G'day

G'day Crafty Friends,

Today I am sharing an Australian themed Slimline that I created recently.

Uniquely Creative (an Australian company) recently released some Slimline dies, one of those dies were this Slim Gum Leaves Die. Being an Australian,  of course I had to add this to my stash. I die cut this slimline die twice from white cardstock, one I used for the white frame and the inner pieces of the gum leaves. The other I applied Versamark ink to and then covered the gum leaves with Distress Embossing Powders in Peeled Paint (for the leaves) and Tea Dye (for the gum nuts. I colored the inner portions of the leaves using Copic Markers and paper pieced this pieces into the main panel. I trimmed the embossed leaves from the frame and adhered to the main panel.

For the background of my card, I used Yupo Paper and Alcohol Pearl inks in Tranquil and Celestial to create my blue background. This was adhered to the back of the Slimline Gum Leaves die cut.

The "G'day" sentiment is from an older die set from Ultimate Crafts called Australia Map.

For the inside of the card I added two gum leaf die cuts using another Ultimate Crafts die set.

The sentiment is from Catherine Pooler Designs Awesome & Wonderful Stamp set.

Other Supplies:

Peeled Paint Distress Embossing Powder

Tea Dye Distress Embossing Powder

Keep On Swimming

Hi Crafty Friends,

t's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. Lois Bak, our challenge hostess for the month continues to issue the challenges.

Apparently Tuesday (June 25th) was National Catfish Day. Create a card that has some kind of fish or sea life on it 

For my card today I decided to play with Karen Burniston's Triple Flip Card die set which will be available in stores in July.  Here is a quick video to see my card in action.

To decorate my card I used Alcohol Pearl Inks to add color to the water background and the sand. I used a swiping technique to apply the ink, so I was able to use normal cardstock for this.

The Ocean background on the back panel of this card is from Honey Bee Stamps Ocean Borders Clear stamp set. I white embossed this over the alcohol ink background.

The goldfish and seaweed are from Hero Arts Pet Goldfish Clear Stamp set. I used the sentiments from Hero Arts My Monthly Hero March 2019 Card Kit, white embossing them on each panel.

For the inside of my card I added a few more elements left over from the front of the card and then added a sentiment from Lawn Fawn's Keep On Swimming Clear Stamp set.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Vicky Gould

Kelly McKown-Santi

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. Please note I only use and share products I love.

You Are Turtley Awesome

Hi Crafty Friends,

t's challenge time with my friends over on the CCEE Stampers challenge blog. As challenge hostess for the month, I continue to issue the challenges.

Our challenge this week is to create a card using at least one die.

Apparently today is also Turtle Day, and as I had a turtle stamp set I purchased from Hero Arts sitting on my desk waiting to be played with I decided to incorporate that stamp set on my card today.

I have again be playing with my Alcohol Pearl inks I received at the end of last month. I am totally or should I say turtley in love with these inks. This time around I used the two blues and two green inks and Yupo cardstock on my panels so that they resembled grass & sky.

I then used Sunny Studio Stamps Dapper Diamonds Embossing Folder to emboss each of the panels and sanded the raised area to reveal some of the white.

I created a belly band and added on oval to create my turtle scene on the front of the card.

For the inside of the card I have used MFT Stamps Shutter Card Components die to create a Gatefold Shutter Card.

Here you can see when the card is partially open and the image in the top centre is only 

partly seen.

And one last photo of the front of the card with the belly band removed.

Don't forget to check out the CCEE Stampers blog (goes live 12 AM EST) to see the rest of the creations the CCEE Stampers created this week. You can also see more details of their creations on their individual blogs:

Anne Harmon

Joanne Grzelak

Liz Williams

Lois Bak

Lynn McAuley

Maryann Einam

Vicky Gould

Kelly McKown-Santi

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. Please note I only use and share products I love.

