A much needed mindful day!

Good afternoon all. I hope you are all OK and coping with this lockdown as well as possible. I know it is hard to do sometimes but if we are to get through this we must stay at home and not venture out where at all possible. I think it would be much easier to do for everyone if there was something visible that we could actually see like the sky turning purple and big black spots floating about! But this virus is not something we can see so thats what makes it so hard to avoid! So stay at home and keep cleaning and washing and we will beat it eventually.

Did you manage to catch Barbara doing her first ever FB live on the Claritystamp page? For some time now Barbara has talked about the need for mindfulness and I think it is important for us all to do some of this and todays doodling session is a perfect thing for all of us to do even if you're not a crafter. Pick up a pen and a piece of paper and have a go. I have found a little book that I am going to use. The ones I did along with Barbara have been transferred into my book now.

One thing that is very mindful is doing Groovi and parchment craft. This is something I did ages ago but I never blogged it. Please forgive me for dipping into past projects... I just had to do other things today rather than concentrate on doing a new step by step project.
Anyway here is the project. I have also given the ingredients and a brief description of how it was done below.

Ingredients.

Z floral letter GRO-FL-40269-01

Nested Heart plate GRO-PA-40094-03

Netting Pattern plate GRO-PA-40040-03

Perga Colours

Pale green parchment

Brighton Rock paper

Kraft card blank

1. Working on pale green parchment emboss the Z. Emboss the heart frame around the letter. Emboss the netting pattern.
2. Emboss white work on the design as shown.
3. Using perga colours add colour on the reverse to the flowers, letter and frame.  
4. Perforate around the heart with a 2 needle bold tool and cut away waste.
5. Attach to a piece of designer paper with brads. Mat and layer onto cream then green card stock then Mount on a 7x7 Kraft card blank.

I hope you like it.
Please let me know what you think in the comments below

Happy crafting

GCASAH....Can you work that out?

Good Afternoon all
Well it's been ages since I blogged but life was just so busy and my blog just had to wait. But now I have a little more time on my hands so I thought I would start it up again! I don't think I will be blogging every day but we will see what happens.
Have you worked out the title yet?
Get Crafting And Stay At Home. Good advice I think if we are to beat this virus and save lives. That's what its all about. So I thought I would share with you a project and do a step by step of how it is made.

So here's the Project

It is done with the City of London stencil by Claritystamp and was on Hochanda TV on March 11th with Maria. I did a sample similar to this but on black card stock instead of the Kraft card.

Any way here is how I did it.

Get the stencil, Kraft card, a sponge and white gesso.

Cut the piece of Kraft card to 7"x7" and attach the stencil to it with low tack tape and sponge the gesso through the stencil.

Check you have enough gesso and add more if needed. 

Leave to dry.

Once completely dry use blendable pencils (I used my cheap ones) and dorso oil on a blending nib to add colour to the white gesso areas. Don't do it all.

Trim the edges of the Kraft card then mat onto dark brown card then onto a Kraft card blank. Add a sentiment sticker.

Here is the black card version ....slightly different colours in the sky.

I hope you like the project. If you have a go plese let me see your work but all I ask is that you give me some credit for the inspiration.

Please let me know here what you think.

Stay safe and craft away.

Lots of Love xxx