Live Life in the Clouds

Hello, I'm sharing some more of my cards from the Hochanda show in November.

My first cards feature stamps from the Tree House stamp set. I have used Distress Oxides for the background, stamped with an archival ink pad and coloured with Distress Markers. I used a foliage stamp from Wild Meadow to frame the lower edge of the card.

On this card I stamped the image twice and used a fine liner pen to extend the stamp lines to make it into one scene.

My next cards are from Floral Perfumery stamp set.

I used watercolours with a lot of water to make a soft background. I then stamped the main image from the set  with the lovely sentiment. I used watercolour pencils to colour the perfume bottle and flowers.

For  this card I used my stamping platform to make a wreath shape with  the single flower and leaf stamps, masking where needed. I used watercolour pencils and mat and layered a sentiment for the centre

 

Thanks for looking

Sandra x

Perfume is the art by Brenda

Good morning, today it's my turn to share some cards from last months Hochanda shows. 

And firs tup is the lovely Butterfly Perfumery stamped onto an Oxide background and coloured in with Distress Marker. I have used a few worker stamps from other sets to build up the background and a sentiment from Floral Perfumery.

I thought I would also share my first Chocolate Baroque Youtube video, I need to polish my act a bit but reasonably happy with it as a starting point and I plan to do another for my next post later in the month.

Here is the finished card...........

For the following card I used a piece of linen fabric for the base, a mixture of Oxides and Acrylic pain and stamped Tree House allowing the ink to bleed a little before blotting it off. Using a stencil and texture paste I added some script and a sentiment cut into several pieces.

Have a good day everyone as as always many thanks for your visit and words of encouragement.

Creating Layers (by Christine)

Hello everyone, today sees the return of Christine with her second blog post this month. She has created something for everyone this time with a range of cards and techniques.

Christine writes:

Hello everyone, I'm back with my second blog post for March.

I used Drawing Cartridge for this first project since I intended to use a fair amount of water through the process. I started off by tearing some paper and, using different shades of Distress Oxides, created the hills and the sky. I masked off an area on the sky for the sun.
The next stage was to stamp trees from the Trees a Crowd set. I used Smokey Grey from the Versafine Clair range as I did not want them to be too prominent; to that end, I also used second and third generation stamping to build up depth.
I then chose Fired Brick Distress Ink and used a tree and texture brush to add colour to the two large trees and then the same ink using a couple of the very small flower stamps from the Orchard Design a Tree sheet to add detail.
The main feature is the lovely Tree House which I stamped directly onto the card with black ink and then separately on white card which I then fussy cut minus the top branches. I added colours that I thought would blend well on the fussy cut and then adhered it to the main images. I added grey watercolour pencil aroumd the house to give it some shadow and depth.
I had kept the mask on the sun area so added some yellow Disress Ink and carefully swept it around the edges. When the mask was removed, I added a little yellow to blend the colour. The sentiment is from the Tree House stamp set.
I added some birds via stencil in my stash and the little MDF owl just finished off the piece.

I went for a clean and simple look for this piece. I cut three pieces of square card, each about an inch bgger than the next and temporarily centred them together. I chose two stamps from the Autumn Hedgerow set and stamped them evenly across the cards. I then cut black mats for each of the three white cards, allowing a narrow border on each one. I then adhered the white cards onto the mats ensuring the stamped images were as exact as possible.
The focal stamp is called Shared Beauty. I used Versafine Satin Red for all of the stamping. I used a circle die to cut it out and the next larger die to cut out a black mat. The mat is adhered to the smallest square and the circle image raised for dimension.
This could be a card or it could be framed. I am not yet sure!

My last card today used alcohol inks and a lifting ink. First order of the day was to cover Yupo Paper with alcohol inks- I used three in the pink/plum spectrum. Once the inks were totally dry, I used the beautiful large flower stamp from the Celebration Bouquet set, covered it with lifting ink, and then stamped it straight on to the Yupo paper. A soft cloth rubbed fairly firmly over the stamped area revealed the image below. The ink was still on the stamp of course and I added it to some cartridge paper. The resulting image gives a lovely watercolour effect.
I created the background paper using Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide Ink and the same stamp with Dusty Concord Distress Oxide Ink. The sentiments are from the same stamp set.

I hope you enjoy looking through these.
Happy Crafting!

Christine.

Stamping on Patterned Paper (by Judith)

Hello everyone, I have some more projects to share with you today showcasing the beautiful bookmark style houses that we brought to Hochanda last month. These three projects formed part of a TV demo that I did on one of the shows. I wanted to demonstrate how to stamp onto a patterned surface, and when an image is coloured, the image pops out, and the patterned surface recedes to the background.

I used a piece of Lesley's Chic Script Designer paper pack, and cut  a piece of the script paper to size. I stamped the Tree House onto the paper. I added a few lines at the bottom using a fineliner pen to finish the landscape, and coloured the image with pencils. I added shading with grey pencil for added depth.

I took a plain piece of green paper from the pach, and using one of the trees from Trees a Crowd and a sentiment, I created a piece of background paper using Memento Ink. This was really quick to create, and you can have your own designer background in minutes! I inked the edges of both pieces of paper with the green ink for definition. As you can see, the script paper looks great as a background, and the house sits really well on the pattern.

For my second card, I used the large Tagtastic stamp and stamped onto a piece of book paper. I stamped the Garden House image inside the tag, and coloured the image with pencils once again. I added a bit of shading on the background using Distress Inks.

For the large background, I used a large acrylic block and added pink, blue and green Distress Oxide which I spritzed with water. I smooshed it across a piece of drawing cartridge in one go. I stamped two bees from the Honey Bee stamp set, and added a sentiment. I coloured the bees with pencils.

