Splattery Goodness Rose

Yesterday I was playing with a layering flower die but once finished I couldn't decide on a card design for it to go on. This morning I woke in the mood for some mixed media, splattery goodness - you all know how much I love getting inky! Here's how it ended up.

My background is a very, very old retired paper from Stampin' Up which has a script writing pattern. I inked over with old paper distress oxide. Over that I stencilled with grit paste and also stamped some splatters with more of the same ink. Once everything was dry, the rose and background received a liberal splattering of watered down white gesso. The last steps were mounting everything and adhering two layers of a sentiment die. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Timeless Textures (Stampin' Up)
• card - Sahara sand, basic black, retired SU designer paper (no idea what it's called, sorry)
• dies - Lovely Layers Rose Honey Cuts (Honey Bee Stamps), love (stash)
• Altenew inks - Green valley minis, Rose Petal minis
• other - blending brushes, Big Shot, fan brush, white gesso, distress grit paste opaque, grime mini stencil (Tim Holtz), spatula, craft foam, old paper distress oxide ink

I hope you've managed some creative endeavour today. Thanks for calling in.

Cheers

Kerry

Good Ideas

The Color Throwdown folks have another great combo I couldn't resist playing along with.

I kept with the coffee theme from the inspiration pic for my card.

Materials used:

• stamps - Coffee Run (Echo Park)
• card - basic white, night of navy, coastal cabana, watercolour
• other - Altenew inks, blending brushes, craft foam, Dimensionals, coffee bean stencil (Paper Rose), mini splatters stencil (Tim Holtz), Big Shot, Papercut Cafe colorize dies (Tim Holtz), Love You More Than dies (SU), lost shadow and vintage photo distress oxide inks (Tim Holtz), MISTI, night of navy ink (SU)

I gave my background piece a very light sponge with lost shadow oxide ink then stencilled coffee beans and splatters with the same colour. When I stamped, I masked the word 'coffee' from the stamp so I could use the die instead (3 layers for depth and dimension). The cups have a split in them which is perfect for stacking and are coloured with Altenew inks as I love their sets with a light, medium, dark and darker. So much fun to put together!

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

The Card Concept - Floral Valentine

It's time for another Card Concept challenge and this time around, love is in the air! Floral Valentine is the theme but of course you can take any aspect of the picture as inspiration.

I've made a clean and layered card inspired by the general theme and the colours.

I began by making the envelope, then stamped, stencilled and cut the flowers and leaves. Once I was happy with the arrangement I worked on my background, continuing the love letter theme by using a postage stamp die and stencilling text (and flowers) on to my pink card. I used transparent texture paste so it would add interest but not steal the spotlight from my focal point. Lastly my die-cut sentiment was added - I cut two of each word from pale pink card and glued them together, then used whatever ink was left on my blending brush from doing the flowers and gently sponged the lower half of the letters for an ombre effect. 

Materials used:

• stamps - Garden Roses (PinkFresh Studios)
• card - very vanilla, pink pirouette, basic black
• Altenew inks - frosty pink, coral berry, ruby red, bamboo, parrot
• dies - Garden Roses die (PFS), Postale envelope die (Tim Holtz), Nesting postage stamps infinity dies (Hero Arts), Love You More Than dies (SU)
• stencils - Garden Roses stencils (PFS), The Flower Garden (Stamperia)
• other - MISTI, Big Shot, dimensionals, craft foam, blending brushes, sponge dauber, transparent gloss texture paste (Ranger)

Pop on over to the Card Concept blog to check out what lovely cards my team mates have created to inspire you, and thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Thoughts of You

I thoroughly spoiled myself yesterday with a crafting day (it was my birthday), even getting to play with new stuff! You know how fun that is. Here's one of the cards I made:

I'm entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge which this week has an Easter/Spring theme.

Materials used:

• stamps - Sentiment Strips 2 (Altenew), Songbirds on Branches (Pinkfresh Studios)
• card - basic white, pool party
• Altenew inks - frayed leaf, forest glades (leaves); mountain mist (sky); citrus burst, buttercream, lavender fields, deep iris (bird); coral berry, ruby red (flower/buds)
• stencils - Songbirds on Branches (Pinkfresh), slimline cloud (MFT)
• other - blending brushes, Big Shot, Songbirds on Branches die (Pinkfresh), mounting strips, craft foam, MISTI, pearlescent gems

Love the Altenew inks for using with layering stencils or stamps, they do gradients of colour so well. Pretty sure it won't be long before I'm playing with these again.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry