Gilded bird and cage

This is the last one (so far) of the printed card blanks and on this one I have used a Dreamweaver bird cage stencil and used matt white paste, when dry I have applied flitter glue through the stencil and then added gilding flakes.  I've chomped the top corners and layered it onto gild miri. The bird is by Stamp in the Hand done in Indigo Blu Morris Dance gilding flakes.  The happy birthday is embossed in brown onto a piece of velum.  I have used gold card candi as faux brads.

Thanks for looking and if you left a comment, thanks very much.

Anne :)

Magenta Peacock

I love this Magenta stamp and here it's in black embossing and coloured with my old favourite, Pearl Ex. So it is very shimmery, but hard to see in the photo (excuses, excuses!).  It's mounted onto silver miri, and then onto a card blank - which is not so blank as all the background is already on it!  I was given some of these ages ago and have not known what to do with them,  until now.  The Happy Birthday is an old favourite stamp by Superstamp - it's embosssed in blue ep and mounted onto miri.

Hope you like it and thanks for looking and if you've left a comment, special thanks very much.

Anne :)

Inkadinkado Vintage Lady

Hello bloggers, this card is another one of the printed card blanks made into a proper card!  I have used a really old Inkadinkado rubber stamp and used 4 metallic colours of embossing powder on it.  Simple but effective (I hope).  My old favourite Happy Birthday by Superstamp and both mounted onto gold miri.

Thanks for coming by and if you've left a comment, special thank you.

Anne :)

Dreamweaver Owl

Hello bloggers this is a simple little card done with Dreamweaver gold paste. When dry I added Flitter Glue through the (clean) stencil and then used red/gold easy metal sheet to the owl and acorns.  This is mounted onto gold miri card and onto an embossed card blank.  I have used Antique Linen Distress Ink over the embossing.  The good thing about gold leafing is that it is so striking that  you don't need much else on the card.  This is another of the card blanks from my stash that I promised myself I would use.  I have so many unfinished card projects buried in the deepest stash, I am going to challenge myself to do them or throw them!

Thanks for coming by and taking a look, and special thanks for commenting :)

Anne :)

Metallic markers background.

Hello bloggers, this card was a challenge to myself to use some printed card blanks which I had been given ages ago and put away in the deepest part of my stash.  I used a piece of card from my stash that was from a  long ago playing session using metallic markers on shiny card. Onto this piece I have stamped an old Hero Arts flourish flower stamp in black and then mounted onto gold miri spellbinders diecut.  The sentiment is a clear stamp set which I have lost the details for, sorry about that.

Thanks for coming by and special thanks if you've left a comment.
Anne :)

Metallic dimension paste cards

I've made a ton of cards and haven't had time to blog any of them, until now.  So here are a bunch of them which include some Dreamweaver stencils plus crafters workshop plastic masks used with dimension paste.

This one is a Dreamweaver stenil and uses their metallic paste.  The sentiment (Elusive Images)  is done in gold flakes on a Spellbinders die cut.  The background is coloured with Brilliance inks and embossed and then rubbed over with Inka Gold.  The main piece is mounted onto gold miri card.  The strip down the side is coloured with Brilliance inks.

This is another Dreamweaver stencil and their metallic pastes mounted onto gold miri.  The two pieces of gold embossed card have the diecut white fence to hide the join.  The sentiment is gold embossed and on a Spellbinders diecut with bling pearls.

This is my favourite Dreamweaver stencil and done with their embossing paste.  Except I didn't have any copper so I coloured some white with copper paint and used this together with silver and gold paste.  The background is done again with Brilliance inks, then embossed.  The sentiment is from a Tim Holtz set and is done in gold flakes.  Both pieces mounted onto gold miri.

This is a TCW mask in the background done with gold paste and the birdcage is another Dreamweaver stencil done with the gold, silver and (my own) copper paste.  The bird (Inkadinkado) is done in gold flakes and the sentiment in gold embossing.

Similar to the above one but with gold flakes on the stamping (Kanban)  as the background and the flowers on the corner.

This one uses another plastic mask (TCW I think) and is pasted with the 3 colours of metallic pastes.  The sentiment is by Kaiserkraft and done in gold Brilliance ink on a Spellbinders die cut.  Fancy edging finishes it off.

Thanks for looking and any comments always welcome.

Anne :)

Alice for Anis

This is the Alice in Wonderland birthday card I made recently for my daughter Anis, who loves Alice.  It's more of a mini book as it has some pages.  I used 3 scalloped 6 by 6 card blanks and stuck them together after I had finished all the pages. 

As you can see I did a lot of die cutting in silver miri and white card to make the mounts.  Good old distress ink, my favourite,  was used to graduate the colour.  The backgrounds were done using the resist technique and distress inks over the top..  All the stamps were from the Alice set by Clear Art Stamps.

The black stamping is Archival black and embossed in clear ink, you have to be quick to do this but it does give a really deep black and is my favourite.

As you can see I used different shapes of die cuts for the mounts for each two pages.  I used the out of the box technique to die cut the Mad March Hare as his ear was sticking out.

I really enjoyed making these and would have made more pages but as usual I was in a rush as we were due to go on holiday in a few days.  I hope you like it and thanks for looking.  All comments wonderfully appreciated  :)

Christmas cards

Hero Arts little birds stamps on card which has been through an embossing folder.  I used my Quickie glue pen  in a few places and added silver easy metal for a bit of shine.  The birds were stamped and embossed in archival black and coloured using pencils.  I like this one and have used the birds stamps quite a bit this year.    

This is done with Craftwork Cards paper and sentiment.  The snowflakes are die cuts using glitter card and miri.

Another version of the blue one at the top, this time using gold flakes on the background embossing and metallic pens on the birdies.

A different embossing folder here and stamped and embossed baubles.  I used distress inks on the background and a bit of shine with my Quickie glue pen and gold flakes.  The sentiments are from Craftwork Cards and are mounted onto die cut snowflakes.

This is a bit blinged out in this photo, sorry about that.  It's done with Craftwork Cards paper and sentiments, plus die cut snowflakes.  The hollographic one is a real dazzler!  This photo is awful!

This one is another embossing folder with distress inks.  The tree is a stamp I have had for years and still love and use often at Christmas card time.  I have used Quickie glue pen and gold flakes again and the sentiment is another one from Craftwork Cards.  I haven't done a very good job on the photo editing, sorry about that!