Wetlands returned

Yes I'm back with another Wetlands card, I do like this stamp set and it's great for male themed cards, which, lets face it, we don't see much of.

So here's today's card;

You will need;
Early espresso card and Ink
Whisper white card
Soft Sky ink
Pumpkin pie Ink
Pear Pizzaz ink
Early espresso stampin write marker
Circle framelets
Wetlands Stamp set

Start with a 6 x 6 card base in Early Espresso, cut two pieces of whisper white card 5 3/4" square

Add one of these squares to the inside of your base card

Using a piece of scrap card cut out a circle using the circle framelets, I used the 6th one from the middle

Using the frame you just cut, place this about midway on your other square of whisper white card and sponge on Pumpkin Pie ink.

You should end up with a 'sun' on your paper

Rip another piece of spare card so that it looks like 'hills' and place at the bottom of your card to act as a mask.  Place the circle you cut out earlier over your 'sun' as a mask and ink in sift sky.

Carefully ink your 'hills in pear pizzaz

Stamp out the bird image from the Wetlands set in Early Espresso ink. Colour using an Early Espresso stampin write marker.

Stamp out some reeds along your 'hills' in Early Espresso ink.

Add a sentiment from the Wetlands set to the top left hand corner of your image.

Now add this to your base card.

Hope you liked todays tutorial, if you require any of the products listed here please click the links below which will take you directly to my online shop.

Happy crafting

Deb xxx

Wetlands	Circles Collection Framelits Dies	Big Shot Die-Cut Machine	Magnetic Platform
Sponge Daubers	Soft Sky Classic Stampin' Pad	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad	Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad
Early Espresso Stampin Write Marker	Early Espresso A4 Card Stock	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad	Whisper White A4 Card Stock

Table built using Stampin' Up! Product Table Builder from The Crafty Owl.

Wetlands Reflection Technique

Just a short post today. As promised from yesterday here is the reflection technique using the wetlands stamp set

As you can see this is a much bigger card, 6 x 6 in fact but you do this the same was as the Lovely as a tree design.  Just in case you didn't see it yesterday here's the link to the video that explains how to achieve it.

Happy crafting

Deb xx

Subtles Candy Dots	Medium Window Sheets	Pear Pizzazz Classic Stampin' Pad	Soft Sky Classic Stampin' Pad	Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad
Early Espresso A4 Card Stock	Whisper White A4 Card Stock	Sponge Daubers	Wetlands

Table built using Stampin' Up! Product Table Builder from The Crafty Owl.

Swallowtail

I'm preparing to do some Christmas tag making today with any luck, The Rayster has managed to do all our Christmas shopping so now it's just down to me to bag and tag it all.  Today you are going to get three for the price of one.  A card, gift tag and gift bag all using the swallow tail stamp.

First here's the card

Butterfly in flight, I Stamped out the swallowtail twice and embossed it with black embossing powder then coloured it using the stampin write markers.  I then stick them together so that I could get the 'in flight' motion.

Here's a closer look.

The grass is from the wetlands stamp set and I just stamped it along the bottom of the card making the grass slightly higher on either end.

Here's the matching gift bag

and here's the tag

I thought I'd seen this technique on you tube but I now can't find it for love nor money, if, dear reader you come across it please let me know so that I can credit it on here.

That's all for now

Deb xx

Products used

Stamps
SwallowTail
Wetlands

Card
Midnight muse
Very Vanilla
Whisper White

Ink
Basic black
midnight muse

Accessories
Black embossing powder
Heat Gun
Midnight Muse stitched ribbon