Hand Made Embellishments and Another One!

I have just realised that the next Tanda Teaser goes live tomorrow and I haven't even posted my version of the last one here on my blog.....So this is a quick post to give some details.....


For the card I used a mixture of stamps by Tanda, Paperartsy and Lost Coast designs. The main image (Tanda) was coloured with copics and distressed with distress inks. The flower was stamped with Paperartsy stamps and cut out with their matching dies. The flower centre was made using a bottle top, stamps, seed beads and UTEE. The die cut flowers and leaves were coloured with distress inks, curled to give depth and the edges of the petals and leaves were brushed with versmark and heat embossed with gold embossing powder.




In the last couple of days I have made a card for my husband's cousin who has just got into dress making. Her birthday is on Thursday, but I am sure that she doesn't know of my blog so I think that I am safe to post her card here.




I got the Tim Holtz tattered floral dies just before Christmas and have been looking forward to using them to make some embellishments....Here I used Tim Holtz stamps on tissue paper with pumice stone distress ink. I was trying to get the effect of using pattern pieces. I layered them up, scrunched them and used buttons to make the flower centres. The main image on the card was stamped in black soot distress ink and then coloured with copic markers. Art Journey sewing stamps were used to make the background with pumice stone distress ink.

The next Tanda Teaser goes live tomorrow so watch this space!
Sue
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For A Loved One

This week's Tanda Teaser is called "For A Loved One". As we are now so close to Valentines day I thought that it would be a good idea to set a Valentines Day challenge, however I remember from last year that not everyone has a significant other, so this year I have broadened the theme to make it for any loved one. My card is the card that I have made for my husband....he isn't a fan of pink, but loves purple so instead of a pink card I have made him a purple one. This was fun to do...I have just bought myself a melting pot with my Christmas money and this was the first time that I have used it.

To make this card I used Milled Lavender and Dusty Concord to colour and stamp the card layers. (The stamps were from Tanda Klimt set 1)


To make the hearts I stamped the big square swirly stamp on smooth white card in Black Soot. Then I coloured the swirls with Copic Markers. Once this was done I positioned some tiny cookie cutters onto the stamped image and sprinkled a tiny bit of purple glitter inside the cutters. After this I poured molten UTEE into the cutters, allowed it to cool for a few seconds and then removed the cutters. Once the UTEE had cooled down completely, the card under the hearts was trimmed so that it was flush with the edge of the UTEE. The hearts were then mounted onto white mulberry paper and then matted and layered onto the stamped card mats that I had prepared earlier. The tag was embossed in a Cuttlebug embossing folder before being rubbed with Milled Lavender distress ink. The ribbon started off white, but I coloured with two shades of Copic Markers so that it matched the UTEE hearts.