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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Red and Green Roseart Vase Card

This is the first card I made with these stamps.

It kept me and Mum entertained for most of Boxing Day! It was one of those cards where the initial idea came quickly but we just couldn't get it to look right. We got there in the end though (I hope) and had a lot of fun in the process.

The Girly Swirly Splodge Away mask is a great match for the swirls on the stamp. I ran it through my Grand Calibur to create the embossed effect on the green card.  The white card is all Centura Pearl Snow White.

I stamped the vase onto acetate using Stazon then stuck it to a sheet of double sided adhesive and adhered the gilding flakes. After cutting it out I was left with a beautiful gilded vase. The top layer of acetate gives it a glazed look which I really like.

The flowers are stamped in Rocket Red Brilliance, with Olympia Green Versafine for the stems. The tag was done the same way, except I used the second generation ink to make it paler and the text stand out.

The scalloped mat, paper ribbon, and lace were cut on my Cameo.

The main image is mounted onto 3D foam to give it a bit of dimension.

Lynne
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Gilded Maple Leaves Card

Here's the other card I made with the beautiful Maple Leaf stamps by Clarity.

Unlike the other one, which went really smoothly, this one gave me a lot of trouble!  I had a vision of a country scene with gilded leaves falling across it, but I just couldn't get it to work.

For the first couple of attempts I tried a cottage scene with green grass and a blue sky.  It looked pretty but when I applied the gilding flaked leaves it was far too busy.

In the end I decided to go really simple with both the scene and colour.  I think this worked a lot better.

The silhouette stamps are stamped with Coffee Archival ink. The scene is done with Espresso Adirondack ink.  I just added a tiny bit of Mountain Rose to the sky.

To apply the gilding flakes I used the fabulous Flitter Glu by IndigoBlu.  You just use it like you would an ink pad and then you put the flakes on the sticky stamped image.  When you've buffed of the excess you're left with beautiful gilded leaves.

Lynne
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