Textured words

The new textured words stamps from Rare Earth are wonderful for creating background papers and can be used in a variety of ways. The stamps work well together and be used to build a layered and textured surface.

I used several of the backgrounds I created to make this bag. The flowers were also created from the background papers using the Fleurs mallow dies. The sentiment is also from Rare Earth and makes a big statement on the bag.

The bag was a good way of using scraps left over from other projects.

The background was created using oxide inks with part of the textured stamps over the top. A few gilded mica fragments added some sparkle. The sentiment is from tattered Lace. I made the dragonfly from a mould using soft clay and painted it to match.

On this card I wanted to achieve patches of texture with white spaces to give it an artistic feel.

I stamped the textured stamps onto patterned paper to give some additional texture and dimension. The flower is the Tattered Lace Echinacea and scrabble type wooden stickers for the word dream.

Oxide inks and the textured word stamps were used for the background. A few gilded mica flakes were used for the texture. The flowers are from the decorative floral pop up set by tattered lace and I used another dragonfly I had made from a mould.

The textured words were used to add extra texture to the background paper. The tag was decorated with oxide inks and the texture word stamps. The wooden hearts were painted with Pebeo mixed media paints.  I added some lace buttons and twine for decoration.

With the card below, the background was again created with oxide inks and the textured word stamps. Again I used the gilded mica fragments to give added texture. The butterfly was made from soft clay and painted . I added some flowers and swirls cut from tattered lace dies.

The same card from another angle.The gilded mica help give a sense of movement.

I decorated a wooden plaque to making a hanging for Valentine`s Day. I cut three layers of some of the embellishment dies from the secret slider card set and stuck them together and adhered them to the plaque. I added a paper flower I had made buttons, lace and berries. The plaque was painted and I added some bubble gum spray. The textured word stamps were used to add additional texture. The whole plaque was given a coat of modge podge to protect it.

This card was made using the decorative floral pop up box dies by Tattered Lace. I used the texture word stamps from Rare Earth to give some card I already had some extra texture. The accessories were cut from some of my backgrounds I had created using the oxide inks and textured word stamps. I used acetate to give height to some of the flowers when attaching them to the card. Love was cut from  Tattered lace die.

I used some off -cuts form the background papers I had created to make this card. The flowers were all from Tattered lace dies, as was the lovely sentiment.The buttons and twine give extra texture.

This card was made using the half scalloped circle dies for the bottom half of the card and oval dies for the top. I used the oxide background paper I had created with the word texture stamps. The dog and boots die is from Tattered Lace, which was coloured with alcohol inks. The sentiment was printed n the computer.

Packing a punch

The Fleurs Flower Forming Punches can be used to create small flowers or the centres of larger flowers. They are cleverly designed to neatly fit over the shapes of the punches, which you can print in a variety of colours to get a variegated effect.

I used the punch on shiny paper to make the centre of these mallow flowers. I used the flower and leaf punches to make the smaller flowers on the border.

I cut out some leaves using the punches and laminated them, together with some textured threads. I folded the laminated sheet to create a bag shape . The edges were sewn by hand and a button fastener was attached. The handles is a string of beads. The bag was then decorated with mallow flowers with the punched flower centres. A few leaves were added to finish the bag.

The Tattered Laced box dies were used for this box. The bottom of the box was cut from card and the lid is again laminated acetate with punched shapes and threads encased in the acetate. The papers used to make the flowers were decorated with oxide inks and cut with the Fleurs Flower Forming Foam mallow dies.

The wooden plaque was painted and texture paste added. Rare Earth stamps were used to decorate the plaque. The punches were used for the centre of the mallow flowers.

This tunnel card was made by cutting an aperture in the card and using the spring frame cut twice and positioned in different places to create depth. The flower punches were used to make the flowers at the front of the card.