Beautiful Blooms

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. The winter chill has really settled in, but I am thinking ahead to Spring and all the lovely flowers. Here is a card I made with one of Our Daily Bread stamps. I always need birthday cards so this was a great stamp for that.

I made the flowers using coffee filters, Tim Holtz's Tattered Flowers die and Distress Stains.  

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great day!

Challenges entered:

Frilly & Funkie:  Winter Blooms

Our Daily Bread:  Sketch

Autumn's Loveliest Smile and Technique

Hi Everyone! Thank you so much for dropping by today. I want to show you an Autumn card I made using the "no iron batik" technique.  I have been in a Fall mode lately. I love the colors, smells and crisp air of Fall. This technique is perfect for those leaves stamps you might have for Fall. I used the Sparkle N Sprinkle Swirly Oak and Swirly Maple leaf in stamp set 410.

Supplies needed:

1. white coffee filter
2. Versa Mark ink
3. clear embossing powder --  I used Velvet Sparkle EP437
4. Distress Stains
5. Swirly Oak and Swirly Maple Leaf stamps
6. heat tool

First randomly stamp the leaves onto the coffee filter using Versa mark ink. It will be hard to see where you stamped. It helps to turn the coffee filter as you stamp to get a better even coverage.

Next sprinkle on the embossing powder and heat it with the heat tool.

The reaction of the embossing on the coffee filter makes the images look waxy so there is no need to iron off the powder. Now start pouncing different colors of stains over the coffee filter starting with the lightest to the darkest.

I hope you enjoy making some Fall cards using this technique. Have a wonderful day!

April

Technique Tuesday -- Frilly Flowers

Hi All! It is time again for Technique Tuesday at Sparkle N Sprinkle!  When I saw these flowers I had to know how to make them. They look so real! I hope you will enjoy learning to make these as much as I did.

Supplies needed:

1. white coffee filters
2. Distress stains
3. brads
4. flower dies
5. heat tool

Use about 8 coffee filters and open them up flat. Use a flower die to cut out flowers from the filters. Eight layers went through my cuttlebug just fine. Use different sizes of flower dies using eight layers for each size. Poke a brad in the middle to hold the flower together.

Take the color of stain you want and start pouncing it onto the flower. The stain soaks through  all the layers pretty well. You can turn the flower over on the back side and pounce on some more stain to cover the layers better.  I also took a darker purple and pounced the edges of the flower.  I spritzed the flower some with water to blend the colors.

You can let the flower air dry or step up the drying time by heating it with your heat tool.

Now comes the patience part! LOL! Take each layer and pull it up to the middle of the flower and scrunch it tight. Keep doing this until all layers are scrunched.

I just love how frilly the flower is! As you can see I used 2 different sizes of flowers on my card.  Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

April

Sparkle N Sprinkle supplies used:

1. Goldenrod velvet glitter GM2006
2. Fancy Butterflies 437
3. French Writing 1222-178G

Flower Girl

Hi Everyone! Thanks for stopping by today. I am really looking forward to Spring and it's right around the corner! It seems that winter came late for us, so we are having cold weather when we should be warmer! Here is a card I made recently using the Sparkle N Sprinkle stamp, Catherine 0900-164M. I made flowers that I cut with a die from a coffee filter. I stamped the coffee filter all over with Versa Mark ink and added Candlelight, Cerulean Star and Antiquities embossing powders also from Sparkle N Sprinkle. When you heat set the embossing powders the coffee filter looks waxy and shimmery. You can see the instructions for this technique here. I am looking forward to a warmer weekend as they are forecasting! I hope you have a good one!