F6679 - Lovely Lily (from Impression Obsession) was heat embossed with white embossing powder and watercoloured with Adirondack Inks in Lettuce, Meadow, Wild Plum and Cloudy Blue.
Thanks for the inspiration Linda; I love the look!
Cheerio - Isabelle
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Friday, August 20, 2010
Lovely Lily
I had not done any white heat embossing on white paper for some time. Not until I came across THIS gorgeous card!
F6679 - Lovely Lily (from Impression Obsession) was heat embossed with white embossing powder and watercoloured with Adirondack Inks in Lettuce, Meadow, Wild Plum and Cloudy Blue.
Thanks for the inspiration Linda; I love the look!
Cheerio - Isabelle
F6679 - Lovely Lily (from Impression Obsession) was heat embossed with white embossing powder and watercoloured with Adirondack Inks in Lettuce, Meadow, Wild Plum and Cloudy Blue.
Thanks for the inspiration Linda; I love the look!
Cheerio - Isabelle
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Snowball Kisses
How about starting off the New Year with a snowball fight and some kisses?
The stamps:
C8287 - Snowball Kisses by Impression Obsession
and
1117-F - Lookout, Cora's ready to throw by Eat Cake Graphics
Hope you're staying warm, wherever you are!
Cheerio - Isabelle
The stamps:
C8287 - Snowball Kisses by Impression Obsession
and
1117-F - Lookout, Cora's ready to throw by Eat Cake Graphics
Hope you're staying warm, wherever you are!
Cheerio - Isabelle
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky...
If I need a sympathy card, I like to reach for this beautiful sentiment.
The stamp:
E5094 - Stars in the Sky by Impression Obsession
The stamp:
E5094 - Stars in the Sky by Impression Obsession
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Rose Elegance
Seeing so many beautiful rose cards in blog land and on various galleries, I was inspired to look through my own collection of rose stamps. I've also been playing along with various papers and the floating ink technique.
For those not familiar with the technique, you can see a fantastic tutorial
HERE.
The paper that has worked best for me with this technique is Cryogen White from The Paper Cut . However, for this rose, I actually used Shimmer, which also worked okay.
I used my Nesties to cut a circle from the same shimmer paper and a scallop circle with Bling card stock from Bazzill.
It's an easy card, but I am quite pleased with the simplicity and the elegance of it.
As you probably guessed, you can look forward to seeing several more rose cards over the next few days. No thorns though, I promise!
The stamp (from Alesa Baker):
D8112 - Grandma's Garden Rose by Impression Obsession
For those not familiar with the technique, you can see a fantastic tutorial
HERE.
The paper that has worked best for me with this technique is Cryogen White from The Paper Cut . However, for this rose, I actually used Shimmer, which also worked okay.
I used my Nesties to cut a circle from the same shimmer paper and a scallop circle with Bling card stock from Bazzill.
It's an easy card, but I am quite pleased with the simplicity and the elegance of it.
As you probably guessed, you can look forward to seeing several more rose cards over the next few days. No thorns though, I promise!
The stamp (from Alesa Baker):
D8112 - Grandma's Garden Rose by Impression Obsession
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Lovely Lily
Woohooo, I actually stamped!
The time between my receiving this beautiful calla image and the time I finally inked it up has been far too long. Actually, it's been too long since I inked up, period!
The purple flower was stamped on a Fabriano Medioevals Soft White deckle-edged card that I tore in half, and watercoloured with Adirondack Ink. Initially, I had planned on adhering the piece more to the right of the eggplant card stock (it looks black here) and tying a yellow ribbon along the left edge. But when I did not like the look, I sprayed the eggplant cardstock with Gold Glimmer Mist to snazz it up a tad. Of course, the subtle gold shimmer does not show up in my scan. In the future, I hope to post better pictures of my creations - taken with the brand new digital camera my wonderful husband just got for me. This will not be anytime soon, as I need to learn how to make the pics leap into my computer all by themselves. :) Besides, the 'leaping software' has yet to be installed and we have been rather busy with other projects, these days.
For years, I believed that calla lilies were all white. While I still like the white ones, I was absolutely delighted a few years ago, when I realized they indeed grow in various colours. Still, I wanted to try my hand at a white one here and once again, the finished project is very different from what I had planned.
I had stamped the image on a piece of smooth, white cardstock with black Memories ink and coloured with my Koh-I-Noor pencils and Baby Oil. To make the white blossom pop, I added and lovely blue shadow all around it. Then, I stamped a sweet sentiment to the right of the flower, embossed in gold.
