Inspiration is everywhere.

 Sometimes I'm asked where I get my inspiration and ideas from, my answer is everywhere. 

These cards are the perfect example of that. 

Last week while travelling on the motorway a van  delivering wine caught my eye. It had an attractive company design on the side, which got me wondering several things. First one being do I have a stamp suitable, two, which stampin up ink pad is closest to the colour on the van and three, could I reproduce the a similar design that would work on a card. 

Well I didn't have a grape stamp that would work, but I had a vine like leaf that may work. The above card was the result of playing with one leaf stamp from the autumn splendour stamp set, heat embossing it multiple times on white card, and using clear embossing powder. 

Then blending  a mix of blueberry bushel and soft succulent ink over the embossed card. 

The card below was made using the pieces I trimmed off the panel above. These would normally have gone straight in the bin.  But I had been watching a of lot videos on working with scraps, so I thought I'd give it a whirl. It's not my cup of tea, but it shows that you can make a half decent card out of the scraps that you would normally throw away.

And if you'd like to the design that captured my interest... Take a look at the back end of the truck in the photo below.

 

Collage style card

I was watching a Facebook live hosted by Sarah Hardy a week or so ago and Sarah made a beautiful card that I wanted to try for myself.  Sarah is a very talented Stampin up demonstrator  and she makes the most wonderful cards.

During the fb live She reminded me that I used to make videos too.  I didn't make many because I had technology issues.  I was okay making the video but uploading it to my pc was a big problem. That was about 9 years ago and I haven't made a video since. 

Sarah suggested I start making them again so a week later I 've decided to reproduce her card using different stamp sets . There are a lot of techniques used in this  collage style card.

I left a week in between watching Sarah's video and making the card myself  because  I wanted to see just how much I remembered from her demo. The things you forget and the things you do differently make the card yours and not a direct copy.

 The first video  is just to show you how I did the colour wash it is not the piece I used on the card. I made the second video first then realised, I hadn't mentioned the washed background.

   I had a bit of a mishap towards the end and had to edit a section out. I think it would have been quicker to remake the video than edit it. But I stuck with it.  Once I had taken out the section and tried to upload the video to my blog , BUT....Blogger kept telling me the video was too large. Grrrrrrrr.  

 I  spent the next two days  trying out different programmes to find one that is simple to use and would  condense the video easily.  I managed it, but I really don't know how.

 Here are the  finished videos. 

 I don't have any editing skills so forgive my mistakes.   

 If I am honest I am really nervous about posting these videos. 

There are so many crafters making great videos that posting  this really scares me. 

Please be kind with your comments.

Autumn Splendour

Unfortunately I seem to using a lot of Get Well and Sympathy cards at the moment. I resurrected the  autumn splendour set. 

I really didn't like this set when it first came but now......I wouldn't part with it.

Napkins

Being the BBQ season I thought I would decorate some napkins.                                               
Here are the results.The spotty one was created by punching a large and a small circle into scrap foiled card.

I applied the inks with a sponge dauber through the holes in the foil card.


I love the idea of having napkins to suit the event or the season.


Quick footnote here..... No,  the ink does not transfer to your face and hands ... under normal  use . Not sure if it would,  if it were to get soaked, but you wouldn't be wiping your face with it  if it were.

faux paper tearing techinque used for these.

Two more attempts at the faux paper tearing. I tried it using white card but thought it looked a little to stark to I toned the white down with the texture wheel stamp and a littl cajun craze ink. The next card I made I used the Very vanilla card. I much prefer the look of the Vanilla card.

Faux torn paper birthday card.

It's Sunday night and I am tired after a day of shopping, gardening and baking cupcakes, then cleaning up the mess after each of activity. So I am pretty tired which makes it a poor time to do blogging. So these following posts will be brief.

Faux torn paper effect with some gold embossed leaves from the autumn splendour stamp set from S.U.

card colours cajun craze, choc chip, and real red. Inks : Cake crumb, close to cocoa and cajun craze. plus versamark for the gold embossing.

Autumn card

I have been doing a bit of a blog hop today and I discovered some really lovely cards, now don't ask me the blogs I went on because I have absolutely no idea. I can tell you they were in the main American sites. Some of these ladies make the most amazing cards and fortunately Stampin' Up like their demonstrators to copy and share everything.... C.A.S.E for short.
So that is what I have done today.
If you are one of the original creators of one of my cased cards. I have to say thank you for sharing and I love your cards.

We in the UK don't have the full range of Stampin'up products, so sometimes we have to use substitute stamps and products.

I have changed parts of some cards for that reason. Probably just as well we don't have the full range here, I'd go bankrupt. lol.
Anyway for this card I used the autumn splendour, perfect punches stamp set and the large oval punch.
Inks, so saffron, pumpkin pie, red riding hood, bravo burgundy and old olive to randomly stamp the leaves.
For the hinged edge I screwed up a piece of burgundy card stock over and over again until it was really wrinkled. I then smoothed it out and peeled the card layers apart . This left me with two pieces of card that looked alot like suede. I took the red riding hood ink pad and rubbed it all over the suede side of my card . I tore one edge and cut the other three to fit my card.