Gelli Plate Fun

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.  It's HOT here.    

I have a quick post this evening.   I had the pleasure of taking a great Introductory class on Mono Printing using a Gelli Plate.  We worked on a large sheet of paper which was cut & folded into a small Art Journal.  I still want to do some stamping on these backgrounds, but thought I would share a few of the pages.      Keep in mind that this is my first 'play' with a Gelli Plate and will learn more as I go.  I can see that it can be addictive. 
  

Of course I came home with a Gelli Plate along with more stencils and can't wait to have more fun with them.

Thanks for stopping by & have a great day,

Shirley

A Blue Fancy Flower

Happy Weekend and Welcome to the new followers, I appreciate everyone's visits.

I have a quick post today with a design featuring a flower from Chocolate Baroque's beautiful new Fancy Flowers set.

I applied Shabby Shutters and Peel Paint Distress Inks to the background using the Acrylic Block Technique.     Next I stamped the Floral Damask Background stamp with Shabby Shutters.   When dry I stamped with a fragment from Textured Fragments and embossed with a blue glitter embossing powder.  I stamped the flower image from Fancy Flowers with black Stazon Ink and coloured with my Prisma pencils.   I used spellbinder dies for the shapes.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirley

Let it Rain

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.  

This is my second post today -  the Out of Hat Creations current challenge theme is "Let it Rain" so decided to get Design by Ryn's Raindrops out to create something to join in.   I also used solid butterflies by Impression Obsession and a sentiment by Chocolate Baroque to create this card.   We are getting more rain than normal, but our plants and trees love it  -  they prefer rain to drought. 

I started with Neocolour II crayons (water soluble) on the background.   I rubbed some colour on and then spritzed with water and let the colour run together helped along with a brush.     I coloured with the crayons directly onto the solid butterfly by IO D5009.   I spritzed with water and then stamped onto the background.    As you can see, the result is a watery effect.   When dry I outlined with a water paint Sharpie (the Gelly Roll pen won't draw on the wax very well).   Next I stencilled using TCW Mini Cell Theory and Distress Ink.

I stamped the Raindrops and also used a couple of stamps from Raindrop Set with Teal Stazon Ink.    I coloured them a little with Distress Ink & water (from my craft mat) and highlighted with a white Gellyroll pen.

The sentiment is from Chocolate Baroque's Loving Sentiments set. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend
Shirley

Sail Away

Hello everyone, I hope your week is going well.

I have a card today using stamps by Impression Obsession.   This sailboat collage stamp has been sitting in a drawer uninked for too long.    I was hoping to enter this design in an upcoming IO challenge but one of the rules is that you must use IO Stamps and Dies.   I've used a non-IO flourish die so unfortunately it doesn't qualify but I think this would work well as a 'man card'.

However I'm joining into the Rhedd and Rosie Challenge- as the theme is "Here comes Summer".  Well summer is certainly here, it's beautiful this morning, the humidity left but I'm sure it will be back soon.   Sailing would be a wonderful activity!

Impression Obsession stamps:   Cover a Card CC014 Fluff, H13022 Sail Collage and B3552 just a note.

I stamped the 'fluff' CAC background with Black Soot Distress Ink over a piece of designer paper that has a slight pattern to it.    It looks like a 'swirl' to me and mimics water.

I stamped and embossed the main image with black twice.   I painted with Tombow markers and cut out the outer frame and decoupaged over the main image.   I embossed the nautical decoration a 3rd time and added to the side.   I added glitter to the ripples in the water.

I used Crealie Die CL CS02 for the black flourish that matches the background swirls.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great summer day!
Shirley

Poppy Meadow

Hello everyone, I hope you had a great weekend. 

I have a card today using Chocolate Baroque's beautiful new Poppy Meadow stamp set.  

I applied Tattered Rose & Seedless Preserves Distress Inks to the background using the Acrylic Block technique (add ink to an Acrylic block, spritz with water and rub onto your sheet).    I stamped the Poppy Seed heads with Seedless Preserves but spritzed the stamp with water first (after inking), so it created a watery effect.  I highlighted a little with a white Prisma pencil.

The main image was stamped with Cocoa Memento Dye ink, cut with Spellbinder S4-347 and coloured with my Prisma pencils.  I realized when I took a photo that the Poppy bud should be green to be more realistic, I coloured it like a Rose bud :)   Happy Birthday is from Birthday words.

Here is a look at the new Poppy Meadow set which is on an introductory special this month along with Fancy Flowers.

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day !

Shirley 

Clean and Simple with Water Droplets

Happy Weekend !

I was blog hopping and noticed at Sylvia's Blog and then Florence's Blog that Addicted to CAS code word for the next two week's challenge is "Water".   I have so many beautiful Water Effects stamps by Designs by Ryn, I decided to get them out for a quick 'play'.

I enjoy the challenge of one-layer CAS cards and created this one with Water Droplets 2.      My 'regular style'  is not CAS and sometimes I spend hours to create a card so it's nice to design something that is fast.

But I was in a panic when suddenly my blog disappeared !   I wonder why that happens ?   I went through the security steps to get it back again.   Whew !

I masked off an area of a folded white card and blended Peacock Feathers, Squeezed Lemonade & Shaded Lilac Distress inks.   I left the mask in place and flicked some water over top to create water marks.   After removing the mask I stamped Design by Ryn's Waterdroplets 2 and Just Because (from a mini Basic Grey stamp set) with black Versafine ink.  I highlighted the drops with a white Gellyroll pen and I'm done !

