In The Classroom With Barbara Gray - Lesson 16

I really enjoyed this lesson but my stamping didn't all go smoothly! I was ready to bin it and start again at one stage but I stuck with it and really liked the end result. I've not been able to share it before now as it was for a friend's birthday and I wanted to wait until after she'd seen it.

It was all going quite nicely until I managed to get black ink from the side of my hand on the bottom right corner.  Luckily some extra grasses were able to cover that up.

I was also too heavy handed with the Butterscotch ink doing the sky and my picture was looking like a Norwich City scarf, so I added some Adirondack Mountain Rose to calm it down a bit. After that it changed from something that I nearly binned to something I was really pleased with. It just shows how a couple of simple additions can really transform something.

My friend lives on a dairy farm so I thought that a couple of cows would be a fun finishing touch.

Stamps Used

Lesson 16 - Windmill Set

Small Birds In Flight

Cows from the Remountable Farm Set

Lynne

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Woodland Gelli Print Card

This card was Hubby's, and Mum and Dad's favourite sample of mine for this month. It uses the stamps for Lesson 17 of In The Classroom With Barbara Gray on Create and Craft TV which is on the 1st June.

It's another one of my cards made using the Gelli plate. This time I did two layers - one of green and one of red along with various items to create the texture - a swirly mask by Splodge Away, bubble wrap, a letter stencil, and sequin waste.  I tore a piece of copy paper into the shape I wanted and then placed it in the middle of the painted up Gelli plate. As I wanted a nice clean area in the middle to stamp on I let it in place when I made the print.

Once I had the Gelli print I set about doing the stamping in the middle. I love Puck's funky stripy tights! He also has pretty sparkly wings done with a clear Sakura Stardust pen.

The brown background is done with Distress Ink. The hares are stamped in Versamark and then heat embossed with black fine detail powder.

Stamps Used

Miniature Puck

Toadstool Set - Lesson 17

Lynne

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Happy New Year Gelli Print Card

This was the first of the Gelli print cards that I made for this month's samples. I saw the Happy New Year stamp and the silhouette characters and thought they could be having a New Year's Eve party.

The Gelli print was a really simple one. I brayered orange, red, and yellow acrylic paint onto the mat and then stamped the Allium stamp into it to make a pattern. I cut a small rectangle of card and pressed it onto the Gelli plate to remove some of the paint before taking the main print. This leaves a more subtle print behind in the centre, which I've edged with a black pen and stamped the characters in with Archival black ink.

I also used Archival black to stamp the greeting and some more Alliums. They make fab fireworks and the characters seem to be having a great time - I think Douglas had better watch out as Laurel looks like she's about to give him a New Year's kiss!

I added some Black Soot Distress Ink around the edges and a thin black mat to finish it off.

Stamps Used

Alium 3

Remountable Clarity Characters

Remountable Happy Words Set

Lynne

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Flamingo Anniversary Card

It was a busy weekend for Barbara Gray on Create and Craft with lots of kits selling out. I'm not surprised though as I really loved all of this month's stamps.

Reading the feedback I've had, my two flamingo cards seem to be the favourites of my samples. I must admit they were mine too; I was really pleased with how they turned out. So I thought I'd start with one of those.

I've seen cards where two flamingos make a heart before and was pleased to see that the Clarity one works for this technique. It was perfect as I also had a Happy Anniversary stamp to use.

As Barbara demonstrated on TV, I used my Splodge mat to create the bird on the right. I used Adirondack black ink and stamped directly onto the Splodge mat so that I could then transfer the image to my sheet of Theuva card. I then stamped the bird on the left next to it using the second generation of ink. I've added this close-up photo as I was really impressed at how similar the stamped images are in colour using this technique.

I coloured them in with ProMarkers and cut the oval out with a Grand Scalloped Oval Spellbinders Nestabilitie before adding some Antique Linen Distress Ink. I used my Silhouette Cameo to make the thin black mat for it and the border that the ribbon is threaded through. The pink heart paper is from the Smitten Range by K & Co.

Stamps Used

Tall Flamingo

Remountable Happy Words Set

Lynne

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May's Clarity Samples

I absolutely love this month's stamps and it was a real pleasure to play with them.

These are my cards. As you can see, prints from the Gelli plate made an appearance in several of them. It is such a fun thing to experiment with and I feel that each time I use it I am learning something new. Hopefully my technique is improving too!

As always, I will be blogging each card individually throughout the month and explaining how I've made it.

A couple of cards from previous shows were shown again today too.

This one uses the stamps from Lesson 15. If you missed my post on that it can be found here.

My Delft Tile style card was also shown again and the old post on that can be found here.

I hope you'll come back to see in more details what I've been up to.

Happy stamping,

Lynne

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Blooming Corner Birthday Card - Mum - Revisited

Just a quick one from me today as I wanted to share this update on a previous post. This time last month I blogged a card made with the Blooming Corner stamps made into the word MUM. Since then I've been bought the smaller ones that come in the Best of the Classroom set and I thought you might like to see the size comparison.

As you can see there is quite a difference.

I really like the larger version but the smaller one is probably more practical for making word cards with.

Just incase you missed the original post, this is the card I made with the larger Blooming Corner stamps. The post on that can be found here.

Stamps Used

Blooming Corner Kit

Best of The Classroom Set

Not long now before I can share my cards from this weekend. I'm looking forward to watching the shows and stamping along with Barbara tomorrow. I wonder what we will be doing? 

Lynne

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It's All In The Sentiment - Mother's Day Cards

It's time for another challenge over at the Clarity Stamp Challenge Blog. This month's theme is "It's all in the Sentiment".

I have two cards to show you which I made for Mother's Day this year.

This first one I made for my Mum. The heart and the embellishments were from a K & Co. Smitten kit. I bought it years ago but as it was a Valentine photo card kit I never used it. I couldn't really see Hubby appreciating it! Anyway, this year I realised it would make a fab Mother's Day card so I set about transforming it. 

Instead of a photo I used the "To the World" Clarity stamp. As the challenge says, "It's all in the sentiment" and that one was perfect.

I changed the Valentine's Day embellishment to Happy Mother's Day which I had printed out on my computer.

I had some 12x12 papers in the same Smitten design so I used them to make a similar card for my Mother-in-law.

The sentiment is stamped onto one of the Spellbinders Floral Ovals Nestabilities. Then I've used various other dies to decorate the card. I had a bit of a problem with the edging as I just couldn't get it to cut through the patterned paper and the card I'd stuck it to. Luckily I had some old Fiskars punches in a similar sized heart and circle, so I finished it off with those.

Stamp Used

To The World 

Dies Used

Spellbinders Floral Ovals

Spellbinders Classic Petal Edgeabilities

Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities Labels 11

Flower - Tim Holtz Tattered Florals

Scroll - Tim Holtz Elegant Flourishes

Embossing Folder

Cuttlebug Wicker Weave

Clarity have so many lovely sentiment stamps, sometimes they are all you need to make a beautiful, heartfelt card. It's all in the sentiment after all.

Congratulations to the winner and Top 5 of the "In the Garden" challenge. I really enjoyed looking at all of the entries and I look forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge. Good luck!

Lynne
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