Showing posts with label decorative scissors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label decorative scissors. Show all posts

Wednesday, 4 August 2010

25th Anniversary card

25th Anniversary card
      I made this for my parents' 25th anniversary. I didn't want to make an all-silver card (because it's the silver anniversary), so I decided on blue with silver.
      I inked the chipboard numbers with silver ink and covered them with glitter. Then I put them on a textured black paper and did some doodling with a blue Sakura gel pen. The light grey paper is stamped in blue with a Stampin' Up mesh-looking stamp.
      The ribbons look really pretty, but it's really easy to do. I added a few eyelets, threaded the white ribbon through, and tied the silver ribbon on with blue thread. It made the silver ribbon look very neat and tidy, because there was no knot to make it go wonky. On the inside the white ribbon is glued down and then covered with a plain piece of paper (to hide the ends).
      This card looks cooler in real life. The colors aren't quite right because it's hard to photograph holographic paper (or glitter). And the black paper looks blacker.

Materials:
Holographic blue, black, and grey paper
Chipboard numbers
Sakura gel pen
decorative scissors
white and silver ribbons
blue thread

Sunday, 20 September 2009

One Color Card: Purple

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Here's my purple one-color-card using the sketch from Stamp with fun. This sketch was really fun but a little to simple for my small image, so I added a little variation with a shorter front of the card.
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Materials:
Penny Black clear set: "Critter party"
DCWV papers
various ribbon
lilac pearl card blank

Friday, 30 January 2009

New Year... new card

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A new card for the new year. I'm so far into January that it's already the Chinese or Lunar new year as well. So... happy new year!

I had a lot of fun coloring in this dragon using my SU color spritzer and the masking technique.

The card was created using a sketch from Sketch Saturday.

The fun dragon is from Elusive Images - 'Here be dragons' set. (View it at Graphicus.co.uk)

P.S. Now that December and January are over I should go back to feeling like my crafty self again. Sorry about the lack of posts.

Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Blue butterfly card - baby wipe technique

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I used the baby wipe swipe technique to make this card. If you don't know what I mean, I found a youtube video that shows this technique. I don't have any re-inkers, so I just colored the baby wipes with my whisper markers.

I liked adding more and more 'waves' to this card. Ric-rac, decorative scissors, and a wavy stencil with a marker. This was a very quick card; very little thinking involved. :)

Materials:
Stampin' Up stamp
clear embossing powders
white and blue paper
blue card blank
decorative scissors
ric-rac
PaperCraft Inspirations magazine stencil
Sharpie markers

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Penny Black Suspension card

Here's another creation I made for World Card Making Day and the challenges over at In Love With Stamping (a UK stamping community). Their challenge was to make a card that moves; I chose to make a suspension card, because the middle part can spin. (And because I only know a few techniques to make a card move.)

I've never made a suspension card before this, so I'm happy about how quickly I was able to put it together. I usually have to mess up a few times with new techniques. Even cutting out the green paper with the decorative scissors, I did it in one go. I did have to color the mouse twice, but that was a quick mistake to fix.
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It says 'Thinking of you' on the opposite side.

Materials:
Penny Black 'Bubbly' and 'Salutations' sets
Fiskars circle cutter
SU scallop circle punch
decorative scissors
hole punch (crop-o-dile)
Basic grey patterned paper
coloured pencils
Whispers marker (for the bowl)
Sakura yellow glitter gel pen
embroidery thread
ribbon

Thursday, 29 May 2008

My First Video!

Anniversary card

My very first video. :) Boy, am I going to mess up a lot!
I'm making a card using rubber stamps.

1st technique: dual color stamping.
2nd technique: making a frame with L-shaped stamps.
3rd technique: distressing with ink and sponges
4th technique: cutting with decorative scissors

Materials:
Inque Boutique stamp (from the Boho Frames set)
Happy Anniversary! stamp
Hobbycraft inkpads
Hobbycraft decorative scissors
Prima patterned paper
WHSmith flowers
black ribbon

Music by Queen:
Don't stop me now
Somebody to Love
Crazy little thing called love

Thanks for watching!