I just wanted to show you a card I did last week for a card swap using the same sponging technique I used on another cards.
Remember this one…
A simple and I think a very effective card, simple to do.
With a little Resist Embossing before the sponging was applied.
And here it is.
This card only has two layers…the card base and the sponged strip.
You can Find a PDF tutorial HERE
This is a fun little project and it just sort of came together…….
I have been getting things ready for my market this Saturday and the other day purchased some candles and this great jar. Now I was going to store lavender in this jar….
but then read that GDP was doing a 3D project…..OK I can make this work. This will be a great display item.
With few little pieces of ribbon, gold thread and some flowers this is what I came up with.
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It’s Wednesday night and only 2 days left to get everything ready…
ready for what, I hear you say.
Ready for the Moss Vale Night Market..
If your in the area please call in and say Hi!
Anyway here is what I have been working on…
I am so please with how these have worked out and they will be a great part to my display.
I’m hoping to run a class on making these as I can see these as great gifts or even part of a display for a Wedding or Engagement Party.
If you are interested in learning how to make these or be apart of a class then please contact me.
The other day I was offered the chance to have a one off Market stall at Moss Vale Night Time Markets on the Saturday 28th January. I spent an hour or two thinking about it and decide OK lets to do…the problem being that’s this weekend less than a week to organise. Well with my skates on…I’m off..
Make a list….I’m not a list maker…..post-it notes every where.
Business Cards – Give away Done
Gazebo, Table, Chair – Organised for me
Cards…packaged, Priced – Done
Yesterday finished off the January Birthday Cards and they have been sent…forgot to photograph…Blast!
But heres some happy mail I did receive from a Stampin’ Up! friend Alisa Tilsner, isn’t it a beautiful card I’m feeling so lucky.
Did I mention that my son is in Cambodia with the school and having a great time.
He’s been visiting different place learning about there life and customs. They have a sister school which for years the students have been visiting and raising money for them. yesterday they went there and taught the children for a day…they taught them about Australia – where we are and our animals. And played soccer against a couple of school teams, apparently the Cambodian kids practice all year looking forward to there visit……Cambodia WON!
Trust my son to play with glasses on!!
Anyway he gets back same day as the markets….good thing that’s AM and markets PM…..hope plane isn’t delayed.
So please forgive me for not posting …
How often do we forget to “Enjoy the Little Things”,
we spend so much time worrying about all the different things that life throws at us that we forget to “Enjoy the Little Things”.
This week, Global Design Project has challenged us with a Sketch Challenge.
Funny things is …I started my card the day before the challenge came out.
Last week I did a water colour card using these same colours.
Blushing Bride, Mint Macaron, Sweet Sugarplum, So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise and Peekaboo Peach.
This was a fun card to do and a simple card to do but I think very effective.
With this card I masked off the bottom section of the card and then sponged the colour blending them one into another.
A Bokeh effect was created by adding drops of water onto the sponged area and letting it dry, the water moving the colour to form lighter areas.
The sentiment was stamped with Basic Black – Archival Ink, this will with stand any water and not bleed. Splatters of ink was added with the same 6 colours used in the sponging.
This was done by watering the ink down with an Aqua Painter and tapping the Aqua Painter against another bush to form the splatters across the card front.
Just take care when doing this as the splatters will go everywhere and I mean everywhere.
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Talk about leaving things to the last minute…..today is the last day for this challenge. Luckily I knew what I wanted to achieve…
something simple and elegant.
I knew what stamp set I wanted to use but some of the components I needed I didn’t have.
Its amazing sometimes what you can come up with if time is running out…LOL, but its not something I recommend doing, can also be a bit stressful.
“Here is our colour challenge this week the fun part is you get to choose one of the colours to add in.”
If you don’t have a copy and you live in Australia let me know and I will get one to you ASAP.
This set is becoming a favorite for many but as soon as I saw it I loved it and for many reasons.
This list could go on and on……but for me one stamp meant more than to me than the others. It reminded me of a drawing I have and love.
It was done by Grandmother and it was done when my father would have been a child.
Pencil Drawing by Gladys May Harris (nee – Duncan)
“The cloche hat or simply cloche is a fitted, bell-shaped hat for women that was invented in 1908 by milliner Caroline Reboux,
especially became popular from about 1922 to 1933. Its name is derived from cloche, the French word for “bell”.” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloche_hat
A more in depth history on this hat can be found here – https://startupfashion.com/fashion-archives-history-cloche-hat/
So of course I card is of the elegant lady wearing a Closhe….“life looks beautiful on you” or on her!
The colours for this challenge are Delightful Dijon, Silver and one other of your choice. I just went with “Black” as I wanted to keep this looking very elegant, slightly formal and simple.
This stamp is a simple “outline” stamp with another stamp that gives you a stylized wash for the dress.
I have added a layer on the black of the Fabulous Foil Designer Acetate using the silver side (gold on other side).
Very simple and easy to do, a stamp set I real recommending you getting..
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February’s Class is going to based on these Dyes and Stamp set.
If your interested in this class, check out my class dates in the Events Tab above and give me a call and book your spot.
This is going to be so much fun, I can’t wait. So in the meantime have a look at this video by Stampin’ Up!
Mmmmm!….don’t these colours look beautiful together..there fun, fresh cool just like those iceblocks.
So the Live, Laugh, Love from the “Laying Love” really suited the Image and colours
This weeks challenge by Colour INKspiration is to make a card/project using at least 3 of these colours.
I couldn’t resist I had to use all of them.
I saw this technique on You Tube and really loved the effect it gave, so I thought OK, I can do this no problems. This is the result of my second attempt…
the first one straight into the bin and there went my last piece of Watercolour paper.
So after going to bed and sleeping on the idea…( do my best thinking in bed or in the shower ), I gave it another try.
I had to do it before getting showered and dressed this morning.
This card is what I came up with. With my first try I just layered my water and painted with watered down ink…NO!
But “NO” watercolour paper….next best thing is Shimmery White Cardstock.
I stamped the sentiment in VersaMark and embossed with Black Embossing Powder.
Using a small/fine paint brush I painted clean water where I wanted the first colour to go – Blushing Bride, working with one colour at a time.
I didn’t dilute the ink, I just painted it on and let the water already on the cardstock move it about and dilute it.
I did this right along ..one colour at a time…painting with clean water and then adding the colour.
I did go back and added more water and more colour where I wanted more depth of colour or movement.
I’m really pleased with the result.
But then how can you do this at home or in a class?
So out came “Gorgeous Grunge”
Still using all the same colours I stamped the largest “Splatter” stamp over lapping the colours a little.
Then with the Basic Black Ink I stamped the sentiment, the colours are bold and bright and still a lot of fun.
But I didn’t stop here…I then tried it again, this time “stamping off” some of the colour before stamping onto the cardstock, to give it a softer tone.
All of these cards where stamped on Shimmery White Cardstock, the last two cards could have been done with using the Whisper White Cardstock as there was no water involved.
Here are all three cards so you can compare them…Give it ago , I would love to see what you come up with.
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This is the first challenge for 2017 – CTC110 -CASEing the Catty Challenge.
For this Challenge I had to take inspiration from pages 4-7 of the 2017 Occasions Catalogue Party Animals.
So here’s my Inspiration…
Now as yet I don’t have this great stamp set so I have used another from the Occasions Catalogue and here is my card.
The white embossing really “POPS” on the Tangerine Tango.
This is a simple card to do and would be great to do at a Stampin’ Up! Party.
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Have started making videos and my first being on Fussy Cutting…this can also be found on my You Tube Channel so look me up