It's that stencil AGAIN

Starting to get a bit grungy on my Virtual Art Retreat and for this card we made a brown background with "that stencil" and also made veggies good enough to eat! 

When my box arrived and I saw the bag of die-cut "realistic" veggies I was thinking what the heck, that's so not me, at that time I had no idea what was planned for them as the handout for the Retreat was not available online to see.

Well blow me down we have used brown ink to make the prettiest soil ever, Copic coloured up the fab veggies from Keep It Fresh (HA) to make them shine. We have also used the Quatrefoil stencil (NN) again and the exclusive Creative Journey stamp we received from Tim Holtz/Stamper's Anonymous as well.

This background was created by lightly blending our first Distress ink all over the smooth side of a piece of Ranger Distress Watercolour paper. We then stenciled down the bottom of the card with a darker brown ink but in a way to not leave a line. Using the same darker ink we hand-stamped the scripty word down the RHS and along the bottom and when I say hand-stamped we are tapping the ink pad to the red rubber stamp and then stamping holding the stamp in our HANDS. We then spritzed to give drops. Let dry or heat set. When dry remove 1/8" from all sides - Jenn likes to clean up the edges and leave a wee border which we have used a Distresser tool on.

#creativejourneycapecod

✿ Karen ✿

Craft Roulette #170

Only one parameter was challenging IMO. What the hell does "collection" mean on a card, it's interesting seeing what everyone comes up with to cover this parameter but it seemed most people were doing multiples of something on the card, so my teddy bear having a cup of tea at a table with a red gingham tablecloth maybe wasn't hitting the brief (I have a wee collection of miniature teddy bears, some of them cost me 100s of dollars years ago). Collecting miniature teddies was definitely cheaper than collecting stamps and took up less space!

So back to the thinking board and thought I'd use some red gingham paper to make a "table cloth" but don't own any and could have made one but found a Lemon Lime Twist gingham piece from when it was an in-colour ??2017. I love lime green so as soon as I found it that was my "picnic blanket" of choice.

One of my old SU! sets that I won't let go is Free as a Bird which fitted a collection of birds, wishing someone a Happy Birthday their way. Picnic colours (lime green gingham, blue, red, brown, lime green). I have added 3 Honey Bee black gems to the larger flowers. I have Copic coloured up the images and fussy cut out (I actually cut before I coloured in case it wasn't really possible). The stitching is Lawn Fawn's Just Double Stitched Rectangle die, I have used an A2 layer die to work out and cut out the picnic blanket layer so it fits inside the stitching nicely.

You have about 24 hours if you want to join in on the FUNN at Craft Roulette.

✿ Karen ✿

Shaker cards for grown ups

Another stunning card from my Virtual Creative Art Retreat and its teal and bright pink - it must be a Jenn Shurkus card. It also incorporates my favourite stamp company Pinkfresh Studios I love their stamps, stencils, dies, hot foil plates and coverplate dies. We were very fortunate to receive the In My Heart stamp set and co-ordinating die in our event kit plus Jenn had provided us with a Mermaid card which had been die cut with the stunning Ornate Medallion coverplate, also from Pinkfresh Studios. The mermaid card stock is such a pretty teal blue and it sounds like it's been out of stock for the last 18 months with Lawn Fawn, sounds like Jenn bought so much it might be OOS again.

Normally what I love about the Pinkfresh Studio stamps is you colour them in with a stencil and a blending brush but with Jenn we got to colour them in with our Copics and wow it sure packs a punch and then we used our fab Trinity Stamps confetti mix to make a shaker card. I love these sequins and sure hope they do sell them to the public eventually. I've only been using the blue ones in the pack until now but now you can see there are white and pink ones (pink hearts too).

We've used Glossy Accents (RNG) and Prisma glitter to make the buds and the centres of the big pink flowers pop. 

Wow it's getting to the stage when I don't know hoe I'll ever be able to give these cards away, guess it means I have to make more ;)
✿ Karen ✿