…when I see your light it stains my soul with colour

Sharing a card that features the lovely Romantic Bouquet die from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

I made this card using the stained-glass effect Jennifer McGuire featured a little while ago on her blog.  If you’re ever looking for inspiration or just want to see some pretty amazing cards you really need to go check out her blog, she posts loads of useful tutorials and has other resources all generously provided for free.

Over at The Crafter’s Café they want you to make your own background and use dies and/or punches.  I’ve made two backgrounds here, one was the colour for the stained-glass, well I guess that’s a background.  I used an embossing mat to give myself an outline of the die shapes to work with and then coloured them with alcohol inks.  I also used alcohol ink to get the mat I placed the die cut panel onto a similar colour to my embossed top layer, creating my second background.  I’ve also used a die as my main feature on the card.

The die is so lovely and using the stained-glass technique in the soft pinks gives a really feminine feel to my card.  As I’ve also got a sentiment, thanks to the fab chippie from Make it Crafty, I’m entering my card at Aud Sentiments.

Flowers are the current theme at Dies R Us and, as mine are die cut ones, I am linking my card up in their current challenge.

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Bellbird Paperarts Embossing Powder ~ Ultra Fine Platinum

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Elizabeth Craft Designs ~ Romantic Bouquet

Embellishments

Make it Crafty Chipboard Cursive Sentiments ~ Birthday Wishes

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink ~ Citrus, Coral, Dandelion, Shell Pink & Willow

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink Mixatives ~ Gunmetal

Tim Holtz Adirondack Alcohol Ink Pearls ~ Smoulder

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bellbird Paperarts ~ Yupo

Challenges

Aud Sentiments #226 ~ Feminine + A Sentiment

The Crafter’s Café #218 ~ Make your own Background and Use Dies and/or Punches

Dies R Us #120 ~ Flowers

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Come, on wings of joy we’ll fly...

My card today has been made for a colleague for her wedding and features die cuts instead of stamping as the focal feature.

The design of this card was inspired by Redanne who made a beautiful butterfly version, check out her blog to see her original and other gorgeous pieces.  I loved her card from the moment I saw it and knew I wanted to make one someday for something special.  So I went out and bought an accordion card die and then I waited for that special event, which finally came in the form of a wedding.

The bride is not really the traditional white flouncy sort which ruled out an all-white version.  So I was checking out challenges for some colour inspiration and it came from the elegant photo over at Cupcake Inspirations.  The lovely creamy icing looks (at least on my monitor) like the colour paper I’ve used to die cut the birds, the dusting of golden sugar flakes inspired the dusting of gold foil on my birds.  I didn’t have any cardstock in the same cupcakey beige so decided to go with some Kraft instead.  I liked the contrast of the dark table under the cupcakes but thought black would be too harsh for a wedding card so I used a darker brown cardstock to layer over the frame.

I’m not sure how Redanne managed to get her acetate pieces to glue together; I couldn’t so finally cleaned off all the hardened glue and attached them with jump rings.  Guess that’s what happens when you try something new!  And this card does feature a few new things for me, the bird die set is a recent purchase and never used before, the accordion style card is new for me and frankly using brown for a wedding card is a new thing for me too.  With all my new things I am entering my card over at Die Cut Diva’s current challenge.

The current theme at Penny’s Paper-Crafty is for more than one fold, which I have in this card so I am also linking my card up there.

Ingredients:

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Elizabeth Craft Designs Die ~ 772 Accordion Oval Card & 777 Oval Flourish Frame Edges

Noor! Design Die ~ 6002/0258 Blue Oval

Tim Holtz Alterations Decorative Strip Die ~ 659425 Birds in Flight

Papers

Core’dinations Smooth Cardstock ~ Kraft

Core’dinations Textured Cardstock ~ Chocolate Mocha

Couture Creations ~ Acetate

House of Paper Romanesque Card ~ White Champagne

Challenges

Cupcake Inspirations #341 ~ Elegance inspiration photo

Die Cut Diva’s ~ NEW Technique, Die, Stamp, Colours

Penny’s Paper-Crafty #259 ~ More than one fold

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