Creative Expressions Winter flowers.

Hi Folks

Hope all of you are well and having a good week, It is going really fast for sure.

I want to say a huge congratulations to Lucy Edmondson who was the randomly chosen winner chosen from my blog and congrats to the other 9 winners from the other girls blogs after the Creative Expressions blog hop finished last Friday. There are however a few prizes still unclaimed so please click the link and go check if you are a winner. Well done Lucy for claiming yours I am sure it is winging its way to you as we speak.

Ok so today I have a nice little card using the last flower in the Winter flowers November  stamp pack for Creative Expressions.

The card I used is foundations card in plum from creative too but in the pictures its much more mauve than plum but it definitely is plum lol.
I also used a spellbinder die and a Heartfelt creations leaf die from the Sweet Juliet collection.
I used a Couture creations embossing folder over the background I stamped out in green and is the same flower I used for the focal point, which is the Cyclamen.

I have really enjoyed using Novembers set and made 5 pieces with it which i will recap at the end of this post. Here is some close ups of this weeks piece.

 Close up of the Sweet Juliet die that just had its debut with Julia watts on Create and craft last week.

 I added one of the sentiments from the pack under the bow for added interest.

Hopefully you can see the stamped and embossed background and also the pierced edge on this one.
So the items I made with this months set are as follows.

Next month we have some new stamps to make with from the singles Henna range so I am looking forward to creating something with them and I will be back with some Heartfelt Creations cards Friday.

Have a great Thursday.

Hugs

Kim 

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Creative Expressions Crocus

Hi Everyone

I hope your enjoying the blog hop currently running with Creative Expressions. I am really looking forward to finding out who are the lucky winners of all the goodies available so don't forget to leave your comments on the post below which is also the start of the hop and will take you to the next person in the chain.

Today is my day to create something new for CE and I am using the Winter flowers stamp set, this week I have used the Crocus to focus on.

 I thought I would do something a little different this time and create a long card, it ended up 8x4& 1/2 inches.

As you can see I gave the sentiment a curve as I glued it to the card for interest.

• I started by stamping the crocus three times. I coloured them in with distress inks. 
• Then cut out all three with a curved square die. I also cut the matching mats in the larger size for all three.
• I mounted to of the Plum mats on the diagonal onto cream card and added the crocus previously cut out square on. I stamped out the name Crocus on each of them and embossed in gold.
• Next, I added the middle mat and crocus but this time raised on foam into the centre.
• At this stage I matted the whole thing onto some plum card and I  rounded the corners.Then layered onto gold card.
• I wrapped some green double sided ribbon onto the bottom on the card and again matted the whole thing onto cream card.
• I stamped out my sentiment 'Warm winter wishes' on cream, cut out with a decorative die and mounted onto plum card. This was then added to the bottom of the card on top of the ribbon in the centre with a slight curve for interest.
• I added a small bow to the middle crocus with a small dazzler in the centre. And lastly some small flat back pearls in the corner finished the project.

I hope you enjoyed this card, I really like how it turned out. Don't forget to carry on hopping and I look forward to seeing who wins very soon.

Have a great Thursday.

Kim 

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1st Creative post

Hi all

Today is my first post for Creative Expressions and so I wanted to do a wall hanging with all the goodies given to me to create with.
I had been given this MDF wooden shape in my DT stash so I thought it lends itself to a pretty crackled look. So without further ado here it is.

• I started by painting the plaque with some acrylic paint in grey.
• Then crackle glazed the entire piece.
• I covered this once dry with a contrasting colour usually a lighter shade, I used a beige tone to see the cracks below.
• Sand back the edges and add wax.I used, Cast Bronze,amethyst and Enchanted Gold.
• Stamp out the outline of stamps I am using The Winter flowers set  and I coloured them with Creative expressions Shimmering Iridescent Watercolour Paints.
• I stamped my sentiment onto Coconut white card and layered onto a mat of soft gold card.I added some Burlap string to the top for a hanger and for a bow and some metal embellishments which I used the Enchanted gold wax on to highlight the raised sections.
• I added crackle glaze to the flowers in a thick coat so it will crack nicely.
• lastly I used the pearl glue to dot little dots  all over just for a tiny bit more dimension.

I hope you enjoyed this first project

 

 I know I enjoyed creating it for you.

 Here is a close up of the sentiment.

My day to to blog for  Creative Expressions with be Thursday from now on so please check back each week to see what I create using the products so far. If you have any questions please ask and if you would like to leave a comment I will always reply and appreciate every one left. 

I will be doing a little competition when I get to my first 100 followers too so If you would like to take part tell your friends to stop by and join in.

Also Don't forget anyone in the Essex area I am in Wickford doing my first Demo for Creative on gilding flakes and Waxes so do come to Wickford arts and crafts Saturday 10-4 if you can make it.

Of course last but not least do join up on the Creative Blog too so you can follow along with everything we take part in too.