This is the last of the cards we did at the Glitter Pot. It uses My Mind's Eye papers, Bazzill Basics card, and a Stampendous greeting. The medallion is made by fan folding a 12" strip of paper after punching the edge with an edging punch (Martha Stewart - Doily Lace). Then you join the ends and persuade it into a circle.
I am losing the battle for time in getting all these posts on before going on holiday, so the next few will be just pictures for contemplation, and very sparse with the words!
Basic Grey Papers, Woodware Greeting, Bazzil Basics Pomegranite card. The edges have been scored and rubbed with brown ink. Corners punched with a Woodware Squared punch.
My Mind's Eye papers, Autumn Leaves Double Scroll stamp, and a Stampendous greeting. The flowers are cut from one of the designer papers, finished with a brad, and mounted onto the card with thin foam pads. This is another card from the morning class at the Glitter Pot.
I love this stamp from Magenta. It's called Fuchsia Vine. We coloured it using markers direct to the rubber before stamping and then adding some little self adhesive pearls. The border punch is another Martha Stewart one called Simple Scallop. Both the designer paper and card matting were punched before adding the ribbon and fixing to the card. The paper is My Mind's Eye, and the card is Bazzill Basics - Fern.
Another very quick card. The designer paper is Pebbles Inc, and the greeting is from Woodware. The border stamp is from a Hero Arts set Mixed Design Borders. A little bit of matting onto a dark blue Bazzill Basics card.
This is a really quick and easy card to put together. The edge of the card base, and the designer paper (My Mind's Eye - Bloom and Grow) has been punched with the Martha Stewart Doily Lace punch. Then the Golden Leaves stamp from Penny Black at the bottom, and a Hobby Art greeting at the top. The card is 5" x 5". It's one of the morning cards from yesterday's Glitter Pot class. Another one tomorrow for you while I'm in Menorca!
I did another class at the Glitter Pot today, with a lovely group of ladies. Thanks to all of you for a really enjoyable day! We were very busy - doing eight cards in all. This is one of them that I promised to get up here tonight, as it was the last one we did, and some went home still to be assembled! I'm off on holiday first thing tomorrow, but when I return in a week's time I will put up the promised step by step for making the cats. We won't have internet access while on holiday, so I won't be able to reply to any messages whilst away.
The designer paper used here is by Doodlebug, and all of the card is Bazzill Criss Cross. The greeting stamp is by Funstamps. All available from the Glitter Pot.
I have had some requests for how to make the flowers on this card. At last, here it is! (The tutorial on how I made the pot is here.)
For each flower that you want to make, you need to punch out two daisy shapes, and one Christmas Flower shape. I used the Woodware Daisy punches in the Super (blue 2") and big (yellow 1.5") sizes on my card. The Christmas Flower shape is also a Woodware punch, and is a multi - punch which punches out more than one size of the flower.
Use the DEET to score a crease down the centre of each petal. Hold the needle end flat along the length of the petal, and whilst applying pressure, draw the needle down the length of the petal away from the centre of the flower. Do this on both of the daisy flowers.
Hold the flower in one hand as shown, supporting the petal from underneath with your finger.
(My other hand should be holding the ink pad - but I needed it for the camera.) Gently swipe the ink pad along the petal to colour the edges. Turn the flower for each petal in turn.
Once all the edges are coloured, place the flower on the moulding mat, and using the large rounded end of the character shaping tool, apply pressure and 'draw' circles around the base of the petals to make the flower cup upwards.
Place the Christmas Flower shape on the mat and, starting around the outer edges, emboss in a circular motion, gradually moving in to the centre. Start with gentle pressure, and increase it until the flower is a nice deep cup shape.
Side view to show the three pieces after shaping.
Place a pinhead size dot of pva in the centre of one of the daisy shapes (red arrow), and place the other one on top. Alternate the petals of the two shapes.
Sometimes the flowers will spin around when you are trying to stick the two layers together. This is what I do to combat this. With the glued bottom layer on the work surface, and your hand resting on the table to steady it, very lightly hold the petals with your thumb and middle finger as shown - just enough to stop the flower moving. Keep your index finger free for the next step.
Holding the second daisy by a petal with your other hand where indicated by the red dot, place it on top of the first, alternating the petals and making sure that it is central. Once you are satisfied with the arrangement, bring down the index finger of the hand holding the bottom flower (whilst still holding the top flower with the other hand at the red dot) and press in the centre to adhere firmly. It's so much easier to do this than to read the explanation!
Hold the centre by the edge with tweezers as shown, so that the edges cup up towards you. Put very small amounts of pva all around the edges. (Don't worry about the part being held by the tweezers - there will be enough glue to stick it down.)
Still holding the centre with the tweezers, turn it over so that it domes upwards, and gently place in the middle of the flower. Gently adjust it's position by pushing from the side with the tweezers. Once in place, resist the temptation to push it down as this will squash it. Just leave to one side until the glue is completely dry before handling the flower.
If you find that putting the centre in like this is too difficult for you. Then glue it in the other way around as above so that it cups upwards - much easier, and still looks good!
Card/Paper: Whisper White, Handsome Hunter, Almost Amethyst
Ink: Sage Shadow, Almost Amethyst Marker
Stamps: Hero Arts - Mixed Design Borders from the Glitter Pot
Card Size: 9.5cm x 9.5cm (3.25" x 3.25")
Although my daughter asked me for these cards a whole two days in advance, me being me, I didn't get round to doing them until a few hours before they were needed. I saw this card on Splitcoast Stampers which gave me the idea for the house. I drew the shapes on the computer and cut them out with my Silhouette (Robo). The rest of the card needed to be pretty simple so I could do a dozen of them quickly. So I only added a little computer generated text, a quick bit of stamping and sticking, and finally some hand drawn heart shaped smoke.
Card/Paper: Brocade Blue, So Saffron, Whisper White
Ink: So Saffron, Brocade Blue
Stamps: Touch of Nature, Sincere Salutations
Card Size: 15cm x 10.5cm (approx 4" x 6")
This is the second make and take card we did at last night's stamper's ten meeting.
We used the fern and branch image from the Touch of Nature set to make the saffron background. The butterflies were stamped using the blue, and then very carefully had the saffron added by dabbing with a marker so as not to make the blue run. After cutting them out, they were glued on just by their bodies.
To keep the wings elevated, half a foam pad was stuck behind each wing as shown. The backing paper was left on the pad so that it doesn't stick to the card, but just acts to keep the wings raised.
The little yellow corner decorations on the front of the card were made by punching 1/4" circles and shaping them with an embossing tool.
