Funky Fossil Floating Acetate Cards

By
The lovely Sarah Gray from Funky Fossil did a free live workshop craft-a-long last month on the How To Craft Network and I joined in even though I didn't have the actual sets she used I decided to use other FF products I had instead.  Here are the two cards I made.


Both A6 in size, one has a side acetate panel featuring a geo butterfly, the other is an easel card featuring funky florals.  In the past I have shied away from using acetate but I'm pleased with how these came out but difficult to photograph.  Base cards cut from a sheet of 300 gsm white card.

I chose the geo butterfly for my first card as it was straightforward to cut around and take away part of card front, coloured with polychromos for a sketchy look.

The floating half of the butterfly was backed with the same washi tape I used on the spine to make the inside neater before attaching the acetate panel behind.

Randomly stamped some smaller geo elements on the front with a few enamel dots, adding a piece of patterned paper inside with stamped sentiment.

For the second easel card I stamped the large funky floral design onto patterned paper embossed in white then over stamped in black to give a black shadow and greyish outline.  Florals coloured with promarkers.  

The floating part was backed with more of the patterned paper again to make the reverse neater before cutting out.  Acetate panel was sandwiched between the patterned paper and card base.  Added a few other elements onto the acetate.

Distress oxide inks through a fine floral stencil on the base of the easel with heart edges die for the stopper and die cut sentiment.


I've used - Funky Fossil products:
stamp sets: Geo Bugs & Funky Florals
patterned papers: Shibori & Kaleidescope
dies: Edges & Sentiment
Shibori washi tape & enamel dots
Fine Floral stencil
Polychromos, Promarkers & Distress Oxide inks

Linking up with -
We Love Stamping                                                         Stamping Sensations
Sept: ATG with stamping (Geo Butterfly Card)                Sept: Feminine (Floral Easel Card)

                                            



Thank you for visiting - I'd love you to leave a comment if you have time - Steph x

Comments

  1. crafty-stamperTuesday, 13 September, 2022

    Fabulous cards,love the acetate panels and beautiful butterfly and embossed flowers
    Carol x

    ReplyDelete
  2. As.I.Do.Rodos.Wednesday, 14 September, 2022

    Such beautiful cards
    Ginny
    My Blog As I do Rodos

    ReplyDelete
  3. brendaWednesday, 14 September, 2022

    Two very effective cards incorporating acetate, many thanks for sharing at Stamping Sensations and We Love Stamping September challenges.

    B x

    ReplyDelete
  4. ClurWednesday, 14 September, 2022

    Absolutely gorgeous Steph! Clare x

    ReplyDelete
  5. EmmaTFriday, 16 September, 2022

    2 Gorgeous cards, the acetate adds interest and intrigue. Emmax

    ReplyDelete
  6. KraftyKoolKatFriday, 16 September, 2022

    Two really gorgeous and impressive cards Steph. Thank you so much for sharing your lovely creation with us over at We Love Stamping.
    Hugs
    Cathy
    xxxx

    ReplyDelete
  7. MerviWednesday, 21 September, 2022

    Fabulous and beautiful cards!
    Thank you for sharing at We Love Stamping September Challenge;-))m

    ReplyDelete
  8. Grenouille GreetingsSunday, 25 September, 2022

    Wow! These acetate cards sure do add some extra intra interest when your image floats off the base card. Super images, prettily coloured too! Thank you for playing along with our "Feminine" challenge at Stamping Sensations with this duo this month! Crafty Hugs, Lesley

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Thank you for taking a moment to visit ... I read and appreciate every comment you have time to leave. Steph x

Popular posts from this blog

Autumn Days

By
Image
Autumn is one of my favourite seasons, looking forward to the rich colours of the changing leaves, squirrels busy collecting fallen acorns, fungi raising their heads above ground and seeing sunflowers still in bloom.  This card was made for a September birthday. I made my own background panel (pictured below) with two distress oxide inks smooshed on it before dry embossing with a layered leaves stencil. Stencilled on top of the raised embossing with various dye inks then used the second layering stencil to just ink the tops of the acorns.  Panel matted on burgundy cardstock.  Wanted to use a recent sale purchase of an Apple Blossom die set which creates a circular shaped puzzle centrepiece and chose a sunflower patterned paper from a recent magazine along with the same burgundy cardstock for the frame.  Once paper pieced back together this was mounted on the background panel. The fungi and butterfly are printed transparency images which were gifted to me, these I've ...
Read more

Woodware Birthday Grid meets Distress Oxides

By
Image
My first post for 2019 and I'm sharing a card made with some new purchases ... I've finally bought some Distress Oxides so had a play and created an inky background.  Using three colours (spiced marmalade, cracked pistachio & squeezed lemonade) I decided to do a combination of inking on and through a stencil mask with a bit of water spritzing as well.  I quite like that the colours stay on top of each other without affecting the colours underneath and it's definitely a lovely chalky finish. Another new purchase was the Woodware birthday grid stamp by Jane Gill, I do like the grid arrangement of all the sentiments leaving two spaces so you can add other images to suit.  I've added social media type die cuts as this is a card for a male who's always on his mobile phone 😊.  Final touch was randomly stamping a filmstrip down one side and adding #smile in the corner. I've used -  5x7 white card base Distress Oxide Inks on  Clarity Stencil Card Th...
Read more

100 Birthday Wishes

By
Image
Made for the uncle of a crafting friend celebrating his 100th birthday who still enjoys a bit of gardening.  Card Making Magic's Spring Garden stamp set that came with issue 119 of Creative Stamping seemed ideal to use and I also wanted to have lots of colour so what better than a rainbow background. Distress oxide inks were brushed over a stencil to create the abstract background then water drops flicked over to create some interest.  Gardening images stamped in brown ink directly onto the panel with masks used so the hand tools could be stamped behind the flower pots.  Images were coloured with a mixture of polychromos, metallic pencils and gel pens with added white gel pen highlights. Number 100 stamped in green ink with a bracket below again with some white gel highlights ... a topiary sculpture maybe?  White embossed sentiment on the same colour card as the matt layer. I've used - 6x6" white card base Issue 119 Creative Stamping covermount Claritystamp abstract ...
Read more