Feeling Blue?
Posted: July 3, 2011 Filed under: CAS, Trees 25 Comments
The challenge at Less is More this week is to use shades of blue. I often do snow scenes with shades of blue so that is what I tried initially. It seems that I am a seasonal stamper. I could not managed a successful snow scene when it was 31°C outside! I decided to stick with the landscape idea but forget the snow. Although it still looks a little snowy it is meant to be a misty blue hillside. I used Night of Navy for the trees, stamping the pale one without re-inking then a mix of blues for the sponging.
Speaking of shades of blue, I am not sure that this photo is exactly representative of my card. I edited the photo on one computer, then went to two other computers to compare. All the monitors in our house show the colours slightly differently. Apparently what we need is a monitor calibrater. Who knew?
Supplies:
Stamps: Trees (Darkroom Door), Simple Sayings 2
Inks: Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, Brocade Blue
Cardstock: Whisper White, Night of Navy, Flourishes Classic White
Under a tree
Posted: June 25, 2011 Filed under: CAS, Stamped Landscapes, Trees 10 Comments
With the busyness of the end of the school year there hasn’t been much time to stamp of late. When I sat down to create something the other night I was somewhat lacking in ideas. A little bit of time spent on other people’s inspiring blogs helped but I think I am out of practice. Hopefully now that the summer holidays have officially begun you will see a little more action here on bits & pieces.
To create this card I pulled out another tree from the Darkroom Door Trees set. I think I’ve tried three out of the four now. I like the wide spread of this tree so went for a wide card base and a quote which matched also. The sponging was done with a post it note mask placed twice.
Supplies:
Stamps: Trees (Darkroom Door)
Inks: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Summer Sun, Certainly Celery
Cardstock: Whisper White, Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip textured
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.
Misty Trees
Posted: April 22, 2011 Filed under: Ageless Adornment, Stamped Landscapes, Trees 7 Comments
This is my second card using the beautiful tree set from Darkroom Door stamps. I know the snow has gone but I couldn’t resist a snow scene with my new trees. I created a slightly foggy scene by using grey and blue to sponge the snow and sky.
Supplies:
Stamps: Trees (Darkroom Door), Ageless Adornment (SU)
Inks: Basic Black, Going Gray, Brocade Blue
Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White, Going Gray, Brocade Blue, Basic Black
Through the Darkroom Door
Posted: April 12, 2011 Filed under: Darkroom Door, Stamped Landscapes, Trees 9 Comments
Browsing through the Clean and Simple gallery at Splitcoast one day I came across a beautiful card featuring some lovely floral stamps I had never seen before. I did a little searching and discovered a company selling very original and artistic stamps which I knew I just had to have. The company is Darkroom Door and is based in Australia. After some serious analysis I narrowed my first order down to three stamp sets and waited impatiently for them to arrive. It was after placing my order I noticed that Darkroom Door is five minutes away from where my brother lives. So I guess I know what I’ll be telling my family I’d like for Christmas!
The first set I cracked open was the tree set, hardly surprising for me. I decided to try a spring scene to match what I see outside these days. My daughter said it looked like an orchard so, an orchard it is, at sunrise with the mist rising and a golden tinge spreading across the hills. There are four trees in the set but I repeated only one for this card, using close to cocoa for the trees at the back and chocolate chip for the foreground.
Supplies:
Stamps: Trees (Darkroom Door)
Inks: Certainly Celery, Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Summer Sun, Bashful Blue
Cardstock: Flourishes Classic White, Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip
Also: Natural Cotton twine
Heather Telford 