Embossed vellum

Another one for the men!  I first saw this technique demonstrated at a team training day by Jane Cutting and knew I had to share it with my card club ladies.  The ship is stamped onto vellum cardstock and then "coloured in" on the reverse side using an embossing tool. Easy peasy! but oh so effective.  

Inspiring Inkee Blog Hop

Woohoo!  This is new territory for me!  My very first blog hop!!

Welcome, if you are new to my blog, lovely to meet you and it would be great if you like what you see here and become a regular visitor.
You should have arrived here from Elaine's blog, isn't her work gorgeous?! I adore her creations, I just wish I could emulate some of them.  Elaine is going to be my room mate at the Stampin Up convention in November maybe some of her inspiration will rub off on me.

Anyway, enough of my rambling, I have a couple of cards to share with you.  I am definitely beginning to get into the Christmas mood, I have been playing with a new stamp set form the Autumn and Winter seasonal catalogue called Snowflake Soiree.

I stamped the snowflake with Staz-on ink onto vellum cardstock and then took  the tool that comes with the score board and embossed parts of the design from the back.  It really enhances the snowflake and makes it look really frosty.  The flower punch is perfect for cutting it out then I attached it to the card with a brad in the centre. 
This photo has distorted the colour slightly but the card base is Night of Navy, I stamped randomly over the background with the "Merry" stamp and then just once with Whisper White Kraft ink.

I have another for you! 

I have been wanting to try this technique for a while, layering up three pieces of card and then stamping across them.  It looks so much more complicated than it is and I really don't do difficult; life is too short.
The stamp is another snowflake from Snowflake Soiree, stamped in Night of Navy ink as is the Noel greeting. I added a touch of sparkle using another new product to Stampin Up, Dazzling Details glitter.  It shows up better if you click on the photo.

I hope you're enjoying the blog hop, next stop is Hayley but just in case you get lost along the way here is the whole list. 

Have a great day, hope to see you again soon 


1. Amanda www.inspiringinkin.com
2. Elaine http://blog.stampwithelaine.com/
3. Kazza www.kazzasworld.blogspot.com
4. Hayley http://hayleygg.blogspot.co.uk/
5. Jane www.haveagostampin.blogspot.com
6. Elizabeth www.elizabethscraftroom.blogspot.com
7. Lynne http://scrapcomber.blogspot.co.uk/
8. Sarah http://www.sarahscardsandcupcakes.blogspot.co.uk/
9. Elizabeth B http://www.stampingwithelizabeth.blogspot.co.uk/

Cup Cake

How cute are these two greedy mice mates?!!   I stamped the image in Staz on ink so I could use my favourite watercolours again! Just a simple dotty background paper from Stampin up's paper stack and a touch of ribbon to complete.

Mouse Mail

 What a miserable day outside today!  Rain, rain and then for good measure some more rain! So, a very good excuse for playing with some crafting goodies.  This card makes use of a very cute mouse image; it was stamped in Staz-on ink and watercoloured with my Stampin Up crayons.  The backing paper is from Stampin Up too, a spotty Marina Mist colour from the designer stack papers.  It is all mounted onto So Saffron card, a touch of whisper white satin ribbon and a greeting from the All Oval stamp set punched with the oval scallop.  I've been quite busy today but I'll share more results tomorrow.

More Razzleberry!

 

Don't look now but this is my fifth entry this week!!  I had a delivery from Stampin Up this morning and even though I was as excited to open it as always I also had to check it very carefully as the box had been so badly damaged in transit and was very water damaged.  The delivery man was most apologetic and made sure I had all the information I need in case the contents were damaged.  Thankfully only one pack of card was  spoiled and will have to be sent back for replacement.

Todays card has Rich Razzleberry as it's base once again, I so love this colour. The stamped image is from one of the hostess sets, Punch Potpourri, stamped in black staz-on ink and then watercoloured with razzleberry ink.  The greeting is from one of the Sale-a-bration sets "So Happy For You", I used the scalloped oval punch and 3d mounted it.. The final accent is a ribbon bow in Whisper White.

