Hiya I stepped outside of my comfort zone with today’s card. I coloured the delightful honey bee stamp girl and her teddy bear a few weeks ago with copic markers and then I remembered a Clearly Besotted fall flurry stencil. I used distress oxide inks – red barn, ripe persimmon and mustard seed to create my background. I used moonstone glimmer paste through the stencil. Once dry I added vellum and white card clouds along the top of the panel. The sentiments are also from the same Honey Bee set called seasonal sweeties. I am entering this card into the following challenges: Addicted to stamps and more 342 – make…
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Dot Colouring practice | SSS May Card Kit
Hi friends Today I took some time to play with the Simon Says Stamp May card kit which I absolutely love. The beautiful pattern papers and the floral stamp set are truly a joy for me and make creating so easy. Over on Instagram one of the talented card makers that I follow is Alex Syberia and she has been challenging us to dot colouring with our alcohol markers. So today’s card is totally out of my comfort zone and using a technique that I obviously need a lot more practice with, but I am really excited to keep working with this technique as I absolutely love Alex’s cards. The…
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The Flower Challenge May 2019 – Reminder
Hello everyone It’s reminder time already at The Flower Challenge, and dont forget you can win a stamp set from Altenew, all details are over at The Flower Challenge. My background combines white heat embossing over distress oxide ink blending and the bleaching technique. To ‘bleach’ I used a paintbrush to add water to areas of the image and after a few seconds I dabbed the water off with a dry cloth. Because distress oxide inks are water reactive you reactivate the colour and dab it away. I love this effect. The heat embossed stamps are from Altenew Golden Garden. I stamped some florals from Altenew Golden Garden and fussy…
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Heat or Dry Embossing | The Flower Challenge May 2019
Hi friends, For the May 2019 Flower Challenge we have the challenge of Heat or Dry Embossing on your cards. If you join in you also have the chance of winning a stamp set from Altenew. For my card I used the Altenew leafy frame, die cut and layered a number of times from white cardstock for dimension. I added this to an ink blended background using Victorian velvet and worn lipstick distress inks. For the central panel I gold heat embossed the floral from Altenew Golden Garden and coloured it with Spectrum Noir Aquatint markers. The sentiment is from Altenew Love Labels. I hope you will also check out…
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GD CAS watercolour: poppy reminder
Hi friends It’s reminder time at the CAS Watercolor Challenge – and here is my card. Again I used the clearly besotted poppy stamp set and my zig clean colour real brush markers and used distress oxide inks to create the background. The heat embossed sentiment is one of my favourites from Heffy Doodle I hope you will join us at the challenge.
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The Flower Challenge: April Reminder – sketch
Hi friends Here is my second card to inspire you to join in at The Flower Challenge. I used lots of beautiful foiled patterned papers by my minds eye: yes please by Jen Allyson. I stamped the florals from waffle flowers bouquet builder 3 onto patterned paper too and fussy cut them. I added a little bit of grey copic to the centres for some shading but it is very subtle and difficult to see in the photos. A small Simon says stamp sentiment and Lucy’s jewels finish this off. I hope you have been inspired and will check out what the rest of the DT have made.
