Take 5 - Rainbow Flower

Hello everyone Sylvia here with a card for this month's Oak House Studio Take Five Challenge which is Rainbow Colours. I used the Stitch In Time stamp set and a selection of Pure Colour Chemistry inks for this bright fun card and had fun making the splatter background.

The plain heart was stamped onto scraps of inky card and fussy cut to make petals for the flower, the etched heart was stamped for the leaves.  The three buttons were also stamped onto coloured card and fussy cut.   I managed to find the full range of rainbow colours in my box of scraps, I keep my inked card and left over scraps for stamping flowers, butterflies etc.

To line up the hearts for my flower I glued them to a small circle of card so I could make sure they were even before attaching them to the card.  The two buttons were layered together with sticky pads and glued to the base of the hearts.

 

The splatters were created by dipping a paintbrush into pure colour chemistry ink and flicking the whole brush or flicking the brush end with your finger.  I would suggest that you use a box to place your work in for spraying or flicking inks, this will prevent ink getting over your work surface.

A die cut banner was stamped with the cute as a button sentiment and the third button attached to it, the flower, leaves and banner were attached to the card with 3D sticky pads.  A flower stalk was drawn and a few crystals added to finish the card.

I hope this has inspired you to join us in the take 5 challenge this month.  We look forward to seeing your colourful projects throughout the month, just post your challenge project on your blog or facebook page and make sure you tell us it is there so we can pop over and take a look.

Masculine Gift Card Holder

Good evening blogland, today I have a gift card holder tag for boys or men.  I love the combination of grey, white and maize coloured card, ideal colours for male cards and tags.  I have been using my Silhouette machine this week for cutting out some Christmas cards and thought I would run off some other cutting files I have been meaning to use while the machine was out.  

This gift card holder tag uses two separate cutting files, one for the tag and one for the computer embelishment.  I used  papermilldirect special offer maize laid textured cardstock with slate grey and white linen.  The maize cardstock has a raised texture and is a gorgeous colour, it cuts cleanly on the Silhouette, even the very intricate parts (the computer was cut in all three colours then pieced together).

Here are some of the Christmas cards I made, trying to catch up with cards for the Only Christmas Cards Facebook group.   Loved making the faux parchment effect card, will be making a few more of these.

 

The Silhouette is going away and the inks are coming out for my next projects, back soon with some Oak House Studio projects for this month's take 5 challenge which is rainbow colours.

An Apple For The Teacher

Hi everyone, school holidays are looming and it is time to make those gifts and thank you cards for favourite teachers.  I have a thank you card and picture frame today using  papermilldirect special offer card marble green alongside apple green, post box red, daffodil yellow and white linen cardstock.

I used the special offer marble green card for the frame background, this is a nice firm card and the marbling effect gives interest to the background.  the wording, apple and banner were cut on the Silhouette and adhered to the backing and the mount, then placed in a box frame.

This thank you card was cut on the Silhouette too using cutting file folded card for a teacher by Tanya Batrak.  The edges were coloured with distress inks and the front panel was stamped with the number stamp from Stampers Anonymous perspective stamp set using blue ink.

Check out the papermilldirect blog for more thank you teacher ideas and the special offer section for some great offers on card.