Kraft and Blue.. and a Rainbow

Good morning,
It has been fabulous weather here in Norfolk, I have been enjoying the sun and have been getting some gardening done.  Sadly my days of spending hours just lying in the sun have gone, there is always weeding or pruning or basically clearing out the undergrowth to be done.

For today's cards, I have used the three way overlay stamp and stencil sets

 For the first card I used the Marigold and friends set  I made the background on kraft card first.  Brush a little white paint along the centre of the card and add a little Blue Chase ink.
Brush some Rich Mocha ink through the Petite brick wall stencil in patches round the card
Make some circles by spreading some white paint on a mat and dip a lid in then add to the card
I used some texture paste to spread through the stencil in the set
Allow it all to dry then add some washi tape for interest and finish with some lines and circles of blue ink
Mount onto white card then more Kraft card
For the central circle, I stamped in Blue Chase ink then die cut the circle and edged with Rich Mocha brown ink.
Finish with a few gems

For the second card, I stamped the Cornflower in place and masked it, then added the rainbow round the edge by adding ink to acetate, spritzing with water and adding to the card.  Do one colour at a time
Use the same colours to colour the image.  I found the new blending tips really useful to get in all the tiny spaces. I just picked the colour up on the tip straight from the ink pad.

Thanks for dropping by, I hope you have a wonderful day.
Janet xx

Die cutting with Clarity

Good evening,
I am back home with my feet up after a weekend of Claritystampers East workshops.  It was Bawburgh on Saturday and Great Blakenham on Sunday.  It is always lovely to get together with such a fab bunch of ladies, we even had a young lady of 8 join us on Saturday and she produced some fantastic cards.
My favourite cards were the ones we did with the lovely new Fresh Cut Dies from Clarity, we did two cards.....

This one is done with the Queen Anne's Lace die, cut into a square of cream textured card, then snip away some of the design.
For the back ground, blend some ink onto card, add a bit of interest with the brick wall stencil and a few white splatters, then attach the piece together and mount onto the base











This is the same thing with different colours and the Casablana Lilies die

 For the other cards, the Wild Privet was cut out of black card and stuck onto double-sided adhesive, then covered with gilding flakes and burnished to give a lovely effect.
I added the Chameleon on this one

This one I left plain and will add a message later.

Thanks very much for visiting,
Janet xx

Chamomile and Friends

Hello bloggers,

Time whizzes by so fast these days, Maria is on the TV with more stamps and I realised that I haven't posted about the last ones yet!  This card is done with the Chamomile and Friends set.  It is one of the 3 way overlay sets which are brilliant!  You get three stamps of the same image, an inny, an outy and an outline and a stencil.  There are lots of combinations for using them.

For this card, I added two colours of ink to the square gel press petite plate, press the outy image of the stamp on the plate to pick up the ink, spritz lightly and stamp.
I inked the basic circle stamp and added that round the edge.
I added lots of splatters of the same colour inks and cut to size.
For the background, I spritzed the ink remaining of the gel press and 'stamped' it on the card to give a watercolour background
Allow to dry, then brush ink lightly through the stencil all round the edge of the card.
I also stamped parts of the circle round the edge.
I added a few black splatters to everything and doodled some lines round the edges.
Assemble everything and mount onto a base card
Thank you very much for visiting, I hope you enjoy the rest of your day!
Janet xx

Sitting on the fence

Good evening,
It was an amazing show for Barbara on Hochanda today - a sell out before the end of the show!  I loved using the 3-way overlay stamps, but will post those cards later.
Today, I am showing a card we did at the Diva Red workshop yesterday morning...

I die cut the wood panels from a beer mat, added a thin coat of white acrylic paint, allowed to dry then added blue and green acrylic paint and allowed to dry.
I also added a little of each paint colour on a piece of kraft card.
To get the wood effect, I stamped the stems from a bulrushes stamp, which may no longer be available, in Brown archival ink.  I also inked round all the edges in brown.

Stamp the owl on another piece of card, colour and cut out.

Arrange all the pieces on the kraft card and glue into place

I hope you like him!

Thanks very much for visiting,
Janet xxx