Rubber Stamping - North Wales

Hi everyone Yes it's faux leather again - but not another new piece - I have in fact used the piece I made on Saturday on a birthday card. The card is for my step-daughters birthday next week.  She currently lives in America so I have to think & create well ahead & can't use anything too bulky. Here is the card I layered a piece of the original card onto a cream deckle-edged card & then stamped & embossed a leafy flourish in gold EP to one side.  On another off cut of the same card I stamped & embossed in gold EP a butterfly & cut it out.  This was then placed on the faux leather panel which I had placed to one side of the card front.  I tore the piece of faux leather as I thought it made it look more like an off-cut of leather.  Some gold flat backed pearls were added to the butterfly for its body & also on the flourish.  Finally I added a gold Happy Birthday peel off sentiment. I printed a personal message ...

Good afternoon everyone. What awful weather again - I do hope no-one is getting flooded.  Last year when it was bad Gwenda - a CSNW member - was flooded out of her home in Rhuddlan, I do hope it is not happening again. Sadly I had a sympathy card to make this morning - although those are for sad occasions, I still like to show what I have done A very simple embossed cream card with the simplest of sentiments. Then a little earlier this afternoon I decided to have another play with the faux leather technique. Last night I had thought I might try choosing a piece of coloured card - after all leather comes in all colours.  Then this morning I had an email from Joanna of Mold club with a link to another method of making the faux leather, & would you believe it - they used coloured card.  I will put the link at the bottom of the post in case any of you are interested in trying this out. I started with a piece of red card & I wasn't sure if it wo...

Hi everyone Ooh I did enjoy that play & can't wait to have another go.  The faux leather (for those who haven't seen it on C&C with Sheena Douglass) starts off as a piece of kraft card which is then treated with a water & glycerin mixture.  This is followed by being embossed in an embossing folder then treated with inks I didn't have any proper kraft card - but I do have a pile of kraft thin card folders - so I cut up one of those. Here is my play All set up ready to go The card after being sprayed several times, both sides, with the glycerin water mix, scrunched - then put through the E-bosser in an embossing folder. after being inked with Vintage Photo & Spiced Marmalade then inked with Fired Brick & Black Soot. The Black Soot was used mainly to highlight the embossed image After the final stage of being sprayed with Crafter's Companion - Spray & Shine. When I showed it to Bob - as I do all my ...