Glittered Peace Dove

Hi there, 

Welcome to October! My header this month is two Monarchs nectaring on Aster blooms before heading off to Mexico. They have to stock up before they can make the 2000 mile journey.

On the stamping front, I have some exciting news to share with you! I am going to be working with the Dies R Us Design Team for the next 6 months. So for my first card I tried something a bit different for me - no stamping!  Just two dies and then sparkled things up with three velvet glitters.

Here are the two dies that I used:

Cheery Lynne Lace  Peace Frame

Die-Versions Dove Sweet Petite

First I layered a piece of Super Adhesive Sheet onto white cardstock and ran it through my Big Shot with the Peace Frame. Then I gently removed the protective backing of the outside of the frame, peeling and pulling up slowly, leaving a sticky surface where the letters and scrolling are.

The sticky exposed surface was applied with Purple Fig microfine glitter. This was burnished in using my finger tool!

Once glittered, I layered this to a gold mirror cardstock base.

With the help of the Spellbinder All in one tool, I picked out the "background".

Microfine 24kt Gold was applied to the sticky adhesive. Here you can see where I missed a couple of little areas, so I picked those out with my tool and reapplied the gold glitter.

Next I ran the dove through my Big Shot with a scrap of the Super Adhesive Sheet layered to white cardstock. After removing the protective backing from the adhesive, I applied my third velvet glitter - Cloud Nine. A green Copic was used to color over the glitter for the olive branch.

The card front was attached to a glossy white background and the dove was attached to the bottom with mounting tape to finish off my card for today.

Don't forget to come join in the fun at the Dies R Us Challenge Blog. There's a new challenge theme offered on the 1st and 15th of each month and one lucky randomly drawn winner will receive a gift voucher prize to the Dies R Us Store. For your convenience, all the important Dies R Us links are provided below.

click below for: STORE CHALLENGE BLOG FACEBOOK INSPIRATION BLOG FRIENDS OF DIES R US PINTEREST PAGE

Here is a complete list of the products used on my card today:

Cheery Lynn Lace Peace Frame 

Die-Versions Dove Sweet Petite

Super Adhesive Sheet

Purple Fig (GM2047)

24kt Gold (GM2038)

Cloud Nine (GM2000)

Gold Mirror Cardstock

Copic Green Marker G07

Mounting Foam

I hope you've enjoyed my share today?

Till next time,

Shona  

Delight in the Beauty!

Hi there,

Today I'd like to share a card which uses the new Lovely Magnolia Set 853 from the September Reveal. Such a pretty and versatile set.

To make the background I cut the Spellbinders Tropical Paradise die from black cardstock. This was layered on to a piece of Super Adhesive Sheet, after removing the protective backing and the new Microfine 24kt Gold glitter was burnished into the exposed adhesive.

The background was layered on to a cream cardbase. Then it was on to the flowers. The small flower was stamped six times onto cream cardstock in Versamark and was then heat embossed with Gold Detail. The large flower was stamped and embossed in Gold Detail once on cream cardstock and then again onto Kraft. The leaves and stem were cut off the cream version using the 5" Mini Scissors. They are so good for fussy cutting! All the little flowers were also fussy cut.

All the flowers were colored with the three Aqua Flow Watercolor Markers: Lemon Zest, Fresh Green and Spiced Ginger. These are wonderful to use for watercoloring, they blend really nicely.

A little Green Iris glitter was applied with the Quickie Glue Pen to the centers of the flowers.

Lemonade glitter was applied to the petals of the flowers again with the glue pen.

The big colored flower was attached to the Kraft version with foam mounting tape. A little of the Nuvo Mother of Pearl Embellishment Mousse was added to the leaves.

The sentiment was stamped in Versamark on cream cardstock and was heat embossed with Gold Detail again. This was die cut with the Sizzix Thinlits Dotted Ovals, the next larger die was used to cut the larger oval and these two pieces were sponged with a little Nuvo Mother of Pearl Embellishment Mousse. A little gold thread bow was threaded through a couple of the dots before being layered with Mounting Tape.

The card was then put together as shown using Tear-ific Tape and Mounting Tape.

Here is a list of the products used to make the card, most of which can be found in the SNS store.

Lovely Magnolia Set #853

Embossing Powders: Gold Detail (EP168)

Inks: Versamark

Glitters: 24kt Gold (GM2038), Green Iris (G1068),

Lemonade (G1091)

Super Adhesive Sheet

Nuvo Embellishment Mousse: Mother of Pearl

Nuvo Aquaflow Pens: Lemon Zest, Fresh Green, Spiced Ginger

Tonic 5" Mini Scissors

Sakura Glue Pen

Tear-ific Tape

Spellbinders Tropical Paradise

Sizzix Thinlits Dotted Ovals

I'd like to play along in the following challenges:
Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #142: Anything Goes
Double D Challenges: Sentiment/Quotes
Stampavie and More Challenge #290: Lots of Flowers
World Wide Open Design Team Challenge #26: Anything Goes

Hope you've enjoyed my share today? Hope to see you back again soon!

Hugs,

Shona