Mother's Day the Sequel

Mother's Day the Sequel

Hi There!

Yes, I'll admit.  I had a brainstorm

(before anyone goes all pc on me

that is a technical term) and for all

I had created some articles specifically

for Mother's Day; I omitted to post

them...............Duh!

You don't have to be crazy to

live my life but it does help.....

As you will see, each card lends

itself to more than one

occasion all that is required is

to change the greeting 

I have three such projects for you;

the first is from Hazel Harler

and it goes like this:

 "For the background I placed a stencil 

on some white card and sprinkled it with

 Cosmic Shimmer Pixie dust and then

 sprayed it with water. 

I dried the card with a heat gun and 

stamped the Paperartsy Hot Picks flower 

and coloured it with a felt tip pen. 

I then edged the card with a black pen and

 added the ribbon then adhered the 

decorated card to a card blank.

I stamped a butterfly onto card 

that I'd coloured with Pixie dust, cut it out 

and adhered it to the card and then

 finished with the sentiment and some sequins."

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The next card is from Jane Castle and it

goes like this:

"Here is a fairly quick and easy card to help

 with any ideas if you are struggling with 

what to make.

"For my base card I used a linen textured card 

and cut a paper heart template to work my

 Gelatos off to form my outline.

Then using the blending tool worked around

 the heart before removing the template

and added buttons following the 

shape of the heart.  There's lots of

lovely buttons on the Craft Barn website

if you need to stock up

Some I added thread to for added interest. 

Then using the same 3 colours of Gelatos

 coloured a piece of card and added a die 

cut Mum, a couple of Tim Holtz die cut wild 

flowers at the bottom and finally some 

Ranger Liquid Pearls to enhance the 

shape on the outside."

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and finally, here is a card from

Claire Jackson

My card uses water soluble pastels 

(Gelatos or Distress Crayons) and

 embossing folders.

First I scribbled on two pieces of card

 and blended the colours with a damp 

baby wipe.

Then I coloured an embossing folder using 

the lighter colour first. I did both sides 

and then spritzed lightly with water. 

I put my coloured card pieces back

 to back in the folder so that I could emboss

 both at the same time, ending up with 

one side embossed and one side debossed.

There was still some colour on the folder

 so I spritzed again and ran two 

pieces of white card through.

Using a different folder I embossed and

 die cut some flowers.

 I had enough pieces for two cards

Thank you Hazel, Jane and Claire

for a lovely set of cards

Some good techniques here too

and I really liked the tip from

Claire on using two pieces of

card in an embossing folder.

There's always something to 

be learned isn't there?

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx