Showing posts with label Flora Grande. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flora Grande. Show all posts

Friday, 25 July 2014

Fresh hydrangeas and winged beauties



Welcome to another Sizzix blog post, in which I would like to share with you my new inspiration, created using the fantastic Sizzix dies and Big Shot machine.
This time I decided to create a tag in the summery, fresh colors, which can be a small home décor, an element of greeting card or addition to gift wrapping. The main decoration in my tag is a bouquet of hydrangea, created using a set of dies designed to create handmade flowers from a very popular Susan’s Garden line - Susan’s Garden - Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 5PK - Flower, Hydrangea.


Dies from this set cut out tiny hydrangea petals, I cut them and using fantastic Sizzix Accessory - Susan's Garden Tool Kit, I tried to add more dimension and more realistic look to my small bouquet. After modeled of each petal, I sprayed them with a turquoise mist, and when petals dried I adhered together each part of each flower. After gluing and dried petals, I embellished centre of each flower creating a  small dots using 3D paints (you can use liquid pearls as well). Before 3D paint dried, I sprinkled petals with turquoise embossing powder, without melting it, and only creating light texture on the petals. In addition to the petals, I cut out the leaves, using dies from the sets: Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 5PK - Flower, Hydrangea and Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 8PK - Flower, Rose. Leaves was also modeled with a Sizzix Accessory - Susan's Garden Tool Kit. I really love the non-stick pad from this set - allows you to ink the edges of the petals and leaves or coloring using any other mediums - any paint, mist or ink do not stick to this small but very practical mat and can be easily washed off (wet wipes or paper towel).



Another dominant embellishment on my tag are absolutely wonderful butterflies, cut out with new dies from the line Prima Marketing Flora Grande line - Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 2PK - Winged Beauties. These extraordinary dies from Thinlits series are the essence of gentleness and romanticism – die cutting with these dies is very comfortable, and the cutouts are beautiful, very open-work and very versatile. I cut out butterflies using white card stock and colored them a little bit using turquoise mist.


Sizzix supplies used:

Thank you for visit us today! 
Have a lovely, creative weekend! 
~~ Karola ~~ 


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Witam serdecznie w kolejnym poście, w którym chciałabym podzielić się inspiracją stworzoną z wykorzystaniem fantastycznych wykrojników Sizzix.
Tym razem postanowiłam stworzyć tag w letniej, świeżej kolorystyce, który może stać się niewielkim elementem wystroju wnętrz, elementem na kartce okolicznościowej lub dodatkiem do prezentu. Główną ozdobą w moim tagu jest bukiecik hortensji, stworzony z pomocą kompletu wykrojników do samodzielnego tworzenia przestrzennych kwiatów z serii Susan’s Garden - Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 5PK - Flower, Hydrangea.
Wykrojniki z tego zestawu wycinają maleńkie płatki hortensji, które po wycięciu modelowałam za pomocą zestawu narzędzi do tego przeznaczonych - Sizzix Accessory - Susan's Garden Tool Kit. Po wymodelowaniu każdego płatka, spryskałam je turkusową mgiełką, wysuszyłam, a następnie sklejałam ze sobą części każdego kwiatka. Po sklejeniu i wyschnięciu płatków, ozdobiłam środki tworząc małe kropeczki z farbki 3D. Zanim farbka 3D wyschła, posypałam płatki turkusowym pudrem do embossingu, nie topiąc go, a jedynie tworząc lekką teksturę na płatkach. Oprócz płatków, wycięłam również liście, korzystając z wykrojników z zestawów: Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 5PK - Flower, Hydrangea i Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 8PK - Flower, Rose. Liście również modelowałam narzędziami z zestawu Sizzix Accessory - Susan's Garden Tool Kit. Ogromnie podoba mi się mata „Non-stick pad” z tego zestawu - pozwala na tuszowanie brzegów płatków i liści czy kolorowanie innymi mediami - żadne media nie przywierają do tej małej ale bardzo praktycznej maty i z łatwością dają się zmyć (mokra chusteczka).
Kolejną dominującą ozdobą na moim tagu są przecudne motyle, wycięte za pomocą nowych wykrojników z linii Flora Grande, sygnowanych logo marki Prima Marketing - Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 2PK - Winged Beauties. Te niezwykłe wykrojniki w serii Thinlits to esencja delikatności i romantyzmu - motyle wycinają się bardzo komfortowo, a wycinanki są przepiękne, bardzo ażurowe i bardzo uniwersalne. Motyle wycięłam w białym cienkim brystolu i pokolorowałam je, tak jak kwiatki - turkusową mgiełką.

Wykorzystane produkty Sizzix:

Dziękuję za dzisiejsze odwiedziny na naszym blogu!
Życzę Wam cudownego, kreatywnego weekendu!
~~ Karola ~~


Sunday, 13 July 2014

Card with the new butterfly dies from Sizzix/Prima.





