Hope ( by Doreen )

 Hope

This is the first of my posts for April and carries a message everyone needs or at least I believe that we do.

This tag uses The Tagtastic stamp, easy to use and to cut out. The tree is from the Trees a crowd stamp set and the cute owl is to be found in the Country Reflections Elements stamp set. I find all these sets to be really useful. 

The tree is stamped using Versafine Clair Acorn and again to stamp the broken circles and the Owl.

The solid circles are stamped using a mix of Distress Oxide Inkpads .... colours Abandoned Coral and Fossilised Amber. To colour the own I used Koh-I-Noor Pencils. 

To finish this tag I Mounted it onto Black Card and some random coloured ribbon from my stash of ribbons.

Thank you for looking in today

Love Doreen

greyscale (by Veronica)

 two more samples to show today using the lupin and chrysanthemum blueprint stamps from the September show.

I had a couple of pieces of grey card left over from previous cards, and decided to see how they worked with the koh-i-noor pencils and the blending solution.

For both versions I stamped the main image in black and clear embossed it before randomly stamping smaller images in grey ink round it to make a background.

For the lupin card just used the white and yellow pencils to colour the image, then added a touch of green to the flower centres and used the blending solution to spread the yellow over the light bulb. The sentiment was stamped onto spare white card.

The chrysanthemum flower was coloured with red, orange and yellow pencils blended together, and the leaves with 2 shades of green and a yellow, also blended with a little white added to the banister railing.

Both were matted onto white and black card before adding to a card blank.
 

monochrome

 For my last post this month I have a couple of monochrome cards to share using two very different stamp sets.

The first card uses the lovely poinsettia script which I think does not have to be just for Christmas. I stamped it on grey card using black ink and clear embossing powder. It was coloured with koh-i-noor pencils using the white with blending solution on the flowers with yellow in the centre and green on the leaves.

I added silver and black mats before adding to a white square card blank with the sentiment stamped in blac

The second card uses the small geometrtic shape from Fiona Randall's sacred set, stamped four times on grey card and once on white in black ink and clear embossed.

The grey images were trimmed to square and mounted onto black card, with stickles glue on the centre triangles, although it doesn't show up well. The white image was closely trimmed and glued at an angle in the centre.