Make a Medallion Optical Illusion

Hello, Crafters.

 

Yesterday I decided to have a play with the Make a Medallion Stamp Set, that's available as one of the new Sale-a-bration (SAB) gifts, until 31st March 2017.

It's a two-step stamp set and I decided to use the medallion for this month's Thank You cards. 

In the centre of the medallion there's a space to stamp THANKS. 

I started practising on scrap paper with a selection of different colour combos and settled on Bermuda Bay with Pool party, and Elegant Eggplant with Sweet Sugarplum! 

I'll refer to these as the blue combo and the purple combo!

I decided which stamp I wanted as the light ink and which one for the dark ink, and that was for the dark ink to do the outside semi-circles.

I did ten in each colour combo and started to think about a third combo, but I decided to change the colours round and use the lighter ink for the stamp with the semi-circles on!

WOW! How different they look - see the first two photographs!

I continued to make more cards with the inks reversed but had to stop as time was running out. 
 
When I make a mistake stamping directly onto a notecard, I keep the rejected card to use when I want to add something to the card. 

For example, I wanted to add THANKS as a strip across the centre, so I used a rejected notecard.

I stamped the THANKS using Bermuda Bay for the blue combo, and, for the purple combo, I used the opposite colour to the scrolls in the centre of the medallion.

As I was adhering these to the card, I decided to do some landscape. 

It meant the scolls were still vertical, but I don't think this detracted from the overall design!

I allowed myself to get so carried away with the optical illusion, I forgot to think about an actual design for my card! LOL! 

For example maybe a small decoation in each corner? I'll think about it over the weekend and will let you know if I add anything extra!

I hope you have a great weekend. 

Until tomorrow, happy crafting.

JanB.

Display Cards

Hello, Crafters.

I hope you've had a great weekend.

Today, I'm sharing some of the cards and 3D projects we had on display at the Make It Show, on Friday and Saturday. 

I'm not sure who made what but I think they were all made by Karen Ripley, Pip Todman and Fiona Whitton.

Photograph 1 - the card at the top is a double slider card i.e. as you pull the ribbon, it pulls out the Happy Birthday on the right hand side, and at the same time the flowery card slides out on the left hand side.


The four boxes have been made with the Window Box Thinlits dies - another set I have, but haven't used yet!

I've seen projects where crafters have made the box taller than it was intended to be. I think I know how it's done - i.e. by not putting the cutting mat over the cutting edge - but I'd like to check it out before I waste some cardstock unnecessarily.

Photograph 2 - this card is so simple but so striking, right up my street!

The Designer Series Paper is from Falling In Love and the flower from the So In Love Stamp Set has been stamped onto the same design several times and fussy cut. 
 
The flower was beautifully made but I'm not quite sure how - I need to do it myself to try and replicate it!


Photograph 3 - these three cards have been made using the two new stamp sets in the second release of Sale-a-bration gifts.

I haven't received my stamp sets yet - hopefully on Tuesday! - but I will also try to replicate these as the photographs are too small for you to appreciate their real beauty.

Photograph 4 - I do not like bugs, for real or as images!! But I do have to say I have seen some great projects made with the images in the Beetles & Bugs Stamp Set, not least these three projects here!

The framed picture has actual pins stuck into the bugs' images!

Photograph 5 - the card on the right hand side is more or less the same as the picture in the frame.

The card on the left hand side looks very striking, but again it's too small to really see the detail. Unfortunately, I can't replicate this one as I don't have the bug set! Maybe I can go back and enlarge the photograph! No promises but I'll see what I can do!

Until tomorrow, happy crafting.

JanB.