Pressed flower sample cards

I really enjoyed getting stuck into pressed flowers again to make these sample cards for Joanna Sheen.

DIY sample cards

I haven't felt like blogging for quite a while due to family stuff.

I thought I would add some of the sample cards that I made and that were shown on the TV a few weekend's ago by Joanna Sheen.
First here is a Tool shed card

I used a score board to create the wood and used the score tool to add extra texture and then coloured it with distress ink direct to card and rubbed with cut and dry. Inside looks like this:
I stamped the tools twice..embossing one lot with silver powder.. and then snipping them to make one tool each after using promarkers to colour them. I created the peg board look using my Big Bite tool.

Here's the other card I made for the show
I made the tool belt from inked up card.. made the shape up as I went along .. it grew as I made it... Lol! I added the stitiching with a white gel pen.
and here is the pop up tool box inside..I can't take full credit for this pop out idea as I was totally inspired by this lady's blog here
I change mine for what I wanted by adding more drawerfronts etc.

I will be back soon with more sample cards for the groovy baby stamps and the pressed flower cards I made.

Bye for now.

Joanna Sheen's Christmas Flower stamp Sample Cards

Hi Bloggers, It's been a while. I've been super busy with making sample cards and my own Christmas cards. I've also not been able to get onto the computer as much as I would like for other personal reasons.
Anyway, I realised that I didn't show the card samples for the Christmas flower stamps that were shown on TV over a month ago,well it's not Christmas yet so .. here are my 2 from each option:

The Candle option of these stamps has some lovely designs. I used the musical sentiments as tinsel on the tree and for the background - I embossed with white powder and inked with Tim Holtz aged mahogony pad for the background paper. The angel stamped and embossed with white powder looks good on the top of the tree. I used the sentiment from the Music option with a few punched birds (MS punch) each side and on the tree. Talking of the tree, I stamped the Angel over and over in green onto a piece of paper and punched out lots of snowflakes and arranged them into a tree shape. 8" x 8 " card.

Here's the second card using the Candle option:

I have used the main design stamped with versamark and embossed with white powder. I used Tim Holtz distress inks to colour the image using one of my acrylic blocks to mix the colours with water. The fancy top is part of a spellbinders die - Lables 20 to give a nice edge. 6" x 6" card.

The Music option has a beautiful design plus a lovely Poinsettia and sentiment.
Here are my cards.

I stamped the main image twice with versamark and embossed both with white powder, the one for the back I cut to size and inked using Tim Holtz Barn door ink pad. (very messy! he he) then I used the other stamped image to cut out the poinsettia flowers to lay on the top. The backing paper is the single Poinsettia flower stamped over and over using a mask so that they can be overlapped neatly... again I used the Barn door colour inkpad - I think this makes a stunning background paper. I stamped a few extra for the embellishments and added some punched out Poinsettias aswell.

Here's the second card for the Music option..

A pretty Tent fold card with the image again white embossed and coloured using the distress inks. I layered the image onto a vintage doily to add texture and stuck gems along the MS punched bottom edge. The holly paper is from Papermania.

The Star option has the most lovely wooden star with Merry Christmas on it, plus a lovely arrangment in a box and some Christmas bells. Here are my two cards.

First of all I decided where I wanted the line for the bottom of the door and stairs and lightly inked over a straight edge with Antique linen, then I stamped the star and then drew the lines of the door around it. To create the look of the stair banisters I used a deep edge Martha stewart punch and red card but inking the area first before I stuck it on. I used a mixture of H2O's and distress inks to colour the flowers this time. 6" x 6" card.
Here's my second card.

A mixture of embossing folders to create the fireplace on this tent card. Paper from Papermania and holly punched and coloured.

The Wreath option has a lovely Wreath, bauble and sentiment.
Here's my first card. 8" x 8" card

A mixture of large MS border punches to create the gate and the brick embossing folder from Creative Expressions for the little bits of wall on each side. I used torn white card for the snow effect. The wreath is coloured with promarkers. I love the cat from the Ivory Cats CD, cheeky little thing..!

and finally, the second card for this option and last out of the samples...

I've had the white card with flecks in for absolutely ages.. I love how it looks like a frosty window here. I stuck 4 identical cut out squares onto a larger blue square to create the window.
I also stamped onto the blue paper and embossed with white... then added my own foiled sentiment. 6" x 6" card.

Thank you so much for visiting my page today. I will have many more samples to add here as each new set of stamps are launched on Create and Craft TV.

Hugs xx

More sample cards

Here are some more photos of the sample cards I made for Joanna Sheen's Classic Melody stamps.

I used glossy card for the grand piano, Martha steward edge punch for the decoration and the keyboard has been embossed. I layered the pages on the little book to create a 3D look to it.

