A bit of fun with masks...

....I love playing with masks, such a useful bit of kit to have in your stash and the That Special Touch masks are great.....have to admit I have rather a lot that I've collected over time! So for today's card I've combined my beloved masks with my favourite inks.....distress....for a bright and cheery card that's quick and easy to make.

Started off by blending Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon and Mustard Seed distress ink onto a piece of white card. Then I laid on the That Special Touch Squared Mask and wiped over to remove some of the ink...

Then I took the Floral Lace Mask, laid it over the top and blended on some Pumice Stone distress ink....

Then it was just a case of cutting it out, mounting it up onto a card and adding a sentiment. A quick and fun card.

Donna xx

Die cut or mask?

Morning all! Well when I was playing with my gelli plate again recently I decided to have a go at making a mask using one of my Tim Holtz dies. So I grabbed a bit of acetate packaging that I'd saved, as you do, and ran it through the Big Shot with the umbrella man die (picture was taken after I'd used it!).....

 

Then using various different colours of Distress Paint ( you could use just normal acrylic paint but I fancied trying out the distress paints) on my gelli plate I created this print...

Then I cut some leaves using the Garden Greens and Spring Greenery dies and some flowers using the Bitty Blossoms die, stamped a sentiment  and assembled it all together to make a card.

Definitely going to be using my dies to create masks again.

Donna xx

Into every life.....

.....a little rain must fall. I love this quote stamp by Sheena Douglass and thought it would go perfectly with the Tim Holtz Umbrella Man die.

Started out by cutting myself a tag, didn't have a large enough tag die for what I wanted so hand cut this one. Then using cut 'n' dry I applied Shaded Lilac, Peacock Feathers, Dusty Concord and a little Faded Jeans Distress ink.  Made sure there was a reasonable amount of ink on the tag and then spritzed it well with water. Then I dried it off and sprayed a little Perfect Pearls Mist in turquoise onto my craft sheet and with a bit of sponge, dabbed it randomly over the surface.......gives a lovely mottled and shimmery background.

I stamped the sentiment onto a piece of blue card and then lightly edged it with Black Soot distress ink. I cut the man out of a piece of black card and then simply assembled the tag gluing everything into place. The little leaves that I added at the end I found hanging about in the bottom of my box, sorry but can't remember which die I used! To finish off I added some 'raindrops' using Glossy Accents.

Donna xx

Valentine Heart

Morning all, Donna here with an easy idea for a Valentine gift or maybe something for a wedding or anniversary.

I picked this heart up at work and thought it was the perfect base for adding a floral embellishment using Tim Holtz's new Jumbo Tattered Floral die. I cut four layers of the biggest flower on the die and then to create the centre 4 layers of the same flower but from the original Tattered Floral die, then I coloured them with distress ink using cut 'n' dry foam, I used Spun Sugar and a little Brushed Corduroy just to give it a little vintage feel. I also cut a couple of bits of foliage using the new Garden Greens die which I also coloured with distress ink. Once the petals were coloured I scrunched them up a little and rolled the edges of the petals over the handle of a paintbrush  and then glued them all together.  Then it was simply a case of gluing flower and leaves to the heart along with a little stamped sentiment and finishing with some pretty ribbon to hang it all with.

Donna xx

Only a couple of more sleeps left to go....

.....so are you ready?? Here's a quick and simple Christmas card that I put together using various Spellbinders dies.

First of all I used the Fancy Lattice die to cut the background out of some silver linen card which I then matted onto some layers of white, silver and black card. Then I cut out some snowflakes using a Create a Flake set, these were stuck together and then glittered with some Stickles Ice glitter glue. Then I cut a sentiment panel from black card using Die D-Lites Frame 1 onto which I stamped and embossed Merry Christmas in silver. Then it was simply a matter of glueing it all together......

Well I hope you all have a lovely and peaceful Christmas and that maybe Santa will bring you some new crafty goodies!  See you all again in the New Year :)

Donna xx

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