Inky stencilled leaves

 Hello lovely crafters! I hope you are all enjoying getting inky and sticky. 

I notices a tap tapping as I walked yesterday and found a gemstone stuck to my shoe. I hadn't even been using gems!

This one's for Sarn. She mentioned on Sunday how hard cards for our male friends are. I agree. 

I saw this idea demonstrated by Gina K on The You Tube and realised I could adapt it for my son's birthday card. She calls it the reverse stencil technique. (Don't blame me if you fall down a rabbit hole).

In real life the colours are rich and velvety. 

You ink your card, I used different shades of green. Then place the stencil and tape it in place and ink over the whole thing in black. Fun and dramatic.

When you lift the stencil you have the original inking showing. Which is perfect here as the leaves are green.

 A simple die cut and stamped greeting. 

No fuss or frills as members of this household have been known to smirk about butterflies and gems. I carry on regardless!

Et voila a quick and easy card, looks fab (I think), didn't take long but still has a satisfying amount of creativity in the creation. 

Edit: here a couple of photos for anyone who didn't quite understand. The stencil - Palm Frond Honey Bee Stamps. 

And the stencil laid over the finished card, showing only the black inking. 

So I'm popping this over to the Snippet's Playground. I used one large snippet and several smaller pieces for the greeting. 'Happy' is layered 3 times.

There are always great ideas on show over there. Take a look. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x

Smile

Hello lovely crafters! How is everyone doing?

I have been flat out in my flower plot (where I grow cut flowers) and really need to get some perspective and organise my time better. 

Here is my card for our latest challenge at

What a Difference you've made in my Life

A card for your Mum, Grandma or other special person in your Life. 

My reason for choosing this greeting is that caring people often forget to look after themselves. We all need a little bit of special time. 

I started with an inked background from my stash. I can't quite remember how I made it but probably inking a stencil and spritzing. (I'm aware that's not very helpful to you if you want to recreate). It's created a pretty soft look. You can just see the outline of the flowers and leaves of the stencil. 

It's fun playing with stencils, ink and water and seeing what happens. 

I added an inky butterfly with a sparkly finish, a few die cut leaves and flowers and some punched hearts with Glossy Accents. If you don't quite have the right embellishment you can create your own!

Do join in with us this time. You have two weeks for the challenge. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy  your day. x

 

Sunny birthday

Hello lovely crafters

Here is my card for our latest challenge at Shopping our Stash

This time it's a sketch. 

Sometimes I struggle with sketches but I remind myself that the elements don't all have to be layers. Sometimes they can be white space. 

I realised too late that I haven't really followed the sketch properly. It should be offset. Hopefully you'll do better!

I made this for a friends birthday using. Card-io stamps. I can't resist a wreath and this is a bright sunny one for a change. The butterfly is punched and is one more thing from my box of left overs! 

See what you can dig out to join in our challenge. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x