Red, white and blue...

I am becoming quite a follower of the Less is More blog and this weeks challenge was just as the title suggests. Neutrals are allowed.

So I inked abandoned coral through the Tim Holtz stencil. I stamped sentiment in cobalt blue archival ink and the crow in black archival. The stamps are from Visible Image. I went round the edges with a black sharpie and mounted on white base card with foam tape.

And it is as simple as that. I enjoyed making it and I hope you like it too, Theresa xx.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Simply less is more - red, white and blue

Addicted to CAS - patriotic

in the garden.......

Hello and welcome back. Today I'm featuring a commissioned card. My brief was that she liked gardening and loved pastel colours.

So I could picture it in my head and I tried to put it down on paper. For some reason I immediately thought of a gatefold card.

This card is built around masking and there is a lot of it. So several post it notes were harmed in the process.

I started by stamping out all the images in black archival ink first. The stamps are all by Claritystamp Ltd.

I had 2 panels for the front and a square one for the insert.

On the first panel I stamped the wheel barrow, masked it and stamped the flowers. Then I stamped the cracked pots, gloves and trowel. I masked all the images off and worked on background. I used a torn sheet of copy paper for the grass and used brushes for the ink. I know I used distress inks and definitely tumbled glass, peeled paint, shabby shutters and abandoned coral. I'm sure there must be others but I don't remember.

This panel I tried to make a continuum with the other. This time I used the new pots, watering can and fork. I masked them off again to ink background. This time I added a mask for the sun as well.

Then it was time for insert. I stamped the barn with rolling fields in the back and the large wheel barrow at the front for perspective. I added the poppies right at the edge to add more depth. I masked and again inked background.

Then it was time to colour in. I used Spectrum Noir pencils for this. I do love those pencils. They are fab. I used several as I wanted to give dimension to the objects. I also added shading with the grey pencils.

Finally I went round the images with a black micron pen to frame them. I added sentiment in black archival. some matting and layering and then I mounted on white base card.

So i do hope you like my offering. I'm told the recipient did, Theresa xx

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Claritystamp blog challenge - anything goes

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - anything goes with a twist: in the garden

Sister act Card Challenge - anything goes

get well soon

Hello again. yes I have had another play with Jo's bubbles stencil. I do love it. I made this card for my son's friend who has hurt himself and is not able to go to school and so had to pull out of the school play. I'm sure he's gutted as this chap loves acting and he is good at it.

 

So I used the new colours of distress ink, and added colour through larger circles with: fossilized amber, cracked pistachio, mermaid lagoon, abandoned coral. I tried to keep the little circles monochromatic.

Then using black archival ink and the wee folk, I stamped the 2 boys as shown. I extended the rope of the swinging lad to make it look as if it is under and over the gaps between circles. I added a bit of shadow with hickory smoke under the boy holding the bubble.

Same bleaching and white pen as in my previous post. Went round the edge with a black pen.

 

I stamped the sentiment on a separate piece of card and edged in black again. mounted it on an A6 card with foam tape for a bit of dimension and hopefully it goes with the sketch above.

So I hope Ross like it, Theresa xx.

Stamps and stencil are from Claritystamp.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Less is more challenge - sketch

Simon says Stamp Monday challenge - summer (colours used are the summer hues)

TTCRD - anything goes

something fishy ...

 Hello my crafty friends. I was determined to make a CAS card using stencils which was the challenge over at Less is More.

Hopefully it is a quick post today. I used this very versatile stencil called Jo's bubbles. Using brushes I inked with cracked pistachio distress ink and then mermaid lagoon.

I faux bleached with water and a paint brush little areas over bubbles to create dimension and added a highlight with a white pen.

I stamped the fish with black archival ink and used the same distress markers to colour it in. Then I highlighted it with clear wink of stella which is really difficult to see.

I stamped the sentiment in lower right hand corner.

Stamps and stencil are from Claritystamp.

