Its Christmas! - with shaving cream

A couple of weeks ago Caron and I were playing on our craft night - Caron's turn - and she thought we would play with shaving cream, we tried this a year or so ago to mixed results. Some were fantastic! others, well we just over did it in our enthusiasm! too many colours and too much stirring!

This time I think we did it right :)

and to top it off Caron produced some double sided sticky sheets and glitter. Yummy

When we had finished it was, well how to make a card with this as backing paper? 

no way I'm going to hide it by covering it up with a topper!

Hello the Cameo! 

I did go around the edge of the cut outs with an alcohol ink pen just to make them pop a bit

  

I think they came out quite well :)  

What do you think?

 

and what about that fortuitous bit of accidental pink pollution which just happened to land in the perfect spot! 

Add a flower - Lavinia Stamps Challenge September

Well I started a blog so that I could enter the Challenge but I discovered that I only had one flower stamp from Lavinia which is the tiny flower group so having brought the zentangle butterfly at the Ally Pally show last week I decided to use this to make my main flower

 

I stamped and heat embossed - in black sparkle - 16 of the right wings!

Then I cut them out and painted them with H2O paints

 

I then arranged them in a circle and using pinflair glue angled them at a slight tilt - all of this on a small piece of acetate which once it was set I stuck to the backing paper.

 

I made the backing paper by heat embossing the small flower group onto white card in a variety of different colours. 

I then used distressing ink to make the paper blue and sprayed the card with water to give it a slight (and in the photos invisible) mottled look.

I then used fine holographic glitter to pick out the centre of each flower and used a slightly larger grained holo glitter to make the centre of the butterfly wing flower.

Oh, I edged the background with an x-cut punch and square gems and corners with heart shaped ones

this weekend

I went to Alexandra Palace, Big Stamp and Scrapbooking show. it was great.
I discovered glitter paste stenciling :) and once again was tempted - and resisted - a gelli plate. I'm just not impressed by the price! a similar case is pan pastels, if they last so long why can't they make a smaller - and cheaper - pot, or even a starter set at a reasonable price!
Anyway that's not what this is about !
I also went to see Kris Kristofferson the first time I have seen him and I have loved his music since I was about 14. was sublime.

I made a new style card yesterday with some stamps I bought at Ally Pally.

 I used various green distress inks.
Stamps from inkilicious and indigoblu
A couple of embellishments made with images from Craft Artist Professional put in a bottle cap and covered with UTEE and popped out of the bottle cap.
Some green glitter paste over a dandelion stencil
and some organza ribbon coloured with distress ink and threaded through holes made with a ribbon punch.
was quite chuffed with the result and Steve liked it. Still it was green! lol