* AALL & Create: Hare

 Hello

Today I am sharing a GDT project for AALL & Create.

I made a large card featuring the beautiful Hare designed by Tracy Evans and he's jumping through a wreath of gorgeous vellum flowers all designed by Bipasha.

The hare was stamped with Versafine Clair Morning Mist and fussy cut. He's popped on foam and adhered so that he looks as if he is jumping through the circle.

The background was stamped with a stencil that had been covered in Distress Oxides and spritzed with water.

A circle of vellum was die cut along with a black circle border. This was adhered to the centre of the background. The hare was popped on foam tape for some dimension. The lovely heat embossed, vellum flowers were arranged around it.

I added white and gold paint splatters along with some random numbers and part of a die cut.

Step by Step 

1. The background is made from stamping oxides with Stencil #96 Dandelion Field. 

2. I stamped some flowers and foliage from stamp sets ##269 Flourish and #324 Blooming Beauty) using Versamark and white embossing powders on vellum. These were fussy cut.

3. The hare (#369) was stamped in grey ink and fussy cut.

4. The vellum and black circle outline were adhered to the background. The hare was popped on foam tape. The flowers were arranged around the circle. Paint splatters were applied.

5. I made some embellishments: # 14 Cells die was cut in black card and cut into sections. Stamp #350 Splattered Numbers was heat embossed in white onto black card and some numbers cut out. The die cut and numbers were adhered.

AALL & Create Products Used:

#269 Flourish

#324 Blooming Beauty

#350 Splattered Numbers

#369 Hare

Stencil: #96 Dandelion Field

Die: #14 Cells

To see the stamps, stencils, dies and washi tapes used, please visit

AALL & Create Boutique. 

A list of stockists can be found here.

You'll find lots of inspiration on the 

AALL & Create Facebook Page, the AALL & Create Fanatics Facebook Page and on Instagram

This is me and Casey - a personalised digital stamp from Janet Klein. 

Order yours here.

That's all for now.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

Creative Artiste #73 AG MM 25/07 TOP 3

* A Perfect Time to Craft July 27/07

* Classic Design Challenge July 27/07

* River of Creativity #3 No Hearts./Mushy Stuff 31/07

* Crafters Castle July AG 31.07

* Addicted to Stamps #410 Die Cuts & Stencils 03/08

* Pennys Challenges #501 AG 04/08

* CRAFT Challenge #607 Summer 06/08

Crafts Galore Encore: Stained Glass Card

Hello Crafty Friends!

It's June already - just where did May go?
I'm hoping we get some warmth and sunshine this month.

A new month, of course, sees the start of a new challenge at 
Crafts Galore Encore. 

Last month we had so many beautiful projects and we would love you to come and join in the fun!

As always, the theme is Anything Goes 

Our sponsors this time are the wonderful Sparkle 'n Sprinkle



  
I was lucky to receive a digital stamp called Stain Glass Rounds to work with. 

Here is my project:




I made a card and a tea light holder (only suitable for the battery operated ones!).

I decided to print the images onto vellum and colour with alcohol markers. I love the way the ink took on a watercolour look! 

For the card, the image was adhered to a die cut aperture I made in the card, so that it replicated a stained glass window. I added an acetate butterfly and some pretty blossom trim.





For the tea light holder, I made a box with a base from card and again cut small circular apertures for the vellum to be taped behind. Another acetate butterfly was added and the trim flowers adhered separately this time. 

I hope you'll pop to over to Crafts Galore Encore to see the DT's wonderful designs. 
We'd love to see your creations. 
Remember the challenge is always 'Anything Goes' and so you can create any type of project - it doesn't have to be a card.

Thanks for stopping by today!
xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

* Crafting From The Heart #161 AG 04/06
* Artistic Inspirations #180 AG 10/06
A Snowflakes Promise #40 AG 11/06
* A Bit More Time To Craft #45 AG 14/06
* Southern Girls Challenge #161 AG 15/06
* Simply Papercrafts #47 AG 30/06 
* Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge June AG 30/06
* Crafty Girls Creations #37 AG 30/06

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Nesting Time

Hello

I made this card inspired by the challenge at Pinspirational Challenges.

