Resisting Autumn

This afternoon I have finally finished the card I started at my friends yesterday.

I am going to enter it in the Make My Monday challenge where the theme this month is Autumn, and this week it requires the use of a "resist technique". Also I will send it to the St Luke's Charity Cards Challenge where they want "something for the boys".

Here is the card

I started by randomly stamping Oak leaves and Acorns in Versamark on some silk card, and then brayered over it with a brown and green Big and Juicy ink pad. I did the same to the lone oak tree. The silk card was then cut into the large matt and small tag and layered onto some brown card. Some beige ribbon was wound around the large matt before it was stuck on the base card. To make the card more masculine two star shaped brads were added to opposite corners of the tree panel, and the bottom of the tag below the stamped sentiment. The tree, and tag were positioned on 3D pads to add dimension. I then stamped the oak leaf and 4 acorns onto brown card and heat embossed them with gold powder, cut out, and placed on the card on 3D pads. The finishing touch was a bow to attach the tag to the tree panel.

Here is a close up of the oak tree to show how the Versamark resists taking in the brayered ink to leave a ghostly image.

I'm quite pleased with the result and hope you like the card too.

Recipe : Card = Clarity silk card, SU Chocolate Chip, and cream card from my stash
Inks = Versamark, Big and Juicy Spice, and Chocolate Chip
Stamps = Lovely as a Tree, All Natural, and Verve
Tools = Speedball Brayer and heat gun
Extras = Gold embossing powder, 3D pads, beige ribbon, and gold star brads

It's a Grand Prix weekend but the TV coverage starts at silly o'clock in the morning so I dont think I will be crafting while watching it in bed!!

Hope you have a good weekend whatever you're doing, and I'll be back soon.

Bon Voyage

I've been in hospital today having my IV drip, and I'm feeling too sick at the moment to sleep, so I'm sat here trying not to think about the nausea but to concentrate on the Cas-ual Fridays challenge. It calls for us to get our inspiration from a book, and then use Black,White, and Read/Red!!

I love Murder Mystery/ Crime novels, so of course one of my favorite authors is Agatha Christie. So I chose Death on the Nile as my book ( I love the film too! )

I started with a white square card and stamped some script in red across the bottom as the Nile. I then cut a triangle in a piece of scrap paper and brayered over the hole in red ink, and then covered a section on the left side of the triangle and brayered over the hole a few more times. This leaves a shape like a pyramid, which I did a second time with a smaller triangle slightly behind, smaller, and paler than the first one. I then sponged across the bottoms of the pyramids to ground them. Next I stamped some grass and the sentiment in black ink, and unfortunately I made a few smudges so I stamped some fern leaves as a palm tree over them at the edge of the card. The placement of nearly every piece on this card would have been a nightmare if it was not for my Stamp-a-ma-jig!.

Anyway, smudges covered, here's the finished card

Recipe : Stamps = SU French Foliage (Nile), Inspired by Nature (grass), Organic Grace (Palm tree), and Woodware letters

Inks = Real Red and Basic Black 

Tools = Stamp-a-ma-jig and brayer

Card = from my stash


I'm going to bed now so hopefully I'll get some sleep.

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my blog, and I hope to be back soon.

Waiting Fairy sitting on grass

Hi everyone, thanks for dropping in to my blog.

Today I spent my usual hours at Jacqueline's getting hardly anything done, but I did start to make my entry for the Make My Monday challenge where we're still doing things with wings, but this week its Fairies or Angels.

I've got a lovely silhouette stamp of a fairy ( cant remember where from ) sat on some grass and decided to base my card on that. Have a look and see what you think

First I stamped the fairy in black Adirondack in the bottom corner of some Clarity Stamp silk card, and then I drew around a 2p on a Post It note, cut it out, and placed it towards the top left hand corner.

I then used my Speedball brayer and a Big and Juicy ink pad (Vibrant Primary) to roll colour in the corner down towards the moon till the Post It was covered, and it was peeled off. I then brayered some  Pesto Adirondack in the Fairy's corner.

Next I used Adirondack black to stamp flower silhouettes along the bottom of the card. I stamped an old tree in the top corner as if it was a protruding branch ( the tree was a sketch that I had made into a clear rubber stamp by a company I found in a magazine, Tandastamps ), and added some leaves from a Clarity set.

I must admit that most of the black ink ended up on my fingers, and when I touched the card it was transferred to places where I didn't want ink, so I had to keep stamping leaves to cover smudges.

The stamped picture was then mounted onto some really dark navy card and placed on a cream card from my stash, and finished with a black Verve sentiment.

WOW!!!!! I've just realised that I've not used my beloved BS or Stampin' Up products, what's going on???

I'm doing my Super Hero stuff tomorrow with Nathan, so hope to be back in a few days.

If you have the time to, I'd love to read your comments on my card.

Brayered card

Today is overcast but there's no rain...Yay!, so I've been catching up with my overflowing linen basket and doing the washing. In between loads I've quickly made a card for Clean and Simple Stamping challenge. I used a piece of 4 1/2" X 6 1/2" silk card stock ( from Barbara Gray of Clarity Stamps) and brayered it with Adirondack inks in Pesto,Butterscotch,and Espresso. This was stuck onto cream card from my stash,and the same card was used in the central panel which was stamped with the dry grass stamp from SU Garden Silhouettes,and sentiment from Curvy Verses, in Rust Adirondack ink. The corners of the silk card and stamped panel were punched with MS corner punch.

The brayering didn't turn out how I'd planned, but I still like the effect,What do you think??

Got to pop to Mum's now as their off on a Barge holiday and I need to get my ' To Do' list for while they're away.

Hope to be back again soon.Thanks for dropping by

Bev.x