Creative inspiration

Cut a printed scrapbook sheet into two pieces of 30x15cm. Trim them down to 27cm long. Score each piece at 20cm and 26 cm. Fold on the scores, with the printed side you would like on the outside. Cut firm cardstock 24x10cm. Score as indicted on the photo and trim away small wedges from 4 corners. Then fold the scored sides and adhere in the corners to make a "box" as the base for the gift bag. Adhere the two pieces of printed paper to each other (use the 1cm scored edges for overlaps on the inside) and adhere this...

STEPS: 1. Stamp flowers using Sweet peony small stamp set and Ranger archival ink in Vibrant fuchsia. I stamped the set twice to make several flowers and select how many I wanted to use. 2. Colour the flowers along the edges using the vibrant fuchsia ink and a dauber or an eyeshadow applicator - I find the eyeshadow applicator allows me more control. Cut the flowers out, using the matching dies. Lightly colour the petals around the edges at the back. Arrange a few flowers in the basics flower mould, face down (that is, the stamped image facing down). Spritz...

Poppies in themselves have a beautiful texture with their ruffled petals and these Heartfelt Creations blazing poppies are beautiful. On this card, texture was enhanced by using an Anna Griffin "Poppy" embossing folder for the background and by using several layers of the Creative Expressions die set, Fiji. Poppies were made using Heartfelt Creations Blazing poppies stamp and die set. I stamped the flowers with Ranger archival ink in Rose Madder and coloured them with the Rose Madder, Versamagic Pixie Dust and Spun Sugar distress inks.  The poppies can be shaped beautifully by using the Basics flower mould, but I...

These pretty flowers could have come straight out of fairyworld. The classic petunia stamp-and-die-sets from Heartfelt Creations make awesome flowers. These sets are complimented by the pretty classic petunia paper collections.I first selected a piece of paper from the collection for the background of my  card. I stamped two sets of all sizes from the Small classic petunia set and one set of the smaller set from the Large classic petunia set on vellum with Versamark. Then I sprinkled white embossing powder over the stamped images and heat-set them, before doing the die-cutting. It is so convenient that the Heartfelt...

Flowers:Hearfelt Creations small camelia carnation stamp-and-die bundle Ranger archival ink Rose Madder for stamping For colouring and blending: Artistry ink fucsia pink; Tay;ored Expressions strawberry pink; Versamagic mango madness Leaves: Ranger archival ink olve; Ranger distress oxide twisted citron Die cuts: Creative Expressions Julia tags and frames Please DO let me know if you visted and enjoye the post! have a lovey day. Marie Smith