True Love, Be Mine and a Quick Make (by Shirley)

Hello everyone I hope you are doing well.

I have several designs to show today featuring the new gorgeous Punky Hearts and Fluttering Hearts.

The background above was created with Salty Ocean, Shaded Lilac Distress Inks using an acrylic block and water.   I also used a heart stencil with Distress Ink.     I stamped the bubbles from Decorative Edges with Seedless Preserves Distress ink and the large heart from Fluttering Hearts with Shaded Lilac Distress Ink.

The images were stamped with black Archival ink and bleached with a little bleach & water and then coloured with Dylusions inks mixed with water on my craft mat.

I dry embossed the heart on the balloon and centres of the flower hearts on the back with a stylus and foam mat.  I also highlighted with a white pen and added stickles.    'With Love' is from Mackintosh Sentiments.

I used the lovely balloon again for this design below but stamped a different sentiment in the centre:

I blended Distress Inks using ripped card stock as a mask to create the background above.  I also stamped two fragments from Texture Fragments and flowers from Patchwork Landscape.  The balloon from Punky Hearts was painted with water colour markers.

And below is a quick make:

The above card with the pretty heart from Fluttering Hearts can be made in 10 minutes or less.  I drew a pencil line where I wanted to stamp which was easy to erase.  Thank you is from the Amazing Birthday set.    I hand drew a squiggly line around the edge.  Easy!

Thanks for your visit and have a great day,
Shirleyx

A gift of love (posted by Claire)

Good morning, Claire here with a little altered gift box made using the gorgeous new stamps Fluttering Hearts and  Punky Hearts, you can find them both here.

I began by painting the box with white gesso and then a layer of ivory acrylic paint. I stamped the heart background stamp from Punky Hearts with pink acrylic paint, I love to use paint to stamp as it gives some extra texture to your project. Once the paint was dry I used gold gilding wax around the edges, applying quite roughly for a shabby finish.

The heart on top of the box was a happy accident made by stamping into hot UTEE (ultra thick embossing enamel) with brilliance ink. I took some thick white card and applied versamark ink and layer of clear UTEE, heated and then applied another layer of clear. Once i'd heated this layer I added a layer of white UTEE and stamped into the hot mixture with Pink Brilliance ink. Unfortunately I moved the stamp and ended up with a bit of a mess but not wanting to give up, I blasted it with my heat gun again and stamped into it with black ink. creating a black impression on a pink/white background. I cut this out and again edged with gold gilding wax before wrapping with ribbon and popping it on top of my box.

To finish off I added gems and edged the side of the box with lace and ribbon.

thanks for visiting today

Claire xx

Colourful Hearts (by Asha)

Good morning, friends! Today I have 3 card projects to show you, featuring the Punky Hearts and Fluttering Hearts stamps.

For my first card, I matched the Punky Hearts and Words Of Comfort & Cheer on this watercolour piece. The clouds in the background are from Seashore Scenes.

Next up is this delicate CAS (ish) number showcasing a stamp from Fluttering Hearts set, which is coloured with alcohol markers. For the background I used texture paste and glitter.

For my third card, the spotlight is on the large heart stamp from the Punky Hearts set.  To make the background I used the little hearts stamp from the same set. I finished the card with an embossed panel, eyelets, liquid pearls and some twine.

There you have it - 3 cards in different styles. I hope you've been inspired to play with your new stamps. Details of inks and colours are available on my blog. Don't forget to swing by regularly for more crafty ideas from the rest of the DT.

Beijinhos,
Asha

Guest post - Well Framed by Julie Smith

I would like you to welcome our first guest for the New Year, Julie Smith. Julie has some fabulous projects to share with you over the next three weeks using our romantic new steampunk hearts. So sit back and enjoy her first contribution made using the Punky Hearts stamp set

As soon as I received these stamps I was so pleased as it is the type of set I would buy, then, my excitement turned to anxiety as I wondered what I could create that would be worthy of a Design Team post. After much thought I decided to up-cycle a very cheap picture frame from the local super market.

• I used a melt pot to pour UTEE over the frame before stamping into it with the swirly heart and the cluster of hearts stamps. If you don't have a melt pot then embossing powder heated using a heat gun straight onto the picture frame would work just as well. 
• In between the embossed areas I added coloured micro beads glued into place with Glossy Accents along with brown jute that I colored with an alcohol pen. 
• I stamped the clockwork heart into black Cloud Clay and when it was dry I wiped over DecoArt Metallic Lustre in gold and attached to the frame with silicon glue.
• The picture was stamped and coloured with watercolour pencils and when it was dry I went over it with a couple of coats of Colourcraft Acrylic Wax. When that was dry I gave it a buff with an old cloth which I think has given it a softer look.

