The Glittered Poppleberry

 Hello Papercrafters,  Its been a flipping long time!! Lots of things have changed and I feel happier for it. So we are plunging back into cardmaking and I couldnt be more excited. This is the first of several cards I am making for Valentines, this little cutie is one of my faves. Products I used: Mama Elephant Zodiac Ox Stamps and Dies Concord & 9th Stitched Heart Card Front Die  Love Die & Shadow Die Pink Enamel Dots (Unknown brand) Concord & 9th Basket Weave Card Front Die Blank White 250gsm Card Blank Limetree Crafts Pink Cardstock  Anna Marie Black Cardstock Zig Clean Colour Real Brush Markers I loved colouring these cute little Ox's, its a fairly simple card to achieve and can be recreated in lots of different ways. Thanks for visiting my little craft space! See you tomorrow, for day 2  Ellie x    

 Good Afternoon all! So today I'm sharing a Halloween card I made using some bits I had extra of or were lying around. I searched in my background pages drawer and came across this dark, grunge effect sheet. This was made using water with some distress inks and smearing the colour on against my glass mat. Then from a recent Indigoblu magazine, I selected a stamp that matches the effect I was going for. I stamped it using Versafine onyx black ink.  From some stamped and coloured images I made in advance, I fussy cut some leaf clusters. Seperating each leaf, I arranged them on the opposite corner to the stamping. These leaves were coloured using Zig Kuretake clean colour real brush markers.  I adhered my leaves using collall glue, I chose to make them have the appearance of falling. Finally I backed this topper onto deep Aubergine Cardstock leaving a small border. If you wished to, a small halloween sentiment could be heat embossed on the right side of the card also.  ...

 Evening friends, So tonight I want to share a card that has a more neutral design. This could certainly be given as a Halloween card though. All of these cards I've created can be altered as you wish to, if you would like to make them more spooky. This background I created using a gel press. I applied Pebeo acrylic paints and moved them around using a brayer. Once dry, I trimmed the background down and backed onto black card stock. I dived into my vast collection of patterned papers and found this cute toadstool print. Using my lawn fawn stitched circle dies, I cut out a circle that would fit nicely onto my background.  The left over black plain card stock, I die cut the Olive tree die from Joanna sheen, also the little star cluster die from Lawn Fawn. To add a little extra sparkle, I brushed over the die cut images with my Wink of stella pen. I adhered these elements to the circle, then the circle foam taped to the background for some extra dimension. To complete the card, t...