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Sending Sunshine and Lots of Love

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I am really enjoying my marker colouring and I have a clean and simple card to share with you today. I have downloaded some free images to colour from the Altenew website here. These are great images to practice with and this image was one of them. I have used mostly Altenew Sunshine Valley Alcohol Markers Set F (finished off with Copic markers) to colour this image in after printing the image out on X-Press It paper. I have to admit I do prefer to use Copic markers – the brush is much easier to use and more juicy. However, I have not used the Altenew markers much so they may have dried out a bit. I will keep playing with them. I have kept the card very simple to highlight the flowers.

Products Used:

X-Press It Paper

Heartfelt Creations Deluxe Flower Shaping Paper

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Black Onyx

Altenew Sunshine Valley Alcohol Markers Set F

Copic Markers RV10, E37, E15

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Let’s Celebrate with Altenew Roses

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I am channeling my inner Bibi Cameron with this gorgeous trellis card featuring a magnificent rose made using the Altenew Craft-a-Flower Garden Rose Layering Die Set. These roses are so beautiful and very easy to create. I have had some technical difficulties with making a video on how I coloured these roses but I will look at doing one shortly.

My project:

I have made the 5 1/2″ x 4 1/2″ card according to Bibi’s instructions linked below. I have die cut all the petals and leaves out of Neenah Classic Crest 80Ib White Cardstock and coloured them with the inks I have listed below. I assembled the rose according to the instructions on the packaging and added it to the front of the gate card as shown. I then stamped the sentiment from the Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Stamp and Die Set on white cardstock and die cut it out using the coordinating die and adhered it to the top of the card.

To finish I have added some clear drops to the rose.

Here is the link to Bibiana’s video with instructions on how to make the trellis card: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LCC9bkFOCM&t=302s

Products Used:

Altenew Craft-a-Flower Garden Rose Layering Die Set

Pink Fresh Studio Wonderful Sentiments Stamp and Die Set

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Sparkling Rose, Bubblegum and Raspberry Bliss

Pink Fresh Studio ink – Lemon Whip

Pink Fresh Studio inks – Fresh Knoll and Key Lime

Neenah Classic Crest 80Ib White Cardstock

Hammermill Cardstock

Altenew Obsidian Black ink

Bearly Art Glue

Foam squares

DMC Assorted clear drops

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Birthday Anemone Wishes

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I have been teaching myself how to colour with Copic markers and I have started taking classes through Kit and Clowder. I have coloured for many years and recently I have been using Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers but I have got arthritis in my hands and holding the pens are getting harder for me. So I decided that this year I would look into learning how to colour with Copics as the pens are much easier for me to grip and I have more control. I will post pictures of the classes I have taken so as to show my journey in coming posts.

For my card today I have used a Woodware Craft Collection stamp called Anemone. It is a fairly simple stamp to colour in and good to practice my techniques. I have used a colour combination from one of the classes I have taken which is so pretty. I am still working on my ‘flicks’ and control and it will be interesting to colour this stamp again some time in the future to see how I progress in my colouring journey. However, I am pleased with how I am going and have to set a timer for me to colour in as I enjoy it so much.

For my card base I have used a fabulous embossing folder from Altenew called ‘Wicker Texture’ and then I have added a small frame from the Amazing Paper Grace Candlewick Rectangles to create some interest in the background and also to ground the flower. The sentiment is from the Amazing Paper Grace Lyrical Layered Florals Clear Stamp and Die set. I have kept the background clean and simple to allow the vibrant coloured flower to be the hero.

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Happy Mother’s Day

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Tomorrow it is Mother’s Day here in New Zealand and in many countries around the world. I thought I would share another Mother’s Day card with you today made using the beautiful Altenew Vintage Lace Embossing Folder and the coordinating stencil.

