Circle of Friends

 

Hi There! I am here with a super-quick and easy card for my blog post as I am being a busy Bee with samples at the moment. It would be a really good card for a beginner to have a go at too. 

I began by placing the innie from the inkable easy frame circle onto a white card blank and sprayed it with salvaged patina distress oxide spray. I then left it to dry thoroughly.

next I stamped the Circle of friends sentiment in the centre of the circle with versafine clair black ink. 

I covered the sentiment up using the circle mask and then stamped the coffee stain stamps all over in crackling campfire and wild honey Distress oxide inks. I removed the mask and managed to keep my inky fingers from the white space. 

Here is the finished card. I rather like that colour combo! 

To make this card you will need:

A 6x6in white card blank

Inkable easy frame regular circle

Circle of friends stamp

Coffee stains stamps

Salvaged patina distress oxide spray

Wild Honey Distress oxide ink pad

Crackling campfire distress oxide ink pad

Versafine or versafine clair black ink

There is going to be a facebook launch of new stamps a week tomorrow, so start looking out for sneaky peeks later this week.

Thanks for looking! 

A Clean and Simple card

 Hi there! I am in the middle of lots of DT stuff at the moment, so a clean and simple card seemed like a good idea. Here is my very quick and simple step by step for my card. There are lots of circles on it, so it would also fit the theme for the monthly challenge in the Bee Crafty facebook group. Come and join us if you haven't already! 

What I used:

XL Doodle Art Ladybird stamp set

Wordage Regular everyday sentiments 2 stamp set

6" circle easy frame inkable

Distress Oxide inks in Speckled Egg, Peacock Feathers and Walnut Stain

Versafine Clair ink in fallen leaves

13 cm square card blank

Here is what I did:

 First I used a blending brush to ink inside the circle inkable with Speckled egg ink. 

Next I removed the inkable and stamped the cluster of circles (Ladybird set) around the edge of the inked circle using Peacock Feathers and Walnut Stain oxide inks. This left a small gap. 

I set this aside and stamped the flower and leaf from the Ladybird set onto some watercolour card. 

I coloured them using coordinating ecoline pens and cut them out.

I added them to the gap in the circle frame with glue.

Finally I stamped the sentiment in the versafine clair ink in the centre. 

I hope you like it and it has provided a little inspiration.

Do keep a lookout for sneaky peeks coming up very soon for the brand new goodies that Bev is taking to Hochanda  on 23rd March

Thanks for looking! 

              Sally x

Something a bit different!

 

I've been having a bit of a play with my newest distress oxide colours and thought I would share the results. It is a bit of a cross between a journal page and a card, but I think it would work as either. 

Here is how I made it. I started off with a 14cm square piece of mixed media card and painted it with Dina Wakely Clear gesso. 

This allows the ink to move more when you apply it and not soak in immediately. After that I swiped the Crackling Campfire Distress Oxide pad onto a piece of acetate, misted with water and then splodged it in a couple of places down one edge. 

It wasn't runny enough so I sprayed it again and let it run across the page. I then dried it with a heat gun. 

Next I did the same thing in the gaps with the Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide ink and dried it. Then I used both inks to make some splatters using a fan brush.

once this was dry I used the same inks to stamp the zig zag stamp from the Texture Borders set going in the same direction as the dribbles.

I then stamped the lines from the Texture Borders set down the inkiest edge using black Versafine Clair.

Next to that I stamped the dots border using the same ink.

I die cut a circle from black card and stamped 2 circles from the Texture Circles set in black ink about two thirds of the way down the side. 

I stamped the butterfly from the reguar butterflies and birs set and cut it out with the matching dies.

I coloured it with ecoline pens.

After matting and layering the background on to a 15cm square card I added the circle of black card and the butterfly using 3d glue.

And here is the finished card again. 

I hope you like it! Don't forget to tune in to Hochanda tomorrow for the Bee Crafty show at 1pm for oodles of butterfly and bird stamps, dies, inkables and mdf! Loads of goodies! 

Thanks for looking! 

                         Sally x