A step by step...

 Hello everyone,

I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the warm weather.  

Today, I have a step by step for a card I made a while ago...

On mixed media cardstock, stamp with #302 Going Postal using distress oxides

Spread some distress crackle paste through stencil #69 Parched Earth and leave to dry

On a separate piece of card, stamp the flowers from #272 Thankful Petals

Use a palette knife to spread Izink Ice over the stamped images to colour them, then cut them out

Once the paste is dry, add some watercolour paint and spritz 

Add some stamping with #307 Overlapping Texture in black

Add the cut out flowers, sentiment and some washi tape and a few splatters

All stamps and stencils are from AALL& Create for more information visit www.aallandcreate.com/boutique

Thank you for visiting
Janet xxx

 

Simply Green

 Hello! 

I thought I would do another post while I am in the mood! These are more samples from the last ODS shows on Hochanda.  As far as I know, they still haven't turned up, so it's anyone's guess where they are!

I enjoy finding ways of making stencils the star of my card rather than the background.  I thought I would show you some things I did with the rather fabulous designs by Abs.  I fell in love with Lotza Dotz the minute I saw it and now there are more shapes to add to my list of favourites.  They all work brilliantly well for backgrounds and for adding a bit of texture paste through, but I wanted a way to bring them to the fore!

Enter doodling!  The A4 size stencils have nice large areas to doodle in , so I brushed up on a few patterns and got out my fine liner... (to be fair,my fine liner never actually gets put away..!)

The first one is with Superbly Square, I drew round the squares and coloured with promarkers, then added some stamping with Reverse Squares and finished with the new Washi tape

The second is Totally Triangular, this took a while, but I really enjoyed it, especially the triangles within the triangle

Lastly, Hugely Hexagonal, I thought Kraft Card would make a nice different background and I loved the effect of a white pencil to add highlights

All stamps and stencils and washi tapes are from AALL &Create.  For more information go to www.aallandcreate.com/boutique

Thanks very much for visiting,

Janet xx

AALL & Create do Washi!!

 Hello everyone, 

I hope everyone is well.  I absolutely love being part of the AALL & Create team in my little way, especially when there is something new and exciting!  AALL & Create Washi Tape!!  There are 7 different rolls to choose from including a blank one for you to paint or ink and stamp your own designs.  I am very happy that they have been a huge success.

I thoroughly enjoyed making samples for the ODS shows when Abs launched the tapes, but sadly they never arrived at Hochanda (I live in hope that they will turn up somewhere some day!)

I have a few to share with you here, but also I had an idea of how to use the tape in a bit of a different way.

I used a spare piece of card and cut it a bit bigger than the die I intended to use (you don't want to waste this tape!)

Stick the tape to the card I used all one design,  but you could mix them up or keep a piece of card handy and stick any left over bits to it

Die cut the card with the washi tape.  I love the look of it and as I used card with a bit of colour to it, that shows through to add to the affect.

I haven't used this on a project yet, but the weekend is still young...

Here are some of the samples that went missing 😢  As well as the washi tape there were new stamps and stencils from Abs and Bipasha.  As many of you will know I have been in love with Abs' stencil Lotza Dotz since the first day I saw it and I am fairly sure it will remain my all time favourite stencil, but then there was the big brother, Totally Dotty, then some cousins, Totally Triangular and Lotza Trianglz and now the family has expanded to  include Heapza Hexagonz, Hugely Hexagonal, Lotza Squares and Superbly Square as well as the matching stamps...I absolutely love all of them   Bipasha has done some fabulous squares and hexagons to match.  I was in heaven making backgrounds with these stamps and stencils, they work so well with so many techniques and different media. They proved very popular on the shows too.  

All stamps, stencils, dies and washi tapes are by AALL & Create.

Find more information at www.aallandcreate.com/boutique

Thanks for visiting

Janet xxx