Inkylicious makes

 Another couple of cards I made over the Easter weekend.  It was nice to use my crafty stash and have a real good play with card and stamps.

I like the plain and simple elegance of this card.  The sentiment and image are both from Inkylicious.

This is a stunning stamp.  I stamped it twice so I could mount the second image over the first.  I coloured the image with promarkers, all from the apricot and spice range of colours.  I then went over the image with a clear "wink of stella" brush tip, but you cannot see the twinkle in the image, very faint.  To finish off I took some cream and rust coloured organza ribbon and tied a nice big bow, I then coloured some pearls with the promarker to match the butterfly.  Simple, but very effective!www.inkylicious.co.uk

Time for Lili of the Valley

 Hi everyone, I thought it was about time I got me gorgeous LOTV stamps out and have a play.  Having looked on the LOTV website, it gave me the inspiration I needed to create!  Hope you like them too?

 Above I have used backing paper from a CD in lilac.  Magnolia dies for the flowers and dragonfly.  The leaves are a spellbinder die, and the border came from a Tonic border edge punch.
The lovely sentiment is another useful LOTV stamp.  You can use this to add a special date and month by hand, great idea!

 Above is one of the gorgeous mermaid stamps that LOTV do, this is my favourite.  This would make a great twins card!  I enjoyed playing with this one, lots of die cutting done, but I especially liked using my beautiful mica powders on the background.  I edged the base card with double sided tape and then added a mixture of mica powders from cosmic shimmer, so it all matched and has a lovely "mermaid" shimmer to it!  Of course glitter was used on their tails.


Below is my only male card.  Racing driver and car.  I used a spellbinder to mount the image and an embossing folder to give it a tyre tread look.  The sentiment is from Inkylicious.  A nice aged look to this one I think!

I adore this image!  It's one of two geisha girl images that LOTV do, I have ordered the other now that I have seen the results.  The sentiment is from Crafters Companion, Paintbox poppets, which is really useful, as you can change the sentiment and who you are sending it to.  The blossom is from Hobby Art, oriental stamp set.  Really liked how this one turned out.
www.liliofthevalley.co.uk

Engagement card

Engagement card for a Friend

I think this turned out really nice.  I made it today for a friend who is returning from a holiday in Egypt, where a proposal of marriage was made under the stars.  I hope they like it?  I have used Spellbinders decorative borders.  I stamped the card with versamark and used cosmic shimmer mica powder over the stamped image, which I absolutely love.   Inside I replicated the front with a sentiment  on white card with the same border to complete the look.