Black And Gold

Today's card was inspired by a photograph I saw and reminded me of a couple of cards I made just the other week, you can see them here at the bottom of this page.  So I turned it round and made black the background instead and heat embossed using gold powder.

The 'happy' is from Stampin' Up!'s a Hello You die set and I used their gold glimmer paper, which I love.  I punch out a couple of circles and added them randomly to the gold embossed dots too.

Inside I used the sentiment from the Build a Bouquet set, which I find very loving.

Here are the previous cards I made.

Well I hope you have enjoyed these cards and will come back tomorrow to see what I have then.  Take care of you.

Pauline x

TGIF The Follow-Up

I have a second card I am submitting the TGIF weekly challenge 'clean and simple'.  Here it is.

The card stock is all Stampin' Up!  Timeless Elegance is the background with Very Vanilla and Basic Black.  The sentiment is from the Hello You die set in gold foil and gold heat embossed.  Inside I used the Itty Bitty Heart punch and the Hearts Border punch with gold glimmer paper.  

The black accents are from my stash and I have used Die-namics dies.

Click HERE to go to the TGIFsketch challenge blog

Well I'm off to make more cards as its raining once again here in wet Carnoustie.  Hope your day is sunny and bright.  Take care of you.

Pauline x

Gold and Mint Macaron Cotton Paper Card from Stampin' Up!

Today's card is fun, interactive and every glitter girls inner child.  Stampin' Up! have brand new cotton paper which feels like tissue paper.  It is gorgeous.

The front layer of velum has been heat embossed with gold embossing powder.  All the pages are made to resemble notepad paper crested by using my Cinch and then snipping into the holes.

Here are some SU Bermuda Bay sequin.  Love it.

Here is the new cotton paper.  It is adorable.

The glitter bow paperclip was made using the Bow Builder punch, hot glued and the tails double layered so it looks good from both sides.  There are more Bermuda Bay sequin on the inside too.  The top of each layer has been raised on Dimensionals to help create definition and interest.

Great fun and I'm sure the receiver will love it.  I would.

Take care of you.

Pauline x

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Watercolour Wonder

Today's card I have used one of my favourite techniques; watercolouring.  I use an Aqua brush and paint the lines and I have used three different colours, Mint Macaron a new in colour for 2015/217, Pool Party and Bermuda Bay inks.

I then adhered this to Lost Lagoon card to coordinate with the inks.  I then used my 1" circle punch to punch a circle from pink card from my stash, very similar Blushing Bride. I then took a piece of gold velum and separated it to create two flags.  I adhered some white cotton with Crystal Effects and put the butterfly punched from the Elegant Butterfly punch onto half a  Dimentional placing this on top.

The sentiment has been embossed with gold embossing powder die cut and layered onto another piece of Lost Lagoon card then Dimentionals added to create some depth.  Gold sequin were also added adhered with Crystal Effects.

Inside the card has been stamped in Mint Macaron.  Sorry, this stamp set has since retired.

This card is been made especially for the TGIF weekly challenge.  This week it is a mash up of the previous weeks.  Here are the challenges.

  

Can you guess which I used?

Why don't you check out more great cards over on the tgif blog, just click here 

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you all have a glorious weekend.

Tale care of you.

Pauline x

Watermelon Wonder and Gold Card

Today's card continues with my gold and Watermelon Wonder theme.  I love this combination as it reminds me of summer corals and suntans.

I used the Star boarder punch to create the accents on the left then layered this on top of a strip of Watermelon Wonder.  I then lined up three words from the Fabulous Phrases stamp set and stamped in VersaMark onto card then heat embossed with white embossing powder.  Using my cinch I then replicated a notebook page.

Sizzix Basic Shapes die was then used to create the glitter and foil hearts in gold.  The sentiment comes from the Flower Patch stamp set and this was also heat embossed with gold embossing powder.  

A gold glitter dot was added and gold twine from SU also to pull it all together.

I hope you are enjoying my cards as much I enjoy making them for you to see.

Take care of you.

Pauline x

Simply Elegant

This mini series of elegant cards I hope is inspiring you.  Today's card again uses mainly Stampin' Up! products with the butterflies from Heidi Swapp Minc accessories pad.

Again I used the Kraft resist paper, glassine leaves and white cotton thread.  The sentiment was heat embossed using gold embossing powder from Stampin' Up! with accents of mini gold glitter paper hearts.  The banner across the middle of the card is washi tape in gold hearts onto white card then simply cut to decorate.  Pearl accents are from Stampin' Up!

Happy Thursday folks, it's nearly the weekend.

Take care of you.

Pauline x

Flower Card with a Gold Accents

Tonight I have been making more cards.  I used Baked Brown Sugar card stock and Petite Petals punch.  The background cardstock and flowers are Whisper White.

First using Crumb Cake ink I stamped the card using a stamp from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set.  I love this set as they provide wonderful background accents without being too intrusive into the rest of the card.  Using a sponge dauber, Crumb Cake and Soft Sky ink I then highlighted around the edges of each flower.  Using the back of my inkpad scrubbing pad and the end of a round pencil I pressed the flowers into the foam backing to make the flowers curl.  I then used Candy Dots and adhered these to the middle of the flowers and adhered the flowers using glue dots to the card.

I then used my leaf scoring tool from my Susan's Garden toolkit and scrap pieces of gold card, which were remnants from die cutting Christmas words I cut a few days ago to make some Christmas cards. I am a terrible person for not throwing away even the tiniest scrap of paper and on this occasion I am really glad as these leave shapes in gold I think make these cards simply amazing.

So of course the 'amazing you' was then heat embossed using gold embossing powder.

All these products can be purchased from me.  Please click on the tab link above and this will take you directly to the Stampin' Up! order site.

I hope you have had a great day.  Take care of you.

Pauline x

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.

Blushing Bride And Gold

Today I have made another two cards.  I used Blushing Bride ink and gold embossing powder both from Stampin' Up!   I used the framelits set, which you can also purchase, some gold bakers twine and some stamps from the Point and Click set to embellish.

I used an embossing folder from my stash to add layers and depth.  I love these, so pretty.

Hope you are having a great day.  Take care of you.

Pauline x

Table built using Product Table Builder by The Crafty Owl - Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.