Stretch your Dies Day 5

Yep I'm back again ...

Day 5 of the class is using coordinating stamps and dies ... I only have a few of these and the examples in class were all stunning but I opted to make a quick card CASing the card by Shari Carroll

Pat always comes here on Friday afternoon which I love so I was a little restricted for "me' time as I try to help Pat make something to take home

So this card uses a stamped window and a cut out from the coordinating die

The set I had was from Clearly Besotted stamps and I first stamped and embossed in white onto a piece of acetate

Unfortunately my embossing is nowhere near as neat and clean as Shari's but that acetate is slippery!

Behind the acetate which neatly fits into the coordinating die cut is patterned paper...

I'm hoping to find time in the near future to try out the other 2 examples in today's class - I'm amazed I was even able to keep up as well as I have ... I only missed one day ...

I hope you are all well and wish you a lovely weekend

Till soon be safe

~ Ros ~

Stretch Your Dies Day 4

Hello again ...

Day 4 of the online class is about using your small dies...

I went with a sample by Jennifer Rzasa which is using your mini dies to fill your background

I pulled out those pussy cat dies for this together with the littlest of the balloon dies

I decided that they looked better on a piece of DP ... This is one by American Crafts

One little tip I use when cutting certain images is that if you turn your paper or card over and cut again ... the direction of the image is reversed ... That way my cats don't all go in one direction

My nephew is coming to dinner tonight so I'd better get on ...

Thanks so much for all your lovely comments - I really appreciate it

Enjoy the rest of your day

~ Ros ~

Flap Opening Card

Hello ...

Today I'm sharing another card from the online class and this one I've taken from Carissa Wiley's example ... It's using your dies to create a flap opening

I sponged Avery Elle's Sea Glass ink through a Memory Box stencil for my BG and added a strip of paper from MME before partially cutting through using one of the Lil'inkers stitched rectangle dies to make a flap

I also added a few sponged circles to my base card and stamped under the flap ( stamps are from Clearly Besotted) and finally added a frame cut from 2 of the rectangle dies

I think this is really a fun way to use my dies and I'll be trying this again

Thanks for letting me share with you ...

Till soon

~ Ros ~

Shrinking Die Cuts

Hi there!

I mentioned that I was following an online class "Stretch Your Dies" and I make no excuses for this being a busy card ... I had no idea that you could shrink those big old die cuts using plain foam and couldn't wait to get right to it using the things on my desk

On a card this size (4x6) I would normally only be able to fit one of the larger die cuts but after seeing the tutorial by Jennifer McGuire I was enlightened and amazed ...

I coloured the white foam word "hello" using a Promarker and it looks just like suede!

I'm getting out all those old foam sheets I had pushed to the back of my supplies and I'll definitely be using this idea again...

Spring has paid us a visit today and it's wonderful! The sun is shining, birds are singing and Ginger cat is sun bathing in the garden ... 

I hope it's a good day where you are

Hugs

~ Ros ~

AAA cards Challenge

Hello...

I've enrolled in the online class Stretch your Dies and I'm really enjoying it ... I'll share some cards with you later in the week but today I have a card I made at the weekend with the 

AAA Card Challenge in mind ... The theme is Bare Naked

It's about having a lot of white space on your card - I delved into my scraps and came up with this card

The butterfly was cut from a scrap of white card that I had previously sprayed with various inks and the splattered vellum was left over from an earlier card

The sentiment is by PTI and the sweet little resin rose was from a pack I received as part of a birthday gift from the lovely Wendy ... 

I hope you are enjoying your week ...

Take care

~ Ros ~

City Crafter 253

Hi there!
Happy St Patricks Day to all of you who celebrate the occasion

It's Kirsty's turn to set the challenge over at City Crafter today and Kirsty has given us a 

Photo Inspiration challenge

Source

Don't you just love those colours!! I think this has to be one of my favourite combinations ever! 

Here's my card

I used VersaMagic ink in Pink Grapefruit to sponge the bottom of my card ... It's such a pretty ink and especially when paired with the pale kraft colour in the paper leaves

That little piece of silver mesh was just waiting to be found in my scraps ... I noticed some mesh in one of the squares in the photo and thought this would be perfect... The 3D shell stamp is a sticker

This has to be my favourite make to date so "Thanks Kirsty!!"

Once again we have the lovely Darnell Guesting with us and I'm really looking forward to seeing what our team have come up with this week ...

I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with too ... If you'd like the chance of a Guest Spot with us at CCCB just link up your creation based on the Inspiration Photo and the winner will be joining us on the team...

Have a beautiful day and thanks so much for your visit and your lovely comments

Till soon

~ Ros ~