Good Morning All and a very Happy Tuesday!
Have you seen the blog challenge running on the Creative Expressions site, if not, pop over there and take a look. As it's Easter themed, the design team were asked to come up with an Easter card to give you some ideas so here's mine!
Stamp the chick from the A5 UMChick set of stamps with Black Archival Ink onto Coconut White Card.
Paint the chick with Sunshine Yellow and Sunset Orange Adirondack Inks.
Stamp again onto Couture Creations 6x6 paper from the Vintage Rose Garden Pad.
Cut out the egg parts and glue onto the 1st stamped image.
Cut out using the Spellbinders Classic Oval Large Dies.
Cut a matt from the paper pad with the Spellbinders Classic Oval Scalloped Dies.
Glue together.
Ink up the Daisy stamps from the A5 Bunnies set (UMBunnies) with Dandelion Archival Ink. Stamp onto a piece of white card for the background.
Cut 2 strips of co-ordinating papers from the pad and glue into position just under the daisies.
Before matting and layering onto patterned paper (spot the deliberate mistake!) mask off the bottom edge of the strip of paper and stamp the flower heads.
I've had to mask off a larger area as I matted and layered..oops!
Now matt and layer onto a piece of patterned paper!!!
Decide where the chick is going and before sticking down, stamp the sentiment from the Chick set. The sentiment is one stamp so I inked up the first word, stamped it then repeated with the 2nd word.
Glue the chick into position and add 3mm faux pearls to the flower centres and 5mm ones to the edges of the strip of paper.
And there's the finished card....I hope it's given you a few ideas for the challenge.
Everything used for this card is from Creative Expressions.
Once again, many thanks for visiting and leaving comments. They are much appreciated.
So, until next time, have a happy, crafty week!
Good Morning All and a very Happy Tuesday!
As promised, I'm going to use Reverse Masking today to make a card using "Alfie", another Creative Expressions Singles Stamp.
Ink the stamp with Black Archival and stamp onto Coconut White Card.
Stamp again onto a piece of copier paper. Cut the dog out leaving a large area of paper around the cut out image.
Tape the paper over the stamped image.
Ink up the large dot Background Stamp with Saffron Archival and stamp over the masked image.
Remove the paper mask.
Using Distress Inks, paint the scarf and floor with Rusty Hinge and Alfie with Scattered Straw.
Matt and layer onto Chestnut and Ginger Foundations Card.
Stamp the Dot Background onto a larger piece of Coconut White Card with Saffron Archival Ink.
Emboss with the A4 Interlocking Circles Folder.
Highlight the raised areas with Scattered Straw Distress Ink.
Matt and layer with the Chestnut and Ginger Card.
Matt and layer strips of the same colour card and attach Yellow and White Bakers Twine.
Glue onto the background.
Stamp the sentiment from the "Paws-Itiveley" set onto the main image with Black Archival Ink.
Add to the main card with 3d foam pads.
And there's the finished card!
Hope you like it. Reverse Masking is a great way of adding detail to a stamped image. The stamp shouldn't have too much detail for this to work.
Anyway, that's it for this week. I'll be back next Tuesday with another project. Many thanks for stopping by and until next time, have a happy, crafty week!
Good Morning All. Is it too early to talk about Christmas?
It's been on my mind over the past week as I prepping for some November workshops and, trying to come up with ideas now that the sun is finally shining, has been a real challenge! I'm really pleased that I've come up with 4 very different designs and thought I'd show you one today (on the hottest day of the year so far!).
I like to teach different techniques at the workshops and have been threatening them with a brayer for quite a while now!
I started with a square of gloss card, cut a circle from a post it note to use as a mask and kept the outer from the mask.
I masked off an area for the moon and picked up some Broken China Distress Ink on the brayer. You need to remove the excess ink from the brayer before you start. Roll the inked brayer diagonally across the card and build up the layers of ink until you're happy with the result leaving about
a third clear. Repeat the process with the 2nd colour of ink (I've used Wild Honey Distress Ink).
Remove the mask and use the outer from it to protect around the edge. Pick up a little Wild Honey Distress Ink and lightly colour the moon leaving a little bit of white in one area. Go back over the outer edges of the moon to give definition.
I've used Sam Poole's (Creative Studios) lovely set of stamps called Winter Wonderland and stamped the trees and stars with Black Archival Ink. I've also used a white highlighter pen to add some dots of white in the sky and to highlight some of the stars. To finish, I've matted and layered and added some Creative Expressions 8mm self adhesive black pearls. Hope you like it (and hope the ladies at the workshop like it too!) I must thank Barbara Gray for reminding me of this technique....my head is so full of "new stuff" that I sometimes forget the "old stuff"!
We're back off to another auction today. I saw listed 2, what they are calling, little banjos. I'm hoping that they're banjo ukuleles (think George Formby!). I fancy playing one as the chords are the same as the ukulele. Did I forget to tell you that is my secret vice!
Now on to todays travel photo...where shall we go today?
How about a little island called Nuku Hiva in French Polynesia. It's a little dot on the map in the Pacific. Talking about the ukulele reminded me of it. We (me and the "better half") were booked to teach ukulele on a cruise ship sailing from Tahiti to Peru last year and this was one of the ports of call. Surprising where a ukulele can take you!
Well, that's all for today. Lots to do as apart from the auction I'm determined to finish my mini book today and I also need to pack a back to take to this weekends journaling workshop being run by the fabulous Dyan Reavelly at The Artistic Stamper in Faversham. Hurrah....finally a workshop near home! Don't forget that Sam Poole is on Create & Craft tomorrow (Stamping with Creative Expressions) and will be showing the Wise Owl and Enchanted Trees stamp sets. I'll be back soon so until then, have a happy, crafty weekend and many thanks for visiting and leaving comments.
