Catch Up Crafting

My boyfriend is in his final year in college and has been doing his final exams. Since we live in a small apartment I essentially moved back in with the parents for three weeks to give him space and quietness to study and to work on his dissertation. This meant I was away from my craft desk. And I totally underestimated how much I would miss it! I was miserable without being able to craft! I crocheted a fair bit which took the edge off, but I was craving a paper project!

So, I'm finally finally back home now and able to get back to crafting! I have made several cards since I've been back - a Fathers Day one for my Dad, which I'll give him on the 19th and two custom orders on my Etsy shop. One I cannot show since the bride is very private but the other I can and I love how it turned out. They requested a vintage style wedding card. Here they are:

Fathers Day Card

For the Fathers Day card I decided to use the Lawn Fawn Beep Boop Birthday stamp set. I often joke around with my parents saying 'Hi Parental units or Maternal/Paternal unit!' so I thought a robot card would be really fun.

I used the balloon in the set side by side to make larger balloons which I coloured green. I then clear embossed the sentiment and coloured over it in black to give the impression of those old computer screens which used green font on black backgrounds.

I watercoloured the background and I sprinkled a small amount of copper and verdigris embossing powder on robot me to give the impression of wear. All in all I think it came out super cute and I know my Dad will love it :)

Vintage Wedding Card

For the wedding card I chose mostly Prima papers from various paper packs. I fussy cut out the images and put together a layout. I added jute ribbon for texture (and because I love jute!) and I very lightly inked the edges of some of the papers with Tim Holtz distress ink in Brushed Corduroy.

I heat embossed the sentiment in Copper embossing powder and used Tim Holtz mini screw style brads on each side.

Its fairly rare that I make a card with no colouring and stamping (apart from sentiment) and I'm really happy with the outcome. I definitely want to try more cards like this.

Well I'm off to play with my craft supplies again. I'd love to here any comments or thoughts! Thanks for stopping by! :)

Emboss It: Simon Says Stamp Monday Challange

Today's blog post is my entry to this weeks Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge which is called Emboss It. I really wanted to use my embossing powders and heat tool, but since my little craft nook is not yet set up with a power adapter I had to scrap that idea! So I decided to use one of my few embossing folders and see what I could come up with! (Few because of lack of funds, not interest. If I had money I'm fairly sure I'd buy every embossing folder in sight!

I used a Spellbinders folder, I can't remember the name off the top of my head. (I'll update when I can check it!) and I had a really hard time getting it through my Big Shot! I tried with all tabs open and it was still a no go. In the end I ran it through on a cutting plate, all tabs down but no cutting plate on top. It worked beautifully but I'm not sure if that's ok to do? I did not have this trouble with my other embossing folders.

Anywho! I wanted my card to feel warm so I inked up the embossed image with Distress Ink in Rusty Hinge. I then cut some strips of pattern paper (with sparkles!) and adhered them on one side. I used the Simon Says Stamp painted thanks die (free with an order from Simon!) with gold cardstock and I also diecut it a few times on plain cardstock and glued them together with Tombo Mono Multi Glue, to give it just a little dimension. I added some sequins and some clear Wink of Stella to some of the raised flowers and the front was done!

I used some of the same pattern paper leftovers for the inside of the card. Quick Tip!: I wanted the brownish strips to be pretty thin and I didn't want to used liquid glue so before cutting them down to size I used double sided tape on the back of the paper. Once the strips were cut I could peel the backing off the tape and stick into place! Handy!

Ok, I have rambled enough! Time for photos!

Front

Inside

Close up

Thanks so much for stopping by and checking out the card! Have a great day  :D