More Glitterpot class cards

Hello again!
I did mean it, when I said I'll be here more often now! *lol* It might not be every day but as often as I can.
As I said on my last post, I still have some cards left to share that I did recently and today it's some more Glitterpot class cards.


This first card uses the Large Flower Background stamp from Hero Arts, which I absolutely love. I coloured it with Copics ( YG61, BG01, BG000, R81, R83, Blender 0) and cut out the middle part with Labels Four from Spellbinders. For the mat layer I cut scalloped borders from pink Bazzil card, put my image panel on top and put the label die in the aperture again. Then I traced the inside of the die onto the pink card and cut that out by hand to get that small border all around.
The large flower to the right was trimmed out from a second print of the stamp, again coloured with Copics (R81, R83, R85, YG61, YG63, YG67, Blender 0) and adhered with silicon glue for a bit of depth. Sentiment is from a Personal Impressions set called Big Sentiments, designed by Paula Pascual and stamped in Versafine Smokey Gray.

Here is a detail view where you can see the dimension of the flower a bit better:

The cut-outs from the above card seemed a shame to throw away, so I added a bit of doodling, ribbon and a sentiment (Hero Arts - Say it all) and made this:

As I said, I love this stamp so couldn't quite leave it alone. For the next card I stamped on watercolour paper and coloured with distress inks. Colours used are: Wild Honey, Mustard Seed, Forrest Moss and Broken China. I matted onto sunshine yellow card and added a turquoise butterfly and banner with heat embossed white sentiment (PI - Big Sentiments).

I played around with watercolour paper and Distress Inks with this stamp some more but not made them into cards yet, this one is stamped in Versamark and heat embossed in white before colouring.

And this one is heat embossed as the above, then sprayed with water and coloured with my fingers dipped into ink. This gives a very soft look.

For the next cards I used a Hero Arts set called "Greetings" and stamped the butterfly collage in Vintage Sepia and again in Onyx Black, trimming the butterfly out of the black after colouring it in pencil.
I distressed the brown with DI in Gathered Twigs and did the same to the Echo Park paper. The image was matted onto turquoise card and set at an angle over dark brown card, sandwiching some white twill ribbon I coloured with Copics to match the butterfly.

Here you can see the butterfly is glued only at the body part and the wings are lifting off the card.

For my last card for now I used the typewriter collage stamp from the set in a similar way, stamping in mauve and grey before cutting and reassembling with a bit of silicon glue. Some pink card and more Echo Park paper and ribbon to finish.

That's it for today, hope you like my projects and thanks for stopping by. If you leave me a comment I'll try my best to return the favour and visit your blog as well!

At long last

Hello there,


I am sorry that I have been absent again for so long. Despite my best intentions I never seem to get round to do the blogging.
Last Saturday was my last class at the Glitterpot for this year (although if you want to attend one of my classes, the January and February ones are up on the website now and you can book now, some are already filling fast!) and I really enjoyed the day with some lovely ladies! I went a bit mad on the sample front but decided to just go with it and prepare the packs so everyone could do any (although not all) card out of the bits provided. It was quite interesting to see which ones people chose to do!
The class was a colouring with Copics one with a focus on nature and landscape. So without further palaver, here are my samples. For the "landscape" part of the session I made these cards:

For these ones I used a couple of Hobbyart sets (Scene it toppers and Flypast) and Echo Park paper "Sweet Stripes" as well as Personal Impressions Sentiment stamps.
Other materials used:  White and coloured/textured cardstock, Vellum, buttons from stash( I think they are Basic Grey) a Spellbinders Label die and of course Copics! I stamped onto Craftwork Cards Premium Digital Paper with Memento ink, Sentiments stamped in Versafine in black and sepia and I distressed the edges of the paper and labels with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.


For the "nature" part I used a lovely crocus stamp set by Imagination Crafts.

As you can see, I went a bit overboard, just couldn't stop using these *lol*
Apart from the stamp set which includes the sentiments and single crocus image as well as the large tile image I used white and coloured, glittered and textured cardstock, Echo Park "Yellow Damask" paper, some ribbon & ricrac, vellum, clear gemstones and again ink, paper and Copic pens as above. The decorative edge on the first card was achieved by using a label punch repeatedly on the edge of the paper to create the border.


That's it for now, hope you like my cards and thanks if you decide to leave a comment!