'My heartfelt wish...'

My Heartfelt Wish....

Courtesy of Papercraft Essentials magazine, I have put the Lavina Stamps cover gift to good use.

Using a piece of 200gsm Stamp & Colour Card (Stamps Away) I took a circle mask and blended tumbled glass distress ink around it. Then I blended around this with faded jeans distress ink, removed the circle mask and used spiced marmalade to blend the sun in the background. I then used a spritz solution containing gold mica powder to add a nice speckled effect. having dried this with my heat gun I was ready to start stamping.

After trying several black ink, I opted for Ranger Black Archival, though the stamps seemed to be greasy, so I cleaned them and tried again. (A little more practice required with this image...possibly too much pressure as the images are not as crisp as I would have liked).

Firstly, I stamped the fairy centrally over the sun and then the two groups of fairy wishes. I then stamped several groups of ivy below the fairy as if she were walking on ivy. I dried the images then using a Sakura pen added the birds in the background (right).

Using a quickie glue pen around the wings and on the wishes I added Hunkydory Diamond Sparkles - Midnight Black.

Once dry I trimmed the image and matted it onto black card.

The verse was stamped onto the same white card with Archival and then matted onto black card.

The image was then matted onto a 300gsm Adorable Scorable (A5 Portrait) base card and I finally added the matted verse piece.

Thanks for popping in ...

Happy Crafting!

Karen x

"STAMPS CARVED FROM A POTATO!"

"STAMPS CARVED FROM A POTATO!"

Craft Stamper Take It, Make It Challenge

MAY 2014

Hi Folks.......

Smashing....lol

This challenge really took me back to my school days, I remember potato printing, but also cabbage, onions and other items when I was a child?                                                                                                            
(I really enjoyed carving the potato, easier than I recall, perhaps the knife was sharper.)

Having cut my potato into three parts, I punched a butterfly template using a Martha Stewart punch and carved around this from the potato. For my second stamp, I placed a punched circle onto the potato and again carved around this. While for the third I used a scrap piece of card from which I had previously punched a star and carved the centre from this, though I decided not to use the star in my final piece.

At this point I decided to use a Stamps Away stencil to create the background, with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink; punched six more butterflies and two cherubs from copier paper to use as masks and created the background. I then took Mustard Seed to create the centre circle behind my sun having used a punched circle as a mask.

The next bit was fun, giving potato printing a go ....the potatoes (in picture above) are Dusty Concord (butterfly) and Spiced Marmalade (sun/circle) Distress Inks.  

 I dried the background a little with my heat gun and stamped the potato butterfly in the areas I had previously masked. Having dried them, I did the same with the circle (sun).

As all entries MUST have real stamping too, I decided this should be minimal on this occasion and felt an appropriate verse would suffice. So I stamped the 'Love  is like a butterfly... ' verse stamp from CraftiDevils.

I then layered the finished piece onto black card. (Right)

On the left is a section close up of the butterfly, sun and verse.

Thank You for reading my blog...Happy Stamping!

Take Care .... Karen Gartland x

"SWEET DREAMS" PLAQUE

"SWEET DREAMS"

Evening Crafters...

"You're never too old 

to set another goal

or to dream a

NEW DREAM."

                                 - C. S. Lewis.

 Here I have created a wooden shaped plaque (one of several plaques created recently) - creating these can be addictive! I've used the Pinflair Buff It and Buff It sealer in the background.  Onto this I added a 'Gorjuss' decoupaged image and also 'Gorjuss' Alphabet stickers, both were twice sealed with Pinflair Glaze. I used a Pinflair Pearl Wand to create the pearls around the edge. 

I added a few Sweet Lilac Flowers which I also glazed (once) and added a heart shaped gem from my stash to the centre of the white flower.

Finally, I added the 'Gorjuss' stripped ribbon which matches her tights.

My thanks for the lovely products go to:

http://www.sweetlilac.co.uk/

http://pinflair.co.uk/

http://www.bgpaynecrafts.co.uk/

and to my Kraft Kave stash.

Thanks for dropping in and Happy Crafting!