Inspired by Svenja (2)

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place - where crafting has been a struggle so far this year! 

BUT last week I managed to finish a couple of cards inspired by something my lovely, crafty friend Svenja's shared on her instagram (millefeuille.eu) 

I shared the first card last time and now I've got the second, which I like much better to show you.  I'd be interested to know which you like the best!  Towards the end of last year I was finding using white card blanks very difficult for some reason, and it seems that little oddness hasn't gone away!

This time I used the inked blue piece I'd made, plus a small piece which had been left over from something I madae a couple of years ago! 

These are the pieces of inky cardstock inspired by those on Svenja's LO

 

 

 

And her lovely artworks

 

This time I chose a deep blue card blank

Again I used the inky rectangles for the background and the die cut squiggles

This time I wanted to use a flower for the vertical feature element, This one is from a favourite Spellbinders 'Sealed' set, but I replaced the straight stem with a loopy one using a die from the squiggles set.  The flower head is inked in several shades oif red for colour depth, then given a coat of Glossy Accents

To finish I added a tiny pc generated sentiment along with a little gold twine bow 

 Materials

from Spellbinders:

Tangled Threads Etched Dies 

Sealed Wildflowers Etched Dies

now out of stock, sorry!  

 

Other:  

Blue card blank

White card for inking 

Gold, light blue and black card

pc generated sentiment, gold thread 

 

Just a Note

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  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

Inspired by Svenja (1)

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place - where sadly, thanks to my ongoing cold I've had very little to share over the last few weeks. 

However, at last I've managed to finish my first card of the year, in fact I've made 2, but I'll add the second on a separate post!

A few weeks ago I was looking at my lovely friend Svenja's instagram
(millefeuille.eu) and spotted an arty project she'd been making.  I loved the layout and thought it would be great on a card - just having that thought is more 'crafty' than I've felt for ages and I wanted to act on it so checked with Svenja that it would be ok to use her LO. 

I really struggled to finish it and it lay on the desk for ages.  Not sure I'm really happy with it even yet but it seemed important to actually get a crafty project completed

Here's the pieces of Svenja's work that gave me the first inklings of a desire to craft

In Svenja's  honour (she being an Inky princess!) I made a couple of inky pieces to use for my card.  Once the ink was dry I added a bit of sheen by brushing over a coat of PVA

I thought I'd go with the sunset shades for the first card. 

I cut down a piece of the inked card to use, and also a piece of dark red card with a soft sheen effect

In place of the vertical element I decided to use one of the tulip wax seals I shared on a recent post

Instead of Svenja's calligraphy I used some die cut black squiggles

To finish I added a BetterPress sentiment which I hot-foiled in gold, and a few tiny punched circles of red, black and gold

 

 Materials

from Spellbinders:

 Distress Mix 3D Embossing Folder 

Tangled Threads Etched Dies 

Fancy Sentiment Strips Press Plate & Die Set 

card from Ruby Assorted Treasured Cardstock pack

 

Other:  

White card blank

White card for inking and embossing 

Gold and black card 

Handmade Wax Seal - see earlier post

 

Just a Note

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  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

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Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx

Making Wax Seals. Pour & Scrape Tulips Part 2

 Hello

Wishing you a warm welcome to my little crafting place, thank you so much for coming by!

Today as promised, I'm just catching up because I've finished the seals I showed at the end of my last blog post.

I ended up using a variety of ways to finish the tulip seals I made last time. some were quite a good shape so I left them be, some were just too misshapen so I cut out the rectangle shape and pressed that into a newly poured wax xhape, and for one I actually cut out the tulip section, put that place back into the warmed brass seal and re-stamped into new wax. 

About the top right seal the photo above

 

After cutting around the flower bunch, I heated some gold wax and some blue wax and warmed the stamp a little.  I poured a small amount of gold into the 

the tulip head area and wiped it away before putting the cut-toout piece back into the seal and again scraping away any excess.  This gave the two-tone effect to the seal.  It was stamped into blue wax, I cut around the rectangle, then stamped again into gold wax

To complete I added some extra dimension by gluing on some tiny thread or twine bows

 

  

Just a Note

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  THIS is my Affiliate link to the Spellbinders store 

-  you can use it to access the store whenever you buy from Spellbinders

It doesn't cost you anything, but I may get a little reward for pointing you there.

There's a UK based shop now, so you can use the 'Visit Our UK Store' button at the top right of any page on the Spellbinders site  

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you so much for coming by

 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx