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

 







Happy Holidays

 

Well I thought it was about time I came on my blog and said Hi to you all!

It has been a very busy and stressful term at school so these holidays are a time for me to relax and enjoy some well desreved me time.

 

I have managed to get a bit of crafting in but mainly at organised weekends when things have been planned but that has been good for me as it has developed my skills and pushed my creativity to the nth degree which has to be a good thing.

 

I was thrilled that just before Christmas I finally won the Clarity Challenge Here is the card I won with.

 

I was even more thrilled when Barbara contacted me to ask if she could use it as the Clarity Christmas E card that went out to her customers....Like I would say no!

 

Anyway I had better go and get my trifle finished! Off to see my brother and his family to day and I am taking the pudding!

 

See you all soon

 

Happy Crafting

 

Jane xx

A little bit Indigo Blu!

Well I cannot believe just how busy its been at the beginning of term! I knew it was going to be a busy start but WOW! What with new heavy timetable...new subjects for me to teach...open evening and then OFSTED arrived!
But all is OK and I can breathe a bit now!

So yesterday I decided to have an evening doing what I like and did a couple of cards using the Indigo blu Stamps...oh and I used one of Sheena Douglass's new stamps to add a few bits to it too.

 

The first one I stamped the tree in versamark then used winter wonderland embossing powder so it was white but with a bit of sparkle. I made sure I used the anti static bag on the black card adn it did pay off! I used the versamark pen to add a few dots and swirls then matted it on to some red card then onto some green and red backing paper. Here is the result...

 

 

The second on I embossed in green embossing powder then I stamped the corners with versamark using the border stamp in the Sheena Douglass snowflake stamps set. I then used pan pastels round the edges. I mounted this onto some silver holographic card

Once I had done the topper I stamped the base card with the Indigo Blu script stamp (which is great for backgrounds) just randomly with versamark and I added a few bits of the snowflake border then went over it with green and turquoise pan pastels. Here is the finished card...

 



 

 

Hope you are having a crafty weekend

 

Love

Jane xx

Clarity Weekend

Well as it is the Clarity weekend...when Barbara Gray does the Classroom show and her regular monthly show on Create and craft I thought I would show you my 2 cards that I have done for the last 2 clarity challenges

The first on is the Sports themed one. It had to say sports but could not have the olympic rings on it. It also had to be in red white and blue!

 

I drew the flame and cut it out of paper to make a stencil which I then stencilled onto card using pan pastels. I also used Pan Pastels to create the background and the SpOrt stamp. Then I stamped the sports icons in red and blue onto a piece of white card then assembled it all together!

 

 

The Second Card had to have a stamp, a bird and a tree on it and had to use shrink plastic somewhere in it.

I hadn't used the wire tree before so I wanted to incorporate this somewhere in the design and had considered using this on shrink plastic...but then I had a dream and this is the card I dreamt...My bird is the Kingfisher done in shrink plastic....It looked quite cute I thought. I like doing the stamp stamps and thought that the flower stamps would look good in them. The idea was that the flower stamps were the garden around the tree....yes I do have weird dreams. The backing paper was done with the stamp we got from the New design stamp club. I really useful stamp.



 

Well there you go!

 

Hope you have had a good crafty weekend

 

See you all soon

 

Jane xx

My Addiction!!

Now those of you who know me will be aware that I am addicted to stamping.
Yes I admit it..... I cannot pass a good stamp and I was looking for a particular stamp and found I had some stamps that I had still to explore so these are what I made following that discovery!

 

I used distress inks to do this and then Wow embossing powder for the plants at the front!

The backing was some spellbinders and M-bossibilities which I then rubbed with the ink blender to make it stand out a bit more.



 

I used distress ink again on this one and a bit of spritzing to get the background. Then the image and sentiment were stamped and embossed in black. The flowers and leaves were cut using memory box dies! And the backing is an M-Bossibility folder again once embossed it was rubbed over with ink to make the pattern 'pop'.

 

This last one saw me using my pan pastels to do the background. I used the pale tint blues and greens to create the background then stamped in brown adirondack to soften the image. I thought black would have been too harsh. I put the piece of peacock blue codinations card through an M-bossibilities folder and them sanded it to show up the pattern.

The borders are a spellbinders die and the flower I created by cutting and crumpling paper then putting it together with a brad. The borders are cut from brown card to tie everything together.

 

Well thats it for today!

 

Happy crafting

 

love and hugs

 

Jane xx