Words, Trees and Katya (by Zoe)

Good morning Lovelies and welcome to my second post this month.
Here are the rest of my samples from last month.

My first card is Yupo paper which I used Alcohol inks and blending solution, then used Archival ink pads to stamp Tangled Birch on.

I used Distress Oxides ink pads to create the background and Inktense pencils to colour in the beautiful Katya.

I used a whiteboard tag from the website, I coloured and stamped the background with Distress Oxides, a little splatter with a marker pen to finish it off. I used:

Words of Inspiration, Shaded Baubles, I Shall Be Your Wings.

Thank you so much for spending your time visiting.
Have a wonderful day, stay safe and keep well.
Big hugs
Zoe xx

Elegant Crocus (by Miranda)

Hi there,

Today my 2nd guest post using an oldie.......but still a beautiful one......

Okay, I agree it is not Spring but Summer but hey who cares........at the moment the weather is more like Spring and I love it!

I used the Elegant Crocus Rubber Stamp sheet - A5

I had this background for quit a while in my stash......I did create it on heavy watercolor paper using the Derwent Art bars on an acrylic bloc. I always pre wet my paper with these watercolor techniques.

I did sprinkle some coarse and fine salt onto the damp paper and let it dry for some hours. When you sprinkle salt when the paper is too wet it won't create these white areas but you will get dark spots under the salt. And it will take a very long time to dry.

When the paper is totally dry you can wipe of the salt. And it create such beautiful structures.....

Then I stamped the whole image using a violet ink. And colored it using color pencils.

I am still a fan of the Derwent coloursoft pencils. I have many other brands too but still pick these when I am coloring on inky backgrounds.....they have such a great grip on the paper and beautiful pigment.

Hope you did like my take on this stamp,

thanks for your visit and till next week, have a lovely Sunday!

Inspire Me by Brenda

Hello all, I have a couple more cards to share, the one at the top features the lovely Katya who some of you may have seen on Lesley's recent Hochanda shows is becoming a bit of a lady of disguise doubling up without her headdress as Red Indian.

I stamped Katya in Versafine black ink then masked her to created the rainbow background using Pan Pastels and then used Silhouette Masks 1 and 2 to create some background interest before colouring Katya with Distress Markers. Finally a sentiment from Words of Inspiration.

Another sentiment from Words of Inspiration stamped and placed into an oval die cut aperture, some stencilling on the front panel using Strip Stencils, Butterflies stamped coloured and cut out and some ribbon.

Many thanks as always for popping in today.

In the Background

Hello everyone

I have a couple of more cards to share with you from the Hochanda show in June.
The stamps I have used are Baroque Meadow and Words of Inspiration.


For my cards, although similar, I have used different tools for the background.

The first card I used a soft rubber brayer. This enables the colours to blend seamlessly together, from the rich red down to the yellow.

My second card uses a roller. Although I graduated the colours similar to before you can see a lot more texture in the background. The roller is very forgiving and I love it!
These silhouette stamps are made for background techniques.

Hope you have fun with your backgrounds
Sandra x

Black Art Journal Pages (by Gerrina)

It is my turn again to show what I made this second week for the Guest Designer Team post at Chocolate Baroque. This is my second week you will find not only here, but also at my blog, makes from me with the beautiful stamps from Chocolate Baroque... This time I experimented in my black Art Journal:

Used Materials:

Stamps: The Rose Tree, Tangled Fragments, Artistic Affirmations

Ink: Watermark, white and clear embossing powder, Distress Oxide Wild Honey, Salty Ocean, Mustard Seed, Barn Door, Cracked Pistachio, Memento Luxe Wedding Dress, Versafine Onyx Black.

Other: Art Journal with black papers, blending tool, pencil and water, red and green aquarel brushes.

Creatieve groetjes,

                                    Gerrina

A whole lotta Katya by Rachel

Hello there, Rachel here with some more Katys based inspiration from the June shows. I have two pieces I want to share with you this time - including a 'how to' for the second piece.

My first piece is a card featuring the Katya stamp set but also stamps from the Babushka set and the russian egg set.

To create the card I used a piece of A3 card cut in half lengthwise. Then I folded it so there was a larger flap and smaller flap on the front and scored the edges. Next I cut extra pieces of card to fit the two outer surfaces and the inner surface. I then coloured these with distress oxides and added background stamping of the egg. I then stamped up and painted the main images and added the sentiment too.

Next for my round canvas - I was so pleased with this piece...

To create this I did the following: firstly I stamped Katya onto tissue and coloured her in ... I used mica powders but you could use anything really. Paint may have been a better bet.

Next I stamped and coloured the building from the Babushka set onto the canvas then added texture paste I had coloured with mica powders onto the canvas using the dotty stencil. I also added a lot of flicks of paint.

I then added Katya - I had to add more spots as the mica powders from the rice paper flowed around with the decoupage glue.... but I think I got away with it!

Finally I added the words and the border!

I hope you have found that useful and interesting!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

Follow your heart, it knows where it wants to go (by Miranda

Hi crafty people,

Happy to be back again to share some of my crafty moments with you.

A very true quote ' Follow your heart, it knows where it wants to go. How often I do not listen to that? Do you recognize that?

Well, now on to the less serious part.......

I had a play with the The Folk Art Garden Rubber Stamp sheet - A5. This is such a beautiful and large stamp with lots of beautiful designs in it. So you can imagine that it took me a while to colour every element.......

I did stamp using black Versafine ink on a colorful distress background.

Then I started coloring using my color pencils and using Acrylic markers for accents. I also used some gold accents using glitter pens.

On the photos below you can see the shine of the gold much better.....

Thanks for your visit and always enjoy reading your comments. 

Till next week....

Stay safe and stay creative!