Good evening folks...
I am so glad that you enjoyed the shows on Hochanda yesterday - it's always a pleasure to work with the lovely folks down there. And it's also a joy knowing that you love the selections that are bought to you by ourselves and JoyCrafts.
The stamps from the shows today were no exception, so I thought I would share a little card or two with some of the products from the show.
The first card I want to share with you is this little frame that was die cut from red and white cardstock. It's quite a simple card to build up. Basic matting and layering onto the card base which was a 7 inch x 7 inch card, coming down in quarter inch sections.
The first layer was cut from white - this was the outside edge of the die, followed by a layer of red which had the inside detail for the diecut.
The very centre die cut was a square from the Card Model we had on the show - these are the ones that make the three dimensional cards, and this section is the lacy middle. It fits, as you can see, perfectly into the middle of the other die. I finished it off with a little rose stamp image that was coloured with copic markers.
The little card below was an A5 card, and it is one of my favourite ones from the shows.
You know sometimes when you have an idea in your head for what you want to achieve with a card? Well, this wasn't it when I started.....!!!
I didn't really know what I wanted it to finish like, I was just playing along with the various dies I had out in front of me, and came up with this as a layout, so just stuck it all together and it seemed to work.
The centre is the circle die we had on the show, and I laced around the centre with a piece of 1/4" satin ribbon. The white middle is the layer that comes with this die set, and you can see you can use it for a layer, or indeed for an aperture if you wish.
The flowers were from the little sets we had - the embroidery dies - but I just loved the detail that was in there so left them plain, and used a little bit of distress ink to add some colour to those and the swirly bits.
The outside stitchy edge was another popular set of stamps. These were borders and there were OODLES of them on one sheet....!
I will try to bring you a little bit more inspiration tomorrow... I hope you can join me.
Until then, Happy Crafting xxx