My card is a clean and simple 5″ x 7″ card with the beautiful blue roses framed with an oval cut using the Amazing Paper Grace Oval Fluted Classic die. I have added a foiled sentiment in silver from the Spellbinders Happy Parents Day Hot Foil Plate and Die set. I finished the card off with some pale blue iridescent gems from Pink Fresh Studio.

Products Used:

Altenew Vintage Lace 3D Embossing Folder and coordinating stencils

Altenew inks – Prickly Pear, Blue Mountains, Shades of Purple

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift

Spellbinders Happy Parents Hot Foil and Die Plate

Pink Fresh Studio Jewels – Glacier

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Pink Roses for Mother’s Day

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I would like to wish you all a happy Easter. I hope you all have a lovely weekend celebrating this occasion with family and friends.

Mother’s Day is not far away and I have a sweet Mother’s Day card to share with you. I fell in love with the Altenew Vintage Lace Embossing Folder and the coordinating stencils because the honeycomb background is just gorgeous and I just love roses! I tend to gravitate to roses all the time… I have made a step card using a retired die from Spellbinders – Decorated Birthday Pop Up die and decorated the front with strips made from die cutting white card with the Lawn Fawn Quilted Background die. I then embossed a piece of white cardstock and coloured the roses with the coordinating stencil. I trimmed this down and added a frame using the Amazing Paper Grace Oval Fluted Classics with foam tape to put the focus on the roses.

I reverse hot foiled the Mother’s Day sentiment from Spellbinders Happy Parents hot foil plate and die cut it with the coordinating die.

To finish I have added pink jewels to the intersections of the quilted background.

Products used:

Altenew Vintage Rose Embossing Folder and Coordinating Stencils

Amazing Paper Grace Oval Fluted Classics

Spellbinders Happy Parents Day Die

Spellbinders Decorated Birthday Pop Up Die

Spellbinders Rectangle Foil Plate

Lawn Fawn Quilted Backdrop Die

Spellbinders Essentials Cardstock – Snowdrift

Pink Fresh Studio Jewels – Pink

Spellbinders Gold Foil

Gina K inks – Medium Carnation, Medium Spruce,

Foam tape

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Celebrate with Antique Roses!

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Today I have something very different to share with you. The Craft-A-Flower layering dies from Altenew are just beautiful and I could not resist the Antique Rose layering dies. These dies do make flower making so incredibly easy and a lovely break from making dimensional flowers.

I have created the base of the card using the Altenew – Diamond Stars 3D Embossing Folder.

I have created a band across the card using the Altenew – Creative Edges: Lace Die. The diamond foil is from Amazing Paper Grace Diamonetta Background Glimmer Hot Foil Plate from Delicate Impressions Collection by Becca Feeken and the sentiment is from the Pink Fresh Studio – Perfect Sentiments.

I have used a combination of cardstock from Spellbinders and Creative Expressions Foundation cardstock. I have also die cut some leaves from vellum for a different texture.

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Wedding Wishes

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Welcome back and today I have a wedding card and a coordinating basket using the gorgeous APG dies – Doily Round and Richelieu Square finished with some handcrafted roses.

This set would be perfect to take to a wedding – the basket is big enough to put in a gift voucher or s small gift.

Products Used:

APG dies – Doily Round, Richelieu Square

Heartfelt Creations – Wild Rose, Oakberry Lane, Ornamental Tags, Black Cardstock

Dress My Craft – Soft Floral Oriental Paper, Satin Off White Ribbon, Sparkling Dust, Thread Stamens – Green, Styrofoam buds – 7mm 5mm, Drop Shape Wire Stamens No 2 and 3, Curved Flower, Foliage & Leaves #10

Altenew Vintage Roses Stamp Set

Inks – Memento Summer Sky, Bamboo Leaves, Versamagic Pretty Petunia, Ranger Archival ink – Vivid Chartreuse

Cardstock – Neenah White Solar Cardstock – 180 LB, 220 LB

Fun Foam

Foam Strips

Pearls

Stampendous Opaque White Embossing Powder

Hero Arts Embossing and Watermark ink.