Here is the Challenge's Pinterest photo:

I kept my colour scheme the same, using Tim Holtz Vintage Photo and Crushed Olive distress inks and a blending tool to create a backdrop for my collage. This was matted onto gold card.

The birds are beautiful images from a set of four postcards called Sweet Songbirds at Ephemera's Vintage Garden. I fussy cut around the birds, inked the edges and mounted them on foam pads to give dimension.

Cream cotton lace was placed along the bottom of the mat and from there a cluster of inked, die cut, vellum leaves, natural fibres and brown pearl stamen were attached. I also found some dried seed pods and glued these onto the leaves.

A small glitter tag was inked and added to the foliage cluster.

A tiny gold coloured butterfly charm was added to the lace.

I decided to punch the edge of the kraft card using a flower border punch. I used green patterned design paper, called Wildflower, as a background, inked the edges in Vintage Photo and mounted the matted image on foam pads. 

The patterned paper was also used to line the inside of the card, so that it showed through the border punched pattern.

   

The banners on the inside were die cut using the smallest Pierced Banner from Cheery Lynn.

xoxo

I'd like to enter this for these challenges:

Pinspirational Challenges #167



Tic Tac Toe Challenge #12
I used Birds, Tag, Metal (charm)

 

Crafty Creations Challenges #317 Tic Tac Toe
I used: Leaves, image & pearls (stamen)


Through The Craftroom Door - June 14 - 20th - Anything Goes


Deep Ocean Challenge #131 - Metal or Wood
(I used a metal butterfly charm)


Crafting With Friends Challenge 23 - Anything Goes


Great Impressions June Challenge - Anything Goes


Inspiration Destination Challenge #90 Anything Goes

ATC: Birthday Girl

The theme this week #206 at Wicked Wednesday is Birthday Girl.

I made this very pink ATC.

The background is a Heartfelt Creations stamp  called Vintage Morning Background. This is one of those stamps that has a matching die set, however I like the look of the stamped image with the speckled background. It was stamped in Memento Rose Bud.  The edges of the card were inked, and a little ink was blended onto the card.

The image is from a set called Bentley Bear Thank You Collection which was a free gift with  Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine - I don't know which issue, as I bought this at a bargain price from Ebay! Bentley was stamped on to a snippet of white card, coloured with Spectrum Noir markers, then cut out leaving a thin white border. I decided to colour the border in very pale grey so that it blended with the background a little better. Bentley was attached to the ATC on foam pads.

The rose banner at the bottom was dry embossed using another free gift - a folder from May's Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine Issue # 156. The embossed card was then inked with Rose bud, cut out and attached on foam pads.

The sentiment is from a Little Claire Designs set called Lovely Bunny.  It was stamped on to a tiny piece of spotty sparkly vellum and cut into a tag shape. It was attached with an embossed rosebud on a foam pad.

The roses and the bunch of flowers were dotted with a quickie glue pen and holographic glitter was applied.

I'd like to enter these challenges:

Wicked Wednesday  #206 Birthday Girl


Pixies Crafty Workshop Weel #226


Cardz4Galz #20 Use an Embossing Folder


Inspiration Destination #82 Anything Goes

xoxo

Carole 

Heartfelt Flowers

This is the card I made for the Simon Says Stamp 'Work it Wednesday' challenge, where the theme is FLORAL.

 

The background is white embossed card stock. I used the Damask Background embossing folder from XCut.  The embossed card was attached on foam pads to add dimension.

The flowers are from the Heartfelt Creations range of stamps and dies. The stamp is called Vintage Morning and it pairs with the Majestic Blooms die set. The blooms were stamped and heat embossed on vellum using holographic embossing powder. Once die cut, the back of each flower was coloured using Inka Gold wax in Rose Quartz. Flat back pearls were used for the flower centres. 

The leaves were also cut from vellum using the Spellbinders Foliage die set. They were coloured in Crushed Olive distress ink. Some natural fibres and pearl stamen were added to the leaves and flowers to create the cluster.

I cut a banner using the smallest Cheery Lynn Designs Pierced Banner and embossed this with the Damask folder. The banner was raised on foam pads. 

The sentiment is from a Crafters Companion stamp set called Vintage Floral Sentiments . It was stamped in Ranger Jet Black ink and die cut using a XCut Scalloped Circle die, then the whole sentiment disc was heat embossed with holographic powder.