Driving Test Celebration

Hello lovely peeps, I hope you are well.
 

I delved into my bag of paper scraps for today's card, to do a bit of paper piecing. 

My youngest nephew has passed his driving test and I thought the 'Exploration' stamp set designed by Stacey Barras (Crafter's Companion) was ideal for his 'well done' card. The signpost is only half the height you see on my card - I stamped it straight onto the bottom half of a 5x7" card and then masked off the top of the stamped image before stamping the signpost again in the top half.

After that I stamped the signpost onto several matching scraps of paper - it doesn't matter if it's only a tiny scrap as long as it's bigger than one of the signs.

Using my stamping platform to line things up I stamped sentiments from various stamp sets onto the signs before cutting the signs out and glueing them onto the main image.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-

Pixie's Snippets Playground #389

Papercraft Challenges  #63 autumn colours

Artistic Stampers travel

Stamplorations - Celebration
 

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Every cloud

Hello lovely peeps, I do hope you are well in these troubling times.

Every cloud has a silver lining. With my hours cut at work because of the coronavirus pandemic I now have some spare time to craft.

I made this card for my nephew's 21st, using stamps, stencils and distress inks.

Thanks for stopping by, stay safe
Katrina x

Sweet Christmas stamps from LOTV

Hello lovely peeps

Excellent news for rubber stamp fans - Lili of the Valley will be appearing on Hochanda on Monday 2nd July with some new sheets of Christmas stamps. Woo hoo!

Seahorse Dream for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

I'm back with the third and final card that I made for Leonie's new launch of stencils/masks and stamps. I started by spraying Stick and Spray adhesive onto the back of one of the Dream masks, then placed it onto a square of watercolour card.

I stamped images from The Deep Blue stamp set around the mask using Black Archival ink
 

I stamped the large swirl along the top of the card to make some waves, masking as I went with sticky notes. I also masked the seahorses and shells with some Pebeo drawing gum to protect them

 To make spritzers I added Inkadinks (Blueberry Ice and Beany Green)  and water to some spray bottles

and sprayed them onto the card

Once this was dry I removed the 'Dream' mask to reveal the white card underneath.

I mixed some of Leonie's sparkle pens on an acrylic block

and coloured in the waves with them (I also did the Seahorses)

A bit more seaweed at the bottom completes the scene

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Allsorts #386 - Sparkle and Shine
The Pencil Case #31 Anything Goes
Love to Scrap  #88 Anything Goes
Creatalicious Challenges #101 - Anything Goes with optional Halloween
Stamps & Stencils elements of nature
Love to Craft #3 Anything Goes
Card Mania #85 let it shine

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x

Magic Peacock for Leonie

Hello lovely peeps

 Woo hoo! Leonie is on Hochanda TV with a new launch this evening. Do you remember her first launch back in April with the masks, stencils and zentangle stamps? She has extended the range with 6 fabulous new masks/stencils and 6 new stamp sets to match.

I would like to say a big thank you to the lovely Emma at Crafters Companion for sending me this kit. She knew my arm wasn't recovered enough to do much in the way of samples but thought I should have it anyway. How amazing is that?

Of course, with such beautiful products I couldn't resist having a little play, and after looking at the stamps the first thing that popped into my head was a peacock. I wanted the background to be vibrant so I dug out some bright acrylic paints and my Gelli plate.

I started by placing one of the 'Magic' masks face down onto the plate
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I put some small puddles of paint on my craft mat and ran my brayer through them to get an ombre effect. After brayering the paint onto the gelli plate I took one of the new stamps and pressed it into the paint several times (quickly removing the paint from the stamp in between impressions).

I lifted off the 'magic' mask and took a print by placing some 7" square card on top and rubbing firmly all over.

I stamped the squiggly circles onto the print with Black Archival ink

then covered it with a sticky-note mask and stamped it again to overlap the first one - this forms the peacock's tail. I also stamped one of the paisley images over the top to make the peacock body

I couldn't find a suitable stamp to use for the bird's head, so I drew one on myself

Peacocks have an amazing crown of feathers coming from the top of their heads and I found a semi-circular stamp to suit - I 'inked' just the outside part of it with a black Spectrum Aqua marker

then drew in some lines to attach the feathers to the head

Some rough lines for the legs and feet...

then I coloured in between the feathers with a Graph'It marker (8140)
Note: I used archival ink to stamp the images to get a good crisp impression, but this bleeds if you colour with alcohol markers, so be careful to colour in between the lines to avoid smudges.

The 'magic' outline from the gelli plate print was a bit fuzzy in places, so I placed the stencil over the top and traced around with a black fineliner pen to give it some definition

I coloured in the rest of the peacock with markers 1180, 7130 and 7170 and added a little bit of sparkle with Leonie's yellow glitter pen. Some second and third generation stamping around the bottom balanced out the image a bit, then I trimmed the edges of the print and mounted it onto a 6" square card blank.

My teamies Nick, Jane, Elaine and Natalie have some gorgeous samples to show you too. I have links to their blogs on my sidebar --->

 Leonie will be back on Hochanda tomorrow (Friday 14th October) at 9am, 12pm, 4pm and 7pm.

You can watch Hochanda live online, Sky channel 663, Freeview 85 or Freesat 817.

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:-
 Inky Chicks #73 Animals
Stamps & Stencils elements of nature
Happy Little Stampers (Mixed Media)  nature
Creative Artiste Challenge #19 "Anything Mixed Media"
Creative Fingers #117 Anything Goes
 Crafting from the Heart #131 Anything Goes 
Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes
Colour Crazy Challenge #24 Anything Goes
Classic Design Team Challenge #7 AG
 

Thanks for stopping by,

Katrina x