I will be doing a video shortly on how I made the basket shortly and will post here so keep coming back to check.

Happy Crafting

Ka Kite Anu

Patricia

Thinking of You with Marianne Designs and Heartfelt Creations

On By patriciamanhireIn Altenew, Dress My Craft, Heartfelt Creations7 Comments

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Welcome back and today I have another elegant white on white card with some pretty handmade Wild Roses from Heartfelt Creations.

For this card I have layered white card on a 5″ x 7″ base and added the gorgeous Marianne Designs Die LR0236 with the centre die cut out. My Gemini die cutting machine embosses the Marianne Designs dies so beautifully. the flowers are made using the Wild Rose dies from Heartfelt Creations using Dress My Craft Soft Floral Oriental paper. I have used the leaves from the Create a Flower die set from Dress My Craft. The sentiment is from the Best Sentiments stamp set from Altenew.

I hope I have inspired you to create today.

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Ka Kite Anu

Patricia

You are the Best!

On By patriciamanhireIn Altenew, Cardmaking2 Comments

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Welcome back and today I thought I would share a card made during our lockdown. One of my favourite stamp sets from Altenew is the Beautiful Day set and it is perfect combined with the Beautiful Heart stamp set.

This card is sitting on my desk to keep me inspired on my papercrafting journey.

To make this card I have created a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ card base from white cardstock. I have cut a piece of pearlescent vellum from Lawn Fawn 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ and embossed it with the Tufted embossing folder from Stampin Up and adhered it to the front of the card. I have then cut the edge using the Lawn Fawn Reversed Stitched Rectangle die and adhere to the card front.

I have stamped the images from the Beautiful Day and Beautiful Heart stamp sets with Ranger Archival Jet Black ink on Iris cardstock. I have then coloured the images with Zig Clean Colour Brush markers and die cut with the coordinating dies. I played around with the images until I found a pleasing arrangement and then adhere to the front of the card.

To finish the card I have stamped the image from the Altenew Best Sentiments stamp set in Jet Black ink on white cardstock using the Misti. I trimmed the sentiment leaving a small white edge and then adhered to the flowers as shown with some fun foam.

I love how I can mix and match the stamp sets and be so creative with them. And I love this sentiment and why not make a card to inspire you to challenge and inspire yourself!

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Ka Kite Anu

Patricia

Sending Love and Hugs

On By patriciamanhireIn Altenew, Cardmaking, Dress My Craft, Heartfelt Creations, Marianne Creatables2 Comments

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Welcome back.  Today I am sharing a card for everyone out there that has been impacted by Covid19.  In New Zealand we have finally started coming out of lockdown to a very different world and it is still very scary out there despite very low numbers of new cases in NZ.  I have spent the time at home working on my colouring skills and different flowers using different techniques.

I have been looking for this LR026 decorative die from Marianne Designs for some time and was thrilled when I was able to get it from E-Bay.  I know that I am going to get a lot of use with it as it is the perfect backdrop for lovely flowers.  I was inspired by Uma Didwania with her Heartfelt Creations.Wild Roses created using Dress My Craft Soft Oriental Paper.

Materials Used: 

Marianne Designs LR0236

Marianne Designs LR0272

Altenew Best Sentiments Stamp set

Heartfelt Creations Wild Rose – Small stamp and die set.

Heartfelt Creations Oakberry Blossoms stamp and die set – leaves

Dress My Craft Create a Flower – leaves and flowers

Dress My Craft Daisy die

Dress My Craft Styrofoam Buds

Dress My Craft Stamens

Dress My Craft Pollens

Dress My Craft Soft Floral Oriental Paper

Distress ink – Spun Sugar

Memento ink – Lilac Posies

I hope that I have inspired you and cheered you up.

Happy Crafting

Kia Kaha  – stay strong and stay safe and well.

Ka Kite Anu

Patricia