Thinking of You

This card was loads of fun to make, incorporating some of my favourite techniques - watercolouring, sponging and distressing.

The sentiment was stamped twice to make it a bit darker and the bird and two bullrushes were stamped on watercolour paper, cut out and stuck on over the very vanilla image for dimension. I also "shabbied" the lace by sponging over patches of it.

Materials used:

• stamps - Every Moment, French Foliage, Silhouette Sentiments
• card - crumb cake, very vanilla, marina mist, watercolour paper, Elegant Soiree DSP
• inks & markers - soft suede, pear pizzazz, crumb cake, Baja breeze, marina mist, so saffron, more mustard
• other - lace, dimensionals, nestabilities die, aquapainter

Hope you get the chance to play with some of your favs today! Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kez

Wildflowers at Sunset

Well, after a wonderfully fun Brayering 101 with my lovely Sunday ladies, they are keen to move on to the next step and try Brayering 201. So when I got home from work yesterday I just had to sit and play with my brayer. My first few attempts ended up in the bin but I finally went with the one below, even though my brayering isn't quite as even as I would like it.

Materials used:

• stamps - Silhouette Sentiments (level 1 hostess)
• card - whisper white, basic black, rich razzleberry
• inks - regal rose, melon mambo, rich razzleberry, black StazOn
• other - brayer, circle punch, sponge

However! Note to self: don't use cheap post it notes for masking! They don't punch very well (even using two sheets instead of just one) and they also leak the ink in a little. From now on I'll have to stick to the original, more expensive post its!

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers
Kez