Have a Wonderful Day - my card for DH

Morning Everyone,

I hope you are all well, and that everyone caught up in the gales, storms and generally nasty weather, is okay.

I have a busy day scheduled so this will, of necessity, be a very quick post. I just wanted to share the card I made for the EM's birthday today.

Difficult to photograph this one because of all the shiny surfaces. This is the best of a bad batch of pics. This was a painty, inky, messy job that took way longer than anticipated, but was great fun to do :)

The topper is made from one of the many prints pulled of the Gelli plate a few weeks ago, inked, stamped, waxed silver and Frantaged,  The base layer has been embossed with a little-used M-Bossibilities folder, inked and waxed ... that gilding wax gives gorgeous results but, oh boy is it messy :))

Materials used:

• Black and teal Papermill Direct card
• Spellbinders M-Bossibilities Regal folder, Martha Stewart Arches edge punch, Tim Holtz DIs, Black Soot, Peacock Feathers and Pebeo Silver Gilding Wax for base layer
• Gelli plate, black, blue and orange acrylic paints; Special Touch Circles mask and bubble wrap for print Stamp from Sheena's A Little Bit Sketchy Only Words - Through The Rain and Black fine tip pen; Turquoise Frantage
• silver card candi from Craftworks

That's it - I said it was going to be brief, didn't I. Got to get on :)

Take care and have a happy Monday.

All The Flowers - Shaving Foam, Frantage and Beadazzles

Hi Everyone,

Surprise! I wasn't needed for jury service after all ... just like they didn't want 79 others who received a citation too. So I live to be cited another day :)

Now, what has your day been like ... a good one, I hope.

March's swap challenge on UKPC required a card made using the shaving foam marbling technique so here's what I came up with.

I marbled some white card with a mix of turquoise and brown shimmer inks and the result was very nice. It's not too evident in the photograph but there is also a very pretty scroll with flowers and butterflies stamped in aqua on top of the marbling.

Before matting it on to a turquoise cardstock, it was sprinkled with various Frantage powders and sparkly/flaky bits from a turquoise encrusted jewel kit. Yes, after months of mixing my own powders I caved in and now have one beautiful kit. Love that the result is different every time.

The flowers were stamped, embossed and cut out of turquoise vellum - and that's Beadazzles in the centres - something else for me to love :)

Inside and back were decorated with the trimmings of the marbled cardstock.

Materials used:
Base: white Kanban A6 size card base; scrap of Core'dinations cardstock - turquoise textured - for matting
Background: smooth white cardstock, shaving foam, Luminarte Radiant Rain in Teal Zircon and Autumn Leaf for marbling; Tim Holtz distress ink, Peacock Feathers and Dimensions Crafts Butterfly Scroll; Stampendous Frantage Encrusted Jewel Kit - Teal
Topper: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Twenty-Five, Verve Stamps - All The Flowers, VersaMark, Heat-it-Up Gold embossing powder
Flowers: scrap of K&Company turquoise vellum, Dawn Bibby flower stamp from Flowers and Leaf stamp set, Personal Impressions flower stamp, Suze Weinberg's Beadazzles - Jazz
Ribbon: aqua seam binding from Ribbon Girl

It seems I'm going through my turquoise phase at the moment ... but it is a pretty colour that seems to be liked by most people. I once read that it is the only colour that suits everyone, whatever their skin and hair colour and I'm inclined to agree.

Because of the scraps of Core'dination cardstock and vellum used for the flowers I'm hopping and skipping over to Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground - Week 66 - and I'll stop by to see what Di has been up to today while I'm there :)

Right, methinks it is time for a cuppa.

Thanks for dropping in and do take care, sleep well and have a good day tomorrow.

Oh, and happy crafting too,