Spots on rainbows!

Hi There! I am still loving playing with the latest stamps, Wordy stickers and D'inkables from Bee Crafty. Today I decided to get inky whilst providing a little more inspiration for the monthly Facebook group challenge, where the theme is spots. 

I began by inking a piece of watercolour card with a rainbow of distress oxide colours. 

Next I sprayed the leaves from the D'inkables with water and laid them on the inked surface. After a few seconds I lifted them off and blotted the excess water. This is known as faux bleaching. 

Once this was dry, I used another of the dinkables to add a little gesso inbetween the leaves.  

I added some more ink (seedless preserves and black soot Distress Oxide) through another D'inkable, along with Some stamping around the edges and in the middle. I set this aside to dry thoroughly.

I cut some circles (you could use dies or punches) from white card in two different sizes. I added faux stitching around them. 

I added wordy stickers to some and stamped on the others using stamps from Journaling Essentials #3

Finally I attached the white spots to the background using 3d foam tape, and attached it to the front of a 6x6" card.

I used:

6" square card blank

5.5" square of watercolour card

Distress Oxide inks in Lumberjack Plaid, Mustard Seed, Lucky Clover, Blueprint Sketch, Seedless Preserves and Black Soot.

Dinkables set 14

Mini mister

gesso

Journaling Essentials #7 stamps

Journaling Essentials #3 stamps

circle punches or dies

Black fine liner pen

Wordy Stickers #3

Foam pads

I hope you like the results and I hope you will join in with the challenge. I will be live this evening at 8pm over on the Bee Crafty Facebook page doing some journaling with the new stamps if you fancy joining me there too. 

Thanks for looking! 

Making Rainbows

 

Hi There! After seeing Alison's stunning clean and simple card on 1st October, I had in my mind that I would like to do something similar, but in reverse. I created this card at the weekend with that in mind. 

Here is a step by step to make it. 

I began by blending a rainbow of distress inks partially across the page using blending brushes.

Once this was dry, I wiped an antistatic pad across it and stamped and embossed the pointy leaves in white.

In the spaces in between, I stamped and embossed the rounded leaves in gold embossing powder.

using the small stamp that looks like a dandelion seed, I added more stamping around the edges in the same colour inks that I had used to blend the background. 

On a separate piece of white card I stamped the sentiment in black versafine clair and cut it out.  

I mounted the panel of card onto a 6x6" card blank and added the sentiment using foam pads. 

Here is the finished card again.

I used:

Journaling essentials 2 stamps

Ticker tape 1 stamps

Distress inks in Lumberjack Plaid, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron and Peacock Feathers

Versamark ink

Embossing powder in white and gold

foam pads 

Versafine Clair black ink

6x6 card blank

white card 5.5" square

Thanks for looking! 

A very quick and simple card whilst moving back in to the craft room!

 

Hi There! Hope you haven't melted with the heat! I am here with a super quick card for you today, that I inked once it had cooled down a bit last night.  

I began by taping the mandala to a 5x5" white card blank and blending a rainbow of distress inks through. 

Next I removed the inkable and stamped the sentiment in Versafine Clair black ink.

I also stamped the heart border and used ecolines to colour the hearts. I told you it was a quick one.

Here's the finished card again. Told you it was super quick! 

I used:

Inkables mandala 2

Life and Rain sentiment stamp

Journaling Girls Borders #1

Distress inks in fired brick, spiced marmalade, mustard seed, twisted citron, peacock feathers, prize ribbon and villainous potion

Black versafine clair ink

Ecoline pens

This was the state of the craft room yesterday morning when it was still quite neat. Nothing seems to be going back as planned lol. It seems to have expanded in the past week! Hopefully it will all be sorted by the end of the weekend. Wish me luck! 
Thanks for looking!