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Hi Craft addicts!       Today's handmade card was a surprise to me as I wasn't too sure how it would turn out but am pleased with the result. I still have some of Create & Craft's black pearlescent 7" x 5" cards and thought I better use them up and so rounded the corners with a Prism punch from Hunkydory and then used their scoreboard to score 3 lines towards the bottom of the card. I stamped the bird on a branch image (from Stamps By Me It's All About You range) on to some white card using Gina K Obsidian Black ink - as it is a Hybrid ink it means I can use it for either watercolour or alcohol paints or inks. I then had some watercolour paints left in my palette (gosh that sounds pretentious) from other projects. They were a mix of Be Creative's Metallic Gold Twilights for its' head and some brown and green watercolour paints from a variety of sources for the branches and leaves. I then stamped out the two sentiments (again from the It's All A...

Hi Craft addicts! Today's latest handmade card is one using Stamps by Me products for my 365 day challenge. I had cut out a circle in a piece of card for another project and decided to use it as  a mask to colour another piece of white card using some "grungy" colour ink pads (Mainly Tim Holtz) I then stamped the Rose and pocket watch image (from a Stamps by Me collection) on top of the the ink using Gina K Black Obsidiain ink. I used Creative Expressions Cosmic Shimmer Crystal Tints (Orange and yellow) as paints to colour the stamped image.  I trimmed a piece of the wood effect Stamps by Me paper pad I had to fit the front of a 7x5" white card (leaving a narrow border all around). Using the same Crystal Tints I coloured the card that had the circle aperture in it until I was happy with the result. I stuck it to the stamped it image using PVA glue and then attached that to some black card which I then trimmed to fit the card. Once I had glued the whole topper panel o...