Don't you just love Versatility ? (by Doreen)

 Don't you just love Versatility ?

Hello everyone, for todays blogpost I have included several different makes, all from the same wonderful set of stamps along with a couple of other stamps from other sets.

The stamp set is one of the brilliantly designed word strip sets A4 Slim Word Strip 2 the other sets used are Rejoice! and A Tomte Christmas. I have used several different techniques which I am fairly certain you are familiar with they are Distress Inks applied with blending brushes mainly either to use on their own or through stencils or to colour Chocolate Baroque Black and White printed DL card. Versafine Clair Inkpads are also used throughout in Black, Dark Blue, Versamark with White Embossing powder.

If you have any questions on any of the above card do not hesitate to ask.

Thank you for looking in today

Love Doreen

Delicate Dragonfly by Doreen

Delicate Dragonfly

Hello everyone and welcome to my first post of June.

Today I would like to share this sample from our May shows using the Fragile Wings stamp set. A fabulous A5 stamps set which is just amazing.

Using a piece of card which I had previously mopped up inks from my work station for use at a later date, I often do this as you just never know when it will come in useful.

I stamped using a Versafine Clair Nocturne Inkpad, covered this with Clear Embossing Powder then stamped up a piece of Heat Resistant Acetate and embossed this as well. I only  wanted to use the wings from the acetate image so there is no need to stamp the whole image dust with a sparkle clear embossing powder but be quick Stazon dries very quickly.

I used a Black Marker to go around the edge of the topper and then mounted onto a blue piece of card from my stash.

Here are three other cards using this beautiful Dragonfly image and a glass bottle which I made just for a change.

Thanks for looking in today, until the next time, keep well 

Love Doreen

 

Purple Pleasures by Doreen

Purple Pleasures

Hello everyone, welcome to my second post of the month, today I would like to share one of my makes using the Floral Weave stamp set. 

 This is a detailed stamp and so versatile it could easily make a nice little set of thank you cards by simply stamping onto a round or square blank and then mount onto to card, even half and half if you make 6 cards make 3 with round images and 3 square images. Even stamped in monotone they will look fabulous.

With this card I used a Brusho background using Yellow, Turquoise and Green. Leave it to dry naturally and then I stamped using Versafine Clair Purple Delight.

To bring out extra detail in the stamp I used a Black Fineliner Pen and a White Gel Pen, using the detail of the stamp to guide me. 

After looking at the finished piece I felt it needed something else so using a Clear Sparkle Brush Pen I decided to paint over the floral features of the stamp.

I mounted the topper onto a piece of Cerise Mirri Card from my stash of card. Then I cut and folded a piece of black card to make a card blank to mount the topper onto.

Here are a couple of other samples using the same stamp.

Thank you for looking in today and until the next time enjoy your crafting and hopefully some lovely weather too.

Love Doreen

 

Floral Delights

Floral Delights

Today I have two samples from the last months shows, both are from the beautiful

 Flora and Fauna Rubber Stamp Sheet - A4

The first of the images used is the stunning Morning Glory, such a beautiful yet delicate flower. This set has so many fabulous images (16 in total) six of the images are large and make a real statement, but the others on this stamp sheet are equally as beautiful and detailed in their own right and very useful too.

The second is an easily recognisable Cala Lily and although I would love some in the garden my hubby dislikes them with a passion, so I content myself looking at the wonderful display in my neighbours garden.

The Morning Glory was made first by using a Gelli Plate with dye inkpads and a sheet of kitchen roll applied whilst the ink was still wet, taken off fairly quickly and then using a sheet of card larger than the size needed for the finished card and take a print then set to one side to dry.

Stamp the main image onto another piece of card, then using your dye inkpads as paints colour your image.

I then tore the edges of the card and with a soft brush applied ink to the edges of the torn piece to add definition.

With the Cala Lily I stamped the image then coloured it using Inktense Pencils and a Clear Sparkle Brush Pen to blend. I stamped and coloured the dragonflies in the same way. The clear gems were added once the image was dry,

Thank you for looking in today

Love Doreen xx