Another St Patrick's Day card

Hello,

I think I caught Irish fever, I've got another St Patrick's Day card for you today.

Materials used:

• Black card base, white card and silver glitter paper
• Distress ink in mowed lawn
• 'Drink me' embossing folder (Couture Creations)
• Green pigment ink and versamark ink
• Clear and silver embossing powder (Ranger)
• Heart (Rosie's Studio), candle (Couture Creations) and 'celebrate' (Rosie's Studio) sentiment stamps
• Inverted corner frame nesting dies (Couture Creations)
• Sequins, gems and pearls

I inked the background piece with the mowed lawn masking off stripes with tape.  I then embossed it and trimmed it down.

To stamp the shamrock, I used the heart stamp three times and masked off half the candle and stamped it to make the stem.  I embossed it with clear embossing powder.  Underneath the shamrock I stamped and embossed the sentiment with silver embossing powder.  I die cut this piece using the inverted corner die and also a piece of the silver glitter paper with the next size up.

I adhered the background piece to the card base and the sentiment to the glitter paper using foam tape.  I added a few sequins, pearls and gems to finish off the card.

That's it for today!

Till next time

Stacey

St Patrick's Day card

Hello!

I'm back, my computer is mostly fixed now.  Today I have a St Patrick's Day card for you.  I recently got a new die from Couture Creations called 'Fancy Frame' and I thought it would look striking die cut from glitter paper over black card.  How true that turned out to be!

Materials used:

• Fancy Frame die (Couture Creations)
• Circle nesting dies (Couture Creations)
• Black card, gold dot paper, and green glitter paper
• 'Best Wishes' stamp (Rosie's Studio)
• Versamark ink
• Gold embossing powder (Ranger)
• Green and gold sequins, and a shamrock embellishment

The card base is 13cm x 13cm which is slightly bigger than the fancy frame die cut.  I adhered the die cut with multi medium in matte.

I cut a circle from black card and the next size up circle from the gold paper.  I stamped and embossed the sentiment on to the black circle then adhered it to the gold circle with foam tape.

After adhering the sentiment to the card I added the shamrock and sequins to finish the card.

Truthfully, the die cut does all the work for this card.

Till next time,

Stacey

Thinking of you bunny

Hello

Sorry this post is a day late, yesterday I was busy at the Armageddon expo.  Today's card I made for a friend who is currently in hospital recovering from surgery.

Materials used:

• White card, patterned paper
• Bunny stamp and 'thinking of you' sentiment stamp
• Brown pigment ink
• Black ink
• Clear embossing powder
• String
• Sequins
• Black gel pen
• Distress inks
• Heart shaped brad
• Corner rounding punch

I began by stamping and embossing the bunny image.  I then used the distress inks to water colour the piece.  I trimmed it down, punched a hole in the top, and rounded the corners.  I added the string through the hole.  The dash lines were added with the black gel pen.

The sentiment was stamped in black onto an additional white strip of card and the ends were trimmed into a banner.  The patterned paper was cut to leave a small border and adhered on to the card base.  Both the bunny image and sentiment were added with dimensional foam tape.  For a final touch I added a few sequins and the heart brad to the bunny as his nose.

That's it for this week, not sure there will be a post next week as my computer needs repairs.

Stacey