Fifteen Minute Cards

Hello everyone, it is time for our monthly compilation of quick cards made in fifteen minutes or less. Each month, the Design Team come together to bring you a host of designs and tips to help you create projects in next to no time. If you are looking for batch cards for Christmas, for a Wedding or moving house, etc., then we can help with design ideas to inspire you. If you sell cards at craft fairs or for charity, you can use Chocolate Baroque stamps to make your cards, no problem. If you are a beginner crafter, or someone with a bit more experience, there is something within these blog posts that will appeal to you. So, grab a cuppa and enjoy what we have to share with you today.

Carole has created a pretty card in blue tones, using stamps from Briar Rose Butterfly, Harebell Butterfly and a sentiment from Amazing Mackintosh Words. She has used Distress Inks Blueprint Sketch and Peacock Feathers. She stamped the bobble spray image in a circular pattern using the peacock colour, adding second generation stamping in the gaps. She spritzed the card with water so that the colour bled. She pressed the blue inkpad onto a small piece of white card and overstamped with the butterfly section of the Harebell stamp.

Rachel has created a stunning card using one of our newest stamps The Folk Art Garden, stamping the image onto kraft card, using white embossing powder. She has added a pop of colour to key areas of the design with watercolour pencils.

 For her next card, she used some of the smaller images from our Haberdashery range of stamp sets, and repeat stamped them over the background, adding some mica powders once she had finished.

Finally, she stamped the scissors repeatedly to create a background, then using a topper made with alcohol inks, stamped the mannequin using ink to lift some of the background.

Vronnie has created a beautiful Brusho background, adding a white embossed image. She has added more Brusho to the flowers, activating the colour with a damp brush.

The same image takes on a completely different look in this card by Magda. She has stamped the image using black ink, and coloured the flower with watercolour pencils and glitter glue. You can add as much or as little colour to this image as you like, the choice is yours.

Magda has created the following two backgrounds using Distress Ink. The first card she has stamped the images, stencilled with water, and added glitter glue.

For her final card, she has spritzed the background with water and stamped the images with Versafine.

We have some fabulous mail art from Zoe up next, these lovely envelopes are quick to make, but would certainly brighten up anyone's day when they were received through the post.

 Penny has created a romantic card, using bold red and black which adds a bit of Ooh la la to this card! She has coloured the images with alcohol pens and then coloured over the top with a clear sparkle pen.

An assortment of cards from Brenda are next, this pretty floral card in shades of blue and green could be made in lots of different colour options to suit a personal preference.

She has stamped the lace ribbon repeatedly to create a background before adding some of the lace flowers as a focal point.

Adding The Folk Art Garden to a vibrantly coloured background avoids the need to colour the image at all, a very effective way of creating a quick card.

Finally, Brenda has used one of the smaller floral sprays to create a larger image, using a single colour of ink. This monochrome card is fabulous, and could be made in lots of different colours to make a set of cards for a gift or to keep and send for cards in a hurry.

Another monochrome card here from Julie, stamped onto kraft card, using a white pencil for detail and faux stitches added. Such a stylish design, which looks simple, and takes very few materials to create.

We have three beautiful designs from Pat using the sewing stamps. For her first card, she used Distress Inks to create a background. She then added borders down each side using a blue Distress Ink, and added extra blue ink along the edges for shading. She stamped one of the mannequins with the same ink and watercoloured it lightly with both inks using a fairly dry waterbrush. The sentiment was also stamped using the blue ink.

For her second card, she used a gelli print created with white acrylic paint and red Brusho, then a layer of white acrylic and blue Brusho, with the buttons stamped around the edge of the plate with the blue Brusho paint mix before pulling the print. She then stamped the mannequin, some buttons, the small scissors and the sentiment using a dark blue and a light green Distress Ink. She blended some more of the green around the edges before adding the background to a card blank.

