clocks

Nice to get back in my craft room been really busy this month so I'm  looking forward to a week off so I can get back into my crafting.

For this months Clarity challenge I made a background with the clock stencil taking a print from the gelli plate using distress inks, then added the bubble stencil in the corners of the card to add more detail.

The stamping was created by masking lines off over the background to make the hessian ribbon hang from the top of the card. On the shorter ribbons I placed the fob watch stamp and clear embossed the face of the watch.

I continued the embossing around the edge of the card so that when I added more ink to the edges it highlighted the clock face, and to finish added a sentiment, adding some colour with my promarkers.

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a message  I really appreciate your comments on my work.


Bye for now
Lynn
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Clarity Challenge

Here is my card for this month challenge using the wee folk stamps from clarity.

My background was made using distress inks on watercolour card, placing the stencil on top of my background, I sprayed  over it with some water, before removing the stencil I rolled some kitchen roll from the top, to bottom of the stencil to bleach out some of the colour. 

Once dry I continued to draw the circles from the stencil to make my flowers using a black fine liner

pen adding stems and detail on the flowers, and making some hills in the background with distress ink. 

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Next came the stamping using the fairies, and to finish off I added some sparkle to their wings.  

Thanks for stopping by 

Lynn

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Canvas

Had a great day yesterday went to a workshop making a canvas and backgrounds using shaving foam.
The day went so fast, although it did get to a messy stage with all of the paint, but picked up lots of ideas and I was really pleased with my result, think this one can go on my wall!

Have some more pictures to follow of the shaving foam technique will pop them on here soon.


Lynn x

Male birthday card

Needed a mans card and came up with stamping into the hill sections of my background, I was really pleased with the result keeping the brown not too heavy . Finished off with some hessian behind the sentiment to give some texture.

All set for a workshop day with some crafty friends tomorrow . 

See you soon 

Lynn x

flowers

Here is a card I made for my friends birthday using Clarity stamps and stencils, therefore I thought I would enter it into this months challenge.

I started by sanding back a piece of co -ordinations card, then to the stamping using the Edelweiss flower stamp linking the stems together to make the main focal point on the card, then colouring in the flowers with promarkers. On the Edelweiss flower I highlighted the petals with a white pen which really brought  them to life.

In the background I used the long grass stamp and stamping with old paper distress ink to give a faded background.

To complete the picture I used the butterfly tree stencil moving the stencil to the position I wanted, then taking a black fineliner pen to draw the outline of the butterflies, again I used my pens to colour the butterflies.

I made my sentiments small with shrink plastic so that they fit in between the flowers , and to finish I  added some stitching around the outline of the card.

The birthday celebrations went well and the card was a great success.

Thank you for stopping by and taking a look,

Lynn
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clarity challenge

This month the theme for the clarity challenge is things with wings, after searching through my stamps I found my journaling stamp set and chose the birds to create my pocket gift tag.
This is my favorite clarity stamp I have used it in so many projects.

After cutting out a simple pocket shape and tag I began stamping the pocket stamp  on the front of the card, I also made a mask so I could work on the inside of the pocket with my inks making a simple scene.

Next I stamped the bird up in the right hand corner and continued the grass and sky around the pocket taking it across the back, and adding a few more journaling stamps around the edges.

When all the stamping was finished I fastened my pocket shape card together leaving the top open, so the tag can fit inside.

Due to the pocket been smaller than my sentiment stamp I used some shrink plastic to make a small embellishment on the front of the card.


Moving on to the tag I kept this pretty simple by using a sentiment and two birds in flight, again I added stamps around the edge.To finish off the tag I punched a hole at the base, and laid my ribbon across the back of the blue mount card, then added another piece of card over the back to cover up the working.

Stamps used:

                                                                Journaling stamp set

                                                                         Word chain

So here is my entry for this months challenge ,thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

Lynn

My diary using the Faux leather technique

Here is my attempt at Faux Leather for my diary cover the technique was much easier than I expected I have linked in the video from You Tube if you want to have a go. You will have lots of book covers drying away before you know it!Here is the link below to watch Sheena demonstrating how to make the Faux leather.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfunaRazSSo

My idea of making a diary was started off by making a notebook at one of the workshops with Paula at Whichcraft Doncaster. It inspired me to go and make a diary with some Graphic 45 papers which I have had tucked away for some time in my craft stash. 

The papers worked well as you can see in the photo there was even enough paper for covering the tags too. 

Unfortunately  I cannot buy the papers in 6x6  they only come in 12x12 so only good for a larger book but I have found some lovely papers at Whichcraft so I'm going to have a go with those, so until then I hope you enjoyed taking a look at my work and thanks for stopping by.

Lynn