Stained Glass Delicate Doilies

What a fantastically sunny day to wake up to this morning! Perfect for showing you my stained glass delicate doilies card :)

This card is very simple, but quite time consuming.  It's essentially a colouring in task which is always very relaxing you just need some time to do it. It's also one of those projects that's perfect to carry around in your handbag for when you have a spare minute - once you've done the gold embossing all you need is a blender pen and a couple of colours so it's a great one to do on the move or in front of the TV.

I gold embossed delicate doilies onto velum, before gently colouring it in using blender pens.  I went for a pink and purple colour palette on this one - Rich Razzleberry, Strawberry Slush - and then Crushed Curry for a bit of contrast.

Once I'd got my velum window ready and waiting I used Whisper White cardstock to frame it.  I essentially did a regular size card (A5) and used my guillotine to cut 1.5cms in from the outside all the way around on the front of the card.  I then put my velum cardstock behind and adhered it using sticky strip before placing another piece of card over to make it lovely and neat! The covering piece of card is the same size as the card front and again I used the guillotine 1.5cms from the outside all the way around.  You could adhere this with Tombo but I decided to go with sticky strip all the way for this project - I didn't want any wet glue near my beautiful velum design!

The inside of the card - all neatened up!

I think I will probably write my message on the very back of this card so that it doesn't show through the stained glass effect......

I hope you enjoy! I think ill probably be making a few more of these with some other stamp sets :)

Leigh-Anne x

Garden Box Card

Gold embossing glows beautifully in warm light :)

Over the past couple of weeks or so it seems that EVERYBODY  is making this box! It's making it's way around the Inspirin' Inkees (Amanda Fowler's Team), and the Dazzling Dreamers (Liz Shannon's Team) teams.  This is a real 'WOW' card which goes from conveniently folding flat into a regular size envelope, to being an all singing all dancing box card and it's just incredibly versatile.  You can find a video with instructions on Very Victoria's Crafts on Youtube here and there are plenty of examples of other designs if you have a peruse online.

This is the watercolour paper and gold embossed butterfly in natural light

For a quick reference once you've looked at Victoria's video for the technique, the dimensions are A5 size cardstock, scored at 7.3cm along the short edge (i.e ~half way), and at 2,4,6 and 8 inches along the long side.  Don't forget to NOT fold down the back panel!

I based mine on a garden theme and guess what made another appearance...brushed gold cardstock and embossed gold powder, along with my favourite retired stamp set at the moment, elements of style.  I have used the very vintage wheel in crumb cake on the brushed gold cardstock to add a bit of texture.  The other card colour bases I used were pink pirhouette (also then with very vintage rolled onto it in blushing bride) and always artichoke for the leaves and grass - made out of little leaves sizzlits and a lot of snipping!

I gold embossed the apothecary art and the elements of style stamps onto watercolour paper, and I then watercoloured using blushing bride, strawberry slush, crisp canteloupe, pistachio pudding and always artichoke.

I've put it all together and added the finishing touches of Papillon Potpourri butterflies gold embossed onto velum, and coloured using blender pens and the same colour palette. I used a little flower wire for the larger butterfly to get is standing prouder.

I've left my greeting blank for now so that I can use it for a number of occasions......

I hope you like!x

Clean vintage

It's a real shame that brushed gold card doesn't look as amazing in the pics as it does in person. It's a really subtle effect and if you haven't got any I highly recommend buying it! I embossed in gold onto velum and then coloured the flowers and leaves with blushing bride, a little strawberry slush, crisp canteloupe, pistachio pudding and always artichoke. I then backed it with very vanilla and put it on a background of brushed gold with the vintage wheel in crumb cake and a little gold ink with gorgeous grunge stamps.