Monumental Wedding Card

Good morning. This summer I have several friends that are getting married. I wanted to come up with a special card which could be personalised and adapted to suit each couple. I made this one in a romantic wedding style adding some stamping using Mackintosh Beauty stamps from Chocolate Baroque.

The theme for this weeks Simon Says Stamp Blog (Wed) is Anniversary/Wedding – so I have entered this one.

How it was made:

I used one of the Monumental dies from Tattered Lace (Wedding) to create the shaped card blank. This is a massive die which uses a lot of card (28.2cm X 14.5cm). To make it robust I used 1 A4 sheet of Centura Pearl (300gsm) plus plain card lining (220 gms) for the front and 2 sheets of plain card (approx. 220 gsm) plus a thick patterned paper sheet to line and build the back.

From the leftover card I used Tattered Lace dies to cut the sentiment, heart (Pin Dot Hearts), mini hearts (Diamond Fold set), leafy sprigs (Fleurs die) and bunting pennants.

Lettering for personalisation was printed onto copy paper using a laser printer and foiled using Toner Sublimation foil and a Mink foiling machine (could be done with a laminator). The letters were then cut out and glued to the little pennant flags.

The front of the card and pennants were lightly sponged with Distress Ink (Old Paper) and randomly stamped using mulitcoloured (purples/pinks) Archival Brilliance Ink (Brilliance ink dries ok on the shiny pearl card). The pennants were hung from a fine satin ribbon.

The floral heart and a couple of small flower heads were stamped onto a spare scrap of pearl card and cut out. Light colouring was added using a damp brush and Distress Inks (Old Paper, Tattered Rose) and glued to the card using 3D glue gel for added depth.

Finished with a little clear glitter glue added to the flower centres. I really cannot resist a bit of sparkle.

 

I also had to make an envelope as the finished card does not fit any standard envelope sizes. The width of the card is almost full length of A4 so to leave enough space at the sides, and to create gluing tabs, I ended up needing 2 A3 sheets to create an envelope. I decided to use a couple of sheets of thinner white card and used my large score board to make a simple envelope. I used 1 sheet to create the front and flap plus tabs for gluing, and 1 sheet to create the back panel. To make it pretty I used an 8 X 8 inch lacy embossing folder (Doily – Tattered Lace) to add some texture and make the envelope look a little more special. I only embossed the central area on this one but the folder could be slid along to emboss right to the edges if desired.

Quick and Easy Mackintosh Love card created for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning. Today I am sharing a quick and easy card made with the Mackintosh themed stamps recently featured on Hochanda. This one can be made in under 15 minutes.

 

 

Materials:

• Mackintosh Beauty, Mackintosh Windows (small flowers) and Amazing Mackintosh Words stamp sets
• Card blank (11.5 X 19cm) with subtle textured and coloured background (or stick a patterned paper to a plain card blank), scrap of stamping card
• Versafine (Onyx Black) and StazOn (Jet Black)*
• WOW embossing powder (Clear Gloss)
• Spectrum Noir Aquatints (red/pink, teal and purple) and Sparkle Pen (clear overlay)
• Ribbon (deep purple)

 

*I used StazOn to stamp the sentiment on my coated card as I wasn’t sure if Versafine would dry on the slightly shiny surface. If you are using an ‘inkable’ type of card/paper the Versafine will be fine for this.

 

How to make it:

1. Stamp the heart and flowers onto stamping card and heat emboss with clear powder. Cut out elements and colour with inks and sparkle pen.
2. Stick the ribbon to card front with double sided tape. Stamp the sentiment. Glue down the stamped embellishments with 3D glue or foam pads for added dimension.

Just about the little things, Mackintosh card created for Chocolate Baroque

 

 

 

Good morning. Today I am sharing another of my show samples with the lovely Mackintosh stamps recently shown on Hochanda.

I used a stamping platform to help with placement of the stamps around the card border. This made it quick and easy but it is not essential. A craft mat and acrylic block with a grid will be helpful to get precise placement but it can be done ‘by eye’. Practice on a piece of cheap copy paper.

