Monday, May 12, 2008

Craftwork Cards Day

I have been having a day working with some stash I got from Craftwork Cards - the gorgeous big bazzill flowers and Enchanted Paper Collection.
The three background panels were stamped with Hero Arts Friends stamp and the edges inked with black...tied a ribbon round one panel. Cut out a circle with Cricut and faux stitched the edge.
Stamped the Bazzill flower with the same Hero Arts stamp - this was a technique inspired by the latest Prima flowers called Artful Collage which I have ordered from the US and hopefully will arrive any day now. I spotted them on Tim Holtz blog with a link to an online store...apparently they are like gold dust in the US probably because he is using them on his Alaskan Crafting Cruise....lucky folk spending a week on a boat with the legend himself.
Toodle along and check out his blog - it's fabulous and full of fun.....he really is such a nice guy. I e-mailed him to thank him for the info on the Prima flowers and he came right back with a lovely reply....made my day!!

This time I dotted polka dots all over the flower with a permanent marker and stamped some flourishes from a HOTP stamp set.
The paper is from the Enchanted Pink Collection adding an "in circle", "stem saying" and punched out circles from the paper.









This time I left the flower plain adding stitching from a Bazzill Stitch template with black thread which I purchased at the SECC back in March and had never got round to using. Added black punched out circles, inked the edges with a pink inkpad and added a bit of doodling, "in circle" and "stem saying".
I really have got into this inking edges and doodling habit bad..just can't control myself...need to do it on everything.


8 comments:

  1. Gorgeous cards, love the big bold flowers ~x~

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  2. These are gorgeous Kath. I love how you added the polka dots yourself. I must remember that!

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  3. These are beautiful! I have those papers but have only made one card so far and that was yonks ago! Must dig them out. Have you emailed them in to Crfatwork Cards - I'm sure they'll put them in their gallery as they are so fabby xxx

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  4. Gorgeous cards - I love that stitching

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  5. Lovely cards! I do like the pink and black colour combo. Loving the big flowers.

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  6. Gorgeous cards Kath.Love the stitched card and the polka dots.

    Cass xx

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  7. Gorgeous Kath - I especially love the big bloom card - stunning xx

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  8. Aw, Kath.. I absolutely adore the Friend card at the top here... Wow!!! And how cool to near directly from Tim 'the Hunk' Holtz!! (swoon)

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