NEW LILY DUET

Samples made with the new Lily Duet stamps.
Each of the Floral Duets has an open design and a solid design.

Here the solid lily design has been embossed with Stampendous Aged Wine embossing powder.

The 'veins' have been coloured with a lilac pen. The centre is one of the new Liquid Pearl colours and a small pearl. 

The open lily design was stamped on to blotting paper, cut out and then coloured with Radiant Rain Shimmering Mists applied with a paintbrush. The flower sprayed with water before colouring.

The was stamped and embossed with Stampendous Aged Ochre powder, cut out and again coloured with Shimmering Mists applied with a brush. Galaxy Gold Brilliance ink was then brushed on to the petals (not very clear in photo)

This time a piec of blotting paper was sprayed with Shimmering Mists and Perfect Pearl inks. WHen the paper had dried the open lily design was embossed with Aged Wine powder. A touch of yellow was brushed into the centre of the lily and then Liquid Pearls and a pearl were added.


This is a cover page for a book or an Art Journal page.
An 8 ins. x 8 ins. piece of blotting paper was sprayed with water and then various Shimmering Mist colours.
It was then sprayed with Perfect Pearls mist to 'tone' it down.
When the paper had dried, the solid lily was stamped around the edge with Pearlescent Lavender Brilliance ink. The open lily was stamped and embossed with Aged Wine powder and then coloured carefully with one of the Mists.
Shabby White embossing powder (Stampendous) was then sprinkled in patches over the page and heated to emboss (heat from underneath the paper).
The edge of the paper was torn (with blotting paper the torn edge is coloured) and mounted on to card.
Lasly the centres of the lilies were embellished with Liquid Pearls.

NEW STAMP DESIGNS

I've not posted for ages....new stamp's fault and the Stamp Festival's!!

The new rubber stamp designs are now on the website.

Some images for you all

POPPY DUET

DAHLIA DUET

LILY DUET

And 2 for Christmas

HELLEBORE DUET

POINSETTIA

The samples have been made using either Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist inks or Brilliance inks.

I shall post more about the samples in folowing posts.



CRAFT BARN ART JOURNALING CHALLENGE

The Craft Barn has an Art Journaling Challenge this week

This is my entry

1. Used stencil tape to fix 8 ins x 8 ins card (reverse of centura pearl used here) to a non-stick worksheet.

2. Sprayed with Radiant Rain...Yellow Rose or Sunburst and Jasper Red...using water to blend and drying with a heat gun.

3. Brilliance Lightning Black sponged through clock and branches stencils.

4. 'Time To Grow' stamped with Versamark and embossed with Stampendous Aged Black Enamel powder. Harrington Alphabet Die Sheet used.

5. Two of corners sponged through sequin waste with Brilliance Galaxy Gold ink.

6. Floral Duet stamps...Cosmos (DE04C405M) used next. The open design stamped with Lightning Black ink in 3 corners.

7. The solid Cosmos design stamped with Versamark and embossed with Stampendous Aged Ivory Embossing Enamel.

8. Aged Ivory powder sprinkled in patches, embossed and then Stampendous Mica Flakes embedded into the patches.

9. Champagne Gold Glass Glitter (Stampendous) glued to flower centres.

10. When thoroughly dry, tape removed and Distress inks brushed around the edge.

Powders and sprays and Brilliance ink are not on the website...contact me for details.

The Cosmos Floral Duet is on the website HERE

Alphabet stamps not on website yet...contact me for details.



THE PLAY DATE CAFE CHALLENGE

The Play Date Cafe Challenge for this week is to use the following colours

This is my entry

Straightforward matting and layering in CAP using an image and papers from Cupcake Crafting's Walk on the Wild Side CD, and embellishments from a kit from Pam LeFors, colour changed in CAP.

CD SUNDAY CHALLENGE

This weeks CD Sunday Challenge is...Cute Christmas

This is my entry

The Snowman image is a topper from Crafter's Companion...The Snowman CD.

The colour has been changed and the card created in CAP.

The background, frame and other images are from Pam LeFors.



SCRAPBOOKING 1

Although my Digikits aren't specifically for Scrapbooking, they can be used to create pages as well as greetings cards.

Here's a page I made using the new Fond Memories Digikit and an old photo of my aunt and mum when they were children...sadly they are not with us now.

You will need a graphics programme such as CAP or MCS to make this page.



This is basically just layering, however one of the papers has been cropped to make a frame for the photo.

The butterflies are from the Butterfly Duets Digikit...the colour changed in CAP.

FOND MEMORIES 5

Today's cards show one of the toppers being used more than once and a background paper being 'cut' up.

The topper T2 has been imported into CAP, copied and flipped horizontally and grouped. Then the 2 grouped toppers copied and flipped vertically, and all four together make another topper.

If creating the card by hand, the clematis flower could be printed on to card, cut out and decoupaged in the centre of the topper.

In this card the background P8 had been cropped 4 separate times to divide the paper into panels. Then a topper positioned in the centre. If created manually, the panels could be raised with dsspads as well as the topper.