the Hot Air Balloon, she's been thinking more outside the box basket and come up with this gem - using the basket handle upside down for a horseshoe.

Thin, 3mm, ribbon is then threaded through and a brad used to make it look like it is hanging on the card.

A die cut of a little black cat is featured in corner and comes from the Sue Wilson kinetics 3D window box die set to finish off card.  

Beautifully simplistic for any Good Luck occasion you need to create a card for. 

Thanks for the inspiration Sara :)

See some of Sara's other artwork on her blog : "inky fingers"

Products used on this Good Luck card, are-

Sue Wilson kinetics Easter Basket set 

Sue Wilson kinetics 3D window box accessories set

6x6 white cards and envelopes

Hobby House pearls

3D window box accessories set

Easter Basket set

Hobby House Pastel Pearls

8x8 white cards and envelopes

Up Up and Away

The card we have today is a fun card that would be great for men's cards if you were a little uncertain as to what to make, or prehaps someone taking on a new venture.

Created by Sara, she has used the Sue Wilson Easter Basket set to make the basket for the Hot Air Balloon, and just used the patterned basket part of the die cut. 

To create the balloon itself, Sara has used the basket handle from the same die set and edged the die cut shapes with string/twine.

The background clouds are made using the cloud stencil kit and tumbled glass distress ink.

A sentiment has been created by stamping out the letters from the Hampton art alphabet set and using thread to create a kite tail look.

Products used - 

Sue Wilson kinetics: Easter basket set

Hampton art: alphabet set

cloud stencil kit

8"x8" cards and envelopes in white

kraft card

Distress ink: - tumbled glass

Easter Wishes

Although Easter as been and gone for this year, I wanted to share with you couple of beautiful projects that Sara had created.  Firstly this lovely Easter card with a Sue Wilson die called Kinetics Easter Basket.

The clouds and grass are die cut from Doo Hickey dies and Sara has used tumbled glass distress ink to edge clouds as well as adding a little glitter too.

This Kinetics Easter Basket die also comes with a rabbit, bow and patterned eggs too.

I love this 3D version of the basket where Sara has turned it into an Easter table favour and added chocolate Easter eggs.  You could easily used this die to make a basket and fill with flowers for a card for anytime of the year or other gifts like a couple of nail polishes as a thank you to a friend, or sugar almonds as the classic wedding table favour. 
Sara has threaded ribbon through the handle, the design will take 3mm ribbon and not alot of it so get chance to sort through your ribbon stash and use up some left overs.

I do like the chocolate idea personally 'Yum Yum'

Products used are over both projects are:

Kinetics Easter basket by Sue Wilson

Sue Wilson kinetics window box and accessories (butterflies) 

8x8 blank cards and envelopes

Distress ink pad in tumbled glass

Magnolia Doohickey grass die

Magnolia doohickey Flag and cloud die

Presscut nesting dies in squares