Bonjour !
Oh mon Dieu, déjà Novembre ! C’est aussi un nouveau défi chez Less is More avec pour thème Metallics (Métalisé). Puisque c’est un nouveau mois nous avons aussi un nouveau sponsor : Happy Little Stampers !
Hello !
Oh my God, it’s already November ! It’s also a new challenge at Less is More and the theme is Metallics. Since it is a new month, we also have a new sponsor : Happy Little Stampers !
Nous avons aussi l’immense joie d’accueillir notre gagnante du mois de septembre, Angie Cimbalo de Cimba creative fun, en tant qu’invitée créative. Angie nous ravie toujours avec ses cartes au design très CAS. Je vous invite vivement à aller visiter son blog et à lui laisser un gentil commentaire !
We also have the great pleasure to welcome our September winner, Angie Cimbalo from Cimba creative fun, as Guest Designer. Angie always thrills us with her cards and their very CAS design. I urge you to visit her blog and to leave her a lovely comment !
Voici mes cartes / Here are my cards
1/ Happy Birthday (using sponsor stamp)
Update : So happy and honoured to have the Birthday honours at Seize the birthday
Pour cette carte j’ai utilisé un tout nouveau produit (pour moi !). Il s’agit des Gilding Flakes, ce sont des “flocons” de feuille métallisée très très fins.
For this card I used a brand new product (for me !). These are Gilding Flakes, they are “flakes” of metallic foil very very thin.
Cette carte est donc une première pour moi. Bien que l’utilisation soit simple, j’ai encore besoin de pratique.
This card is a first for me. Although the use is simple, I still need practice.
Sur une double carte marron, j’ai tamponné le papillon et le sentiment avec de l’encre Versamark. Puis j’ai embossé avec une poudre spéciale qui reste collante. J’ai posé les flocons dessus et j’ai frotté avec mon doigt pour qu’ils adhèrent à la colle. Puis j’ai enlevé le surplus avec une brosse à pochoir.
On a double brown card, I stamped the butterfly and the sentiment with Versamark. Then I heat embossed with a special powder which remains sticky. I put the flakes on top of it and I rubbed with my finger so that they adhere to the glue. Then I removed the extra flakes with a stencil brush.
Pour finir j’ai coloré le papillon avec des crayons de couleurs.
To finish I coloured the butterfly with colour pencils.
Stamp : HLS “Butterfly birthday” – Embellishment: Nuvo “Gilding flakes” – Pencils : Faber-Castell Polychromos ‘ #102, 106, 108, 109, 111, 113, 115, 118, 121″.
Challenge
Seize the Birthday #154 – CAS-Clean and Simple
2/ Skatin’ by to say Hi (using sponsor’s stamp & die)
Update : Happy and honoured to be one of the top 3 favourites at CAS on Friday
Pour cette carte j’ai utilisé du papier miroir. Ayant en main un set de tampons de chez Happy Little Stampers, cet adorable petit pingouin m’a fait de l’oeil et j’ai décidé de le faire glisser sur la glace.
For this card I used mirror paper. As I had in hand a stamps set from Happy Little Stampers, this cute little penguin tantalised me and I decided to make it slide on the ice.
J’ai tout d’abord découpé une fenêtre dans une feuille de papier blanc. J’ai tracé au crayon de papier le contour de l’ouverture sur la double carte blanche où j’ai fait le fond turquoise avec des encres Distress.
I first die cut a window in a white card stock. I drew with a pencil the outline of the opening on a double white card where I blended Distress inks to make the turquoise background.
J’ai découpé une plaque de glace dans du papier miroir turquoise et j’ai tamponné dessus les motifs du tampon correspondant avec de l’encre Stazon Opaque. J’ai découpé la butte de neige avec une matrice et dedans j’ai découpé la plaque de glace que j’ai remplacé par celle en papier miroir.
I die cut a slab of ice in turquoise mirror paper and I stamped on it the matching stamp with Stazon Opaque ink. I die cut the snow mound and I die cut the slab of ice in it and replaced it with the one in mirror paper.
