Embossed flowers

Hi everyone, I've used the scored grid again on this card, scored at half inch intervals diagonally across the white background panel and then dotted yellow stickles where the diagonals meet. The image is a Queen Anne's Lace by Starving Artistamps which was stamped with versamark and versafine smokey grey ink several times then heat embossed. I sponged all around the bottom part of the image with Ranger distress ink in tea dye and graduated it up the panel. Added the Inkadinkado bird and sentiment stamp and matted on some white card. The Card blank is a piece of silvery grey pearlescent card and I used the off cut to make the panel behind the image, it's covered with some very fine cobweb type fabric which has gold and silver metallic inclusions. Added pearls to the corners of the image to finish. TFL.

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Chris

Silhouette Houses

Hi everyone, a card today for Daring Cardmakers' where the challenge this week is 'Bright'. I've used my 'Silhouette Houses' Spiral Whisper stamp design, cut out with nestabilities, mounted on a nestie cut scalloped circle and I've then coloured around it with H20 paints. It would be lovely if the sparkle of these paints would show up in photographs as the card is very shimmery but unfortunately it doesn't. The windows, trees and spiders are highlighted with gel pens. The bottom of the card is a collage of torn pieces of Black Magic papers which have a coloured core, these are highlighted with H2o's. The grave stone with sentiment is hand doodled on a thick tag which is sponged with distress inks as are all the edges of the card. I added some ribbon, a gem and stamped a Starving Artistamps spider all over and doodled the web in the upper right corner. TFL.

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Chris

Amelia's Flower Field

I've a new card with my Amelia and swing design stamp for Kadoodle. This one's more of a collage type of card with lots of cutting out which took forever.

I cut a piece of mid blue bazzill card for my background and then sketched a tree, cut it out with scissors and a craft knife and then sponged with Ranger distress inks added some doodling and stuck down on the background. I stamped the Starving Artistamps leaves and flowers at the bottom to make the field and continued with the leaves over and around the tree branches all of these were coloured with Sakura gelly roll pens with some glitter glue added for sparkle. I stamped a few extra leaves, a couple of flowers and three Starving Artistamps bees, coloured, glittered and cut out to 3d.

Amelia was stamped in versafine black onyx, coloured with prismacolor pencils and sansodor, glittered, cut out and attached over the tree branches on foam tape. The 3d bees, leaves and flowers were arranged around the scene, I doodled some grass and flowers, sponged all around the edges of the panel with Ranger distress ink and mounted on a card blank. TFL.

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Chris

The Orchid

A certain person (you know who your are LOL) received an Orchid plant from me this weekend which she swears will be dead in a very short while! Here’s my orchid.

The stamp is a beautiful one from Starving Artistamps who have a lovely selection of florals. I stamped twice with Ancient Page Primrose ink on white card and coloured with prismacolour pencils and sansodor/oms using a paper stump. The leaf was stamped five times in onyx black versafine and coloured in the same way. All the leaves were cut out, one whole flower and the bottom portion of the second and all the edges were sponged with Tim Holtz distress ink in milled lavender for the flower and pine needle for the leaves.

A piece of moss green bazzil was cut, doodled with dots and tied with a pale pink organza ribbon. The leaves were arranged around the square, some direct on the card and others on dimension tape and then the Orchid was layered up over them after a little curling to the top layer using the tape.

Hope everyone has had an enjoyable weekend.

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Chris