Her last card uses stamps from the Haberdashery and Floral Mannequins stamp sets, and for all stamping she used a blue Distress Ink. She added spritzed Brushos in two shades of green to the topper, which was layered onto blue card. She stamped the frilled and floral lace pieces onto the card blank before adding the topper, and finished with a sentiment.

That concludes our collection of cards for this month. We hope that you have enjoyed the inspiration that we have shared, and will try some of the ideas out for yourselves. We will be back next month with another crop of quick projects for you. in the meantime, do keep visiting the blog for our regular Design Team posts. Thanks for stopping by,

Fifteen Minute Cards

Hello everyone, it is time for our monthly blog post featuring cards and projects created in fifteen minutes or less. The Design Team have designed some fabulous creations to inspire you, and are sharing lots of tips and ideas to save time when creating their designs. If you want to make a card in a hurry, or are looking for smething to make for a craft fair, or as a batch card, maybe as a Wedding card or a Christmas card, (it's never too early in the year!), then we have lots of ideas to share with you.

So, grab a cuppa, and enjoy this month's selection.....

Brenda has designed a box of cards using Distress Inks, Versafine Clair Inks, Pan Pastels, and stencils. The card designs themselves are very simple, and would make great 'any occasion' cards. What a lovely gift this set would make for someone, but you could just choose any one of these designs to make as a quick card.

I have made a quick tag, which could be added to a gift, used as a bookmark, or added to a card. I have used a scrap piece of background from my stash to make the tag, which was coloured with Distress Inks and water, then sprinkled with salt and left to dry.  I stamped the butterfly border over the top and coloured it with Inktense pencils and a waterbrush. I added a sentiment, which had been stamped onto a piece of scrap card, with the edges distressed and inked. I distressed and inked the edges of the tag, and added a complementary ribbon.

Rachel has made a trio of pretty cards this month. She has blended Distress Inks through a stencil to create a background for her first card, stamping the rose image and then adding colour over the top.

For her second card, she has added a hand drawn border for extra detail.

Finally, a Distress Ink background with the fabulous leafy image stamped over the top:

Carole has created a vibrant card using the Dawn Chorus, Wise Owl and Fly Away With Me stamp sets. The background was stamped with Abandoned Coral and Fossilized Amber Distress Inks using various elements from the three sets. the image from Dawn Chorus is stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink.

Pat has followed a blue theme for her cards this month, her first card was created by stamping the rosebud image from the Rose Perfumery stamp set onto a piece of paper from My Floral Soul designer papers using a grey permanent ink and colouring it with pencils. She blended some blue Distress Ink around the edges, and spritzed with water to lift some of the ink. She added the sentiment, again using permanent ink, and layered it onto blue card, then onto a white die cut layer before adding it to the card.

For her second card, she heat embossed the image from Floral Perfumery onto glossy card using silver embossing powder. She then coloured the background using alcohol inks with an applicator and blending fluid to aid coverage. She cut a strip of vellum and heat embossed a sentiment with more of the silver embossing powder. She wrapped the vellum around the background before attaching it to the card.

We have some pretty envelope art from Zoe this month, featuring some of the butterfly stamps from last month's TV shows. These would be a lovely surprise popping through someone's letterbox, but would make an equally great card design.

You could stamp a sentiment in the centre of the second one if you were using this idea for a card.....

Finally we have some great projects from Magda, who always inspires us with her time saving ideas. She has created a Brusho wash background for her first card.

She has used Distress Ink pads through a stencil to create the second card.

We hope that you have enjoyed our projects this month, and we will be back next month with more projects to share with you. In the meantime, do keep visiting the blog for a daily dose of inspiration from our regular Design Team posts. Thanks for stopping by,

Fifteen Minute Cards

Hello everyone, and welcome to our first Fifteen Minute blog post of 2019! We hope that you all had a good break over the festive season and that you are ready to be inspired by what the DT have created for you this month. Our speedy projects and top tips aim to help you create cards in next to no time at all. We hope that you will feel inspired to try out some of our ideas and that they will be helpful whether you are looking for something quick and easy to make, if you need a card in a hurry, or you want to make batch cards for a craft fair or some other occasion like a Wedding, for example. Maybe you are really keen and want to get cracking with your Christmas cards nice early!

