Personal Impressions

Good Morning Crafters   Today we have the final part of Gill's step by steps using the Sweet Dixie Floral Bouquet designed by Sue Dix.   We are adding new products to the Sweet Dixie line on our Personal Impressions website.     To create this project you will need the following:   Sweet Dixie Floral Bouquet Stamp Memento Ink - Sweet Plumb and Tuxedo Black Gesso paint - White Promarker pens Small MDF Tray Mod Podge Outdoor   Step 1 Paint the tray with a good coat of white gesso   Step 2 Stamp the beautiful floral bouquet image on a scarp of white card and colour using pens of your choice. My pens of choice are promarkers and I used shades of lilac for the flowers   Step 3 Once you have coloured the image and fussy cut it stick it to the tray using the Mod Podge. Finally cover the whole tray and image with Mod Podge and allow to dry. It will dry clear and give the tray a really...

Good Morning Crafters   Today we have part 2 in the series of projects using Sweet Dixie Floral Bouquet by Gill.   Check out the Personal Impressions website all the new Sweet Dixie stamps and dies!     You will need the following for this project: Sweet Dixie Floral Bouquet stamp Sweet Dixie Fantasy Floral Corners Stamp Sweet Dixie Embossing Powder - Pink Sparkle Sweet Dixie Smooth card stock - Rose and Ivory Promarker watercolour pens Memento Ink - Tuxedo Black Step 1 As the stamp was new I like to stamp it several times as the more you use it the more clarity you get. Once I was happy with the image I blasted it with the heat gone to dry the ink completely before I started to colour the image with watercolour pens. I scribbled the pen on a glass cutting board and used my brush and a little water to blend the colours         Step 2 Once the image was coloured I left it to dry an...

Good Morning Crafters   We have a step by step project to share with you by Gill. This is part one of 3 designs using the floral bouquet by Sweet Dixie.   She has used one of the new Sweet Dixie Stamps designed by Sue Dix and can be found on the Personal Impressions website:     You will need the following for this project: Sweet Dixie smooth card in white Sweet Dixie Floral bouquet stamp Memento ink - Tuxedo black Spare scrap of black card Little gems 6x6 Square Card blank   Step 1 Cut a piece of white card into a square 1/2 cm smaller than the card blank Ink the flower part of the stamp and stamp in the bottom left hand corner of the square. Stamp another corner on a scrap piece of card and cut out. This will mask to cover the original stamp On the square card mask the original image and stamp again above and to the right hand side   Step 2   The card layer will look lik...