Blossom

Good afternoon. 

I've not been in my craft room much due to child minding duties this weekend. What with the lovely sunny weather we were out and about with our Grandson, so no blogging or making for me until late yesterday afternoon then it was for DT duties. I did try to do something for the challenge over at CASology but it didn't work to my satisfaction so abandoned it only to see something similar posted, so couldn't go down that route!

Anyway for a better late than never post, I managed to develop my original idea and came up with this -

When I saw the cue word early last week I thought of cherry and apple blossom but couldn't find any stamps small enough in the stash, so went down the die cut route but as I said it didn't work. So looking at my branch stamp I saw my palette with DI still on it so started splashing some v watery ink over the stamped branches but thought it a tad flat so added some chunky embossing powder over the top and the stamped a sentiment from a freebie set to match.

I used the layout over at Less is More where the theme is 

CASe the DT.

I chose Chrissie's card for my CASe.

I kept the layout roughly the same but put the sentiment panel at the bottom and made the panels slightly larger. I used a phrase sentiment and a 'flower' image same as Chrissie. So that was it, quite quick in the end and a good job too as the 'Blossom' challenge closes today!

As there is so much white on this I am entering it at-

and also at Uniko's - Anything Goes

OK, that's a wrap. I better get some lunch ready for the workers!

Note

Evening all.

Just managed to get my Grandson off to sleep after a hectic day. The dog is now recovering exhausted on the sofa!

I managed to get some quiet time earlier to have a bit of a play. One of them didn't come off but one did so here it is.

This was inspired by last weeks LIM challenge of shadow stamping and CASology's cue word of - 

NOTE.

It was too late to enter the LIM challenge but I shall enter it in the CASology challenge.

The sentiment was computer generated and the panel was masked off before stamping with a music (Kaisercraft), butterfly (freebie) and branch stamps ( Inkylicious) in Memento tuxedo Black. The paler images were the remnants of the first stamping. It looked a little sharp so i softened the image using Weathered wood DI.

I see CAS -colour and sketches are doing shades of grey so I shall enter that challenge too.

Thanks for popping by, see you again I hope.

Don't forget there's still a week left at the Fantasy Stampers challenge of Easter Photo Inspiration, go on follow the link, be inspired and have a go you never know!

Less is More

Afternoon all.

I have been busy in the craft room this afternoon. It has been sunny out but there was a cold wind blowing when I took the dog out. What better excuse do you need to get in there and play.

As it's Saturday it means another challenge over at Less is More. This means a bit of thinking as it's 

One Layer week, this time with shadow stamping.

I like shadow stamping especially in a landscape context. It creates depth if used correctly.

Well here is the result of my playing around with the distress inks and a silhouette stamp set from Inkylicious I bought about 3 or 4 years ago at the Harrogate September show. I haven.t used it really but it allowed me to create an overhanging tree effect.

I masked off the bottom half of a A6 card blank and added some DI's to the top panel. I used Weathered Wood, Iced Spruce, Bundled Sage, Broken China and Tumbled Glass. I stamped the foliage using Versafine Onyx Black. I added extra texture by over stamping a Kaisercraft manuscript stamp in Weathered Wood,  removed the mask and stamped a tendril into the white space and added the LOTV greeting. 

It was great fun even if this was the second attempt, as the first mask didn't go right across and a tiny bit of twig found it's way onto the bottom half of the card. Arrrgh.

Well happy crafting everyone.