My Paper Corner

It's been far too hot to craft this past week in my little craft room and this card has been sitting half finished for a while ... luckily it's a little cooler today so my mojo kicked in and here's the completed card.  I think I'd really love to be sat on the coast with a gentle breeze blowing watching these little boats out on the water ... I cut a wavy aperture out of paper so I could stamp the anchor and compass through it directly onto the card base, repeating this four times then lightly brushing ink along the edges to define the curves.  A circular stamped topper was die cut for the three little sailing boats and birthday sentiment coloured with promarkers. I've used - w hite 13.5 cm sq card base Stamps - mixture of Kanban, Hot off the Press & mag freebies VersaColor pigment inks – sky blue, smoke blue, atlantic Unbranded stitched circle dies Promarkers & glitter gelly roll pen This was created for our art-digi-stamp challenge w

It's that time of the year for Graduation ceremonies to be held and I've made this card for our daughter who is graduating this week ... wow where did the last four years go … and she is staying on to do a masters … she just loves learning! I've gone with a star design using a set of wonky stitches nesting dies cut from three different colours mounted on a piece of patterned vellum.  The colours I chose were influenced from a letter "J" colour challenge I'm hosting with friends/members over on docrafts .  My colours are Jonquil, Jazzberry Jam & June Bud. I made the little scroll with more of the vellum and a piece of recycled ribbon from a clothes tag.  Quite like the added sparkle the adhesive glitter sheet gives. The top right star is mounted with a thin foam pad as its slightly overlapping the main star whereas the others are adhered flat with strong red liner tape.  I did add extra wet glue to the individual Graduation letters just to be o

Something I've been meaning to revisit for a while now is wreath builder style cards.  For this card I've also combined stamping with brushos for the oval topper.  I used a charity shop bargain 50p foam stamp spritzed with water & stamped onto watercolour card sprinkled with brushos first – any paint crystals not activated by the water can be brushed off when dry … added die cut dots to the flower centres and a rub-on butterfly.  I used the current layout from  Freshly Made Sketches #395  ... rotating the design and used an oval instead of a circle. The background stamping was more involved than normal as I wanted the elements to fan out from the sides of the oval topper.  Most were stamped & then rotated 90 degrees on the four corners to duplicate whilst the orange flowers were stamped twice turning 180 degrees. No room for a sentiment on the front though ... I'll make up for that on the inside. Here's a picture taken on my stamping platform befor