craft club

 Sunday afternoon at Moira's was a very lazy one - think we were all too hot, although the day was much cooler than it has been.
Moira will probably post the details of the card we were supposed to make - as usual, I did something slightly different; am sure she would think I was ill if I didn't!
She found a bargain roll of wrapping 'paper' that inspired the fishy theme, plus some old peeloffs and created an underwater scene.
I couldn't find a bit of the paper that I liked -typical- so made my own background using markers scribbled onto an acrylic block and spritzed with water (have become quite addicted to this, sorry). I stamped the sea bubbles by Ryn, the water weed by Chocolate Baroque and the Coral by Stampin Up in smoky grey versafine ink to create my background scene, then the seahorses by Chocolate Baroque in black. I coloured the seahorses, water weed and shells with markers with markers

and added a few streaks of pink to the coral. Matting was actually as instructed, then I added dazzling diamonds from SU  to the seahorses.
As I had a piece of the wrapping, I felt that I ought to use it, so did another card, this time  with SU stamps - the new ' by the tide' set. The coral was stamped on white card using crumb cake and baked brown sugar inks, the the card covered with the wrapping paper. The shells were stamped on cream card using the brown sugar ink and cut out.The fish were stamped on the same card that had actually been gellied, though it doesn't show really as this was a second print, and embossed with copper EP, then cut out and stuck on with foam pads. After I'd put it together,I felt that it could really have done with some seabubbles, but the wrapping is too plasticky to stamp on, so it stayed as it was. Backing card and matting is actually more of a  greeny colour than the scan shows - I haven't worked out how to adjust the colour balance on my new printer yet

last of the gelli..............

This is the smaller card using the oriental style background, and the same dragon stamp - just a different set of gilding flakes and an oval shape, on a black 6"square card.
I have quite a collection of backgrounds, that I am sure I will eventually get around to using - dread to think how big the pile would be if I actually bought a gelli plate,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,









And yes, I have found the bed, just have to clear it now................


sorry the photos are a bit blurred and washed-out looking

Gelli 2

This is the second card using one of the backgrounds made last week with the Gelli plate, using red, black and gold paint, matted onto black card. I couldn't decide what size card to use, so this is the 8" square version with a gilded dragon - the 6" square version will follow in due course..............
The dragon is an old Creative Expressions stamp bought many years ago after a workshop in Norwich with Jayne Nesterenko - as is often the case, it got used to death for a while then put in a drawer and forgotten until it was unearthed while searching for a different oriental stamp (that one is still hiding in the chaos). He was stamped on black card with versamark, covered with stamp'n'bond powder, heated, then gilded before matting onto gold mirri card and red card - the layers are on straight, though they don't look it on the scan.
Version 2 may be a while, as I have to at least excavate the bed from under the craft stuff - daughter does like to have a bed she can find when she visits!