Guest Post- Bloom Each Season by Gerrina Poncin

Hello everyone, today sees the return of our regular Guest Design Team blogger, Gerrina Poncin. She is here with the first of her blog posts this month, and you are sure to enjoy her beautiful designs. Gerrina can be found blogging regularly at Gerrina's Creatieve Wereld.

Hi all, and so it is March, and it has been six months since my first post. I am glad to be back for my next turn as a Guest Design Team member; this month you will see several projects from me here.

I started with the beautiful Helebore stamp from the Spring is in the Air stamp set, and on the second card I used the beautiful Magnolia clear stamp. The first card gives a glimpse of what will bloom later in the year, and you can see the Magnolia as the days are a bit warmer.

Materials:

Chocolate Baroque stamps: Spring is in the Air, Bold Blooms
Versafine Onyx Black inkpad
Distress Inkpads: Broken China, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Spun Sugar
Other: Aquarel Paper, Water and brush, Watercolour brush, white cardstock.

Instructions:

Stamp the two Hellebore stamps from the set twice onto a thick strip of aquarel (watercolour) paper and colour them with a Watercolour brush, a brush and water, and Distress Ink. Fold the strip, and glue it onto thick cardstock so that the strip continues onto the back of the card. Stamp the sentiment on the front of the card, below the painted strip using black ink.

Materials:

Chocolate Baroque Stamps: Magnolia Clear stamp, Bold Blooms, Texture Fragments
Versafine Onyx Black inkpad
Distress Inkpads: Wild Honey, Evergreen Bough, Spun Sugar, Picked Raspberry, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Milled Lavender, Dusty Concord, Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs
Other: Aquarel paper, masking paper, blending tool, watercolour brush, white pen, pink cardstock



I stamped the Magnolia onto a strip of aquarel (watercolour) paper, and masked the image. Next I stamped the background texture stamp in different Distress Ink colours and sprinkled some water on the stamp before I stamped them to get a watery image. The background was coloured with Distress Ink and a blending tool.

I removed the mask and coloured the Magnolia. I glued the aquarel paper onto the cardstock, and stamped the sentiment using black ink.

Creatieve groetjes, Gerrina

We love your floral designs Gerrina, bringing a bit of Spring and Summer to the blog. We look forward to seeing what you have designed  for us next week. In the meantime, do keep visiting regularly to see what our talented Design Team girls have created for you.
 

 

Colourful Flowers (by Debbie)

 

Welcome to all.

My cards today are made with lots of colour, inspired by the colourful Christmas trees I have spied in peoples homes recently.

 

 The first card is made using the Open Weave and Swirl Centre stamps. The background is made from a couple of the new distress ink colours rubbed onto the card and then water flicked on helping to blend them. The open weave stamp was added around the edges, I used Wild Plum Adirondack ink for a more subtle effect. Only two flowers were used for the card, one in the centre and the second was cut for the corners. These flowers are really detailed and I'm really impressed at how the detail is picked out when embossed with powder. I coloured the flowers with colours from the pallet used on the background, pink, oranges and yellow. 

 

 

This card came from playing with inks and water. I coloured the white card with Tumbled Glass, Broken China and Stormy Sky Distress Inks, shading them down to create an ombre effect. I lightly misted the Studded Lattice stamp with water and stamped onto the card. The water on the stamp left the pattern from the stamp on the ink background. With the Magnolia single clear stamp I first stamped it with black ink onto the card and then onto book page paper and coloured with pencils. I fussy cut out the flowers and glued onto the card. The sentiment was added and to finish I matted onto black and then added to the A5 base card.

 

Many thanks for visiting

Debbie

More Beautiful Florals (by Shirley)

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well and enjoying this busy time of year. 

I have two more floral designs using the new beautiful Floral clear stamps.

For the card above, I stamped the Big Bold Background - Wildflower on an orange/yellow sheet of designer paper with brown dye ink.  I also stamped the Peony with the brown ink and coloured both the background and main image with my Prisma pencils.  Joy is from Artistic Expressions.

And below is another design using the gorgeous Magnolia in a different colour combo.

The background was created with Seedless Preserves Distress Inks using the Acrylic Block technique.    All stamping was done with black Versafine Ink.   I coloured the Magnolia with Prisma pencils.  The corner flourishes are from the beautiful Fancy Flourishes clear set which I highlighted with a Gelly Roll pen and turquoise Pencil.

Thanks for your visit and enjoy the Season !
Shirley

Simple Flower cards (posted by Claire)

Good morning, my project today is a set of little cards made using the beautiful new clear flower stamps, these stamps are so pretty they don't need a lot of embellishments.

I've stamped the images on kraft card and coloured the images with Derwent Coloursoft Pencils and matted them on some green card. Quick and easy little cards, perfect for saying thank you for all those Christmas pressies 

Thanks for visiting today

Claire xx

A Trio of Cornflowers (by Debbie)

In the middle of the rush towards the festive season, I have a card that reminds me of days walking through the fields during the Summer. It won't be long and the dark nights will start to get shorter. The flower single Clear Stamps are delightful to colour.

When I had stamped the Cornflower three times with Memento black, I did a search of Pinterest to find pictures of the flower, the colours are amazing. I coloured with alcohol pens, the same for all three then trimmed and mounted onto a blue card. I was a little stuck for a background as I didn't want it to be to fancy working against the flowers so I set too with the pens I'd used to colour the Cornflowers. With my glass matt and a ruler I drew lines with the fine tip of the pen creating a checked background. I started by drawing the darker blue at one centimetre intervals and five millimetres and then in between with the lighter blue and green pens. When finished I trimmed the background, added a sentiment and the stamped images, the centre flower is raised on foam pads.

Many thanks for visiting, Debbie.

Marvellous Magnolia (by Debbie)

I'm delighted that one of my favourite flowers is now available for me to play with. I have a four year old Magnolia bush in the garden that we planted five years ago and it is such a pleasure to see the buds bursting through, one of the signals spring is on its way. It releases the most beautiful perfume during the evening.

The stamp is a lovely size and I stamped it twice with black Memento ink. I coloured with light pink onto the base of the petals and green alcohol pens for the branches. I trimmed around the flowers and as they are at the edge of the card I added pink card behind. Next, I stamped the sentiment onto white and die cut with a nestablilitie. With next size nestablitie I cut out a pink backing, glued together and added to the card. I tied a white organza bow around near the folded edge. Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day. Debbie