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....and so do i! loving the Heroarts 'antique engraving' set. posted these cards on the flickr heroblog site some time back but don't believe i've shared then here yet. so here they are:
sentiments are also from heroarts as well, short & sweet today. thanks for stopping by!
helloooo how's ur weekend going?? i'm spending it right where i want to, at home! :)) just baked some cupcakes topped with some buttercream frosting (tough to get the frosting right). anyone has an easy & yummy cupcake frosting to share?
here's a card i made using papertreyink's 'background basics:text style' & a sentiment from dawn mcvey's pti 'damask design'. Love the font she uses in that set. the text is stamped with a few different colours all the way up to about 3/4 of the front piece of white cardstock & then added a melon berry satin ribbon + glitter lace (from Daiso).
Also added some prisma glitter using Scor-tape (papertreyink sells them), if u don't have scor-tape u have to get it. Wonderfully strong adhesive for boxes, adding strips of glitter!
Last but not least, a pretty flower from Prisma.The sentiment could be swapped for a wedding themed card, don't u think?Totally loving the new turquoise-ish colour from the folks over @ papertreyink. Needed a card for a friend's housewarming & decided that the 'Hawaiian shores' paper would go lovely with some 'Rapberry fizz', from PTI as well. 
Used my new Heroarts 'Row of Houses' stamp (which I won from last month Heroarts blog challenge), stamped 2 rows with some grey ink & made it look 'occupied' with some copic markers, white gel pen & some bling.
Sentiment is from Heroarts 'essential messages' & the brad is from Making memories.
Quick, simple & most importantly...me likey!!
Have a nice mid-week, folks. It's been unbearably humid here these few days, wishing for more rain...or ice cream :)
What with the flurry of weddings coming up in my extended family, I thought it was about time to make some wedding themed cards...not the traditional type but ones on the colourful side :) Have not been feeling too fab of late, down with a bad throat + an annoying fever that comes & goes...the doc stuck me with some antibiotics & I'm being a good girl by staying put @ home getting some rest...For me being home = more crafting , yeay! 
The background is stamped using Heroart's 'antique flower background' using Tsukineko's kaleidacolor 'Berry Blaze' rainbow dye inkpad. Love that inkpad! You could use it with a brayer to create a really nice background too..The butterfly is cut out from Papertreyink's 'Raspberry fizz' cardstock & black cs using a Quickutz Butterfly die.
Stamps are from Little yellow bicycle & the ribbon is from Papertreyink as well...
Thanks for stopping by today, hope your week's going great!
The sentiment's from Papertreyink's 'mixed messages'. That set is really THE set to go to for all round card sentiments & they've got a larger version out now called 'mega mixed msgs' that I haven't had the time to get round to buying yet.
Here's an Anniversary card I madewith my take on the sketch:
Here's a closer look on those flowers all glittered up and copic coloured. The flowers are printed out in 3 different sizes to create a variety using Adobe photoshop cs3. You should be able to play with the stamp using alot of other basic programs like Microsoft paint etc. The edges of the flowers are lightly inked with 'vintage photo' distress ink and popped up with dimensionals. The edges of the card base are inked too, just to add abit more depth.
All the lovely digital stamps used are from DigiShack & they're again our VERY generous prize sponsor for this week :) Check them out here. Digital stamps are so IN right now, and they're really fun too! Imagine being able to change the sizes/dimensions of a stamp whichever way you wanted! Now I just have to get my printer to print on thicker papers......it keeps getting stuck, any one have ideas how to make this work?? 
Actually wanted to send this to a friend whose wedding I couldn't attend, but i ended up sending her another one instead. I learnt that you can colour the background with a copic marker and then use the colourless blender to soften the edges. This makes it look like it was airbrushed :) I think I got this tip from Debbie Olson. (link to her blog on the left bar under thinking inking blog)
The bouquet stamp is from a Rubber Soul wedding stamp set, I used the same set for the couple silhouette in a card share few days ago. The round dotted frame is from an old Heidi Swapp stamp set. Another tip when using copics, don't use versafine or stazon inks they will bleed! and most probably stain your marker nibs. I recommend Memento dye inks :)
