Stamps Ahead

I have busy preparing for classes I lead at a local community group.  Here are the 2 cards I designed for this week that all use dies. The dies used here - Kaszazz Hexagon Nesting Stitch and Sizzix Wildflower Stems #1. This card uses the Kaszazz Sea Horse die.   The background and sea horse are made of Ranger Distress Oxides blended in, then spritzed with water that has Perfect Pearls powder (available from Kaszazz) added to it to give additional shine. Thank you for looking, Margaret

Here is a card I have made for a friend who celebrated her 70th birthday this past week. I used Distress Inks (in my friends favourite colours) to create the background and a spritz of water with Pearl powder in to give it a sheen - unfortunately this does not show up just how shimmery it was in the photo.I then die cut flowers and 70 and attached to card along with the Happy Birthday greeting.  Lastly I added some sparkly rhinestones. Thank you for looking,  Margaret

If you are a regular reader of my blog you will have noticed that I made two 90th birthday cards recently using the die set - Tim Holtz Wildflowers 1.   Here is another card I have made today: When I was making the earlier cards I had in mind that I would love to make a card that the ladies in my community card class would love - I have had to hold off on that idea due to coronavirus pandemic. But wait, the good news after the current New South Wales school holidays we will be resuming....albeit in a format that adheres to current guidelines and restrictions. As a result, I will be doing all stamping, die cutting, misting etc and making up a pack for each person to make in class, with photo and simple instructions to complete if appropriate.   For this card they will need to do watercolouring - lucky for me I have numerous media to use for watercolouring so that there will be no need to share.    I love the simplicity of this card with it's 'with love' die cut. ...

Continuing on from my last post I have made a card for my aunt for her 90th in July. But, something else happened that made me happy. First here is her card As I watercolouring this card I looked at the paper I was working on and loved the marks that my painting made.  Into my art journal it went, after a spray of the green glimmer mist I used on the card.   I had a few flowers left over, and as I was in 'art journal mode' added them to a previous page I had used whilst using my gel plate. Again a spray of green glimmer mist. I also used the negative of the die and using paint added the spray flowers.  Some Kaszazz sticker words added also. Here are the 2 side by side in my art journal.   I love these happy surprises and I hope you do also. Thank you for looking, Margaret Crafting in the time of coronavirus.

My neighbor (herself aged 94) asked me to make a card for a friend of hers who is turning 90 in July.  Here is the card I made: I recently purchased the Tim Holtz Sizzix Die set called Wildflower Stems #1 and decided to go with this set.  I also used a very old Stampin' Up! set called Number of Years and its corresponding die Large Numbers. My inspiration came from Ranger and a card by Bobbi Smith. I have used different supplies.  I watercoloured the flowers.  Thank you for the inspiration, I have left a comment on the blogpost.  Thank you for looking, Margaret Crafting in the time of coronavirus.