Beaded easter greetings

Well believe it or not its time to start thinking Easter cards. Scary thought - where does time go to.

Here's an Easter card I made a few years ago which I still like.

Materials required: Black cardstock, gold cardstock, white cardstock, cream organza ribbon, white and gold beads, Background stamp by Penny Black, Easter greetings stamp by Hero arts, Black Brilliane ink pad, Clear embossing ink pad, Gold embossing powder, pop up foam dots, stickles glitter glue, magic red liner tape

Method: Fold black cardstock in half to create base card. Use clear embossing ink pad to stamp floral pattern repeatedly over front of card and emboss using gold embossing powder. Highlight centre of flowers with a dot of stickles clear glitter glue. Cut out 3 egg shapes from white cardstock (i just cut freehand) and then put red liner tape on them and lift off the backing from the tape and pour on beads. Matt layer of white and then black and then gold cardstock and then use pop up foam dots to secure the eggs to this matt and attach to cardfront as shown. Stamp word with black ink pad and matt onto black and then gold cardstock and then to cardfront. Add ribbon.

Butterflies

Today's card is an old favourite of mine. I have used Pearlex palette to color in the butterflies.

Materials: Black cardstock, selection of butterfly stamps, chinese writing by Penny Black, Pearlex palette, waterbrush, gold encore ink pad, clear embossing ink pad, black embossing powder.

Method: Fold cardstock in half to create base card. Use clear embossing ink pad to stamp butterflies directly onto front of card. Emboss using black embossing powder. Color in using waterbrush with Pearlex Palette. Once dry take Encore gold ink pad and stamp chinese writing over front of card and you are done.

Have a good week everyone - only 5 more sleeps till Princess puppy arrives - can't wait.

Romance

Thought I would share another Penny Black card today. Their stamps are just so adorable.

Materials: White cardstock, red cardstock, Penny black foiled swirl vellum, gold cardstock, Penny Black hedgehog stamp, black brilliance ink pad, romance word charm, rhinestones, watercolor pencils, Cuttlebug swirl folder

Method: Fold white cardstock to create top fold card. Attach square of gold cardstock to cardfront. Take a square of white cardstock and run through Big Shot using Cuttlebug swirl embossing folder and attach to cardfront. Tear a strip of foil vellum and attach to red cardstock and then attach to cardfront as shown. Use Black Brilliance to stamp image onto white cardstock and color in using watercolor pencils. Go around edges with gold pen and then attach to red cardstock and then to cardfront. Attach rhinestones and word charm.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.

Using paint strips

Paint strips are great to use on cards and best of all they are free. Whenever I go past a hardware store or paint shop, I always grab a handful of strips.

Today's card uses Penny Black stamps and some swirls from Autumn leaves.

Materials: Cream cardstock, orange cardstock, black brilliance ink pad, hedgehog stamp by Penny black, Floral border stamp Penny black, fibers, paint strip, rhinestones, Happy birthday word charm, gold paint pen, gold encore ink pad, autumn leaves swirl stamps, watercolor pencils.

Method: Fold cream cardstock to create side fold card. Use Black brilliance to stamp flowers onto paint strip and then wrap with fibers and attach to cardfront. Use gold encore ink pad to stamp swirls onto cardfront as shown. Use black brilliance ink pad to stamp hedgie onto cream cardstock and then go around edges with gold pen and attach to orange cardstock and then to cardfront.Color in with watercolor pencils and. Attach wordcharm and rhinestones.

Time to start thinking Christmas Cards

Well its time to start thinking Christmas. Scary thought. I must get down to thinking about what to do though for the Christmas card Swap that Hayley is hosting on RSA and I still need to find an idea for the Christmas Vintage book that Angella is hosting and I am busy wrapping presents up for the Advent swap. So all in all feeling rather Christmassy today.

Thought I would share a Christmas card I made last year or maybe it was the year before - time flies by so fast its hard to keep up.

Materials: Cream cardstock, black cardstock, copper cardstock, Reindeer image by Penny Black, Christmas words stamp by Stamp it, Copper Brilliance ink pad, copper pen, rhinestones, black wool, alphabet letter metal charm.

Method: Used cream cardstock for the base card. I then took black cardstock and stamped christmas words repeatedly using Copper Brilliance ink pad and attach that to cardfront. I stamped the Reindeer onto cream cardstock using Copper Brilliance ink pad again and went around the edges with copper pen and mounted it onto black and then copper cardstock. I made the copper cardstock longer at the bottom so that I could wrap the black wool around it and then I attached it to the cardfront as shown. I then added a metal letter C and some rhinestones.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and I hope that you are also having Sunday Roast lunch with all the trimmings.