A Very CAS Birthday With Gelatos

Hi everyone :) Still having computer issues and well to be honest issues with the freezing winter we are having in Aus this year. It's that time again though and this time for the Purples it's ANYTHING GOES at Eclectic Ellapu. Sorry for the glare on my card but I forgot to take a pic before I packaged it up to sell lol.

This was a very easy card to make. Basically I stamped my image straight on to 300gsm white cs that is made so you can work right on it. I got it from a craft show I went to last year and I'm hoping when I go back in November that they have more. I  coloured using Faber-Castell Gelatos I used with a waterbrush straight from the tubes so I could get the intense colour. I made sure not to use too much water so the cs wouldn't warp and the colour wouldn't bleed through.

I went around the edge of the card with blue and smudged it with my finger and then did the same with a Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Label with a pink gelato. I used foam tape to raise the label for a little dimension. As you can see this was a nice quick card to make and I was trying out another CAS idea. I'm getting there I think lol.
Thanks for stopping by
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Distress Paints and Cabbage Roses CAS Style

Hiya Just a quick one today :D This is a card I made for someone who wanted some nice simple Thank You cards. The card started with me playing with the first set of Distress Paints when I got my hot li'l hand on them (the rest of the collection should be winging its way across the seas as I write this!) and doing some practicing on a craft tag. I used a Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous flourish stamp all over the tag with Picket Fence Distress Paint. I had used the tag for something else and had about half left so I got the idea to use it up. I admit I have a box full of "Creative Play" type things I need to start using more and this project was perfect for one.

Something I don't do very often is go CAS, what can I say I like to add things lol. But all I had was half a tag and a vague idea. If you know me, you know I love butterflies, so out came some butterfly dies. I chose the smallest from Spellbinders Nested Butterflies Two and Lifestyle Crafts Nested Butterflies and cut a few from my tag.

I then grabbed Tim Holtz' Movers and Shapers Tickets die and what was left of my tag and cut the smallest ticket for my sentiment. For the background I used white cs and the Spellbinders M-Bossabilities Cabbage Roses. I also did something I haven't done before which is to stamp a split type sentiment. I stamped just a note on the front and then on the inside to say thank you with archival ink. I finished it off by adding a bunch of baby pearls.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Ps what a beautiful country I live in :)

Calalla NSW Australia

Flowers On The Beach With Some Beach Cottage

Ok so I have been a little slack on the blog front for the last couple of weeks. I need to have a day where I just write blogs and have them all nicely scheduled! lol That being said this is just a quick fly by post today of my daughters birthday card from last year.

I used Creative Imaginations Beach Cottage 6" stack.
Connie Fongs Flowers on the Beach by Sweet Pea Stamps with a little tearing for a distressed look.
Archival ink and Distress Stains
Tim Holtz Movers and Shapers Mini Tickets by Sizzix and foam tape.
I Am Roses rose coloured with Broken China Distress Stain
Crafty Secrets Bouquets of Joy sentiment stamp
And to finish it off a cute little random fishy charm I had in my stash.

I didn't want to add too much to this card as I wanted the mermaid on the pp to be visible too.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Pattern Play Day Three Using Antique Rose Papers

For day three of Pattern Play I decided to try out Kristina Werners tips. I chose a paper from the KaiserCraft Antique Rose collection and cut it into 2cm strips. I used an off cut from another card with some washi tape to make a straight edge to help me layout and adhere my strips of paper.

 

 Next I grabbed a Cuttlebug Cut and Emboss folder. I am not sure what it's called sorry :( but it makes some lovely labels. I grabbed a subtle pp from the antique rose pad to make my label. I tried using distress stain to highlight the raised edges but that didn't work very well. Later I used some snow cap paint dabber mixed with a little water on the raised edges. The sentiment is from Inkadinkados Chelsea Sentiments.

Next I decide it looked a little plain so I cut a butterfly from the same pp as the background with Tim Holtz's movers and shapers from Sizzix. I chose a piece that was mostly blue so I could bring that colour in a bit more instead of it just being a little bit on the edge. I added some orange bling to the centre with Matte Accents as my Multi-Medium Matte ran away lol. I felt it could do with that little bit extra . . .

