Blossoms

Hi there on this Tuesday morning my card today is a quick and easy make, when i was working on the acrylic block card I shared with you on another post. I decided to experiment on other backgrounds for my cards and this is one of them.... it's quite dark in some area's and not in others so i have taken some close up photos so you can see the colouring better...

             Background /two colours of distress ink, spritz on a heat-proof Mat.
                                                 

                 Put base card face down onto ink and left off. Set to one side to
                 dry, stamp image/sentiment and colour with promarkers. Decorate
                 the centre's of the flowers with pink pearls.
                 Please leave a comment if you wish and happy crafting!!
                 Love Sharon
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acetate card

Hi there on this Saturday morning. I hope you are well and coping with this weather. I think we've had the worst of the snow round our parts, it's still cold but at least the biteing wind as dropped. let's hope we see some nice spring weather soon😊
I looked though my cards yesterday and decided to share a couple of quick makes i made at my craft class...
I used a piece of heat proof acetate and dotted alcohol ink and blending solution all over the rough side then i took a drinking straw and blew onto the ink so the ink dispersed all over to form a pattern... I cut an aperture out of a small card and placed the finished background behind the aperture and secured it with double sided tape. I put a square of card behind that to hind the back of it, so to make it look neater.
To finish I stamped a sentiment  and decorated with a few gems
Thanks for calling in and please leave a comment if you wish.
Love Sharon
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Nature at it's best.

Hi there.  Its the first day of spring but you wouldn't think it was, when you see the terrible snowy conditions we are experiencing at the moment, the beast from the east as well and truly hit us, but looking on the positive side it can only get better.
Moving on I would like to share two quick and simple cards with you today.....

1/ The background is distress inks applied to get a seamless blend of colour and then spritzed with water to distress it

 2/ this background is a little different from the first. I applied the ink from off my matt, which I spritzed first.

3/ I used docrafts papermania urban stamps ( Folium and Entomologist ) and stamped the whole image in black ink. I backed my backgrounds onto black card then onto a 15 x10.5cm card (  the card on the left is a little smaller ) with a stamped sentiment
Please leave a comment if you wish and happy crafting!!
Love Sharon x

Twist and fold pop up mini album.

Hi there on this Wednesday afternoon. This is the project I thought I'd share with you today. I made it last Mothers day to give to my mother in law for a gift. l thought it would be a nice keepsake to keep all the precious memories of all her grandchildren in it....
Twist and fold cards are very popular at the moment so i decided to make this mini album version of  the card. I followed Helen Griffin's tutorial on YouTube if you go to the Helens website click on YouTube and look for twist and fold pop up mini album. ( click on Helen Griffin's link here ) the paper pad is forever friends Kraft notes.
I think it's a smashing tutorial and worth poping over. It takes a little figureing out, but when completed it is well worth the effect.
Next time on my blog I will share the twist and fold card that I made too.
Please leave a comment if you wish and happy crafting!!
Lots of love
Sharon x

Daisy Delight.

Hi there on this Tuesday Morning. I thought I'd have a change today and share this pretty die-cut card with you. I made this card with the new dies from Lynda Chapman On this particular wreath die from lynda's new collection the flowers stay in the card and when pushed out, look fabulous. I like the idea of paper piecing the leave's back in too ( l would use a contrasting colour ) i also used Sue Wilson's double stitched rectangles for the narrow frame, because my dies are rectangle and my card is square i got round it by cutting stripes to fit my square card. I put a flower in each corner to hide the messy joins, the sentiment is from tonic studio's ( it looks nice if you drop shadow it too ). I really like the lemon and cream together it looks so fresh it reminds me that spring is just around the corner. The finished overall card size is 8ins square. I hope I have inspired you a little.
Please leave a comment if you wish and happy crafting!!
Lots of love
Sharon
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Oriental chic.

Hi there. I hope you are well on this Sunday Morning. I would like to share a card with you  featuring the acrylic block technique, which I have shared previously with you before. It's such a easy technique and produces really quick results. I never get tried of making cards with this technique, each card never looks the same. I have done this technique that many times before, that you forget that their are new viewer's looking in, so for those of you how are not familiar with this technique i shall give you a quick explanation on what I did.
First of all choose the right size acrylic block for your card base then stamp directly onto the block with distress inks, ( broken China,  mustard seed and barn door ) spritz water with a spray bottle or sprinkle water onto your fingers and flick onto your ink covered block , then stamp onto the card, lift off and there is your background to stamp on. I used smooth white cardstock but i have used water colour cardstock and it looks equally as good. I stamped my stamps onto the card in archival black ink and coloured in the image with promarkers and added a sentiment. Have a go at this easy technique and you will achieve lovely results every time.
Please leave a comment if you wish and happy crafting!
Love Sharon
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Wildflowers.

Hi there. Hope you are well on this Friday Morning. I thought  I'd share this card i made with you today. I like the idea of using embossing folders as the main focal part on a card and i thought this would be a good example to show you...this is how I made it.
I started on a piece of white linen card measuring approx 10.5 x14.5cm. I choose three colours of distress inks, which would work well together, starting with the top of the card i slowly blended the colours in, one by one. I sprinkled water on it to give a distress look then took my embossing folder and embossed the card. I took a piece of cut and dry with white ink on it and brushed it lightly over the raised embossed image and a little gold guilding wax to make it pop off the page even more. I matted it on black card, tied with bakers twine and an ornament. I backed it onto a piece of Kraft card 13.5x16cm, decorated with Tim holtz mixed media die and finished with a stamped message in black archival ink, were there was a lot of white space. I hope you like the finished card. I really like how it turned out.
Please leave a comment and happy crafting!!
Love Sharon
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