Sympathy stamp by Rare Earth

Today I am sharing some cards made with a new release from Rare Earth. The stamps launch tomorrow at 8am Hels Sheridan on Create and Craft TV.

Here are my DT projects

All cards were made with the rare-earth-loving-memories-collection. The stamps work perfectly with the recent Loving Memories launch from Tattered Lace Dies.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Pin Up Girls by Rare Earth

Hello there, I hope you are enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend.

I'm here to share some cards I made this week for the launch of Rare Earth's Pin Up Collection

The collection includes 3 sets of stamps filled with awesome retro imagery. There are signs, sentiment, frames, a Vintage car and 2 stunning pin up girls.

I was asked to make samples and had a very tight deadline to work to (24 hours)

I decided to work in themed sets, creating 3 lots of 3. Each set has a different feel from the next, working this way helps to keep the ideas flowing. 

My first set has a retro 50's American diner feel to it. I worked with Blue,Red and white. Some of the samples use water colour and others were coloured with alcohol pens.

This next set has a pop art feel to it, I used a stencil to add dots over he images to give it a funky look.

The car bursting through the front of the card was my daughters ides and I love how it's turned out.

Lastly I wanted to use the image to create more of a vintage look. I have stuck with Kraft card, beige and brown ink and white card.  I wanted to show how the stamps could be used to create a card for a man using the car image, I heated embossed the car and used some Rare Earth Dessert sand ink with water to colour it.

I hope my cards have given you some inspiration on how you could use these amazing stamps, I'm totally in love with them and had a real struggle letting them go in the post for the launch show.

You can catch the launch on Monday at 11am on Create and craft TV

Magical forest by Rare Earth

I'm back and excited to be sharing my second set of samples for Rare Earth. 

This collection is called Magical Forest, there are 4 A4 stamp sets in the collection which can be brought as a bundle or individually. They launch at 11am tomorrow the 16th May on Create and Craft TV. 

Here are the samples I created

All cards were made with the 4 sets in the collection, they all work so well together, the sentiments are fantastic and the imagery is adorable.

Here's the link to the stamps

https://www.createandcraft.com/gb/pp/rare-earth-magical-forest-collection-wit-446089

Rare Earth Ladies Vintage Tea Party

Good morning crafty friends, I hope you're enjoying the bank holiday weekend and warm weather.

Today I am making my Rare Earth debut, I was lucky enough to be asked to create some cards using Rare Earth stamps.

As you know I love stamping as it give me the freedom I crave, and allows me to interpret the designs in my own way.

The stamps have been designed by the talented Lexy Rose and are totally amazing.

Although the stamps are designed in a vintage style, I have added my twist to a couple of the card and shown how they could be used to create something different, I hope you like them

My first card is something a little bit funky, I was seeing a 60's psychedelic look in my head when I designed this card. I used a smooching technique for the background and added a little detail with a purple Watercolour pen.

This card uses the same stamp as above but this time she looks a little more elegant, my kids tell me they can see Amy Whinehouse in this one......

I kept this card a little more muted and went for a classic feel.

I'm a big fan of teaming Kraft card and white together, I like the natural earthy look it creates.

In this card I did a little fussy cutting to allow me to add depth and dimension to the images. The spoon is actually slotted into the cut through a little slit.

For this card I decided to colour the hair with alcohol markers and give her some pink lipstick.

My last card was created using both alcohol pens and pencils.  I added a couple of stripes of vintage lace in the background, the stamp sets have lots of lace options in them.

I hope you'll tune in and watch the launch show tomorrow at 9am on Create and Craft TV.

Here's the link to the products used

https://www.createandcraft.com/gb/pp/rare-earth-ladies-vintage-tea-party-collection-444051

Rare Earth now has it's own home on Facebook where you can see samples, up coming launches and share your love of Rare Earth.

https://www.facebook.com/Rare-Earth-1680647662028718/