Make A Wish Upon A Starfish

Hi Crafty Friends,

My card today is for a challenge I do with a couple of friends of mine. Each month we challenge each other to create something using supplies we all own.

This month our challenge is to create a card using any Tim Holtz product. This could include Distress Inks, Distress Oxides, Alcohol Inks, Stencils, Stampers Anonymous Stamps etc etc .... lots of options for this one.

As I recently received my order of the new Alcohol Pearl inks, I decided to use those for the challenge this month. I love the pearl finish these have on a card and I can already tell I will be using these a lot!

So far I have been having fun playing with a technique that Jennifer McGuire shared back in March where she applied a long piece of felt to a protractor or stamp block and added the alcohol pearl ink to the edge of the felt and then swiped it over the card a number of times until you get the look you want. You can see her tutorial here. When I was making a card recently for an upcoming challenge, I noticed that I could apply the alcohol pearl inks to normal cardstock using this method. As I had so many panels to ink up for the card I was creating today, I decided to use normal white cardstock rather than Yupo Paper to save my Yupo. Please note that the inks don't move on this cardstock for other alcohol ink techniques, just the swiping method.

For my card today I decided to pull out my Crafter's Companion Square Twist Card which makes a Pop Up Book Card. 

For my background panels, I applied Tranquil, Celestial & Sublime Alcohol Pearl Inks to a long piece of felt attached to a protractor and swiped it over my cardstock continually until I got the look I wanted. I then used the large background stamp from the Honey Bee Stamps Ocean Borders Clear Stamp set using white embossing powder. These were then die cut using the layering dies from the Square Twist Card.

To decorate my card I used Simon Says Stamp Beautiful Mermaids Clear Stamp set.

For the front of my card I added another background panel and then added a circle to the lower left hand corner of the card.

I added a sand base to this circle using Lawn Fawns Stitched Hillside Border. This was colored using Alcohol Pearl Inks in Alchemy and Mineral.

Supplies:

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Sending You My Love

Hi Crafty Friends,

I have another card to share with you all today, using the Alcohol Pearl Inks.

To create my background I used Alcohol Pearl Inks in rainbow order using the swiping technique Jennifer McGuire shared a few months ago. You can see her technique here. 

On top of the rainbow panel I layered Hero Arts Flower Garden Fancy Die which I die cut using Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape on the front, and adding Cool Diamond Silk Microfine Glitter over the top.

I colored clear rhinestones using the same colors of Alcohol Pearl Inks that I used on the background adhering them onto the card over the flower that was over the relevant color on the background.

To finish the front of the card I added a sentiment from Altenew's Dotted Blooms Clear Stamp set.

I added a rainbow panel to the left side of the inside of the card, and also die cut a bunch of the flowers from the Flower Garden Fancy die I used on the front, cutting out just a few.

I added a birthday sentiment to the top right hand side of the card.

Supplies:

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7th Birthday

Hi Crafty Friends,

I have been waiting a couple of months for the new Pearl Alcohol Inks to finally make their way down to Australia! Well they have finally arrived and I couldn't wait to play with them.

For my first card I created a rainbow background using seven of the new colors. Once the alcohol inks were dry I embossed the card using Sunny Studio Stamps Quilted Hearts Embossing Folder and then sanded the embossed area to reveal the white yupo paper.

I used Divinity Designs A2 Center Step Card and A2 Centre Step Layers die set to create my card. To decorate the card I used the Stampendous Birthday Kids Clear Stamp set. Along the bottom of the card I added the Birthday Edge'ables die from Crafter's Companion.

For the inside of my card I added another striped of Pearl Alcohol inked Yupo Paper along the bottom of the card and then added two sentiments and the three balloons from the Birthday Kids Clear Stamp set.

Supplies:

For your shopping convenience, all products are linked below. Compensated affiliate links are used where possible with no extra cost to you. This helps me to continue to share all the projects I include on my blog. Please note I only use and share products I love.