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

The MISTI Tool

Well I hope everyone is enjoying this amazing weather!  It certainly has warmed up a bit - I'm afraid my horses are not overly impressed with it as their native Iceland is nowhere near as warm as this!

This week I had the opportunity to attend a workshop in Bath with Iliana Myska, the designer of the MISTI tool and founder of My Sweet Petunia.  Just in case you have not met this tool before, MISTI stands for 'The Most Incredible Stamping Tool Invented'!  Well I have to say that I was very impressed with it as it makes stamping so much easier.  If you are making large numbers of cards it is an absolute Godsend ;-)

I always found my stamping could be a bit hit and miss and this allows you to go back and restamp if you need to and you can guarantee it will overstamp perfectly.

We completed a number of cards on the day and used some large background stamps from The Ton and then heat embossed them - in the past this would have given me palpitations but with the MISTI is was a breeze. 

Of course, I had to have one so got to bring one home with me, so you may get to see more stamped cards from me in the future!











Anyway, that's all from me for now but I hope you all have a great Bank Holiday weekend and lets hope the weather continues to shine on us all.

Until next time

Ginny x

Motorcycles!

For this card I have used an old (and retired I think!) Stampin' Up! stamp which is of a motorcycle.  Obviously a mans card and a stamp that is really useful!

I used a white card base and layered up with black and an olive green cardstock, and then hand tore the top layer of white card.  I stamped the motorcycle and heat embossed it in black and then painted elements of the motorcycle with a watercolour pen.  Lastly I used bakers twine to pull the layers together.

Another very simple card and not overly fussy, which for a man is ideal.

I used the following on this card

Black, olive and white cardstock

Stampin' Up! Motorcycle stamp

Black embossing powder

Watercolour pen

Bakers twine

I hope you like this and until next time

Ginny x

Butterflies & Flowers

For todays post I have used a combination of Honey Doo stamps, vellum and a Poppystamps die.

A few weeks ago I have a play with the Honey Doo Little Lillies and Leaves stamp set. I stamped these with Perfect Medium onto clear vellum, and then applied sparkling white embossing powder and heat embossed it.  Once this had cooled I then applied chalk inks to the back of the velum.  I then cut them out by hand and shaped them.

 

I used a variety of pastel colours and they were surprisingly sparkly!

 

I then used the same colour inks to a piece of card which were applied with the Inkylicious ink dusters (my new favourite crafting item!).

 

I then used the Bellina Butterfly Collage die by Poppystamps to cut into white card, which I then layered up with the coloured card, arranged the flowers and finished off with just a few pearls. This was then matted and layered up to finish it off.

 

I have to say I was really chuffed with the final result, what do you think?

 

 

You can really see the sparkle in this card ;-)

 

The recipe for this card is as follows:

 

Foundations cardstock: coconut white and pink

Clear vellum

Honey Doo Little Lillies and Leaves stamp set

Bellina Butterfly Collage die by Poppystamps

Sparkly white embossing powder

Brilliance ink pads in pastels

Inkylicious ink dusters

Pearls from my stash

Sue Wilson Pierced Squares

Perfect Medium

 

I hope you enjoy this card and would love to hear your comments.

 

Until next time

 

Ginny x