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.

Chrysanthemum Stairway by Brenda

Morning Peeps, Brenda here to share a few more samples from Lesley's September Hochanda shows with the lovely new Blueprint stamps.

As is my usual route, inks and colours are the order of the day starting with Barn Door Distress Oxide brayered lightly onto the the background and then Chrysanthemum Blueprint stamped with Versafine black. I stamped the blooms a second time onto an offcut coloured with the same Oxide, cut out and paper pieced and the leaves coloured with Koh-i-Noor paint. Some texture paste stencilled to one side, a fee sequins, sentiment and some splats of white paint.

The background of this one has a thick brayered later of Actylic paint over which I used a stencil and gesso to add some interest. Blooms from Allium Blueprint and Echinacea  Blueprint stamped onto inked offcuts and cut out to place over strips of white card and a die cut oval. Sentiments from the same stamp sets and a couple of red 'splodges' using one of the worker stamps from Timeless.

Many thanks for you visit today.

Kingfishers (by Veronica)

 Today I have a card to share using the kingfisher song and sticks and stones stamp sets -at least I hope so. Brenda passed on the information that there is a new version of blogger, that we will all have to use from the end of the month. Now i am not the best computer person at anything new , so thought I ought to try the new version while there was still the option to use the one that works! It took me 5 minutes to work out how to start a new post ( a big red + button at the bottom of the screen, so obvious after you've tried everything at the top) 

Back to the easy bit, stamping!

I used a piece of the drawing cartridge to stamp the reeds using grey versafine ink, then masked them off with masking fluid before stamping the smaller kingfisher. The large branch was stamped on the left using black versafine. Used watercolour paints to colour the image, with light washes for the sky , grass and water. The large kingfisher was stamped onto another piece of cartridge using black versafine again, painted, cut out and glued in place on his branch.

Added a mat of black. The white base card was stamped using the bridge image at the top left and the reeds at the bottom right, this time coloured with distress markers so I got  multicololur images

Wood Paneling and Beautiful Grunge by Penny

Goodly morning peeps, I hope you are all keeping well.  Are you all ready for the big day?  Or are you like me - chasing your tail to try and get everything finished in time lol!  Ah well, no change from every year then ha ha.  I'm here to bring you my last post of 2019, featuring the beautiful CB stamps that were launched on last month's tv shows.


Wood Paneling.

For this project I have used a stamp from the new Chocolate Blocks stamps - O is for... , and letters from the Classic Alphabet Upper Case set, Versafine sepia ink, Distress Inks, clear EP, CB Seasonal Elements  stencil and a stencil from my stash.
I began with a piece of white card and stamped and embossed the 'O', using sepia ink and clear EP.  I did the same with the other letters to spell the word 'Wood'.  I painted the tree and hill with DIs and added another hill in the distance.

I used both stencils to add leaves  and a woodgrain pattern to the focal panel.  I then attached the panel to a dark brown base card.  

Beautiful Grunge.


This is another card but with a grungy, pretty, mixed media theme to it.  I have used stamps from the Butterfly Mind and Freedom Flower sets, black Versafine ink, clear EP, Koh-I-Noor paints and metalic copper acrylic paint from my stash.
I started with a piece of corrugated cardboard and peeled away the top paper layer in various places to add texture.

I used  DIs to stamp the grid strip  randomly over the cardboard then added the dots.  When the inks were dry I dabbed copper paint all along one edge and held the panel up to allow the paint to run and drip down the panel. 

I took some white card and stamped and embossed the film strip images using black ink and clear EP.  I used the paints to colour the images before cutting them out and attaching them to the background panel.  I repeated the last step with the sentiments then attached the whole completed panel to a white base card.

Thank you very much for dropping in today, and for all your support and lovely comments throughout the year, I really appreciate it, and so do my team mates!  

I'll be back with more craftiness in 2020, in the meantime I wish you all a wonderful Christmas a very Happy New Year!

                           x x  Penny  x x

Grungy bloom by Brenda

Good morning everyone, Brenda here with a few more shares from last months Hochanda shows which featured a super selection of new stamps made from Lesley's personal collection of ephemera and I might add were a delight to work with.

