Umbrella Iris Shutter

A while back, I blogged a planner/journal page that I created using Elizabeth Craft Designs: Art Journal - Iris Shutter die set. That post has a detailed step-by-step of how to assemble the mechanism, so I will not go over that again here. Click here to have a look at that post. You can also watch the video link from that post - or the one for this post (click on the main photo) For this card, I haven't used the overlay part, and therefore did not use the extensions for the arrow on piece B.

For decoration, this time I have used Sizzix Thinlets - Flowers in Umbrella set. The little bird and some of the foliage were used as the image inside the iris shutter, with the rest providing embellishment for the card.

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Happy crafting,

Cxxx

Flowers in Umbrella

Sharing a tag today, made using Crafter's Companion White Stamping Card, sprayed with Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide sprays.

The die set I used to create the image is a Thinlets set from Sizzix called "Flowers in Umbrella". There are lots of lovely little dies in this set, and it is absolutely perfect for using up scraps! 

Click on the picture to see a video of how I made this! 

Happy crafting, 

Cxxx

Umbrellas ready!

We are starting a new fortnightly challenge at Use Your Craft Stash, and we are onto U and V. These letters at the end of the alphabet are getting a bit tricky. The only thing I could think of was Umbrella - and it reminded me of a card I made in June 2015 for the Scruffy Little Kitten launch. There was a image of a little girl with an umbrella, and a great sentiment from one of the stamp sets - called Rosie. I tried to follow my own instructions from that blog post but I seem to have omitted a few things. I am pretty sure that I didn't make it at A4 size - and when scoring the top of the card for sticking I must have done the back piece - and not the front. I realised both mistakes when I made them with this card!! Am still pretty happy with it - although it is rather large!

I used the same sentiment as before, from the Scruffy Little Kitten stamp set called Rosie, but this time used a Hobby House Topper from a Daisy Mae Draws Ready to Colour Art Book called Days of Summer. I coloured it with Spectrum Noir markers - BT4, 5, 9 for the umbrella, CT1, 2, 3, 4 for the wellies, OR1, 2, 3, for the flowers and LG1, 2, 3 for the leaves and grass. The base card is from Papermill, and the spotty card I bought from my local market.

Hopefully brollies won't be needed this week - although that might be optimistic!

Happy crafting,

Cxxxx