Creative Expression's Thursday and glitter...

Hi Folks

Wow Thursday already , gosh where does the weeks go.hmmm.
Hope you all enjoyed yesterdays post and I inspired you a little to create your own backgrounds with whatever media you like or have in your crafty stashes.
Today is Creative Expressions day and I am again using the new frame stamps recently launched with sentiments in the centre, Of course you don't have to use them like that you can cut out the centre an d use the words on absolutely anything but I do like to use as it to start then build up to new ways to look at things.
So without further ado here is today's card in crisp colours and with a lovely amount of polished silk glitter thrown in too.

As I said I used  The wrought Iron frame stamp from Creative Expressions in the singles range and it is a large stamp, it looks A6 or slightly smaller to me but certainly is a big one.

 The centre is already like this in the stamp but  I stamped it twice so I could take the centre out and mat it onto black card then raise on 3mm foam tape to have it quite high on the project.

 Here is a look from the bottom right corner as it shows each layer is mounted onto our Black foundations card stock and raised on foam.

 Here is the stamp I used and I really love this one, it has so many uses and for me it has two sentiments with it as the top part could be used independently in my opinion. I am very much the type of person that looks after others so I could easily say "It's so important to make someone happy" but for me I could not say "start with yourself" , thinking of myself it wouldn't make me feel comfortable but I could see it used for someone else , and you could cut the words down and use them for instance. "It's with yourself to make someone happy" or "It's Important to make yourself start happy"

The Polished silk glitter I used are Fire red on the edge of the card and Sahara gold to highlight on the leaves. I blurred this picture slightly so you could pick up on the sparkle in the little pots, I cannot believe how smooth these are when you burnish them onto your sticky tape. Amazing.

 So I started by choosing white card and stamping out the image twice, I cut the centre out of the first and mounted it onto black, I also mounted the 2nd piece onto black. Next I took a white piece of card and lightly embossed with sues Cascading hearts embossing folder  A4 size from the first collection which I still love.
It is quite hard to see the image here so here it is a little better represented.

 Cascading hearts A4 embossing folder.

I wrapped a piece of red crinkle edge ribbon around the embossed card and mounted that onto black card also. I then tied a bow in the matching ribbon and took a dazzler in black into the centre, I also added a couple of tiny red top pins from my own stash behind the dazzler just cos...I also added a couple of bits of string pearls.
I set this bow aside to dry and cut out a couple of sues Faux quilled leave die cuts which I inked lightly with Festive Berries embossing ink and added a little Cosmic Shimmer glue in places flatly then dipped it into Sahara gold glitter , Not to entirely cover the leaves, Just to shine in places and I really liked that distressed look on such a clean card.
So I took the final mat in white card and ran a length of double sided tape 12mm all around the edge in one layer, once I removed the backing I took a pile of the Fire red glitter and burnished it into the tape all around the card , tapping the excess back int the pot I mounted this piece again onto a black mat. Every piece except the last black mat I added 3mm foam too and layered it neatly into its shape.

 This photo shows you the even height in between each layer all keeping the clean and simple look abut this one.

Here are those teeny tiny pins from my stash , the above disk of foam is one of the new Tim Holtz 1 inch foam circles that go on the tiny blenders so you can see how tiny they are, I thought they would make fab antennae or stamens etc on mixed media so I have them in white too, alternatively good for sewing projects lol...

At this stage all I had to do was add the leaves to the left of the card and I took my time cutting them down and adding them in the shape I wanted then I added my bow and arranged (dressed it with glue dots into place) , I decided not to add flat back pearls or charms to this one as I think the cards I find harder work then mixed media, male , shabby chiq and vintage or any of the distressed cards which I love are definitely clean and simple so Here was my version of slightly clean and simple my friends.

I have a small announcement to say after this years battles with operations and my mothers illness etc Craftwork cards whom I have designed for for a long while now have decided to have a reshuffle on the team so I will be stepping down as I really didn't have a lot of time to concentrate on short notice work. I would like to thank Sue and Andrew the owners and Julie hickey who runs it along with Emma Williams the DT leader for all the great times and wonderful collections I was part of and all the advice etc. I wish them good luck for the future and thank them from the bottom of my heart.

I hope you all like this one I know that red, black and white are all very popular colour choices among my lovelies and I had to throw the gold glitter in the mix didn't I just to be a little different.

Have a great Thursday

Love

Kim 

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