Well, my first post is now complete, thank you for looking and I hope to be back again soon with another project.

Love the idea of up-cycling Julie this is a great addition to any home decor or it would make a brilliant gift. I hope you will take some time to leave a comment for Julie and if you want to see more of her work please check out her blog, Julie's Crafty Bits

Pink Punky Hearts (by Miranda)

Hello there,

Today it's my turn to show you some creations made with the new lovely Fluttering hearts and Punky hearts! And as always a joy to work with the new designs. I have used the very traditional pink colors for the ' love' theme. I have combined the Punky hearts with one of my favorite sheets ' Key to my dreams'. I have made a background with Distress paints and lots of water misting on a heavy watercolor paper. On the background I have also used one of the fragments of the Tangled fragments sheet. The stamping is done wit Memento Dye and Memento de Luxe inks. The keys are embossed with Wow silver embossing powder and coloured with water based markers.

The text ' You hold the key to my heart'  is a combination from two sheets. You can find the first part on the Key to my dreams' sheet and the second one ' heart' on the ' Artistic Expressions' . Maybe just an idea to do some mixing and matching with words sometimes. 

I don't do it often but this time I've made a special inside for my card. You can find the tutorial/video here. So I had more space to fill in with the new stamps. I had some left over pieces made with similar colors and coloured the images with color pencils.

Now on to the 2nd card, also very pink and bright!

This background is made using fluid inks , water misting and salt. The balloon is embossed with Wow gold embossing powder and coloured with water based markers. 

I hope you did enjoy my take on these stamps and maybe you are inspired to get out the inks and stamps and have a play. If you have any questions about the cards please ask!

Thanks for your visit and I enjoy reading the comments, till next time,

Love, Clean & Simple! (by Maria)

Hello everyone, I hope you are fine and I wish you a lot of love!
I have some more samples to show you, this time I made some clean and simple cards with the new stampset. We don't have always so much time, but still it's so nice to give a card that we made ourselves.

 

I used some silver embossing powder and Versamark to stamp the images on black cardstock. I stamped the heart on white paper with blue Memento Ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder, cut it out and with 3D tape I placed it on my card. Then the words and the borders of my black card I also embossed with the same silver embossing powder, nice isn't it?

For this card I used some different colours but I worked the same way , as before.
I hope you like my samples and I hope you find some inspiration to show your love!

Greetings
Maria

A good heart (by Lesley)

When time is short and you need a card in a hurry then a clean and simple look is all you need. So today I want to show you a quick card using the Punky Hearts stamp set.

• Trim approximately 2" off the short edge of an A4 piece of white card and fold in half. 
• Mask off a strip down the front of the card, setting it slightly off centre.
• Ink up the crackle stamp from the Echoes of Italy stamp set using Peacock Feathers Distress ink and stamp randomly over the masked strip.
• On a piece of 160gsm card colour an area large enough for the image you wish to use with a bright red alcohol marker. 
• When dry stamp the heart from Punky Hearts with Versamark. Emboss with a turquoise embossing powder. Cut out and set aside.
• Using the offcut from the card stamp the sentiment from Amazing Birthday with Peacock Feathers. Trim to suit and run the inkpad around the edges.
• Add 3d foam to both the heart and the sentiment strip and assemble as illustrated.

We don't always have the right coloured card or paper for our projects and I find that using alcohol markers on a decent weight stamping card is a quick and easy substitute. Whilst creating a patterned strip behind your focal image keeps the weight down for postage and is a neat alternative to using ribbon.

As usual there are more stunning samples to come from our talented Design Team, so please keep popping back to keep up with all their fab ideas.

Purple Punky Rose (by Debbie)

Happy New Year from me.

I love clean, quick to make cards although a lot of thought went into the colours I wanted to use.

I made the background for this card approximately five times as the splashes didn't fall quite

where I wanted them.

I used Peacock Feathers and Seedless Preserve spray stains, dripping them with a pipette.

 

 

 

For the rose from Punky Hearts I stamped and embossed with black powder then water coloured with distress inks. (seedless preserve and crushed olive)

The edges were softened with Broken China ink and it was matted onto black card.

The Punky Hearts and Fluttering Hearts have certainly helped kick my mojo into gear

for the new year.

 

 

Thanks for visiting

Debbie