Anything Goes

Well The 1st March is now here and today we have seen the Clarity Stamp Blog Challenge go live.

Here is my DT card I made for it.
I wanted to use my new humming bird Stamps so I thought about how I could make it a bit different!

I got a piece of black card and stamped the large and small humming bird and some of the flowers large and small in versamark.

I then used mica powders in a variety of colours and brushed these over.



Once I had got this topper I needed to think about the background. I matted and layered it on to purple and jade green card.

The base card which is white i decided to use the humming bird to create a backing paper.

I used my splodgemat to create an ink pad and put 4 colours of distress inks on to the mat. I then stamped the humming bird into this ink and then created a background of humming birds.
I also used a blending tool and ink off the splodgemat through sequin waste to add to the  background

 

Once I had got my card and topper I assembled it and added a piece of narrow ribbon and some clear dewdrops to the corners of the topper and on the ribbon.

I was pretty pleased with the final card. And I hope you like it too.

 

Let's see you have a go at the challenge and remember......

 

......Anything Goes!!!!

 

Happy Crafting

Jane xx

 

 



A little bit Blue

Well the last day of the half term week and I have a fab day planned. I am off to teach a friend how to knit!!! I will maybe blog it later with his permission!

Anyway yesterday saw the start of the Indigo blu Blog Challenge Forever 21 and their first theme is BLUE!

I do love the indigo blu stamps and have a couple of stamps I had not used yet so I have taken the opportunity to put them to good use and make a card which I want to enter into their first challenge!

There are some lovely inspiring samples from the design team so pop over and have a peep

Anyway here is my card!

 

 

I used the Blazing Poppies Stamp coloured with promarkers for the main image.

 

The smaller image is the Mini Love is stamp. Its so cute!

 

Here are some smaller pictures to highlight the components I made the deep blue flower but the other embellishments are wooden adn I coloured the flower blue and the leaves silver

 

 

 

The Background was done using the crackleglaze background stamp stamped in Sonewashed Adirondack ink and the script background stamped in Demin Adirondack.

 

I did enjoy doing this card

 

Please let me know what you think

 

Happy Crafting

 

Jane xx 



 

February - the month of Love

Well its half term and Thursday already! I can't believe how fast this week is going!

This whole month is going fast I think.

Anyway I thought I would blog my Valentines Card I made for Colin and also show you some of the ATCs I have made around the theme of Love.

Here is the Valentines card I made for Colin.. Its an easy one this year as I had to do it quickly!
It uses the Clarity wire heart stamp and a bit of masking and blending. I used Distress ink Worn lipstick to do it all! Oh and the sentiment I did using the Letter box set. I think the letter box sets is one of the best sets I have bought...so useful and you can write any sentiments or words!!!

 

 

The next pictures are the 3 love ATCs i have made.

 

 

 

The last one was sent to Anne Strickland Cole as part of the ATC swap I am involved in.

 

The ATC swap is a monthly swap and I sent mine to Anne but I received one from the Fabulous Lynne Hammond and here it is.

 

 

Well I am off for today - let me know what you think to LOVE!

Happy Crafting!

 

Jane xx 



Good News

I am so happy so let you know that I have been asked to be one of the members of the Clarity Stamp Challenge Blog Design Team.

If you want to see what is all about you can click the badge at the top of my blog and that will take you to the blog. The first Challenge goes live on March 1st and all the rules are on the blog. Why not have a go!? And the design team will be there to give you inspiration along the way.

Here is a card I had done a while ago but not blogged! It uses the Clarity Bird Cage kit!

Thanks for looking and leave me a comment if you will! I like to know people are looking!

Happy Crafting

Jane xx

Cheering Myself Up

Good Evening all

I have had a rubbish few days so I decided to have a couple of hours crafting using Sheens Douglass's new stamps that I got over the weekend. That sounds rather indulgent I know but needs must!!!

I used pan pastels to create a background and then stamped the images in black ink of the leaves and then pink and blue archival inks. I matted this onto some black card.

The flowers I stamped separately and then painted with mica powders mixed with water. I then cut them out to stick on later. I also did the same with the leaves.

For the background I made, I used similar colours of Pan pastels but lightened it. The leaves I coloured with a sakura pen. This was stuck on to a card blank (8x8)

I stamped the sentiment onto white card and rounded the corners


Here is the resulting Card.

 

 

I hope you like it!

 

Have a good evening and happy Crafting!

 

Love

 

Jane xx

Not so Snowy Saturday...depending on where you are!

 

 

Good afternoon Everyone!

 

I thought I would share with you all the grid card I made when Barbara set a challenge to make one. I used Distress inks salty Ocean and squeezed lemonade. Where thet overlapped it gave a lovely green colour!!

 

I was pretty pleased with the result and I will have another go at this type of card...the biggest problem was sorting out the stamps to use!!! It made me realise just how many I had got!!!

 

Hope you all have a lovely crafty saturday and are staying warm and safe! xx

 

 

Jane xx

Happy Friday Evening

Hello All
Well thanks to Barbara Gray I am now getting into making ATCs. Small Scalle works of Art and it was a challenge for me at first but small Clarity Stamps are perfect for doing them

Here are the ones I have done....

This one uses the Flower corner lesson stamps

This is for the January ATC Challenge - Trees are green ...Aren't they

As is this

And this



And this is a Zentangled Tree...of sorts!

Hope you enjoyed looking

 

Happy Crafting

 

 

Jane xx