Passionflower Thanks

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Using Tracy Evans' Passion Flower stamp #278 and Bipasha BK's Bold Alphas Mini stamp #349 from AALL & Create. (The word is made from Making Memories 'Heidi' rub-on letters from an old pack that must be at least 15 years old! The 'Thank You' is an old cheapie random foam-backed stamp, also from more than a decade ago.)

To say 'thank you' to my sister for these stamps which I chose with the Stamper's Grove gift voucher she sent me for my birthday.

QAS Butterfly

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This one is a (temporary) departure from my focus on Crafty Individuals. It's one of a batch of five cards I made to go with a small giveaway to some members of Tracy Evans' Facebook group. I bought some large paper clips for use as embellishments on cards, but could only find a lot of 50.. more than I could use, so offered to share some of them with other members. First come, first served. I also 'vintaged them up' with some Sepia alcohol ink.

I'm regretting not putting something in the top right corner. Looks a bit bare. Anyway, I brayered the green background on A6 cards, using 'Twisted Citron' Distress Oxide. Then I used Versafine 'Stone Grey' for the background stamp, and Versafine 'Onyx Black' for the butterfly, stamped on the card and again separately, cut out and stuck on top. The sentiment is from a different stamp set, in white embossing on black card. All stamps by Tracy Evans for AALL & Create. Some light green sequins finish the job.

QAS = Quick And Simple. (Could also be CAS = Clean And Simple.)

Rejoice

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My first Christmas card for this year! It's the latest in my takes on Jean Hardy's Facebook Live demos for Crafty Individuals. This one is my version of the demo on 20th May (click HERE). It looks nothing like Jean's version, as I had to adapt to stamps I had in my stash. 

The stamps I used are all Crafty Individuals: CI-446 'Festively Curly Words', CI-420 'Christmas Postage Stamps', CI-479 'Seeing Stars Background' and CI-363 'Christmas Tree Star'. (I drew the holly leaves myself.)

Finishing touches: Silver Stickles glitter glue smooshed onto the holly leaves, some silver thread and some silver sequins.

Blue Tit

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My last of three cards with the backgrounds I made (see photo below) using the clingfilm technique Jean Hardy of Crafty Individuals showed us in her FB Live demo on 13th May. (Click HERE for demo.) 

The lovely Blue Tit stamp is from Crafty Individuals, CI-505 'Bluebird and Branch with Berries' (forgive my dreadful colouring), and the 'moments' word is a Sizzix Tim Holtz die-cut.

The gold mat is cut with deckle-edged scissors, and I've used gold cord for the messy thread layer. 

Honey Beez

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Another card using shapes cut from the backgrounds I made (see next photo) using the clingfilm technique Jean Hardy of Crafty Individuals showed us in her FB Live demo on 13th May. (Click HERE for the demo.)

The background is made using a honeycomb stencil by That's Crafty and Versacraft ink in Grey. The next layer is the messy black cotton technique I learned from Tracy Evans.. and the splats, of course!

I forget where the honeycomb die came from; it has long since parted from its packaging! The hexagons are a Sizzix die,  as are the 'Honey' letters. The bees are stamps from IndigoBlu, and sequins from stash.

One more to come using the clingfilm technique. (Not bees.)

Birthday Bees

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I was really stuck with this one, for a few weeks I had been following Jean Hardy's FB Live demos on the Crafty Individuals' FB page, and this was from 13th May, using her clingfilm technique. I knew about it, but hadn't tried it before. Using the Koh-i-Noor Anilinky paints, I made some backgrounds (see photo) and then my mojo took leave of me, UNTIL I saw Lee Mckenzie's gorgeous card inspired by Tracy Evans, which got me unstuck. (Thanks, Lee!) x

The circle is cut from one of the backgrounds I made. I had been thinking of using it with bees, but hadn't previously got any further than that.

I used Crafty Individuals stamps for the background (on top of a brayered base with Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink), IndigoBlu bee stamps with glittered wings, some die-cut cogs, the honeycomb and numbuzz (see what I did there?) 😁, a couple of Tim Holtz Idea-ology metal index clips and computer-generated greeting.