The card at the top uses unusually for me blue, it's not a colour I use often, blue and yellow DI's blended together and Floral Grunge stamped focally, elements of Baroque Ephemera 2 stamped randomly around it and the crackle sections of the floral stamp added around the edge. Finally some very light colouring with pencils.

This one was great fun to make, an Oxide background, elements of stamps from both Baroque Ephemera 1 and Baroque Ephemera 2 stamped randomly onto the background, one of the label and numbers stamped onto scraps of card and fixed onto the background along with some rice paper pleated and added, buttons, twine an chipboard numbers. An easy one to do where you can't go wrong!

This is a little gist set of notelets and matching envelopes with a band to hold them together. After inking a focal section on each card I stamped images from Music Fanfare and Art of Chess multi buy, using Versafine Clair ink, masked and stamped the envelopes to match and the band.

I inked two panels with DI, added some stencilling and random stamping around the edges of one, then stamped Movie Strip Collage to the second and cut away the top, glue around the sides and bottom of this piece and placed over the first panel to create a pocket. I then made two tags and stamped with images from Baroque Ephemera 1 and Baroque Ephemera 2 and finally coloured the blooms with Koh-i-noor paints.

I sourced a chequered patter from the Internet and printed out to form the base 'chess board'  and then stamped one of the chess pieces from Music Fanfare and Art of Chess multi buy onto the top section and used a piece of ribbon across the centre. The chess pieces were stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with detail clear EP onto a piece a card which I coloured with glimmer acrylic paints, cut out and placed onto my chess board.

Thank you for your visit and I hope you like my take on the stamps.

Butterfly tag by Brenda

Morning everyone, Brenda here with some more shares using last months new stamps.

The first is a tag inked with Distress Oxides, some stencilling and some second generation stamping using the edges of Celebration Bouquet, sentiment from Happy Flowers Day and two Butterflies from the same set coloured with the same inks. I mounted the tag onto some corrugates and, arranged some string onto the tag and fixed the Butterflies in place.

A Brusho background and a die cut lattice panel fixed over it and the beautiful Magnolia from Happy Flowers Day coloured with the same Brusho's, cut out and arranged over the lattice. The sentiment is from Filigree Trading Hearts.

Here I have used some of the Designer Papers town into strips and fixed across the base and a heart from Geometric Trading Hearts stamped onto a piece of the matching colourway DP and little dots of Liquid Pearls added in the coordinating blue.

This one was really simple to make stamping the heart from Geometric Trading Hearts with Versamark and embossing with detail gold EP, cutting out each heart, scoring down the centre and fixing the hears back to back to create a hanging decoration. Note.........don't forget to fix the hanging cord into the centre before gluing the final hearts together. I also added some curling ribbons at the same time as the hanging cord.

Finally the lovely Celebration Bouquet stamped into an Oxide background, coloured in with Koh-i-Noor paints, some background stamping, a bot and tag sentiment from Happy Flowers Day. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Colourful village

Morning Peeps, Brenda here again and this time I do have the right cards as the lovely Lesley very kindly took photos of my work (some will remember in my last post I explained I forgot to take photos before posting off my samples.......naughty corner for me), so a big thank you Lesley.

The card at the top uses all four of the new houses which you can find on the multi buy here, all were stamped in versafine black and masked so I could add the background, a Pan Pastel sky and some worker stamps around the houses. I coloured them with Koh-i-nor paints

I kept Kim Moody's Poppy Cottage fairly simple as I wanted to use red to reflect it's name stamping in Versafine Clair, adding just a little colour, matter and layered and some Poppies from Pretty Poppies which I coloured with pencils.

Here we have Bridge House which I stamped first onto acetate to get a reverse print and laid my card onto that, then stamping a second time to extend the house, coloured in with Koh-i-nor paints again as well as some Distress Markers and some foliage stamped in the foreground.

Both of these were stamped with Versafine Clair inks, some colouring added with pencils and stencilling in the background.

Poppy Cottage again, this time with a background stamped with Versafine Clair and Poppies again from the Pretty Poppies set. I added some colour to the doors of the house and inked around with DI's along with a sentiment from the same set.

Bridge House again, this time coloured in with Distress Inks and Markers, a tree created with stamps from Orchard Design a Tree along with more leaves from Take it or Leaf it set.

As always, many thanks for your visit today.