A change of colour scheme tomorrow I think!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!
3rd January and I've made it to Blogland :)  That's my resolution this year, to make it here much more often than I have managed in recent months.
I'm back to school tomorrow but the holidays have given me a few opportunities to catch up with myself.  So much so in fact that I found time to have a play with some stamps and watercolours today.  The stamps are from the "Lovely as a Tree" set from Stampin Up.  I stamped the images with a staz on ink pad and then coloured them using watercolour crayons and a waterbrush.  I played about a bit with trying to make the different seasons.  Here's the results:

Wishy washy ?

I'm still not sure about this one. It's the same House Mouse image that I used the other day but in pale pink tones this time and I'm not sure that it isn't a little too pale. I matted it with silver mirri, as is my wont, onto a background paper of pale pink candy stripe.

Full to bursting!

Another new House Mouse stamp that I bought at the Farnborough Make It show last weekend. Sooooo cute! Stamped with staz-on ink and watercoloured then matted onto some coordinating blue paper and silver mirri card. Mmm might have to go do another :O)

Mouse afloat!

Here's the first one! Housemouse afloat in his nutshell awww. Stamped in timber brown stazon and watercoloured, matted onto a coordinating paper which has a print of tiny green leaves, but you can't see them very well in this photo. An edging of mirri card for accent and a ribbon sash to finish.

Ready to go

These are two of the stamps I bought at the Make It show at Farnborough this weekend. I just adore Housemouse he is sooo cute. I stamped him with timber brown staz-on and watercoloured the images so they are all ready for mounting on cards during the week :O)

A lilac promise of summer

I definitely had a lilac moment with this one didn't I!! The image is from Stampin Up and is such a beautiful promise of summer to come, I stamped it with a Staz on pad and watercoloured the image. I backed the card with a lilac paper from that winnie the pooh kit but the image needed something more. I found a piece of handmade paper and feathered the edges by wetting and tearing.

Blue Goose

Remeber that Goose image from a couple of weeks ago ? I used her again today, she reminds me of that range of kitchenware so I used a blue gingham backing paper which also reminds me of that range. The image was stamped with Staz-on and watercoloured as before. Then I backed it with mirri card and an accent of plain clue card. A ribbon sash down the spine to complete.

Cake!

looks yummy doesn't it! I stamped the cupcake with a staz on pad and watercoloured it. I then mounted the image onto mirri card and added three peel off greetings, why I did that I shall never know! it's hard enough to line one up straight let alone three!!!

Mouse Mail

Another "nearly" monochrome offering.

Monochrome Moggy

Well, ALMOST monchrome. The backing paper has a touch of pink which I echoed in my colouring of the image.

Goosed!

A miserable grey afternoon and I needed some brightening up. This paper was just perfect for the job that fresh colour just reminds me that spring is on the way. I watercoloured the stamped image as is my want of late and mounted it onto gold card. I also decoupaged some matching flowers onto the background paper just to give the finished card some more dimension and added just a touch of sparkle.

My Hot Foil Pen!!

Some more cards using images you've seen before, they are my favourites at the moment.
However, on the top two cards I made use of my recent purchase from the Hobbycrafts show at the NEC in November, I used my Hot Foil Pen! It will take a little practise to be perfect but I can't believe how easy it is to use. You can trace any image or message onto your project in foil! I'm lovin' it!

Camper Vans

What a cool stamp huh ? A gorgeous image of a VW camper van from Lil Claire designs once more. Also, as before stamped with Staz on and watercoloured, mounted on silver mirri cardand mounted on a coordinating background.

Fairy Cute!

Here we are! The first card from my pre prepared images. I mounted my fairies onto some silver mirri card and then onto some pretty flowery paper. Simple and neat :O)

Preparation day

Not much time today so I thought I'd get ahead and get sme images ready for cards. These are all new stamps so I had been looking forward to trying them out. The camper van and the cat in car are both stamps from Lil Claire designs, I have quite a few from them now, just need to get round to using them.
All the images were stamped with a staz-on inkpad onto white card and then I used my watercolours from Stampin up and a waterbrush to colour the images.