Monday 18 August 2014

Monday Make with Creative Expressions

Hello! 
How was your weekend?

I first need to welcome all my new followers and thank all of you that visited me during the blog-hop! I am overwhelmed by the sheer number of people who have visited me! Thank you!

Hope you managed to do the August Creative Expressions blog-hop that started on Friday? If you didn't do it HERE is the link for the start page. Follow the blogs from the links in each page, leave a comment and be in with a chance to win a fabby prize! It doesn't close till Tuesday 19th at 5pm so plenty of time yet.

Today I am showing a little home decor item. I had temporarily called it the Daisy Dangler and this title seems to have stuck! Officially the stamp is a sunflower but somehow I couldn't find a suitable rhyme for that!


I started by colouring a piece of card using blue/purple tones from the Cosmic Shimmer Water colours, Pastel shades. I wasn't going for a solid all-over colour, I wanted there to be some shading and visual 'texture' with brush strokes showing. I left this to dry completely. Important as the next stage involved heat embossing.

I then stamped and heat embossed the Sunflower Delight stamp in black 5 times and the sentiment from the Anemone Planter once onto this blue coloured card.

I made a cube from another piece of card. I measured the size of the stamped image and based my cube on this. Before I glued up the edges I made sure I added some ribbon to opposing corners. One corner has a loop for hanging from and the other has a ribbon tassel.



I then cut each stamped image and the sentiment out and glued one to each side. I was careful to get the images and the sentiment the right way up.


I added some Cosmic Shimmer Sparkle Paste, Aurora, to the edges, the flower centres and the ribbon.

I have an idea that this sort of thing would make a good decoration for the festive season (see how I avoided saying the 'C' word?).

I fancy something in red and green, maybe gold glitter, featuring the stamps currently being showcased in the blog hop. Anyway, I hope this has inspired you in the same way it has inspired me? 

If you haven't looked at the blog hop then might I suggest you give it a go now? Think of all the inspiration!

Have a lovely week, your comments are always read, thank you for visiting.

Kim

2 comments:

  1. Daisy dangler, Live Life Now, Moo moments, These are the moments, Anemone Planter wow! Wonderful Kim! All different but gorgeous! I love how you've got different ideas for different projects. The daisy dangler is a great gift idea for a friend to treasure and I really do love the Anemone Planter stamp. It's gorgeous! It's been lovely looking at just a few of your creations. "Thank you" for sharing them and I hope to be able to keep popping over to see some more! xx Love Karen xx

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  2. Ps yes the Daisy Dangler would be gorgeous in reds, golds and greens for Christmas! xx

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