More Drama...

Happy Friday,

Well with one day to go there are an awful lots of rumours going round about what my Sam Jelly baby is talking about. From what I've seen on Facebook the cat is out of the bag about some of it but not everything! lol

I thought today I would post a dramatic card ( well that's how it appeared to me) as if there isn't enough drama about!  I stared by making the outer frame from the press cut woodland scene ( really a true favourite) into a square the great thing is the die cuts in the centre and just slots together to make the square.

Next I used the scene section of the die cut in black gloss card and used the Fire and Ice technique with gilding flakes on the back and iced snow on the front to add a little more glam to the card.  I added this to a larger set of black white and silver mats and layers to make the piece more dramatic.

The flowers are the orange blossom flowers and leaves cut form embossed and glitter kissed paper.  I added more of the gold glitter kiss to the flowers and leaves after shaping them.  I added 5mm stick on pearls in the centres of the flowers and added more of the pearls in the corners for balance.

I love the finished look of this card especially as whilst making it I thought id gone too far in mixing the colours and shine!



Here's Sam for the final day and a little more of a reveal!

have you guessed what it is yet?

Enjoy...

Silver Moon Atlantic...

Happy Wednesday,

How about a little gilding flake stamping for todays card.  I stared by cutting the infinity striplet into a piece of iris foundation card three times to make a square background.  I backed this with cobalt foundation card  and added layers of silver, iris and cobalt to make the main card.

For the main element I stamped the strawberry flower stamp to die for in Cosmic Shimmer flake and glitter glue then added silver moon gilding flakes and removed the excess using a piece of rubit scrubit.  I repeated this to make 2 stamped images and cut the flowers out from one image to decoupage on this first one.

I cut out the stamped image using the matching die from the Azores die Atlantic collection.  I added this over a couple of strips of silver ribbon and added a messy bow, metallic linx and stick pins to finish.

Enjoy...

Silver Moon Ocean...

Happy Monday,

I thought I would share another card made using the Atlantic ocean background as I love this die and made so many samples using it!


I stared this card by covering a sheet of double sided adhesive with silver moon gilding flakes.  I then cut all the dies in the Atlantic ocean set into this separately.  so I cut the first die, then cut the central die with the outline and the final die again with the outline.

Next I backed the first piece with Wisteria card ( doesn't it look brighter when teamed with white and silver) I then added the spring foliage die cut in white around all four sides of the central square and mounted this with foam in the centre.  I cut the flowers from the Spring Foliage set in more of the gilding flakes which I shaped and added a crystal in the centre.

I backed the final die cut with coconut white and rotated this before foam mounting this in the centre. I added a frame made with the noble double pierced squares dies and set B in white and wisteria and traced the outline with crystal strips ( these come as a double but I like to cut them into single strips)

Finally a pearl and crystal embellishment with a messy bow made with ribbon form my stash ( Ive got to use more ribbon I collect far too much!)

I have updated the demo and workshop list at the right hand of the blog so if you want to see where I will be in March its all there!  Also I am running some workshops at CE Towers in Kettering starting in May for more details see the Creative Expressions Facebook page.

Enjoy...