I got the idea for the pop up piano keys from the internet HERE but I changed it a little to make some of the white piano keys look like they are playing a tune.

The keyboard was stamped with versafine ink and then I covered the whole lot with versamark and used clear embossing powder to give a nice shiny look. I embossed the butterflies with white embossing powder and inked with milled lavendar distress ink. I don't know if anyone will notice that the bodies of the butterflies are made up of treble clefts. Lol.. The paper and letters are from the Rose garden Papermania pad and I made the rose to match.

The musical background was stamped with a stazon ink pad onto a piece of wide cream ribbon. I cut a small piece off for the pocket and tied the longest piece into a simple knot. I poked this through a small hole in the shirt then layered the black card for the jacket on top. The pinstripes are created with a clear stardust pen. The smaller mini easel with the gramaphone stamped keeps the larger easel suit upright.

I used my own foiled crackled background and some lovely wallpaper on the base of the card. I stamped the gramaphone onto cream card using distress inks to age it and I embossed another one in white onto some Papermania paper then die cut the bauble shape - I triple embossed it to give a lovely shine. Most of the edges have had stickles rubbed sparingly to add a little sparkle. The keyboard, book and charms all added with the Anna griffin holly to finish it off.

.. and here's the last one of the samples.

I hope you have enjoyed reading today's post. I really enjoyed making these cards and I am really pleased with how my designs can be used as rubber stamps.
Thanks for visiting
See you soon..
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'45 record in sleeve' sample card

It seems that the 45 Single single record card was a big hit on the launch of the Classic Melody Stamps on C&C TV yesterday. It was alot of fun to create after quite a bit of trial and error Lol... in the end I cracked it and I can't wait to share with you how I made this card. First of all here are some photos.

I used a real 45 single vinyl record and sleeve as a template to make my card. All the stamping and aging was done with Tim Holtz Distress inks. Here's how I made it.

• First make a round card by drawing around the record but leaving a small part for the joining fold in the card from black card. If you are lucky enough to own a Grand Caliber machine or something similar, then you could simple use a cirle die to create a circle card. I haven't got one so mine is all cut out with scissors Lol.
  

• Cut 2 more seperate circles the same size as the card out of black card. These will be textured and stuck to the front and back to look like the record.

• To add the realistic vinyl texture I used a glaze medium in gloss by Daler-Rowney. I applied it to each circle with an old art paintbrush so that it left lines. I went round and round the circle leaving lines. Once dry it really does look and feel like the grooves in a record!.

• I added smaller circles to each 'record' to look like a label. I used the computer to print Happy Birthday around the edge and stamped the gramaphone first and then masking it when I stamped the piano, the 45 today in freehand.

• The inside lines were stamped with the running stitch from Joanna Sheenes zip and Stitch stamps.

• Using the record sleeve as a template to make one for the card was fun and easy to do.

I hope this inspires someone out there in blog land to have a go at making your own single record and sleeve. It can be such a personal card to give someone special in your life.
Have fun and I would love to see your cards.

I will be back tomorrow with some more sample cards with info on how I made them.

Hugs for now.

FREEBIE for Musical heart card

Hello,
Did you watch the Classic Melody stamps being launched on the TV? What a fun and enjoyable hours viewing I've just had.
As promised, here is the background graphic that I used for the musical heart card on the left. Please feel free to use on your card projects. Click on the image to bring view the larger jpeg and save to your computer.

I used various sized heart shaped spellbinder nestabilities to create the hearts and then stamped the piano keys onto each one with momento ink. To give the black keys a raised look, I used a versamark pen to highlight them and covered with clear embossing powder... it needed 2 coats of this to give a lovely glossy shine to them.

I will be popping in over the weekend to add pictures and details of the other sample cards I made for the show. I hope you enjoy using this freebie.

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Joanna Sheen's Classic Melody Rubber Stamps

Here's a sneek peek at my latest designed stamps for Joanna Sheen. They will be on sale this weekend on Create and Craft TV and on Joanna Sheen's website. I will post pictures of my sample cards over the weekend Plus.... I will be making the background image used on the piano hearts card available here on my blog as a freebie on Saturday. Watch this space!!
See you soon..

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Eskimo Kiss

Hello Bloggers! it's been a while I know... I've been busy away from the computer.

I drew 'Eskimo Kiss' a short while ago, it is loosely based on Klimt's 'the kiss'. I just added different clothes ... well, actually it looks totally nothing like Klimt's painting..LOL! but that's where the inspiration for it started.Anyway, I have made some cards... here they are.
This first one is an 8"x8" card. The background is blue and white papers and I've added Martha stewart punched snowflakes from the corner and border punches..and the single snowflake punch. I also used the MS border large snowflake punch on the side. I coloured the image with promarkers and added glitter for the fir trims.. the man's looks more ivory because I wanted to make it easier to tell which fir trim belongs to who..Lol..



