Laughter...

Good Morning everyone

This is the 2nd outing for my new katzelkraft cat stamps.  Ive teamed them up with this fab inkylicious quote 'Laughter....sparkles like a splash of water in the sunlight'  So ive built my little scene around it

A5 white cardbase.  I took a piece of white card smaller than the front and stamped the cat branch, flying cat and quote in place.  I then heat embossed the waterdrops around them using a clear iridescent embossing powder which shimmers green when the light hits it. 

I brushed on distress inks tumbled glass & salty ocean, keeping less colour around the sentiment area. Normally when i ink a background i go for full coverage but as i was building it up i liked the movement this had so stopped inking.  I use 'Pro Arte' stencil brushes - ive had mine years with lots of use and they are still in excellent condition. 

I placed a circle/sun burst stencil over the stamped quote and inked through with lemonade oxide ink.  The oxide ink goes nicely over the distress ink and still stays yellow instead of turning green if id used lemonade distress ink. I then matted the panel onto black card and then the base.

I stamped the cats again onto white card and watercoloured with derwent inktense pencils and cut them out.  I gently added shape to them before decoupaging on the base with glue gel. 

I added touches of glitter around some of  the water drops to finish.

Items Used:

Katzelkraft stamps

Inkylicious laughter stamp

Waterdrop stamps

Sunburst stencil

Distress inks tumbled glass, salty ocean

Distress oxide ink squeezed lemonade

embossing powder

Derwent inktense pencils

WRMK corner chomper

Thank you all for stopping by once again. I hope you all have a great week. Thankfully its a bit cooler this morning.  Emmax

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Life is a Canvas

Morning everyone, i hope you are having a good week.

Today im sharing a stamped card, where ive used lots of different stamps to build up my garden scene.

7x7" scalloped cardbase.  I took a square of white card and stamped my flowers in black and then masked them with pebeo drawing gum. I doodled in some ground with a black fine liner pen. I then inked up the background with distress inks. I added in some detail with oxide inks and stencils.  I added some stamping in grey with a dictionary stamp and stamped in some water drops.  I removed excess ink from the water drops with a damp brush and dabbed with tissue & then added some glossy accents.  

I then removed the masking fluid and coloured the flowers with wink of stella pens.  I die cut lots of little butterfly from purple inked card.  I stamped my little lady onto white card and cut her out.  I stamped the sentiment and cut out. I added my little lady with dimension.  Doodled in white gel pen dots for butterfly trails. 

I then mounted the panel onto silver glitter card and then navy cardstock and then the cardfront. 

A close up, you can just make out the sparkle but in real life the wink of stella pens really shimmer and sparkle. 

Items Used:

Carabelle stamps - 'zinouk du jardin'

Water drop stamps

Stampin Up dictionary stamp

Bee crafty sentiment stamp

Various stencils

Memory box mini butterfly die

Wink of Stella pens

Distress oxide & original inks

In answer to a question last week Kirsty i always use a normal paintbrush over a waterbrush when colouring in images, just personal choice as i find have more control over the amount of water im using. 

Im off to meet my new baby niece today so looking forward to that.  I hope you all have a good day whatever your plans. Hugs Emma

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Swim Free Seahorse

Good Morning everyone.

Today im sharing the card project i made for my sister in laws birthday, as they live near the sea I had the idea that she can frame it with a box frame and add some of those lovely Cornish seashells she's collected.  Its 8x8" in size.  My first outing for the beautiful Lavinia Sebastian seahorse stamp - I love him. 

8x8 cardbase.  Right quite alot of layers went into the background. 

1. I first heat embossed the shells with clear embossing powder on a piece of white card.  

2.I then stamped the water drops with blue colbalt arcival ink and added glossy accents to them. 

3. I then coloured the panel with green, purple & blue aquatints using wet into wet, so i brushed the panel with plain water and then dropped the aquatints onto it so that they merge together, the shells & water drops resist the inks to stay white.  Once dry i splashed water on top and dabbed dry with a tissue.

4. Once dry i stenciled over the top with large and small circles for a bubble effect using oxide inks in green, purple & blue. 

5. I stamped some fragments of a text stamp & a swirl in soft grey ink.  I removed any ink on the shells with a soft cloth. 

6.  I stamped the 'swirly fronds' along the spine of the seahorse along the bottom to act like seaweed.  I also added in some more with a black fineliner pen. 

7. I inked around the outside edge with chipped sapphire & black soot inks.

When it was completely dry i die cut an oval big enough for the seahorse to the right side.  I attached the panel to the base card, using 3d foam tape behind the main panel and adhered the oval back into place flat so its a little recess.  I did this so it really draws the eye into the seahorse. 

I stamped the seahorse in black archival ink onto a piece of card inked with yellowy oxide inks and cut around him.  I stamped the small seahorses, painted them a yellow/orange and fussy cut out.  I added more detail to the little seahorses with a black fine liner pen along their backs.  I gently curved the seahorses before attaching into place with dimensional glue gel. 

On a scrap of card inked with green oxide inks i stamped the saying and cut out.  I thought it the perfect sentiment as my SIL is a graphic designer & artist and also loves her colour. 

Close up on Sebastian the seahorse, i added a touch of diamond glitter glue to all the seahorses for some bling.

Another close up, you can see the stamped and doodled 'seaweed'

I have mixed alot of different stamps and love the outcome but still keeping the beautiful seahorse as the focus point. I just needed to be patient on building up the background so it came together over a few craft sessions.  I think i shall do myself one for my own wall and add some of my collection of Cornish Seashells. 

Items used:

Sebastian seahorse - Lavinia Stamps  

Small Seahorse - Craft stamper magazine freebie

Seashell stamps - Chocolate Baroque 'seashell collage'

Waterdrop stamp - Designs by Ryn 

Dictionary stamp - Stampin up

Swirl stamp - Inkadinkado 98980 'Gem stone flowers'

'Life is A Canvas' saying - BeeCrafty Stamps

XL Stitched Oval Dies

Stencils - small & large circles

Spectrum Noir aquatints

Distress Inks & Distress Oxide inks

Thank you all for stopping by and all your comments last week.  I hope this week is a good one for you. Emma

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http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/2019/06/challenge-443-something-new.html   My something new is the seahorse stamp

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