Make it simple Monday Gorgeous Posies

 Hello and welcome to the first of this weeks posts. I had an amazing weekend!! On Saturday we held a charity crafting session all day via videoconferencing.  The wonderful participants all received the stunning Gorgeous Posies kit. The stunning Gorgeous Posies stamp set is available separately.  So having had a fab day playing with the kit I thought I'd share some inspiration using the stamp set this week.

So for today's #simplestamping project I have created 3 samples identical in design but using only one colour ink for each design. I have chosen to use the three primary colours of red, blue and yellow. I have also used a technique that is great for beginner stampers called generational stamping. This simple technique makes the most of an individual ink pad and is the reason I always advice those starting out on their stamping journey to choose a darker shade of ink.

Generational stamping is where you ink once and stamp multiple times. In the photo below I stamped the flower 6 times from just 1 inking! So ink up your stamp and stamp. Now gently breathe, or huff as I call it, onto the stamp to reactivate the ink left on the stamp. (This only works on water based ink pads as the moisture in the breathe adds water to the remaining ink.) 

Now stamp again and repeat for as may times as you like or until all the ink has been used 🙂

I find this simple technique adds depth and texture to a project as well as allowing you to create gorgeous tonal colours on a project.

Well I hope you'll have another look at the inks you have and explore the other colours that you can create using them. 

You can purchase the beautiful kit HERE

Throwback Thursday Ornamental Envelopes

 Well today's post is a mix of  old and new! I'm sharing a card using one of the first techniques I fell in love with when I started papercrafting nearly 20 years ago.....teabag folding! And I'm combining it with a very short and raw video tutorial of how I made it a very new thing for me so please be gentle 😉. I have of course used the Ornamental Envelopes stamps and dies on both the card and the envelope.

So to the project. I have chosen a bold bright colour pallette of bright hot pink and bold lime green,  magenta madness and granny apple green from Stampin' Up! The white layer is embossed with the gorgeous  winter snow embossing folder also from Stampin' Up!. The pattern paper is from a pack called Artistry Blooms and is full of bold patterns and ombre effect papers.

I hope you like the card and video and will have a go yourself. If you do please share your creations in the comments below.

Video tutorial Here

Watercolour Wednesday Rooted in Nature

 For today's samples I've again gone for the unexpected colour combo for the Rooted in Nature  stamp set...as you may have guessed I'm a bit of a colour rebel  😜 So combining bright colours and messy watercolour techniques is right up my street 🤣🤣🤣

For the background I created one of my favourite wet watercolour backgrounds using royal purple, bright blue and strong sea blue/green  colours. The technique is simple useing watercolour paper spritz well with water over the entire surface. Now drop reinker onto a silicon sheet or piece of plastic and with a water painter add a few drops of water. Now the fun begins! Take you water painter and pick up some of the ink and gently drop it onto the wet watercolour paper and watch it spread and as you add other colours merge to create unique backgrounds 😃 I would advise leaving the piece to dry naturally as you want the colours to saturate and stay because if you use a heat tool the water will get blown around on the surface. 

Once I had my background made I decided I wanted lots of texture so I pulled out my embossing folders, dies  and embossing paste. First I die cut a mask from a piece of vellum and used this with embossing paste onto one piece of my background.

Popping this aside I took out my embossing folders and embossed a piece of vellum to place over the second background. 

I then heat embossed the tree image in clear embossing power and die cut it out twice. I then used white heat embossing powder to stamp 2 sentiments and cut these out.

A small splash of silver mesh ribbon and both cards came together. Now my photos don't do the cards justice 😒  they are very textural and look much better in real life !

I hope you like my adventures into colour and texture because they sure were fun to create 😄 

Hi Here are a couple of projects using products from the latest Stampin up Summer Mini.

 The first project is a wreath  made from simple paper hearts and a rosette made using the wonderful Simply Scored from Stampin' Up. It also uses the pretty pleated satin ribbon in Blushing Bride.

The second project uses an empty DVD case as a neat way to keep your wishes neat and tidy, and always ready to use with it's matching pen!

Hope your having a great bank holiday

Have fun xx