dreamy homes (by Veronica)

Two more samples using the gorgeous houses by Kim Moody to share today.

The Luv shack is the first one, stamped onto a distress ink background using black versafine ink, and again onto white card.The image on white card was coloured with pencils, then the main part of the house was cut out. I added colour to the hedge, balcony ,chimney and stepladder on the distress background before gluing the coloured house onto the background. The sentiment from Italian House was stamped in black on white card,cut out and edged with black pen.

The second card was an 8" square blank, with a distress ink background using hickory smoke and peeled paint and splashed with water. 

 The Urban Chic house was stamped at the bottom left and the Bottle and Jug at the top right - both left uncoloured as if through a mist.

The word letters were  cut from gold metallic card and glued diagonally across the card.
 

There's No Place Like Home

 Hello, I am sharing some more cards from The Craft Store show in May. 

These feature some more of the wonderful, quirky houses by Kim Moody and Orchard Design a Tree

My first card uses Urban Chic. Such a fun house.

For my backing I used the last piece of my master board that Lesley did as a Facebook live last year. I stamped the house with Versamark and embossed in white. I coloured using water colour inks. I then masked the house and stamped the trees and added foliage.  When it was all dry I removed the mask.

My next card uses the Luv Shack.

I stamped the house with Black Archival ink and used coloured pencils and a blending solution. For the flowers around the arch and across the house I used some flocking powder to give some texture. I added some distant hills using some torn paper and Distress Ink. I added a sentiment from Life is So Much Better.

This card uses the  Bottle and Jug set. 

Again, I stamped in black and coloured with pencils which I blended. I stamped and cut out the fence panels a couple of times to extend the front. I then added some colourful bunting.

My last card today uses the Cotswold Stone set.

I kept this very simple by stamping in Brown Archival and using brown and sepia pencils. I stamped the two trees in front of the house and used a peach colour ink for the blossom I finished with some  clouds using a stencil and a sentiment from the Dutch House set

Thanks for looking

Sandra x

Bottle, Jug and a Cup of Tea! (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I hope that you are keeping well. I have a project to share with you from last month's TV shows on The Craft Store. 

I found a background in my stash that I thought would be perfect to use with Kim Moody's Bottle and Jug stamp, and so my card was dictated by these colours. I had coloured the original background with tea and added an image from Baroque Ephemera 1. I then dry brushed the background with pale blue acrylic paint.

I stamped the main image onto a smaller piece of tea dyed drawing cartridge to match the main background. I masked the image and stamped a tree from Trees a Crowd, and added blossoms from Orchard Design a Tree stamp set. I added a few splats using a stamp from the Timeless stamp set. I removed the mask and coloured the image with pencils.

These images have been an absolute delight to work with and are so versatile. I hope that you have enjoyed seeing our projects and have lots of ideas to try using the stamps yourselves.

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe and take care.

Judith xx

Bottle and Jug and Luv Shack by Rachel

 Hello there! Rachel here today with a few more samples from the May shows featuring the new stamps from Kim Moody - this time I am showing what I did with two stamps - Bottle and Jug and also Luv Shack.

This first card features the Bottle and Jug - I was making it when everybody was getting excited about being able to go to the pub garden so this seemed appropriate. I have teamed the image up with some papers and added a sentiment of my own. All of the colouring was done using watercolour pencils and the image was fussy cut.

For this next one - its the Luv Shack - this is my personnel favourite from the new release. Its just so ramshackle but the hearts really give the feeling that its utterly loved by its owners - I used distress inks in the background and water colour pencils for the main house. The back of the card was roughly stamped using an image from last months sets.

This final one was added to a distress oxide mop up background and I also added the trees that were on the show. The house was coloured using water colour pencils.

Wishing you a wonderful day!

Hugs Rachel x

Bottle and Jug (by Veronica)

 It's always fun to have the quirky designs by Kim Moody to play with, and this month we had four!

I have used just the old pub one here, to celebrate the hospitality reopening....

My first one used a brusho background, image stamped in black versafine and clear embossed. I used bleach to take the colour out on the plastered areas of the building and a marker pen to colopur the roof.

The sentiment is from Say it vertically.

 The second version is back to a daylight view, stmaped in black again and coloured with marker pens.The background was sponged with distress inks and stamped with the script from Scripts and timepieces

Blossom Lane

This canvas was quite a labour of love as firstly I stamped, coloured and fussy cut each of Kim Moody's latest release of stamps which include ;

Kim Moody - Bottle and Jug A6 rubber stamp 

Kim Moody - Cotswold Stone A6 rubber stamp

Kim Moody - Luv Shack A6 rubber stamp

Kim Moody - Urban Chic A6 rubber stamp

Plus I have also used the Chocolate Baroque stamps

Orchard Design a Tree Rubber stamp sheet - A6

Although not a necessity and very time consuming I stamped and coloured some blossoms to add depth to the canvas fussy cutting the individual blossoms and shaping and applying each of them to the trees.

Next the canvas itself was coloured using a wash of distress inks, which I also used to colour the cottages. The path was just randomly sized paving slabs yet again coloured using a paintbrush and distress inkpads allowing the colour to fade before replenishing the brush which gives a natural look to the shading.

The sentiment is from the Life Is So Much better set which was simply stamped and cut up before being applied to the canvas.

Life is so much Better Rubber Stamp sheet - A5

To finish I simply set everything in place before adding some birds using a fine liner pen.

Here are also one each of the cards from Kim's new range;

Thank you for looking in today 

Love Doreen

                            

Multi coloured houses by Brenda

A very good morning to you all, I'm here to share a few cards from last month TV shows which was all about quirky houses. Above I used Dutch House, Turret House and Italian House, coloured in bright colours with Koh-i-Noor paints onto an A shape card, folding and cutting it so that some of the houses popped above the fold line.

I kept it all monochromatic using  one of the new stamps from Kim called Bottle and Jug, a bit of shading and some brickwork stencilling in the background.

For this one I made a Z fold card, used DI's and a stencil in the background and stamped Urban Chic, another of Kim's new designs, a tree from Orchard Design a Tree which was also in the shows and a quote from Words of Inspiration.

Have a good day and I hope I have provided a little inspiration.