A rose garden (by Rachel)

Hello there! Its Rachel here today sharing the first of my samples from the June shows. For these samples I used the stamp sets Rose and Thistle and Rose set. I used various techniques to create these samples. In this first card I created a background using inks and the gelli plate  and stamped the main image from the rose stamp set onto the plate itself without any ink. I pulled the print and then added further stamping to that using the single rose stamp from the rose and thistle stamp set.

Next I made a monolith - I covered it in blue paint then overstamped with the small rose image that I painted in using translucent paints. I added the main image then from the rose stamp set which I had painted and fussy cut.

This next one was made using the rose and thistle set - I stamped in grey on the background then added the same image to a piece of card developed using a gelli plate and ink again. The image was then coloured in water colour pencils.

Finally I decorated one of the paint brushes from one of the show specials..I think it was from the May show.

I used the fabric and flowers that also came with that special set and added some paint too and some fussy cut stamped images!

I hope you can find some inspiration here!

Big hugs

Rachel xx