Just Rite and Spellbinders

The new range of Just Rite cling stamps with coordinating Spellbinders dies have arrived at Crimson Cloud - and we have been having some fun with them!!

This card was made using:
Just Rite Kindness Stamp Set

Plum Wrinkled Edge Ribbon

Black Cosmic Shimmer Pearly Glue

Black Hat Pins

Couture Creations Vintage Plumes embossing folder

Creative Expressions Pearl Swirls

Spellbinders Labels Twenty

The second card was made using the same stamps and dies 

with the addition of Crimson Cloud hand made roses:

I hope you have fun playing with this new range too!

Mel xxxx

The last Christmas card

Hi -
Hope you are all ready and raring to go for Christmas :-)
This is my final Christmas card for 2011.
I actually made it for the CRAFT Challenge blog - the theme was Christmas Presents.
I used the Here Comes Christmas cling stamp by Penny Black

 and coloured it in using Copics.
To mat and layer the card, I used various Spellbinders dies:
Wonky Rectangles

Fleur de Lis Doily Motifs

Ironworks Motifs

Twisted Metal Tags and Accents

I created the faux pearl accents using the Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmer Dark Bronze Pearly Glue

After adding a sentiment, and dotting around the edges with a white pen, I added a Crimson Cloud handmade paper rose (these are currently on sale!)

Hope you like it!

xxxxx

Happy New Year!

I cut the Glass out of the cricut alphabet collection preloaded on my Cricut Expression 2.

Using the negative, upside down I drew the perfect second half of the rim of the glass with my quickie glue pen. I then embossed with Cosmic Shimmer Embossing Powder “Ruby Lapis” embossing powder

 - a pretty good match for the colour card I had chosen.

I used the free “Happy New Year” SVG  

which I cut out in the same colour as the backing card, applied a couple of gem twizzle sticks. 

I used a few more round gems as bubbles and punched the corners with my favourite Martha Stewart corner and there we go. 

Happy New Year!

Cheers- Linda xxx

Sunday Sketch and Stamp Challenge

This week we are sponsoring the Sunday Sketch and Stamp Challenge:

This is the sketch that everyone is working to:

And this is our entry:

The three kings are from our die cuts selection:

I also used Spellbinders Lace Doily Motifs:

and the Spellbinders Banners Basics One:

The background paper comes from the Creative Expressions Foundations range:

The faux pearls around the edge are made with the Shimmer Pearl Glue - I chose Olympic Gold:

Hope you like it!
Mel xxx

French birthday wishes

I made this card for my brother-in-law who has just moved to France:

I had great fun playing with the Spellbinders dies on this one - moving them around and layering them up until I was happy with the layout - using Labels Twenty :

Labels Twenty One:

and Fleur De Lis Doily Motifs:

The Paris scene was made using two Clarity Stamps - Victorian Miniatures Set

and the small Eiffel Tower - 

The scene was very quick and easy to do - I used a small circle to mask a "sun" and a tiny bit of Black Soot Distress Ink to ground the Tower and the Victorian Gentleman.

The sentiment is one of my favourite Penny Black stamps - it is so versatile!

I inked around the edge with a little Tea Dye Distress Ink to age it.

The background was embossed with the Creative Expressions Time embossing folder:

To embellish the card, I used the Creative Expressions Vintage Ribbon - Black  and Amber Brown:

and the crystal hat pins:

The final touch, was to add some faux pearls around the edges using the shimmer pearlised black glue:

Thanks for looking!

Mel

xxx

Felt Embellishments

We have been lucky enough to be included in the latest edition of Creative Cardmaking which is on sale now. We took part in a project on making felt embellishments for cards.
Here are the cards we submitted:

Many of the products used in these projects are available at Crimsoncloud.co.uk.
If you pick up the magazine, you will find detailed instructions on how to make these cards.
Mel xx

Christmas Tree svg's

I have been playing with our Christmas Tree Hearts svg this week:

This svg cuts out both the tree silhouette and the tree with the hearts cut out - to enable you to create a double layer.

We have some little one's to cater for this year - hence the baby colours:

I made a few more for the grown ups:

Hope you like them!

Linda xxx

Beautiful Die Cuts

We have just launched a new range of die cut embellishments at Crimson Cloud and I couldn't wait to start playing with them.

The die cuts are so detailed that you don't really need to do much more on the card. I embossed the backing card with the new Walrus and Carpenter embossing folder from Creative Expressions

I hope you like these new embellishments - click here to see the full range.
Mel  xx