An Old Fashioned Floral Card

Josette here with my Tuesday Card.  This card is simple as well.  I created the background with pink and silver glimmer mist, added a touch of teal, and cut down.  Using a punch Created a doily.

The focal image was colored with Distress Markers, die cut and mounted onto a black card stock that was fussy cut using the die cut as the pattern. 

Daffodils

No sentiment required.

This is an example of a simple card that is easy to mail.

Thank you for stopping by, 

Happy Crafting,

Josette

Enjoy Your Day

This is Kim. Today I have a vintage inspired card using Sweet Stamps' Love Birds ATC set. I stamped it using Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored in the image using Zig's Real Brush Watercolor pens.

I fussy cut the image after the watercolor was dried. The sentiment is from the Simple Greetings set. I  stamped the sentiment with Versamark then used white fine embossing powder .

Graffiti and Gears (aka the card that wanted to go steampunk)

Happy Monday, G&P Friends!

I have a girlie glam kind of card for you today! I started with the gears and thought I'd go steampunk (seems that Sandy and I were sharing some creative vibes!), but as you can see, this card went in a different direction...

Here are the supplies you'll need:

Globecraft & Piccolo

Embossing Enamel Mardi Gras

Enamel Powder Adhesive Fluid

Small Gears Accents (A131)

Bling on a Roll Silver

Background Stamp with words

Rose Red Seam Binding

Assorted flowers

Corrugated Cardboard

Picket Fence Distress Stain

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

The bling on a roll is so easy to use! It's faux bling that comes 'stringed', so you can cut it to size. It's so sparkly! You can use alcohol based markers, such as Copics to customize the bling to match your project and 1/8" Super Sticky Tape to adhere the bling.

The Mardi Gras Embossing Enamel is such a lovely steampunk/vintage mix - burgundy and gold. The various sized particles really worked with this design giving it depth and texture right where it was needed!

The Accents are easy to color with 3D Enamel Gels or embossing enamels (or any other coloring medium for that matter!), but I decided to leave them natural.

And a bit of Embossing Enamel splatter using the Mardi Gras! See the spots of gold?

Thanks for stopping by today! See you tomorrow for a project designed by Tracy.

Inky hugs,
Angi

Vintage style French Bubble Frame

Morning everyone, Tracy here. 

Have you been and checked out the new Spring release ? there is some fantastic items in the release, so if you haven't checked it out, then what you waiting for ! 

Onto what I have been creating this week. 

I have used one of the fab Bubble Frame kits, the one I have used is the new French Oval Kit, and it is beautiful ! 

I wanted to go with a vintage/shabby style with it...

What do you think ? I was really happy with how it turned out. 

On the actual frame I have painted it with Off white paint, and then used a Crackle glaze, once dry I used Distress stain, which i rubbed all over and then buffed off. 

The edges of the frame and French oval I rubbed some gold wax. 

Inside the Bubble I have used the new Stacey's stacking flowers, which are brilliant and so versatile ! I used Aged White Embossing Enamel & Copper Kettle Embossing Enamel on the flowers and trimmed them so they sat around the edge of the frame, I also "lifted" some of the petals to give some dimension to them.

I have also used one of the butterflies from the Butterfly Accents set and one of the flourishes from Medium Flourish Accents set, i embossed these using Bahama Aqua Embossing Enamel

Here is a closer look at the butterfly...

You can also see the crackle and the beautiful frame better in this picture. 

I hope you like what I have been creating this week, don't forget to check back everyday and see what the rest of the team have been creating, and why not head on over to our Facebook page and share what you have been creating too. 

Happy crafting. 

Vintage/ Shabby Chic Challenge Winner

Using Random.org, a winner from last week's challenge was chosen.

And the winner is....#32

Congratulations
Julie
from Australia

Please contact me for your winning prize of a $20 shopping spree for rubber stamps at SweetStamps.com.

Thank you to everyone who joined in on the challenge, we hope you had fun and will join us again — we have a new challenge every Tuesday!

SweetStamps Challenge #60 Vintage/ Shabby Chic

Hope you had a great Easter weekend! This week's challenge theme at SweetStamps is:

VINTAGE or SHABBY CHIC

Join us in this challenge for a chance to win $20 of rubber stamps from SweetStamps. Rules are listed in the sidebar and instructions can be found at the bottom of this post.


Check out the creativity of our sweet & talented design team this week:

Bonnie Brown

Dawn Bennett

 

Dawn Lotharius

Jackie Randolph

Jacqueline Hill

Jenn Cochran

Joni Mastronardi

Kendra Sand

Shelly Schmidt

Tamara Morton

Sandy Fredrick

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Shop the SweetStamps online store for lots of beautiful vintage stamps, and don't forget to check out the great selection of embossing folders and 6x6 paper pads too!

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WIN FREE STAMPS! 

Join our weekly challenge

You can use any stamp on your challenge entry, but if you use a SweetStamps image, you will get two entries into the giveaway! To enter the challenge, please add the URL to your actual blog post or online gallery to the InLinkz at the end of this post. Please do not link to your main blog; we want to be able to find your post to leave you comments. Also, please link back to our blog.

Remember, you can only enter the challenge one time, use a SweetStamps image to get an extra entry in the challenge. Please limit the amount of challenges to 10 (including ours).  You must link back to us in your blog post.

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Next week's challenge is a Double Dutch Fold card...check out the tutorial here.

Happy Stamping! Hope your day is super sweet!

:) stacey