As always, many thanks for your kind visit.
Wednesday 30 September 2020
Stroom O'clock by Brenda
As always, many thanks for your kind visit.
Tuesday 29 September 2020
Tick Tock Butterfly Clock by Zoe
Thank you so much for spending the time to visit, I hope I’ve inspired you?
Monday 28 September 2020
Gorgeous Florals
Hello
I am sharing some more of my samples from the Hochanda shows in August.
My first card is the beautiful Floral Clock stamp set. I stamped the main image in Versamark and embossed in gold. I then "painted" the flowers, butterfly and clock frame with glitter glaze. One of the glazes has a green tone and the other has a blue tone, but it's a bit difficult to see on the screen! i then layered this onto some gold card and added a sentiment.
Sunday 27 September 2020
Choose Your Own Colours (by Judith)
Hello everyone, I have a couple of projects to share with you today showcasing the beautiful stamps that were on last month's TV shows on Hochanda. Both projects feature the lovely Parsley Clock stamp set.
My first project is a very clean and simple card, and I started out by die cutting a large circle from a piece of drawing cartridge. I stamped the images from the stamp set across the bottom of the circle, and coloured them with pencils. I added some shading to the background loosely with Distress Inks, not worry about getting to close to the images, as this gave a feeling of a cloudy sky, leaving patches of white.
I went around the edge of the circle with a pair of scissors to give a distressed finish before attaching it a piece of Textured Art Card and then to a white card blank.
I added some background stamping using grey Archival ink, a sentiment from the same stamp set, and the very useful splatter from the Floral Clock stamp set.You could recreate something very similar to this in card form, but I really like making these canvases, they do not take very long at all. I have not coloured my parsley regulation white in either case, but I wanted to show that you can choose to colour your flowers however you like, there are no rules. Just go with the flow and enjoy yourself.
I hope that you have enjoyed what I have shared with you this month, and will try out some of my projects for yourself. Thanks for stopping by, take care and stay safe.
Judith xx
Saturday 26 September 2020
Parsley, sage, rosemary and time? (By Rachel)
Friday 25 September 2020
flower power (by Veronica)
My first card uses the floral clock set - the background was created using the make your mark set of stamps, a very useful set for adding interest to backgrounds. I used grey ink pad for an olde world feel, and coloured with watercolour pencils. The extra butterfly was stamped onto spare card, cololured, fussy cut out and added to a strip of acetate fastened between the image and the card blank.
The single flower from the same set was stamped onto tissue paper in black, coloured with marker pens, torn out and stuck with modge podge onto the lid of a box painted with acrylic paints.
The last two use the parsley clock set again, first onto a candle and then simply stamped onto one of Lesley's lovely postcards with the flowers highlighted with white pen.
Wednesday 23 September 2020
The Lovely Lily (by Doreen)
This different but very beautiful lily is not the type that many of us are used to seeing, but I think it is exquisite. it comes from the DL Lily set of stamps, although it does actually have a four leaf clover, ladybird and several other worker stamps in the set. The sentiment comes from the Bold Blooms set.
Products used in the making of this card are:
- Chocolate Baroque Lily DL stamp set
- Sentiment from the Chocolate Baroque Bold Blooms set
- Versafine Clair Nocturne
- Clear embossing powder
- A torn out page from a discarded or old book that has an aged look but has probably seen better days.
- Koh-I-Noor watercolour pencils
- Satin finish mirri card for mounting on
1. Trim page from book but keep excess for stamping and mounting sentiment.
2. Stamp and emboss image.
3. Roughly colour the image in your favoured shades and blend using a little water on your brush.
4. To enhance the image go round using either a grey or light blue pencil and drag out the colour with a little water.
5. Stamp the sentiment using the Versafine Clair onto a piece of the scrap from the printed page and trim quite close to the stamped image. Edge the sides using your inkpad, then mount on another piece of the scrap from the page, and edge again using the inkpad.
6. This is a flatish card, no foam tape was used in the mounting of this onto the satin card or for mounting the sentiment, so perfect for the post.
As an afterthought, if you like a card to have some sparkle, then instead of using water just use a clear sparkle brush pen to blend the colours. This will leave a subtle sparkle not as noticeable as glitter.
Thank you for looking
Love Doreen
Tuesday 22 September 2020
Shades - (by Magda) - Autumn Edges, Sketchy Doodle Landscape, Amazing Mackintosh Words
Hello Girls,
As the other colors, also Black and White have shades and I played today with them using Distress Paint .
