J & C Creations Open Day!

Hi everyone

Just a quick reminder that we have our Make & Take Day this Saturday 22nd June

at our warehouse.  We will be open between 10am and 4pm

Learn how to make a Summer mechanical card with floral stamps, memento inks and embellishments.  Further details can be found on our website  HERE.

Also, why not learn how to make Memory Wire Bracelets at our next workshop on Tuesday 25th June

  Further information can be found HERE

We hope you can join us and look forward to seeing you

Sue

Thrifty Thursday - Silhouettes

Hi Everyone

Sue Here

This week myself and Natalie's theme is Floral Fantasy.

All over the craft magazines are the silhouette flower stamps under a flower line stamp.  So I thought - How can I make my own without costing a fortune?

So I hit on the idea of using my good old funky foam.  I'm sure you all have some stashed away wondering what to do with it!  So I firstly stamped the Heartfelt Creations Daisy Patch Flowers in Stazon onto the funky foam, then cut them out, making sure that I cut them out slightly bigger than the outline. I then used the packaging from my Spellbinders and glued the foam flowers onto squares of the plastic to give them a base.

I then used some bubble wrap and inked this up in two colours of Memento green.  I then used my brayer and rolled the inked bubble wrap over the white cardstock.

I then used memento inks in lady bug and cantaloupe and inked up the foam flowers and stamped them onto the white cardstock.  I then stamped the flower stamp over this in black Stazon.  The stalks and leaves I stamped from another set I had and added a bit of water to colour them in.

The sentiment is from the new Heartfelt Creations Pad backed with brown card and a Martha Stuart edge punch.  This is all double sided cardstock and is delicious! Treat yourself you won't be disappointed.  I then went around the edge of the card in memento peanut brittle.  Very simple and easy to adapt for any stamps you have.

Take care....Sue

 

Background Dimensions

 Hi Everyone

Sue Here

The other day I came across a video on Heather Telford's website on backgrounds and so I have made this Mothers Day card with the technique in mind.

http://cardz.wordpress.com/2013/02/25/background-stamp-tutorial/

Items used from J & C Creations:

Penny Black Transparent 'salutations' stamps

Penny black wooden background stamp 'Paisley Border'

Heartfelt Creations 'Large Elegant Words' stamp

Memento ink pads in pink, green and red

Distress Marker in Pink

Other items:

Peel Off dots and lines 

I firstly used post it notes and masked off a section of the front of the card.  I then inked up the paisley stamp in pink, then added on the top a distress marker to highlight the flowers and stamped it in between the post it notes. I then inked up in grey the word stamp and put this on each side of the border.

I then used a peel off border.  I then stamped out a flower and vase and decoupaged it to the front of the card.  I then stamped 'enjoy'. 

'Enjoy' your crafting time...Sue