A Little Birthday Wish

Carol made this gorgeous card using this set of stamps from Stamp It. It has a variety of flowers on the set and is great value at only $29.95. We have featured this set a few times before as it is one we love to use.

 

The flowers were stamped and embossed  in black ink and embossing powder. Staz On ink could also be used as it is a solvent based ink pad. Squeeze out a small amount of Liquid Pearls onto a plate. Dip you brush into water and squeeze out the excess water, Pick up a small amount of the Pearls onto the brush and begin painting the flowers.

Liquid Pearls and Gelly Rollers

All of the stamps featured below are rubber wood mounted stamps from Penny Black and are currently in stock.

Colouring in with Liquid Pearls is very easy. Squeeze out a small amount onto a plate. Dip your brush into water and squeeze out the excess. Dip the brush into the Pearls and start painting. 

There are 30 different colours in the collection of Liquid Pearls.

Team Effort is the name of this Penny Black stamp and it is so cute. Jill coloured the image in with Liquid Pearls and it was stamped with Jet Black Staz On. It also features a Stamp It Happy Birthday stamp.

The Team Teddy card also features the Birthday Jump stamp from Stamp It. This image has also been coloured in with the Liquid Pearls. We have also used a Stamp It balloon stamp that we are using on a current display on this card.

Amongst the Stars features the the Happy Birthday stamp which we like to use as it is a handy little one to place on a card without taking up too much room. We have also used the birthday brads which we have in stock and lots of colours to choose from.

By The Cartful was coloured in using the Pearls but the image was first heat embossed. The images must be either heat embossed or stamped with a non water based ink (Staz On) so that the ink does not run when you apply the Liquid Pearls.

Bearing Gifts was coloured in using  combination of Pearls and Tombow pens. The image was first coloured in with the Tombow pens. Then a wash of Bisque was put over the teddy and the flowers were coloured in with the Pearls. This image was also heat embossed.  

Shirley coloured in the image above. I love the way Shirley combines the products when she colours. On the image above she has coloured most of the girl with Spectrum Pens, used Tombows
on the smaller sections (like her shoes), put metallic streaks through her hair with the Gelly Rollers (metallic gel pens with flicks of silver in the ink) and on the candle and even used a bit of Aqualip pens in there as well on the cake . 

Tete-a-tete has been coloured in just using Gelly Rollers. These are gel pens which have flecks of silver in the ink. The silver flecks show up really well in this photo. 

All of our Penny Black stamps are on special.

Colouring with Liquid Pearls

Have you ever coloured in with Liquid Pearls before?

This product is great to use and is one of the most easiest products to colour and blend with.

All you need to do is dip your brush in water and squeeze out the excess. Squeeze a small amount of the Liquid Pearl onto a plate and dip your brush into the pearls. Now start painting your image.

 It is as easy as that!!!!!

To make sure your stamped image does not run you need to emboss your images as we have done (we used Silver and Black Sparkle embossing powder) or stamp with Staz On (this is a solvent based stamp pad and will not run when it comes into contact with water)

Liquid Pearl colours used above: Petal Pink, Rouge, Avocado

Liquid Pearl colours used above: Flamingo, Rouge, Ivy Green Avocado

Liquid Pearl colours used above: Hydrangea, White, Black

Liquid Pearl colours used above: Majestic Purple, Onyx Pearl, Silver Pearl

Liquid Pearls colours used above: Avocado, Buttercup, White Opal

The stamps we used on the cards are rubber stamps from Stamp It.

All product used on these cards are available now from Crafty Capers.

Koala christmas

You don't always have to have a Christmas stamp to make a Christmas card.

The Tree Koala stamp from Stamp It is a wonderful stamp to use and would be perfect on your cards that you send away overseas.

Here we have stamped the koala onto Bazzill card and coloured him in with Liquid Pearls. We have also used circle dies to make a bauble and Christmas rub ons to finish decorating the card.

The koala below has been coloured in with Spectrum Noir pens. We used the circle dies again to make a bauble. We turned our bauble into a hanging decoration but you could adhere it to a card or scrapbooking page.

All items used on these cards are available at Crafty Capers.

1 little octopus and 2 easy cards

Jill was playing around with the Octopus stamp from Kaiser and made these two cards. The first card was made using the Spectrum Noir Pens, along with the Sizzix Flower Framelits and American Craft printed paper.

The card below is again using the American Craft paper, Sizzix Flower Framelits but this time the octopus has been coloured in with Liquid Pearls. If you want to know more above Liquid Pearls keep reading....

We are having Liquid Pearl demonstrations this week at Crafty Capers . Look up in the tabs above for the dates and times.

Liquid Pearls

The 15 new colours of Liquid Pearls are flying out the door. 

We will be topping up on the new colours as well as the original 15 colours this week. 

Here are a few samples of images we have coloured in using Liquid Pearls and Adirondack Dimensional Pearls. The Dimensional Pearls are the same as Liquid Pearls but the colours match up with the Adirondack Ink Pads. 

All images have been coloured in using both products. To colour with the product, put a small amount on a plate, dip your brush into water, squeeze out the excess water and begin painting. They give a great finish when you colour on textured card.

These are the original Liquid Pearl colours

Liquid Pearls

We love Liquid Pearls!!!!

Liquid Pearls are a water based dimensional pearlescent paint that can be used to decorate paper, card and fabric. 

Not only can you embellish your creations with them but you can colour in stamped images. All you have to do is put a small amount on a plate, dip your brush in water, squeeze out the excess water and begin painting. Your stamped images look amazing when finished.  

There were 15 lovely colours in the collection but now there are even more. Fifteen gorgeous colours have just been added to the range. When we got the stock in yesterday we just had to make up a colour swatch straight away so we could see what the colours looked like when you used them. They are so nice!!!!

The colours include (as seen above) Avocado, Chestnut, Copper Pearl, Daffodil, Dark Chocolate, Gold Pearl, Hot Cocoa, 
Hydrangea, Ivy Green, Key Lime, Majestic Purple, Onyx Pearl, Orchid, Pumpkin  and Royal Blue. Only $3.95 per bottle.


A great new Sizzix Textured Embossing Folder also arrived in the box. It is the Tim Holtz Diamond Plate and Riveted Metal Plate set. This set will be great for men's cards and look amazing when used with metallic card - see our sample pieces in store. The set is only $19.95 for both folders and they will go through the Big Shots and Cuttlebug machines.