Thursday 9 January 2014

Creative Expressions Thursday.

Good Morning My Lovlies

How are you all today? Feeling crafty?
Our design team stamps for this month were The Vintage dress forms and two of the new Handbag stamps each to create with.
Today I decided to use one of the dress forms and one of the verses from the set too, Plus some nifty little embellishments and here we have it.
Hope you like.

I really enjoyed making this one.

I have a step by step for you today also so I started by getting a piece of white paper around 6x6 and stamping the little measure tape and the scissors randomly with Vintage sepia archival ink.

Next I took The Tied Together Couture creations embossing folder and ran the paper through it, which took 2 times as I had to elongate the pattern, but it matches perfectly so was easy.
So to choose some colours in Distress inks.
I chose. Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge,Peeled Paint,Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain
So to blending.
You can see the pattern I discussed before on the show that I always find works for me, side, side middle with one set of colours and the same with the other set. With the darkest at the outer edge and the lightest in the centre, we finish with a very dark colour to frame and draw the eye in. Next this piece was matted onto a very thin black mat for stability.


I cut a piece of thin corrugated card and matted it onto black also. Then took a piece of paper from the Creative expressions and Teresa Collins paper pad. I chose the one that looks like Dictionary and amused myself reading all the entries until I realised I was supposed to be making the card haha.
I cut the paper to slightly bigger than my inked card and slightly smaller than the corrugated piece, distressed the edges with scissors and inked them to match the inks used on the other piece. I rolled some of the corner around my pokey tool to age it further.
So in this picture you can see I wrapped a small piece of measure tape ribbon which I slightly coloured with vintage photo just to stain it a little. I then used foam pads to lift this piece up and added it onto the paper then the corrugated section, I also gave it a slightly wonky angle so I could keep the rolled edges, I think I quite like that look.

So then I chose which dress form I wanted to use, second left and the longest verse slightly out of shot. I stamped this and the verse again with my Vintage sepia Archival ink.

So next I needed to cut out the dress form and the verse too.
Which I did with the largest of the Just rite vintage labels 3 and inked it while still in the die. I also wanted a black matt for it to sit on so I turned over my die and drew around it in white and then simply cut around it with scissors.


I mounted all the pieces on to the card on the right side mid way. I hand cut the verse into a tag shape to tuck under the edge of the main image. Then it was just a case of dressing the card.
I used some of the half Cotton reels and full cotton reels from Creative and they are so cute, I wrapped some twine around them and glued it with cosmic shimmer glue. I also used two of the metal corners and a wooden button with a clock print which I also threaded some twine onto.I found a antique gold colour scissors and used some spider webby stuff and some raffia to make the bow and put the scissors onto this with Pinflair.


Embellishments.

So Lastly you can see I made a little soft gold flower with the new die from the new Heartfelt Creations Majestic morning collection released yesterday and don't forget you have until the 15th to leave a comment on their blog  at heartfelt as I posted yesterday so you can be one of the 2 lucky people winning the whole collection worth $180 each. I also added some Little gold pearls on some of the corners. 

And the full view once again. 
I hope you enjoyed this step by step it took a very long time to blog it so you can imagine this would not be possible every day but I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. 
Have a wonderful Thursday and I will see you very soon with more to look at and enjoy.
Please leave your comments below I don't know where you all disappeared to yesterday haha.. come back....

love and hugs.

Kim 
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21 comments:

  1. Morning Kim, Wow !! Wow !! Wow !! this card is stunning, I love, love, love, the colours, love the corrugated card, love the dressform, love the majestic morning flower, love all the little embellies, it is magnificent.
    I was just checking your Blog this morning, went across to Heartfelt to post a comment there, and went back to comment on yours, and in that time you had blogged again, I was so confused haha, so maybe others had already checked your Blog yesterday morning before you posted, like myself haha.
    Lots of love from Patricia xx

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    1. Hi Patricia. Ahhh 3 wows thanks so much. Love these colours too.The dress forms are fab in this set and not too large either. You should have seen me trying to wrap the twine round those tiny cotton reels haha.Sorry for the confusion on blog, I had been trying for hours to get that blog post done yesterday but it was playing up and wouldnt let me load any picture silly thing.
      Glad your here.
      Kim xxx

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  2. Hi Kim,
    Oh my what a stunning creative card today and great techniques too. Love all the sewing embellishments that you have added....it's just fabulous!

