Colour Resist Meets Thumping

Summer Colours

This is a card I made for my Dad's Chiropodist as his appointment was on her birthday this month and as we go every few weeks I thought it would be nice to give her a card from us and wish her a happy day.  She was thrilled with it.

I'm trying to use different colours at the moment, and different techniques, we did this one with my upline Peg a few weeks ago using the flowering flourishes stamp set, I swapped that with the Timeless Textures this time and was quite pleased with the result. I also used the thumping technique in the butterfly to get the speckled effect.

The materials used are:

Ink: So Saffron, VersaMark

Markers: Bermuda Bay

Card stock: So Saffron, Whisper White

Stamps: Papillon Potpourri, Timeless Textures, Watercolor Wishes

Embossing powder: Clear, White

Punches: Bitty Butterfly

Accessories: Basic Rhinetones, Sequin Trim

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

Hello Note Card

Unwanted Background Comes Good

Today I'm showing you a card I made after doing two things, first I looked on a new blog site for me called Inspiring Inking and found a card similar to this that I thought was quite nice.  Next I went to get the materials I wanted to use and came across a discarded background that did ages ago and was unhappy with the effect. I looked at it for a while as it was the perfect colours for what I wanted to do and then thought what the heck, give it a try and this is what I ended up with.  Once completed I was quite happy with it, adding a focal point made all the difference.

It was sent to my daughter in law as I needed to send her something at the time and she was quite delighted with it when it arrived, so it was well worth doing.

The materials used are:

Ink: Blushing Bride, So Saffron, VersaMark

Card stock: blushing Bride, Whisper White

Card Base: Note card

Stamps: Hello, Serene Silhouettes, Timeless Textures 

Embossing powder: Gold

Accessories: Perfect accents

Idea taken from Inspiring Inking by Amanda Fowler, thank you Amanda

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x

A special card for a Special Friend

Today I'm showing you a card I made for a friend of mine and the idea came from one I did when visiting my lovely up line Peg a few weeks ago for a crafting day. You can see Pegs original card on her blog post dated 8th March 2016. I added the word Special and added a small greeting on the second panel.

She loved it and is going to have a go at making one herself. Will be interested to see what she comes up with as she,s not an SU junkie like me.

Have quite a few cards to go up just now so will be busy making and blogging in the next couple of weeks.

The materials used are:

Ink: Crumb Cake, Rose Red

Card stock: Rose Red, Very Vanilla

Stamps: Bloomin’ Love, Timeless Textures

Framelits: Labels Collection (retired), Large Numbers, Square (^nos 4 & 5 from centre)

Thinlits: Bloomin’ Heart, Special (nsu)

Accessories: Basic Rhinestones 

Will be back again soon with more cards

Love Annette x