Two Cards... Studio 490 Styleee

...I have a confession to make! You know I always say that I am not really fussed for making cards? Well, ahem... I have started to really enjoy it! I know, I know, I keep saying that I will make a few cards a week and not *buy* any more. Well, this year is the year I really do revisit the old cardmaking hobby... and I can't think of any better stamps to use than my beloved Studio 490's. I have got three baskets brimming with tags... and whilst I keep saying that I will stick them on a card and use those... I don't. And... I actually butchered a crop of last years tags last week, pilfering the Idea-ology off them (my other ressie is to recycle more lol) Anyways... these here cards have been made using only the Studio 490 Dimensional Rose Art set.


Card 1 - Rosey Delight




I cut a piece of Crowded Attic paper to measure 5" square and popped it onto some grey Bazzill cardstock after blending Fired Brick DI around the edges and sanding them with an emery board.
I made another little mat in the same way and stamped the large flourish using Forest Moss DI. The little rose was made by stamping the rose flower stamp onto three of the little 2" square snips in the Crowded Attic stack - to see step by step on how to assemble the rose, CLICK HERE.


The sentiment is actually just one word, masked off from the larger sentiment using Post-It notes and Jet Black Archival ink. I blended more Fired Brick over the top, sanded the edges, snipped into the ends to make them pointed and popped this onto more grey Bazzill.


Card 2 - Flower Delight



I can't take any credit for this design... so I will let you know that the inspiration for this card came from a project in Wendy Vecchi's Book I, page 12/13. The base of the card is 5" square black cardstock. I cut a mat of cream cardstock and coloured it with Wild Honey Distress Stain and edged this with Vintage Photo DI. Then another piece of black card makes a mat for this. The squares are 2" in size and coloured with Wild Honey and Tumbled Glass Distress Stains... using a Wrinkle Free Distress technique. Two of the squares are stamped with the large background from the set using Coffee Archival Ink and one is stamped with the large flourish. The last square is stamped in Jet Black Archival with the sentiment... one of my faves!


The flower is the rose flower, stamped twice onto Grungepaper and coloured with Fired Brick DI. I overstamped the numerical background using Coffee Archival and folded the flowers to make them dimensional. I bobbed a little Idea-ology Foliage flower onto it and then added a strip of Grungepaper that I coloured with Forest Moss DI and added a couple of the leaves from the rose leaf stamp. The finishing touch was added with the Foliage leaf and a brad. All of the goodies used on the cards can be found at The Stamp Attic *just sayin ;o))*


Right... I have a bit of one of those days going on today... pain is not good at all... not sure what I have done to make it so bad, maybe all that cleaning last week *does that mean it is a good excuse to not do any? lol* And... I have to take Ferdy for his MOT... he hasn't had one before so I am keeping it all X'd that he passes... if you hear some very loud wailing you will know he has had a hiccup! Thanks for looking ... as ever... TTFN!

Hels x