folk art garden

I loved this huge stamp from Chocolate Barqoue which makes a card on its own.

While it is a very detailed stamp, just crying out to be coloured in, I wanted to try it in monochrome. It was stamped in black versafine ink onto a dull silver card ( using a stamp platform as it is so big) and clear embossed. I then coloured the butterflies and three flowers using white watercolour paint. It was then mounted onto a 8" square white card blank.







My second card has a pale brusho background , image again stmaped using versafine and clear embossing powder. I used brusho to colour the butterflies, flowers and foliage before trimming it down to fit onto an A5 card blank and edging with a black marker pen.







The final version has a brusho back ground again, with the image stamped using a toning distress oxide ink pad. This time it was cut down to fit a 5"x7" card blank, edged with black marker again, and the sentiment stamped in black.  I used one of the chipboard circles to stamp part of the image using black versafine ink, then coloured the flowere with watercolour paints before edging the circle with black marker pen and gluing in place.

seaside playday

 Saturday was a very windy and wet day, but it was bright and cheerful indoors at Costessey, where only 8 of us made it to the Hobby Art day with Moira Walters.
We used the new seaside stamps, shore scenes and waters edge and I had a lovely time playing - only two  of these actually bear any resemblance to what i was supposed to be doing.......this first one is one of them, though i skipped the scalloped edges and frame on the centre circle.....I did use the cloud and water stencils though....

 went a bit overboard with the shading on the far dune here... I used Koh-i-noor watercolour paints and derwent inktense pencils to colour all the images

The final card used the frog from garden of wonders, with the hanging vines from a Chocolate Baroque set, wisteria lane.

blue & green

This was a super-quick card to make, thanks to the brusho powders.
The lovely big stamp from Chocolate Baroque  was stamped in versamark and embossed with white embossing powder onto a sheet of white card. Brusho pwders in turquoise and lime green were sprinkled on and sspritzed with water.
Once it was dry, more turquoise powder was  added to the flowers, and activated with a damp paintbrush.
Then simply trimmed to size and mounted onto a white 8"x8" card blank - done!

bleeding art.....

 No actual blood was involved - results of a day playing with bleeding art tissue with Janet Pring!
Different backgrounds created in the morning, stmaped in the afternoon.
The first two used strips of tissue laid onto damp card and then brushed with water - the rainbow sample looked good, but I stayed with blues and greens and got landscapey results.

Stamped with spring images from Chocolate Baroque - the smaller card had to be cut down as I moved the card when stamping some trees, but will still make a nice Easter card with a sentiment added!

 Next we used diecut shapes to create the backgrounds, laying themn down and brushing carefully to keep the shapes.
  I liked the first one with Lavinia stamps, where I deliberately brushed water over the edges to blur the flower shapes.

 I wasn't so keen on the butterfly one that followed, having edged the butterflies with pen  I decided it didn't quite work -  the large sentiment from Indigo Blue hides the bit that I smudged!



I had some bits of tissue left over, so I stamped the bird image from Chocolate Baroque first using versafine black, then added scraps of tissue one at a time to create the sky behind the bird.

It was a fun day, and I still ended up with messy hands despite using tweezers...... think I need to get some tissue myself now!

mannequins

 This month's stamps from Chocolate Barqoue  are the nearest I get to sewing!

My firsr sample has a brusho background, with several of the stamps randomly stamped using a orangey  ink pad, and buttons stamped round the edges. The two  body stamps were stamped in black versafine and clear embossed onto scraps of brusho card, cut out and glued on.
Card was edged with a black marker pen then added to a white card blank.

My second card started out with the buttons randomly stamped using versamark onto a piece of white card, clear embossed, then sprinkled with brusho in grey and lemon. I thought I had ironed off  the embossing once it was dry, but I obviously missed some - as I found when I overstamped the scissors and cotton reels! I sponged grey distress ink over it all very lightly to tone down the white. The larger dress  and the smaller  were stamped in black and clear embossed on white card, cut out and glued in place.

 The final card had a distress oxide background with plenty of water splats and the cotton reels and thimbles stamped in smoke and amber inks. I used the lace edging and the smaller lace comes from lace fragments set, both stamped in smoke ink across the card. The mannequins were stamped onto scraps of designer paper using black ink and clear embossed before cutting out - they were glued over the joins in the stamping.