Faux bleached flower

 

Hi There! I am here with a really simple card  today. Here is how I made it.

I began by blending 3 shades of Distress oxide across a piece of Watercolour paper. 

Once this was dry, I stamped the dandedaisy in versamark ink and heat embossed in white. 

I painted the flower with water and also splattered the background with water. I mopped the excess water and colour with a dry cloth. 

Using the same colours of distress spritz, I added some colourful splatters too.

                                      

Finally, I added a border stamped in Wilted violet ink and added the panel to the front of a 7x5" white card.

I used:

Dandedaisy stamp set

Versamark ink

White embossing powder

Distress oxide - I used Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry and Fossilized Amber

Distress Spritz - I used Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry and Fossilized Amber

Thanks for looking! 

Dragonfly Ripples

 

Hi There! Thought I would show you how I made this simple card today. 

On a 6x4" plain white card blank I added some ink blended dots through a Dinkable from set 2 using Picked Raspberry Distress oxide ink. 

I stamped a doodle Art mandala in Versafine Clair bali Blue ink in the opposite corners. 

On a scrap of white card I stamped the Doodle Art Dragonfly in Memento ink and coloured it with Alcohol markers before cutting it out. 

Next I added some of the yellow and green pen to the stamped mandalas. 

I also added a few pink and white highlights to the Dragonfly with gellyroll moonlight pens. 

on a separate piece of card I stamped the sentiment, cut it out and matted it onto a scrap of turquoise paper. 

Finally I added both the sentiment and the Dragonfly to the front of the card using 3d foam pads. 

I used:

Dinkables set 2

Doodle Art Mandalas set #1

Doodle Art Dragonfly stamp set

Small Words stamp set

Versafine Clair Bali Blue ink 

Distress oxide ink in Picked Raspberry

Black Memento ink

6x4 base card

Gelly Roll moonlight pens

Alcohol markers

Those mandalas make it ideal for entry into our Circles challenge over in the Bee Crafty Stamps Facebook Group so I do hope it has inspired you to have a go and enter! 

Thanks for looking! 

Circles Galore!

 

Hi there! For the month of August, over on the Be Crafty Stamps facebook group we have a challenge theme of Circles. Here's how I made the card above which has oodles of them. 

I began by blending ink from my blending brushes in a rainbow around the 6x6 inkable, Swirling circles. There was enough left over ink on my brushes to not need to ink them up again. 

Next I used the doodle Art mandala stamps to stamp over the inked background in Versafine Clair Desert sand ink.

 I also used some small circular stamps from Journaling essentials #3 to fill in the gaps amongst the mandala stamps. 

On a separate piece of card I stamped the Doodle art Dandedaisy in Black versafine Clair ink. 

I coloured it using ecoline pens and cut it out. 

Using 3d foam pads I attached it to the background panel, along with a sentiment and added the whole thing to the front of a 6x6 white card blank. 

Here is the finished card again.

I used:

Swirling Circles inkable

Doodle Art mandala stamp sets

Journaling Essentials #3 stamp set

Dandedaisy stamp set

Everyday words stamp set

Versafine Clair ink in Desert sand and Black

Ecoline pens

6x6 white card

5.5x5.5 card panel

Distress oxide inks (already on my brushes, but most likely Lumberjack Plaid, Spiced marmalade, mustard seed, Twisted Citron, Peacock feathers, blueprint sketch and wilted violet)

I hope this has given you the inspiration to look through your stamps and inkables for circles and have a go at entering the challenge! 

Thanks for looking!