Out of Africa - gilding flakes again

Hello Everyone,

It's been a busy couple of days, keeping me from posting anything. However, here are the finished cards using the Out of Africa stamp set - some of you may have spotted the toppers on this WOYWW 110 post a couple of weeks ago.

The toppers were made following Barbara Gray's demo,using double-sided adhesive sheets, gilding flakes, mica powders, and the Out of Africa Clarity Stamp set with black archival ink, and simple matting on pearlescent card and layering on Papermania textured cardstock.

The larger (A6) of the toppers was just split into three, matted onto gold coloured pearlescent card and then layered onto a green card base. The smaller one started off the same A6 size but I got a fingerprint on the adhesive and that's a disaster - it shows through the mica :( Luckily the offending print was in the top left corner so I trimmed it off and matted the topper onto a pale gold pearlescent card and then layered it onto a brown card base.

The inserts are just white copy paper stamped with the warrior using Big and Juicy Spice ink pad.

And that's it - off to do a bit more blog-hopping, attempting to catch up after the last couple of hectic days.  I hope you are all well and that you have a great weekend coming up.

Wild Poppies Card

Good evening to you all,

This is for all of you, especially Neet, who wanted to see the finished card that I featured in my WOYWW post this week.

As I said on that post I did not have all the materials suggested by Barbara Grey in her tutorial for this card but I think I've done a creditable substitution job : ) This is the second attempt at the stamping - I was not happy with my first stab at it. This I'm much happier with.

Materials used:

Card:

• White card for base
• Stampin Up Crumb Cake for matting
• Create & Craft A5 Textured Card in Red for matting.
• Clarity Stamp Wild Poppies
• Sheena Douglass A Little Bit Sketchy 2 Optimism (sentiment)
• Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad
• Krylon 18kt Gold Leafing pen

Insert:

• My Craft Studio Professional
• White copy paper 80gsm
• Nitwit Collections digital Cookin' Cookies Too - Red Striped

I made masks from a post-it pad and used Barbara's technique of ink, stamp and stamp again to get the effect that some poppies are in the foreground and some further back. It was a bit tricky working out the spacing of the pieces after cutting it up but I got there in the end and I think the edging with the gold pen just finishes them perfectly.

I just made a fairly simple insert and was lucky to find that I had digital paper already on my PC that picked up the red/brown/gold colours used in the card. And, I don't know what I'd do without the graphics programme in My Craft Studio - I was able to digitally punch a strip from the paper and use it to decorate the insert.

I've been experimenting with shaving foam and Cosmic Shimmer Mists today to marble some card. It worked out very well and some of the results are lovely. I'm hoping to make a card using some of the card later and maybe it will feature on a later post.

That's me lot for today and thanks for reading. If you wish to leave a comment it will be much appreciated as I love to hear from and you and enjoy receiving feedback.

Bye for now.
Elizabeth