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend,
Shirley

Seahorses & Rising Bubbles

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great week and enjoying your summer so far.  It's gorgeous weather here, not too hot and we've had enough rain to keep our gardens & lawn happy.

I have a card today for Designs by Ryn using a combination of her stamps to create an underwater scene.    I love working with these images. 

I sprayed blue, turquoise & teal Dylusions inks on 140 lb cold press watercolour paper.   I spritzed water over it, moved the page around and let the colours run together here & there.    I blotted off with a paper towel roll, then blotted up some of the ink on my craft mat.   The texture in the top LH corner is from the spray, it created some cool designs.  One of things I love about 'playing' with these spray inks is you don't know exactly how it will turn out.   I also love the vibrant colours.

I used TCW Mini Coral stencil with Shaded Lilac & Mowed lawn Distress Inks.   Next I stamped Ryn's solid Seaweed from Seaweed Set with Salty Ocean DI several times.    I also embossed using the Seaweed stamp & Wow Glamour Green embossing Glitter. 

The WOW powders are very glittery, love them.   I bought a few colours while I was in the Netherlands and now wish I had lots more. :)    However I have many glitter powders hanging out in my stash and intend to play with them more often.    I think I was saving them for Christmas designs, but have been inspired by Miranda's card designs to use them more often.

I stamped Rising Bubbles a few times with Black Stazon ink, blended the inks with water & brush and highlighted with a white pen. 

I stamped the Seahorses from Ryn's Seahorse Set on water colour paper with Black Stazon ink and painted with my Tombow markers.   I added lots of holograph glitter with a glue pen to pick up on the glitter from the embossed Seaweed.

Hello is from Impression Obsession A3579.  

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirley

Fancy Flowers by Chocolate Baroque

Hello everyone and Happy Canada Day weekend to my fellow Canadians and Happy 4th of July to my American friends !

Chocolate Baroque has just announced July's new gorgeous stamp designs are Fancy Flowers and Poppy Meadow.    Each month it's like Christmas anticipating what yummy designs will be revealed. Today I have a design from the beautiful Fancy Flowers set.

 

I used a peach tone sheet of fairly solid designer paper for the backgrounds and stamped the images from Fancy Flowers with Cocoa Memento Dye Ink.   I coloured the beautiful flower with Prisma pencils and highlighted the center with a white Gelly Roll pen.   I blended a little Vintage Photo & Tumbled Glass DI around the background and added little pearls to the swirls of the flowers.

Here is a look at the Fancy Flowers A5 set with lots of beautiful images to colour and design with.   It's on special offer during July along with Poppy Meadow.   The two sets also qualify for a multi-buy discount.

If you would like to see designs by my talented teammates please visit Chocolate Baroque's Design Team Blog.     Also, you have a chance to win a set of the new gorgeous stamps -  all you need to do is leave a comment at this post here and Glenda will pick two winners at the end of next week.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirley

Live in the Moment

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a great week.

I had some fun playing with the newer (wonderful) Dylusions ink colours and Design by Ryn stamps.  Of course I 'need' all the colours since I love using them so much.     The one I'm still missing is White Linen.   It's a semi opaque ink & works different that the others, it's fantastic.  So I decided I would try adding white Acrylic paint (not a heavy type) into a mini mister with water.  I shook it up and sprayed, the result is also a neat effect.

I started the background by spraying Calypso Teal, After Midnight Dylusions inks and some of the white Acrylic paint & water mix.   I stencilled over top with Seedless Preserves Distress Ink (bottom RH corner) and Peacock Feathers (top LH corner) and TCW mini Circle Explosion.

Next I stamped with white Colourbox Pigment Ink & Design by Ryn's fabulous Sea Bubbles.  And to finish the background I stamped part of her famous Water Droplets with black Stazon ink and highlighted with a white Gellyroll pen.

The fabulous quote is from Impression Obsession - D1379 Butterfly Counts, which makes me think about living in the moment.     

I stamped beautiful Selini the Moth on watercolour paper with Black Stazon and painted with Peacock Feathers & Picked Raspberry Distress Inks on my craft mat & a brush.   I also highlighted her with the white pen and cut her out to attach.


Thanks for stopping by,
Shirley 

More Peacock Designs !

Hello everyone, I hope all is well!

I have two more Peacock designs to show you today using the new fabulous stamps from Chocolate Baroque.

The background for the above card was created with Smooch Inks.   I stamped the feather over the background with Moss Green Pigment ink by Colorbox.   The Peacock Feather 'plant' from Peacock Parade and the bubbles at the top from the clear set -Decorative Edges were embossed with gold.    I added the gold border with a gold pen.   The Peacock above from Tangled Peacock was also embossed with Gold on watercolour paper and coloured with Tombow markers.  

The backgrounds on the card above are designer papers from my stash.  I distressed the edges of the blue paper and added a little Tea Dye Distress Ink to both.    The Peacock & decorative edge are both from Peacock Parade which I stamped with Coffee Archival Ink.

I coloured over the Peacock with Prisma Pencils and added glitter and little rhinestones on his tail. 

Spellbinder Dies:  Labels Eight & Decorative Labels Eight.     I used the 'out of box' technique for the end of the tail.     Here is a link to a U Tube Video Tutorial.

A different angle:

Well that's all the Peacock designs I have for this month, they are gorgeous stamps and I look forward to 'playing' with them again.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,
Shirley