Fern frond fragments
Posted: May 31, 2011 Filed under: CAS, Wilderness Vol.2 10 Comments
This is the last of my fern frond cards for now. The next stamping task I have is some simple garden wedding invitations.
I did not set out to create three squares for this card; it just happened. I stamped the ferns across a piece of cardstock but there was nothing special about the arrangement. After punching out three fragments and adding the green and blue sponging I was much happier. Dividing the squares with the sentiment was also experimental but I like the way it turned out. As the sponging was applied after the squares were punched each one has a slightly dark border. Although I started out with a white card base, artichoke turned out to be the best choice as it created a border which highlighted the ferns and words.
I think this one might be my favourite out of the three fern cards I created recently.
Supplies:
Stamps: Wilderness Vol.2 (Darkroom Door), Teeny Tiny Wishes
Inks: Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Bashful Blue
Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White, Always Artichoke
Fern fronds
Posted: May 27, 2011 Filed under: CAS, Wilderness Vol.2 13 Comments
Here is another take on the fern frond. I have seen several lovely fern cards lately. Take a look at one by Godelieve here and one by Ali here.
I pulled out the old olive stamp pad for this one and used post-its to mask my rectangle. I embossed one fern in clear in the centre of my panel and then sponged all around it before adding few more ferns in old olive and artichoke. The “thankyou” was hand written.
Thanks for dropping by; I know my posts are a little sparse at present but I really appreciate your visits and your encouraging comments.
Supplies:
Stamps: Wilderness Vol.2 (Darkroom Door)
Inks: Old Olive, Always Artichoke, Versamark
Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White
A fern frond
Posted: May 23, 2011 Filed under: CAS, Wilderness Vol.2 7 Comments
Sorry about the false start yesterday, I guess I hit publish instead of save!?
I am enjoying working my way through my new stamps from Darkroom Door. Most recently I played around with the fern stamp from Wilderness Vol 2.
To create the stamped panel I applied ink to the stamp with markers, both wild wasabi and garden green. I stamped the fern three times, misting both the stamp and the stamped panel. After sponging around the edges I added the sentiment. I tried various options for mounting the panel on the card before settling on a green mat, a large white mat and a green card base. Although I often make one or two layer cards an extra layer can sometimes complete the card.
Supplies:
Stamps: Wilderness Vol.2 (Darkroom Door), Teeny Tiny Messages(SU)
Inks: Wild Wasabi, Garden Green
Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White, Wild Wasabi
Less is More: Embossing
Posted: May 14, 2011 Filed under: CAS, Stamped Landscapes, Wilderness Vol.2 43 Comments
When I first began browsing the Darkroom Door site, I kept coming back to this stamp. Images of trees are a favorite of mine and this scene of a wooded path is the type of scene I try to create with tree stamps.
This week’s challenge at Less is More is to emboss; I chose to heat emboss the woodland scene in black, then add some colour by sponging. I didn’t know if the detail of so many fine interwoven branches would work without detail embossing powder but I am very pleased with the result. Before sponging I masked the edges of the image.
I am looking forward to trying other colour schemes and techniques with this beautiful stamp.
Supplies:
Stamps: Wilderness Vol.2 (Darkroom Door), Teeny Tiny Messages(SU)
Inks: Versamark, Apricot Appeal, Pumpkin Pie, Summer Sun
Cardstock: Flourishes Classic Ivory
Also: black e.p.
Less is More ‘Off Centre’
Posted: April 23, 2011 Filed under: Berry Branch, CAS 39 Comments
It has been a few weeks since I managed to play along with the Less is More challenge so it is nice to be involved again. Whether you play along or not the blog is an excellent source of inspiration with hundreds of entries every week. This week the challenge is to create an off centre layout. I really like assymmetrcial layouts so this asymmetrical branch stamp from Penny Black was the perfect choice for the challenge.
I inked the stamp with cherry cobbler and then inked the branches on the stamp with early espresso. By stamping once and then stamping again twice more without re-inking I created a shadowy effect. I added a little fold of riboon too as it needed something extra but not much more.
