Hennah Elements Birthday

I really like the design I did the other day with my red flowers so used the design again today - some more practice with my pencils.   This time my colour scheme was purple based

I used an Altenew set called Hennah Elements.  It's got some lovely open flowers perfect for colouring.  I can't stop using my Prismacolour pencils at the moment.  This one used several shades of purples and greens.   Once coloured I fussy cut close to the lines.  The largest one is popped up with some foam tape.  I used a sentiment from Sugar Pea Designs (for SOA by Catherine Pooler)  The card is a prefolded pearlised one, so clear embossed the sentiment (first time round did not and smudged it! 😞😞  Luckily was able to save the flowers and re-do the sentiment!  The die cut was coloured with Wilted Violet distress ink.  I'll have to borrow my friends die and cut some more white ones.

I have decided that seeing as how I used my new pencils, that qualifies it for the "Something New" challenge at Simon Says Stamp.
And I'm also entering the Anything Goes at Craft Stamper challenge.  and Anything Goes at Crafting when we can.

I can't wait to try more colouring.  I'm going to take an online class to help improve.

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your weekend.

Stamping with MISTI and Altenew flowers....

Saturday I got to spend time crafting with my group of friends.  We haven't meet for quite some time... life  has been busy for all of us.  We had an awesome day catching up with what's been happening with us all, sharing stamps and ideas and of course, a fabulous lunch.  There were 5 of us  this time... a nice number.  I took along a few of newer stamps and the others stamped off a few to make up later. I got onto starting the cards for my commission.. got a production line under way and got 5 done.   Then it was play time.   I showing my friends my MISTI and how you can use it to do stamp layering.

Still practice needed... but getting there.  I used Altenew Inks to do my layering.   I used the "You" set from SOA to stamp the sentiment.  Thanks to Helen who had a perfect piece of purple card to make the mat.

And I did some CASEing.  My friend Suna had given me a beautiful card as part of our NZ technique swap.    Here it is

And she made the envelope as well....  I asked if I could CASE it as I loved the design.

Here is my card

I used the same design, similar washi tapes and I used purple leaves.  I changed up the flower, using one from Altenew Peony Scrolls together with the leaves from the set.  I added a sentiment from Hero Arts. This is heading off overseas to my June CCC partner.

Hope you had a great weekend.  I'm hanging in there to get the latest SOA kit that I won.  I've had notification that it has been posted :-)

Rainbow Birthday

While I had my Geo Builders stamp set out over the long weekend, I made another Rainbow card.  I have a very ancient Colorbox rainbow ink pad.  I was surprised to find it was still very juicy. 

I stamped the Geo Builders stamp once, then turned it around and stamped again... this gives the circle looking image.  I masked off the little stripe, and used the ink pad to colour.  I also used ink direct to card to colour up some cardstock to die cut the You.  The sentiment is from the SOA Beautiful world collection, the You stamp set.  Added the little hearts that were part of the die set as well as some other little hearts and stars. 

We had an awesome long weekend - very relaxing and then on Monday we travelled 1.5hrs south to watch our nephew Jason, play in the Waikato rugby team against Thames Valley.  It was a Ranfurly Shield game.  It was his debut for his regional team and he did well.  Even scored a try!  It was a great day out, catching up with a few of the family who went to watch. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Playing with Foiling

One of my purchases at the Perth Craft Fair was some Deco Foil.  I got two - Silver and Pumpkin.  I saw that it could be used with double sided tape so got to spend some time yesterday having a play.  I also had my Stamp of Approval Collection on my desk.  My inspiration for this card was from Catherine Pooler's KISS card video from last week.

I started by stamping the bottom layer with a stamp from the Geo Builders set.  The circles are from The Enchanted Garden set and were stamped with a Kaliedorcolor Ink called Calypso.    I added a stripe of double sided tape and used the Pumpkin foil.  I also added some to card stock and then die cut the Hello from Winnie & Walter.  The rest of the sentiment is from a Hero Arts stamp set.

It's time to do some Masking....

The latest challenge at Simon Says Stamp is all about Masking.  And I have new stamps and inks to play with.    So I pulled out my new Altenew Daisies stamp set and new Yellow inks,Zig Brush Markers, post it notes, Moltow masking pen, sentiment stamp from Sugar Pea (part of the SOA Beautiful World collection) a distress paint dauber and this is what happened!

I started by stamping onto some Canson water colour paper,  and used the Post it notes to mask the main daisy.  I then used the Moltow liquid to cover all the flowers.  I then used a blue Zig marker to do a wash of colour, added some splatters of yellow.  I then removed the masking liquid progressively and used the Inks to add the other layer to the daisies and leaves.   Added Spectrum Noir clear sparkle to the centres and splatters of the watered down Distress paint in Wild Honey.  Finished with the sentiment from the Beautiful World SOA collection.

Entered into the Mask it challenge at Simon Says Stamp