14 March General Cards

 

Purple flower

Stamp flower twice with dusty concord ink, one on small white card one on large white. Cut out the one on small card. Place mask over the one on large card and stencil pattern with pumice stone ink. Stamp sentiment in green ink. Colour edges of cut out flower with aubergine promarker. Edges shaded lilac ink.  Put 3D foam pads under flower.

Tools

Cut tops off the yellow tools and stick onto grey base tools. Add hickory smoke ink to embossed background. Edges fossilized amber ink. Put hammer and screwdriver half in tool box.

Bike

Apply speckled egg ink lightly to background. Apply individual letters to die cut circles.

Chocolates

Save the single large chocolate to make stopper. Cut out chocolates add a bit of extra colour around edges and top if desired. Put 3D foam pads under chocs.

28 February General Cards

 

Computer

Apply diluted yellow brusho onto gel plate then put smooth white card on the top of the gel plate. Remove the card and apply splats of yellow powder with a brush. With grey oxide ink and stencil apply grey pattern to card. With morning mist ink stamp paper clips randomly. Stamp text onto computer screen with black ink. Edges of computer screen green ink. Stamp and emboss sentiment with Olive vine embossing powder. 3D foam pads under computer and black peel off corners.

Daffodil trio

Cut out tulip ad daffodil flower heads, colour with tulip yellow or canary yellow and on daffodil orange to trumpet end. Edges bundled sage green ink. Foam pads under flower heads. Stick and trim decorative borders to top of card and peel off corners to bottom of card.

Pink tulips

Leaves apple cider. Tulips trick or treat pink, plum preserve and orchid. Edges and stencil pattern with bundled sage ink. Foam pads under sentiment.

Guitar

Cut out the guitar and add white pen dots. Mask off an oval and add speckled ink to oval. Stamp the music with black ink. Stamp small dots with crackling campfire ink then heat set. Edges speckled egg blue. Sakura pen to dots. Foam pads under guitar.

Christmas cards 13 December

 

Baubles

Stamp with gold embossing powder 2 large green and 1 small red baubles then cut out. Colour holly leaves with holly green, small leaves apple cider. Berries and decoration berry red. Foam pads under baubles add peel off for hangers and stick bows.

Wise men

Crowns sunflower yellow, gifts olive green Beards and hair and shoe firewood or umber brown. Faces and hands satin (cream). Middle king pear green and heatwave (orange). King on right Prussian blue and sunflower. King to left marine and sleigh bell yellow.

Poinsettia

Put alternate strips left to right using 1” pencil marks as a guide. The top strips are left to right matching green to green and red to red. Peel off dots to centre of poinsettia.

Snowy cottage

Mask off a circle and add speckled egg ink around the edges. Mask off across the cirle and add more ink to mark the ground. Remove mask and stamp border with black ink. Red glaze pen to berries. Cabin colour firewood or umber brown, windows sunflower, door berry red. Add dots with quickie glue pen to add glitter. Frosted lace stickles to roof and snow.

Christmas cards 29 November

 

Snowflakes

Stamp snowflakes onto small blue piece of card with frosty dawn. Stamp the sentiment with blue embossing powder or use a peel off. You will need to trim the silver banner.

Christmas Tree iris folding

The paper strips are a variety of sizes as the segments vary in width the small rectangle is for the middle.

Merry Christmas Wreath

Poinsettia berry red and marsh green, centre is sunflower yellow. spikey greenery is marsh green. Mistletoe apple cider green. Holly leaves holly green and berry red. Rosehips burnt sienna brown. Fir cone firewood or umber. Bundled sage ink to edges of embossed layer.

O little town of Bethlehem

Dark green is winter spruce and marsh green, beige areas are grey squirrel, light pink is red sweater. Dark red roof red sweater and firewood or umber. Dotted areas pastel beige or sandstone. Bluish building is twilight sky and firewood or umber roof. Lilac building is greyish lavender (copic pen). Palm tree is sandstone and marsh green. Sakura pen to black dots.

13 September

 

Red flowers in a frame

Leaves apple green, red flowers are berry red, blue flowers pastel or powder blue. Sunflower yellow. Foam pads under picture.

Lighthouse

Shells very little vintage photo oxide ink. Lighthouse berry red and sunflower yellow windows, ice grey 2, door and railings. Foam pads under lighthouse centre. Background watch geli plate demo.

Dress

Skirt and neckline shapes capri blue, large petals and dots at the bottom wild cranberry pink. Stand almond (cream). Yellow decoration canary. Stardust stickles to dress, dots use Sakura pen. Edges wild cranberry pen. Background faded jeans ink through stencil. Black gem to silver flower.

 Sparkle flowers (square card)

Background is various stencils and very light faded jeans ink. Stamp flowers then colour with bright orange and canary yellow then add stardust stickles.

12 July General Crads

 

Red flowers and tags

Stencil both background white sheets with speckled egg ink. Flowers berry red and marsh green, edges reef blue, stardust stickles to centres. Leave an opening for tags, don’t stick all the way round.

Iris folding Cat

Use plain brown paper for tail, head and paws. You have different widths of coloured paper as the segments vary in width. When you get towards the middle keep layering paper. Edges pale brown or antique linen ink. Draw in whiskers and nose with pencil. The eyes are the number 8 peel off centres.

Knitting

Wool marine blue, china blue and sunflower yellow. Needles ice grey 2. Table tea green. Leaves and bushes marsh green. Wall and gate grey squirrel. Grass pressed leaf green. Vase almond (cream), basket winter spruce green, teacup pebble blue and edges sleigh bell yellow. Biscuit sandstone (beige).Sakura pen to flower and biscuit centres. Edges faded jeans ink.

Butterfly and flowers

Leaves marsh green, bottom flowers PP5 pink, middle flower 499 pink, top flower dark pink copic pen. Butterfly body and lower wings pattern plum preserve, inner wings lilac. Crescent shapes pale grape copic pen, outer edges of top wings maroon. Sakura clear pen to decorate butterfly. Edges lilac.

14 June General cards

 

Car

Windows and centre of wheels ice grey 2, tyres and bumpers cool grey 4, front lights tulip yellow, car royal blue. Sakura pen to lights and bumpers. Edges faded jeans ink. Foam pads under sentiment.

Book easel anniversary

Make sure to stick ribbon before sticking layers together. Red wine is red sweater, bottle label and top tea green. Little peel off dots for bubbles. Gems to flowers. Foam pads under sentiment to make card stopper.

Orange Lilly

Leaves apple green. Stamen burnt orange, flower and edges 528. Add extra layers of colour as shading. Circles egg nog yellow. Stencil leaves with bundled sage oxide ink.

Vase Lili of the valley

Stamp borders with black ink top and bottom with stamp platform. With gold embossing powder decorate vase, mask off the vase base first. Stick white flower heads on to green stems. Don’t stick the top of the vase as you need to put flower stems inside.