Dies Challenge Day 25 & CE Cygnus

Good Morning All

I dont make many Wedding or Congratulation Cards so here is one that could be either Wedding, Engagement or Anniversary.

I used a die that my crafty friend Lyn bought me for Christmas afew years ago before she headed back to UK , Creative Expressions Cygnus.

I  backed it onto  Embossed card using a Tied together EF

I used a piece of card I had made using dried up Gikding Polish,

(see my post here)

and I punched some tiny flowers from the leftovers too.

Both sentiment tags are from the XCut set I use all the time and stamp different sentiments.

Dies Used  -----

49.   CED4406 Gemini Dies -Cygnus

X Cut Decorative Dies Collection(used before)

Emboss Folder Used  -----

6. Couture Creations Ties Together 5x7

xxxxx

Wendy L

Dried up Gilding Polish & Johns Crackers

Good Morning All

John (JND) launched his new faceted cracker die last week and wow, what a cracker it was.

Well I dont have it but I do have the one he released last year.

On Sunday I cut 22 of them ----Phewwwwww

and made them up, filled them with ????? (cant tell you) and decorated them with Johns Poinsettias from last year too.

I did buy the green glitter card for these but OMG was it a chore getting that to cut, so went with some 12 x 12 card I bought from Hobbycraft while I was visiting mums last week.

I think it was because the card is coated so does not die cut very well, so will use it for mats on my cards.

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The poinsettias were made a couple of weeks ago at my Craft club.

I had been watching John on Hochanda when he launched the Mica Magic, as I dont have it I thought I would use my Mica Paints.

So I coloured afew A4 sheets with them and then stamped and cut out the poinsettias.

Then I thought about the Gilding Polish pots I had when I helped John out at Creative Expressions at Ally Pally afew years ago.

Well afew, infact, all but two had dried out, but as you know I hate throwing anything away, and as they are water based, I spritzed to revitalise them.

As the painting of the paper does not have to be perfect when you are die cutting, so I went to town and painted quite afew A4 sheets.

Look at the lovely sheen on them

 It doesnt matter that there are streaks on some, you dont see it when they are die cut.

I may also use some of these for matting my parchment work on.

So if you have any dried up pots of Gilding Polish, get going with a water spritzer and make some backing papers.

As a result of making all these at my Craft club, a couple of ladies asked me to order Johns Poinsettia stamps and dies for them and, Friday, asked me to order the Mica Magic, which I am interested to see myself.

xxxxx

Wendy L

Pixie Powders

Good Morning All

On my way home today, lovely visit with my Mum, sisters and kids.
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I matted white card, embossed with CE fanfare folder onto card coloured with Gilding Polish.

All the black card is coloured using Pixie Powders.

CE Petite Peony Cluster die.

CE Pierced Flag for sentiment.

CE Sue Wilson New Zealand 'Wellington'

Gems for flower centres.

I brushed over the embossed card with Enchanted Gold Gilding Polish, you can see the sheen on this picture.

xxxxx

Wendy L