Pretty Pastels (by Miranda)

 

Hi crafty people,

Miranda here on a sunny Sunday with a new crafty inspiration. Normally I don't use pastel colors very often.....but this time I felt like I had to use them.....

I combined several stamps.....the flower from the 'movie strip collage' though I removed the movie strip......There are a lot of circles on the new stamps but since I don't have the newbies I have used the circles from the 'Make your mark' set. Also a great set. Then for the background I have used the lovely

'Distressed Alphabet Upper case A4 set' and the sentiment is from the ' Artistic Affirmations' set.

I have used several Distress Oxide colors; Shabby shutters- Salvaged Patina- Spun Sugar-Shaded Lilac- Squeezed Lemonade- Tumbled glass

And for some highlights I have used a white acrylic marker and some spattering with white acrylic ink.

Hope you like my pastel inspiration, wishing you a lovely Sunday,

till next time,

Celestial inspiration (by Miranda)

 

Hi there crafty people,

It's been a while but here I am again and I am happy to say that I will post every month some Chocolate inspirations. Still love to work with these wonderful stamps.

The first time I saw the new A4 sheets ' Celestial' and 'Sacred' I was in awe...... I am always attracted to geometrical shapes and themes like the celestial and mystical.

I created a background on black mixed media paper applying some chalky paints with a brayer. So it became a grungy kind of background.

 The large circle shape is embossed using the Seth Apter Weathered gold embossing powder from Wow. And also the words are embossed with the same powder.

 I stamped the 2nd geometric shape using a dark brown ink and embossed it using clear gloss embossing powder.

Than I used some pastel pencils and a paper stump to accent some parts of the circles. As a finishing touch I sprinkled some metallic, black and white frantage embossing powder and heated it from underneath.  The edges are darkened using some distress crayons.

I think it has become a great masculine card. 

I hope you did like my take on this one and next time I will be back with something with a Christmas twist.......

Thanks for visiting and till next time,

Lovely Baroque Eggs (by Clare)

This stamp and the others in this set are so gorgeous!  I'd like to share an eggy card I made using one of the largest eggs.  It was very easy to make, but looks like it took hours!

I textured the front panel of my 4 1/2" x 5 3/4" card with an embossing folder.  I chose this one, because it resembled the pattern of diamonds in the egg itself.  Stamping the egg came next, on white cardstock in SU's craft ink then heat embossing with white powder.  Cut out.  I used a sponge dauber on SU's classic inkpads in a pink, yellow, blue, lavender and green to shade in the egg.  Before mounting to the front, I applied Scor-tape around the outside edge of the egg on the back, so I could apply the lace edging.  I used pop dots to "raise" the egg up. 

The white embossing powder left a very pretty sheen on the cardstock,
which the colors accentuated perfectly!  This set of stamps will be one that I will
definitely use over and over and over again!   

I stamped "Happy Easter" on white cardstock, then cut out using a die.  Using another die, I cut the yellow tag and intertwined the edges.  This caused the yellow one to bend up, giving it dimension.  I used two of the "negative" pieces from the diecut tag as upper corner embellies.  The edge was punched, and the finishing touches of flowers and pearls completed this pretty card.  Now, who to give it to?