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Heike’s Blog 5

“And already the start of another week …

What is it with weekends that they always seem to be over as soon as they have begun … Now it is already Monday night and the working week has taken over yet again.
Today I would like to share another Rabbie Burns card with you. But this time his songs provided the inspiration, so I combined the rubber stamp SC125HF by Crafty Stamps with a music sheet embossing folder by Darice. For the ornamental die-cut shape I used a Marianne Design die.

The second card features the famous Greyfriars Bobby. This time I used the stamp SC118B by Crafty Stamps. I combined the image with an embossed background, thistles, ribbon roses and die-cut leaves created with a Crealies die CL CS 16.
I hope you like the cards and are looking forward to more Scottish and Celtic cards.”

Heike McIntosh
Freelance Card Designer, Edinburgh

If you want to see some of Heike’s other great creations, why not follow her blogs on her own site: “Heike’s Card and Craft Designs”

Heike’s Blog No. 4

“Rabbie Burns

The main season for Burns Nights might lie behind us, but Rabbie Burns is always a good choice for Scottish cards. And Rabbie Burns images are also brilliant for the often so tricky male cards.

I created the card above with the Rabbie Burns stamp SC125HF by Crafty Stamps, a cling-mounted rubber stamp. The image is coloured in using Spectrum Noir pens.

The book is created using a QuicKutz die. Marianne Design dies took care of the tree and the fence. For the background I used a vintage word background stamp by Heartfelt Creations (sorry, it is not a poem by Rabbie Burns), which I used with a VersaFine ink pad in ‘Vintage Sepia’ on parchment paper by Crafter’s Companion. For the ageing look around the edges I used a ‘tea dye’ distress ink pad.”

Heike McIntosh
Freelance Card Designer, Edinburgh

Heike’s Blog No. 3

“Here are now two more Celtic cards.

Celtic Impressions II

Do you remember the Celtic knot stamp that I used for yesterday’s card? For the card above I used again the Celtic knot CT133Q by Crafty Stamps, but this time I cut the image into pieces. I stamped the image and cut it then into quarters using a metal ruler and a craft knife. I avoided cutting through the entire cardstock surrounding the image, so that the pieces stayed together and to make it easier to cut equal sections. Then I cut the newly created corner pieces out and coloured the lines with ProMarkers in ‘Mustard’ and ‘Honeycomb’.

For the background I used a piece of Gemstones cardstock that I ran through a Darice embossing folder. The embossing folder is roughly A6 and therefore narrower than the square card blank, but by centering it I could work around that.

For the second card I used the Celtic knot stamp CT107D by Crafty Stamps and gave the card a floral touch. A Crealies Creative Flowers die CL CF 05, Heartfelt Creations Perfect Petals dies and Heartfelt Creations Elegant Single Leaves stamp set took care of the flowers and leaves. For the centre of the flowers I used a Paper Pen, but Liquid Pearls will do the same job.

This time I used ProMarkers in ‘Soft Peach’, ‘Peach’, Pastel Beige’, ‘Umber’ and ‘Ice Grey 1′ (for a bit of shading) to colour in the Celtic knot. For the border strip I used a Tonic Studios Celtic Border Simplicity Pattern Punch.

I hope you like these cards and will keep an eye out for the next Scottish and Celtic cards, which will follow very soon.”

Heike McIntosh
Freelance Card Designer, Edinburgh

Heike McIntosh is a part-time card designer based in Edinburgh and she specialises in individually designed and hand-crafted cards.

Heike runs her own blog where she showcases her work (details provided after we have run this series), and what’s better she has teamed up with Stampers Grove, to produce some lovely cards using among other things our own range of Crafty Stamps Cling rubber stamps.

Heike has allowed us use them on our website together with instructions should you wish to reproduce these yourselves.

Over the next few days we will be posting one a day of her designs together with instructions. To whet your appetite we show you the cards made over this series. The intructions will follow for each over the next few days.