Messing with Masks - part 2

This card continues the masks theme. Although my terrible photography does not show it, the glittered background is made using the Dragonfly mask.

To make, take your card blank and matt and layer two coordinating sheets of patterned paper.

Cut a double sided adhesive sheet to fit 6x6 inches and peel off the cover from one side.

Lay your mask over the sheet and pour over the green glitter. Tap off the excess.

Remove the mask from the sheet to reveal the dragonflies.

Top tip - rub some soap on the back of your mask before you lay it on the adhesive sheet to stop it sticking permanently.

Pour over the pink glitter to fill in the dragonflies and tap off the excess. Matt onto some pink patterned card.

Stamp your sentiment (from the Just Rite Forever Friends set)

and die cut it with the coordinating Spellbinders Ribbon Tag

 While the card is still in the die, blend some ink around the edges. Thread through the plum ribbon

Die cut one of the Spellbinders Labels Fourteen

from patterned paper. On pink patterned paper, draw around the outside edge of your die. Cut out by hand to create a "faux nestie".

Matt and layer onto your glittered back ground using the Cosmic Shimmer clear glue to give a strong hold.

Layer your sentiment and ribbon on top, wrapping the ribbon behind your glittered background.

Die cut some leaves from the Spellbinders Foliage set

 and use to embellish the sentiment with the Crimson Cloud paper roses.

Die cut two Spellbinders Fleur de Lis Squares

from green cardstock. Cut each square into four and tape behind your glittered topper to create an ornate border.

Matt and layer onto your card using foam pads to give dimension.


Mel xxxx

Messing with Masks

Recently we have been messing with masks! In this case, two Touch Of Mica Masks - Basket Weave

and Ivy

To create this card, take two sheets of the Coredinations Whitewash card stock - I chose one with a pink core, and one with a tan core. Cut a square of the tan core sheet and emboss in your die cutting machine with the Basket Weave mask.

Cut a larger square (7.5 inches square) of the pink whitewash card. Place your Ivy mask on the card, leaving a two inch border of card free so that it won't be embossed. Run through your machine. Your mask may not have covered the full height of your card. If this is the case, run through the machine again, making sure that you tape your mask in place so that it does not cover your existing embossing. (Ideally you need a Grand Calibur or similar size machine to emboss this large size card).

With a spare scrap of the tan card, emboss the ivy mask leaving an un-embossed panel at the bottom.
Stamp your sentiment from the Creative Expressions Thoughtful Sentiments set

 onto this panel.

Stamp four fans from the Creative Expressions Oriental stamp set onto tan card, and emboss in white.

Using Cosmic Shimmer drawing inks, paint in the wings.

Cut out the four fans. Take some of the drawing inks and drip onto your craft sheet. Dip a length of the American Seam Binding (or you could use Vintage Ribbon) into the ink to colour. Dry with a heat tool.

Assemble the card, using the four fans to create two butterflies. Bend the fans to give them some shape and attach using Pinflair glue to give them some lift.

Use some pearl swirls to create Butterfly tails and the pearly glue to create antennae. Tie a bow with the coloured seam binding and embellish with Creative Expressions hat pins and a pearly brad.

Dot Cosmic Shimmer pearly glue around the edge of the card to finish it off.  Make sure put your card aside for at least an hour to let the pearly glue dry!

Mel xxxx

Quick and Easy!

This is one of the fastest cards that I have made in a long time - sometimes it just all comes together the way you want it!

I embossed some Whitewash Coredinations with the Couture Creations Ascension embossing folder

I did this twice and then cut out the hot air balloons to use as embellishments.

I then embossed some white cardstock with using the Replacements embossing folder

This folder works well as cloud-like background.
I stamped the sentiment in black Memento Ink underneath the embossed panel.
I tied a bow with Teal Vintage Ribbon 

The topper was matted and layered onto an A4 black card blank.
Hope you like this one - it makes a great card for a man.
Mel xxx

Blog Candy Winner

Hi everyone
The lucky winner of the anniversary blog candy is Tigger78 - congratulations! Please email me your postal address so that I can post your prize.
Thank you everyone for your comments - we will be posting some more blog candy soon!
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For a Swell Gal!

This month we were lucky enough to have a project printed in Craft Stamper.

We, like many people, including the movie and TV industry, seem to be fascinated with the 1920's and 1930's. This time of subtle glamour is illustrated by shows such as Boardwalk Empire and the movie "The Artist".
 After some research we discovered that although there are many "roaring twenties" stamp sets and craft products on the market, there did not seem to be any large hat stamps - so we just had to create our own range! 
 We also wanted to celebrate the language of the era and so have included some fun sentiments to coordinate with the hats. We hope you like these new stamps as much as we do - we will be adding to the range soon.

 In this project, I have tried to reflect the era in the colour tones - using muted browns and blues. I wanted the card to look vintage but not to grungy or girly. So unusually for me - no flowers, no gems and no big swirls - quite a challenge!
Mel xx
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Anniversary Blog Candy

Time flies as we all know, days become weeks, months become years - but still it never ceases to amaze me.

The 23^rd March is the 1^st Anniversary of Crimson Cloud. We would love you to celebrate along with us by joining our blog and hopefully becoming the lucky recipient of our Blog Candy Stash which includes:

2 sets of brand new clear stamps - exclusive to Crimson Cloud

2 yards of wrinkle edge ribbon,

1 yard of ribbon rosettes,

3 yards of vintage ribbon,

1 pack of handmade paper roses,

1 pack of triple layered butterfly embellishments

Spring and Easter are just around the corner and this little goodie bag is perfect for the season.

For a chance to win the first anniversary blog candy, become a follower of the blog, and leave a comment on this post by Friday 6th April. The draw will take place on Saturday 7th April. 

Good luck to you all and thank you for your support during the last year.

Cheers!

Mel and Linda

xxx

Sweetie, if you're not living on the edge, you're taking up space!

I love these colours, they are so bold - as is the sentiment. Typical of the ‘Roaring Twenties, a time to be bold!
The Cloche Hat and sentiment are from our Hats and Roses Collection:

 I stamped and embossed in black to give a lacquered look and cut out and embossed two squares in black card, and one in beige card. I stamped the hat out again (or like me you can use the first one which didn’t work out so well!) I then cut out the flowers and painted them using Cosmic Shimmer Dazzle Paint (Rich Gold).

The tri-fold card base was made by using an 8 inch wide piece of card, with both sides folded in at two inch intervals to meet in the middle.

Decreasing increments of co-ordinating papers brought some interest to an otherwise plain background.

The card was matted and layered - making sure that the top square panel was only glued on the left, and the bottom square panel was only glued on the right to ensure that the card can still be opened.

Using  three different texture and widths of ribbon I tied a bow from which to ‘hang’ my pictures. The bow and hat pins

were stuck down with strong double sided Wonder Tape. 

Finally I fastened the remaining painted flowers to the bottom of the ribbon - making sure I only attached them to one side of the card.

After a life time’s philosophy of ‘less is more’ I decided to finish the card with just a subtle touch of black glitter glue to the flower centres. Unfortunately at this point my card chose to face-plant itself onto the white sheet which it was standing to be photographed. But hey! Here it is.
Enjoy! Linda xx