J’ai collé cette dune sur la double carte blanche et j’ai collé le panneau avec l’ouverture avec de la mousse adhésive. Pour finir à l’aide de masquage, j’ai tamponné le pingouin avec son écharpe et ses patins, puis je l’ai coloré avec des crayons de couleur. Je l’ai découpé à la main et je l’ai collé sur la plaque de glace.
I adhered the snow mound on the double white card and I foam mounted the panel with the window. To finish, using masking technique, I stamped the penguin with its scarf and its ice skates, then I coloured it with colour pencils. I fussy cut it and I adhered it to the slab of ice.
Stamp : HLS “Snow friends & die” – Die: MFT “Stitched arch”, SSS “Stitched slopes & hills” – Pencils : Faber-Castell Polychromos ‘ #154, 156, 157, 247, 113, 230, 231, 251″.
Challenges
CAS on Friday #145 – Make a card to brightens someone day
Penny black & More November challenge – Make someone smile
Wednesday’s creative inspirations November challenge – November chill !
Moving Along with the times #84 – Winter animals
3/ Joyeux Noël
Pour cette dernière carte j’ai utilisé 3 différentes couleurs de poudre à embosser pour métalliser des découpes : or, argent et cuivre.
For this last card I used 3 different colours of embossing powder to metalize die cuts : gold, silver and copper.
J’ai tout simplement découpé les différentes branches avec des matrices, je les ai recouverte de Versarmark et j’ai mis de la poudre à embosser. J’ai fait trois fois cette manipulation sur chacune des branches pour donner encore plus de dimension.
I simply die cut different branches, I covered them with Versamark and I put embossing powder. I repeated these steps 3 times on each branch to give even more dimension.
J’ai tamponné la fleur de poinsettia avec une première couche en beige et une seconde couche avec de l’encre dorée (on ne voit pas bien sur la photo) et j’ai découpé à la main. Puis j’ai tamponné le sentiment sur une découpe d’étiquette en Vellum et je l’ai embossé avec de la poudre dorée.
I stamped the poinsettia with a first layer in beige and a seconde layer in gold (hard to see on the picture) and I fussy cut it. Then I stamped and gold heat embossed the sentiment on a die cut Vellum label.
Pour finir j’ai tout monté sur une double carte noire avec de la colle et des glue dots.
To finish, I mounted everything on a double black card with glue and glue dots.
Stamps : Clearly Besotted “Peaceful poinsettia”, Simply Graphic “planche voeux assortis” (sentiment) – Die: IO“pine branch”, Simply Graphic “Fleurs” – Embossing powders : SSS ” Antique gold”, HA “Silver”, Inca Stamp “Copper” – Ink : Tsukineko “Delicata golden glitz”, Memento Luxe “Coffee crunch”.
Challenges
Happy Little Stampers Christmas November challenge – Anything goes with option twist CAS
Happy Little Stampers November anything goes with die challenge
The flower challenge #26 – A special occasion (Christmas card for me)
Watercooler Wednesday Challenge #195 – Charlotte’s feminine “Anything goes”
Et voilà ! J’espère que je vous aurai inspirés et que vous viendrez nombreux jouer avec nous. Vous trouverez encore plus d’inspirations sur le blog principal ICI avec les magnifiques cartes de mes coéquipières. Merci pour votre visite et tous vos gentils commentaires. C’est toujours un plaisir de vous lire. À bientôt.
And Voilà ! I hope that I will have inspired you and that you will come to play with us. You will find even more inspirations on the main blog HERE with the beautiful cards from my teamies. Thanks for visiting and all your lovely comments. It’s always a pleasure to hear from you. See you soon.
So sorry for visiting so late, Izzy. Wow, how do you manage so many cards every week?! I love the use of the brown base for your butterfly, it works brilliantly with the gilding flakes and the colours. Your adorable penguin is just fantastic, what a great little card. And the stylish use of the different metallics on the dark base makes your last card so classy xx
Three gorgeous CAS designs !!! The metallic accents on them give the cards such elegance! ( And a fun surprise in the second card :)! ) I have to use my metallic flakes more often! The gilded butterfly looks beautiful! Thank you so much for joining us at Seize the Birthday!
love the metallics on your Christmas card
it is beautiful
thanks for joining us at HLS
Barb Housner
You really made metallics shine (pun intended) on this trio of pretty cards, Izzy! They go from CASilicious to cute to elegant! Thank you for the inspiration!
