Three Card Swap - AVSC - March

Hi all,

Join us over at Aunty Vera's Scrap and Craft  AVSC for our March Challenge which is Create Three Cards with different techniques with the themes: Friendship, Birthday and Open.. These are mine for the challenge..

Card 1.  Friendship - I love the medium of Encaustic Art which is a wax.. I just love that there are never the two the same and each piece is unique.. I added a mat behind the art piece to highlight it, I added three black pearls and a Tim Holtz Gold sticker 'Quotations'.

 A close up of the gold in the wax. just gorgeous in real life..

Card 2.  Birthday.. I die cut the small Tattered Floral dies by Tim Holtz several times and adhered it to the watercolour card mat.  Using the blending tools I blended Fossilized Amber, Crushed Olive, Mermaid Lagoon, Dusty Concord, Pickled Raspberry Distress Inks over the front of the card and blended it together with a little water on a brush.. I then splashed some white paint over and let it dry..  

Using a black pen I doodles around some of the flowers and leaves and drew tiny circles in some of the flower centres.. Stamping the bird and crown from Shabby French by Tim Holtz on to watercolour paper using the same inks as the background. I then fussy cut both items and added gold pearls to the crown.. The quote is from the Crazy Talk Collection - Tim Holtz and embossed with Hero Arts Satin Pearl embossing powder on black cardstock..  

I created another card for a video tutorial and run into so many problems, all I could do was laugh out loud.. This is that card, same as above but more vibrant in colours.. I used a chalk marker to make little dots around the quote.. 

Card 3 Open.. I love this technique of using Distress Oxide Inks on photo paper, Again it is a medium that is unique in every piece.. I stamped the quote from 'How About Never' from Dyan Reaveley - Ranger; rearranged the quotes, placed the on 3D foam tape and laced them on the front after inking around the edge in black.. I then added three silver pearls to finish the card.. 

I Inked around the quote in black after embossing it in black embossing powder. A little blue and pink on the front of the words brings it all together.. 

All the products except the Encaustic Art waxes are available from Aunty Vera Store.. AVSC

I hope I have inspired you

to create glorious things

Hugs

Donna xx

My Clean and Simple C&S Card Kits...

Hi All,

I have been feeling down since my son passed away, so I went up to my studio and

started to create kits of cards.

 

What surprised me the most while creating these was I thought

1. I wasn't going to be able to do anything.

2. I thought they would be dark and gloomy as that is how I have been feeling,

so you can imagine my surprise when I ended up with this lot of

Clean & Simple cards. Some I cased, others I didn't. It was simply what was in my head space at the time.

 

What am I going to do with these kits I hear you say; my answer would be,

I have no idea, maybe the group I teach on a Friday would want some

and if they didn't then I will use them myself  when I next feel ugg..

 

I hope you like them, I do...

 

 

 

Hello and Hugs Dies - Sizzix

Heart Punch - Ek Success

 

Classic Circle Die - Spellbinders Nestabilities

Small Heart die - Spellbinders  Nestabilities

1 inch Circle punch

Distress Inks

 

Jofy Stamps - Jofy Jm10, Jm11, Jm02, Jm09

Polka Dot Border Die - paper Smooches

Distress Inks and Copics

Butterfly punch - Ek Success Punch

 

BluePrint 27 Die Set - My Favorite Things

Stamps - Laquarelle Designs

Cardstock - A Fine Spring Day - Mood Catcher

Stampin Up Ink

 

 

Flowers from a friend -Judy

Stamp and punch - Stampin Up 

 

 Butterfly Card Front - KaiserCraft

Love is a butterfly stamp - Stampin Up

Assorted cardstock

 

 Lets Celebrate Stamp Set

Assorted circle punches

Assorted Cardstock

 

Flower Shop Stamp Set - Stampin up

Ink - Stampin Up

Awesome and Smile - cheery Lynn Designs

Ek Success Butterfly 

 

Darling Daisies Die -Cheery Lynn Designs  

Judy Blooms -  Cheery Lynn Designs

Snowflake5 - Cheery Lynn Designs

Sweet Williams - Cheery Lynn Designs

Heart Flourish die - IO

Su Ink

paper from stash

 

Star Stack Die - Paper Roses

Assorted Distress Oxide Inks

Black and white cardstock 

Ek Success Butterfly Punch

 

 Heart Stack - Paper Roses

Distress Oxide Inks

Ek Success Butterfly Punch

Black and White Cardstock

 

Honeycomb die - Alteration Tim Holtz

Stamps - Laquarelle 

 

 

 

Circle Mask Die - Ellison-Sizzix

Happiest Birthday Wishes - Stampin Up

Drifting Endless Embossing Folder - Couture Creations

 

Heart Borders Die - KaiserCraft

Clearly Kelly inks

Splots - assorted stamps

Ek Success Butterfly Punch

 

 

 

Stacker Flower 1,2,4,6 Die - Cheery Lynn Designs

Snowflake 5 die - Cheery Lynn Designs

Sweet Williams die - Cheery Lynn Designs

Pendant die - Nestabilities

Heart Border Punch - Martha Steward

 

 

 

Lets Celebrate Stamp Set - Stampin Up

Assorted Inks - Stampin Up

 

 

 

 

Folder and Stamps from a Craft Magazine.

 

 Heart Dies from Spellbinders Nestabilities

 

 

 

I enjoyed creating these cards and

I hope I have inspired you

to create glorious things.

Hugs,

Donna xx



A Little Book of Positive Quotes...

 

 

 

I hope you like my new project, filled with heaps of tags and positive quotes.

I used a hodgepodge of papers and stamps and of course

my favourite distress ink Vintage Photo...