Hi, today I'm here to share a card using some new and very lovely dies that resulted from  a collaboration between Prima Marketing and Sizzix. This time I have used the butterflies, but the Flora Grande collection has lots of other beautiful designs to choose from.

And a couple of close ups:


1. Cut out your cardbase ca 14cm X 14 cm.
2. Cutout two triangles, one just slightly larger than the other..
3. Chalk around the edges.
4. Layer and glue all the pieces together with the triangles in the center .
5. Die cut three middle sized butterflies and three smaller ones..
6. Glue the small butterflies on top of the middle sized ones.
       Add a rose on top as embellishment.
7. Place the three layered butterflies on your card and fasten with pop dots.


Sizzix Thinlits die set Winged Beauties

I used additional supplies from Prima Marketing collection Almanac and Delight.
The mini roses are by Papirdesign.

Thanks for looking!
See you next Sunday!

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Hei hei! Idag vil jeg vise dere et kort jeg har laget med en av de nydelige Flora Grande diesen
Disse er et resultat av samarbeidet mellom Sizzix og Prima Marketing.
Denne gangen har jeg valgt sommerfuglene, men den nye FloraGrande kolleksjonen inneholder mange andre supre varianter å velge mellom.!

1. Lag en kortbase, min er ca 14cm X 14 cm.
2. Klipp ut to triangeler, det ene ca 0,5 cm större enn det andre.
3. Ta litt chalk/ink runt kantene.
4. Lim sammen alle lager med trianglene i mitten.
5. Stans ut tre mellomstore og tre mindre sommerfugler.
6. Lim den lille sommerfuglen på den store og til sist en minirose.
7. Plasser de tre sommerfuglene på kortet med limputer.

Jeg brukte.

Sizzix Thinlits die set Winged Beauties

Dessuten brukte jeg  papir fra Prima Marketing (Almanac, Delight)
og mini roser fraPapirdesign.

Takk for at du kikker in!
Ses på söndag igjen!


Friday, 30 August 2013

Canvas cut-outs in Swindon, UK!


Hi again friends!
I'm back here to share another project inspired by Sizzix products. This time I've got  for you grungy, splashy layout which was made during the "Tea for 2" mixed-media class in Swindon, UK. It was my firs t time in UK and I was fortunate to teach a lovely group of 30 talented ladies - and we had so much fun!




Here you can see some photos from our classroom. We were super busy for the whole 2 days... And I can only say - these ladies were awesome!!!







 Part of the class was cutting out floral elements from new my Prima Elementals - Resist Canvas Sheet - they were perfect elements to build the dimension, fill the gaps in the cluster of embellishments and add some special "touches" to the project!
Here is one of the " in progress" photos - before the resist canvas was coloured. Can you see beautiful rose leaves created with 658523 - Sizzix Bigz Die - Arbor from Flora Grande Collection?



And here is the finished project - colored, distressed, ready to go! Other dies suggestions for this kind of project would be : 658524 - Sizzix Bigz Die - Classique from Flora Grande Collection and 657713 - Sizzix Bigz Die - Flowering Plant.




And now I'm home again, unpacking and getting ready for the new projects and adventures. I hope you will have a great, creative week!
hugs
Finn 

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Prima and Sizzix - perfect match!


Hi Sizzix fans! I hope you had a great, creative week.  I had! I`ve got a layout for you that is based on the new Prima and Sizzix Dies: "Flora Grande" collection. Isn't it a perfect collaboration? 

In the time I was creating this layout I had a feeling I need a deeper breath, something light and optimistic - maybe because the weather outside was dark and gloomy? 
From the first moment when I saw the new "Flora Grande" collection by Prima and Sizzix I knew that Albany Rose die has a huge potential for me - beautiful, not only as an embellishment, but why not using it as a small stencil or pattern in the background too? Tempting idea for further creations! 


On this layout warm colors of the papers, interesting cut out elements work beautifully against the almost-clean white background. 


I'm very happy with the final result, especially since I could find perfectly matching colors of the Pan Pastels and Distress Inks to finish the project! 





Here is the list of products by Sizzix: 
658526 - Sizzix Bigz Die - Elisse - Flora Grande Collection by Prima 
658522 - Sizzix Bigz Die - Albany Rose - Flora Grande Collection by Prima 

And of supplies from Prima Marketing: 
960094 - A4 Paper Pad - Sunrise Sunset 
960100 - Cling Mount Stamps - Sunrise Sunset 
960155 - 6X6 DD Art Stencil - Doily 
562854 - Uppercase Canvas Alphabet Stickers - Engraver 
565008 - Wood Buttons - Divine 

I hope to see you soon - stay tuned! I`ll be back soon! 
Finn