Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all of you who are celebrating and hugs to those for whom it's not such a happy occasion.

This is the card that I made for my Mum. You may recognise it as it's based on one of the demos that Barbara Gray did on TV this month. I loved it and had to have a go. I already know that Mum loved it too as she phoned at 8.30am this morning to say so! It's getting framed and going on the wall, so that's a nice result.

I chose peach (Adirondack Mountain Rose) for mine as it's very "Mum". If you want to see how to make it Barbara Gray has blogged hers here.

I made this one for my mother-in-law.

It's uses the same journaling stamps, only this time they're on a Samantha Walker 3D box card that I cut on my Cameo. The base card is K & Co double sided paper but I added more detail to it with the stamps.

Inside it has the beautiful Freesias stamp and Mother verse.

Some adhesive pearls and a dragonfly brad finish it off.

The stamps I've used are all by Clarity except for the round Mother's Day ones which are by Lili of the Valley.

I hope you all have a lovely day and "Happy Mother's Day" to my Mums. I was hoping that Maya would bring me breakfast in bed this morning but I was out of luck. Still, if by some miracle she had managed to make it, she'd only have eaten it on her way upstairs!

Stamps Used

Journaling Set

Freesias

Mother Verse

Lynne

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Pop-up Box Birthday Card

I hope you're enjoying your weekend. I've had a lovely morning; Maya and I had an early walk, then I went up to my craft room for a play. I have just one more card to make (and I know exactly what I'm going to do) then I've finished this month's Claritystamp samples.

There's a bit of a Mum theme going on this weekend as it's my mother-in-law's birthday today and Mother's Day tomorrow (there's a clue about what my next blog post will be about).

I made her this card using my Silhouette Cameo and my Clarity stamps. It's a Lori Whitlock design and I bought it from the Silhouette Store.

It's the first one that I've made and I had such fun doing it. It's given me lots of ideas - I have plans for 4 more, so that should keep me busy next week.

They seem to be very popular at the moment................

...........One of the great things about them is they way they fold flat for posting.

I cut the base in white card and decorated it with Kim & Co. Berry Sweet papers. The flowers were cut out of co-ordinating card. I used an embossing folder to emboss the centres and the edges were inked with Distress Ink.

I hope she likes it.

Stamps Used

Letter Box Set

Letterbox Sentiments Set

Plant a Garden Verse from the Remountable Garden Set

Lynne
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Ruby Wedding Anniversary Card

It's a yucky day here today, so I've tidied up my craft room and started another card. Now I thought I'd have a break, sit down with a coffee and write a blog post.

This card uses just two ink pads - Archival black and Adirondack Cranberry.

I cut the heart shaped moon myself out of a Post-it with a pair of scissors (I folded it in a half to get a nice, symmetrical shape). I then placed it on the card and inked over it with a brush to colour the sky and create the moon. Once I was happy with the sky I removed the mask and added a little bit of colour to the moon, so that It wasn't bright white.

The heart embellishments on the sides are part of a Spellbinders Fancy Tags Two tag.

If you haven't yet got the Birdhouse set (which is one of my faves) or the Letter Box set or the Numbers set it's the perfect time to buy them. Claritystamp have a fantastic offer on at the moment (until midnight on the 31st March, 2014) of 40% off the Classroom kits.

This card has got me thinking, as it will be my Silver Wedding Anniversary later this year. Anyway, I've just worked out that it will be 2029 when it's time for my Ruby one. 2029 - that sounds so futuristic. I wonder if I'll still be writing this blog? I may be writing a post on Hubby's card........

Stamps Used

Lesson 18 Birdhouse Set

Lesson 12 Letterbox Set

Lesson 13 Numbers Set
German Celebration Set

Lynne

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Confirmation Card

Well, my weekend's sample making had mixed results. One of my ideas just didn't work and I decided that I didn't like one of the other cards when I was about half way through it.  However I now have 7 cards made, so that's a good start.

I used the Sun Arch stencil with Alcohol Inks to create the look of a stained glass window on this card. I did this on heat resistant acetate so that I could heat emboss the rays on top. I used Jeweled Gold powder by Stampendous for this - it's a beautiful sparkly yellowy gold.