Supplies:
Stamps: Berry Branch (Penny Black), Taglines (Flourishes)
Inks: Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso
Cardstock: SU Confetti White, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip
Also: Chocolate grosgrain ribbon
A little more texture
Posted: April 6, 2011 Filed under: CAS, Of the Earth 11 Comments
I haven’t had any time to stamp lately but I made this card a couple of weeks back when I was playing with the technique of laying the cardstock on the ink pad then rolling the brayer across it to pick up the texture of the fabric. The green panel with white flowers was done this way on a Certainly Celery ink pad after embossing the flowers in clear.
The background strip was made using one mask at the bottom. I stamped the flower repeatedly without re-inking the stamp then added a little sponging at the bottom.
I hope to be stamping again this weekend, especially as a stamp filled package arrived in the mail today!
Supplies:
Stamps: Of the Earth, Teensy Tiny Wishes
Inks: Certainly Celery, Versamark
Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White
Also: Clear e.p.
Casing the CAS (once more)
Posted: March 31, 2011 Filed under: CAS, Garden silhouettes 12 Comments
I delved into the CAS favorites thread at Splitcoast again for inspiration before making this card. I came across this lovely sponged panel card and wanted to create something just like it. I prefer Andrea’s beautiful scene with grasses to my silhouetted blossoms but I enjoyed creating something with a sponged panel over a sponged panel; most of my sponged cards lately have been one layer.
I masked the card base to create the horizontal panel, which I embossed in black then sponged in pretty in pink, almost amethyst and going gray. I then created a vertical image panel which I matted in black and popped up on the card base.
Supplies:
Stamps: Garden Silhouettes (SU), Taglines (Flourishes)
Inks: Versamark, Pretty in Pink, Almost Amethyst, Going Grey
Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White, Basic Black
Also: Black e.p.
OLW 46 Eggs
Posted: March 28, 2011 Filed under: Ageless Adornment, CAS 19 Comments
When I saw that Susan had picked eggs as the feature element for her One Layer Wednesday challenge this week, I knew I would have to think a little outside the box because I don’t own any egg stamps. I settled on cutting an oval mask so I could sponge or colour my eggs. My first thought was to cover them in designs which would make them look a bit like Ukrainian easter eggs but in the end I went for the natural look. I know eggs are not really oval shaped, but I decided it’s close enough. I sponged the eggs and added the flecks with a marker.
Supplies:
Stamps: Ageless Adornment
Inks: Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke, Tempting Turquoise, Going Gray, Chocolate Chip.
Cardstock: Flourishes classic white
Playing with texture
Posted: March 23, 2011 Filed under: CAS, Infinite Goodness 7 Comments
Creating my floral panel was a little like designing a piece of fabric. I started by stamping the flowers in versamark and embossing in clear. Then I added pink by using a direct to paper technique. I wanted to create a little texture in my background so I laid the cardstock on the stamp pad and rolled over the top with my brayer. The fabric of the stamp pad as well as the edges showed up on the cardstock. It was very patchy coverage so I added sponging in many places otherwise the embossed flowers would not have been prominent enough.
The panel was still a bit empty so I randomly added pink flowers. There was still something missing so I stamped some more flowers in black. After adding a black mat I was happy with the way the flowers popped, both the black and the white. So this was definitely one of those cards that evolved.
Thanks for dropping by; I’ll have another card featuring the same texture technique later in the week.
Supplies:
Stamps: Infinite Goodness, Hugs and Wishes
Inks: Basic Black, Pixie Pink, Versamark
Cardstock: Basic Black, Pixie Pink, Flourishes classic white
Also: Clear e.p.
Monochrome and Masculine
Posted: March 19, 2011 Filed under: CAS, Lovely as a Tree, Stamped Landscapes 50 Comments
The challenge at Less is More this week is to make a masculine card. I certainly don’t have many masculine cards in my stash so it will come in handy. There are not many masculine stamps in my collection either, most were bought with my son and his friends in mind: the extreme sports stamps from Stampin’ Up. Rather than be extreme I pulled out the ever faithful “Lovely as a Tree set” and created a foggy hillside scene.
I worked on a piece of cardstock larger than the finished panel so I could crop it to the most appealing view. I used chocolate chip ink for the whole panel, stamping the foreground trees first then adding a mask, stamping again, sponging, then moving the mask and repeating the pattern until I was stamping the final pale trees in the distance.
So my clean and simple does not include “white space” this time but plenty of empty unstamped space surrounding my image panel. The matted panel is popped up over the textured card base.
Supplies:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Inks: Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, textured and flat
Heather Telford 