Racy in lacey for you

Hi everybody,

Jill here and this week I'm going a little racy in lace...

...using the beautiful Lace background from My Favourite Things mixed up with a few other delightful pieces.

I'm a background fiend, I love em'.  I see them, I fall for them, and I am absolutely powerless against snapping them up and, boy oh boy, this divine beauty from My Favourite Things was no exception, it absolutely knocked my socks off, just stunning.

I wanted to create a really luxurious card, over the top and bursting with different textures and materials, so that's what I was aiming for here.

I started by stamping out the Lace background and heat embossing in white.  I then made a mask from a heart die and ink blended through it onto my background in gorgeous deep purples, lightening up towards the middle.  Once I was happy with my blend, I added a few flicks of gold paint to add another layer of luxury.  I then cut the awesome For You from Lawn Fawn a few times and glued them together to create a nice big substantial sentiment.  I then smooshed my sentiment in Versamark ink and covered in gold sparkle embossing powder, repeating this a few times to make it very thick and molten metal like.  I then finished with another couple of layers of clear embossing powder to give it a final finishing touch and I'm glad I did as it really gave then sentiment a lovely look.

At this point I was already happy with how my card looked but like I said, I wanted this card to be over the top luxurious so wanted to add another element and another texture so I cut myself a couple of the Stitched Butterflies form Lil Inkers Design in vellum and layered them up one on top of the other and tied them together with some gold thread leaving a long tail for a further flutter of fancy :)

I finished with a scattering of sequins and by mounting my piece onto a dark grey card base.

I really hope you like it.

As always, everything I used is linked below.

See you next week.

Jillx

A Fancy Frilly Fringe.

Hi everybody,

Jill here, and this week I've got some fancy frilly fringing for you...

Using the gorgeous new Fringe Dienamic from My Favourite Things.

I don't have anything like this in my stash already, so just HAD to have it.

I started by stamping out and white heat embossing the beautiful Lace Background from My Favourite Things on two pieces of card.  I then watered down some purple ink and washed it across one piece for my background, using the embossing as a resist.  I washed another piece of card in the same ink to cut my cute little fringes from, and added a few little flicks and splatters of white and shimmery sprays to add a little interest.

 

I used my other heat embossed card to cut my 'thanks' sentiment from, using Lawn Fawn's Scripty Thanks Die, and this sweet Tiny Bow from Waffle Flower, (soooo cute).  I wanted to use the embossed card for my sentiment and bow etc for the added texture, I thought it would add a little extra fanciness to match the fancy frills!

I used Lawn Fawn's Small Stitched Rectangles to cut my panel so everything was all neat and precise, and also because, hands up, I'm addicted to them.  They just give such a nice finish to your card.

 

I also cut the fringe from a piece of white card to break the colour up a little, and adhered everything in place.

With all the lace and the fringes, and all that jazz, I felt my card had enough going on so skipped embellishments and left it there.

I LOVE this new die, and think it will look awesome cut from some gorgeous patterned papers, so can't wait to give it a try.

I really hope you like it, and as always, everything I used is linked below.

See you next week.

Jillx

 

 

MFT Colour Challenge 37...

Hi there,

Today I'm sharing a card I have made for the current MFT's Colour Challenge.  

This is the first time I have ever entered anything into a MFT Card Challenge, and I am over the moon to be taking part this time round.  I've been building my collection of all their goodies up recently, and now just can't stop playing with all the deliciousness :)

So here's the colour palette...

And here's my card...

I wanted to create something really soft and pretty, so went with a load of watercolour.

I started by stamping out the, beyond beautiful, MFT Lace background, (Oh my word, it is breathtakingly stunning - and has straight away jumped to the top of my absolute faves!), onto watercolour card, and heat embossed in white powder.  I then smooshed a ton of ink spritzed with water, matching the challenge palette, on top of the pattern, and left to dry,

I then cut MFT's 'Scribble Roses Overlay Dienamic', stamped out some leaves from MFT's Sweet Roses set, and again swooshed the pieces in the challenge palette colours.  I wanted to create a really soft romantic piece, so, before building my card up, I added a wrap of vellum over my whole background.  It created just the look I wanted. 

I added a couple of different elements of lace, a twirl of white twine, and built up my scene over the top.  My sentiment is from the new MFT 'Some Bunny' set that I cut up (ouch-sorry).  I wanted to use it as it was really small and simple and fitted perfect with what I wanted my card to look like, so I heat embossed it in silver to keep it very subtle .  

I finished with a scattering of sequins and gems, and there you have it.

I really hope you like it and would love to read your comments, so please feel free to leave them!

Hopefully see you next time :)

Jillx