You can clearly notice in the first picture the difference of the shades, while in the second picture the contrast is brought out through the hot embossed Sketchy Doodle Landscape stamp. Differently from the common use of VersaMark for embossing the flower, I humidified my finger with a baby wipe, dipped it in the embossing powder first, then gently I passed it on the page before heating. The result of the Dust around the flowers was surprising, you can better see it zooming in the second picture. I took the sentiments from Amazing Mackintosh Words , where you can find a large choice of thoughts.
Sunday 20 September 2020
A bit of Home Decor by Brenda
Saturday 19 September 2020
More Autumn inspirations (by Miranda)
Friday 18 September 2020
Magic mushrooms (by Judith)
Hello everyone, I hope that you are all keeping well. I have a couple of vibrant projects to share with you today using stamps from The Shroom Clock stamp set featured on last month's TV shows from Hochanda.
My first project was created by using a background from my stash created with turquoise and green Brushos. I stamped the mushrooms onto some of the Seriously Gorgeous A6 Postcards using archival Ink, and cut them out. I adhered them to the background, and using a fineliner pen, I created a landscape for them to perch on. I added stamping using the small texture stamp from the plate which matches the mushrooms across the bottom of the background, and coloured the ground with pencils. I added white highlights on the mushrooms with a gel pen.
To finish my card, I stencilled in the sky area using the Chocolate Baroque Mask - Kaleidoscope of Butterflies and some turquoise Distress Ink. Finally, I added a sentiment.
To create my second project, I used another Brusho background, similar in colour to the first, to which I had added some stencilling with white ink to create a bokeh effect. I stamped the large Shroom Clock onto the background, and stamped this again onto a spare piece of card. I coloured the image using Koh-I-Noor watercolours, and cut the image out. I added some splatters of blue ink at the bottom of the background to create a feeling of grass, and added shading at the base of the mushrooms. I decoupaged the image onto the background, and added white highlights with a gel pen once more.
I will be back later in the month with more projects to share, take care, and stay safe,
Judith xx
Thursday 17 September 2020
There's not much room inside (by Rachel)
Wednesday 16 September 2020
Lacework (by Doreen)
A simple but classic style of card and very effective no matter which colour background or embossing powder you use, although I would definitely recommend a very fine powder if you have no detail embossing powders.
Very short product list for this one:
- Lace Fragments stamp set
- Versamark inkpad
- Detail embossing powder
- Black card for stamping and a piece each of black and white card for matt and layering of card
- Heat gun
In this beautiful set of lacy stamps there are several borders to choose from as well as corners and hero images, all are very fine and very detailed.
I feel there is not a lot to tell you in the making of this card as it is really sel explanatory for us who have crafted for some time, but for those who are just starting out on their wonderful crafting adventure this is a technique that never gets boring.
1.Stamp using Versamark, then pour over your embossing powder, tap off the excess powder and decant back into pot.
2. Turn on your heat gun and allow to get hot then direct at the embossing powder, when it starts to melt, chase it round the image as it will burn and dull the powder if left too long on one area.
3. Matt and layer onto a card and apply topper using foam tape for extra dimension.
Although I have not added a sentiment this time of course one can be added later to suit the occasion or recipient of your artwork.
Thank you for looking,
Love Doreen.
Tuesday 15 September 2020
Tick Tock floral clock by Zoe
Thank you for visiting, i do hope you like my creations? I loved using these stamps, they are so versatile.
Monday 14 September 2020
parsley time (by Veronica)
My first card was very simple, stamped and white embossed onto black card - the parsley was actually coloured with pearlescent paints, but they only show up on the butterfly in the scan image.
The sentiment was just stamped using a white pigment ink
The background to the second card is a distress ink one, with peeled paint , broken china and squeezed lemonade pads stamped onto a paint mat, spritzed with water and the drawing cartridge used to mop up the colours.
Butterfly coloured with watercolour pencils, and a white posca pen for the parsley flowers.
The last sample had distress oxide inks sponged onto a whiteboard heart and the top fo the parsley flowers stamped in white ink along the bottom, and repeated once in black ink. The part of the image with the butterfly was then stamped in black - butterfly coloured with alcohol markers and white pen for the flowers.
Saturday 12 September 2020
Autumn is coming......(by Miranda)
Hope you did like my Autumn inspiration and maybe you are inspired to get these sheets out or maybe even buy them.......
Next time, more Autumn inspirations!