Hello there,
I'm popping in quick to share a birthday card I made recently.
I used a Funky Fossil stencil for the leaves, with handmade texture paste covered in WOW glittered embossing powder.
Happy birthday die is by The Stamp Market cut out of gold mirror card and white.
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Hello there,
It's a bank holiday weekend in the UK so a perfect time to get crafting and join in with our new challenge at Less Is More. Hopefully the weather is going to improve too. I think Spring forgot to turn up this year.
We want you to share your passion. The one technique that you use most simply because you love it.
My favourite technique changes depending on my mood but at the moment I'm using stencils more and more. I'm building quite a collection and have been trying different methods of using them. I do love texture and the effects different products give. My first card is made using Embellishing Mousse.
Get me being all trendy with a slimline card.
I've used this gorgeous Teal coloured card with Gold Nuvo Embellishing Mousse. I think it looks quite opulant and also shows that Cas doesn't have to be white.
The Stencil is a cheap one I found on Amazon.
The sentiment, also from Amazon is die cut in gold mirror card
My next one is using a Snowflake Stencil from Funky Fossil.
I've used homemade texture paste and embossed it with two tone Moonglow EP in blue/gold.
My last card is also using homemade texture paste with a heart stencil from Studio 75. I sprinkled this one with very pale pink glitter.
The word die is from Dieversions triple layered in pink card.
Homemade texture paste is really easy and cheap to make.
1/4 cup of talcum powder ( I use baby powder because it smells lovely)
1 TBS cheap uPVA glue
1 TBS white acrylic paint
Some water.
Mix together adding small amounts of water until the paste has the consistancy of toothpaste.
Keep in an air tight jar and it lasts for a good few weeks.
I hope I've given you some ideas. Please check out the other DT members blogs for some fabulous inspiration.
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Hello there,
Another Saturday has turned up and is just waiting for us to get our creative juices flowing with another challenge at Less is More
This time it's a sketch,
A nice simple one today.
I do love a sketch challenge. As long as you stick to the basic design you can put your own interpretation on it.
For this card I used a stencil from Funky Fossil.
I started by embossing a rectangle on the card front using a Spellbinders Rectangle nestie die.
I then masked off the rectangle with post it notes before placing the stencil how I wanted it over the top. After securing the stencil I used homemade texture paste to give some dimension.
As soon as I removed the stencil and postits I smothered it in WOW Lime Rickey EP. This EP is beautiful, it has some glitter in it too so even after heating there is a lovely subtle sparkle.
I left the card alone for a couple of hours until the texture paste was dry before heating it up.
I made a flower, Primrose from Crafters Companion, out of pink crepe paper and added a touch of gold in the centre.
The sentiment is by Avery Elle stamped and embossed in gold EP.
My second card is completely different.
I stamped and coloured the house and used the nestie rectangle die to cut it out.
Then I stamped and coloured the Gnome and fussy cut him before popping him in place with a foam pad.
I wanted to put some white spots on the toadstools but my white gel pen has dried up. Something else to add to my 'must remember' list
All stamps are MFT Hanging with my Gnomies set.
Really looking forward to see your interpretation of the sketch. Please pop along to the blog for some lovely inspiration from the team.
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Hello there.
It's time for a new challenge at Less is More and this time it's the dreaded one layer challenge.
I've taken the promt quite literally with my card and used a diamond (gem) stencil from Funky Fossil
After a bit of measuring to find the centre to plave the stencil, I quicky sponged some white pigment ink through the stencil then sprinkled some pale pink glitter over it (after removing the stencil ofcourse)
The sentiment is by Wplus9 stamped with versamark black ink
Another view to try to show the sparkle from the glitter
Don't forget to check out the inspiration from the rest of the DT and leave them some love.
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