An inky/parchment crossover.

Hello to you all. 

I am off out later to Stockport to meet up with a  small group of folks who are all into mixed media and journals. It's a great little group and we haven't been able to meet since December due to various things. I love going as it is one of my inky playtimes. It's only for a couple of hours but I seem to have got loads of stuff to take with me. Oh well I am sure I will have fun. and that's what crafting should be about. 

Yesterday I shared a card made with the Garden Heart stencil. So today I thought I would share one done with the stamp set. This one is done on parchment and uses a groovi plate to create an embossed frame for the heart and verse to sit in. It also has some embossing done on the reverse to create white areas within the heart design. The thing to remember when stamping on parchment is you need to let the ink dry properly before you start yo do any work on it. You stamp on the front of the parchment to get the image the correct way round. However if you want to create a reflection or a mirror image to something stamp one on the front and one on the reverse and bingo! 
Any way here is todays card and as usual the ingredients and instructions are below for you.

Ingredients.

Garden heart stamp set

Rainbow river Parchment

Rainbow River Paper

Nested rectangle plate GRO-PA-40524-04

1. On a piece of designer parchment  Create a rectangle measuring 11cm x 16.5 cm

2. Stamp the heart and sentiment in black archival ink and leave to dry thoroughly.

3. Working on an embossing mat and using the Number 3/4 Groovi embossing tool add white work to areas.

4. Use and eraser to remove the colour from the parchment then use a green pencil to colour them in.

5. Trim evenly around the frame with a paper trimmer then attach to a piece of white card with brads and then mat on a piece of matching designer paper and mount on a card blank.

Have a good day whatever you are doing.

Happy Crafting

Snowdrops...well nearly!!!

Good morning all.

It's gone really cold again...still it is winter so I suppose it should be... And it's not as bad as Europe. Germany and Austria are having blizzards and even Athens has seen a small amount of the white stuff so I reckon we have it good really. Looking back at memories on facebook it is 9 years since we got so much snow it caused schools and businesses to close and a snowman appeared in the middle of our road! It's great to look at but when you need to get about it's a nightmare. 

I had a little look round our garden today. After the work done on Sunday it looks a lot lighter now the hedge has been lowered and  whilst I was looking at that I also noticed that the snowdrops are already up and nearly in flower.  I am sure its a bit early but it's been so mild over Christmas I am not surprised to see things so advanced in the garden. Other things are showing signs of coming back to life too.

So I thought I would share with you a card from last year made with the Art Nouveau Snowdrops groovi plate and the Shenandoah designer paper. 

I do still class myself as a stamper rather than a parcher but I enjoy using the groovi plates as it is easy to pick out specific parts of the plates. With a stamp it would mean a lot of masking to do any thing like this. It makes the plates really flexible with what you can create. If you haven't yet plucked up the courage to have a go at groovi it's well worth considering it as a craft. Very relaxing and can be done anywhere!

Anyway enough of my ramblings! 

Hope you have a great day.

Happy crafting 

Love and hugs xxxx