More Funkys

Today I thought I'd post up the other card we made on that same class as the card I posted up yesterday.  As I am sure you can guess this card uses those same two stamp sheets and the same technique of building up backgrounds using inks and flourish stamps. Once again the flowers were coloured using the Copics - what else?? 

The inkpads that I actually used for the backgrounds were -

Adirondack (Dye-based) in Willow
Distress inkpads in Tattered Rose and Peeled Paint.

The stamp sheets, inkpads and pens are all of course available from The Craft Barn.

Giving Up Crafting!!

Well my class cards are finally completed after most of my efforts going into the bin!!  Isn't it strange??  Sometimes cards come together so easily and other times it doesn't seem to matter what you do, nothing goes right at all!  This isn't so bad when you have got lots of time to sort it out but is a nightmare when you are really pushed for time.  I just hope that what I've finally come up with will be ok for everyone!

Meanwhile I am giving up crafting for a couple of days in the hope that my mojo comes back!  I have some text and paperwork to catch up on so will devote a couple of days to this and then see if my creating skills will come back!

Anyway here is a card that I didn't struggle with and is one that I made near the end of last year when Jill and I did a live TV show on Create and Craft back in November.  The main image is from my Funky Flowers stamp sheet and the flourishes and wording on the background are from my Fancy Flourish stamp sheet - both of these can be bought from either The Stamp Man or The Craft Barn. 

Three Little Tiles All In A Row

Oops - sorry guys!! I was just too tired yesterday to post anything up as I had a really full day. I will tell you soon exactly what has been keeping me SO busy now that it is all done with!

Meanwhile here is another of those Craft Barn Extravaganza cards. I know that I mentioned about posting up those Glitter Pot class cards but I still haven't had time to load them up - once I have I will start posting them - promise!!

Anyway this card was made using the Funky Flowers and Fancy Flourishes stamp sets along with some Arabella Basic Grey paper along the bottom of the card. The flowers were stamped onto frosted shrink plastic, coloured and then shrunk down.

Don't forget that my blog candy ends at midnight tomorrow so you still have time to enter!!

Tangerine Dream

Here's another one of those tall slim cards with shrink plastic flowers and that Arabella Basic Grey paper. The flowers (from the Funky Flowers stamp sheet) were stamped onto frosted shrink plastic and coloured using Coloursoft pencils and then shrunk.

The paper was of course embellished using different flourish stamps from Fancy Flourishes.

All products are available from The Craft Barn and the stamps are available from either The Craft Barn or The Stamp Man.

Just For You Flowers

As I have SO many cards to show you from The Craft Barn's Extravaganza Weekend I thought that I would carry on showing you these for a little while before I show you some more that I did for Newbury. (See..................I was a VERY busy bunny!)

The flowers are from my Funky Flowers sheet and were coloured using Coloursoft pencils and Sansador and the flourishes and wording are from the Fancy Flourishes stamp sheet. The papers are of course Basic Grey which I just stamped over using different flourishes and inkpads to jazz them up a bit.

I hope you like!!!!!!

Right I'm off to go and get busy - again!!

Shrunk Dotty Flowers

For this card I used the same flowers as for the one I posted up yesterday but this time I stamped them onto frosted shrink plastic. This is one of the reasons why I tend to have bigger designs on my stamp sheets so that they will work well with shrink plastic too.

The flourishes that you see are of course from my Fancy Flourishes stamp sheet and the paper at the base of the card is Arabella by Basic Grey. I just LOVE that paper as it goes with anything nature orientated really well.

I've got to be honest now and say that I can't remember what I coloured the flowers with - it was either Copics or Coloursoft - I was working with both of these mediums for The Craft Barn weekend and as that was now a few weeks ago I can't remember which I used!!

Anyway all the materials are available from The Craft Barn (regardless of whether it was Copics or Coloursoft!) and the stamps can be purchased from either The Craft Barn or The Stamp Man.

Pink Dotty Flowers

Good morning. Here's another of those cards from The Craft Barn weekend using both the Funky Flowers and the Fancy Flourishes stamp sheets.

The background paper that you can see is by Basic Grey and is from the Phoebe range. The whole of the card background has been built up using different flourishes and inkpads and the colouring was achieved using Coloursoft pencils combined with Sansador.

All products are available from The Craft Barn and the stamp sheets can be bought from either The Craft Barn or The Stamp Man.

The Craft Barn's Extravaganza Weekend Card 4

Good morning guys. So here is my offering for today using that Fancy Flourish sheet again(!!) which at the moment you can win by entering my blog candy. The flowers are from my Funky Flowers stamp sheet. Don't forget to see the rest of the images on all 3 of my new sheets just take a look at my sidebar.

