Workshop Wednesday #1

Afternoon!

As there was no Groovi Tuesday this week, we need a Workshop Wednesday instead, usually it will just be a little peek at a project I've done in a workshop, past or present, but as today is the first one we'll have a step by step...

Grab your Lapwing stamps ready and a piece of Clarity stencil card.

Using Cobalt archival ink, stamp the lapwings in place, take note of where the big fella is at the bottom, cover the birds with masks. Put a border of low tac tape around all four sides and put a moon mask in place.

Prepare your Brayer with Clover adirondack ink

Brayer the sky, then the bottom area too, leave a nice band of white through the middle though.

Using the Tangle stencil and clarity brushes, add a little texture to the bottom area only, just sweep gently in one direction from the bottom of the stencil upwards.

Remove the moon mask and replace with the aperture part instead, gently add a little weathered wood ink along one side of the moon.

Remove all masks and masking tape.

Use a marker or pencil to add shade to the birds, note, I used an alcohol marker even though I stamped with archival, I was very very careful not to touch the stamped line art with the marker or it could make it bleed and ruin my pen.

Terrible shadow on this pic, sorry!

The finished one is a bit better, but I'll never be a photographer.

Hope you like it, the class did once they got over the fear of the Brayer, funnily enough Barbara mentions fear of the Brayer on her blog today, Dave's strategy made me laugh!

Thanks for stopping by, hopefully see you Friday for another piece of bodged artwork from heartbreak corner.

 

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Frosty

Good evening!

Another Christmas card today..

You may recognise Frosty

I stamped him twice and masked, then stamped the dude in the background..

I coloured with Copics.

The lovely flowers are from Sweet Lilac

The embossing folder is an A4 from Spellbinders.

A few of you asked about the embossing folder that I used on the Moonfairy card..here it is.

Thanks for stopping by!

 

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Moonfairy

Good Morning!

Start of another fun filled week, not quite so manic though hopefully. I have 2 classes this week and both are prepped already.

I may get to make a few more Christmas cards, who knows..

Here is another Christmas card I did for Creative Cardmaking.

I used the large Moonfairy Claritystamp. An 8x8 embossing folder, and some flowers from Sweet Lilac.

This was piece on Copics for Beginners, so I didn't get carried away with the colouring.

I hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by.

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Flower Stencil

Afternoon!

Today's card is another of my samples for Barbara's tv shows last Sunday..

I love this Flower stencil because it is so detailed and yet it's still really solid and sturdy.

I had a few ideas of what I wanted to do with it, and to be honest this wasn't one of the ideas, it just happened! But I like it.

I also used the new mini Letterbox sentiment kit.

Barbara has been playing with a different stencil on her blog post, have a look!

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.

 

 

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Untitled

Good Morning!

Hope your weekend was enjoyable?

I really enjoyed spending a weekend at home, a rare treat,especially as I got to see the Clarity shows on Create and Craft...

Here's the first of my samples

No surprise this set flew out the door, it's another corker!

I also used one of the Aperture stencils with brick wall and leafy swirl stencils.

Ink used, Sage distress and Oregano Adi.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.

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The stockings were hung....

Good Morning!

I've been busy playing nurse to Amber, her school like the children in school regardless of illness to protect the schools attendance targets and are quickly on the phone if there is an absence, strangely though, they are very quick to have me take her home when they have to clean up her puke because the teacher wouldn't let her out of lesson to do it in the toilet!

Anyway, little rant about shitty teachers, I feel better now lol. And Amber is much better now fortunately.

I was going to blog about the NEC,but as I said I've been busy, not taken pics of artwork and stash yet.

So, instead...here's a card I did a while ago for Creative Cardmaking

 

This was part of a set with a theme of Copics for Beginners.

I used one of the 'twas the night stamps and a Christmas banner stamp, from Clarity of course.

The beautiful flowers are from Sweet Lilac.

Hope you like it!

 

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A rose or a thorn?

Good afternoon

Hope you are all well

Today's card is another Clarity sample from the weekend

This one started it's life very differently, I fact it was almost in the bin.

I was supposed to be making a hanging heart, so I painted it then stamped in Archival, then when I glazed it the colour of the archival changed dramatically and I didn't like it anymore. So I threw it to one side, it ended up sat on this sheet of paper near some die cut swirls and I decided it didn't look too bad if I could tie the colours in together. What do you think?

