Floating Frames

 Hello again,

We are having a late heatwave here in New South Wales, this week has been 27C to 30C a little too hot for me. I am again joining the lovely ladies over at Group of Seven Cardmakers this month's technique is Floating Frames I chose some lovely new stamps for my Christmas present from Paper Rose called Sketchy Rose, I stamped them in Memento 'Tuxedo Black' and coloured them with Faber-Castell coloured pencils before die cutting them.

I rolled up pieces of washi tape (sticky side out) to temporarily position the flowers over a 12x17.2cm piece of white card stock.  I added foam circles to the backs and replaced each flower, before die cutting the hexagon from the centre adding the first piece to a card blank covered with black paper.  

The second card uses the die cut hexagon, I have added an Inkylicious sentiment which I won from Snippet's Playground on a snippet of black paper. Adding some clear (no silver backing) flat backed gems, packet says it is meant to be 'shaker mix' also from Paper Rose. The black layer behind the die cut was traced and cut by scissors.

The two cards together

What I used:

Paper Rose 'Sketchy Roses' stamp and die

White A4 cardstock

Faber-Castell coloured pencils

Memento Tuxedo black ink

Clear embossing ink

Gold and white embossing powder

Inkylicious sentiment

Kaisercraft Hexagon nesting die

Kaisercraft Roses embossing folder

MFT Happy die

Scraps of black and gold papers

Magazine freebie stamp 'birthday' and butterfly die

Flourish of gems clear silver 

Adhesives: Foam dots, Double sided adhesive, pva glue

Other: Stanley knife, scissors, steel rule, heat gun.

I would like to enter these cards in:

Group of Seven Gallery Floating Frames

First Card

Creative Knockouts #242 Birthday Wishes

Cut it Up Challenge #325 Happy Birthday 

Beautiful Blossoms #27 Anything Floral goes 

NBUS #72 Anything goes with Never before used schtuff (flower stamps and dies)

613 Avenue Create March Anything goes optional Any Occasion 

Second Card
Love to Craft Challenge Blog #84 Anything goes
Make My Monday Challenge #247 Use die or punch

Crafts Galore Encore #133 Anything goes

Crafters Cafe #317 Anything goes optional CAS

Can You Handle the Pressure? Optional Lucky, St. Patrick's Day

A Cut Above Anything goes with a die cut

Thank you for looking in...

Have a Wonderful Week...

Megan

p.s. Many Thanks to my kind blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!

LPoCF #232 The Paper Shelter

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Winter so far has seen warm sunny days and cool nights, followed by heavy rains which has again seen the main dam for Sydney spilling over, bringing flood watch back to the plains, this time we only had 50mm out of the 200mm+ they had expected, so fewer people have been affected and the Government has stopped a land release in an area which is prone to flooding. We are very glad that the current weather is mild, mind you we are still experiencing our regular cold weather, as the central heating decided last week to stop working, the first company said it would be three weeks before someone could make it out, the second company are sending someone out next week, as the reset instructions are not working... we have a secondary heater which will see us burn through much of what is left of our old eucalypt which was cut down as it was rotting.... 

Today brings us to another All new Anything goes challenge with my teammates at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends, we are sponsored this fortnight by The Paper Shelter, who allowed me to select one set from the store which we all used called Tea Time, I have used three of the set to create my card. Naturally as I layered on the embossed panel the card shifted and it has ended up slightly skewed, and likely only I will notice the tiny gaps where two pieces of my scraps are not quite lined up...  

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Here is my card:-

What I used:-
The Paper Shelter 'Tea Time' Digital Set
White 12.6x 17.8cm card blank
White cardstock
Kaisercraft embossing folder 'Roses'
Faber-Castell coloured pencils
Kaisercraft 'High Tea' paper pad from the scrap strips
Fiskars Scalloped border punch

Tuxedo Black Ink pad

Paper Rose Modern Poppies sentiment stamp

Pierced Fishtail flags MFT
Double sided tape, foam squares

I would like to enter this card in:-

The Paper Shelter #600 A Time to Celebrate

Colouring with Pencils- Anything goes

Can you Handle the Pressure Anything goes optional Beach theme

Creative Knockout's #523- 2 or more patterned papers

Polkadoodles Week 24 Anything goes

Thank you for looking in... 

Stay Warm or Cool depending on your location....

Have a wonderful week...

Megan 

P.S. a Huge Thank you to my kind blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all... 

Japanese Inspired

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Highly unusual for me to post twice in two days! I have a friend who has a Japanese daughter-in-law and asks me to create a card especially for her each year. I have been looking online and discovered a handmade card using Japanese papers which have been padded. I have gone fairly basic with my card and added an embossed background which is also seen in the patterned paper. A further search suggests this technique is called Japanese Padded Paper Quilting here is a link to another blogger Christine where I read about the technique.

Inside each square is a smaller square of cardstock which I attached a very thin layer of quilt batting, about 1/3 the usual thickness of the batting. I then wrapped the patterned paper around and stuck the paper edges onto the back. A little like covering school books.

Here is my card:-

What I used:-

White 10.5x14.8cm card blank
Embossing folder
Gold paper 
white cardstock
Couture Creations 'Asian Wave' Embossing folder
Japanese paper squares
Stitched square dies
thin layer of quilt batting
Mystery Sentiment stamp 
Clear embossing ink 
Gold embossing powder

I would like to enter this card in:-

Can you Handle the Pressure 1st Challenge use Pink

Daisy Chain Challenge For the Girls

613 Avenue Create Anything Goes 

Bizzy Bec's Store Blog Challenge Anything Goes

Seize the Birthday Challenge Anything goes optional sparkle and shine (the patterned paper has a sheen and the gold layer is metallic, you cannot really tell in the photo though)

Thank you for looking in...

Have a wonderful week...

Megan

P.S. A Huge Thank you to my lovely blogging friends and visitors who take the time to stop by and leave me a comment, I truly appreciate them all!