This time the flowers were coloured with Copics - this gives a much brighter and cleaner look than the Coloursoft pencils. I absolutely love working with both of these mediums and it just depends on what I want the overall effect to be as to which I choose.

Copics and the Basic Grey paper (that you can see on the left of the card) are available from The Craft Barn and the stamps can be bought from either The Craft Barn or The Stamp Man.

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Tomorrow I have got to be up at the most ridiculous time of 5.30am as I will be demonstrating at Newbury on Stamp Addicts's stand for the Saturday only. So if anyone is going and fancies bringing me some Dairy Milk chocolate to keep my energy levels up in the heat feel free!! Seriously though if any of you who read this blog will be going to Newbury please do come and introduce yourself as it really would be nice to meet you! Hopefully see you there...........

Pastel Funky Flowers

Here is another card that is now on its way to Jill in Yorkshire. For this card I stamped an image from the Funky Flowers stamp sheet and then used the flourishes and wording stamps from the Fancy Flourishes stamp sheet. On the flourish sheet you get absolutely loads of stamps as I wanted a nice range of wording and flourishes and they really mix together very well.

The background panel on the left of the card was done with the Icicle Creek set of Starburst Stains and then I stamped different flourishes and dots over the top once it had dried. The actual card base was stamped and embossed with flourishes along the right-hand edge and then the fine flourish was overstamped with Graphite Black Brilliance. The flourishes that you see in the top left and bottom right corners of the flower panel were stamped with Starlite Black Brilliance. The flowers were coloured with Copics which gave them a nice, fresh, clean look.

More tomorrow............

Another Card For Jill

Morning Everyone. My sincere thanks to all those who have been commenting recently - I have been receiving some lovely comments and I can't tell you how nice it is so thank you!!

So here is another card that will be winging its way up to Yorkshire. For this card I used one of the flowers off of the Funky Flowers sheet and all the flourishes and wording came from the Fancy Flourish sheet. (To see all the designs on both of these sheets take a look at my sidebar.)

The background of the card started off as 2 plain pieces of Bazzill card that I first stamped and embossed with one of the flourishes using Versamark and Crystal embossing powder then I picked a different flourish and stamped around the edge of the card using Brilliance Starlite Black and lastly picked the fine flourish and stamped around the top left corner and bottom right corner with Brilliance Graphite Black. The wording was stamped with Timber Brown StazOn.

The flower panel was done in the same way as for the last post in that I stamped and coloured my flowers first and then using the fine flourish I stamped and embossed over the whole panel using Versamark and Crystal embossing powder. I picked a more solid flourish to stamp in the top left and bottom right corners of the panel using the Starlite Black inkpad. Crystal glitter glue was then added sparingly to the flower design but once again the scanner hasn't picked up the sparkle.

You'll find as I load more of the cards up that they have all been made in the same way as I wanted to show you why I designed the flourish stamp sheet as I did. I hope you like it!

Pretty In Peach

I know that you have all been eagerly awaiting to see what I have created using my new stamp sheets so I have decided to carry on showing you what I will be sending on up to Jill.

For this one I have made my own backgrounds. The background on the left was made first of all with Mermaid Seashells Starburst Stains and allowed to dry. Then it was trimmed to size and stuck to the left side of a plain Bazzill green panel. Next using stamps from my flourish sheet I first randomly stamped and embossed a flourish all over the panels using Versamark and Crystal embossing powder, then I stamped a different flourish around the top left and bottom right corners of the card using Timber Brown StazOn. I stamped little dots (from the Flourish sheet) onto the Mermaid Seashell panel only, using the same inkpad, stamping 2 or 3 times before re-inking so as to get lighter and darker dots. Then finally using the delicate flourish I stamped this in Brilliance Graphite Black around the edge of the card. The Timber Brown inkpad was then used to ink the edges of the card.

The flowers (from the Funky Flowers stamp sheet) were stamped onto white card with Brilliance Graphite Black and coloured. Once all the colouring had been done I took one of the flourishes (from the Fancy Flourishes stamp sheet) and repeatedly stamped all over the flowers and surrounding white area with Versamark and embossed with Crystal embossing powder. In the top left and bottom right corners of the panel I stamped a different flourish using Brilliance Starlight Black.

Once again you are not getting the effect of both the Crystal glitter glue that I added to the flower panel or the Crystal embossing powder so it does look prettier in real life. As Jill said in her comment under yesterday's post if anyone is attending the Doncaster show next weekend, Jill will have the cards up on display for you to see them in real life.

(By the way I haven't finished showing you all the cards yet that I did for Stamp Addicts and I will continue showing these to you as well inbetween showing these latest cards.)