Tomte Christmas

Two quick 6" square cards to share today, using the slim word strip 2 and the Tomte  Christmas stamp sets from Chocolate Baroque.

Same method for both, just picking out one of the words from the strip and colouring it with distress marker pen. I used my stamping platform so that i could repeat the inking and stamping to get a stronger colour - mine will take an A4 size card, so it was fairly easy to position my square of card with the word.

I edged my square of card with the same marker pen.

 The gnomes were stamped onto spare card with versafine black ink and coloured with marker pens, cut out and glued in place

tree of knowledge

 For my second post this month I am sharing samples using the lovely tree stamps that were featured by Chocolate Baroque on the Create & Craft shows last month.

I may not be a tree hugger, but I am a sucker for tree stamps - aprt from looking good, they are great for all occasions. As an avid reader, I loved the books as tree roots!

The first is very simple, if you already have a ready made background - in this case using distress inks splodged onto a crafrt mat and spritzed with water - then this literally takes only moments to do.Tree and sentiment stamped in black versafine ink and the fruit coloured with a marker pen, edge with a black marker pen and mount onto a card blank.

The second version also has a distress ink background, but overstamped in green with the large leaf stamp from nature 2 . The winter version of the tree stamped in black versafine ink again, sentiment on a scrap of card and cut out

For the final sample i made a book mark using a die cut tag shape in green card. A torn page from an old paperback was given a thin coat of gesso and smudged round the edges with distress ink. The intention was to make a pile of books, buit once I had cut them out they looked more like birds (seagulls?), so were added at angles with the sentiments stamped between them

Happy birthday

 

 For my first post this month for Chocolate Baroque I chose this card, which was quite quick to make, so long as you use a stamping platform

The  greeting was from the slim  word strip 2 plate, and I coloured the words i wanted to use with distress marker pens, gave a good huff on the stamp and then stamped onto a square of white card..I re-inked the larger letters again and stamped again - using a stamping platform means you have no problem lining the second stamping up, and also that you can put the sentiment just where you want it

The flower from not more flowers! was also inked with distress markers and stamped above the greeting , and i used a water brush to pull some of the colour out into the petals.. For the mat I coloured round the edges of a piece of white card with a matching marker pen - easier (and cheaper) than searching for a matching bit of coloured card.

i would like to link this to the following challenges

creative fingers -#237, always anything goes

seize the birthday #246 anything goes

happylittle stampers. birthday, - anything goes

thorugh the craft room door  - anyhting goes

allsorts - #692, anyhting goes

stamping sensations , feminine