Autumnal Tag Art and Summer Garden - by Penny

Hello lovely Peeps, I hope you are all well and enjoying some lovely weather wherever you are.  I'm back with my second post for May, a couple of cards featuring some of the gorgeous and quirky house stamps from the April shows.


Autumnal Tag Art.

I have used stamps from the Acorn House, Trees A Crowd, and Tagtastic sets; sepia Versafine ink, clear and gold embossing powders, alcohol markers, Distress inks, and some ribbons from my stash.

I began this project by creating the tag.  I stamped the Tagtastic image onto white card with Versamark ink and embossed it with gold EP, and did the same with one of the 'holes'.  I then stamped one of the tree images in sepia ink and embossed it with clear EP.  I coloured the trees with pens and painted a background using DIs, then cut out the tag.  On another piece of white card I stamped the Acorn House in sepia ink and embossed it with clear EP.  I coloured it with pens and cut around the image, leaving a margin around it.  I blended ink around the edges then attached it to the tag with 3D foam.  I completed the tag with some ribbon and bakers twine from my stash.

I took a piece of Kraft card and stencilled some trees onto it using DIs.  I used a gold marker pen around the edges of the background panel and attached it to a white base card.  I then attached the tag to the card.  On a spare piece of Kraft card I stamped a sentement using brown DI, put gold pen around the edge and attached it to the card.

Summer Garden.

I have used stamps from the Garden House and Honey Bees sets, white embossing powder, Versamark ink, Distress Inks, and some Hessian from my stash.

I took a piece of Kraft card and stamped the Garden House image and the Bee Hive image using Versamark ink and embossed them with white EP.  I added a couple of Bee images then painted the images using Distress Inks.  I added white marker pen around the edges of the panel, then stamped and embossed a sentement at the top of the panel.  On a spare piece of Kraft card I stamped and embossed the flowers from the Garden House image, painted them and cut them out.  I took a cream base card and stamped a honeycombe image repeatedly around the edges of the card using DI.  I then used strips of Hessian from my stash, pulling out some fibres to create a fringe.  I attached it to the back of the focal panel with red liner tape, then attached the whole panel to the base card.  I added the flowers with 3D foam.

Thank you for joining me on the CBDT blog today, I hope you have enjoyed these projects - I certainly enjoyed creating them!

Take care everyone, I'll see you next month with more crafty fun,



                            xx Penny xx