playday

Saturday was a Hobby Art day with Moira Walters at Costessey - always great fun and a chance to play with some new stamps!
It does help when you don't just grab kit as you head out the door - but it does work out well sometimes. Yesterday I left my ink dusters behind, and my vital hand scrubby - I really missed the scrubby, as I am sure that ink is magnetically attracted to my hands, no one else seems to end up with as mucky mitts as I do!
On the other hand, what did find their way into the trolley were some brusho backgrounds - having these (and the luxury of not having to share stamp sets due to several regulars being ill) meant I ended up with twice as many cards as anyone else. We used Janie's wildflowers and butterflies stamps, and a sentiment set that was also new to me, plus a rather oriental looking sizzix die and a tonic die to cut the stapper card out.


The first card was inspired by graffiti, and the sentiments were stamped first, then the die cut out. I did ink the background piece for this, and stamped the flower head roughly where the cut out would be. Glued both squares of card together, added the trellis die cut and the butterflies. My inky mitts struck, so the ink smudges were to hide the accidental ones made
when edging the panel with an ink pa



The stepper card was very easy with the die cut, and escaped any mucky pawprints as well!
I inked the flower stamp with both green ,yellow and orange mini ink pads and stamped fairly randomly across the large panel, and once on each side panel, then inked round the edges with the green pad. Sentiment stamped in green across the bottom panel.  The butterfly was stamped onto a piece of the brushoed card, cut out and glittered then gluied at an angle across the front panel.

Having escaped fingerprints once, I got them with a vengeance for this card, despite starting with relatively clean hands.  Somehow, having cut the base card out of A3 card, I ended up with  black smudges right on the edges of the 7"sqaure card. So I went with a moody card instead of cheerful and bright! Inked the card with black soot distress ink all over, then round the edges with black versafine, then stamped along the bottom with flowers using black soot.
I edged the circle die cut with black soot, stamped the wildflowers using iced spruce , then the sentiment and butterflies in black versafine. Four colours of glitter on the butterflies to add some brightness.

 Extras using the brusho card for the backgrounds and the butterflies. Made the toppers up on the day for all these finished off later with stickles on the butterflies.










Using the brusho card as background, stamping two wildflower stamps across the base, inked in green and purple inks. Butterfly stamped onto more brusho card, cut out and clear glittered.

Last card used had background of distress oxides, then the flower head stamped using green and red inks' Butterfly coloured with pencils

landscape edges

 Landscape edges is my favourite of all the edges series of stamps from Chocolate Baroque, and this particular stamp is top of the list! It's a lovely all-purpose design, and it  works beautifully with my favourite brusho powders too.

For my first card I wanted to get a darker sky than usual, but not a night sky.
 I was very happy with the rather stormy appearance here - using my favourite brusho powders (mostly the grey) to create the sky after stamping and embossing the trees.
Trimmed down and matted on black card, then glued to the top of a 7"square white card blank, with the sentiment from the see beauty clear stamp set stamped at the bottom right.

 My second card has the more usual sunrise/sunset sky, again created with brusho powders, this time turquoise, yellow and orange.

Again a black matt, this time a 5"x7" card blank, with the sentiment from words of inspiration

country views

Good morning everyone,here are

some of the samples from last month's Chocolate Baroque tv shows.
The countryside stamps were right up my street, I love creating scenes, and these stamps are perfect for that!
Both cards use stamps from sunburst scenes and country views.
The first one uses the pavilion from country views and the sun and bridge scene from sunburst scenes. After stamping both images, I drew in the lines to extend the landscape with a fine line pen.
The image was coloured with sponged distress inks, matted onto black card and mounted onto the white card blank stamped with the sentiment from artistic affirmations.                                                                                                                       
The tree and clouds on this card are from sunburst scenes, and the cottage from country views - the trees were coloured with brusho, ands the rest with distress inks. A black matt again, and the sentiment this time is from words of inspiration
Apologies for the wonky scan here, sometimes I just give up trying to get the scan straight!