Moonlit Lovebirds

It's finally here! 3 days of Barbara Gray on Create and Craft TV. I've just watched the first hour and already made a few purchases, one of them being the new shapes for the Letter Box kit. They look fantastic and I can't wait to play with them.

I thought I'd start off with this one of my samples as it was shown this morning and is one of my favourites.

The Lovebirds is such a cute stamp and looks fab when it's coloured in. It's perfect for an anniversary card - I used it for my Hubby's card this year. That's blogged here if you missed it before.

The moonlit idea came about as I wanted to extend the branch stamp and make it into a tree. Black was the easiest choice for this (no worries about the colour matching). I stamped it a couple of times in black Archival and filled in the trunk with a black ProMarker. I've not tried this before but I was really pleased with how it turned out.

I stamped the verse in the sky and cut a moon mask to cover it. The dark sky is created using Barbara's method of brayering with Denim Adirondack ink, then going over it with Black Adirondack. A few dots of white pen create some stars. How romantic!

The birds are coloured with ProMarkers.

The card was originally going to be shaped like the photo above but I thought it needed something else. Mounting it onto a square card gave me the chance to add the words "Happy Anniversary" using the Letter Box kit. The green and blue card is Bazzill Bling.

Three heart shaped gems finish it off.

Oh well, best I'd better get some jobs done before Barbara is back on at 2pm. There's so many shows to look forward to this weekend, what a treat!

Happy Crafting! 

Stamps Used

Lovebirds

Love You

Branch

Letter Box

Lynne

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