Congratulations: Stained Glass Effect entered #GDP053

Welcome once again to my blog

Today's card was created with a wedding in mind. 

I used the colour scheme from this weeks GDP Challenge (pic below) ....

Colour challenges really make me think & pushes me to use the colours that I normally wouldn't contemplate. 

I have seen the 'Stained Glass Window' or 'Lead Light' effect done many different ways over the years, but had yet to give it a go myself, until today.

  

Here is my card

CONGRATULATIONS

  

#Fallingflowersbundle #Leadlighteffect #Heatembossing #KOCreationscards #Blending #Handmade #Wedding #Engagement #Promotion

How I made Congratulations:

• Cut a Night Of Navy card stock to 15  x 21.6 cm, score and fold to make 15 x 10.8 cm
• Cut 1 Night of Navy to 10 x 14 cm
• Cut 2 pieces Whisper White to 10.3 x 14.8 cm 
• Cut 1 gold foil piece to 9.9 x 14.4 cm
• Cut a piece of the striped embossed DSP from the Irresistibly Floral collection on the diagonal to 9.4 x 13.8 cm

For the front: 

• Colour the flowers, buds & leaves using Watermelon Wonder. I coloured mine from behind then also added some more colour to the front for added depth.
• Using the Striped DSP, a Stampin' Sponge and Night of Navy ink pad begin blending from one end working the colour, fading gently to almost white at the other end.
• Using a tissue wipe the stripes clean back to white.
• Arrange your flowers, buds & leaves in the bottom corner that is the lightest colour.
• Find a sentiment you like. I used the 'Congratulations' from the 'Floral Phrases' stamp set.
• Stamp this in VersaMark following the same steps as below for the flower embossing excluding step 1 & 6

Stained Glass Flower Arrangement:

1. Using a scrap piece of vellum dust with your embossing buddy.
2. Stamp image .... 2 flowers, 2 buds & 1 x leaves using VersaMark ink. 
3. Then dust the images with Gold Stampin' Emboss powder. 
4. Gently tap the back of the vellum with your fingernail to rid of excess powder.
5. Heat with your heat tool, until all has melted and smooth.
6. Cut out with the corresponding die cuts.

• When colouring the flowers I started on the reverse side and then moved to the front to add depth to areas that needed it. 

#Fallingflowersbundle #Leadlighteffect #Heatembossing #KOCreationscards #Blending #Handmade #Wedding #Engagement #Promotion

 I used Tear & Tape adhesive to adhere the striped DSP to the gold foil. 

I then used Stampin' Dimensionals to attach the gold foil to the Night of Navy card stock & used dimensionals again for the Night of Navy to the Whisper White card stock.

 I adhered all of this to the card base with Tear & Tape.

For the inside I used the same stamps for the front on a piece of Whisper White and heat embossed in Gold Stampin' Emboss powder.

#Fallingflowersbundle #Leadlighteffect #Heatembossing #KOCreationscards #Blending #Handmade #Wedding #Engagement #Promotion

I hope you enjoyed my creativity today.

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Thank you so very much for stopping by today.

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Star of Light Starburst Tutorial

Welcome Back

 I had many requests for instructions on how to make the starburst effect for my Christmas Spirit card.

When I made Christmas Spirit it was all trials & errors. Loads of time taken up with mistakes, as is the way when you are trying something new.

I didn't write instructions for the card with my first blog because of all my mistakes, I simply ran out of time.

 So I decided to try a video tutorial.

I had a spare day yesterday to fiddle around,as my middle child was home ill.

#Staroflight #Masking #Blending #KOCreationscards #Handmade #Tutorial

Star Of Light Starburst Tutorial

Being my first tutorial I hope my efforts weren't to clumsy and you got the general idea of how to make this card.

Please forgive me if I talk to myself and I think I did mumble a bit too!
  

Card stock used + measurements:

• 2 by A4 Night of Navy
  1 cut at 20.5 cm x 21 cm then scored & folded to be 20.5 x 10.5 for the base
  1 piece 19.3 x 9.3 cm (front of card)
  another 19.5 x 9.3 cm (inside of card)

• 2 A4 of thick Whisper White
  1 cut at 19 x 9 cm
  1 cut at 20  x 10 cm (both of these are for the front)
  1 cut at 20 x 10
  1 cut at 19.3 x 9.3 cm (both inside of card)

#Staroflight #Masking #Blending #KOCreationscards #Handmade #Tutorial

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PLEASE let me know if my tutorial was helpful. 

If you have any questions please ask in the comments. 

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Crazy Crafters Blog Hop- CASEing Wendy Cranford

Hi !

Today's card has been inspired by our fabulous creator & guest Wendy Cranford

I chose this gorgeous card of Wendy's to CASE

#Wendycranford

I just love how vibrant and fun this card is. Wendy shows her love of having the main focal in a corner so well with this design. I wanted to make something similar, but also to make it mine.

I chose my colours from the #PPA315 colour challenge by Michelle Gleeson.

I also thought I would enter this card into the Stamp,ink,paper challenge #SIP062 as it fits the sketch above !

Here is my card

'JUST A NOTE'

#Flourishingphrases #KOCreationscards #Resistinking #Enamelshapes #Blending

I am also a lover of having the focal stamped design in a corner, then stamping the image off the page a little. I chose to do my image using white embossing powder on Whisper White card stock and use the resist inking technique.

 For the ink blending over the embossed image I used Old Olive at the bottom, followed by So Saffron and finished at the top with Dapper Denim.

I coloured the flowers with So Saffron on top of the blending process just to make them stand out a little more. I also did the same with the leaves using Old Olive.

For the dots I used the smallest circles from the enamel shapes in Dapper Denim.

I wanted a sentiment tag, but I didn't want to cover any of the card and it's beautiful colour. So to keep the colour unbroken, I decided I would use a small rectangle of acetate 'Window Sheet' stamped with 'Whisper White' craft ink. This made the writing stand against out from the background, plus coordinated with the card perfectly. I cut to length a small strip of 'Dapper Denim' Washi Tape from the Moroccan Designer Washi Tape set. I topped that with a bow of Thick 'Whisper White' Bakers Twine.

 #Flourishingphrases #KOCreationscards #Resistinking #Enamelshapes #Blending

I also wanted the pretty colours to follow through to the inside of my card. So I did almost the same as the front but kept the ink blending to the bottom right of the paper, leaving a large area clean for a personal message.

#Flourishingphrases #KOCreationscards #Resistinking #Enamelshapes #Blending

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Thank you for stopping by x