sacred

 Something a bit different today that fits in with the current challenge at Stamping Sensations , where the theme is animals, birds and bugs - I was trying to create the image in a crystal ball

I used the hands from the Chocolate Baroque stamp beauty is in the eyes, well, to be accurate the hand , which was stamped once onto card and once on to acetate and then on to card to reverse the image and both then fussy cut out. 

The moth from the sacred set by Fiona Randall was stamped in black versafine and clear embossed onto a circle of card that had been  stencilled  using  distress oxides to give a misty effect. Coloured in using pencils, then the circle was double embossed with clear embossing piowder.

Background card was stencilled to match the circle and the sentiment from sacred stamped and embossed at the top, then the orb and the hands glued into place.

floral blueprints

Today i have a set of very simple DL cards to share using the four blueprint sets of stamps from Chocolate Baroque that were featured on the Craft Store show last month. Allium blueprint, echinacea blueprint, lupin blueprint and chrysanthem blueprint.

The base cards were cut from a dark silver card, and the images were all stamped in black versafine ink onto white card. The flowers were coloured using koh-i-noor pencils and blending solution.

The sentiments come from the blueprint sets apart from that on the echinacea card, which is from life is so much better, also stamped in black on spare white card.



 

greyscale

 

two more samples to show today using the lupin and chrysanthemum blueprint stamps from the September show.

I had a couple of pieces of grey card left over from previous cards, and decided to see how they worked with the koh-i-noor pencils and the blending solution.

For both versions I stamped the main image in black and clear embossed it before randomly stamping smaller images in grey ink round it to make a background.

For the lupin card just used the white and yellow pencils to colour the image, then added a touch of green to the flower centres and used the blending solution to spread the yellow over the light bulb. The sentiment was stamped onto spare white card.

The chrysanthemum flower was coloured with red, orange and yellow pencils blended together, and the leaves with 2 shades of green and a yellow, also blended with a little white added to the banister railing.

Both were matted onto white and black card before adding to a card blank.
 

blueprint wreaths

 Good morning everyone, hope you all had a pleasant weekend and everyone who needed fuel got some.....

Today I have two wreath cards to share, using some of the smaller blueprint stamps from the September shows. 

These may look complicated, but if you have a stamping platform they are very easy. The first one uses two  flower stamps from the blueprint chrysanthemum set. The smaller stamps was inked in green ink and stamped 8 times to form the base of the wreath onto a square piece of white card. The larger stamp was stamped several times onto white card using a terracotta dye ink pad, and the colour dragged out with a waterbrush. I fussy cut these out, and decided to use 6 of them to add to the wreath shape - while we are always told to use odd numbers in flower arranging, I fwelt that 5 wasn't enough and 7 was too much, so 6 it was.  The sentiment is from the echinacea blueprint set.

This was even simpler. I used a very ancient multicolour ink pad to stamp the lupin image 8 times onto a piece of square white card. The centre image is part of the main image on the set, cut out with a punch and glued in the centre. I inked a mat of white card with a matching alcohol marker .