Postage tag card

I am right into the stamping, distressing thing at the moment and the combinations of bird and butterflies is gorgeous. Here is the third card I made used a combination of Tim Holtz "Papillion stamp set" and the Vintage blue stamps by Glitz sgtamps
Firstly I cut the card to the final size, stamped postage stamps in blue ink on it. I then cut out a piece of thin card to make the flap at the top and stamped a postage stamp /watermark on to this in brown (Pinecone) and glued this to the top of the card. The edges were smudged with the brown colour Pinecone, and smudges of blue were  added to the white card to give it a vintage look

The tag was cut out and the butterflies (Papillion) were stamped and coloured with colouring pencil. I placed a mask over the top and stamped the postage stamps. Edges were distressed with brown and a sentiment was added to the bottom of the tag. I glued some lace to the bottom of the tag and the bottom of the main page of the card.Three little stamps wereglued to the front of the main card. Inside I stamped the whole set of butterflies down the edge . Sooooo much fun to do......

Birds

So much fun and easy to do...
Here is another card I made using the vintage blue stamp set . Firstly I stamped a piece of dark blue card with a text stamp ( Tim Holtz-Papillion) using white  ink. Then I stamped the birds on to the card, placed a mask over the birds and stamped the "postage mark"
I used colouring pencils to colour the birds blue and dabbed a bit of blue and yellow ink onto the card to take away the brightness of the white card. In the bottom corner I stamped another stamp mark and coloured this as well. A piece of fabric was glued to the left hand side of the card and some string tied around this. The stamped image was then adhered to the card placed over the stip of fabric.

The same stamp was used to make the piece that was placed on the inside I usually place something over  1/3rd of the inside, and a sentiment stamped beside it.

Vintage Blue

 Vintage Blue stamp set by Glitz...

Don't you love the colour blue...any one who knows me knows that it is my favourite colour so when i saw the ideas in the latest Craft Stamper magazine I just had to have a go.
Here are some pictures of a card I made my gorgeous daughter for her birthday.A card was made then a patterned paper laid on top and then the stamped page was layered on top of this .I used a generic blue stamp pad and stamped the rose motif. I then masked the rose and stamped the postage mark over the top in "pinecone" stamp colour. I buffed the edges with the same colour and added a hint of mustard on the stamp mark. the final touch was the little postage stamp in the corner and some string tied around the card.

I stamped the rose on the edge of the inside of the card and place a strip of the patterned paper to connect the front to the inside and added a sentiment to top it off. I am really pleased with how it all turned out.   Craft Stamper magazine for reference-found here http://www.craftstamper.com/

Grandad

 A couple of pages of my grandfather when he was just a wee boy. I have used gorgeous paper from the DCWV range called "the Mariposa Stack". they are such lavish pages that you really do not need to add too much else to them

After the wedding

 Here I have cut out the shape by using a template and manually cutting the shape.( no machine used on this occasion). The photo has a contrasting colour mounted to help it pop out. Little tears were made and lace popped behind these to give an antique appearance.

 The fence is cut using a Creative memories shape cutter. I interwove roses through it to make it appear that they were growing along it. Ribbon leaves were placed up the right side to help balance the page. Beautiful paper roses were placed in the corner and a chip board print is placed at the bottom. A bit of bling was addes and pink pearls placed intermittantly on the fence to tie it all together. A wee bird was placed at the top( not sure if I stamped this or it was a rub on now) for a bit of a quirky feel to the page.

The key hole is from Tim Holtz "Hardware Findings: and the scroll is tim Holtz "Elegant Fourishes" alterations  Sizzix cutting templates. These were placed on the left side to help balance the page and give this corner a bit of zing

Wedding Day (2)

 I started by really distressing the main page. I thoroughly wet the outside of the paper so that I could scrunch it alot, and then I had to let it dry before doing anything else to it. As it was fairly heavy paper it took a bit of wetting to be able to scunch it up. I cut out a circle in the middle and distressed the outside of this with a distressing tool and tearing the paper. I laid a preprinted overlay of lace and then place flowers and  lace around the outside of the circle.

 The top "hinge' is from Tim Holtz templates for cutting out shapes and I wove leaves and roses around this. The lettering was cut using the cricut but is was one of my first attempts and I did not realise or know how to get the lettering all one size. (I do now :)LOL) so I left it as it was, you know as it is all a learning thing and there are no rights or wrongs with scrapbooking