Cornish Temptress!

...I know, I know, I am really rubbish at thinking up original titles for my posts...but, this one actually makes sense (to me at least LOL)...bear with me....




The Gingersnap Creations are being sponsored this month by Paper Temptress...and it just so happens that I was sent some gorgeous cardstock to play with...I mean it folks, it is really lush thick and colourful...so I decided to make a card...and I used last month's "stamp of the month" by Cornish Heritage Farms ...so here is my...Cornish Temptress....now you can see what I was meaning with the title LOL




I used some of the fab cardstock to make the mats for The Pine's stamp, which was stamped with Pine Needles Distress Ink....and then I blended more DI's over the background and splatted it with water to make a blotchy snowy effect.




The little sentiment is also a CHF stamp and I added a couple of Prima poinsettia's before smothering a lot of Picket Fence Distress Stickles all over the place to get a snowy and frosty look.

Thanks for looking..have a great day!

Hels x

The Turtle and the Mouse

My very first Christmas card of 2009!!! One down, 200 to go LOL

The Gingersnap Creations team are being sponsored by Cornish Heritage Farms this month and I was over the moon to receive the cutest Christmas stamp ever...so I had to play immediately and make a card using it.




The image, called Turtle Sled actually launches today so you can buy one...I hugely recommend you do...cos I had such a great time with this one...and have used it more too! :O)) I used ProMarkers to colour the image, and even though the stamp is cling mounted, those clever peeps at CHF put a colouring guide in the pack...so I copied it LOL The little sentiment is also from CHF and is on their new Friendly Kritters Holiday Expressions plate




The paper is Basic Grey which I made a fancy border on using a Martha Stewart punch and cardstock by Bazzill and then a Prima fancy poinsettia flower to garnish!

Thanks for looking, have a fab day

Hels x

**apologies for the wonky photo's...something is seriously wrong with my camera...either that or I need to take more water with it ** ROFL

Haute Couture Paris Style

...Woe is me :O(( I have got the dreaded lurgy and have just had a couple of really rough days...so no crafting has been done...typical cos I have my lovely tidy craft room to play in ... and... I have received the most gorgeous stamps by Cornish Heritage Farms who are sponsoring the Gingersnap Creations team this month.

Today, however, I am a bit better so made this card using the brand new Haute Couture stamps which were released today:




In with the stamps was a copy of Rubber Stamp Madness - wow this is a seriously fab magazine, so thank you to Ali for being so kind and sending it - along with two others - to me....and in the mag is a brilliant tutorial for Perfect Pearls...which I just had to try... the finished result is amazing! I have a few packs of Perfect Pearls and have never really done much with them as I didn't really know what to do with them save for adding them to water and re-inker to make a glimmer spray.




With this technique, you saturate a piece of cardstock with spray starch and then dab the colours on until the piece is covered ... and then run it thru the Bug - I used the Fleur De Lis folder - and then use a brayer with permanent ink and roll gently over the top of the embossed detail, which then makes the black of the card pop out! I just know I am going to be using the technique over and over again!




The images on the card are coloured with Distress Inks and a waterbrush and then layered with 3D foam to make them stand out a bit.

Thanks for looking...am off to snuggle on the sofa with my hot water bottle now!

Hels x