One for Serina

I've been  playing with the Beautiful Moments stamp set again today. This one  I have made  for a lady at work that is leaving very soon.

 I thought the woman walking away image would work for a leaving card.

This lady has been a ray of sunshine through some pretty awful days. She has certainly been my reason to smile on many a day (in the work place anyway).

This was a quick and easy card to make and finished off with  some bling.  The recipient loves her bling, so it seemed appropriate to add some here.

Beautiful You by Amanda

This card was NOT made by me. It was sent to me from my Stampin' Up,   upline  Amanda Fowler to mark my 7th anniversary with S.U.

Most of you will know I have this stamp set and have made loads of cards using it.

For new visitors to my blog,  keep scrolling down to see more  cards with this stamp set.

I have loved playing with this set over the last few weeks.

I like the colour combination  Amanda has chosen to make is card.

More my style.

Yet another  card with that stamp set.
 I think  this is more my style and this is probably my favourite  creation over the last few days.

Because  water was involved in the making of this card, I used dark brown Stazon ink to stamp the lady onto craft card.
Then I painted the image and the background with white craft ink mixed with a tiny amount of water.
Some areas had two  or three layers of ink to make these areas brighter.  Once the white ink was dry, I sponged a little brown ink along to bottom. This looked a little harsh, so I  brushed a little white ink over the brown to soften it.

I stamped some  foliage  on each side using the stamp set Pocket Silhouettes.

With an S.U marker in soft suede,  I drew over the female image to strengthen the lines that had been covered by white ink.
For the background I used the "I love lace"  stamp and Early Espresso  ink.  This was mounted onto dark brown card and then adhered to the craft card base.

Fashionable card

Another  card using the Beautiful You set.... so sorry if I am being boring now, but there are so many things to try with this stamp set.
I love the look the patterned paper gives the dress on this  card.
It's a very simple technique to do.
You just stamp the image on the patterned paper and and cut away the head, hands and neck until you are just left with the dress.
 Then you cut out the hat and stick the dress and the hat onto another image you have  stamped on white card.
I have combined the image with the film strip die. I think they work quite well together.
the mini camera came with the film strip die. It's not not a very impressive die and the embossing is delicate so can look like a black blob from just a few feet away, so I added a touch of gilding wax to highlight the embossing.

Beautiful you....yawn yawn.

I have been playing with with the new " Beautiful You" stamp set again,
this is a very simple card that needs no explanation on how to make it.

But I will give a list of tools and materials  used just to fill up this blank space.

Black card
White card Soft Sky card
Oval layering dies
Adhesive
Beautiful you stamp set
Embossing folder of your choice.

Beautiful You ...again

Here is another card using the Beautiful You stamp set from this year's Spring and Summer catalogue.
I have been trying a few different things with this set over the last few weeks.
The idea for this card came from a Google search.  I can't remember the lady's name but I do remember that she said she had CASE d  the card on Pinterest.

I saw the card 24 hours before making this one, so I'll be interested to see  how mine differs.

CASE ing a card 24 hours or more after seeing it is something I like to try.  One reason is to test my memory and eye for detail. I have to say both are not good, so I usually end up with a similar card but never exactly the same.
 I stamped the image onto white card and cutaway the white card on the left side of the image.

I stuck a piece of black card down the hinge side of the card and then glued and butted up the straight edges of the white card against the black and sticking down the overlapping arm and etc.
I masked off the female and sponged some colour around the dancer.  The final step was to add colour to the image and stamp the sentiment.

Beautiful You....again.

I have been itching to use this technique on these stamps ever since the set arrived. I have finally found enough time to try out a few ideas tonight.
This is a nice quick and easy card to make.
To make this 6 x 6 card I cut a piece of DSP and mounted it onto a piece of dark grey card stock.  I adhered the DSp to the hinge side of the card. and stamped the sentiment in the bottom right hand corner.
 All that's left to do now is stamp the lady image twice.  Once onto white card stock and once onto a scrap of DSP.
I cut out the dress and the umbrella from the DSP and stuck the on top of the image stamped on the white card.
With Copic markers I added some colour to her legs, hair and the background. The final step was to die cut the image and mount the image on to another piece of grey card stock and stick it to the  prepared base card.

Beautiful You 2

Regular readers of my blog will know, I enjoy creating silhouette cards.
 I am not really sure about this one. It started out as an experiment to see how the dancing female looked as a silhouette.

I used;
Marina Mist ink pad.
Midnight Muse ink pad, 
Night of Navy ink pad, 
Black pigment ink such as S.U 's black craft ink or black Versacolor,
White Gel pen, 
Black marker pen.
Beautiful you Stamp set,
Pocket silhouettes  stamp set, 
Sponge daubers. Post it notes.
 1  1/2  inch  Circle punch or die to create a positive and negative mask for moon.





 First I punched out a large circle from a post it note and used the negative to mask off the sky around the moon.


 With  a sponge dauber and light strokes, I applied a little ink through the aperture to add a little colour to the moon.


I  removed the negative mask and covered the moon with the positive mask to protect it.


With  Marina Mist ink and  the same sponge dauber,  start sponging the sky,  starting ON  the moon mask working outwards towards the edges.


 You'll need to take your time this part  and you will need to keep applying the lighter ink until you have the good coverage over the majority of the card.



Using Night of Navy ink and a sponge dauber, apply ink to the edges of the card working inwards, about 3/4 s of an  inch. Start inking from the bottom of one side working uo the side , along the top and down the other side in a rough arch shape. Leave the bottom edge un inked.



The Midnight Muse ink was used in between the  Night of Navy and Marina Mist to soft and blend  where the colours meet. This does not have to be perfectly blended, just so long as there are no  hard, straight lines of  colour.

Place a post it note over the bottom third of the card and apply Night of Nay ink with a dauber over the edge of the post it to create the horizon. 
You may notice a dark patch on the left of the photo below. This because I picked up  my black dauber instead of the navy one. Rather than scrap my sample piece, I decided to carry on and see how it turned out.

Remove the moon mask and with a black Memento  ink  stamped the  lady in the centre. I used Memento ink as I will be using alcohol marker to colour the image in and I don't want the ink to smudge.

 On this sample I stamped her a little higher than I wanted her, which meant I had to raise my horizon line  a little.
Which just goes to proves,  most errors can be rectified.

Using silhouette foliage stamps and black pigment ink, ( such as S.U's  black craft ink or Versacolour ) stamp some foliage in the bottom corners. 

Allow the ink to dry thoroughly this may take some time as pigment inks are much slower drying, but this can be speeded up with a heat gun.

I  previously said, I used a black marker to colour in the stamped image on my first card.  On this sample I used Copic Marker BV29  (Slate) , It is not as strong or  as intense as black so it almost looks like the moonlight is shining  through her skirt.


A little black ink was added to the bottom corners to give the impression of solid land.

Final touches were added using a white gel pen was used to add highlights on the edges of leaves, the lady  and  to create the stars and ripples on the water. These are just random dots and dashes,   but they really lift the scene.

Photo's now added to help you make sense of my ramblings.

Thanks for dropping in.   I hope you like this project and give it a try.



Don't forget to....Credit the creator.

Beautiful You.

The new Spring and Summer  catalogue was released earlier this month.
 After perusing the pages I knew,  I just had to have the new stamp set entitled,  "Beautiful You" .
It's a lovely set. 
There are quite a few stamps in this set, three female images and the rest are sentiments.  I can't say I would use all the sentiments in this set, but there are a couple of nice ones.

I have enjoyed playing with them  and making these simple cards. You can view the complete set  of stamps and the new catalogue  by clicking on the catalogue link on the side bar.