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