Hi guys

I'm here to introduce the March challenge at Perfectly CAS...



The rules are simple, we want to see you using die cuts while keeping your designs to just one third of the card or less.

I chose to use some die cuts to create the laser cut effect...


This took a little measuring and lining up but wasn't too difficult.  I began with two strips of white cardstock and stamped the sentiment along the edge of one of them.  I then die cut the Gardenia die twice, laid the strips down upside down and adhered the die cuts across the gap on the reverse, thereby creating one complete panel.  I laid the strips onto my glass mat and use those guidelines to keep it straight.  I then adhered a strip of patterned paper behind the die cuts and trimmed off any excess of the paper and die cuts.  The panel was then popped onto the card base using fun foam.

Materials used:

• Die: Memory Box - Gardenia
• Stamp: Clearly Besotted - A Little Sentimental
• Patterned Paper: First Edition - Wildflowers

This challenge will run until a few days before the April challenge starts, so there is almost a month to play along.

Hi there

As promised, I'm back with the rest of my samples using the new dies from Honey Doo Crafts as well as some existing products in the range.

And don't forget, Amanda from Honey Doo will be showcasing the new dies, along with some of their existing products on Create & Craft TV tomorrow, Friday 17 January 2020 at 9am and 1pm.

Ok, let's get to it, and first up are two cards using the new Tartan die...


I die cut a rectangular aperture in the front of the card base and also in some cardstock to be used as the upper panel.  I then cut the tartan die cut in half and adhered these back to back so there were no raw edges.  These were then sandwiched between the card and panel and the panel was adhered to the base using 3D foam.  I stamped and heat embossed the flower twice on yellow vellum, fussy cut these and adhered them together.  I added some decorative crystals to the centre.  The sentiment was stamped on a die cut tag and adhered under the flower, and a bow added to finish.


Materials used:

• Dies: Honey Doo Crafts - Tartan; Create a Smile - Cool Cuts Double Stitched Rectangles; MFT - Stitched Rectangles, Stitched Traditional Tags
• Stamps: Honey Doo Crafts - Chrysanthemum, New Job
• Ink: VersaMark; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Opaque Bright White
• Accents: Cosmic Shimmer Glitter Jewels - Iced Crystals
• Vellum and ribbon from stash

Here I used the Tartan die again to partially cover the background...


I adhered some mid grey cardstock to the card base then used the tartan die on dark grey textured card.  I trimmed this on the diagonal and adhered it to the bottom corner.  I stamped and heat embossed the flowers and leaves on clear vellum and coloured on the reverse with Zig markers.  These were fussy cut and layered up and adhered in place.  The sentiment was also heat embossed on a die cut piece of vellum and adhered under the flower with a glue dot.


Materials used:

• Dies: Honey Doo Crafts - Tartan; Spellbinders Nestabilities - Reverse Wonky Rectangles
• Stamps: Honey Doo Crafts - Chrysanthemum, Retirement
• Ink: VersaMark
• Embossing Powder: Altenew - Pure White
• Vellum from stash coloured with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers

I die cut a white panel with a stitched rectangle die and cut a circular aperture.  I die cut the Encircle die once from teal coloured cardstock and again from patterned paper.  I added some adhesive to the card base, trimmed down and adhered the positive part using the teal die cut.  I then inlaid the negative sections using the patterned paper die cuts.  I stamped the sentiment before adhering the upper panel on 3D foam.


Materials used:

• Dies: Honey Doo Crafts - Encircle; Create a Smile - Cool Cuts Double Stitched Rectangles; Hero Arts - Infinity Circle dies
• Patterned Paper: First Edition - Wildflowers; teal cardstock from stash
• Stamp: Honey Doo Crafts - New Job
• Ink: Versafine - Onyx Black

And finally, I've used one of the existing stencils, Mosaic, along with two stamp sets, Budding Flourishes and Repot Rose...


I blended a die cut panel lightly with Distress Inks before adding the stencil and then deepening the colours.  I stamped the floral image in black ink directly over the blended background.  To finish I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in gold onto a strip of vellum, wrapped this around the panel and adhered it to the base.


Materials used:

• Stencil: Honey Doo Crafts - Mosaic
• Ink: Distress Ink - Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Broken China; Versafine - Onyx Black; VersaMark
• Stamps: Honey Doo Crafts - Budding Flourishes, Repot Rose (sentiment)
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Metallic Gold Rich

Addicted to Stamps and More - Challenge #372 - Make your Mark (ink blending and stencilling)
Sweet Stampin - Attitude of Gratitude
STAMPlorations - January Stencil Challenge - Anything Goes





Thanks again for visiting, I hope you can take a look at the products and demos on Create & Craft tomorrow.  If not, you can watch the shows on catch up on the website.  And don't forget, all the Honey Doo products are also available to purchase direct from their store, here.


(AD - some products kindly gifted for design team purposes)

Good morning

My fellow honeys and I have got together again recently and been creating cards from an identical kit of crafty goodies.



One of the gang puts together an envelope of the same secret crafty bits and sends the happy mail to each of us, and we then get creative with it.  It was my turn to supply the kit this time so I'm excited to see what my talented teamies have done with it.  The fabulous honeys are:

Hiya

Hopefully my posts will be more frequent in the weeks to come.  I'm in the middle of a big declutter at the moment so the flat is in a bit of a pickle to say the least!

Today I thought I would share with you a card I made for my very best friend's birthday.  I was going to publish this at the weekend but had to wait in case she took a sneaky peek at my blog!  Its very similar to another recent creation, but using a variation of the image and paper.



Not too happy with the colouring on this one, it all went a little wrong but happy with the overall card, these Wild Rose Studio stamps are so cute :)

Materials used:

• Design Paper: First Edition Paper - Spring Feast Paper Pad
• Cardstock: Kanban 300gsm Brilliant White Cardstock
• Stamps: Wild Rose Studio - Girl with Cake & Everyday Greetings sets
• Ink: Impress - Jet Black; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities - Reverse Wonky Rectangles
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Ribbon and pearls from stash

Thanks for visiting today, hopefully I'll have a lot more to show you very soon.

Take care

Neet x

Since starting my blog I think this has to be my favourite card so far, I'm really pleased with the result.

I am entering this card into the following two challenges:

• Design Paper: First Edition Paper - Spring Feast Paper Pad
• Cardstock: Kanban 300gsm Brilliant White Cardstock
• Stamp: Wild Rose Studio - Best Friends
• Ink: Impress - Jet Black
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities - Reverse Wonky Rectangles
• Brad and Rub-On: Hot Off The Press - Words, Hearts & Flowers
• Ribbon and pearl from stash