Well there's lots to spark off your creative juices with this theme... I went with a black, red and silver colour combo. I used some masking tape on the bottom edge of the card where the sentiment is stamped and continued to stamp the 'life' floral images in black ink directly onto red card, I double stamped some to give a fainter image. There are a few butterflies in there too.
So I thought I could use my new fab product 'rock candy' and give the image a lacquered furniture (you know the type I mean?) Ok this stuff does rock but I was ever so slightly impatient and did use my heat tool and I did create a few air bubbles arrrrh! I have tried to capture the crackle in the close ups, click images to enlarge. To really enhance the cracks I blended in some distress inks (of course).
So my stamped card was all bumpy and warped and I thought I had completely wasted it hmm then remembered this adhesive foam Sheet yum it adhered to the back and gives dimension AND sorts out all those lumps and bumps. Adhered onto some shiny mirri card which is glaring ever so slightly in the photo.
So the other thing that's very much Japanese has to be the origami, wow this was my first introduction to paper, yes folding, loved origami at school. I created this fan in keeping with the theme by folding it in PTI patterned paper first. then unfolded to stamp the floral image in white palette ink just so it remained in the centre. I have used a bit of glue to hold some of the folds to the back and I decided to add a big brad to secure the handle. I trimmed the original piece of patterned paper 7" square so the finished fan would fit inside the envelope.
Martine has designed a fabulous sketch for us. I've gone for a Halloween feel but not too spooky. This Gorjuss girl is a dream to colour and I just love the oranges and reds in the BasicGrey Ambrosia collection.
Phew, Quite a day today lots to share....Firstly I'm in this months Craft stamper magazine with a Masterclass (wooo hoooo). Thank you Katy I so loved making these projects and thought I would share a few sneak peeks...In fact if you take a little look my card is on the front down at the bottom right corner (louder Woo Hoo). For this issue I have created a few projects with liquid applique, it really is amazing the different results you can achieve.
Click the magazine cover here to take you to the Craft Stamper website... and I have made a baby shoe template for you to download.
So onto CCSR Stampin Chic's fortnightly challenge which is Autumn colours, this time we have chosen to focus on the warm scrummy colours of Autumn...
Products used: Stamps: Papermania(TM) CCSR Sentiments and doodles, Cardstock and Paper: Papermania(TM) textured card, WRMK (TM) white out, Colour: Papermania (TM) pens, Colourbox (TM) greens, Heat it up (TM) moss green EP, Embellishments: Papermania(TM) flower, WRMK (TM) ribbon and snap, Doodlebug (TM) gems, Quickutz(TM) alphabet.
Thanks for stopping by, wanted to mention too my little baby girl is one and a half today such a blessing to our lives, so funny and super adorably cute with bouncing blond curls... will post a pic soon.
HuGs Kim :)
See lots of punching? well... the corners, the frill across the centre, the mount that pretty Anya is against and the little diddy butterflies. You may recognise a version of this rose for an earlier post. I thought I would try the same technique with double sided papers. Not quite as flexible as the grungepaper but still pretty and I love the dimension. It's as always impossible to capture the subtle glitter of the spica marker, I have coloured her lovely flowers and the strips on her socks. Click images to enlarge and you might just see it.
Well, Dawn sniff, has designed a fantastic sketch as always this week! Hope you have a look at the other design teams fantastic makes! sniff sniff. This week we are being sponsored by Lindsay Stamp Stuff and we got to use some of her wonderful images, sniff.
I turned the sketch on it's side because I could, tee hee and in place of the darker rectangle shape I have used the bingo card stamp image from Lindsay's. The background I have printed the tree image and coloured the trunk with my copic markers, then added some distress inks with a blending tool. The tree I have printed directly onto this gorgeous Cosmo cricket patterned paper, cut the foliage out and raised on dimensional foam.
I picked up these super gorgeous large bling brads while at Ally Pally and also the decorative punch which you can only just see behind the circle image.
I wanted to put the pictures of my journey with ICSketches sniff but there's a colossal amount to show and so I had to squeeze them into a neat little slide show instead, all thirty seven of them including the card that won my DT position, sniff.
