New Horizon Designer Paper - some wow cards!

 The gorgeous New Horizon DSP can be used on a card without any stamps, or embellishments with the exception of a sentient. However, the card can be made even more gorgeous using the following stamps:  On the Horizon, Grassy Grove, and Special Moments (SAB) as well as the following dies: Grove dies, Horizon Dies.

To make these cards, I took any one 6 by 6" piece of DSP, cut it into 4 (3 by 3") pieces, then matted each piece with 3 1/4 by 3 1/4" Basic Black card stock.  This was mounted onto a Basic White A2 card front using dimensionals.

Sentiments used were from SAB Special Moments stamp set.

Below are the 4 cards.  In the first 2 cards I did not add anything to the DSP, but I did in the third and fourth.

Sailboat and birds from "Sailing Home"

Trees and birds from "On the Horizon"

For the next card I cut a 3 by 5" piece of DSP that reminded me of a Sunset.  I matted it with 3 1/4 by 5 1/4" Basic Black and added it to a 4 by 5 1/4" piece of Basic White embossed with the Texture Embossing folder.

The birds are from "On the Horizon", the trees from "Grassy Grove" stamp sets.  The fence, grass around the fence, are from Horizon dies; the deer from Grove dies.

And finally, I used a full sheet of DSP for my last card.  I did trim it down a bit to make a 5 by 5" card. I matted the DSP with Basic Black card stock 1/8" larger than DSP and mounted it on a Thick Basic White card base.

The background reminds me of Niagara Falls with the steam coming off the falls.  All I did was add a trio of trees, a deer and a sentiment.

Special Moments Wedding card - a CASE

I cased this card from Michelle Wright after watching her video on You Tube here
I was particularly intrigued by the wedding dress and how to create the wonderful transparent, wispy look.

The image of the bride and her dress was embossed with gold embossing powder on Basic Black card stock.

Using Whisper White  re inker and a small paint brush, the reinker was painted onto the dress.  I used a different method of painting than Michelle in her video, applying the paint in little jabs and partially blending them.  The end result was the same for both of us.  I just love the way the dress turned out.

The sentiment, also embossed in gold on a separate piece of Basic Black, was punched with a 1 1/4" circle punch and matted with a gold foil 1 3/8" scallop circle punch.  These two circles were adhered together using dimensionals and added to the left of the bride. Before adding it to the card front, some gold thread wound around my fingers and adhered to the back of the sentiment circle

The art piece was matted with Broadway Bound DSP - the gold and black diagonal stripe piece- and this was added to a Basic Black card base.

Supplies Used:
Stamp: Special Moments
Inks:  Versa Mark, Whisper White reinker
Papers: Basic Black, Broadway Bound DSP, gold foil
Accessories: Gold embossing powder, small paint brush

Petal Promenade Wedding Card

This is another card made using the Petal Prominade DSP - specifically using one of the rectangular trimmable images which is on two of the sheets of this DSP.   A wonderful simple wedding card was created by combining this trimmable image with the "Special Moments" stamp set.

The image of the bride was stamped in the center of this rectangular trimmable panel and coloured with water colour pencils.  Glitter was added to the gown, and a sentiment, from Floral Phrases, was added.

The panel was matted with silver glimmer paper, then Whisper White card stock, which was adhered to a Blushing Bride card base.

To finish the card, some rhinestones were randomly added to the card front

Supplies Used:

Stamp:  Special Moments, Floral Phrases

Inks:  Black Memento, Watercolour pencils

Papers:  Blushing Bride, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer, Petal Prominade trimmable image.

Accessories:  Dazzling Diamonds, rhinestones