A squirrel or two!

Happy New Year Blog land!

I don't know where that last year went to but it's over and all I can wish is that this year is kind to us all! We all have hopes and dreams ...lets try and make them a reality this year!

Anyway I normally am posting a new card today for the Clarity Blog Challenge but as you may have seen there have been a few changes there and the peeps on the main Clarity DT who were also on the Blog DT have stepped down as things are getting exciting and busy in land of Clarity.

I wish the new team great success...their projects on the new challenge are stunning.

SO today I thought I would share two cards I made using the squirrel stamp set from the last Clarity Show.

The first one I used the stamp and then the Thank you stamp with it. I coloured the image and the thank you with Spectrum Noir Pencils and then used a blender tool with spiced Marmalade distress ink round the edges. I added some flowers and matted and layered it onto a card blank

I then decided to use the stamp and stencil.

I attached the stencil to a piece of gelli card with low tack tape and brushed spiced marmalade then mustard seed through the stencil. I then put this to one side and prepared the topper. I cut a piece of double sided adhesive into a square and then I stamped the squirrel in black archival onto it. I covered this to a piece of acetate. On the other sticky side I cut out the squirrel and added orange and white mica powders trying to give him different tones of orange on his body. I then removed the rest of the sheet to exposed the sticky and covered that with gilding flakes.I then cut out the circle and attached it to the centre of the stencilled card. I added a free hand line round the edges of the stencil and the word Beauty at the bottom. I matted it with gold mirri card onto an 8 x 8 inch card blank.

It would be nice if you could leave me a comment below to let me know what you think of these...good or bad

Thanks for your continued support

Happy Crafting

A stag do? No ...Its a bit deer!

Good Morning to you all in the land of blogger! It's a cold and Frosty one this morning! I have just been out to top up the fridge with food for the New Year Celebrations and to get bread and milk and a few other bits and pieces!

So now whilst Colin makes us a bit of breakfast....bacon butties....I thought I would share a couple of cards from the last Claritystamp show on Create and Craft at the start of December! These two cards used the Oak and deer set. I do like this set. 
The first one used the Deer's head and the Leaves. I started off by creating a background using Sandstone and rose red brushos. 
I let this dry then stamped the deer at the bottom in Brown archival. I then stamped the leaves in distress inks I used rusty hinge and spiced marmalade and Walnut stain.
I coloured the stag in with my whisper markers and then stamped one of the new words in Brown archival ink. I used Awesome from Word Chain 9 but to be honest any of the words would be great!

Here is the card

The next card I made a background on the Gelli Plate using the large leaves stencil. I made a heart shape using a piece of paper to make the aperture.
I stamped the deer in this space and then coloured him with whisper markers.
I stamped the solid leaf and the acorn in brown archival round the bottom of the heart shape. I love that little acorn!
I do think that the deer looks a very majestic animal so the work strength was used on the card from Word Chains 12 .

And here it is!

I hope you liked these two! Let me know what you think please by leaving a comment below!

Happy Crafting

Wonderful Foxes

Well Good evening to you! I thought I would share with you one of the Cards I made for the December ClarityStamp Show on Create and Craft at the start of the month.

It uses the Foxes Kit and one of the new words from Word Chain set 11. I love the Word Chain Sets and to have more to choose from is just Fabulous! All the new sets extend the range and selection really well and work independently or together. 

Anyway here is the Card I made 

I started off by stamping the foxes in brown Archival ink...I used potting soil
I then masked it off and added a moon mask.

I added hills with using a piece of torn paper using my brown ink brush....I didn't add any more ink....it's amazing how much they hold! 
I then brushed blue over the sky again not adding ink to the blue brush.
I removed the mask off the foxes and the moon and coloured in the foxes using the spectrum noir pencil crayons. I added shadow under the foxes with a make up sponge then stamped the grasses in green Archival ink all the way across the bottom.
I then stamped the word Wonderful over the top of the moon. 
I then matted and layered onto brown pearlescent card then on to orange before putting onto an 8 x 8 card blank.

Hope you liked it!

Happy Crafting

It's a frosty day!

