Sympathy

Sympathy cards are a little challenging for me, maybe its the occasion, I like to keep them very simple, here is my effort. 

A close up of the flower and sentiment...

Until next time, Happy crafting Dawn x

Buckle cards...

I was looking through my photos and found these of cards I had made a while ago and can't remember sharing so here they are.

They both use Sue Wilson's buckle technique, this was my first attempt so please be kind.

As you can see I embossed the top part of my card and stuck dsp on the lower part. I die cut three frames, choosing my centre one to be slightly different to the outside two, and thread a strip of card backed onto black through the frames, I had to do this a couple of times to get it right (Sue makes it look so easy!) I stamped my sentiment onto the left side and added some black "pearls" to finish.

A close up to show some more detail.

My second card is using the same layout but different dies and colour combo.

This time I stamped the top section and embossed the lower section.

Again a closer look at the detail.

Please leave a comment to let me know which one you prefer.

Until next time, Happy crafting Dawn x

The Open Sea

Stampin' Up! have released their new mini catalogue, their first summer mini for the UK market, and to say its bursting with fun new "stuff" is somewhat an understatement.

The stamp set I just had to have and play with first is "The Open Sea" a fabulous stamp set with a male theme (if you want it to be, that is) 

Here is my card, this uses the open sea stamp set and the amazing new label collection framelits dies.

Here is a close up of the beautiful ship from this stamp set, stamped simply in early espresso ink on whisper white card, this is the only card if you like stamping (in my opinion), it takes the ink to perfection. I cut the shape using the brand new framelit dies and made a frame using two of the framelit dies, I embossed the frame using the square lattice embossing folder.

As you can see from this close up I have used all the stamps from this set, the world and compass stamped with versamark and then embossed with clear embossing powder on my base card. The next layer is whisper white card, stamped using the writing stamp, spritzed with chocolate chip, crumb cake and early espresso inks. I layered this onto a piece of hessian for extra texture and finished with a stamped sentiment and embossed with gold embossing powder.

I am really pleased with how this card turned out, leave me a message to let me know what you think.

Until next time Happy Crafting Dawn x