Hello my crafty friends! Today's video will show you another way to create a unique background for your special card projects. I do hope you can take a few minutes to watch, relax and enjoy!
Finished dimensions are 8" x 8" in size.
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Morning all! I think this is my favourite sample from the Coffee Cup set from Justrite. I absolutely love the Background die from the Spanish Collection and I think it makes a beautifully detailed background for this card. All of the backgrounds in my new die line have been designed without an outside cutting edge. The reason for that is so you can decide just how wide of a border you would like for your project. I love to mount backgrounds up with foam and sometimes there is very little room to do this easily. I cut this background and left a nice border, enough room for both mounting foam and a pierced edge accent. I ran a bead of Cosmic Shimmer dries clear glue around the edge and sugared it with Iced Snow for a little bit of bling. I stamped my sentiment using a black Archival ink pad and cut it out with the California Collection Decorative Frames Set B. This is another of my favourites as it is large enough for just about any sentiment or stamped images, but has a really pretty decorative edge to it. While still in the die, I inked it with Shaded Lilac distress ink. I do have to say that in real life, this card matches nicely but lavender and purples sometimes photograph as different shades of blue so it does look like I have used a different colour for the coffee cut. I stamped the coffee cup in black and coloured it with the matching Shaded Lilac Distress Marker and Tattered Rose for the flower and then fussy cut the image. I mounted it with foam just below my sentiment. I tied a messy bow with mauve seam binding and added a small pearl embellishment to the centre and two fancy stick pins that I made (I made a bunch of these in all sorts of colours so you will be seeing them quite often.). I mounted the background over a piece of pale lavender card for just a hint of colour peeking out through the background. A double white mat with a pierced inner frame finished off the card. This is just the sort of card I would love to give or receive! Finished dimensions are 6" x 8" in size.
Good Sunday Morning! It's showtime today at noon for me on Create and Craft and here is a look at another one of the stamp sets from the show. It is called Rose Vintage Labels Seven by Justrite Stamps. I picked some papers from the Teresa Collins paper pack that is exclusive to Creative Expressions to use as my background for the card. The pretty random word paper made a great matching border strip to the background paper so I just matted it with a thin mat of black card. In milk coloured card, I cut Becca Feeken's Filigree Delight as a smaller background for my focal element. I stamped the Rose on milk card twice using a black Archival ink pad. The first one I cut out with the matching Labels seven die and inked through the die with Antique Linen Distress ink. The second one, I covered just the centre rose section with a piece of sticky self adhesive sheet and then cut it out by hand. If you hold it to the light it is very easy to see through to do this. I peeled the backing paper off and covered it with Diamond Sprinkles. Using an Antique Linen Distress marker I was able to add shading to the rose on top of the Diamond Sprinkles so it matched the rest of the design underneath. I mounted it on foam for dimension. I cut a Gold Labels Four in Black to mount the entire rose piece on top and then in the centre of the Filigree Delight. I added a messy bow tied from chalk seam binding and topped it with a little cream flower from my stash. I stamped a sentiment and cut it out with one of the tags from the show and tucked it under the bow. I finished the embellishing with two pretty stick pins that I made and some black rhinestone swirls. The matting and layering was added last, first a pierced inner layer of milk, then a thin black and a final milk coloured layer to complete the card. Finished dimensions are 7 3/4" x 7 3/4" in size.
Hello my friends! Here is another sneaky peek for the Show on Sunday. This one uses the new Coffee Cup stamp set by Justrite stamps! This new embossing folder is not in stock just yet so it isn't on the Sunday show, but I promise to have it on the next shows that I am doing in March. I embossed the background using the new Art Deco Fanfare folder using milk coloured card. I added a tone on tone border cut from my California Collection border set. I thought it would look pretty with a row of cream pearls to accent it. I stamped my sentiment and coffee cup on to some decorative paper that I had in my stash. It was stamped with a Coffee Archival ink (appropriately enough) to give it a soft vintage feel. I stamped the coffee cup a second time and fussy cut (by hand) it out and mounted it upwards. I stamped just the flower on the cup again and cut and mounted it upwards as well. I added a tiny bit of shading with a Tattered Rose distress marker. I made several roses in differing sizes using the Classic Rose die set from my Finishing Touches range. You can easily do this just by following the paper rose tutorial at the top of my blog and just substitute the die shapes for the stamped images. They are the same shape! I "sugared" all three with Diamond Sprinkles and then seated the largest flower atop a messy bow that I tied from two colours of seam binding (Mimi Brown and London Tan) and I added a jute twine bow in cream too. I placed the two smallest flowers in the opposite corner on the same jute. I made a couple of stick pins to match from beads in my stash and put the ends into the knot on the bow. Finally I finished the card with a some swirl pearls and a pierced mat, then a thin brown mat and a final milk coloured mat. The finished dimensions are 7" x 8" in size.