Two Little Ducks Bingo Card

Here's one of my cards using the number stamps from Lesson 13 of In the Classroom with Barbara Gray.  I'm not quite sure where the idea came from but this is what I came up with.  :-)

It's a good job that Mum and Dad were here when I was planning it. Being a crafter, rather than a bingo player, I was thinking of the bingo cards that you get as embellishments. As with a lot of craft things they are American. I didn't realise that British ones are different. 

After a quick Google  I found out what they should look like and set about drawing the grid on my computer. I sized it to fit the number stamps and luckily it was just the right size to fit on an A5 card.

Nigel made me smile when he was showing it on TV.  He came over all nostalgic as apparently he used to be a presenter on a bingo channel.  I bet he was a laugh on that!

Lynne

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In the Classroom with Barbara Gray - Lesson 12

What a fab lesson today on Create and Craft.  I thoroughly enjoyed it and crafted along with Barbara.  The letter kit is so useful.  I'm not surprised that Barbara said it was the best selling lesson kit so far.  I've already shared the first card I made with it, my PanPastel anniversary card, but I also made 3 more things.  I guess that shows how much I like them!

My first idea was a postcard of Eilean Donan castle.  I stamped the castle and bridge reflection onto Clarity double sided adhesive sheets, then turned it over to do the main image.  This is an easy way of getting a reflection!  The colour was then added with Perfect Pearls powder.  I think it looks really misty.

I was quite happy with it but I thought it might look better in colour.  So I tried again.

This one gave me a lot of grief!  I just couldn't get the reflection right.  In the end I tried using the Splodge Mat to stamp onto and then placing the card onto the ink. This was much easier and I finally ended up with some stamping I was happy with.  Unfortunately there was a blob above the H of HERE.  I couldn't face doing it again so I tried to think how I could cover it up......

Nessie!  Perfect...........well almost!

I know that Nessie doesn't really live there, so I added a P.S. to the back of the card that I had already decorated using the Clarity postcard stamps.  It made me laugh anyway!  :-)

Lynne

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In the Classroom with Barbara Gray - Lesson 10

This morning was my UK debut as a member of the Clarity design team.  It also turned out to be my Dad's TV debut!

My parents were staying with me when I was doing the samples and Dad took his monochrome card to Doncaster to show Barbara.  He was very pleased to see it on telly.  His name's Brian, but it amused me to hear him being called "Lynne's Dad".  :-D

This is the first one of mine using the birdcage stamps from Lesson 10.  They are gorgeous stamps and were a lot of fun to work with.

I used the branch from the Kingfisher set and added the leaf from the Birdcage set.  I embossed the cage in gold to make it look like a gilt one.  I added a couple of shades of green and some orange to the stamp to give the lovebirds a realistic colour.  It was my first attempt at the clouds, but I was really pleased with how they turned out.  I think they will be appearing a lot from now on.

The second one started off as a pink and purple card.  I used Distress Inkpads to colour and stamp the background.  The musical notes are from Lesson 4, the Joy set.  When I started colouring the birds I decided it needed some more colour, so I added the green.  I think it really brightened up the card. 

I hope you like my cards.  It was very strange seeing them on TV alongside the fantastic Clarity Design Team.  I'm still finding it hard to believe that I am now one of them.