Monday 14 September 2015

Sunday at Gissing

 another Sunday afternoon at Gissing with Moira, Janet, Jill and Barbara in a toasty warm hall despite the dull weather outside.
Moira had a Christmas version of this owl card, which involved using practically every Christmassy Hobby Art stamp set she could lay her hands on, and a heck of a lot of cutting out. I thought I had a bright idea using different stamps, then found I didn't have them with me...............but I did have the set of leaf stamps.
I stamped the leaf onto green and orange card, added more colouring using sponges and distress inks and cut them out.
Moira had kindly provided the embossed square and its backing card, so I just added the owls in the hole and scattered the leaves down the left hand side. The white base card was randomly stamped with the leaf stamp in greens and sponged over with vintage photo distress inks.
 Janet's sample card was very simple, with the Claritystamp tree stamped in black and decorated with dots of  Paper Artsy fresco paint added with an embossing tool. Background layer was  from an old paper pad.
I had a quick play with the new stamp of the month from Hobby Art before packing up - a very quick card, took longer to finish up at home than to do! Masked off the central stripe with paper, brushed blue and green distress inks across it, then stamped the seed heads twice down the left and coloured the leaves in with marker pen.
Sentiment added later from some magazine freebie stamps, and base black card.
The random grey splodges are from the scanner, which obviously needs a good clean again!

5 comments:

  1. Love all three of these cards. By the by, when it comes to laying my hands on Hobby Art stamp set, I can lay my hands on an enormous number of them!!!

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  2. Love all three of these cards. By the by, when it comes to laying my hands on Hobby Art stamp set, I can lay my hands on an enormous number of them!!!

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  3. I just love that owl card and your leaves are coloured so beautifully. They are quite realistic. I also love the clean simplicity of the last card. i have some nice stamps similar to this that I must have a go with. Kate x

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  4. Three gorgeous cards and I love that idea of using an embossing tool to add baubles to the tree
    Jackie x

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  5. Three lovely cards, it is always good to see what everyone comes up with in our little group

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