Spring Savings (by Gerrina)

This week we welcome Gerrina back for the first of her three posts and her project is a real burst of Spring. I think you will enjoy this one.

And so it is March again and is it already six months ago that it was my turn to post here, so this month you will see some of my projects again.

This time I stamped on a moneybox in a birdhouse shape with the stamps from Chocolate Baroque and made a matching card:

Materials:

Chocolate Baroque Fantasy Meadow and Bold Blooms (quote)

Ink: Stazon, Vesafine Onyx Black, Distress Ink Salty Ocean, Mowed Lawn and Mustard Seed, Memento Cottage Ivy, Tangelo, Dandelion and Danube Blue

Other: Wood Moneybox, blending tool, brush and water, tissuepaper, Multi medium matte, piece of yellow linen and blue cardstock

How to make:

At first I painted the moneybox with gesso and left it to dry. With a sponge, brush and water I coloured the box and let that dry again. The flowers were stamped on tissue paper with several colours of Memento ink, fussy cut and glued to the box with Multi medium matte.

For the card I used the same ink colours and Stazon black for the quote on the yellow piece of linen. The piece of linen was glued first to the card and then the card on a base.

Hope you liked this project and I will see you soon.

Createve greetings,

Gerrina

What a lovely project to start Gerrina, thank you for such bright and pretty artwork.  We look forward to seeing what you have in store for us next week.

Meanwhile, please drop by again for more inspiration from our ever talented Design Team.

Fabulous Fantasy Flowers by Debbie

Good morning to all. I hope everyone has been enjoying the wonderful weekend weather. The selection of flowers from the Fancy Flowers stamps is great and the DT girls have been thoroughly enjoying them. I started with a tag in mind and coloured with Distress Inks, Seedless Preserves, Peacock Feathers and Ripe Persimmon. I added a little stencilling across the centre and stamped the corners with the seedless preserves. As the card is a DL size I only stamped in the two corners. The flower was stamped with black Versafine and embossed with clear powder then coloured it with Graph It pens from the Home and Fashion set of twelve pens. I love the colours of these pens. I added white pen to the petals to help draw the eye to them. The top was chopped off the tag and it has been mounted onto black card. For the background of the card I stamped the small flower and distressed the edges. Hopefully our warm weather will last. Thank you for visiting. Debbie