Hearts Come Home... a bit of Bright & Sparkle!

As per an individual request... I have added something bright and something sparkly to one of the Hearts Come Home cards I shared a few weeks back...

So... take this card... add an extra 1 3/4" Circle punched Silver Glimmer moon and a bright Real Red house to make it pop... and she is very happy now!

And of course a quick change to the sentiment to sum it all up!

Joy to the World... Hearts & Hometown #7

Decided I should keep my makes using the Hearts Come Home and Hometown Greetings dies altogether on the blog after all... so another CAS card for you today...

White emboss resist sleigh & smoke then Night of Navy brayered night sky

Straightforward die cut front white panel with Smoky Slate stamped and hand cut house added... note that the front panel is the same width as my night sky panel...

Night of Navy stamped greeting... oh I do like a large greeting!

Finished off with plenty of Dazzling Diamonds glitter over Tombow glue on the roofs, trees, snowman and horizon...

Simples...

And a little tip for you... the white embossed smoke trail & Santa's sleigh were simply positioned by laying the die cut houses temporarily over the white panel for my night sky, stamping the trail & sleigh in Versamark... then heating to melt. Finished off with plenty of Sponge Brayer action. 

I do find that the Sponge Brayers give me an easier and neater (as less hard lines/streaks)  finish than the old rubber version... though I do have to brayer over more times to build up the depth of colour as in this case... 

Falling In Love & Dragonfly Dreams - The Blues one!

Quick share of today's card...

This is a card made "kind of" from scraps!!! - as the paper panel is the gutted centre from my Heart Wreath card shared here... (gutted at 1 1/4" from all sides fyi) ... and the greeting banner is the scrap from cutting out the two Very Vanilla panels used here... kind of neat!

Falling in Love papers meets Dragonfly Dreams stamps & dies and introducing the other BIG word in Happy Celebrations.... how much do I love this "celebrate" greeting!!

And I have to admit that these papers have really proven to be versatile... and are not just in the pinks!!

Oh and here is the inside... thought it worthy of decorating too...

Love the softer look of the just the dragonfly wings and body...

And a little tip... I have used clear embossing powder on the Very Vanilla cardstock so that the cream card colour can shine through... and the colouring is done using Pool Party and Mint Macaron markers over the embossed and die-cut dragonfly (ie Emboss Resist... remembering to wipe off the excess ink with tissue paper afterwards)

Lovely as A Tree & Father Christmas

Another quick share today... Once I had used the Christmas Magic trees with the Father Christmas greeting frame stamps for yesterday's card... I was reminded of one of my favourite all time cards - so I had to quickly go upstairs and grab my Lovely as A Tree set...

About half an hour later and 4 cards were made... but this was my favourite...

Top part of frame white embossed for the Emboss Resist Technique. Trees and bottom frame part stamped in black. Snow line masked and Dapper Denim sponge brayered over the top. And a sprinkling of Dazzling Diamonds over Fine Tip Glue to finish it off...

Stamped panel then layered onto Whisper White and finally onto a 5 1/2" Square Dapper Denim card blank...

Greetings From Santa Scene

And not a Santa in sight!!

This one proved to be a very popular Emboss Resist card.... all the images and greeting being from Greetings From Santa... so great to have these in there!

Masked snowline on a piece of Shimmer White card... white heat embossed tree, deer and snowflakes... Night of Navy baby wipe swoosh and baby wipe marbling... Night of Navy trees to left and right... then a dry tissue wipe to remove the ink off the embossed parts.

Finished off with the beautiful greeting in Night of Navy and ...though difficult to see... Silver Metallic Thread wrapped around about 5 times. All stick onto a Whisper White mat and then onto a small square card blank...

And yes for those of you that swapped with me at Quarterly Training... this is slightly different to the swap card... I simplified a couple of parts for bulk production purposes! Will share that one soon....

Ombre Sponge Brayering Emboss Resist...

Another idea with the Bermuda Bay ombre pad... 

White embossed Wonderful Year greeting and couple of large Tin of Tags snowflakes...

Sponge brayered ink from the ombre pad for the Emboss Resist Technique .... 

Ombre-inked large snowflakes at random to finish off... plus Soft Sky Fancy Frost sequins... I have to admit that these Tin of Tags snowflakes are going to get plenty of action here at The Craft Spa...

I hope you are all having a wonderful August Bank Holiday...and managing to get a rest (or not as the case might prefer to be!)

And here is a group shot of the last 2 days' cards...

Always Time for Tea... and you...

 

An emboss resist card using the A Nice Cuppa stamps in Mint Macaron... and the Botanical Gardens papers... 

This is another CASE... of this card by Bruno Bertucci here. I just added an extra greeting, extra ribbon and used different papers...

Sorry for brief posts this week... just a tad busy!  So now trying to catch up with myself...sometime soon I hope!!