Marianne's cards 'n stuff

Holiday shaker

I'm back one last time today, with another Christmas shaker card.

I created my front panel by adhering strips of double sided tape in 2 widths and sprinkling them with Pentart gilding flakes. I first peeled of some of the liners and used gilding flakes that had a mixtue of gold, copper and silver. After burnishing my flakes, I removed the liners of the remaining strips and added another mixture of gilding flakes, containing gold and copper, including a little green.tinted flakes. I die cut a circle out of my panel (Essentials: Carly cutaways, Winnie & Walter). I adhered a sheet of heat resistent acetate (Crafter's Companion) behind the aperture after heat embossing my sentiment (Happiest of Holidays with Evelin T Designs, Winnie & Walter) in gold embossing powder (Papermania). For my background I heat embossed a the tiny stars/snowflakes from the Season'g Tweetings set (Winnie & Walter) in sliver pearl embossing powder (Ranger) and then blended some distress inks (tumbled glass and peacock feathers, Ranger) using a Clarity brush. I used a mixture of silver sequins in various sizes (Darice) and gold sequins (a bargain at a recent Animal Welfare sale).

Challenges:

W&W 3rd Birthday Bash - Sequin challenge with Kate

W&W 3rd Birthday Bash - Ink blending challenge with Vanessa

Merry Monday - #237 Shimmer and Sparkle

HLS March Christmas challenge - Anything goes (optional: star)

Sparkles Christmas - #74 Use silver or gold

Hugs from across the miles

Hello! I'm back with another spring inspired card.

I started by scribbling some colours onto the textured side of my watercolour panel (Crafter's Companion) using my Zig markers and then blended the colour out with a waterbrush. Since my brush strokes were not yet wide enough for the die that I wanted to use (a small border die from Essentials: Noelle cutaways by Winnie & Walter), I sprayed my panel with a mister causing the colours to move out and blend some more. After my panel was dry, I die cut the border several times, making sure to leave a wider gap as I moved towards the bottom of my panel. I heat embossed the Hugs sentiment (The Big, the Bold and Friends, Winnie & Walter) in liquid platinum embossing powder (Ranger) an stamped the cluster of hearts and the second part of my sentiment using Clean slate pigment ink (Studio Calico).

I had intended to use slate grey cardstock behind my panel, but after discovering I only had a small strip left, I simply swiped my clean slate ink pad across the middle and edges of my base card (Neenah) and adhered my watercolour panel using plenty of double-sided tape. To add a little more sparkle, I went over the hearts with a Spectrum Noir shimmer brush and added a few clear sequins (Pretty Pink Posh).

Challenges:

W&W 3rd Birthday Bash - Brigh colours challenge with Lydia

CAS Watercolour March - Spring

HLS March Watercolour - Anything goes (optional: smoosh)

Time Out's 3rd Birthday Party - Love/friendship (optional: spotlight stamping)

ATSM - #251 Anything goes

Penny Black and More - March Anything goes

Kathy's 30 Day colouring challenge

Sending smiles

Hello there! For today's card, I used the smooshing technique. After seeing Heather Hoffman's card for Winnie & Walter's 3rd Birthday Bash challenge, where she used the ink smooshing with acetate technique to create bands of colour on her card, I was determined to give this a go as well. My bands did not turn out as subtle as Heather's did, probably because my water colour cardstock wasn't wet enough and I had used more ink on my acetate, but I'm quite happy with how my card is evoking a sense of spring.

Before I did my smooshing (using cracked pistachio, fossilized amber & abandoned coral DIs), I had stamped an arrangement of flowers from In Bloom: Eva's Favorite Flowers (Winnie & Walter) across my panel using Archival jet black ink. After drying my panel with a heat tool, I flicked a little water onto my panel, let it sit on my panel for a few seconds and then dabbed up the remaining water with a paper towel. Next, I die cut my panel using the smaller scalloped rectangle dies from the Essentials: Noelle Cutaways die set (Winnie & Walter). I placed my panel in my Misti together with a sheet of vellum to determine the placement of the two outer flower shapes and stamped them using Archival jet black ink. After stamping my sentiment and the smallest of hearts from the Sending You set (Winnie & Walter), I foam-mounted my panel onto the vellum and then adhered this to my red card base (SSS lipstick red cardstock). To finish off, I added a few clear sequins.

Challenges:

W&W 3rd Birthday Bash - Ink smooshing challenge with Heather H.