Anything goes…

is this weeks challenge over at Scrapbook Sisters Blog.

This card I made for a work colleagues sisters birthday so I’ve cheated a bit.

A very simple card to make – Spellbinders shape and cut and emboss punches for the flowers and leaves.

The flowers are punched from patterned and pearl papers and liquid pearls flower centres. 

The butterfly is stamped onto pearl  paper and coloured with distress inks.

Make sure you add your project for the challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Gayle x

Digis 2

Hi everyone. Tonight I  am sharing the card that my lovely ladies made in the class on Friday at Scrapbook Sisters.

This used one of the butterfly images.

The butterfly was enlarged and printed off and also a slightly smaller version for the use of the wings.

For the butterflies colour I dropped some alcohol inks onto my craft sheet and added some blending solution. The butterflies are laid into the ink to absorb the colours. Once dry use a versamark pen to dot out from the body of the smaller butterfly and a versamark pad to edge the outer wings of the larger butterfly and sprinkle with gold embossing powder and heat. The wings are cut from the smaller butterfly and silicone on top of the larger. Add a black flower stamen and wire under the body.

The pink paper shape was cut using a Tim Holtz on the edge die and the edges inked, stamped with a flourish stamp and sentiment with walnut.

The card is then assembled with the butterfly and some die cut and flowers to finish.

The second card uses the flourish digi image with the two butterfly digi images.

This card uses a mixture of copics, distress inks and embossing powder. The edges of the card are dabbed with a glue stick and sprinkled with the embossing powder and heated.

Thanks again for stopping by.

Gayle x   

Latest Digi Stamps

I have been quiet for a while but I have been preparing for the launch of my latest Digi stamps for my class at Scrapbook Sisters last Friday

The first image that I am going to share with you is the rose. The theme for these stamps was Wedding and birthday but can equally be used for anniversary and sympathy cards.

 

Copics were used for the shading on the rose petals and leaves. The top layers of the petals, the stem and base of the rose were cut out and layered onto the main image

The top section of the rose and leaves were cut away from the main card and the inside of the card was covered in a pale pink pattern paper.

Organza ribbon wrapped around the stem before sticking to the main image.

Diamond dust  over the petals to finish off.

The second version is printed onto texture card and water coloured using distress inks.

Patterned paper strips scored on a scoring board to produce the pleated border around the main image,

and finished off with a seam binding bow.

Julie has produced a disc of these latest images which can be purchased at Scrapbook sisters. The disc contains 10 digi images and all of the card samples made for the class, to give you some inspiration.

I will post the rest of digi cards over the course of this week. I hope you like them.

Thanks for stopping by.

Gayle x

Glitter & Gems

is this weeks challenge on Scrapbook Sisters blog.

I decided to use the birdcage stamp from Kaisercraft. I brought this at Ally Pally and decided it fitted in with the card I was going to make for this challenge.

I stamped some foliage from another Kaisercraft set and then stamped the birdcage on top. This then was cut out with one of spellbinders dies and a doily placed behind.

 

The flowers are made from circles of tissue paper layered up. I looked everywhere for my tissue paper but no where to be found, but I came across of Laura Ashley tissue wrap, it did have the name written all over it  but by the time it was crumpled and glittered it didn’t notice. I popped a clear gem in the centres.

White florist wire, Perfect Pearls and Glamour to finish off.

Thanks for stopping by

Gayle x 

Challenge & Part 3………..

Decided this week as the card challenge on Scrapbook Sisters blog is themed for the male to combine it with Part 3 of my digi stamps launch.

This is the card made for the challenge using the zipped sweatshirt & T shirt.

I ran the sweatshirt image through a Tim Holtz embossing folder and coloured with peeled paint distress ink pad.

I used a second image to colour and cut out for the fold back of the sweatshirt and laid some cord underneath that was salvaged from a carrier bag I had. Nothing goes to waste!

I coloured the T-shirt and the ‘RISK ‘ graffiti and added some clear gems, colouring with a copic/ promarker to match the background colour. Stuck the graffiti to the front of the T-shirt.

The T-shirt can slide in and out of the sweatshirt revealing your message.

Here are some more examples from my class.

Printing the image onto texture card and colouring with faded jeans distress ink.

Adapting to make it more girly with colour and adding a stamped background and gems on the zip.

     

All of these images and some more I will share later in the week are available on CD at Scrapbook Sisters.

Until tomorrow. Thanks for stopping by.

Gayle x

Digis Part 2….

Hi

A couple more samples of images released on Scrapbook Sisters for my latest digi stamps ‘ for the boys’.

For this one I have the Skater and Graffiti.

Again coloured with Copics with the boy matted onto black card and laid on top of the  graffiti.

This 2nd card the boy is matted onto a background paper.

I have added the wording to the background paper and used the faux stitching to highlight it (I’m too lazy to get the sewing machine out)  

Some more samples later.

Thanks for stopping by.

Gayle x 

New Digi stamps…

Hi

I’ve been busy with my new Digi stamps launched at my class. It all started with a card I made for my sons 18th birthday last year. Typical teenager – XBox and Skating, so I decided to create a card around that theme. This is the original card.

 

and this is the card I made for the class and a sample of the first set of images aimed at the boys.

The images were coloured with copics, cut out and layered onto the backing paper.

Some leather cord   for the console/ controller connection.

Faux stitching to highlight  the letters and paper edges.

Julie has put all of the digis and card samples on disc for sale over at Scrapbook Sisters. You can resize the images to whatever size card you wish to make. This disc caters for all ages of boys with the various images and can be adapted for the man in your life and even girls as i will show in later posts this week.

I hope you like them.

Thanks for stopping by

Gayle x