Hearts & Hatpins

My husband's Godmother celebrates her 40th wedding anniversary tomorrow so I wanted to make her & her husband a special card. I love the cards Sue Wilson makes but I just can't bring myself to make anything that busy. This, therefore, is my homage to Sue's style (albeit much more CAS), complete with homemade hat pins!

I love hat pins on cards but this is my first attempt at making & using them. I wanted them to be on the front of the smaller heart but I soon realised I had absolutely no idea how to attach them to it. I tried various methods using ribbon, all of them useless. I tried Cosmic Shimmer glue & ribbon; also useless. So in the end I resorted to good old sticky tape with the heart in front to hide the evidence! 

Cardstock: Xerox Colotech Plus 300gsm, DCWV Shimmer Stack

Stamp: IndigoBlu Vintage Flourish

Ink: Tsukineko Brilliance Pearlescent Poppy

Sentiment: Computer generated

Flowers, hat pins, flat backed gems all from stash.

First Time with FlitterGlu

I like messing with inks, but glitter is another matter entirely! I don't have a craft room - my crafting space is a small foldaway table in the living room - which makes glitter etc impractical.  So although I've had FlitterGlu & gilding flakes in my stash for ages, this was my first proper foray into the FlitterGlu technique. I do like the results but I'm not sure it's something I'd want to bother with too often, at one stage I'm sure I had more flakes on me than the card . . .

I was inspired by this card but, as ever, didn't copy it completely. The trellis was cut on my Craft Robo Lite from a template I made myself (shared on UKScrappers, if you're interested).  It was, in fact, only a test cut on quite thin card but it seemed a shame to waste it. However, the fact that the card was thin did make rubbing the flakes off with a "scoochie sponge" a very delicate operation.  

The hearts were cut from a piece of DCWV Shimmer cardstock which I'd stamped with Flitter Glu using a Kaisercraft stamp, gilded with Lancashire Rose flakes & then cut out on my Cuttlebug using a heart Nestability. The greeting by Elzybells (sadly no longer available) was stamped in Brilliance Pearlescent Poppy.

Rock Star Red

This had to be a quick card - my son only told me at 9pm last night that it had been his friend's birthday yesterday!  As his friend plays the electric guitar it was an ideal opportunity to test out my first Ebay purchase: Inkadinkado Rock Star stamps. A card I'd seen recently in red, black & kraft was the inspiration for the colour theme.

I started with the main image, which was stamped in Pearlescent Poppy Brilliance Ink then embossed.  The embossing was a bit uneven but as I planned to make the card quite grungy I decided to just go with it and sponged round the edges with Black Soot Distress Ink:

The background was a combination of more stamps from the Inkadinkado set, and stars sponged through a mask, all with Pearlescent Poppy again which I discovered isn't pearlescent on kraft cardstock!  The greeting was created in Craft Artist 2 Professional using Retro Rock Poster font.

Cardstock: Papermania Kraft, Xerox Colotech 300gsm, black from stash

Inks: Pearlescent Poppy Brilliance, Distress Black Soot

Embossing Powder: Papermania

Mask: maker unknown