You are amazing

Good morning all, I hope you are having a good week. I'm off to have the root touch up today, you know to cover the twinkly bits that I'm still in denial about. Thinking about going grey all over so that it just blends in lol.

Anyway, today's card was an experiment with a new stamp set and some of those new  Distress Oxide Inks by the very clever Tim Holtz.

I was very lucky to win an incredibly generous giveaway on Instagram from the lovely Beverley at Uniko stamps, 6 stamp sets!!! So today's card is made using one of those.

I stamped the Fun Flowers set from Uniko, randomly on a piece of Kraft card. Then I blended, Wilted Violet, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber, Broken China, Cracked Pistachio and Worn Lipstick distress inks all over the top.

These inks blend so easily, they are absolutely gorgeous, and beautiful colours too. Then I went all over the design with my Spectrum Noir Glitter Shimmer pen in clear. I'm not sure the camera has picked up the sparkle all that well but believe me it does look lovely.

The sentiment is from a WPlus9 set called That is All, and I finished it off by sticking the panel to a deep purple card blank.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Sending flowery hugs

Good morning all, and welcome to November, I hope you are well and having a good week.

Today's card is one I made as a request from my daughter-in-law for one of her good friends. I used the Spring Daisy set from Altenew, but changed the colours to look a little more like sunflowers.

I stamped the outline stamp with Dark Chocolate Altenew ink and then did the inner stamps with Mango Smoothie and Warm Sunshine.

Then I used a brown Pigma Micron pen to add more colour to the centres. The leaves were then stamped with Memento Inks in Olive Grove and Pistachio.

I cut the panel down to fit on a 7x5 card base and then added a soft gold mat using a stitched rectangles set.

The sentiment is from a WPlus9 set called That is All. I stamped the first part directly on to the card front and then stamped and diecut the word Hugs several times and layered them together to give the card a bit of dimension.

Then I finished it off with a few clear droplets.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Distress Crayon Background Card

Good morning friends, thank goodness it's Friday. Are you looking forward to the weekend too?

Today's card was an experiment for me, and I don't think it turned out too badly to be honest. 

We have had the Tim Holtz Distress Crayons since July, but haven't really used them before. So I thought I would try a simple watercolour background card.

I used three of the crayons from set 3, neutral/browns, on watercolour paper. I wet the paper first and then scribbled the crayons over the top and then brushed water over again with a water brush.

I repeated these steps a few times until I got the depth of colour I wanted and then dried it off with my heat gun. It's probably better to leave it to dry naturally but I'm not a patient crafter lol.

Once it was dry, I stamped a leaf image three times using Versamark ink, and then heat embossed it with Wow Metallic Brass embossing powder. Then I used a WPlus9 stamp set called That is All to stamp the sentiment using Black Memento ink. 

I cut the panel with a Tonic Studios Scalloped die, and then matted it on to brown card and a white card base.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you next week.

xxx