Sensational cards as always Izzy. They are all cool, CAS and very classy. I’m totally in love with your last card – what a fantastic way to showcase metallics. The mirror paper on that adorable penguin card was inspired. Bravo! It’s lovely to see gilding flakes being used – they are such fun but can be messy. Hope you enjoy making many more cards with them. xx
Beautiful cards and I love the Christmas card with the flower and the beautiful embossing! Great job and thanks for playing along with us at The Flower Challenge!
Wonderful work,
Thank you for Joining us at Happy Little stampers and waiting to see next time.
Hugs
Meena HLS DT
Love your three beautiful cards and three different ways to add a metallic look to your projects Izzy. I have some gilding flakes and really should use them! I also have metallic cardstock and never though to do my ice slab with it. Thank you for sharing all your ideas with us, your cards are gorgeous as always, Lisa xx
3 beautiful cards! I have gilding flakes but have never used them. Thanks for the inspirations! One of those days…..love the shiny ice your penguin is sliding on – looks like fun! The last card – understated elegance!
WOW! What an array of fantastic designs and metallic inspirations Izzy. Love each of these and they are so perfect in showcasing your classy CAS talent as well as unique ways to incorporate metallics. Love the cute penguin in particular but I just can’t resist that festive fun little scene. Thanks for your kind words on my blog and sorry if my stepping down came as a shock … with so much going on in recent months I’ve forgotten who I’ve told. I’ll still be hopping around blogland but maybe more Instagram when I get my crafty mojo back so will ‘see’ you around and at Uniko of course. Hugs Sarah x
Three amazing cards, Izzy! I especially love the third card, it has so many beautiful ideas… Love the use of several metallics on one card and they really pop from the black card base. I also love the vellum sentiment banner! Your second card is so cute with that penquin and the mirror card… Love the shine of that. Cute little scene! The first card you made is perfectly CAS and has a beautiful rustic feel combined with the shine from the gilding flakes.
My goodness, Isabelle, what a lovely selection of cards you’ve created. The metallics you’ve used really show beautifully against that black background. I love that you did your die-cuts and then added your heat embossing. The extra work really makes those branches pop against that lovely poinsettia. Thanks so much for joining our Watercooler Wednesday Challenge this week.
Amazing, Izzy! I’ve only used gilding flakes once . Love how stunning your gilded butterfly looks against the brown. Beautiful pencil colouring and colours. Your second card is adorable.. clever use of mirri paper for the ice. And your final card is brilliant, incorporating THREE metallics seamlessly in one elegant design. Incredible shine agains the black. Well done! xx
What shimmery loveliness, Isabelle … a beautifully gilded and coloured butterfly … just the cutest, sparkly skating penguin … and a gorgeous bouquet of metallic sprigs around that lovely poinsettia! Don’t you just love Simply Graphic goodies! Hugs, Anita 🙂
Love the gilding flakes and all those colors of embossing you used! And your penguin card is just adorable! So many gorgeous creations!!!
Such a classy first card and love the brown card stock and the gold and brown of the butterfly. CAS perfection and the flakes look wonderful. Cute second card and the turquoise looks so pretty and wonderful scene making. Such an elegant third card with glorious layering of the heated embossing metallics and love how you left the stamped poinsettia with no colour.
Stunning selection of cards and fabulous inspiration, thank you X
Hi all your cards are gorgeous. The penguin card for our challenge is so cute. Thank you for joining us at Moving Along with the Times Challenge Blog The theme is Winter Animals. Hugs Jackie DT
Lots of lovely creativity and your Penguine card certainly makes you smile, thanks so much for sharing with us at Penny Black and More ‘Make Someone Smile’ theme at Penny Black and More challenge.
B x