    Love Sheila xx

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    1. Thanks Sheila.
      I appreciate you popping by and glad you enjoyed todays card.
      lots love
      Kim xxx

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  3. Hi Kim, Patricia and Sheila. OM Goodness ! I just love the background, subtle, colourful, but not overdone. You have such a different style that I always find interesting (in a nice way) may I add : )
    This, and yesterdays cards are really lovely, and.I love the way you 'work' those inks.
    Signing off for now, have a good day.
    Love.
    Lancashire Steph xx

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    1. Hi Steph.
      Lovely to see you.Thanks for your lovely comments as always.
      Hope your doing ok and managing to get some crafting done too.
      Thanks for popping by, huge hugs
      Kim xx

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  4. Hi Kim
    Love your card, and yesterday's two cards which I didn't pick up until now! Love how you have distressed the background and your fab colour blending would really like to try this but I only have a few distress inks ! Really appreciate your great step by step instructions so helpful for a newbie like me
    Best wishes, Pat

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    1. Hi Pat
      Nice to see you stop by.I am so glad you are enjoying my Arts. Keep watching lots more to come hehe.
      I am glad you like the step by step and if you need to ask anything please do I will always try to get the answer for you if i dont know it myself. Love
      Kim xx

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  5. Morning Kim
    Stunning card which you have kindly done step by step, my daughter would just love this, her birthday isn't until July so I shall start to get some of the products in preparation. where are the scissors from
    Hugs
    Carol x

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    1. Thank you Carol for stopping by, I think I picked up a little pack of two of the scissors in the jewellery section of Hobbycraft some time ago, in the vintage section. Hopefully they will still do them for you. Your daughter will love them they are very detailed.
      Kim xx

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  6. Hi Kim,
    A lovely card - perfect for a crafty sewing person. The ingredients could work out expensive though. Thanks for showing us and I'll certainly adopt your philosophy about the background colours and placements. In fact, I shall start today.........
    Hugs, Rose

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    1. Hi Rose. Thanks for stopping by , I am so glad you found me, I am on create and craft on the 30th jan if youd like to see more of me. I need not be expensive, I used the corragated card from some packing , and just use the inks and products you have. I got the little reels from Creative expressions long ago long before I was working with them. I just added the spider web , but you could use tulle or even just seem binding and twine. I put up what I use Rose but you really can do it with whatever you have lying around, for instance i used to make the reels with two pieces of Card Candi from Craftwork cards and a lolly stick cut up in the middle haha. I am so glad your here on this journey with me Rose and a huge welcome. xxx

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  7. By the way Kim, have only become aware of your blogs when Sue Wilson introduced you on her blog and when seeing you on C&C. Only had time in the last couple of days to browse through your blog and older posts and there's some sterling stuff in there. So glad I found you.
    Hugs, Rose

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    1. p.s thanks so much for your kind words. Bless you xx

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  8. Kim, this Card is truly Awesome, I really loved how you created the Background and the fabulous colours I really loved the stamps that you used and I so love those fabulous Scissors, I've got some Scissors from Sam Poole on-line shop they are quite plain compared to yours, and smaller I think, I love all the embellishments on your Card your very talented lady love and hugs from Sam x

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    1. Hi Sam, Thank you so much for all your kind words. I am so glad you enjoy my cards, i really love the vintage work and inks and i really love embellishments and these were really fun to do. Thanks fr being here again Sam. Hugs Kim xx

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  9. Well Kim, is the Pope Catholic? I shall certainly be switching on on 30th Jan.
    (or if I can't, then I'll record). Don't know yet how to use your blog, it doesn't seem to allow me to reply to YOUR comments...........
    Really like the idea of using corrugated card from packing (Groan, can just see my "hoard" -well, that's what non-crafters are calling it- growing even more). It's so good to get a reply to a comment...... have a great weekend
    Hugs, Rose

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    1. I will always try to reply and i will be keeping any emails in to the show too so i can email and thank everyone, im genuinely happy that people take time to comment so least i can do is answer. Yes non crafters always think the stash is hording but you might need it haha. I can see you are following the blog but if you also join the bit on the right with the facebooksymbols that may help to re answer messages Rose. Have a good weekend too. Kim xx

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    2. This blog of yours is fantastic........... actually allows a conversation...... I won't use Facebook because I cannot put up with the dross..............

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  10. Hi Kim. I love this card! It has so much going on, but not too busy, love it, and what great embellishments. Take care.

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    1. Hi Mrs B.
      Ahh thanks so much, I am glad you liked this card and lovely to see you pop back to be here with me. bless you xx

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