Tuesday, 7 October 2008

Bling...


The challenge at http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com/ is to use 'bling' and anything shiny or sparkly. I've not managed to get a good photo of this card - the corrugated silver card is really, really shiny and the snowflake image is embossed with sparkly embossing powder. Everything sparkles - honestly!!!


Materials used:
  • silver mirri card
  • white card
  • silver corrugated card
  • Rubber Stampede Snowflake stamp
  • Brilliance blue ink pad
  • glitter embossing powder
  • clear gemstones in various sizes
  • silver border/corner and greetings peel offs

Monday, 6 October 2008

No card but interesting research...

I have had my Wizard die cutting machine for a long time. I bought it when they were first sold in England - infact when there was only one retailer in the whole country who stocked them. At the same time I spent a fortune on the geometric dies which I have used a lot and love cause they have been so useful.

However, the nestabilities hold so many more possibilities and naturally I would love to own those too. I was told that the old style geometric dies and the new nestabilities don't work together - hmmmmmmm well this morning I have been doing some investigating and have found that...

My old oval and rectangle dies are not suitable for combining with nestabilities but...

The large old geometric square and the large nestability square are almost identical - too late to save me money as I have already bought, but maybe if you already have the old die you might want to think twice about buying the new square. Photos below show the difference. The old dies are slightly bigger and therefore leave less of the scallop showing.


















I haven't got the basic large nestability circle die set yet so can't show you the two together. The following photo shows the old circle die with the new large nestability circle. As you can see the dies don't work perfectly in the smaller shapes but do combine to a certain extent. The size 4 circle fits in the smaller nestability.
I hope this has proved useful to someone as I know I would have welcomed it when I was trying to decide which nestabilities to invest in.

Sunday, 5 October 2008

Bandana Technique...


Until I saw the challenge at http://rainbowladyschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ this week I had never heard of the bandana technique. This is one of the great things about doing challenges you learn new things all the time.


I followed the links and also googled for more information. The more I found out the more I wanted to have a go. This card is my finished project - there was a lot of practising along the way on scraps to check the effect and I didn't find it easy to get a smooth white line. Maybe that depends on the pen you use, but I am sort of pleased with the finished result.
The stamps used are from a clear set of stamps by Heidi Grace and include swirls and delicious spiky flower heads. I found that they lent themselves quite well to this technique.
Materials used:
  • red, black and white card
  • Heidi Grace clear stamps
  • Black versemark ink pad
  • White Sakura gel pen
  • black organza ribbon
  • silver sentiment peel off (coloured with black peel off marker)

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