spring into summer....

Hobby Art workshop with Moira Walters and the usual crowd of suspects at Costessey yesterday - we sweltered despite the air conditioning, but all survived , and at some point we all actually produced something resembling a sample !!

Spring card first , using the wren stamps. The trio of birds was stamped in grey, the stump and large bird in black versafine, with the bird stamped again onto spare card. Coloured with koh-i-noor watercolours, and the spare bird coloured and cut out, then glued over the original stamping - saves cutting out the fiddly feathers.....
background pattern by stamping the leaves from the set in various greens then sponging over with the lightest green

 Front of the 8"x8" card was cut in half to stamp onto, and I left the back half intact to add the kids and a greeting. Fence and stone stamped in grey, goat in black, once onto spare card and once onto card base. Watercolours again, and the goat stuck over the stmaped one again.

I used a circle mask and brushed blue distress ink lightly across to create the sea and sky. The houses and sea wall were stamped onto spare card, coloured ,cut out and glued in place  after stamping the yacht.  The yacht was stamped onto spare card and colopured in, then the hull and sails cut out and glued into place.  seagulls in the sky to finish.

I used the card circle I was meant to use for the first card to make another card, stamping the houses in grey ink onto the circle and brushing some watercolour roughly around to create the sky and sea. Seagull in black, and the wall and yacht stamped onto spare card in black and coloured with watercolours . The background uses the small stamps stamped in distress oxides and sponged round the edges, circvle edged by running over a versafine ink pad.