I used a small strip of  foam tape to raise the butterfly off the label a little bit. I was very overwhelmed with how bold and bright this paper is, but I have to say I think I like how this card turned out :)

Happy Scrappin'

Purple

I am entering this at:

Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Spring

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes 

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes

Make It Monday - Anything Goes 

Clementine Pattern Play Day 1

Well I guess everyone knows by now how much I like to combine my challenges. This card rolls a few into one and includes the Pattern Play class I am doing at Online Card Classes. I started with this sketch from Freshly Made . . .

I started by picking my papers, I did this with two thoughts in mind, two green challenges, a monochromatic challenge and a friendship card all rolled into one. Anyway the papers I chose are from the Cosmo Cricket Clementine stack.

 I then used the Tim Holtz Butterflies On The Edge die on the pp with the leaf shapes. Then I trimmed it down to fit across the top of the card and taped it to the back of the darker green on green circle pp. I then used a strip of white cs as a colour break.

Next I cut the lightest paper with another movers and shapers die, I used the larger of the two tickets. I stamped inside the ticket with Mowed Lawn Distress ink with a Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz sentiment with my new fiskars stamp press. Not sure what set as I grabbed a bunch of random stamps to craft at a friends lol. To make the words stand out a little more I embossed them with Ranger Superfine clear embossing powder.

I then grabbed a Hero Arts stamp that to stamp on the darker green pp. I used Pine Needles distress ink and embossed with the superfine again. I then taped the butterfly/darker paper onto my white card base. To add the ticket I used foam tape foe some dimension.

 

I thought it looked a little plain. So I decided to bling it up with some bling from the bottom of the stamp set. Everything is better with a lil bling!

If I was remaking this card I might have tried swapping the lighter herringbone  pp with the darker green circles. But at least I followed the rules for choosing paper :)

Happy Scrappin'

Purple

I am entering this at the following places:

Freshly Made Sketches - Sketch

Crafty Cardmakers - Friendship

Make My Monday - Monochrome

613 Avenue Create - Green

Die Cut Divas - Green

12 Tags of 2013 March

I have been a bit slack lately in doing the 12 tags, but this month I decided to give it a go even though I don't have most of the supplies Tim used lol. All good improvisation is my thing ;) First up I don't have the rabbit so I used my movers and shapers butterflies in the ornamental die from some DCWV paper. Then I edged it in some Frayed Burlap distress ink. Next instead of the sheet of tape I just laid strips of regular tape across my cs. I didn't have tinsel so I used wool for that soft fluffy feel. I learnt after covering the first butterfly to only take one strip of tape backing off at a time to keep it nice and sticky!

I don't have the tapered fringe die, but I do have the Martha Stewart Fringe Scissors so I grabbed some green Craft Core and got chopping. Then I sanded with my sanding block and added some frayed burlap. I made two layers this way.

From the same DCWV stack I grabbed a piece of paper to use as y background, as I had used a busy one around the butterflies I opted for one with a minimal pattern. The paper was no where near the colour I wanted so I added loads of ink around the edges. I started with Tumbled Glass followed by Broken China, Chipped Sapphire and finally Frayed Burlap for the grungy look.

Next I added some crinkle ribbon my sister got me as a present. It was pre-coloured so I just added some frayed burlap over the blue to tone it down a little. I tied the ribbon on and added that layer to the base with foam tape anywhere I could fit it around the woolly pieces and then added my "grass."

I don't have the metal foliage pieces so as I was doing a larger format than a tag I thought I would use a drink can (soda can) and cut it with the movers and shapers florals. I wasn't happy  with the size of one of the flowers so I cut some smallest ones from the tattered florals die. I used my fingers to shape each petal. For the smaller one I cut a small slit in between each petal first.

