Back after a long break!

It's taken me ages to get back on here. I intended to post some Christmas card photos, but I was even more disorganised than usual last Christmas, and barely got my cards finished and posted before New Year!

Since the NEC Hobbycraft show a few weeks ago, I've been obsessed with using brushes (ink dusters) to make inky backgrounds - it's much easier than battling with my brayer :-)  Here are a few of the cards I've been making over the last few days:

I am entering this one in the Less Is More 'Three Shades of Green' challenge.

I masked the area to ink and stamp, and clear embossed a couple of the images before using the ink dusters and stamping the image in different colours.

The ink dusters are also great for making backgrounds for my Lavinia stamps:

I'm entering this card in the By The Cute and Girly 'Once upon a time.....'  challenge, and the 

Flutter By Wednesday challenge.

The Dark Side

Hi! I made this card for the Cupcake Craft Challenge 'The Darkside', partly because I really LOVE purple & black together, and partly because it makes me think of the Tim Minchin song 'Dark Side', which makes me laugh!

I love the Lavinia stamps, but I haven't quite got the hang of the way Tracey Dutton uses Liquid Pearls with glitter. It looks stunning on her creations, but I only seem to get a blobby mess! But at least the liquid pearls lighten the card a bit, as there is a lot of purple and black going on!

I'm also entering this card in the Flutterby Wednesday challenge