My Craftwork Cards - Venetian Card Collection

I have made a point of trying to finish this card collection that I started many moons ago.  I love the tones of blue and turquoise in this collection and I happened to have a venetian mask die that came in handy.  The toppers ran out before the paper pad did so I have tried my hand at some paper folding techniques.  I still have lots of paper left but it is time to move onto something else so I am uploading my cards to share with you today.

Stamping around!

I have been playing around with some stamp sets by Leoni Pujol.  I have used some fusible fibres on some of these.  Leoni released these new stamps on the Hochanda Show recently.  It has become my favourite TV craft show for inspiration.  

The first card I made was very simple to do. In fact it took me longer to delve into the back of my cupboard to find my fusible fibres and craft iron!  I simply ironed the fusible fibres between a heat resistant craft mat to fuse the fibres together.  I then used Leoni's heart stamp as a guide to cut around as I liked its quirky shape.  

On this next card I joined several of these hearts together to form petals of a  a flower.


















I used a technique new to me on this card's background below.  I applied ink to the stamp and then misted it before stamping.  I then re-stamped the card over the top of it once it was dry.  I then stamped and coloured some butterflies and stuck these one.

This time I use white embossing powder and stamped the card before applying my aqua paints.  I really love this effect.

On this last card it was this stamp set that I fell in love with.  I just loved the image of the young girl and the idea of making the wings look real with fusible fibre as demonstrated by Leoni on the Hochanda Show.  I had been playing with my aqua tint inks and had some cardstock left over which had fleshy colours so I was able to use this card to make the flesh look life like.

Wedding Bells Lantern

I am trying to make a point of making Monday's my "Silhouette Monday Day" so I will keep developing my skills and knowledge of this machine and software.  

All was going well, I have had my machine since March and getting on well with it.  That was until it started crashing when I needed to use the text tool.  It became so bad that I couldn't use it without it crashing on me.  Fortunately the American owned company were very helpful and sent me some helpful instructions.  After a download of the latest version and some deletions of files, fingers crossed, it seems to be working fine now.  

So to my next project that has come about because I have a wedding invitation to an evening reception this evening and wanted to make my own card and gift.  The gift I have made is miniature bunting that is wrapped around a large cotton reel. Here it is wrapped around the cotton reel.  I preferred the cotton reel painted with some vintage chalk paint so I have now painted it (see below).

As you can see the bunting spells out "Mr & Mrs".

I then made a box to put the gift in using my Cameo Silhouette and a flourish card with the words Mr & Mrs across the front.  Both designs were purchased from the Design Store for 0.99$.  

It was nice to be able to finish off the inside of the card using the text tool, without it crashing on me!  The Wedding Bells Lantern was slightly enlarged before cutting on the Silhouette so that the cotton reel would fit inside it.  The panels were cut from vellum.

A Tangle a Day!

Tangling is very therapeutic and completely self absorbing.  Once you breakdown the construction into zones it becomes much easier than it looks.  

I just love the way it is used in art.  Many different tangle designs are used to create images that look wonderful like these examples.

So I am on a mission to try and learn some tangles so that I can produce lovely works of art like those I have shown you.


I have a set of tangle cards and this is the first one I wanted to try.  I have found an illustration of it on internet so it goes to show you don't need to invest in books as there is plenty of ideas out there. 

It looked lovely in black and white but I decided to colour it in using my Spectrum Aqua Markers.

It is suggested that you start with a 4" square and put little pencil marks in each corner and then join up the dots to make an area to tangle in.  The area then needs dividing into smaller areas, here I have made a triangle and started a tangle within different sections.  By the time I got to the middle section of the triangle I was feeling quite bold and put two different tangles in this space.  

This final tangle looked very difficult at first to create again, I started off marking out a frame around the edge of the card.  I then draw a line down the centre, rotated and down the centre again.  I then draw a line on the diagonal from corner to corner and rotated the card and did this again.  Now I had the sections marked up I was able to start working within them.  

I draw from the bottom, almost to the top, slightly curving my line as I approached the diagonally drawn line and finished by marking a circle.  I then came in from the other side of this area I was working in and drew another line so the line alternate, first to right, then to the left etc.  It is really effective. Hopefully, the illustration above that I have found will show you what I mean.

Finally, here are some tangle cards I have made to use as a resource.