Celebrating Tina Cox Designs

Hi Crafty Friends,


Today I would like to share a different style of card.

Items used to make this card:

1. Tina's Layering Stamps Circles
2. Tina's Layering Stamps Squares 
3. Shaped easel card die
4. Claritystamp Stencil Card
5. Claritystamp Nested Circles Picot Cut Dies
6. Die cutting machine
7. Memento black ink pad
8. Alcohol marker pens
9. Glossy Accents
10. Foam pads

How to:

1. Use Clarity stencil card to create a shaving foam technique coloured background and cut to fit easel card
2. Stamp a decorative panel using Tina’s Layering stamp collection
3. Die cut a circle approx. 2.25”, stamp one of Tina’s floral circles
4. Stamp butterflies and more flowers from Tina’s collection on scraps of stencil card and fussy cut
5. Colour all the elements with alcohol marker pens and add Glossy Accents to main circle image
6. Adhere butterflies and circle panel to upper part of easel card
7. Add fussy cut flowers to decorative panel and fix with foam pads to lower part of easel card to create ‘step’

If you like Tina's designs, for the rest of today there is a 33% discount on them over on the Claritystamp Website.  

Hope to be back again next week with another of my samples

Bye for now
Anne
x 

Doodleology

Hello Again,

Joy of  joys, after a really long spell of gloomy, wet and windy weather, today there was sunshine in my little corner of the countryside. Overnight there had been a fairly hard frost and the fields were white and sparkled in the winter sun.  Simple things, but they make me very happy.

  
On the crafting side of life, today I would like to share a project using Claritystamp stamp set Doodleology Square Mixed Impressions and the matching stencil.

Once again I have used dye based inks for this project.  I began by brushing a pale colour through the stencil - it is quite an intricate stencil, so I needed to hold each section in place as I worked, in order to retain crisp lines. Then I stamped the image in black archival ink on another piece of card.  There are small infill stamps in this set which I have used to colour the white areas to co-ordinate with the background piece.  Keeping it clean and simple I have mat and layered with white card onto a white base card.

If you have time I would love to hear what you think (please be nice!) by leaving me a comment.

Happy Crafting
Anne x

It's All About Texture

Hi Crafty Friends

A very belated Happy New Year to you all!  

The weather is so grey here today that it is lights on in the house all day to try to dispel some of the winter gloom.  However, the house is cosy and full of the lovely spicy aroma of a good old fashioned bread pudding!  I had an abundance of good quality seeded bread lurking in the bread bin and I didn't want it to go to waste.  Two hours later and using a nice quick recipe, I now have a fragrant home and a very happy hubby - he does love a bit of stodge.

Enough of the domestic waffle, how about a bit of crafting to brighten the day.

Here is a sample I made using the Woven Fabric stamp set from Claritystamp.  These stamps are so versatile that I have only scratched the surface in playing with them.  On this project I have simply brayered dye based ink from a rainbow ink pad on to the stamp and then plonked it onto my card.  The addition of the Fly Away stamp in Archival black ink and a bit of mat and layering.  Job done! 

Hope you like it.

Thank you for visiting me today, especially after such a long time has elapsed since my last post.

I really must try harder!


Bye for now
Anne
x