This colourful card shows how you can create an impact with minimal effort by punching or die cutting the front of you card to see the element on the inside.
Watch my walk through video. I've got a fancy new overhead adaptor for my camera now, so from now on all my videos will be dead dead artistic & good, I bet.
I finished my Mini Memories Simply Created album kit. It's a lovely little book. I've mainly used smaller photos (Pogo prints, passport side and Moos). The album covers were Kraft colour with a clear embossed pattern. I painted them in white acrylic paint then wiped it off while it was still wet, as I wanted white covers.
I used pictures from when my boys were little. It was lovely to complete. My boys are still children, but older now. It was nice to look back at a time when they enjoyed my company & would chatter away to me. These days they only communicate through a complex system of grunts, mostly based around wanting to know what's for tea.
If you currently have small children, do make sure that you photograph the living daylights out them now. Once they hit high school they'll start moaning about privacy and personal space and your pool of scrap-able photos will diminish rapidly. So until then, let them never have an undocumented moment!
Here's a video walk through of the album. (It features my usual high quality video production values, ahem)
If you want to buy the kit, you can find it here. Colourwise, it coordinates with Baked Brown Sugar, Pistachio Pudding, Crisp Canteloupe (those are all 2013-15 In Colors btw), Read Red and Summer Starfruit, so you might want to pick yourself up some coordinating elements while you're there. And this is the clearance rack Tulle I was talking about - £2.35. Bargain!
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My natural design style tends to be a bit chaotic, layered & grungy. If it's got an edge, ink it! If it looks symmetrical, prod it around a bit til it looks wonky! Friends with an eye for crisp lines, symmetry & order itch when faced with my random, mismatched approach.
So, I thought I would have a go at paring it right back & producing something clean, crisp & simple. One colour. No layering (well, hardly any). No inked edges (this one was tough, but the images are so strong, inky distressed edges would have looked weird).
I was aiming for an ink blot test type look with this. What do you see? I see a butterfly & a delightful dancing rabbit. If you see severed limbs you should probably seek professional help. And kindly cease following this blog.
My second card is a simple wedding card using the Perfect Couple stamp set.
I used the image from one stamp & the sentiment from another for this. Totally different from what I would normally make, but I do like it & think it would be great for a younger wedding card.
Another card using the same products as yesterday. The blue, brown & green patterned papers are from the In Colour Designer Series Paper stack. A little goes a long way,
Here's what I used...
Hardwood stamp 133035
Label Love stamp set 130622
Coordinating Artisan Label punch 130920
Gorgeous Grunge stamp set 130517
Little Leaves Sizzlets die 114511
Sizzix Spiral Flower die 129379
2013-2015 In Colour cardstock & ink bundle 131293 (inks & cardstock available to buy individually)
2013-2015 In Colour Designer Series Paper 130136
Linen thread 104199
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