Sketched Lady Gatefold Card

There's not long left to enter the "Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside" challenge on the Clarity Stamp Challenge Blog. Entry closes at 8pm on the 31st July. There's a £50 Claritystamp voucher for the winner, who is chosen at random, so it's well worth entering.

I've just written my blog post for the next challenge which starts on Thursday and I look forward to sharing it with you. Until then I have two cards using the Large Sketched Lady stamp that were on Maria Simms' Clarity Take 2 show.

This is the first one.

Part of the kit on Create and Craft was a mask for the stamp and its mirror image. I made this card to show off that feature.

I stamped the lady onto Theuva card with second generation ink and then used the Splodge Away mat to create the mirror image. I then cut them out with a scalloped Spellbinders die and masked off the ladies.

The background pattern is made with a Butterfly Garden Spellbinders Impressibilities. I placed it on top of the card, with the scalloped die still in place, and sponged Adirondack Mountain Rose ink through it.

The ladies' skin is coloured in with ProMarkers. Her clothes are stamped onto coloured paper, cut out and stuck on. The pattern on her dress is made with the same corner stamp I've used on the card.

I used the same technique inside.

The Large Sketched Lady was the first Clarity stamp I bought about 4 years ago and I still love it. It's a great stamp that you can do a lot with.

Stamps Used

Large Sketched Lady

What Is This Life

Victorian Corner

Lynne

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Dreams of a Kitten

After making my I Can see You! card where the stamping was all done in black, I wanted to do a colourful version with the same set of stamps.

This is what I came up with.  

I inked up the hollyhocks stamp with Versafine Imperial Purple on the top and Olympia Green on the bottom, then built up the scene around them. 

I found some lovely mauve card that went really well with the hollyhocks and embossed it with my Spellbinders Butterfly Garden Grand Impressibilities. The Crop-A-Dile eyelets that I recently rediscovered make another appearance, this time in purple.

The card was still lacking something so I added the word "Dream" at the bottom. This reminded me of the "Dreams of a Kitten" verse. I couldn't fit it on the front.....

.....so I used it on the insert. I don't usually put anything inside my Clarity samples as the insides don't get seen but I couldn't resist doing it on this one. You're seeing it now after all.

These stamps will be used in Lesson 18 of In the Classroom with Barbara Gray. It will be on Create and Craft TV at 11am on the 6th July. I look forward to seeing what Barbara creates with them.

Stamps Used

Lesson 18 - Birdhouse and Picket Fence Set

The Dreams of a Kitten

Dream from Lesson 10 - The Birdcage Set

Lynne

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German Clarity Allium Samples

Well I guess it's all feeling a bit more real now.  My first Clarity samples were on the German shopping channel, HSE 24, this morning.

I enjoyed watching Barbara do her thing in German and managed to understand the odd word of what she was saying.  My German is really limited to shopping and reading a menu - despite living there for nearly 6 years!

I'm not sure if it really shows in the photo, but this one was embossed in gold onto Centura Pearl card.  It's a lovely card to use embossing powder on.  It's the first time I've done the text in a circle like that but I really like the effect.  The good thing about Clarity stamps is that you can bend them to the shape you want.

The second one is a bit brighter!  I embossed some card using the Butterfly Garden Impressabilities by Spellbinders, then added colour with Distress Inks.

So, European debut over, only the UK left to go and that's the scary one...