Good morning, everyone! Wedding gift ideas are always welcome and we love to get some inspiration in creating more. Or many, why not?
This was the first cardboard box I have ever decorated and has been an idea that stuck with me later on when I made the desk calendars. It’s a lot of work but well deserved when you look at the result.
Hello, everyone! It’s been a while, right? Here’s my go for an interactive card using small stamps, coloured pencils, dies and inks.
I’ve been planning for a while now to give some love to these mini stamps I have with Santoro’ s stamp sets. I chose the sets Toadstools and The Fox. Those little foxes are so playful and I enjoyed colouring them with my new Inktense pencils from Derwent. Besides the foxes I chose some tiny hedgehogs and some mushrooms. Totally loved the way they came out!
As I wanted to make it interactive, I went online and viewed some Lawn Fawn videos with interactive cards making and then set on my path to do mine. I chose some circle dies from Xcut and some cards to die cut the frames. For the background I chose to use some distress inks and I have no idea why haven’t I tried them before. They are magical! I used some sponge daubers and it came out beautiful!
On the first cover, I used a piece of card where from I die cut some leaves a while ago as a stencil to create that leafy layout.
Hello, everyone! It’s been a long time since I last wrote here. There has been a pretty busy month with lots of projects, running my first 10K in an international competition and having the first English issues of a medical Journal I edited, being published. Thank you notes go to great people who’ve been there to support with kind thoughts and good deeds.
Hristos a Înviat! Sper c? v-a?i bucurat de un Pa?te fericit, plin de lumin? ?i binecuvântare al?turi de cei dragi. Anul acesta am creat mai pu?in decât mi-am propus îns? am reu?it s? dau culoare unor ?tampile digitale folosind pe o plan?? acuarele si tu?uri pe baz? de ap?, iar pe alta am colorat folosind Promarkers, ni?te markere pe baz? de pigment.
?tampilele digitale sunt de la GerdaSteinerDesigns, una dintre creatoarele mele preferate de ?tampile. Acuarelele folosite sunt minunate ?i vin de la Staedtler, un alt brand favorit. Iar, tu?urile pe baz? de ap? sunt #distressinks de la Ranger. Pentru toate acestea am folosit cu drag pensulele mele cele noi, pensule cu rezervor de ap? de la Kuretake ZIG.
Hi, everyone! This bouquet has been in my mind for some time now. But, I have no idea how I managed to post it so late. I made it quite a while ago and here’s what I initially wrote:
Hello, everyone! Freesia in pastel colours is the card I’d like to show you today.
It looks like I fell in love with this Altenew Fresh Freesia stamp and die set. Altenew has celebrated its 2nd anniversary these days. So, I’d like to wish them many more to come! And hope they’re going to keep growing and making lovely and quality products.
The idea of pastel colouring came once with the newly added Promarkers to my stash. When finished adding the colours to the freesia, which was die cut in advance using the coordinating die, I brushed some clear Wink of Stella to give it a bit of sparkle. The card I used for the base is in cream colour. I wanted to a different layout for the front cover, so I scored it at about 1/3 from the margin and created a fold. To keep it simple, but with a bit of dimension. I added some twine and gold string to the fold, then tied them into a beautiful bow towards the bottom of the card. After that I adhered the freesia and the card was ready. Read more
Hi, everyone! I have a birthday card to show you today. It’s called Ellie’s balloons.
The stamps I used are part of Avery Elle stamp set ‘Ellie’. The balloons come in two different shapes and for this card I went with both of them. For stamping I used Memento Tuxedo Black and I think I was a bit too hasty and I smudged a bit one balloon string.
Hi, everyone!Interactive balloons?!Oh,yes! Definitely, yes! Why did it take me so long to try and make an interactive card? No idea. It is so much fun and gives so much joy one could not imagine.
So, the birthday card was made for my dear cousin, friend and great photographer. If you’ve been on this page before, you surely saw his amazing photos.
