Hats off to you!

Hi Everyone,

It's great this week to be able to show off our Design Team's latest set of samples, using the Crimson Cloud Hat stamp sets.

Cheremane and Debs have been playing with the "Tipped Hat With Roses" stamp set -

Cheremane 

Debs

While Lisa and Sandra have been playing with the "Tipped Hat" stamp set

Lisa

Sandra

We think that the girls have done an amazing job with their first set of Crimson Cloud stamps and can't wait to see what they come up with next month!

Mel

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PEACH AND BLACK TIPPED FRONT HAT

As we are still enjoying playing with our Hats and Roses stamps and the many various ways they can be used, we thought we might share a few more samples with you.

There was a time when of all the colours of the rainbow I hated “peach” - but now it appears rather contrarily that I am in love with it, it’s a fine line you know!

Using some black card stock and some “peachy” papers I cut out my background layers.
Then using Spellbinders Wonky Rectangles cut out two further layers.

 I drew around one of the dies and cut it out from black card to give a shadow effect.

Then, moving on to the “pretties”,  - I cut out from the Spellbinders Sue Wilson Lattice Motifs and Accents  - the oval and four corners.

I stamped the Tipped Hat twice with Momento Black Ink on two shades of peach card stock - one for the main hat and the second to cut out for the flowers in a slightly softer tone.

Using Tattered Rose Distress Ink I spritzed Vintage Eggshell Ribbon to match the colour.

I paired it with Vintage Black Ribbon to create a striking contrast.

To get the wavy effect on the ribbon, simply use transparent sticky dots to position the tails.

After assembly I played with Cosmic Shimmer pearly Glue which we all seem never to tire of. In this case Black Pearl PVA all around the edges or as far as you can reach.

Two black Creative Expressions Hat Pins

and an odd button to complete the picture.

Hope you like it!
Linda xxx Pin It Now!

YELLOW AND GREY BOARDWALK HAT

These colours are a ray of sunshine until summer arrives!

Using Grand Nesties Scalloped Circles (7" wide), cut out in grey and cream card stock for the 2 bases.
Then cut out again at 5” wide in grey for a further layer.
To layer in between cut 2 Grand Nestie circles out at 6” wide and 4.5” wide in a vibrant yellow or any other colour that cheers you and co-ordinates with your project. Matt together the layers.

Stamp the Boardwalk Hat on cream card and cut out. Stamp again on grey card and cut out the lace effect.

Stamp twice more onto yellow patterned paper and cut out the roses - one set of roses forms the third layer of the hat, the second as decoration for your bow.

Cut a length of Vintage Eggshell Ribbon

and colour with Mustard Seed Distress Ink

Tie in a bow combined with yellow and cream twine and dress with two Creative Expressions hat pins

and the final rose which you cut out earlier.

The sentiment from the same stamp collection is stamped on two rectangles of aged cream and grey.

I hope you enjoy this one!
Linda xxxx Pin It Now!

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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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 Pin It Now!

Guess who arrived home with a new toy?

Hi Everyone
This is Linda - just back from my trip to the UK.


I have waited months to visit the UK to collect a Grand Calibur (as well as to visit some trade fairs, see the family and do some work of course) and to collect some of the wonderful new Spellbinder dies. Being the only woman on the planet, apparently, who has managed to break her Cuttlebug, it has been a long wait.


To celebrate I have made this very ‘blingy’ card

 from one of our new range of hat stamps. There are four sets in total ranging from demure to sassy.

 So, let’s begin with stamping the front tipped hat in black Memento as I coloured the roses with Promarkers . Then, feeling like a little girl on Christmas morning, I cut out 6 different sizes of the Spellbinders Grand Nesties Labels Twenty Three die

 plus one extra of the largest to make the back of the card. This I folded about 1.5 inches down from the top and glued to the card of the same size. Using mounting tape I then layered them up - so quick and effective. 
The Pearl Swirls were cut and stepped down the layers to give an illusion of 3D.
Then having cut a more Labels Twenty Three from the smaller coordinating Spellbinders set, I stamped the Happy Birthday sentiment from our Hats and Roses Collection.

Grey satin ribbon was fixed to grey sheer ribbon using double sided tape, and then a second strip of double sided tape applied to form the ruffle. I used a pencil to equalise the ruffle but that is because I am a little OCD! 


Now the sentiment needs a little support so a small piece of the same card about .5”wide folded into three forms a perfectly disguised little support bracket, it worked a treat! 


I hope you enjoy this new range of hat stamps half as much as I have enjoyed making this card with them. Now I must find someone really special to send it to!
Linda xxxx Pin It Now!