Gilded Hummingbirds Card

I can't believe we're nearly in June and I'm sat here in a thick fleece thinking about turning the heating back on.....again. It's so different to the lovely weather we had for the Bank Holiday weekend. Talking of June, if you haven't entered this month's challenge on the Clarity Stamp Challenge Blog you have until 8pm on Friday 31st May to have a go. It's well worth it as there's a £50 Claritystamp voucher for the winner, who is chosen at random. On Saturday there will be a new challenge and I will be sharing  the card I've made for that with you. Barbara Gray will be on Create and Craft so it should be a good weekend and if the weather is like this staying in crafting might be a good idea.

Meanwhile, this is another of my samples for the German shows.

It uses Barbara's technique of stamping onto a sheet of double sided adhesive and adhering gilding flakes and mica powders to it. I used gilding flakes for the background and birds, and Perfect Pearls for the moons. It's cut out with a Spellbinders Nestabilities die - Labels Eight. That is matted onto black card cut with Decorative Labels Eight.

The Leafy Columns are stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with black detail powder.

The card is made out of Centura Pearl card which gives it a lovely shimmer.

Stamps Used

Large Hummingbirds

Leafy Column

Lynne

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Hot Air Balloon Card

I hope you're all enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend. We've had lovely weather here and have been making the most of it by doing lots of outside jobs, followed by BBQs and wine in the evening. Bliss.

This card is one of my Claritystamp samples for HSE24. It may look familiar as it's very similar to the card I made for the CO's 40th Birthday.

This time I used the new Clarity Mountain and Hills Mask to create the mountains in the background.

Another change I made this time was to stamp the balloons onto Hunkydory card, rather than colouring them in myself with ProMarkers. It has a lovely sheen to it which I thought worked well for the balloons. I used several co-ordinating sheets so the balloons weren't all the same design.

The post on the CO's card is here and I explain there how I shaped the balloons. This adds a bit of interest to the card and I think it makes them look more realistic.

The sentiment this time says "Best Wishes" in German.

Stamps Used

Large Hot Air Balloon

Medium Hot Air Balloon

Small Hot Air Balloon

Spruce Tree

Sentiment from the German Celebration Set

Plus

Mountains and Hills Mask

Herzliche Glückwünsche,

Lynne

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Bee Mine Card

This is the last of my samples from this month's Clarity shows.

I stamped and coloured the foxgloves the same way as I did for my Foxgloves Card but this time I added some bees.

I thought it would look cute having one going into a flower. I stamped the headless bee on the card and then stamped and cut out his body. I cut a slit in the flower and inserted the body into it.

I added a matching green mat and made it into a card but it was still lacking something. Then I had the "Bee Mine" idea. It added a bit of interest and finished it off nicely.

Stamps Used

Remountable Foxgloves Set

Letter Box set

Bee from Remountable Bug Set

Only one more week to go before Barbara is back on TV for another Clarity weekend. My samples for that are coming along well but until then I have some of the ones I made for the last German shows on HSE24 to share with you.  

Lynne
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Flamingo Reflection Card

I think this was my favourite of my samples from this month's TV shows (it changes between this and my other flamingo card).

I like the colours and I was really pleased at how the reflection turned out.

Like my Flamingo Anniversary Card, I used my Splodge Away mat to do the reflection. This time I wanted it to be paler than the main image, so I used black Adirondack ink on the Splodge mat for the reflection and then stamped the flamingo as I normally would.

I masked the flamingo then created the rest of the scene. I used an Ink Duster to do the water, trying to get a few lines in it to look like ripples. I made this heavier where her legs go into the water.

I coloured the flamingo in with ProMarkers and the reflection with pencils. The grass is done with Adirondack Lettuce and Meadow.

I found some brads and Bazzill Bling card in my stash that were a great match for the flamingo. I think they finish the card off nicely.

I'd like to enter it into the Dream Valley Challenge 57 - Animals.

Stamps Used

Bent Flamingo

Flamingo Grass

Lynne

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Foxgloves Card

I had a lovely afternoon making a card for next month's shows yesterday. Very unusually for me I made the whole card, including designing it, in one go! 

Lots of my FB friends are on their way to Cowden today for two days of Clarity workshops with Barbara Gray. They all sound so excited and I so wish I was going. They've said they'll take lots of photos so I'll at least be able to see what they've been up to. I'm off to York with a friend for some retail therapy. We always have such a giggle so I'm sure she'll cheer me up. When I get home I have another card to make that I planned yesterday, so that's something to look forward to as well.

This is the first of my cards using the new Clarity stamps.

I inked the flowers up in Lilac Posies Memento ink and the leaves in Cottage Ivy Memento. I chose matching ProMarkers to colour them in with - Rose Pink, Pink Mittens and Forest Green.

Then out came my trusty cloud template and Ink Duster to create the sky.

The butterfly was made with Angelina Film and Fibres.

I cut the mat (bought from the Silhouette Store) on my Silhouette Cameo. I chose it as I thought the holes in it complemented the shape of the flowers. 

A pearl in each corner adds a finishing touch.

Stamps Used

Remountable Foxgloves Set

With Love from the Remountable Happy Words Set

Butterfly from the Remountable Best of the Classroom Set

Lynne

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Woodland Foxes Card

I created a little woodland scene for this card which involved quite a bit of masking! 

I started off by stamping out the design on copy paper. When I do this I don't bother with masks as I just want to work out where things are going to go. Then when I come to stamp it out for real I know exactly where to position the stamps. It makes things a lot easier, especially on designs like this where I had to stamp the front fox and the sitting fox before the tree stump.

After I'd done the stamping, the masks come in handy again to cover the work up whilst doing the brayering. They're now stored with all of my others for the next time I use those stamps.

The colouring is done with ProMarkers and the greenery is done with Adirondack Lettuce and Meadow and Versafine Olympia Green.

I used the bark side of Spellbinders M-Bossibilities Bricks and Bark folder to create textured panels for the background as I thought they worked well with the tree stumps. I found some card to match the foxes but it still needed something else. After rooting through my stash I found some eyelets that matched perfectly. These came with my Crop-A-Dile and I have a load of them left  - I bet I'm not the only one!

Stamps Used

Standing Fox

Sitting Fox

Tree Stump

Grasses 1

Mini Grasses from Remountable Garden Set

Lynne

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Rainy Day Gelli Print Card

The theme on the Clarity Stamp Challenge Blog this month is "It's All In The Sentiment" and that couldn't be more true than on this card.

Whilst it's not the main focal point, it's what makes the card for me.

The background is another Gelli print. I wanted to use the umbrella stamp so I thought a rainy background would be ideal. The clouds and raindrops are from the Silhouette Store and I cut the template out of vellum on my Cameo.

I did the blue textured layer first, then added the clouds and raindrops in white.

The characters and verse are stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with black detail powder.

Stamps Used

Remountable Clarity Characters

Together Verse

Lynne

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