 

 

 

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Christmas Molly

Good morning, another scheduled post today, I did a batch while I remembered how to use blogsy app...

Something a little different today, apologies for pics, it was dark.

This is one of the cards I made using the Molly Bloom Christmas Carnival kit.

I just added some additional card stock.

 

I coloured with Copics, it was nice to get them out and dust them off!

Thanks for stopping by.

 

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Those Clarity stocking again!

Morning!

Here is another 'Twas the Night' sample from the weekend's Clarity shows on Create & Craft.

I Just stamped on Cream card 3 times in Brown, coloured parts of the stockings pink and cut out, then cut out the words.  I know this looks more black and white in the picture but its definitely cream, pink and brown.

Have a good day!



Flittered Fish

Good Morning, I thought it was time I had a go at my Flitter Glu, yep its strong!  I stamped my Clarity Fish & sentiment with the glu and applied Guilding flakes, I scrubbed quite vigorously to get all the excess flake from between the stamped lined which are very detailed, but I didnt drag any of the image back off, so it passes the test!

I also used one of the new Lattice Splodge-a-Masks (Thank you Tom), I embossed and then sprayed with Egyptian Blue Mica from Cosmic Shimmer, the twine is also from the Vintage range from Creative Expressions.

Thats it for today, Im off for some MORE dental treatment today, booooo!



Pink & Heartfelt

Good Morning!

Today's card is using some lovely Heartfelt Creations goodies from Creative Expressions-Posy Patch stamps & dies, Ornate Scene window die,

This one got a little battered because its been in a box for a while.

I had some pink tissue paper from a gift and thought it would be nice as flowers!

I added some Cosmic Shimmer pearly dots, Organza rose and some pins.

The sentiment is stamped onto a Parisian?? accent- its very pretty whatever the set is called, I must try to remember them better.

Thats it for today, im racing against the battery on my laptop!

Have a lovely weekend.

Find time to colour!

Morning all, I actually made time to sit and colour for half an hour! I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms through lack of fumes from the alcohol markers.

Seriously, its a rare treat to sit and colour just for fun, and I definitely dont practise enough with my pens.

This is one of the new Magnolia's, I fell in love with this one as soon as I saw it on the Glitter Pot website.

I will add the Copic colours later today- they are upstairs and I am downstairs, im supposed to be getting ready to go see my Sister!

The paper is actually Christmas paper from Bo Bunny, dont tell anyone will you.

The flowers are from Wild Orchid.

Sentiment is from Claritystamp.

Edge punch is a EK Success.

Ribbon is from Papermania, I had to age it a bit with distress ink-it was too white.

Lace from my stash.

Will add colours here later.

Im gone!

Happy Monday, baby!

Yep its come around again, like a flash!

I did actually manage to get some Christmas shopping done at the weekend though, and Santa knows whats what, so thats good.

I have been busy with samples for the Claritystamp tv shows next weekend.

Also I have been doing samples for my Create & Craft shows which have now been re-scheduled, so I have a little longer to prepare for those.

So with all that happening (and more) secret stuff, I dont have a lot that I can show you yet, so I used another of my image stash to put a quick card together to show you.

The FF image was coloured with Copics when I first got them- thats my excuse for the dodgy shading, think I prefer my PM's.

I used Centura pearl card with an A4 mask from Stamps Away/Clevercut, I have lots of Ali's masks on my wish list.

I have used my treasured Scrabble set from Claritystamp for my lettering.

The spellbinders need no introduction.

The Cosmic Shimmer Black and white pearl glue is from Creative Expressions

A bit of ribbon and some Candi to finish.

Dont forget 3 more followers and I will organise some blog candy.

See you soon!

A fairy,but its a dark one!

Well if Im gonna show you a fairy on Halloween it has to be a dark one does'nt it!

I was planning on showing you what I made for Amber's Birthday but I cant figure out how to fit it into a picture, so I may do it later if there is time.

So here is the fairy..

I bryaered with Pitch Black Adirondack and coloured with Copics,which im still practicing with!

I stamped the Fairy first and masked him, then stamped the toadstools to make it look like he is sat on them. Little glitter to the wings to finish.

Ok im gone, lots to do!

See you soon