Here's another card. This one is an A5 card. the backing paper is from a lovely My Mind's Eye Christmas paper pad called Dear Santa - it's gorgeous! Again I used promarker pens to colour the image, and this time she has the creamy colour fir trim - glittered of course Lol. You can see that I used a Martha stewart snowflake border punch at the top.

Here's the last card for today..
This card is 6" square. I used K&Co paper for the background... I think it looks a bit like snow Lol. I cut the mistle to out from another background paper (on the JS Messy RabbitCD) then added some peel offs and a ribbon.. I'm not to impressed with this card but thought I'd share it anyway LOL..

Well, that's it for now.. I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the week and weekend..
Hugs x

Speedy Celebrations sample cards...

Here are the sample cards I made for Joanna Sheen using the Speedy Celebrations rubber stamps I designed for her.

Thanks for looking

Joanna Sheen's Speedy Celebrations Rubber Stamps

Here are some sample cards made using the new Speedy Celebration rubber stamps designed by me. I made some of the cards which I will show individually over the weekend. I just love the variety of cards made by different people, it's amazing how we all see something different from the same set of stamps.
You can catch Joanna Sheen on TV this weekend on Create and Craft TV at these times:
Sat Sep 2011
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

Sat Sep 2011
05:00 PM - 06:00 PM

Sun Sep 2011
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Sun Sep 2011
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Enjoy.
See you soon...

Less is more week 31 - Metallic

I've been off the grid for a few weeks due to lots of other commitments and projects going on at the moment. This means I have missed a few challenges over at the Less is more blog. I had a bit of time this morning so I thought I would play along with the Metallic challenge set for us by the two Divas this week.

Anyone that knows me will know that I love anything to do with foiling, which of course includes the metallic kind, so I thought it would be fun to use one of the foiled frames I made years ago using 2 colour foils.. duo foiling Lol. I foiled matt purple and then over the top again with a lovely metallic blue... I love how the foiling is not crisp...it created a grungy look.

To give a completely different look to what I would have done years ago when I was playing and experimenting and ended up with these in the first place, I decided to give one a new clean crisp look on a white card.
Here's my card:
The photo doesn't really show how metallic the frame is.. I printed and foiled a lovely lady from JS Dancing with shadows CD way back when I did the frames, so decided to pop it inside the frame.

This card is simple, just what I needed after all the things I have been doing lately..:o)

Thanks for visiting today... see you soon
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Less is More - Week 25

The challenge over at the Less is more blog for this week is to use Buttons or Ribbon or both.

I immediately wanted to do this A5 card using an idea I came up with a few Christmas's ago. I have used a Marth Stewart snowflake punch to build the wreath adding buttons and red dots.

Thanks for visiting... see you soon

Hugs x

Less is More - Wk 23 - Something with legs!

Over at the Less is More challenge blog this week the theme is - Something with legs- on a One layer card.

I had a giggle this morning when I thought of all the Limettes waiting to see what the new challenge was... and then rushing to make a card... Lol...
I thought I would use one of the stamps I designed for Joanna Sheen - the Puffins from the Tales of the Ocean stamp set - on the Fossil sheet.
Here's my card:
First of all I die cut the nesties 20 shape using a piece of copy paper.. .to use as a mask. I then positioned it on the card - stamped the puffins -masked the puffins so that I could ink the background and stamp the birds (also from the Tales of the Ocean stamp set - A shell that can sing). I drew around the shape with squiggly outlines and then finished with the stamped 'Have a nice day' which I was able to curve slightly because it is a clear stamp.

The one mistake that I made was that I manged to get the whole thing off centre... so to even up the sides I used a border punch on the right side... I quite like the happy accident.

The Tales of the Ocean rubber stamp set will be on Create and Craft TV this evening ( July 9th) at 6 pm GMT.. If you don't have the channel on your TV you can view C&C live from their website HERE

Thanks for visiting and looking at my latest card.. I'm off to see all the other lovely cards already uploaded to the Less is More blog....
TTFN
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Less is More week 22

This week the challenge over at the Less is more blog is Colour... Shades of Blue.

I wanted to use one of my own digi images - Klimt style mermaid - I actually made two cards, but the first card turned out a disaster so I scrapped the first idea and came up with this second card.. here's what I did - Using paint shop pro., I spun her on her side, put a frame around her... added some text and a Happy Birthday. I am lucky that I have a wide selection of gorgeous foils to play with so I printed her out from my laser printer and then foiled her using 2 different colour glossy blue foils. I lightly coloured her in with several shades of blue promarkers then added glitter on her hair, fin and tail and around the frame. I think that mounting it onto the navy card really makes this card work.

Thank you for visiting - see you soon...
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- add on -
I have now added this as a framed mermaid just incase you would like to buy one to print out on your own cards - HERE