It has been a busy time recently! Last weekend I helped my friend Vada move house as well as playing volleyball on Friday night and Sunday afternoon. Sadly we lost both games, but we are still 2nd on the ladder and hopefully will make the finals in a couple of weeks.
I also have been invited to dinners and movies with friends quite a lot. Then it was also tax time again and of course as usual I was creative and before I knew it the evenings and weekends had gone by without a blog post. Anyway here we are.
Even thought I have Vada’s craft stuff stored in my guest bedroom for a couple of months already, it only occurred to me last week, that I could use some of her die cutting tools for my creations. Since we always make sure, we don’t buy the same dies it almost feels like Christmas in July with all the additional goodies. 😉
Recently I have picked up a lot of good ideas on Facebook and Pinterest and tried some of them. One idea was to stamp and emboss with white on vellum. I really like that effect.
This brought me to the next cards. I found a brown patterned paper I had for ages already and I decided to combine it with vellum.
I also found a leaf background in my brown section I had created with spray paint a long time ago and felt like using it. Somehow I thought it needed a flower theme.
As it happens quite often when I search for matching embellishments, it tend to find nice stuff I want to use, but it’s not quite right for the card. So it stays on my desk for the next card. Hence another brown card, but a different shade.
The only problem with this “technique” is, that a lot of the stuff stays on my desk as I might still want to use it and my work space just gets more and more cluttered. Eventually I get so annoyed that I don’t have enough space to create – not even talking about the fact, that I can’t put my dinner plate down – and I finally do a big clean up.
Of course this is only a tiny selection of my recent creations, more is coming soon.
Thanks for stopping by.
Regine
Products used:
Paper: Quill Premium Craft Board in black and beige, white card stock HP Color Laser 200g/m2, white vellum, Basic Grey indian summer, Flourish Country Life Proofsheet, Tim Holz & Ranger Adriondack
Dies: Die-namics Royal Rolled Rose, Spellbinders Nestabilities Devine Eloquence Card Creator S5-218, Sizzix Frame Renaissance 657736, Spellbinders Foliage Two S5-129, Tim Holtz Alterations Tattered Florals 656640, Nellie Snellen Border-1 MFD 019
Stamps: Stamp-It siset083, Birch Leaves, Technique Tuesday Favorite Memories by Ali Edwards, Fiskars All Around Quotes, The Stamps of Life Club Exclusive #5
Embellishments: Brads, Kaisercraft Pearls, ribbon, metal flower, thread, washi tape, metal butterfly, mesh, Kaisercraft Flower
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