Three final samples by Rachel

 Hello there - Rachel here today with the last of my makes from March's shows.

In this first one I used the circular Gel press to create the background using inks and the crackling rose stamp to remove some of that ink creating a ghost image of the stamp in the background. I then overstamped and coloured the image (in watercolour brush pens) and decoupaged the rose up 

For my ceramic piece I used the Klimt panel and stamped it onto the bowl before going over the lines in glaze - I also added more glaze inside the bowl. The bowl was then fired. 

My final card was made using the songthrush silhouette - this time I repeat stamped the image over the card then made the topper using veramark on black card and brushing over it in mica powders.

I hope you have a great day! Can't believe its May tomorrow - where is this year going?

Big hugs

Rachel xx

a splash of colour (by Veronica)

My cards today from last month's TV shows all have inky backgrounds as a main part, though using different stamps.

The first ones feature the klimt panel stamp, which is quite large. I stamped the image onto white card using black versafine ink and clear embossed it before addin tiny amounts of brusho powders in blue, red and yellow over parts of the design and spritzing with water.

I cut a square of card to fit a &" card blank and coloured it using distress inks dabbed onto a craft mat and spritzed with water. I stamped parts of the panel randomly using grey versafine ink to create my background. The main panel was trimmed down to the edge of the stamp and mounted onto black card, then onto the background which was edged with a                                                                             black marker pen.

My second card used the same shades of brusho powder, but this time I used watercolour card and a lot of water and a second sheet of white card pressed onto the wet first sheet to give a second paler image.

I stamped the panel using versamark ink and a white embossing powder onto the card trying to match the image up with areas of colour. This time I left a border round the panel when i trimmed it, mounted it onto black card, then onto the background piece  and more black card.

for the second group I used the songthrush stamped in black onto card coloured with brusho powders and then clear embossed.

Both these card are DL sized, and the panel was trimmed down and mounted onto balck card and then onto a panel cut from the same card stamped with a sentiment from life is so much better.  On the second card i used bleach to highlight the flowers and black card behind the coloured strip