Wishing you a magical day....

Hi Everyone,

This week I decided to take a break from making Christmas cards and tags and spent some time with the beautiful Lavinia Stamps range.

I love these silhouette stamps, they are so striking and give me an opportunity to play with making my own backgrounds.

To start I took a woodgrain embossed card base and die cut my aperture.

Then I used three Distress Paints (Picked Raspberry, Wild Honey and Picket Fence) and dabbed these onto a piece of watercolour paper. I spritzed it heavily with water to allow the paint to move and blend.

Once the paint was dry I overstamped with the Lavinia Stamps Thistles stamp set in black Versafine ink and mounted my picture behind the aperture in the card base.

For my sentiment I used "Wishing you a magical day" from the Crimson Cloud Sleeping Flower Fairy stamp set

and stamped it onto a die cut banner and mounted it with foam pads onto the card front.

Finally I decorated the card with some coordinating gems from my stash.

Hope you like it!
Mel xxxx Pin It Now!

Fairy love and wishes......

Good morning!

We have some more fairy-inspired samples today from our lovely Design Team today.

Sandra kicks us off with another one of her fantastic dimensional projects

made using the Sitting Fairy stamp set

Cheremane has very cleverly used the sunflower from the Sleeping Flower Fairy stamp set

to create a background to compliment her focal image

Debs has used an unusual colour palette to create her elegant Fairy card

using the Fairy Picking Flowers stamp set

Linda was obviously feeling very inspired as she came up with two designs for the Fairy In The Moonlight stamp set

Her first card would work well as a Spring or even Valentine's card

And you can tell she is in Christmas mode with this very clever Christmas card

which also incorporates the Crimson Cloud Pine Boughs and Fir Cones stamp set

I hope you enjoy these samples and are inspired to use your fairies in new ways!
Mel xxx Pin It Now!

If you believe, it may come true!

Hi Everyone,
I hope you are enjoying these last few sunny days of summer, before Autumn descends upon us!

This week the design team have been working their fairy magic with the hand drawn Crimson Cloud fairy stamp sets.

Sandra created this fantastic dimensional card

Using the Sitting Fairy stamp set.

Debs created this really pretty card

using the Fairy Picking Flowers set

Cheremane produced a very elegant card

with the Sleeping Fairy stamp set

I had fun creating a single layer scene card

with my favourite Fairy In The Moonlight stamp set

I used two Lavinia Stamp sets to create my background -

Tree Root for the tree

Creeping Vine for the foliage

We hope that you like these samples and that you find some inspiration here!
Mel xxxx
P.S. Don't forget to click on the girls' names to go direct to their blogs!

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On A Secret Night......

Hi Everyone,

We hope you have been enjoying the new Lavinia Stamp range that is now in stock at Crimson Cloud - we certainly have!

Here are a couple of samples -

The first card is made using Giselle 

The sentiment is from Secret Night 

 The second sample is made using Stargazers

The sentiment is from the Crimson Cloud "Fairy Picking Flowers" stamp set

We hope you like these samples and find them inspiring.
Mel xxx Pin It Now!

Lavinia Stamps

We are delighted to announce that we are now stockists of Lavinia Stamps.

Here are just some of the beautiful stamps that we now have in stock

To find the range click here.

And keep checking the blog as we prepare some samples to inspire you!

Best wishes
Mel and Linda xxx Pin It Now!

Dabbling in Distress Paints.....

The new range of Tim Holtz Distress Paints have arrived at Crimson Cloud and we have been dabbling with them all day. These are no ordinary acrylic paints! Not only do they blend beautifully when wet, when they are dry they stay put. Which means you can put layer after layer on until you are happy with your result.

I put together a couple of projects today using the Seedless Preserves, Picked Raspberry and Spun Sugar distress paints.

And here are the two projects -

 I took a piece of heavy weight cardstock and dabbed the colours on - making sure I used the lightest colour first. I then spritzed the card heavily with water (you could use a pearly mica spray here) and moved the card around so that the paint spread and blended. I used my heat tool to dry the paint, and then dabbed any excess wet paint from my craft mat onto the painted card to add texture and interest.

I cut the cardstock in half to create two panels for my two cards.

For the Dreams card, I embossed my panel with the Sizzix Birds and Lace embossing folder

 and sanded the embossed impression to reveal the birds and flowers. The sentiment came from the Creative Expressions Birds stamp set

To create my second card, I embossed a piece of white cardstock with the Creative Expressions Bark embossing folder

I used one of the brand new Couture Creations Ivy Doilies and die cut it from my second panel of painted cardstock

 The sentiment comes from the exclusive Crimson Cloud Sitting Fairy stamp set

I am now off to clean up the paint splatters from all over my craft room - even my lap top keyboard has some suspiciously pink fingerprints on it!
Mel
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