Stretch Your Stamps 2 Kissing (I cheated)

I admit I cheated lol, no kissing on my card, that's because I don't really have many graphic stamps and the ones I had were already patterned :). I did like the effect though. Again I have used the Fiskars Shapes N' Such set with Distress Inks in Mustard Seed, Tumbled Glass, Milled Lavender, Spiced Marmalade and Spun Sugar, the sentiment is from TPC Studio, stamped in Archival ink.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Prima Nature Garden Milled Lavender Card

Just a little share first! I have been featured on the Joyful Stampers Inspire Me Fridays blog! Click Here to go see :) I am doing a happy dance! On to the card lol.

I really need to start working on my cards earlier lol. My clean and "simple" card turned into a nightmare when I kept killing my watercoloured image lol. I started with my card base. I used Neenah Solar White for this card. First time I have used this as a card base. I stamped the base with an Mpress Doily stamp set with Milled Lavender Distress Ink and built up from there lol . . .

On some watercolour paper I stamped the girl from Primas Nature Garden stamp set in Archival Jet Black. I coloured with a bunch of Distress Markers by using them on my Ranger Craft Sheet and then adding water to lighten the colour. I used my Tim Holtz waterbrush unfilled so I didn't over saturate the paper. The colours I used are Milled Lavender of course, Spun Sugar, Tattered Rose, Dried Marigold, Worn Lipstick, Vintage Photo, Brushed Corduroy, Scattered Straw, Antique Linen, Crushed Olive, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss and Pine Needles.

Next I searched for some cs to cut a Lifestyle Crafts Doily out of and then cut a small labels die out of the neenah cs and the medium one from watercolour paper. I used the large one from that set to cut my image out. I stamped the small label with another Mpress doily, then with a sentiment from the TPC Studio set Playful Expressions.I then edged it with some more milled lavender. With the medium label I used a cuttlebug folder to emboss it and then used milled lavender on it with my distress tool.

Next up I coloured some Hemptique white twine with the distress ink pad and my ink blending tool by repeatedly pulling the string between the pad and the tool til I got the desired colour. A great way to colour twine to perfectly suit a project. Just don't forget it dries lighter lol. I could hve cut a length first but I found it easier to hold on to the spool.

I stuck some double sided tape on the back of my image and used it to hold the twine in place while I wrapped it around three times and tied it off. I used my Crop-a-dile to set a small eyelet in my label with the sentiment and added three more pieces of twine to that.

I used Multi-Medium Matte to glue the doily down, foam tape on the image and the sentiment label and xpress it for the bottom label. I am learning more every time I colour :) I won this prima stamp set early last year and had yet to crack it open. Such a pretty image, I need to use it more!!!
Thanks for stopping bye.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

I am entering this n the following challenges:
613 Avenue - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Stamps You Love But Don't Use
Love To Create - Wrap It Up / String/Twine/Fibre
Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Anything Goes
Moving Along With The Times - Lovely Lady
CAS-ual Friday - Stamped Background
Joyful Stamper - Anything Goes (where I am a featured artist this week yay!)
One Stop Craft Challenge - Mothers Day

Spellbinders Butterfly Cards

I have a pile of cs offcuts my sister got me from a recycle shop. They are nice and thick and semi gloss on one side. I love using them with my Spellbinders and Lifestyle Crafts dies. They make great shaped cards as the cs is thick enough it will emboss the edges as it runs through as well.

Recently I was at my friends house and wanted to show her a couple of techniques to make cards with the thin dies. I showed her two ways. My first card was made by cutting two of the one shape and then about 2cm from the top of the back one I scored a line. In this small 2cm section is the only place you add adhesive and then you stick the top piece over that and line up your shapes. This allows your card to flip open.

The card was made with the Fiskars It's Your Day rubber cling stamp set. I used the flower stamps and Barn Door distress ink and stamped off on a scrap before stamping on my card. I then stamped my images and fussy cut them. The sentiment is stamped onto a lifestyle crafts labels die. The images were adhered with foam tape for dimension.

For the next card I pre-folded the cardstock and carefully laid the die on cs making sure the folded section was just inside the top of the wings. I have also made a card with this die as a side opening card instead of a top opening card. You can just see in the pic that the top of the wings are flat from the folds. 

I stamped the back of the card in milled lavender distress stain with a recollections butterfly stamp. I then took the same stamp and stamped again on white cs and fussy cut around it. I used the medium spellbinders butterfly to cut a piece of Prima pp. The sentiment is from Fiskars Butterfly Magic. The rose is from I Am Roses and inked with milled lavender distress stain and then sprayed with homemade shimmer mist.

I really love shaped cards. I have recently started seeing what images I can use with my ecraft to make them. My last blog was a doily card I made with the ecraft :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

This has been entered into the simon says stamps and show challenge