I don't have the new paints yet but they are so on my want list, right at the top! I used the Adirondack Dabbers instead. For the largest flower I used a combination of Pool, Aqua and Clover, the middle is Sunset Orange with white and the brad is Sunshine Yellow (I am in the middle of an argument with the yellow as it was almost solid!). 

For this flower I used a combination of Pink Sherbet and Aqua. and then the middle is the same as before. To turn the flowers into pins I added 2" pins to the back with glossy accents. I laid the pointy ends on a foam blending pad as a pillow to keep the pins in the right spot while they dried.

I cut the banner free hand as again I don't have the die. I stamped a flourish from Stampers Anonymous on the banner with tumbled glass. I then took my blending tool and used colours over the banner in the same order I did the outside piece. I stamped a sentiment from Mpress and then added some foam tape behind the middle part and double sided tape at the ends and stuck it at the top of my panel.

I then mounted the whole lot on a white card base the same size as the panel. I didn't want the card base to show so when I cut my panel I made it card front size (saves having to decide what colour card will be showing around the edges lol). Anyway that's my take on this months challenge, I hope you liked it :)

Happy Scrappin'

Purple

I am entering this at the following challenges;

Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes

Joyful Stamper - Anything Goes

Tim Holtz - 12 Tags of 2013

Eclectic Ellapu - Child 

613 Avenue - Bingo - Brads/Free/Ribbon

Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Gel Medium + Glitter + Distress Stains = A Lot Of Fun!

Warning: Very Messy!

 I have a few techniques I want to try with Gel Medium. So I bought some Liquitex Gel Medium (my local spotlight just started carrying Liquitex!) and my first technique was with glitter. My friend walked into a thrift shop here and found a bunch of glossy photo paper someone had gotten rid of. I don't know why but I decided it would be perfect to try this on lol.

I taped the photo paper to my craft sheet with repositional tape and then taped the stencil in place with florist tape. I used a 12" Crafter's Workshop Daisy Cluster stencil used a blob of the gel medium. You can spread it with a craft trowel, an old credit card or any other scraper type thing you have. Make sure you get in all the small spaces and then remove stencil carefully and clean immediately with water., otherwise the gel stays there forever, then I sprinkled glitter all over the gel and set it aside to dry.

For the sentiment I used a KaiserCraft stencil I had gotten a long time ago called party time. This time I used regular card stock and repeated the steps above after die cutting a Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Oval to fit over the words.

 On another piece of photo paper I grabbed a bunch of colours of distress stains (from the new 12) and splattered them on the paper. I then used the movers and shapers butterflies as well as an ittty bitty Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Butterfly to die cut the splatter paper (I tried using normal paper but it was too washed out compared to the vibrant photo paper).

When the gel medium is dry I used a paintbrush to remove the excess glitter (if you don't do this your stains end up caked with glitter! (you will still have some but not as much as if you use the brush). At this point you have to work quickly because the photo paper absorbs the colour really fast so if you want the colours to blend a bit I recommend starting in one spot and doing adjacent gaps. I used distress stains to add the colour by gently dabbing over the area I wanted a particular colour.  Once I had coloured it all I began to dry it. It looks like a mess but once dry you can dampen some paper towel and remove the excess stain from the glitter.

I used a plain white cs base to best show off the colours and adhered the flowered photo paper with double sided tape. The butterflies are glued down with glossy accents and the oval with a combo of foam tape and glossy to help it adhere to the glitter. I  have to say the colours are even more vibrant in real life lol. Hard to get accurate pictures of it with all the sparkling! What little girl wouldn't love this :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

I am entering this at:
Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes
Love to Create Challenge - All That Glitters
One Stop Craft Challenge - For The Kids
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Anything Goes

My First Sketch Challenge

I used Distress Markers to colour my Image from The Greeting Farm set Later Sk8er. I used Antique Linen, Brushed Corduroy, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo, Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Tattered Rose, Barn Door, Fired Brick and finally Faded Jeans. I scribbled them on my Ranger Craft Sheet and used the Tim Holtz Waterbrush to paint colour my image. Then I used Distress inks in peeled paint, forest moss, tumbled glass and broken china to create a borer around the card with my ink blending tool. Note to self . . .  Clean the mat before changing colours . . . I have a greenish sky!