I traced around the arch and cut it out to create an aperture in my base card. My original idea was to place the acetate behind this so that you could see through it like a window. However as the colours I'd used were quite pale it just didn't look right.

So I had the idea of placing white card behind it with the design inked in black Archival.

I stuck the layers together and it looked much better as the colours were much stronger.

A matching bow and some gems finish it off.

Stamps and Stencils Used

Sun Arch

German Celebration Set

It's back up to my craft room for me. See you later.

Lynne

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Happy 4th Birthday Luca

Morning all, have you got anything nice planned for this weekend? I'm feeling a lot better than I did so I'm having a crafty day. I have 5 Claritystamp samples that are at various stages, ranging from just planned to just needing sticking together. Hopefully by the end of the day I will have 5 completed cards.

This is another of my German samples. It uses the Birdhouse Set which is one of my favourites.

I started off by creating the blue circle with ink (I think it was Adirondack Stonewashed), a Clarity stencil brush and the Circle Dots stencil, then I built up the scene around it using black Adirondack ink.

The balloons are made with the ovals from the Numbers set. I shaped them with a ball tool and stuck them on with Pinflair glue gel to give them some dimension.

Well, I'd better get on - Maya needs a walk then I'm off to my craft room. Wish me luck!

Stamps and Stencils Used

Birdhouse Set

Circle Dots

Numbers Set

German Celebration Set / Deutsch Feier Satz

German Letterbox Set

Lynne

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Alles Liebe

Sorry, I've been neglecting my blog again. I had a fab day at the GNPE on Sunday (it was lovely to catch up with so many people) but on Monday I came down with a cold and felt really rough. Hubby always says that he can tell when I'm "Proper poorly" as I don't have my iPad in my hand. Anyway, I'm starting to feel human again so I'm catching up with online things. After this I have 58 FB notifications to view!

This is one of the cards that I made for the recent German TV show.

It's a very simple card, done in true Clarity style - with a brayer.

I used three colours of Adirondack ink to create the background - Eggplant, Mountain Rose and Butterscotch. Inking up just the centre of the brayer with the help of a blending mat allows you to create this effect. I started off with Butterscotch down the bottom, then blended in a central panel of Mountain Rose, before finishing it off with some Eggplant at the top. I kept blending and adding colour until I got the effect I was after. The rest of the stamping is done with black Archival ink.

A little bit of matting and layering, done with my Perfect Layers rulers, finishes it off.

Stamps Used

Tree

Deerscape

German Letterbox Set

Lynne

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Follow Your Dreams

It's the first day of the GNPE in Harrogate today. I'm sure that the Claritystamp stand will be really busy, as always. I'm so looking forward to going tomorrow. It's always great to be able to catch up with Barbara and the Clarity gang. I'm sure I will do some shopping too!

This is the second of the two cards that I made using the new A5 stencils for the recent trade show that Claritystamp were at. It's actually been looking quite like this here recently. The sun has been out and it's been lovely and bright.

When I saw these stencils I knew instantly the look I wanted to achieve but I wasn't sure how I was going to do it. The washing line and the main image are separate stencils and I didn't want the colour of the background to alter that of the washing or the for pattern to show through. 

So I stuck the washing line to the main stencil with low-tack tape and then stuck it all to a sheet of Theuva card. That way I was able to work on the background and leave the card behind the washing white.

I used a Clarity stencil brush and a make-up sponge to apply the colour from various Adirondack and Distress ink pads to create the background.

Once the background was completed I changed over to the outside part of the washing line stencil to work on the washing. I wanted to keep the line white so I had to do lots of masking with tiny little bits of Post-it notes..............

..........to get this effect.

Like the background, the colour was applied with a Clarity stencil brush and make-up sponges.

Eventually I ended up with this.

Hubby thought that my choice of sentiment was a bit odd but in my mind it seemed appropriate with the path leading up to the house and the washing blowing in the breeze.

A couple of black mats finish it off. 

Stamps and Stencils Used

A5 Washing Line

A5 Sunrise

Follow Your Dreams

Lynne

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