Retiring Stamp Sets Card Day

Hi there,

Sorry I haven't been around for over a week.I have not been well with changing of medication. Withdrawal is really not the nicest thing to go through. Anyway with some help from some lovely friends I got through last week and even managed to design and case 8 cards for my card day. I will show you them over the next week. I am also getting ready for my 5th Anniversary Camp that is on this coming weekend. It is going to be the best camp I have organised and I cant wait to get away for a whole weekend of stamping with friends.

The first card I made using A Wish for Peace. I have had heat and stick powder for about 3 years now and have never used it so decided to have a go. Wow what an easy technique and it looks great. The top card is the one that my friend Sandra helped me to design off a card that she had made. I have used Bashful Blue and Night of Navy card stock and Marina Mist ink with Night of Navy. I then decided to add the embossing folder when I was making my demo card.

The second card I used Always. I haven't used this set for quite some time and as I was running out of time I revisited a card I made a couple of years ago. I just used Peach Parfait where I had previously used Groovy Guava. The base card is Crumb Cake and as you can see Tempting Turquoise.
I love this heart stamp out of this set.

that is all for today. back to making name tags for camp.

Emboss Resist Technique

Hi there, another week has flown by and I haven't got back to my blog. I have not been too well in the past couple of weeks and my Dr is changing some of my medication and wow what a head spin I have been in for a week now with the withdrawals from the medication. Here I am at 6am on my computer as I cant sleep. Hopefully things will get better soon.


Now I did say I would show you the technique card we made last Sunday so here it is. I got out a stamp set I haven't used in a very long time. It is Priceless. The technique is Emboss resist. I used Crumb Cake, Choc Chip and Very Vanilla. I embossed in Clear so that the vanilla shows through. The side panel I brayered over with choc chip and the butterfly I used a sponge dauber to cover the embossed area.

The retiring list of stamp sets comes out tomorrow and I think Priceless will be on it. Remember if you want any of the stamps that are retiring, to order them early in the month as once they run out you wont be able to get them again.

Have a lovely day.

Another Fine Flourish.

Today I have my other Fine Flourish card to show you. I painted this one in garden green. I also used another sketch but cant find where I put it so cant tell you which one. 

Just a short post today. I will show you our technique class card once I have photographed it. 

Have a good day.

Sketch Challenge 204

hi there, I hope you have had a nice weekend. I managed to do some sketch challenges last week. They are not new ones but a couple I found in my folder. I decided to use my medium background stamp Fine Flourish. I stamped it in Blue and then coloured it with reinker and a round brush. I had fun painting this as it took me back to my folk art days. The sketch I used is SC204. I used Presto Patterns Specialty DP and brayered it with Marina Mist for the 2nd layer. 

 1st layer of painting just a wash.

 then add some darker commas.

I have also done one in green which I will show you tomorrow.

thanks for stopping by.

Brayered Background Case

hi Again,

I went through my swaps from convention and found one I really loved and decided to make it from a small 10x10 card  into an A5 card. I dont have the original card with me at the moment so I will have to acknowledge to original creator later. I can now tell you that this card was one of Paula Dobson's Check out her blog. She has some wonderful creations. Anyway here is my efforts. 

The colours are Early Esspresso, Sahara Sand and Very Vanilla. The inks are Sahara Sand and Early Esspresso.

Flower Fancy

Hi there,

well it has been a little while since I last posted. I was looking through some card favourites last night and found a card using the set Flower fancy. I have had this set for ages and haven't really done much with it so I dug it out and cased this lovely card by Andrea Walford. 

I used the background French Filigree instead of leaving the main card plain and changed the greeting.

I love Pink Pirouette and Wild Wasabi together. The technique is brayered embossing.

Hope to make some more cards in the next few days. Thanks for stopping by.

More Exmouth Photos

As promised here are some more of my photos of my Exmouth holiday. 

The view of the coast line flying up in the plane.

 The view out of my tent

 Seagull at Sunset

 Having my toe nails done by Sue.

 My first fish. The next 3 were bigger.

Checking out Turquoise Bay

Desert Peas on the side of the road

The above 3 photos are rocks on the beach at Oyster Stacks. Where we get into the water to snorkel and a couple of the pretty parrot fish on the reef. Well that is all for now. Next time I will have some cards for you hopefully.