Woodware Stylised Flowers, part two

 

 

Hello, I hope everyone's having a great week. Here are the rest of the cards I made using the new Woodware Clear Magic Stylised Flower stamps. I really like these stamps & I used them on many of my projects for last Saturday's event day. I will show you those projects in upcoming blog posts.

 

 

For these two cards I used a sheet of Anna Marie Designs Dotty card as the card blank. I stamped 'Georgina' & its smaller version with Turquoise & Peony Versacolor inks, adding a little colour to the petals with watered down distress inks (Salty Ocean & Picked Raspberry). I cut them out & added them to the white card which I'd partly dry embossed with the Embossalicious Lattice folder.....

 

 

 

This stamp is 'Chloe'. I stamped the large stamp once & the smaller one four times onto white super smooth card with Onyx Black Versafine & heat set with WOW Clear Gloss embossing powder. I coloured the flowers with watercolour pencils, starting with dark oranges in the centre, moving to yellows at the tips. Then I mixed Sunshine Satin Silkies with water & painted over the top....

 

Versafine will mostly resist the Silkies, but I always wipe over the top with my finger immediately after applying....

 

 

The background is Shabby Shutters & Mowed Lawn distress inks through the
Imagination Crafts Wall stencil, with Weaving Ivy from Lavinia Stamps stamped with a permanent blue ink.

 

Here's 'Georgina' again, this time coloured with watercolour pencils & Imagination Crafts Silkies - Tuscan Satin & Sunshine Satin - I added dots of Glossy Accents to the petals when the Silkies were dry.......

 

 

 

The background is a piece of scrap card to which I added left over gesso & MS paint mix from another project, I scraped it through the TCW Tiny Circles stencil & put it aside. When I decided to use it for this card I blended Victoria Velvet distress ink over the card, wiping it off the stencilled areas.

                 

         

 

That's it, I shall be back soon. Thanks for looking & remember, the new blog challenge is up. All details are here.

 

Kirsten

Gift Boxes

 

 

*This is an Indigo Blu promotion post. Remember to leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway.*

 

Hello blog visitors, thanks for stopping by.

 

Question: What do you do if you have a tiny gift & the discarded cardboard insert from a loo roll?

 

Answer: you make a pillow gift box.............

 

 

 

I found the idea for this online somewhere, but I can't remember the website. They're so easy. Just use a bone folder to flatten the roll, score each end, using something round, a jam jar lid for example, then decorate.

 

I painted the one above with Martha Stewart paints, stamped a few Card-io Majestix flowers with Vintage Sepia Versafine ink & added Chartreuse Sparkle Medium through the
TCW Chickenwire Reversed stencil.

 

Then I made a second one..........

 

 

 

Painted with Hailstorm MS paint, stamped the Kaisercraft Bubble Wrap stamp with Plum Archival ink.............

 

 

 

Added MS Pollen paint with a baby wipe............

 

 

Stamped the Weaving Ivy stamp from Lavinia Stamps with Black Archival ink  - I wanted a patchy appearance, so used Archival instead of the Onyx Black Versafine ink that you would normally use with Lavinia stamps..........

 

 

 

Added Soft Purple Sparkle Medium through the TCW Chickenwire Reversed stencil as above.........

 

 

 

I stamped the 'Elizabeth Bennet' image twice onto shrink plastic with black Stazon ink, punched a hole in them & heated until they shrank, then attached them with baker's twine to tiny tags I made with scrap card, distress inks & a corner rounder punch.

                               

 

I have one final Indigo Blu project to show you & I shall do that in the morning. See you then & thanks for looking.

 

Kirsten

 

PS One day to go..............