I am trying to make this card for a challenge that finishes in a few hours . . . Nothing like a last minute try haha. Having fun trying to pick papers as I went for a boy card and most of my stuff is girly lol. Hmm wonder where my black and white KaiserCraft paper stack is. I could colour some of them to match :) Or leave it plain lol.

I am blogging as I go, can you tell? Lol. And darn it have lost a sentiment stamp amidst my chaos! A Ha! it fell in my tool bag lol. I have used Lifestyle Crafts Nesting Squares to make all my mats for the squares, the rectangles I cut myself. I have been making this card for hours lol. I am using green too, which is not a colour I usually rush to.

I don't have a pair of label dies that were small enough for this project so I paired a Lifestyle Crafts die (top) with a Tim Holtz Sizzix Mover and Shaper Label (bottom). The dies don't match perfectly but they still look good together. They are still a bit larger than I wanted so I am going to use foam tape on the image so I can tuck the labels under it a little.

I worked out where I wanted the sentiment in relation to the image and made a mark with a random marker so I could realign it once I had the double sided tape on.

The stamp set came with a star as well so I am going to add a few stars on two of the corners. All the stamping has been done with Ranger Archival in Jet Black. I used the Tonic Tim Holtz edge distresser on all the dark green mats. The cardstock used is from Bazzil.

This is the first time I have followed a sketch so I have stuck as close as possible for my first time.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

I am entering this at;
One Stop Craft Challenge - Sketch
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes
Crafting By Designs  - Anything Goes
One Stop Craft Challenge - For the Kids

Something Messy/Grungy

I wanted to make a card for the Simon Says Stamp something messy challenge. I always get messy crafting no mater what I make so I could just about enter anything lmao however in keeping with the spirit of things I decided to work in browns with gelatos and a lil distress thrown in to grungify and mess everything up a bit . . .

For the background I started by stamping the blueprint type stamp from Tim Holtz' Stampers Anonymous Steampunk stamp set using Picket Fence Distress Stain on a manilla tag. I then used gelatos in Gold, Butterscotch and Chocolate randomly on the tag and blending with a paintbrush and my finger. I did this for a couple of layers to build up the colour I wanted. I then used Black Archival ink to stamp the blueprint image again.

As you can see my stamping wasn't the straightest lmao. Messy stamping? I then trimmed the tag and used some Vintage Photo and my blending tool around the edges. Next I cut some Movers and Shapers Cogs from Grungepaper and Kaisercraft Timeless Classics papers from the 12" stack. I used a different colour gelato on each paper cog and blended with a lil water and my finger and glued them to the grungepaper cogs with Glossy Accents (next time I will glue then cut silly me lol).

Then from more manilla I made a small rectangle big enough to fit my saying and used my three gelatos to colour it and then edged it in Vintage Photo. I stamped my sentiment from the Urban Classics Tim Holtz set in Archival Black. I distressed the edges of both the background and sentiment using Tim's Tonic Edge Distresser. I chose some embellishments from Tims Cogs and Muse Token ranges to finish of the card. The sentiment and largest cog are adhered with foam tape, the rest of the cogs with glossy accents and the muse token has two jump rings from a pack of Facets to attach it to the saying.

The first pic of the card I took was without flash the next one is with flash. The cards colours are somewhere in between the tw, but the flash version allows you to see all the details properly.

Not 100% sure of this card so I will most likely try another "messy" card in the next couple of days.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

I am entering this at;
Simon Says Stamp - Messy
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Make My Monday -  Add A Charm
The Joyful Stamper - Inspire Me Fridays

Gelatos Part Two

So as I said in my previous post I had more cards to show and tell with gelatos, lol. So here are some more. Having loads of fun with them.

The first is my fave so far. Took a but of work but it was worth it I think :) I used Maya Road Around the World stamp set for the gorgeous map and globe images and Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Stamps for the pen nibs. I stamped the main map onto a scrap of Kraft like paper from some packaging with versamark and then embossed it with ranger superfine clear. This was more of a tester before I tried it on a ranger kraft tag, but I liked it so much I wanted to use it :)

I used a waterbrush directly to the end of a gelato to add colour to my map. The paper was very thin so I mounted it onto some manila for stability. I stamped the pen nibs on a piece of manila and then added the globes with gathered twigs distress ink. I added some distress ink around the edges then grabbed a manila label of each of the sizzix movers and shapers dies and inked their edges too. Both the map and happy birthday are stuck down with foam squares. I added some chain and baubles to the dangly post card label and then mounted the whole thing on a dark brown cs base.

Because the brown cs is so dark I die cut another piece of manilla with the movers and shapers ornate die and inked the edges before plaing it inside the card.

The next card has a red and green gelato background that I stamped with another TH Stampers Anon stamp. I stamped the centre image first, then stamped one to each side without reinking the stamp. I added some beads and chain and a little silver key. I used festive berries distress ink for alll the stamping including the saying that I then embossed.

I used manila to create a card base and stamped the focal stamp around the edges as it looked a little to bare before I did lol. I created the backround by laying colour 1/4 of the way up each side and then using my water brush the pull the colour to the middle. I then used the same colour gelato around the edges and used my finger to blend it in.

Hope you are enjoying the cards I have been making with gelatos :) They are fun to play with. still working on the watercolour techniques... I keep adding too much water!!!
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

I am entering the first card at Simon Says Stamp - One For The Boys
as well as Make It Monday - Anything Goes
and Just Keep On Creating - Anything Goes
Amusing Challenges - Father's Day/Masculine

Bright Cheerful Mothers Day Card

Hiya :)


My Distress Markers are here!!! So to celebrate I knocked up a card :) It turned into a lovely mothers day card.

I started with vellum, I stamped it with sunflower yellow Stazon with a stamp from the urban chic set, I then ran it through the bug using the Tim Holtz Ornamental Movers and Shapers Die. I used some silver butterfly stickers and stuck them on the vellum. I then used my Distress Markers in mustard seed, spiced marmalade, barn door and chipped sapphire to colour in the butterflies.

The sentiment is from inkadinkado stamped onto yellow cs and then cut with an oval lifestyle crafts die. I used my distress tool and distressed the edges first in spiced marmalade, then in barn door. While the distressing was sttill wet I went around the edge with perfect pearls in perfect pearl. I used foam tape to pop the oval off the card. To adhere the vellum down I hid tape behind the butterflys, sentiment and roses.

The roses are resin roses I got in a bag of 100 from ebay. I covered them in perfect medium and then added some perfect pearls over the top with perfect pearl. I glued them on with glossy accents. I chose a white cs card base and used my Distress marker in chipped sapphire to give a grungy boarder as I don't yet have that in a stamp pad.
Hope you like my first Mothers Day Card :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Creative Chemistry 101 Day Eight

Almost there! :) What an adventure this has been. I can say I have loads of extra's I haven't made into anything yet. But I do have 11 complete cards so far to show you later :)

Day 8 was paint. I still have one work in progress. I used milled lavender for my crackle and am ho hum about it lol... But it still needs some distressing so we shall see how it turns out :)

So my first two are okish but is a bit hard to see the resist in normal light. This is because it is unprimed canvas (I don't have any sticky back). Next time I will prime first! I like the colours though :)

Butterflys! swoon lol I misted this one with water so that the white would pop more...

Ok even more butterflys. This is the technique on plain old cs. As the canvas wasn't working thought I would try this lol. Love how it turned out!

Ok ones just a lil dark lol. Was too busy haaving a chat ;) and forgot to dab the flowers lol.

Ok so rather than post without the last pic I decided to suck it up and post lol... Had a bit of problem with my sticky stamp lifting the crackle pain but I think it adds to the distressed look :) lol

So we are close to the end :( Hopefully there will be another class at some point!
Happy Scrappin'
Purple