Make It Simple Monday - Legendary Ride #simplestamping

Hello and thank you for stopping by today. This week I will be making some more cards using the Legendary Ride stamp set and dies too later in the week. I thought that as it's nearly Father's Day here in the UK it's an appropriate time to. My first card of the week is a very simple one of course. Using the smaller of the motorbike stamps, I stamped it all over a piece of white card to fit the front of the black card base. I'm a little surprised I chose black but black it is! After stamping the little ones, I took a larger white mat and stamped the large motorbike in Memento black ink which has come out really well thankfully. I trimmed the mat down to just larger than the bike itself and 'walked' the mat onto the ink pad. I made sure that all 4 edges were nicely black to give the impression that it's on a black mat too. A sentiment from the stamp set, I trimmed the front mat down and added the sentiment inside and out and this card was completed.

 

 

Watercolour Wednesday - Crafting With You

 Hello on another wet Wednesday. Using the lovely stamp set Crafting With You today, I have gone back to school so to speak! My uniform when at school was exactly the colours I have used here... Black Skirt, Yellow blouse and black or white socks! This was purely by accident until I had finished the card I hadn't realised what I'd done! I think it was the board and easel stand that I suddenly saw my uniform again! Anyway, a semi simple watercolour today. I started by stamping the board and easel onto a plain white mat and then with some cut offs of watercolour paper that I had, I laid them out in the order you see and stamped the image again. It worked!! I used the watercolour from the block technique as it works really well so it was just a case of adding the colour to the flowers and leaves and it was complete. I used Stazon Jet Black Ink for the easel but it looks red here??? How odd! 

Apologies for the wrong pictures to start off with. Here are the correct ones!

Watercolour Wednesday - Botanical Beauty

 Hello and thank you for stopping by. Today, using the gorgeous stamp set Botanical Beauty, I really went to watercolour heaven! I stamped the image in Lemon Lolly, one of the last years new colours. It is soft and subtle but can be bright too. I lightly stamped it onto White card and then I started with many of the green inks from Stampin' Up! I used  Shaded Spruce, Granny Apple Green, Pretty Peacock and a touch of Old Olive. I stamped an acrylic block onto the ink pad and using my fine water brush, started to colour in the leaves and ferns in different ways. I repeated this with all of the colours until I was happy with the depth of each colour. I went on to cut the white stamped mat down to 9.4 cm I left the width at 10.5 cm. 

I then chopped it up randomly from top to bottom at different angles. I added the pieces onto a mat of the Lemon Lolly card. Once the last piece was ready to go I was able to trim the width down to fit my card base. I adhered the mat to a black mat a few mm larger than the yellow which I think has made the colours stand out so well. I mounted it using Dimensionals on the back and added a piece of yellow ribbon from the Sheer Ribbon Combo pack. 3 gorgeous colours in the pack, Lemon Lolly, pink of Bubble Bath  and the bright blue of Azure Afternoon. A sentiment inside and a few extra leaves etc. and I was finished.

Technique Tuesday - Sale-a-bration -Softly Sophisticated

 Hello again and thank you for stopping by. Today's stamp set is the pretty Softly Sophisticated. As I said yesterday, I really do love the Designer Series Papers DSP that are in the Sale-a-bration SAB catalogue this month. This set is really so delicate and can be used for many different style of cards especially when pairing it with the gorgeous DSP's. That is one of the most interesting things about what crafters do, we mix and match with all sorts of products. It's great isn't it? The paper I used today is called Sunny Days 12" by 12".

Anyway, my technique this week is using up some of the scraps on my table. I'm sure that we all have those bits and pieces somewhere waiting to be used and Oh! Boy! Do I have a load of them! I used my black and red colours today, which is another of my favourite colour combinations. I started by embossing 3 pieces of the coloured card using the Softly Sophisticated embossing folder. Once embossed, I started to play with layering them, placing one piece under and over another until I got the combination that I was happy with. I cut a narrow gap down the centre of the black and red mats and taped the piece of plain white through the slot onto the back of the mats. I stamped the images in just black (Memento) and the gorgeous red of Poppy Parade and added the sentiments inside and out.

Watercolour Wednesday - Children's Cards

 Well, today's card started somewhat odly. I started off by laying several rows of low tack tape across a cutting board and sliced each one into 4 pieces across the length. I wasn't fussed that they were all different widths either. I added each strip randomly across a white card base then I stamped a block onto each colour of ink pad. I added water to each colour and watercoloured all of the shapes. It was really a lot of fun! I used the stamp set called Biggest Wish as I thought that it needed a really BIG sentiment across the front and using the little stamp in the set, stamped the 13, for the teenager's birthday.

To make the lines pop on the card, I cut thin strips of white card and glued them across the lines to accentuate the shapes.