J is for......

Hello bloggers....I know I haven't seen you all for a good long while but I have been pretty busy with lots of stuff so unfortunately I just haven't even given my blog a thought! But as I have been asked to explain how I made a sample for the recent Claritystamp Birthday weekend I thought I would do it on here.
Did any of you see all the shows on Hochanda? They are really good weren't they! And covered all the bases! Brilliant.

Anyway this is one of the samples I made for the shows.

I made this using the J from the alphabet set and the Jayne Nesterenko frame. I also used one of the butterflies from the Jayne Nesterenko sets.
I also used the artistry inks to colour it.

1. Stamp the frame into the middle of a piece of 7x7 stencil card using black archival ink.
2. Stamp the J in the centre of the aperture and stamp it again on a spare piece of stencil card along with the butterfly.
3. Now use low tack tape to mask off the areas of the frame you want the flowers in and use the J stamp to fill these areas. Do one at a time until all 4 sides are stamped. Give this a quick blast with the heat tool to dry the ink.
4. Mask off the outside edge of the frame and then brush yellow ink over the stamped flowers and in the aperture around the J leaving the centre white.
Remove the masking tape.
5. Use the artistry inks to colour the flowers on the spare J and also on the butterfly. Leave to dry.
6. Use a fine paintbrush and artistry ink to add colour to the flower border, frame and to the main image.
7. Trim back the card so there is an even white border around the frame. 
8. Mat this on a piece of green card then onto a 6x6 card blank. 
9. Fussy cut out the spare flowers and decoupage onto the J and fussy cut out the butterfly and stick on to one corner of the card.

I hope you can follow these instructions.
Remember that if you change the colours of ink you use it will look very different. And you could use any of the letters like this.


Have a great day 
Happy Crafting