So grab a cuppa, and scroll through our blog post, enjoy what we have created, then why not get some crafty stash out and have a go at making something yourselves....?

We have a fabulous selection of cards from Brenda to start us off this month. Her first card was created with Distrss Oxides and white embossing.

She has used acrylic paint and stamped with Versafine Onyx Black ink to create her second card.

She has used Pan Pastels and Versafine black ink for her third card:

To create her next card, she used water based pens to ink the stamp and spritzed the stamp with water before stamping. She used the small flourish stamp to stamp directly onto the card base.

For her final card, she used a window stencil and Distress Inks, then stamped the image and sentiment with Versafine black ink.

I have used a Brusho background from my stash, and then added a mixture of images simply using Versafine Onyx Black ink. I added a sentiment to create a quick and easy Anniversary card.

Pat has created two pretty cards using Lesley's fabulous new My Floral Soul papers. For her first card, she stamped the image from Let Your Heart Sing using a purple Distress Ink. She then applied yellow and orange inks using a stencil and applied the ink with a blending tool. She added the sun with the round shape of the blending tool. She layered the background onto a piece of dark blue card, and then onto a white card base.

For her second card, she heat embossed the image from the Live Out Loud stamp set using white embossing powder. She coloured the image using blue and purple Distress Inks and a waterbrush. She cut the image out and mounted it onto some coordinating blue card, before attaching it to the patterned paper.  She finished by adding the sentiment using some dark blue permanent ink.

Rachel has used some gelli print backgrounds from her stash to create two vibrant cards. The first card has feathers stamped on the background, and she has added a circle with the stamped bird on it.

The second gelli print has simple black stamping to complete the card.

Three cards from Penny next, for her first card, she stamped the bird trio from the Fly Away With Me stamp set in Versafine Onyx Black ink, and embossed with clear powder. She painted each one with a different colour, cut them out, and edged the panels with a gold pen. She used a Brusho background from her stash and stamped the tree and bird image, embossing it with clear powder as before. She stamped the curly bird's tail around the edges of the base card.The sentiment comes from the Birthday Words set.

She stamped the negative bird collage imagefrom the Sing Your Song stamp set using Versamark, and used three two-tone embossing powders to colour the image. She stamped some scrolls from the Wise Owl stamp set at the top and bottom of a white base card, embossing them with silver powder. The focal panel was edged with silver pen and matted onto black card. A sentiment was added at the bottom of the card.

For her final card she stamped the bird in tree image from the Sing Your Song stamp set in Versamark, and embossed with red powder. She did the same with the sentiment. She added glitter to the branches and dots with a gold pen. She edged the panel with the gold pen and attached it to a white base card.

Some envelope art from Zoe is up next. These fabulous pieces of artwork would really brighten up your doormat, wouldn't they? Simple masking, inking and black stamping completes these projects.

A very clever idea from Julie here on her card, she has repeat stamped the background image from the Live Out Loud stamp set to fill the area. The bird on the flower from Let Your Heart Sing has been added to a die cut circle. The monochrome colour scheme is very effective, and you could use this idea for feminine or masculine cards.

Magda has created three fabulous ATCs for us next, she has added stencilling with Distress Ink, stamped the images with Versafine Ink, and added some washi tape. Great colour combinations, Magda.

Her second project was super quick; she stamped the bird and then spritzed the background with blue and orange, another great colour combination.

Our final project is from Carole, she has used Pumice Stone Distress Ink and dabbed it along a masked area of her card and then over stamped it with the same colour. The mask was removed and the main image and sentiment were stamped in black ink. The flower heads were coloured with pencils, in muted pink and green shades.

That concludes our projects for this month. We hope that you have enjoyed what we have created. Please do keep visiting the blog for a daily dose of inspiration from the regular Design Team posts, and we will be back with more fifteen minute makes next month.

Thanks for stopping by,