Birthday Tulip

Birthday season has begun in our household and as such I shall be busy making birthday related things for the next three months or so! This tag is no exception!

I started by adding a little tape to the very edges of my tag - this is so that it will minimise paint bleed on the other side where I'll write my greeting and also it gives a lovely clean edge to the front tag. Then, using a brayer, I added Inky Pool paint. You would normally start dark to light in your paints and whilst Inky Pool is a translucent paint (which means when it's put over the top of other paints it doesn't obscure them) I wanted some of the colour to peep through. Then I added Lake Wanaka and finally Antarctic.

With a little Cut and Dry foam I covered a leaf shape, using the different paints to create shading.

I did the same again with the flower shape.

I must confess that I was so engrossed in making my tag I forgot to photograph the next couple of stages! I stamped the face onto tissue paper and painted the reverse and then adhered it to the flower shape. Then I die cut two swirls from cream card and the 'grass' which I had added the remainder of left over green paint to before I die cut it. I then added Gathered Twigs Distress Ink to the tag and the swirls.

The final touches were to add a script stamp using Gathered Twigs Distress Ink, some rings in Inky Pool paint and some lines in Vintage Lace. When it was al adhered together I added a label and that was that! Thank you, as always, for popping by!

Gabrielle x

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Celebrate

Hello everyone, it's Brenda here with a quick wedding card for you today. You know when you need a card really quickly and have nothing in your box that would do? Well this is one of those.

The photo is one of the Tim Holtz found relatives and I cut it down and rounded the corners so it would fit nicely on this 5 x 7 kraft card. 

The rose ephemera piece is also one of Tim's (well actually all of it is really!!).
The flowers ......

.... the sentiment and the backing paper  .....

.... and the trellis border ......

Don't you think the photo and the ephemera piece gives it a lovely vintage feel?

See the product list below and click on the ones you want to know more about - you will be transported to the CVC shop to see further details.

Thanks for stopping by.

hugs Brenda xxx

Tim Holtz - Thinlits - Celebrate Tim Holtz Idea-ology - Found relatives, Occasions Tim Holtz Paper Stash - French Industrial Tim Holtz Idea-Ology - Thrift Shop Ephemera Pack Tim Holtz Frameworks die - Trellis Sizzlits strip die - Tattered garland

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Together Anniversary Card

Nikki here, from Addicted to Art, to share my first project for April. It is my sister’s wedding anniversary in a couple of days so I made this card for them.

I must apologise for the lack of step by step photos. I made this at a crafting retreat a couple of weeks ago. I was very organised and charged the battery in my camera the night before I left and then failed to take the charged charger with me.  In my frustration I didn’t think to use my phone camera!

The striped base layer is card from one of Tim Holtz paper stacks. The little border is die cut using the Decorative Strip sizzlit – Vintage Lace.

For the embossed layer I painted some embossed card stock with gesso. Once dry I marbled various distress paints – tea dye, antique linen and vintage photo. A bit of water was also spritzed and my heat tool used to dry it. I then sanded the surface to reveal the embossing.

The butterfly was done in a similar way but once sanded I added some salty ocean distress paint with my finger over the raised areas and around the edge. The butterfly was cut and embossed using the Butterfly Duo Bigz die and texture fade.

‘Together’ was cut from the Sizzix thinlits set – Handwritten Love. I don’t have these but borrowed them at my craft weekend. They are great – I have since purchased the ‘Celebrate’ set! Once cut I dabbed on some vintage photo DP and once dry added some salty ocean.

I added a button and some twine to my butterfly and put my card together. I hope my sister likes it!

Thanks for visiting today.

Nikki

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