Tips, Tricks and Techniques Tuesday Hand-Drawn Blooms

 Question...do you ever make something that you're really happy with and then. ..Bam.. you ruin it with a silly mistake ? Well that's  what happened to me making today's Hand-Drawn Blooms sample!!

I wanted to share with you tips on blending colours, how to incorporate embossing folders to create texture, and a few others .. but instead I'm going to share my mistakes!! And how I rectified them because there is no such thing as a mistake...it's just an opportunity to work outside the box!!!

I had it in my mind to make a single layer card using blending techniques and it started out so well. I used Flirty Flamingo, Calypso Coral and Melon Mambo ( such cool names 😃) and starting from the outside edges  with flirty gently worked in towards the middle.  Then I added the coral and finally the melon. 

So far so good now I wanted to add my sentiment before I embossed the piece. I choose  Night of Navy ink as I felt black was to stark. And Bam there it was I'd stampes the sentiment in the wrong place! And it gets even better because I didn't realise it until I'd embossed it! 😅😅😅

So off I went and created another piece, same technique but the sentiment in the right place.. but no I only went and spoiled it again!! How? In my infinite wisdom I decided it would be improved by a few water splashes. If you lightly spritz or splash  a blended background with water the water repels the pigment in the ink and creates a speckled effect which is rather pleasing . But and this is a big But remember that this only works on water based inks! So how did it spoil this sample? I forgot that I'd stamped my sentiment in waterbased ink to!!! So it smudged ahhhh

Take 3 and I finally got it right, sentiment stamped after water spritzing, sentiment in the right place 😀 

But as a result of my mistakes I had two pieces that I really liked, apart from my mistakes. So what to do? Well as with all good crafters a mistake is just an opportunity to embellish and think outside the box.  

Result 3 for the price of 1 !! 

How do you rectify your crafty mistakes?

Make it simple monday Hand-Drawn Blooms

 Wow what a scorcher of a weekend that was!! Here in my small part of the world it got unseasonably hot 36° 🤪 Now I'm no fair weather crafter, nothing stops play as they say, but even I had to keep it quick for today's sample as the ink was drying sooo fast and my ice lollies were melting sooo quickly 😉. So #simplestamping to the rescue!! I made these 4 pretty thank you cards using the my stamp set of the week Hand- Drawn Blooms in under 20 minutes!!

Super simple but super sweet these cards are stamped in beautiful subtle colours, Calypso Coral, So Saffron,  Mint Macaron and Seaside Spray. 

Left bare the beauty of the image does all the work for you.

Well I'm off to melt some more as the heat continues today. I hope you have a good Monday and I'll see you tomorrow 😊