Bee Happy .....

Everyone wants to Be Happy especially at the moment with Lockdown !  Made this card....

I started with a 6 x 6 inch white cardblank. I took a square of watercolour card and stamped this with a bee stamp (Pink Paislee) in Archival black ink. This was coloured with Watercolour brushpens and the wings and body stripes glazed with a Gelly Roll clear glaze pen. I then took a die and die-cut around the bee with a hexagon honeycomb die. I trimmed this to be uneven and coloured with yellow watercolour. Some of the die waste was retrieved and also coloured n orange watercolour.

I  then selected a piece of printed paper  and matted this on blue and beige card. The bee image was mounted on foam pads and the waste pieces applied on the paper underneath the honeycomb.

A few yellow sequins were applied with Glossy Accents and the matts attached to the cardbase to finish.

Sid xx

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Airy ATC's ......

Made a set of 3 ATC's in the theme of 'Elements' over on UK Stampers Forum .....

I chose AIR for mine .....

If you fancy joining in the Swaps click HERE to join the Forum ....

Sid xx

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Day of the Dead

How macabre?  This is a little card I cut with my Cricut using the Autumn Celebration cartridge.

Very easily made with the addition of glitter in his one eye and Sakura glaze and souffle pens to highlight.

Sid xx

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Woody ATC's

Here are three ATC's I have done as part of a swap over on the UK Stampers Forum.  The theme for the month of March is 'In The Woods' so I decided to do a green woody theme for mine.

I cut the plain white card to size and then applied a digi background to each of the cards, tree trunks and woody effects !

I dug out a load of tiny little stamps of leaves and flowers from a set of See D's Morsels cling stamps.  I inked the leaves with Memento Dye inks in new sprout, pear tart, bamboo leaves & cottage ivy and randomly stamped the leaves in bunches on the trees in the background.  A number of the leaves were glazed with clear Sakura Glaze pen to highlight.

The flowery stamps were inked in Archival black and stamped randomly at the bottom of the cards.  I highlighted areas in yellow, red and blue Posca markers to act as a bed of flowers.

The three words were printed on plain copier paper and coloured with new sprout and bamboo leaves ink before sticking in place with glue pen.  Final touch was to edge the cards with tea leaves Versamagic chalk ink.

Sid xx

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'Africa' Inchies

I am running an inchie swap over on UK Stampers Forum which is a Continents swap.  There are six swaps - one per Continent each month for 6 months.  There are nine inchies per swap culminating in a challenge to use all the 54 swapped inchies in a craft creation. The first Continent is Africa and these are my swaps.

I used a stamp from Tanda (Advert Plate 2) which has a tiger image as part of the stamp.  This was first stamped 9 times with Archival black ink on stout white card.  I then used a 1 inch square punch to selectively punch out the tiger.  Once done I coloured the image with Copics.  The borders were dotted with fine gold pen and red Copic.

Once done I used a Sakura clear glaze pen to highlight just the tigers.  Once dry each inchie was edged in blue iris chalk ink.

Sid xx

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Vintage ATC

This ATC started life as a piece of black card cut to size.  I painted it with Lumiere hi lite violet acrylic paint and allowed it to dry, this almost entirely obliterated the black but provided a fab interference colour.

I then inked a swirl stamp and stamped randomly in onyx black Versafine on a piece of scrap salmon pink textured card. Next I sprayed this with peacock mica spray and dried with the heat gun. Five squares were then punched out with a square punch.  These were edged in Stazon black and put on one side. I then sprayed the background card at the edges with the same mica spray which balled up to produce a mottled effect.  Next a Crafty Individuals stamp was inked with black Stazon and stamped as shown on the background.  The face was glossed with Sakura clear glaze pen. The squares made earlier were then adhered across the ATC as shown.

The swirl stamp was next inked with fuschia pink Stazon and stamped several times. A small piece of silk ribbon was frayed and adhered and embellished with a small adhesive gem. The edges of the card were inked in mauve chalk ink to finish.  It's much more metallic and shimmery in real life as these never photograph well.

Sid xx

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