Showing posts with label PSX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PSX. Show all posts

Thursday, 30 August 2012

Lighthouse

Hello stampers!
At long last the intense heat has stopped and it's much cooler here today, which makes everybody feel so much better. I guess this also means that somehow summer has come to an end, alas. I have another card to share with you today, and it's a male card this time. I always struggle with male cards, which I find the hardest to make, but that gorgeous lighthouse stamp seemed perfect for the purpose - it surely makes a great focal image, not to mention that I love lighthouses!! I used some cream and brown carstock and just one layer of designer paper. Edges were sponged with vintage photo Distress ink. I coloured my image with Copics and - no easy task - but I resisted the urge to add glitter, pearls or lace, ugh! Now you understand why I find male cards so difficult to put together, I have to exercise some restraint every time! LOL I added some double stitched ribbon, though, trying to keep the card very simple.

Have a nice afternoon!
Hugs, Vittoria

Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Pansy

Hello there stampers!
I have a new card to share with you today for which I decided to use one of my old PSX stamps, the pansy. Those flower stamps are truly amazing and so much fun to colour, no doubt! I used some cream cardstock, a couple of purple and lilac designer papers (love those colours!) and some Spellbinders ovals for my focal image. The ivory lace is from my stash. I left it as it is, as it's so lovely and romantic, I didn't want to cover it. As the lace has butterflies in it, I decided to add some tiny ones here and there which I had sponged with purple ink and bordered with some glitters. I also added tiny pearls in the middle of each butterfly and a pearl trio in the bottom left corner - the pearls started life out white before I coloured them with Copics to match my card. The card has been made for one of my colleagues who will have her birthday on 2nd September - I hope she will like it!

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
Cupcake Craft Challenges
Simon Says Stamp challenge blog

Have a nice evening! :-)
Hugs, Vittoria