Christmas Trees Triptych

 

This is a follow on from yesterday's Seaside Feathers, inspired by the same Crafty Individuals FB Live from 16th July, the Feathers Demo. I have promised myself that for every non-Crimbo card I make, I will also make a festive version, as Christmas is just coming into view over the horizon.

• I started with brayering a base of three colours, as per the demo. I used Distress Oxide Mowed Lawn and Candied Apple, and a panel of Encore gold metallic. 
• Next, I stamped the snowflake from CI-138 'Let It Snow' (now retired) in the top right corner of each panel, and embossed with a clear sparkly powder from Wow! 
• Then I splattered with diluted white acrylic paint.
• The trees are from CI-502, 'Noel Border', stamped in Olive Green Stazon and fussy-cut, then edged in black pen on the outside, glittered on the snowy branches with Deco Art Glamour Dust, and silver Stickles on the stars. Raised on recycled cardboard for dimension.
• I used gold cord in the background, holly leaves cut using Sentimentally Yours 'Holly Sprigs' dies from Sizzix gold Texture Roll and a red sequin. The 'Noel' word is also from the 'Noel Border' stamp, also mounted on the Sizzix stuff.
• The background mat is Kanban 'Maple Leaf' embossed gold card, cut with deckle-edged fancy scissors.
• Added three gold sequins for a finishing touch.

Seaside Feathers

 

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This one is the latest in my personal challenge series, inspired by Jean Hardy's Facebook Live demos, and this one is the 'Feathers Demo' from 16th July (Link HERE.) 

If you compare them, you'll see that mine is similar, but not a total replica. I've used different colours (Distress Oxides and Brilliance Moonlight White for some text), some slightly different stamps, too. 

The feathers, the background text (the wonderful poem by John Masefield, 'I Must Go Down To The Sea Again'), the 286 number (the kind you'll often see on sails, and other parts of boats and seaside sheds), and the text clipped onto the top are all from CI-397 'Call of the Sea'.  

The 'By the sea' stamp is from another seaside-themed set, CI-454 'By the Sea' (funnily enough!)  

For texture, I used dabs of background stamps by Flo Langley, CI-542 'Mismesh', in different colours for contrast. 

I found some cheap mini bulldog clips on eBay, in different colours, and used one of the rose gold ones here. They're a bit bigger than the Tim Holtz ones, so not very practical for posting, but would work in a box-framed piece.

A few sequins to finish, and we're done! 

Seaside Happiness

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I've been a tad dormant, crafting-wise, for the past few weeks (and everything else-wise, if truth be known!), so I'm slipping even further behind with my project to make a version of each of Jean's FB Live demos. This one is from 10 weeks ago! (insert eye-rolling icon here) 1st July. 

Here's the link --->> Jean's FB Live (Seaside Demo) from 1st July.

I used slightly different images to those Jean used, but they're all Crafty Individuals, including an mage of the deckchairs from their 'By The Sea' sheet of glossy images, the waves and 'Seaside' word are from a stamp set (CI-454), the waves embossed in silver, and doodled with white Sakura pen. The kite is also from that set, and the 'clouds' are from 'Abstraction' - one of Flo Langley's lovely background stamps. The seagulls are cut out from a piece of CI's 'Photo Pack' square photographic papers. The background words are from another stamp set (CI-459), and the flourish is from a Tando stencil (purchased from the CI website). The bathing beauty is from another CI stamp set (CI-278), and the word 'Happiness' is from a CI words stamp (CI-258). 

Embellished with a grungy streak of blue foil and a scattering of sequins. 

 

Seahorse

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For the August challenge on the Crafty Individuals Facebook Group, I used Ellie Mulligan's seahorse stamp CI-548 'Under The Sea' from the recent release, and a piece of one of Malc's papers from the 'Wonderfully Weathered' pack. Glamour Dust, Glossy Accents and various gems, pearls and glass cabochon 'bubbles' from stash.

I have a box of pretty, small white cockle shells somewhere that I wanted to use a couple of, but can I find them?! I had a go at disguising a couple of the glass cabochons to look like shells, but it didn't really work. (See below.) Also added the word 'Sea' (using an old Quickutz alphabet), and I'm not convinced by that either! Ah, well.. You have to try these things!

Autumn

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How do you feel about autumn? I LOVE it, and the excitement is rising! 🍁
So here's an autumnal take on Jean's FB Live demo of 24th June, to add to the Cornflower Thistle offering (previous post).

P.S. With thanks to Janet Pring for the idea of outlining the stencil! I need practice, though!

P.P.S. 'Autumn' word made with Sizzix Tim Holtz Tiny Alphanumeric letter dies.

P.P.P.S. Black cotton thread and brass paperclip ideas inspired by Tracy Evans.

Cornflower Thistle

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Inspired by Jean's FB Live demo of 24th June: 'Cornflower Card'. Except that I don't have the Cornflower stamps, so I used one of the pair of thistles instead (CI-204, 'Two Scottish Thistles'), which are in a similar box format. I am also without a doily die, so I used scalloped circles instead. Also, the faux bleaching Jean used didn't work very well for me, so I sponged white pigment ink through the AALL & Create 'Rota Vitae' stencil instead. (I did have the stencil!)
I used Crafty Individuals' 'Uplifting Words' text stamp, CI-258 in the background, some scrunched up black cotton thread, some glass cabochons and silver sequins from stash.

China Cupboard

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Next in the series following Jean Hardy's FB Live demos. This one's from 17th June, showcasing another of Sharron Bates' stamp designs for Crafty Individuals.. CI-547, 'Time for Tea'.

Jean made her version using like a mini printers tray-type thing, that used to hold some pretty wooden folk-heart style embellishments, which she used on her make. I don't have any like that, so I used a resin frame instead, which I'd just received in a lovely variety RAK pack from crafty buddy, Rachel Harries. Bless her. :-)

I didn't have a printer's tray-type thing, either, so I made a raised card 'replica', to give the effect, glued to a thick-ish card base, which I cut to resemble the backing Jean made out of greyboard. I used the largest out of a nesting set of label dies as a template for most of it, to get as neat a shape as I could. The background paper is from a Crafty Individuals paper pad, and I used images from the 'A Nice Cup of Tea' glossy image sheet inside the squares, also from CI.

 The 'lace' is a broderie anglaise border die from Card Making Magic, and the silver teapot charms are from eBay. Flowers, sequin, ribbon for hanging and cord bow to match all from stash.

Summer of Love

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This is the next in my personal challenge series, to make my take on Jean Hardy's FB Live demos. The one I'm following here is her demo on 27th May. (You can find all of them under 'Videos' on the Crafty Individuals FB page.) 

In this particular demo, Jean used Sharron Bates' designs for CI, in particular the 'Three Birds' stamp. I don't have that stamp, but I do have Sharron's VW 'Camper van COOL 1' design (CI-546), which always evokes the sixties, for me... hence the flower power theme. The background paper is by Flo Langley, also for Crafty Individuals. Words are Sizzix dies by Tim Holtz. Embellishments from stash.