Materials:

• Mackintosh Beauty, Mackintosh Windows and Amazing Mackintosh Words stamp sets
• 8 X 8 inch card blank (smooth inkable card), stamping card, black card
• Versafine (Onyx Black)
• WOW embossing powder (Clear Gloss)
• Water based inks (yellow, purple, teal, deep pinkish red)
• Sparkle pen (clear overlay)
• Layering dies (Torn Edge Squares – Tattered Lace)

How to make it:

1. Mount the corner and border stamps onto a gridded acrylic block. Test their placement on a scrap piece of 8 X 8 copy paper. Stamp onto one corner and edge, turn the card 90 degrees and stamp again. Repeat to build the border. Heat emboss with clear powder. Colour with inks and sparkle pen. The embossing resists the ink so makes colouring fairly quick and easy.
2. Stamp the lady onto stamping card. Heat emboss with clear powder. Cut out and colour with inks and sparkle pen. Don’t worry about cutting out the fiddly ‘land locked’ area under the bouquet. When mounted onto the uncoloured background panel it will blend in and not be noticeable.
3. Stamp the panel and sentiment, cut out and mount onto black card, glue to the card front.
4. Glue the lady to the card front with 3D glue gel or foam pads.

Mackintosh Beauty Tag Card created for Chocolate Baroque

 

Good afternoon. Here is another of my show samples for the lovely Mackintosh stamp sets from Chocolate Baroque recently shown on Hochanda.

 

Materials:

• Mackintosh Beauty, Mackintosh Windows
• Black card, acetate, white stamping card, scrap glitter card (turquoise)
• Versafine Inkpad (Onyx Black), StazOn (Jet Black)
• Spritzing inks (pink, purple and turquoise – some with mica)
• Silver metallic marker
• Acrylic paints (pink, lilac and pale turquoise)
• Extra fine crystal glitter
• Double sided sticky sheet
• Organza ribbons (pink, turquoise)
• PVA pearls (turquoise)
• Large tag die (Tattered Lace)

How to make it:

1. Cut and make the large tag shaped card from black card – approx. 20 X 10.5cm.
2. Cut a tag from stamping card to layer onto the card leaving a small border of the black card base showing. Spritz with coloured inks and edge with silver pen.
3. Overstamp the background with floral and the decorative heart stamps.
4. Stamp the panels onto acetate with StazOn ink and cut out. Colour some areas on the back with acrylic paints – leaving some sections clear.
5. Add a layer of double sided sticky sheet to the back of the acetate (just the main shape – omit the little fiddly bits). I drew around the acetate onto the carrier sheet, then cut it out before sticking to the acetate. Pour glitter onto the tacky surface and press down/rub in well. Brush off excess.
6. Stick to background mat with double sided tape – hiding it under opaque painted sections.
7. Stamp the flower onto glitter card and cut out. Add ribbon and stick down the flower.
8. Glue the topper to the card with foam pads for added dimension. Finish with PVA pearls.

Mackintosh Heart Card created for Chocolate Baroque

 

Good afternoon. Today I am sharing one of my samples for the recent shows on Hochanda with the Mackintosh stamp sets from Chocolate Baroque. Quite ‘clean and simple’ for me – but there is a bit of decoupage in there x.

Materials:

• Mackintosh Beauty, Mackintosh Windows stamp sets
• A4 sheet white hammered card and scrap stamping card
• Versamark Inkpad
• Wow Embossing Powder (Metallic Silver Super Fine)
• Spectrum Aqua watercolour pens (gold, olive green and pale pink)
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pen (clear overlay)
• PVA pearls (silver)

How to make it:

1. Stamp the border approx. 8.5cm up from the card edge and emboss with silver powder. Cut along the top edge to create the card back with decorative header. The piece will measure approx. 20.5cm across and 12.5cm high.
2. Trim the remaining card to make the card front – approx. 20.5cm wide and 8.5cm high. Allow extra card at the top edge to score a fold for gluing to the card back to make up the card.
3. Stamp and emboss the heart and flowers for decoupage onto stamping card and cut out. After working out the placement of the heart onto the card front, stamp and emboss the floral sprig onto the card front. Colour all the images with Aqua Markers and Sparkle Pen.
4. Glue down the elements to the card front using 3D glue gel or foam pads for added dimension. Finish with a few PVA pearls.

Chocolate Baroque on Hochanda tomorrow–sneak peek

Chocolate Baroque are back on Hochanda tomorrow and Lesley Wharton is doing 2 shows – ‘Let Lesley Loose’. Shows are at 11am and 2pm (Channel 85 on Freeview,  or watch online at Hochanda.com).

 

She will be doing some FAB demos using some gorgeous stamps and bringing us something new.

 

Here is a sneak peek of my samples. Watch the show to see more fabulous samples from my Teamies x.