Time to Stamp Tulip and Dots

Well, here I go again with the new stamps. I know that I'm supposed to sell them all but when they are so fab I just can't resist using them myself.

What I used
1 base card 14cm x 14cm. I used white linen card which I sell at the shows but not on the site.
1 white frame in the same card.
Tulip stamp from the Flowers and Leaves stamp sheet from Time To Stamp
Dotta Riffic pen from Kuretake in black
Art and Graphic pens, numbers 202, 56, 55, and 1.
h2O brush from Kuretke.
Sentiment stamp.
Stazon in Stone Grey
3d foam pads


What I Did

I used the dotta riffic pen to make dots on the white frame. I used the foam pads to stick the frame to the card.
I used the Art and Graphic pens to ink the stamp and I stamped it onto white card. Then I used the H2O pen to soften the ink and make it look watercoloured.
I cut the stamped image out and used 3d foam pads to stick it to the card.
I stamped a sentiment to the card with stazon and there it is the finished card.

Problems, problems, problems

I still can't upload images and there are also errors on the page. so the Blogger informs me.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to overcome this. No photos until it's sorted out.

Pin up Girl in Black and White

Well the show is over and not too good a show at that. I do get demoralised when the show is poor but I did meet lots of lovely people and that's a very positive thing. I did my bit with the pens and I do enjoy making the flowers.
Now, however, I can make new things as I've just received a lot of new stamps from Della at I Brake for Stamps. The Glamour Girls sheet was the first to grab my attention and this is one of the cards that I made today.

What I Used:
1 base card in white linen 14cm x 14cm when folded.
I stamp from the Glamour Girls sheet
Stazon Ink pad in Stone Grey
Dotta Riffic pen in black
6mm black satin ribbon with white spots
Silver card
Pin up stamp from the same sheet as the glamour girls.

What I did:
I stamped the image on to a piece of card and mounted it onto silver card. I trimmed the silver card to leave a thin border around the image card.
I cut another white card and decorated it with the Dotta Riffic pen.
I mounted this onto silver card in the same way as I did with the girl image.
I tied a piece of dotty ribbon around the dotty sheet as seen.
I stuck the dotty sheet to the card and then layered on the girl image as seen. I stamped the pin up words onto the girl image and the base card.

Let's hope that this is the first of many images as they really are lovely stamps.

Pink Flower Card

Yet again, I hear you cry. Well I like pink so I wanted to make this card. I painted the flower and I will add more of the same image in other colours. I used the trusty Art and Graphic pens from Kuretake and the waterbrush to make the paint flow well. I hope that you like it too.

Green Spotty Flower Card

This is yet another attempt to prove to everyone that I can use colours other than pink. So I've gone over to the green side and produced this card with one of my new funky flower die cuts and a Dotterific Pen from Kuretake.

What I used:

1 funky flower die cut
1 base card 10.5 x 15 cm when folded
1 die cut frame in green
a sentiment stamp form the Inspirational sayings sheet
1 length of green spot ribbon
1 green button
dotterific pen in green
hole punch
Stazon Ink Pad in Stone Grey
3d foam pads

What I did:

1. I stamped the sentiment on to a piece of white card and trimmed the card to fit under the green frame.
   I used the dotterific pen to customise the flower die cut and then used a green Art and graphic pen to colour the edges of the flower.
2. I then threaded a small piece of green ribbon through the holes of the button and tied it to secure it.
3. I stuck a length of green ribbon down the side of the card as shown and then I stuck the frame and sentiment to the card. I then stuck the flower to the edge of the frame.
4. Towards the bottom of the card I stuck three circles that I had punched out of some scrap green glitter card.card.

Here's another version in lilac just to prove to myself that I can do it. The next card will be pink though.

Dragonfly Days

When I went to the training day with Kuretake they kindly gave me some of their 12 x 12 white paper to play with. This has a finish almost like water colour paper so I decided to use it to make the same effects that you can get with regular watercolour paper and at a fraction of the cost as well.

I started by cutting out a piece of the paper to the size that I wanted. It doesn't matter if it's too big as it can be trimmed later on.

I put the paper on a piece of cling film to protect my work surface and used an old watercolour brush to wet the paper thoroughly. This is because I wanted to do something which is called wet-into-wet. Don't worry about the technicalities. You only want to know that it works.

When the paper was wet I touched the surface with two of the pinks that are shown in the photograph. They are the TUT 80 Art and Graphic pens 202 and 20. If the paper is wet enough the colour should spread over the surface of the paper. If it remains too close to the point where you touched the paper is too dry. Wet it again and add more colour. You want a soft mottled effect.

Now put the paper aside to dry.

You are probably thinking that it looks nothing at the moment and you might even be right but you don’t want the surface to be full of colour as it will mean that the stamping will not show up well later on.

When it's dry you can use the narrow end of the pen to draw some swirls and then ink up a small stamp, I used a dragonfly in this instance and I stamped over the base paper as seen. I used both pinks to ink up the stamp.

I then cut a length of white grosgrain and stuck it to the front of the paper. The paper was then stuck to the front of a base card.

I then stamped a large dragonfly on to pink card and embossed it with a silvery white embossing powder. I cut out the dragonfly.

I stamped the message on a piece of white card and mounted it onto pink card which I then trimmed to leave a narrow border. I Used 3d foam pads to stick the message to the front of the card as shown.

I stuck the dragonfly to the card with 3d foam pads and the card was finished.

Latest News

Well, I've been able to get lots of Disney stickers at half of the original price and I'm passing the savings on to the customers on Craft Fairy so here are a few of them to whet your appetite. This is the Disney piglet and he is so sweet. Just imagine him on a scrapbook page.

The come Mickey and Minnie and these two lovebirds are perfect for an anniversary page or a wedding page.

Big flower card

The trend these days seems to be for big flowers so I though that I'd have a go. I've seen lots of the cards made with flowers that have been cut in half. Considering the price on the silk ones I'm not surprised that the people making the cards cut them in half as you get two for the price of one that way. So following the trend, this is a big flower card even if the flower is cut in half.

I used:

A 14cm x 14cm base card in pink.

1 piece of white card 13cm x 13cm

Kuretake calligraphy pens in Heart.

Art and Graphic pens in light Olive (number 56 ) and pink (number 202 )

Half a white die cut flower.

A strip of olive green paper

Sentiment for the Inspiration plate from I Brake for Stamps

Scraps of pink and white card.

3d foam pads

What I did:

Now before you throw your hands up in horror at what I'm going to tell you it really wasn't hard to do this but I did the background freehand. All you have to do is a few flowers with the calligraphy pens some scrolls with the thin end of the Art and Graphics and join them up. I will put an example on U-Tube soon.

I stuck this to the base card and then cut a strip of green paper and dotted along the edge to give a stitched effect.

I coloured the flower with water and the pink pen and then used the green pen to draw some lines around the petals. I stuck a green circle on the petal and then a small white dot. I aded some pink to the dot. I trimmed it and stuck it to the card.

Then I stamped the sentiment in a sepia brown and trimmed it to size. I backed this with some pink card and stuck it to the base card with foam pads.