Autumn rainbow....

I managed to get my card made nice and early in the day, but then the evening has just vanished....

Today's card is made using Johnathon Lockwood's Autumn stamps, it's a beautiful set of stamps with lovely litter verses on.

 

To start my card I cut out a square using the pierced square dues from Sue wilson, the gold is in the largest from set A and white is largest from set B.

I've inked the edge with vintage photo distress ink, and stamped and embossed the corners in gold. 

I'm sorry but never took note of the layered squares in the centre but if you measure the die against your card you'll be able to find the one that suits best. 

On the white i stamped and embossed with the falling leaves background stamp. Again from Johnathon Lockwood range. 

I then sprinkled the mango, peacock green and candy pink pixie powders, I only spritzed lightly to activate the powders, not to soak my card. 

   

To colour my stamped corners, I puffed a bit of powder onto my craft mat and used a water brush to colour were I wanted it. I'm not a huge colouring person but I find working with these powders helps to do more stamping as I'm not worried of the after work. 

I mat and layered my layers....

 

Stamped my chosen little verse, which suited my card perfectly and used the pierced tags, used a teal ribbon and a glass heart to finish the card completely.....I do hope you'll give the powders a try, I'm certain you'll love them just like me 😘

I've got that Autumn feeling......

So this evening I had my craft class, it'll be around 6yrs since this group started. Though only small, it's very friendly. 

After class, I got on with card for today (evening)  I've used Johnathon Lockwood's Autumn range of stamps, which I fell in love With, as soon as I'd seen them on tv. 

 

Today I've used the pixie powders again, starting to become a favourite product of mine....colours used are plum twist, lava red and rich gold. I spinkled the powder onto my card and spritzed with water, and took a 2nd piece to get a print. I've then used Johns falling leaves background stamp, with flitter flake glue and copper flakes to create my coloured background. 

 

I also used Johns Autumn wreath elements stamps, to stamp my wreath, the happy birthday and the extra leaves added as embellishments. 

  

I used black archival ink to stamp my images and cut out by hand. I used a banner from the frames and tags range, and stamped my happy birthday. 

I Matt and layered using foundation rich plum card, and finished the card off with a plum ribbon bow. 

Retailers Day with Creative Expressions

On the 4th April, I went all the way down to Kettering, to visit the Creative Expressions Head Quarters.
I met up with Johnathon Lockwood, Sue Wilson, Julia Watts, Lisa Horton and Phil Martin. They had all prepared some lovely projects for us to have a play with the new up and coming products, like dies, embossing folders, pixie powders and gilding polish ( I think the 2 latter were my favourites)
 I'm sure all the retailers had a lovely day and made fab items.
Here's a look at mine;

This one we used gilded polish, and the project designed by Johnathon Lockwood.

These are samples we made using the pixie powders, water stamps and masks :-)

 We worked with Julia Watts for these.

We made this MDF tag with Lisa Horton, using the metallic distress paints, her designed stamps and the scrabble stamps, I luv the scrabble stamps 

This card we used Phil Martins timeless paper pad and stamps

And last but certainly not least, this card we made with Sue Wilson. Using her glue and pixie powder technique, and I'm almost certain she has a little video on her blog with instructions.