Happy Birthday Emma

Happy Birthday Emma.  It's Emma's birthday today and she loves this TH dragonfly stamp, or at least I hope she does as she now owns it!!  She also has a love of pink.  I couldn't just use pink so had to tone it down with a bit of blue for the background piece!!

This is a close up of the stamped image in the Utee with various pink and purple colours of perfect pearls.

And finally a close up of the stamped happy birthday in the brilliance triple metallics pad.

Christmas Baubles

Alison made THIS fab card and then sent it to me for Xmas along with some wooden snowflakes so I could have a go myself. So I didn't hold back, I totally stole her idea and got straight onto playing. 

Instead of using friendly plastic, I used coloured utee. I was going for a red, but when it had melted I realised it was actually orange, but not to worry!!  I painted the wooden snowflakes silver and added gold glitter and micro beads into the utee.

Don't you just love how it oozes thought those holes!!

Thanks Alison, not only for the idea, but for the snowflakes too.

I'm also entering my cards into the Arty Inklings crimble challenge.

Stampotiques challenge this week is Christmas cards in November.

Stamping in Utee

Over at the PanPastelUk site this week they are challenging us to make our own embellishments.  I found this Utube video on Utee and mica powders.  As she used one of my favourite stamps I decided to use it too.  For the background I spritzed a dark blue piece of card with biscotti perfect pearls mist and outlined both pieces in white fire liquid leaf.

Close up of the stamped Utee using blue shades of perfect pearls. The image was re-stamped onto the black card using gold galaxy brilliance ink.

Then I decided to try a green one been as I had leftover Utee.  For the background I used mint perfect pearls mist on black card.

And again, a close up of the stamped Utee with the green perfect pearl powders.

Simon Says .........

Use a punch or a die, I chose the latter.  The Cuttlebug cut and emboss RIP tombstone die.  The tag is made from black card and the background created with white picket fence distress stain and orange dylusions translucent paint.  I stamped the main image from the TH Halloween blueprint stamp plate with white Brilliance ink and the mini webs in black stazon.  I stamped Linda onto a separate piece of card and coloured her in with Adirondack pens.  Added white writing to the die cut shape and stamped the trick or treat.

This is a close up of how fab the white Brilliance ink stamped out.  It's the best one I've found up to now.

Flowers - Wednesday Stamper

I made this atc to enter into this weeks Wednesday Stampers challenge. The theme is flowers. I chalked the atc in orange but left the middle white. Stamped the image in a couple of different light browns from the colorbox chalk set. I used my pearlescent watercolour paints to enhance the petals. I inked the edges with gold brilliance ink.

Embossing

Got a couple of new sizzix embossing folders from the Dome so I've been trying them out. The frame one is fab and the glittered rub ons fit perfectly inside them - thanks Maz. I have now ordered a set for myself!!!! The first layer is embossed onto black card and then rubbed over with gold brilliance ink. The second layer is green leaf coloured card with like a gold shimmer to it, again purchased at the Dome and run through the bug using another new folder. Then I sanded over the top and distressed the edges with my paper distresser. Third layer, a piece of plain black card run throught he bug using the swiss dots embossing folder and rubbed over with gold brilliance ink. Fourth layer just a piece of plain green card and finally mounted the whole lot onto a piece of plain black mount board and added a piece of green organza ribbon.

4 x 4 Hangers

Hilda over on Lotstodo is holding a 4x4 swap on an open theme but they must have some sort of hanger, so I've been playing around with my embossing folders and my nesties again and these are what I came up with. I just used a piece of organza ribbon for the hangers. They do look much better in real life but it's hard to get a good photo with the kind of weather we've been having lately!!!