Funky Cats

I am so sorry not to have been around for a while - I was having huge Internet issues and just wasn't able to post anything, however, I think it's all fixed now. I've got a really fun card to show you this morning:

A few weeks ago I told you that there were some wonderful new stamps from Stampendous available in the shop. Well, I got these fun and funky cats to play with. The cling set includes three cats of varying size along with three butterflies, there is also a stencil included in the set. You can also get the matching dies (which I did).

I stamped the cats on water colour card, embossed them with clear powder and cut them out with the matching dies. I used Tim Holtz's wonderful Distress Oxide inks to colour them. The design paper is from a new pack called Bombay Sunset - also available in the store. I finished the front of the card with a bold, inspirational sentiment from Thoughts & Reminders, a set produced by Altenew. Here's the inside of the card:

I used another sheet of paper from the Bombay Sunset as well as one of the pre-printed sentiments from the pack. These are a couple of the butterflies from Indigo Cats.

Full details of this card can be found on my blog - Deborah's Gems. I had such fun making this card, and you'll be seeing more of them soon.

All these products are available in store.

Flowers Galore

Hello! I'm back this morning to talk about flowers. It's spring and the flowers are looking gorgeous in gardens and parks. Flowers are really popular on cards - they can be for any occasion, depending on the flower you use, the techniques and the colours. Some of my favourite (and recently discovered) flower stamp sets come from Altenew. Stampeddler has a fabulous selection of Altenew flower stamp sets and some have matching dies too.

Not only can you find multi-layer flower sets, but birds, butterflies words and some abstract sets too. You can see examples of the sets in use all round the store:

Here's a lovely display of tags featuring several different Altenew sets. The backgrounds on most of the tags was created using the new Tim Holtz Distress Oxides inks - such lovely colours!

 

Here are couple cards, one using the Painted Butterflies set, and the other using the Winter Cardinal stamp set. I love the blue bird - shows it doesn't just have to be for Christmas.

I mentioned earlier that I'd recently discovered Altenew - well it was here that I found the stamps. I've got several sets in my stash, so I thought I'd make a simple flower card - after all it is spring:

I used two sets from Altenew on this card - Spring Daisy, and the matching dies, and Painted Butterflies (words). The strip of design paper used is from Kaisercraft - Bombay Sunset and is available in store. It's full of gorgeous designs. Full details of my card can be found on my blog - Deborah's Gems.