Gorgeous Botanical papers

After a few months of non crafting, I have finally got my crafting mojo back - mainly thanks to the gorgeous Botanical papers from craftwork cards that came free with April's Papercraft Essentals magazine.

I would like to enter this into this week's Bring on the Bling challenge on the Allsorts Challenge Blog

Quite a simple card to make:

I inked the edges of a white DL card with Antique Linen distress ink
I matted one of the gorgeous  Craftwork Cards Botanical collection papers onto raspberry Creative Expressions Card before adding this to the card blank.
I stamped the sentimement on to white Centura pearl ( also inked with antique linen) and die cut this with the small pierced flag die from Sue Wilson's frames and tag collection.
I also die cut a butterfly from black card
Finally finished the card off with some pink gems, brads and black dazzlers.

Here are some more cards made from the same paper collection

Thank you Papercraft Essentials Magazine for these gorgeous papers

Sonja
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Favourite Things

Favourite things is this weeks challenge over on the  Allsorts Challenge Blog and this card is just perfect for it.
I have used all my favourites here - stamping, embossing and colouring in  whilst enjoying  another favourite of mine - a steaming cup of coffee.

I started by creating a 5 x 5 inch square card blank from white Centura Pearl card.

I embossed a smaller white piece of card with the Swiss Dot Darice embossing folder. I inked the embossed card with Victorian Velvet and Antique Linen Distress inks.

I cut a black piece of card using the largest of my Spellbinder Label 4 die and stamped the sentiment from the Justrite Coffee Cup stamp set in clear embossing ink. I heat embossed this with Papermania's Sea Foam white embossing powder.  I did the same with the swirl.

I stamped the coffee cup from the same Justrite stamp set in black ink and heat embossed this with clear powder. Before fussy cutting the image, I coloured it using Oatmeal,Denim Blue, Pear Green and Cardinal Red Promarkers. 

I layered it all up and fixed the image with foam tape before finishing it off with a blue gem ( can't have a card without bling)

Really pleased with the end result, I have been wanting these Justrite  stamps ever since I saw Sue Wilson using them a few months ago and finally treated myself to them last week.

Hope you enjoy this too

Sonja

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Quick card using magazine freebie

Here is another quick card using the Fairy Belle papers that were free in the February edition of Simply Cards & papercraft magazine

I am quite pleased with the flower which I made by punching two flowers from white card using my new EK success punch, inked these with Victorian Velvet distress ink , used a cream petal from my stash and also inked this plus a yellow petal. Layered these up and added a blue gem.

I think I should have inked the edges of the papers before assembling, but remembered this too late, maybe next time

Have a lovely day

Sonja

Love is in the air.....

... Is the theme of this week's challenge over at the Allsorts Challenge Blog in which I would like to enter this card.

Papers and stamps used are from the Fairy Belle Collection that came free with the February edition of Simply Cards & Papercraft mag and are simply gorgeous

 I started by matting a piece of light blue patterned paper on top of a white square card blank. Before sticking it down, I inked the edges with Stormy Sky Distress Ink.

I cut a piece of white card and run it through my Grand Calibur using the Darice Swiss Dot embossing folder and inked the entire piece with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink. I stuck this piece diagonally across the blue patterned paper

I cut a strip of the flower patterned paper about half the size of the blue one and stuck it in the middle of the card.

I diecut a heart from white paper and inked this with Antique Linen Distress ink and stamped the rose with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink several times around the edge of the heart.

I punched a small heart from white card and inked this with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink and fixed this with 3d foam to the centre of the big heart.

I stamped the Just for You greeted on a piece of white card and heat embossed before inking the card with the Antique Distress ink and currying it out to fix to the topper. The bow is from the Papermania Portobello kit.

I added some pearls to finish and inked the edges of the card blank with the Victorian Velvet Distress ink.

I hope you like it!

Sonja