Concertina Folding

With Christmas fast approaching, we decided to release some festive digi-stamps and svgs. This card is made using the new Poinsettia svg. Poinsettias look great in white, cream or red.
I cut these two out using some patterned paper - in sizes ranging from 3.5 inches down to 1.75 inches. I also cut one more out in green at 4.5 inches to give me the leaves.
I thought I would try a new (to me) technique - concertina folding. It is so quick to do. I cut two x 12 inch paper strips, about 2 inches wide. Using a score board, I scored the width of the paper at even spaces along the length of the strips. With a bit of patience I then folded them both up. On each strip, I bent them into semi circles and fixed them with large sticky dots to form one large circle. I mounted them behind the sentiment frame which was cut with Grand Nesties Circles and Nestabilities Labels Twenty. The card was then quickly layered up and decorated.
I love the way these Poinsettias turned out - you may see some more cards with Poinsettias in a starring role!
Mel xxx Pin It Now!

Black Cat in the Window

This card was inspired by our Black Cat silhouette - it is available as a die cut pack or as an svg. 

I love this combination of colours and used our Birch Tree graphic image as the view from the window. 

Print it out straight onto your colour of choice depending on the time of day and mood you want to create. It could be blue skies, rainy day in grey or sunshine yellow.  Then cut it out with the Spellbinders Window die. Take out the panels of the window and put aside the frame to finish the card with. Then recut the window die in black switching the panels from the previous cut to form the view. Cut the corners also from the peach coloured window to create a pretty edge mounted on the inside .  I stamped it with a “Home is the place where our hearts belong” stamp and added a simple black bow.

Linda xxx

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Tree Reflection - Misty Reflection

To wake in the morning and watch the sunrise over a misty lake is everyone’s dream.

I painted this scene using a graphic image from our collection called Tree Reflection

This is a demonstration of how all is not always what it appears to be. 

It could have been sunset or the brilliance of a summer afternoon. With Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Drawing Inks in many beautiful colours the choice can depend on your mood. 

Why not place a silver moon and reflections of Silver Sheen and Pearl Shine?

My colours for the project were:

Sunrise Yellow   

Rich Gold

Silver Sheen (good Mist)

Ancient Copper

Black Night (reinforces you line drawing and detail)

Chestnut Brown

Lime Blush

Blue Blush

Denim

Evergreen

Pearl Shine

Meadow Lush

Have fun and set your artist free!

Linda xxx

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Crooked Picture Frame

Digi-stamps are a really economical way of increasing your stamp library and are as versatile as regular stamps - if not more so.

I made this card by printing out the Birch Tree Scene digital stamp and painted the background with Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmer Drawing Inks.  The frame was cut from some beautiful copper card using Spellbinders Nestabilities Lattice Rectangles and then mounted onto a blue background which was embossed using the Creative Expressions Bark Embossing Folder.

You can change the colours to create a completely different mood or time of day.

We would love to see how your imagination has used the image.

Linda xxx

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You're a Classic!

Cards for men are always the hardest to make - but thankfully there are a few products out there to help.
To make this card, I used a Spellbinders die (Labels Fourteen) to cut an aperture in white card. I then embossed the card using the Creative Expressions Brick embossing folder. To bring out the brick effect, I used Cut'n'Dry foam to blend some Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink around the edges. The car and sentiment stamps came from the Classic Cars unmounted stamp set from Creative Expressions. To colour the car, I dabbed some ink from the Chipped Sapphire and Broken China distress ink pads onto a non-stick craft sheet, and picked the ink up with a water brush to use as paint. This is a really easy way to give a watercoloured effect.
Once I had cut out the stamped car, assembled the card and stamped the sentiment, I used the Spellbinders Elegant Posts die to decorate the bottom right corner.
This card is much easier to make than it looks - why don't you give it a try?
Mel xxx Pin It Now!

Geisha at Sunset

I hope you enjoy this example of using our Geisha digi-stamp which I painted with Cosmic Acrylic Drawing Inks. My colour choices were the Persian Shades and Nature's Essentials.

The fan, which is from our Oriental Die Cut Collection, has also been painted with the same shades. 

The Mix & Match Mountain Range, which comes as either an SVG file or a Stencil/Mask Kit, provided the backdrop. 

Finally a simple sentiment design from Creative Expressions Oriental 2 U-Mount set and were done.

Your comments as usual are always great to hear.

Linda xxx

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