Saturday, January 5, 2019

Reworked cards, a couple of old favourites

Afternoon everyone, popping in with a really quick post to show some reworked oldies.  I dug out some of my old papercrating kits from workshops, these must be 2 - 3 years old - cant believe that!

Anyway I decided to spruce them up a little and for the first one I inked a little deeper pink on the centre flower, left out (!) the green organza ribbon and added the leaf flourish.
I like looking back and reworking things as it means I am learning, hopefully!......


Today I had some time as all my samples for Crafters Companion are up to date, so I had a stocktake of my memento ink pads (mostly small dew drop ones) and have done up a colour chart to save time when making projects, so if you'd like one, then drop me a comment with your email address (personal information wont be published) and I'll send it to you as word or PDF or both.. I used memento inks to stamp this card and ink with daubers.



Next up is an embossed Lili of the Valley Stamped sentiment decorated with flowers and the Mega Cheery Lynn Fanciful Flourish Die cut which I inked in various shades of green, and it gives more depth to the card this way. Apart from that I didn't change anything else, other than perhaps slight change to placement of flowers.



Off to sift through loads of photos as I have lost to share in the next couple of weeks.

Thursday, January 3, 2019

FoilPress Card - Dragonfly Birthday card

Evening everyone, hope you are well and excited for a new year!
So this is my first post of the year, and hope to be one of many now I have my crafty hat on again - it sure keeps me sane and is my therapy some days LOL

What better way to kick off 2019 than with a luxurious, somewhat understated foiled card using my new favourite and invaluable tool, the Gemini Foil Press - LOVE this machine!!

Anyway this card just happened really while I was in a rush for card last year so this is the second version and I am going to make a few more as these are great for men or women and in different colourways or using inked backgrounds. I love green and blue and gold as a colour combo and the papers are downloadable so an endless supply :)


Papers can be found here - May 2016 - The Beauty of Nature
Materials used:
Gold Mirri card for layering
Gold Papercraft Foil
Gold Shimmer Papercraft Foil
Cobalt Blue matt cardstock
Pistachio Green Centura carstock

As usual, I have taken lots of snaps so you can see the detail and perfection and foiling quality!

I decorated the inside in a minimalist way, but was sure to add confetti foiling!








Hope you liked my first post for 2019!
I will be back with a reworked version of one of my older cards, and some new border embossing folders over the next few days :)