The world of reality has its limits!

....................... but the world of imagination is boundless!

So this week I have finished off another of my smelly tags!  This was made a few weeks back using the pixie powders with shaving foam and I left it aside until I felt like decorating it - please take a peek here to see the technique.

I used some Carabelle Studio stamps for the foliage and I absolutely adore some of the quotes from Stampers Anonymous, add a bit of black embossing powder and hey presto, this is what you have!

I decided to leave the back of the tag blank so I could use it to write my message.

Items used for this project are:

Black embossing powder

Carabelle Studio Frise en Ribambelle

Carabelle Studio Zinouk du jardin

Stampers Anonymous Stuff to Say

Pixie powders

Shaving foam

Something a little different this week so I hope you have enjoyed it.

With love and crafty hugs

Ginny xx

A Smelly Tag!!!!

Back to cardmaking this week and sadly leaving my horsey antics behind!  This week I am sharing a tag that I made during a class I attended in Bristol.  It was made using pixie powders, shaving foam and alcohol inks!

Firstly I started by putting shaving foam into a container and sprinkled with sun yellow and peacock green pixie powders.  When they started to mix with the foam I then took a straw to swirl them together, I then laid the card onto the foam and removed it.  It was covered in foam and when you take off the excess with a ruler it leaves a very interesting pattern on the cardstock.  Once this has dried ............. and by the way it smells gorgeous! ............. I then cut out the tag and embossed it to add a little more texture.

To make the butterflies I stamped a Visible Image butterfly with matt medium and heat embossed it with black powder.  Once this was done I let it cool down and then took clover and sunset yellow alcohol inks and spread them over the back of the butterfly.  By putting the inks on now and cutting later I didn't have to be too careful with applying the inks!  Once this had dried I hand cut the butterflies and placed them onto the tag, folding them up slightly to add some dimension.

The back of the tag is clear to write a message and I thought it best not to put a sentiment on the front so it could be used for any occasion.

Finally I popped some ribbon through the top so there was something to help attach it to a gift.

For this tag I used the following:

Alcohol inks - clover & sunset yellow

Cheap shavng foam

Pixie Powders - peacock green and sun yellow

Heat resistant acetate

Visible Image Butterfly Beginnings stamp

I hope you enjoyed this project, so until next time I will leave with love and crafty hugs!

Ginny x

Learn to Fly Again

For today's offering I have used another Visible Image stamp called Learn to Fly Again.

Once again I used the Pixie Powders onto a watercolour card, which also added additional texture to the card base.  I used the ancient copper and pewter which gave an amazing mix.

I heat embossed the wording and birds in black which made them pop a little more. 

I then layered the card up onto black cardstock which I cut using Sue Wilsons pierced squares.

The full recipe for this card is as follows:

Watercolour card

Black Foundation cardstock

Pewter & Ancient Copper Pixie Powders

Inkylicious stamp Learn to Fly Again

Black embossing powder

I am off on a workshop with Julia Watts on Saturday so should have lots of new offerings soon.

Hope you like it!

Until next time

Ginny x

Visible Image cards

Well today's post is something a little different, but I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed doing these cards.

I recently purchased some stamps from Visible Image as I absolutely love some of their sayings/quotes.  I decided to mix these up a bit with the pixie powders as I really need a bit more practice using them.  Well I got all messy and really enjoyed myself!

This is the first card I made. I used the purple violet and peacock green Pixie Powders, with the 'Live in the Moment' stamp set.  I heat embossed with Creative Expressions black detail embossing powder.

The second card I used the sun yellow and scarlet mist Pixie Powders and the 'Vision Inkognito Set' again by Visible Image.  Once again I heat embossed with Creative Expressions black detail embossing powder.

On both cards I used the Sue Wilson Pierced Squares for my mats and layers, and I thought the black set off the embossed areas really nicely.

It is a shame that you cannot see the shimmer from the Pixie Powders and the texture from the embossing powder, as they really do look impressive, even if I say so myself!

I think I might find myself doing more work with the pixie powders as you can get so many different effects with them.  Watch this space!

Until next time, take care and please feel free to leave a comment when you visit my page.

Ginny xx

Pixie Powders

I'm afraid it has been a while since I have updated my blog.  The problem is there has been so much going on that I have gotten a bit bogged down.  I now have 9 lambs to bottle feed and a friend has been poorly so I have been looking after her horse too, as well as work getting in the way.

I am pleased however that I have managed to get some time to take part in some craft classes and a couple of weeks ago I was lucky enough to take part in a workshop with John Lockwood.

I had a great time playing with the new Cosmic Shimmer Pixie Powders and the Sue Wilson dies, which are a real favourite with me.

Anyway, this is the card I produced and I love the colours and the look can be changed so easily by changing the sentiment and colour!

A bit of short and sweet from me, but hope you like the card.

Take care, until next time

Ginny xx