Hello, again!The fourth part of the bookmarks series is based on Gorjuss girls. Oh, how I love them!
The stamps I used are the new ones, the collectibles. They come in mini sizes and are easy to fit on bookmarks too. Gorjuss has been my favourite when it comes to stamping and creating for my dear ones. And since my niece suggested she needs a mouth and a nose, I’ve kept adding them to the original design. The mini stamps chosen for these bookmarks are called ‘I gave you my heart’ and ‘I found my family in a book’. Aren’t they ‘gorjuss’?
For colouring in, I used Promarkers again. And lately, I’ve enjoyed trying new colouring techniques such as layering. You can see that by looking at Gorjuss’s hair. I’m not perfect at this but I’ve been working on it! 😉 Each bookmark has attached either a red twine, lilac ribbon or a multicoloured string. No sentiments or handwriting were added as I wanted to keep the bookmarks as clean and simple as possible.
Of all the beautiful photos, Cristian Istrate took, I kept a few of them. Couldn’t stop under 5. Such hard decision has it been!
Hope you like them. Many thanks for stopping by and for your lovely comments.
Wishing you a lovely day,
Talida
Hi, everyone! Poppies, hearts and flowers make the third part of the bookmarks series.
For these three bookmarks, I went with pink and white thick card. Avery Elle die was the one used to die-cut the bookmarks. Then, I went on stamping the poppies on two of the die-cuts, using Memento Tuxedo Black. On the third one, I stamped Avery Elle’s heart balloon, ‘smile’ sentiment and added some more handwritten words.
Red and lilac twine was added to the bookmarks to give contrast and dimension. The stamps were coloured in using Promarkers and Stabilo fineliners. Handwriting was done with Stabilo fineliners.
Hope you like these too! I’ll be back soon with a new part of the bookmarks series and with some more projects.
Wishing you all the best,
Talida
Photo credits: Cristian Istrate
Hi, everyone!
Today, I have the second part of the recent bookmarks series. The ones today are using a mix of stamps, brands and a bit of handwriting too.
I have used the bookmarks dies from Avery Elle to die cut out of recycled kraft card in white and brown/natural. Lately, I’ve become a huge fan of this type of card not only for its quality but also for keeping it green.
To embellish them I used some of Avery Elle’s Ellie stamp set – the heart balloon, the tiny flower, the grass and the sentiment ‘smile’. For one of these bookmarks I chose a Gorjuss girl from the mini collectible stamp series – ‘I gave you my heart’, to whom I added a mouth and a nose with a Stabilo fineliner in black. Docrafts Papermania poppy rubber stamp made a perfect fit for another one of the bookmarks. And for the last one in this second part, I went on with stamping the heart balloon and just added some handwritten sentiments.
Colouring was done using Promarkers and for the handwriting I used my Stabilo fineliners. I have also added red twine and some natural hemp twine.
The bookmarks turned out really great and I love it!
Photo credits go to Cristian Istrate.
Wishing you all the best,
Talida
Good morning, everyone! This is the first part of a new bookmark series I’ve made. These are the tiny ones in round, square, heart shapes with smile, mini hearts and flowers on.
I’ve been pretty busy this year and made lots of projects I am proud of. As always there’s so little time to put all my ideas at work and most of the times, it takes long to get them up on the blog. The whole process from the idea to the blog post is sometimes a 8 hour long work. But fully worth it!
Let’s see what’s with the smile series! The idea of having these mini bookmarks die-cut out of different colour cards has been in my mind for a long time. Probably since I first saw Avery Elle’s Bookmark Die set. So, I die-cut plenty of these bookmarks and then I stamped them using my new mini Distress Ink cubes using flowers, mini hearts and the smile sentiment from an Avery Elle clear stamp set – Ellie.
The beautiful photos were taken by one of my favourite photographers – Cristi Istrate.
Wishing you a lovely day,
Talida