Because the sentiment was a tad crooked, I cut the edges of the card stock to even it out. Only, I kept cutting and cutting and while the edges were still not straight, the card was certainly getting too small. You know how it goes? You cut and cut and in the end it's still too small, hahahahaha? (Sorry, I had to inject a little weird Swiss humour here).
The only way to salvage my image was by cutting it out and 3D mounting it on a new piece of lovely, green shimmer paper which I then adhered to a blue card. I even used a different sentiment and this time, which I stamped to the left of the lily.
Most of the time, I don't plan my cards too much. I stamp the image, colour it and take it from there. But then again, that may be pretty obvious by now, LOL. Today, I did plan ahead yet the outcome was very different. How about you? Do you plan or do you go with the flow?
The stamps:
F6679 - Lovely Lily by Impression Obsession
CR1070 - Hope all is well by Stampabilities
and
M369 - Lovely Way by My Sentiment Exactly!
The time between my receiving this beautiful calla image and the time I finally inked it up has been far too long. Actually, it's been too long since I inked up, period!
The purple flower was stamped on a Fabriano Medioevals Soft White deckle-edged card that I tore in half, and watercoloured with Adirondack Ink. Initially, I had planned on adhering the piece more to the right of the eggplant card stock (it looks black here) and tying a yellow ribbon along the left edge. But when I did not like the look, I sprayed the eggplant cardstock with Gold Glimmer Mist to snazz it up a tad. Of course, the subtle gold shimmer does not show up in my scan. In the future, I hope to post better pictures of my creations - taken with the brand new digital camera my wonderful husband just got for me. This will not be anytime soon, as I need to learn how to make the pics leap into my computer all by themselves. :) Besides, the 'leaping software' has yet to be installed and we have been rather busy with other projects, these days.
For years, I believed that calla lilies were all white. While I still like the white ones, I was absolutely delighted a few years ago, when I realized they indeed grow in various colours. Still, I wanted to try my hand at a white one here and once again, the finished project is very different from what I had planned.
I had stamped the image on a piece of smooth, white cardstock with black Memories ink and coloured with my Koh-I-Noor pencils and Baby Oil. To make the white blossom pop, I added and lovely blue shadow all around it. Then, I stamped a sweet sentiment to the right of the flower, embossed in gold.
Because the sentiment was a tad crooked, I cut the edges of the card stock to even it out. Only, I kept cutting and cutting and while the edges were still not straight, the card was certainly getting too small. You know how it goes? You cut and cut and in the end it's still too small, hahahahaha? (Sorry, I had to inject a little weird Swiss humour here).
The only way to salvage my image was by cutting it out and 3D mounting it on a new piece of lovely, green shimmer paper which I then adhered to a blue card. I even used a different sentiment and this time, which I stamped to the left of the lily.
Most of the time, I don't plan my cards too much. I stamp the image, colour it and take it from there. But then again, that may be pretty obvious by now, LOL. Today, I did plan ahead yet the outcome was very different. How about you? Do you plan or do you go with the flow?
The stamps:
F6679 - Lovely Lily by Impression Obsession
CR1070 - Hope all is well by Stampabilities
and
M369 - Lovely Way by My Sentiment Exactly!
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Grandma's Garden Rose
Unfortunately, we have been experiencing technical difficulties at The Stampbuzz recently. However, we are feverishly working on a new website and hope to switch to a more reliable Web Host very soon. As of now, I am happy to report that things are up and running and I was able to add a few new Impression Obsession stamps that just arrived, too.
One of the new arrivals is Grandma's Garden Rose.
For some reason, I've always had trouble colouring any kind of rose image in the past. With the coloured pencils (I used my Koh-I-Noors for this particular image) and Gamsol or baby oil, I slowly seem to be getting a handle on things. :)
The sentiment is from a clear Inkadinkado set (97608O - Expressions by Kathy Davis) and I like that it's quite large. Still, something with this card is not quite right. I think it's missing something, but what? HELP!
One of the new arrivals is Grandma's Garden Rose.
For some reason, I've always had trouble colouring any kind of rose image in the past. With the coloured pencils (I used my Koh-I-Noors for this particular image) and Gamsol or baby oil, I slowly seem to be getting a handle on things. :)
The sentiment is from a clear Inkadinkado set (97608O - Expressions by Kathy Davis) and I like that it's quite large. Still, something with this card is not quite right. I think it's missing something, but what? HELP!
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