Verve Stamps - a thank you set

I have gotten a lot of use out of my new Verve clear stamps.  I bought a thank you set, another one with this circular design and a few others.  Love them!!

Flowery Birthday

I am loving this Amy Butler China patterned paper pack.  There are such cool colour combinations.  I used a flower I had found in the wedding section (go figure?)  of Target for next to nothing for a big pack.  Amazing the finds you can make!

Swirly thank you

 

I am always looking for easy ways of layering and making thank you cards.  Here's what I came up with using my new Verve stamp set of Thank You's ....

Distress Inks and Multi colour inking

This is my new favourite technique and I learned it from Jennifer McGuire.  I love my Tim Holtz Distress inks and I now have vintage photo, antique linen and broken china.  For this card, I used a Papertrey Ink flourish and a Verve sentiment stamp.  I inked in the lighter broken china ink and then did some areas over again with vintage photo.  Voilà!

Gold embossed First Nations images

 

I love these images.  I found them when I was on vacation this past summer in Tofino on Vancouver Island.  They are First Nations stamps that I used with some gold embossing powder.  Simple, quick but effective.

 

A corner rounder punch, some glittery patterned paper and voilà!

I just love this combination of colours - a lime sort of green with a purply shade.  This card was a quick one to make.  The black and white paper has sparkles on the flowers but it's hard to see with this picture.

Embossing and flourishes

I have really been enjoying a set of stamps called the Bonjour stamp set from Cavallini. There is a nice selection and they look gorgeous and old worldly. And you know how much I love flourishes so I added them on the corners. Voilà - card done!

Charms are oh so charming, aren't they?

I love a three dimensional card ... I often add pop dots or layers. Lately, I have been taken by charms like this one. Sometimes I punch out a frame for it and attach it to the inside of the card and then stamp a sentiment on the front below, and other times, it's on the front of the card. How do you use three dimensional items on your cards?

Flocking ...

I know, what does that mean, right?! Well, I am looking forward to trying it out on cards ... it is almost like a crushed velvet embossing process. Here's what one of my favourite websites says (that's where I got this picture from):

Use pigment ink to stamp your image. Powder your wet stamped image with sticky powder and heat until shiny. Do not overheat! Spoon flocking over your warm sticky design and press down with fingers before you pour off extra flocking. Heat again to harden off the powder.

Can't wait for my package of sticky stuff and flocking powder to arrive! Here are the powders I ordered:

Have any of you tried this technique? Any tips?

Beads galore!

I have always loved using beads on cards ... they are great for embellishments even though they are so tiny you need tweezers to dip them in glue. But I am loving these alphabet beads I bought. They make fabulous baby cards!