Saturday 19 April 2014

Thank You x


Happy Saturday folks!

I hope you are all enjoying the long weekend - I know some of you will have had to work - I spent many, many years working in a place which provided a 24/7 service including all bank holidays and I frequently had to work Christmas, Easter etc - so I know what it's like!

I would like to say Hello and Welcome to some new followers - I hope you can make sense of my ramblings and gain some sort of inspiration from my cards.

My card today is another of the DT samples.  I have used the grass/branch stamp that went with the boy and birds set and more of the words from the fab word chains.

The background is simply created by squishing distress inks on a glass mat (a tile would do too),
spritzing lightly with water and pressing a piece of white card into the wet ink.
Pick it up and see what you've got - you can give it another dunk if you haven't got enough colour.
I always do a piece bigger than I need, so I can choose the bit I want.
Once dry, cut to size then stamp the image and words with black archival
I always ink round the edges of the card too - probably with black soot distress ink.
Mat onto black and add a few gems
For the base card, I used the same stamp and just stamped around the edge of the card in black.

Quick and easy, but rather nice - I like to think!
Thanks very much for stopping by, have a great weekend.
Janet xxx

12 comments:

  1. Oooo I was thinking alcohol inks at first which I don't have yet but this I can have a go at, so effective , great inspiration x

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  2. Oh wow Janet. That looks really cool! Love the background and what an effective card it makes! Xxx

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  3. another great card, love the colours

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  4. That background is really fab! Nikki x

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  5. Nice one Janet. I think I'm liking this background technique a lot. Plenty of possibilities. Been away so must get back to having a go.

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  6. The look you've achieved Janet is stunning - had you not blogged it, I never would have guessed how it was done, so thank you. Can't wait until tomorrow when I can have a go :-) Love your blog.....Have a fab day x

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  7. Another very simple but effective card! Love the colours you have used!! :)

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  8. Great card Janet, and so effective. Love the colour combination that you have used. Hope you are having a restful Sunday...x

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  9. fab card Janet and that background is brill. Hope you are having a lovely Easter weekend xx

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  10. Hi Janet, happy Easter. Your samples were fantastic, I like this one particularly.
    Hope you have a lovely bank holiday tomorrow.x

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  11. Lovely Janet, I love it and happy Easter to you and yours xx

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  12. Really like this, my current palette of colours is a bit limited so a great excuse to buy more crafting goodies!

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