Heart card

Evening all!!

Have been busy making a few valentines cards over the last few days. Tonight I'm going to talk you through how I made this heart card using the xcut floral filigree heart die.

I started off by mounting a 6x6 piece of black card onto a pre-folded white card base.
I then cut out a second layer slightly smaller, which I embossed with Leonie Pujol's gorgeous heart embossing folder. (As this is an A6 size embossing folder I had run it through the machine twice - emboss as much of the card as you can the first time, then move the card along to match the design and run through the machine a second time.)

Using the red cosmic shimmer gilding polish apply a very thin layer over the embossed area. I also run the sponge applicator along the edge of the embossed card to give a red border.
This can now be stuck to the main card.

For the next step I cut the heart out of black card and again covered it with the red gilding polish, this time applying it thicker than on the embossed card.

Place the die on a piece of black card and draw around it, then cut it out with a pair of scissors and mount the die cut heart onto it and stick onto main card.

Cut 'with love' from black card using the xcut die and colour with gold cosmic shimmer gilding polish.

Now time to add the finishing touches!! Firstly I stuck a deep red skeleton leaf in opposite corners of the card along with a few strands from a peacock feather.
I then die cut 2 leaves out of an Olive coloured card using the Marianne branch forest die. Cut the top section of leaves off and stick in the corners.
Finish with a couple of red mulberry paper roses.

Shopping List

- Pre-folded 6x6 Dovecraft card base
- Black card
- Cosmic shimmer glue
- Marianne forest branch die
- Xcut floral filigree heart
- Xcut with love die
- Cosmic shimmer gilding polish
- Strands from a peacock feather
- Mulberry paper roses

Gilding flakes tree card

Evening crafty friends!!!!

This evening I'm going to tell you how I made this gilding flake tree card.

I Made this card using 'The crafters workshop' stencil - Aspen trees. Using some low tack masking tape I stuck the stencil to black card to keep it in place. Take a small piece of stamping foam and smear a thin layer of flitter glu over it. 

Carefully dab the sponge through the stencil, making sure the glue doesn't seep under it. You only need to apply a thin layer which appears clear once applied. 

Carefully peel back the stencil and place in bowl of hot soapy water ready to clean later.

For the next step I used Crafty Notions gilding flakes - medley mix. This company has an incredible range of colours available!!! 

Sprinkle a generous amount of flakes over the glue. Then using a polishing sponge carefully push down onto the flakes, without dragging them across the image - this will smudge the wet glue.

Leave to dry for a few minutes........

Now for the fun part - revealing the image.

Carefully brush of all the excess flakes and rub away any loose flakes that may have stuck to unwanted areas. 

I then cut a thin even edge around the image and then mounted it onto black 6x6 card using foam tape to give it abit of dimension. This is now ready to mount onto a pre-folded 6x6 white card base.

Dont forget to clean your stencil!!!!

Shopping list

- Black card

- White pre-folded 6x6 card base

- The crafty workshop stencil - aspen trees

- Crafty notions gilding flakes

- Stamping sponge

- Polishing sponge

- Flitter glu

- Bowl of warm soapy water!!!!

Reindeer Aperture Card

Evening crafty friends!!!

Feeling rather nervous about writing my first ever blog. Thought I'd start with one of my favourite Christmas cards.

For this card I used the beautiful Crafter's companion create a card - enchanted reindeer die. I cut it out of plain white card then coated it with white Cosmic shimmer gilding polish. I just love this collection - it allows you to give a lovely shimmery coating to card and many other surfaces.

I then cut an even edge around the cut image.

For the layer behind I cut a slightly larger square out of mirror card, then using tattered lace square dies cut a slightly smaller square out the centre, so your left with a square aperture.  (This should be large enough for you to mount the top layer onto with an even border, but without the bottom aperture showing through the die cut image.)

Time to prepare the base card! For this I used pre-scored 6x6 white card. Cut an aperture out of the centre using the same tattered lace square die used on the mirror card.

Stick the layers onto the base card. For this I prefer to use Cosmic shimmer glue with a tattered lace fine glue tip.

Now for the finishing touches. Place a piece of mirror card over the reindeer and run through the die cutting machine. I cut the unwanted swirls off with a pair of scissors, so I was left with just the reindeer. I decoupaged this onto the main die cut image. Finally I dotted a few diamonte's and star shaped jems on.

Shopping List

• Crafter's companion create a card enchanted reindeer die
• Tattered lace essential squares
• Cosmic shimmer gilding polish
• White card stock
• Pre-scored 6x6 card
• Mirror card stock
• Cosmic shimmer glue
• Silicone glue
• Diamonte's 
• Self adhesive star jems