Good afternoon folks.

Its a cold one here today! We still have hailstones on our lawn from yesterday! 

But all is well in the Telford Household and tomorrow after the Claritystamp Show on Create and craft at 9 - 11am Christmas will arrive as Colin and I will be putting up the tree and other decorations! 

In the meantime I realised that I have been a bad blogger again and not posted many of last months cards so here are a couple using the Winds of Change stamps..

This first one using the winds of Change set started off as a background made using shaving foam and distress reinkers. I added the hills with torn paper and ink then stamped the tree, man with the brolly and the sentiment in black archival.

The next one used the tree from the same set. This time I stamped onto black card in versamark and added white glittery embossing powder. I matted onto white then black card before putting onto a white card blank. I added 4 gems to the corners. I made sure I had dusted the card with talc before I stamped it. This helps to stop you sliding and also helps to stop the powder sticking to the card where you don't want it!

Right I am off to have a play with some secret stuff!!!

Have a good weekend

Happy Crafting

Good Morning to you!

And Happy December! Hope it's a good one to all of you!

Over at the Clarity blog Challenge there is a new challenge for you to take part in and what a great idea to have this as a challenge in National Tree week.

I always think of the poem by Joyce Kilmer when I think of trees.

Trees

BY JOYCE KILMER

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest

Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,

And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in Summer wear

A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;

Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.

Just Lovely! 

Anyway for my card I used the Large walnut tree stamp.

I stamped and embossed it in white on black and then black on white. I then mounted these side by side onto silver mirri card.

I stamped a seperate border using the leaf set 4 and the sentiment then attached it all to the front of a card blank.

And here it is! 

Hope that you like it. There are lots of fabulous inspiration over at the challenge blog! I think you should have a look then Have a go!

Happy Crafting!

A little bit girly!

I want to share two cards I made for the last Claritystamp show on Create and Craft.

They were both made using the stencils and stamps to go with them. I used a stencil to create the background. I used raspberry ink on the dress and sail boat blue on the shoe card. I also used a corresponding wow embossing powder to emboss the stamping.

I was quite pleased with how they looked as a set. They were also quite quick to make if you needed a emergency card!

Thanks for looking

Travel

Good Morning to you and welcome to November! Outside it looks more like the summer than almost winter although there is a chill in the air when you do venture outside. 

As with the start of every month comes the start of a new challenge over at the Clarity Challenge blog! Last month we saw some amazing projects.You are all just getting better and better! I can't wait to see what entries you come up with this month!

The theme of Travel brings to mind holidays and trips out to the country so just the thing to keep us going as the darker nights creep in!

When I first saw the title I immediately thought of the hot air balloons that I have in my clarity stamps stash but then I thought that a lot of people may use them and wanted to do something a bit different. I remember doing a grid car a while back and thought that would be perfect to use many different stamps. I then had to locate all the stamps that could be linked to travel... not so easy as they are all on acetate now and in folders. However I got an assortment together and off I went.

A piece of Theuva card trimmed by 2 cm off each side and masking tape at the ready, two ink pads....sailboat blue and raspberry.... and we were off on our travels! Each panel was masked off and created before moving onto the next...pink round two edges and blue round the opposite two. 

Then the little scenes were created before masking off the adjoining squares. I even used the ink pads to stamp with so that the colours all blended. It did take some time but I think it was worth it. 

Once I had done all the panels I brushed round the edges with blue then matted onto a piece of raspberry pearlescent card then onto white then onto a piece of blue before attaching it to the front of an A5 card blank.

I found the little wooden tag and coloured it using the two ink pads then wrote Travel on it using a black fineliner. I added a bit of garden twine and some gems and here is the finished card!

I hope you will be inspired to have a go yourself and if this is not enough then pop over to the rest of the design teams pages...there are some stunning projects for you to see.

Don't forget to enter you must use clarity stamps only but there is a fabulous prize of a voucher for £50 on offer to a randomly selected entry. It could be you!

And don't forget Barbara will be on Create and Craft tomorrow (Sunday) 9 - 11am with some fabulous new stamps and stencils. 

Happy Crafting