Sponged Clouds

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Just a step away from all the excitement of the new Mini Catalogue and Sale-a-bration today - with a card I taught at our January classes.

This cards uses a handy technique to create clouds using three punched scallop circles. We stuck them together using tombow and then sponged over the top using them as a mask to create the clouds.

Having created the clouds, we stamped grasses from Pocket Silhouettes in Wild Wasabi and flowers and butterflies from Cottage Garden. Then we put die cut butterflies, (made using the Beautiful Butterflies embossing folder), over the stamped butterflies (you can see what I mean in this close up....)

Back soon with some more projects from the new Mini Catalogue. :)

Love Elizabeth X

Weathered Wood

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A while ago, we did a clas using the Weathered Wood technique. This card was so much fun to design.
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To achieve this technique, you simply make score marks in the base card. In this case I used Very Vanilla cardstock and scored every half inch. You then swipe inks direct from the ink pad across the paper to build up the wood effect. I used Crumb Cake, Soft Suede and Chocolate Chip.

The greenery growing at the bottom is made with the Pocket Silhouettes stamp set, stamped in Garden Green and the bough at the top is from Hopeful Thoughts.

I stamped the flowers in Pacific Point using the Itty Bitty Buds stamp and punched out with the matching punch.

Let me know if you have a go at this technique - I would love to see what you create!

Pink and Brayered

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As promised, I am back with another brayered sample card - this time in pink!

This time I used the flower from Hopeful Thoughts in Melon Mambo ink, then brayed over again at the lower part to give a soft misty image.

I then stamped over the top with an image from Pocket Silhouettes with White Craft ink. I love the effect. A bit of bling on the bottom left corner finished the project.

Back tomorrow with the final brayered sample...

Emboss Resist Class Card

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This is one of the projects we are making at my June classes. Every month we do 3 projects - and this one is our technique project for this month.
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It is made using two stamp sets - Frames with a Flourish and Pocket Silhouettes.

The technique is achieved by heat embossing the images on to white cardstock and then daubing the blue ink colours over the top.
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The faux brads are made with a 1/4inch circle punch, topped with Crystal Effects, which gives that lovely glossy finish. Because they take a while to dry, I made them all up in advance!

... I also made a Whisper White version - which one do you prefer?