So i hope you like my CAS card, Theresa xx.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Less is more challenge - stencils

TTCRD - anything goes
CAS on Sunday - one layer

Fancy folds...... my first project for the fussy and fancy challenge

Hello my friends. I am very excited to be sharing this project with you as it is the first one on the Fussy and Fancy DT. This was a challenge that I participated in quite frequently and on a few occasions i made the top 5 and now I am part of the girls..... I am so chuffed.

Enough waffle and onto the card.

I started with a papermania 12x12 paper from their capsule collection which I folded in half and glued together. This gave me the base card. I then die cut it to get the 'fancy' folds. This is achievable without a die but is a bit fiddly.

The die also comes with dies for mats for all panels. So I die cut the rectangles in gold mirri and the scalloped ones in white centura pearl card.

On the central white mat I stamped the sentiment in versamark and embossed in detail gold powder. I matted and layered all the pieces as shown. Then i die cut some flourishes with a spellbinders die in gold mirri and arranged them as shown.

 It was now time to add more embellishments. On the front panel I added some white tulle and a double bow in gold edged ribbon. The central rose is from Sweet lilac Flowers who is one of the sponsors this time. The 2 lilies are from my stash.

I also added some ribbon and a small rose from Sweet lilac Flowers to the sentiment panel.

This is how the card looks from the top - it shows you all the folds. And the bonus is that when it folds down it is A6 size (10x15 cm).

So that is my first offering and I hope you like it and it offers some inspiration.

Go on then, join us in this challenge and don't forget to look at the Fussy and Fancy Challenge blog for more inspiration from my teamies.

I would like to enter the card in the following challenges:

Everybody art challenge - multi-fold card
Ladybug crafts: June challenge - use your dies
Inky impressions challenge - embellish it

feathers....

Hello again. It's been a good few days since my last blog. The days are flying by.....

On Sunday it was my friend's 40th and this is the card I made for her.

I started with a piece of centura pearl card and using the matte side I stamped the feathers in versamark and clear embossed. This creates a resist for the next part.

Then I inked background with distress inks. I used chipped sapphire, stormy sky, mermaid lagoon, peacock feathers and evergreen bough.

Then using same inks and splats from the texture set, I added first and second generation images to background. I also used the text stamp which I held in my hand to stamp randomly across background.

 I stamped the 2 large feathers on a separate piece of card in cobalt archival ink. I coloured them in with distress markers: squeezed lemonade, evergreen bough an peacock feathers.

I fussy cut them and 'feathered' them as much as I dared.

I stamped sentiment in cobalt blue and die cut it.

Finally I mounted the card as shown. Some ribbon. twine and pearls finish it off.
All the stamps are from Sheena Douglass.

So I hope my friend liked my effort and if you do too I'd love to read what you think, Theresa xx

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Simon says stamp Wednesday challenge - anything goes

That craft place challenge - layers

TTCRD - anything goes

Fat-Tastic Tuesday - anything goes with a twist: a touch of summer (blue and                                                                                                                  yellow..... sea and sun)

Sister act card challenge - anything goes

home is where the heart is.......

Hello again. Today i'm popping in with 2  CAS cards. I was having a look at The Less is More blog and the theme was home.

These cards are created in same way, just using different background and colour of ink and house stamp.

The brown one is stamped with gathered twigs distress ink on ivory linen card. I thought this would give a canvas-like look. So I stamped and dried lightly with heat gun and then pulled out colour with a damp brush. This creates shading without much fuss.

The sentiment is stamped in potting soil archival ink.

The blue one uses chipped sapphire distress ink and a different stamp. Here I also stamped some birds in first and second generation ink to create depth.

After pulling colour in same way, and drying with heat gun, I added some glitter glue where there was snow. I hope you can see it in close ups.

So I hope you like my CAS cards. All the stamps are from the Sheena Douglass range, a Little bit Scenic.

I would like to enter these cards in the following challenges:

Less is More - one layer card - home

TTCRD - anything goes

Sister act Card challenge - anything goes