V for Valentine

For various reasons I'm not getting much crafting done but thought I'd have a play this afternoon and make my postcard for The Craft Barn's Alpha Dictionary Challenge.  The letter this time is V - I've chosen Valentine but if you visit regularly you will know I've tried to use as many v words as possible!!

So the background is a variegated vibrant mix of yellows through to reds and I've stamped the Pansy Pot down the side with Vermillion Archival.  I've also gold embossed the Pansy stamp and coloured it a purple-blue.....think Violas!!   The main element is the Walesby Heart gold embossed and again coloured in purple-blue.  It's just finished with the V Thicker and the dictionary definition.

Well I've filed that as no. 21 so we can only have 5 more to go = 10 weeks to Christmas.  How did that happen???   Anyway thanks for popping by and for all the comments you keep leaving.

Elaine x


 

Oak House Studio - Citrus Challenge

It's the start of a new challenge on the Oak House Studio blog - all you have to do is create something in Citrus colours and using one Oak House Studio product.

Here are my creations:

A card (could be birthday or mothers day) using the Pansy Pot stamp gold embossed about 4 times and decoupaged to make a lovely full pot of pansies.  I've mixed Brazil Nut and Citrus Orange Ink in a Bottle to make a terracotta colour for the pot and the flowers have just been painted with Citrus Yellow, Citrus Orange and Citrus Lime Ink in a Bottle.  I used a pipette to decant some ink into a paint palette and painted with a water brush.  To add further detail I've stamped and clear embossed a border of pansies.

My next piece is for all those scrapbookers out there.  I started with a 12 x 12 of white linen card and just flicked Citrus Yellow and Orange ink with a paint brush.  I made some homemade washi tape using 4 stamps (Mack Rose, Rosette, Checkerboard and Thoresby) and Pigment Ink Pads  (Spring Green, Daffodil, Valentine and Lemon Yellow.  I sprayed some white paper flowers with the Citrus Inks in a Bottle, added some brads  and finished with the sentiment stamp Bloom where you are planted.  

All the stamps, spray inks and ink pads can be bought from Oak House Studio.   Why not pop over to the blog to see what everyone else has created and have a go - there's a prize to be won!!

Sweet Candy

Here's a quick card for the Less is More Challenge week 109 where the colour scheme to use is Pink Doughnut/Candy Colours.    I'm also going to enter this into Hels Sunday Stamper Challenge week 247 where the theme is  Something Sweet.

I have the say the colours are really not me - far too pastely and sugary - but I've had a go and maybe it's too pink!   I've stamped the Pansy Pot from Oak House Studio with Cocoa Versacolor and clear embossed it.  I've coloured it with Aquash watercolours and then finished it with the Happy Mothers Day sentiment on a hand cut banner.

It's a great stamp for Mothers Day and luckily mine doesn't look at my blog, so it'll be winging it's way to her this week.  Hope you like and thanks for looking!!

Pink Pansies

Here's my second card for the Less is More challenge week 60 - it's a Take 3 Challenge where you have to use the theme from 3 previous challenges.


The challenges I've used are:
Week 1 - Pink, Black and White
Week 2 - Flowers
Week 43 - Bit of Bling

I've stamped the Pansy Pot stamp by Oak House Studio with Midnight Sparkle embossing powder and then watercoloured it in 2 tone pink. It's matted on a deeper pink to add defintion and I've added more bling with Silver Stickles in the flower centres and 3 gems.

Hope you like and thanks for taking the time to look!!

Pansies

It's bedding plant time again - for various reasons I always end up being late planting up my pots but it doesn't take long for them to catch up and burst into flower.

I was looking at pansies and all the different colours you can get - I always choose purple ones, no idea why, but I guess it's the closest colour to blue which I always think is a nice companion to the pinks and reds of pelargoniums etc. It made me think of a scrapbook page I made last year.



Don't you just love those colours - purple shading to pink. I used Oak House Studio's Pansy Pot stamp - just the flower part - to create a border and printed a pansy definition on the computer.

Pansies always look jolly so I hope this brightens your day!

Mothers Everywhere

As promised here is a photo of my Mother's Day card - it's on the journey north and I think it's safe to post it as my mum's not a silver surfer!

It uses the Pansy Pot stamp embossed in silver and guess what, painted in purple with yellow splodgy centres like the vast majority of pansies. In this instance I used twinkling H2Os to give the flowers a little bit of bling but then this contrasts with the chalk inks used on the Hessian stamp for the plant pot.
It's such a versatile stamp - nice and big so it's the focal point but it can be coloured to suit and set on any background. If you watched the TV show one of the samples shows it in front of a window which was very effective. It can also be used in scrapbooking with the flower half of the stamp inked to edge the pages.
Anyway I'd best go do some motherly jobs and wish all mothers out there a Happy Mothers Day for Sunday.

Get Stamping (2)

Just to let you know Lynnda launches the Get Stamping kit on Create and Craft Freeview channel 36 on Sunday at 10am so make sure you are up and watching. The kit is designed for new stampers (or old stampers to pack in their holiday luggage) and includes everything you need to make several cards with just the addition of a pair of scissors and some adhesive.
The kit includes an instruction booklet, together with a paper, card and envelope pack, 2 ink pads (3 colours), an acrylic block and 11 stamps - sketchy flowers, twiddly bits and a selection of sentiments.
Sunday's show also features a larger scale set of Sketchy Flowers and the Pansy Pot which is an old favourite of many and just right for Mother's Day in a couple of weeks.

This particular version of the Pansy Pot was made for Stitches hence it's colourway - I used our Hessian stamp with red chalk ink and then stamped over this with the pot section to give it some texture. The flowers were then stamped several times, cut out in various sections and decoupaged to give a good pot full of pansies.

I'm not sure why but I usually paint the pansies purple (using my Aquash set) but the beauty of pansies is that they come in loads of colours so you can tailor yours to suit any recipient!! Surprisingly the sun is out today and whilst I have no pansies in my garden to look at, I have just noticed the first yellow crocuses poking their heads out of the ground. They must be about 2 weeks late but it does mean Spring is on its way at last.

Anyway I hope you enjoy Sunday's show.