Dena's Designs: CI-488 Spring flowers stamp

Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Crafty individuals - Happy Mothers Day Daffodil card

Hi Everyone!!!

I'm a little late posting this card as Mother's Day has obviously passed.

This was a really simple card using daffodils from Crafty Individuals.

Stamp and emboss the daffodils and bee onto a piece of white card.

Using a synthetic brush apply some masking fluid to the stamped image.

Water colour the background by dabbing some stormy sky distress ink on a tile and pick the ink up with a paintbrush.

Randomly stamp CI-214 with chipped sapphire distress ink.

Dab the ink on a tile, using a fan brush splatter some ink in the background.

Carefully rub the masing fluid off and colour with pro markers.

I decided to die cut the daffodils.

Cut another piece of card slightly larger than your die cut piece.

Using a ball tool draw around the daffodils and bee.

Flip it over and you should be able to see an indentation of the flowers. Use this as a guide to dry emboss them by rubbing the ball tool in circular motions. Be careful not to push too hard and rip the card.

Using a pre-folded 6x6 card blank water colour the background with stormy sky.

Splatter some ink with a fan brush and then randomly stamp with the script again.

Stamp and emboss the Happy Mothers day sentiment in the bottom right corner.

Stamp, emboss and colour a couple more bees in the top left corner.

Draw a border around the edge and mount all components onto the card base.

Shopping list

Script stamp

Daffodiles

Sentiments -CI438

Masking fluid

Distress inks

Paint brushes

Pro markers

White card

Nesting Dies

6x6 Card blank

Black pen

Black ink

Embossing powder

Heat gun

Thanks for visiting

X-Dena-X

Friday, 23 April 2021

Morning Everyone!

I recently made this card for a friends birthday - who is also a crafter. I always find there's way more pressure on making a card when the recipient is also a cardmaker!

Thought I'd use this gorgeous image from crafty individuals.

Stamp and emboss CI-471.

I then ripped the card to the size I wanted.

Using distress inks apply some Victorian velvet to the middle section and distress the edges with tea dye. I decided the edges wasn't quite dark enough so added a little brushed corduroy.

Cut a piece of square card that will fit on a pre folded 6x6 card blank leaving a slight border around the edge. Using a brayer I then applied the ink. To enhance the pink areas I applied Victorian velvet with an applicator sponge and again distressed the edges with brushed corduroy.

Using a fan paint brush flick some specks of water over your background and dry with a piece of kitchen roll to lift the ink.

I then splattered some watered down brown brushos to the card and dried with a heat gun. Unfortunately this doesn't show up very well on the photo but it left lovely soft brown splatters on the card.

Using CI-572 bluebells stamp ink the text section and randomly stamp in areas of the card in Victorian velvet. I Chose to keep the colours very soft and muted.

Stamp the snakes head fritillary from CI-488 in black.

Colour the image, for this I used Arteza watercolour brush pens and distress inks. I often use distress inks as a watercolour by dabbing the ink on a tile or on your messy mat and apply the ink with a brush.

Stamp some grasses from CI-207 using a brown and green ink to bring in another colour on your main background and a few on the topper with the little girl.

I then stamped the wording from the woodware clear stamp set.