Showing posts with label Fiskars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiskars. Show all posts

Wednesday 15 August 2012

Getting That Up-To-The-Minute Bright Colours Look

Ok so I have a new pet obsession - bright and beautiful, jump of the page, colours. You know the fluorescent, glowing-look colours? I'm sure you have seen a lot of them around in the clothes shops and of course Hero Arts have released their Neon range of ink pads that are super pop colours?

Well, I just love the way these bright colours look but the ink pads have yet to hit these shores and I am too impatient to wait so had to have a go at my own.

Do you want to know how? Then read on...

So this is a make for the Fiskarettes, it is made up in layers with some stamping, cutting, tearing and paint and if you want more details keep your eye on the Fiskarettes blog.


The stamps used are the Fiskars Clear Stamps - Lower, Uppercase and Numbers set and the Fiskars Clear Stamps - Country Flowers stamp set.


The aperture was cut with Fiskars Everywhere Window Punch - Frame. and the whole tag was cut with the Fiskars Bypass Guillotine 22 cm - A5 and scissors. 


But you are still wondering about the bright pink aren't you? Well I used a good old fashioned highlighter pen on my stamp and on some white thread too.


I have no idea if the ink is suitable for stamps but it seemed to stamp nice and cleanly and clean off the stamp easily enough so why not?!

Oh I do love a bit of stationery!

Right, catch you all in the stationery cupboard later.

Kim


Thursday 26 July 2012

Glorious Gold Wedding Card

I have something with a simple elegance to show you today it's a card to celebrate a wedding and the recipients had a gold and black colour scheme.

But before I show it to you I want to share with you where the inspiration for this one came from. It was from my bloggy friend Kissinia who owns the Blue Birdie Blog. I'm a HUGE fan of Kissinia, she does the most amazing work and you really should go check her out. Also checkout the Mail Art Exchange project she is running at the moment - it is open to all!

I took part in the Mail Art Exchange project and here is a little peak at the gorgeous mail art Kissinia sent me (I'll show you what I sent her a little later but you can see a sneak of it on her blog):



As you can see there is a layer of gold paint on the envelope which lead me to explore layers of gold paint on work and to this card...


Stamped directly over it with the Fiskars Clear Stamps - Country Flowers stamp set.


The sentiment was stamped out using the Fiskars Clear Stamps - Lower, Uppercase and Numbers set.

Don't forget to check out Kissenia's blog and the Mail Art Exchange project and send her a little *wave* from me.

This project is part of my guest DT work over at Fiskarettes so don't forget to go check them out too!

Lots of places to hop today!

Have a Glorious Gold Hopping Thursday.

Kim


Wednesday 4 July 2012

Fiskarettes Blog Hop And Some Guest DT News

Welcome to the Fiskarettes blog hop with prizes and inspiration!

For the next couple of months I'm going to be guesting over at Fiskarettes and showing my Fiskars makes here on my blog. So today I'm joining the new DT and Fiskarettes players in an introductory blog hop and I hope that you will join us too.

So let's get Fiskar-etting! I've got a colourful tag using cutters and stamps from Fiskars to show...


First I cut the tag using the Fiskars Bypass Guillotine 22 cm - A5 which is one of my favourite tools, by the way, and I use it everyday.

Then the aperture was cut using the Fiskars Everywhere Window Punch - Frame, and backed with designer paper.


The flowers and leaves were stamped out in pink, orange and green using the Fiskars Clear Stamps - Country Flowers stamp set. I added a sketched border with black pen and the sentiment was stamped out with the Fiskars Clear Stamps - Lower, Uppercase and Numbers

So to the Prize...
A digi-stamp from Tracey Grundy and a Border punch from Fiskars.

And how to get it...
All you have to do is complete the blog hop, leaving comments along the way, following if you like what you see and picking up part of a question from each blog. Put the question together, answer it and send the answer to (contact@fiskarettes.co.uk) don't put it in your blog comments.

My part of the question...
'UK Website?'

The Blog List...
Clare Curd - Fiskarettes blog
Kim Dellow - You Are Here!
Back to the Fiskarettes blog


Thanks for popping in and good luck!

Kim