For my final card, I created a gelli print background, adding a bubble effect texture, and stamping a sentiment randomly over the background. I used a Crafty Individuals script effect tag and stamped the Heath Robinson House, which I then coloured with pencils. I added bright red highlights which I matched with a bright red ribbon. I added shading to the tag with Distress Inks, matching the colour of the gelli print background.

I hope that you have enjoyed my projects this month, I will be back next month with lots more to share with you, thanks for stopping by,

Judith xx

Monochromatic woodland by Brenda

Hello Peeps, Brenda here sharing some more trees and bookmarks. 

For the top card I stamped a selection of the trees from Trees A Crowd, cut around the tops and used a die to create an aperture which is easily done by placing the bottom section of the die behind the tree so the pop up in from the background. The top section can then be mounted with foam pads to give a dimensional look with in this case just a sentiment from the same set.

I created a little box using a score board and dies to give a decorative top, added panels to all four sides using stamps from Acorn House, Garden House, Heath Robinson, Tree House and Trees A Crowd. Next I made four tags and stamped the houses onto these, coloured in with pencils, stamped elements from each a second time and decoupaged. 

                            

Finally, all four were mounted onto corrugated and seam binding tied to the top of each and the four tags fit nicely into the box.

                                 

An inky background using Distress Oxides, some stencilling and a sun added after creating the background by placing the mask and inking around it, I find doing it this way preferable in some instances as it's less stark and blends in with the background. Next I stamped Acorn House twice using Versafine black and then used Silhouette Palace 1 mask and DI to the background and sentiment from the same stamp set.

For my final share today I took a piece of card and stamped the large tree from Trees A Crowd using Versafine Clair, randomly stamped one of the smaller trees using another colour of the same ink and added some leaves to the focal tree using an stamp from Spinney Design a Tree. I then used an oval die to cut the centre which I then lines up and mounted with foam pads Finally some sentiments from the same focal stamp set. 

As always many thanks for your kind visits and words of encouragement.

Tree house and Garden House (By Rachel)

Hello there! Rachel here today - I have some more samples to share with you from the Shows in April and this time it is my samples using the Treehouse stamp and the Garden house stamp.
On this first card I stamped the image in flitterglu and added metal flake - it showed the image up very well on the black card.

Next I again used the Tree House stamp and this time used inks to create a scene around it. 

Next I moved to the Garden House stamp and for this first sample I used silver relief paste to create the image and added it to some preprinted paper. 

In this second and third sample I used the stamp to create a scene - in this first case on a card.

and finally on an MDF tag. 

I do hope you have enjoyed looking at my samples and may gain inspiration from them.

Have a wonderful day!

Hugs

Rachel xx

designer houses (by Veronica)

 Good morning everyone, today I am sharing my samples of the gorgeous quirky houses from Chocolate Baroque - definitely something different for new home cards!
The stamps are book mark sized, but easily make larger cards...
The card on the left is 8" square, just to prove it can be done.  I started out with scraps of bleeding art tissue laid onto white card to create the background and brushed with water. Once dry, the tree house was stamped using black versafine ink and coloured with watercolour pencils. A narrow black mat, then glued to the card at an angle. The sentiment is from punky expressions





The next ones are both on diffent size card blanks, the left is 5"x7", the right DL. The one on the left has a distress oxide background for a night effect, while the one on the right is just stamped onto white card  and then edged with different colured marker pens. tjhey are both coloured with watercolour pencils

 The Heath Robinson house stamp was stamped onto grey card using black versafine ink and coloured with a mix of brusho powders and watercolour pencils. I cut it out into a sort of bubble shape to echo the bubbles, then cut the same shape out in black as a mat and orangy red to match the colours of the house. The sentiment was also cut into a shape and given a black mat, then glued at an angle

 The last one is simply stamped onto grey card  and coloured with brusho powders, mounted onto a DL card blank.

I loved these quirky houses, especially the tree house, and can see them getting quite a bit of use - the tree house would make a great halloween card.......

Autumn sunset by Brenda

Good morning everyone, Brenda here with some of my creations made for Lesley's Hochanda shows where she showcases some wonderful new stamps.

I've always had a bit of a thing for tree stamps so was really in my element with the new Trees A Crowd set which I used for the above card. I started by creating a background using masks and Distress Inks plus Pan Pastels, I then stamped four of the trees from the set, used second generation stamping to create the shadows in the water and used a fine line pen to continue the ground lines. The sentiment is from the new Acorn House set.

This one features Garden House which I repeat stamped to extend the fence line and flowers which I decided are Hollyhocks, coloured in with pencils, added some clouds with Pan Pastels and matted onto a back panel stamped with the honeycomb pattern from Honey Bee set. The sentiment from the same set as the focal image is stamped onto a torn piece of vellum along with a Bee also from Honey Bee set.

A simple four panel base created on a score board and Acorn House, Garden House, Heath Robinson and Tree House stamped onto tags using Versafine Majestic Blue, some ink splattering around the images and just yellow colouring added.

For this one I used a frame card inking the frame with DI's and using Versafine Clair stamped trees from Trees A Crowd (before assembly) and on the insert I used deeper shades of DI's, a sun mask and stamped the tree using the same Clair ink and added some branches around the top of the piece plus some hand drawn birds.

Thanks so much for visiting today.

Houses ( By Marga)

Hello everyone, here is Marga again with a new post today.

Today I want to show you two cards with the Acorn House and the Tree House

The Tree House I inked with different colours of ink and then I washed it out with a waterbrush.

Put some shadow around the stamped image and you have a watercolour look.

The Acorn house I stamped on a old book page and I only coloured the sun in it.

Hugs Marga