Sun / Moon - Craftymess Challenge beginning Saturday 14th July

Hi all and welcome to my crafty blog.

Today I am posting my DT card for the new challenge starting today over at the  The Craftymessers Challenge Blog .  The challenge, chosen by our teamie FIONA, runs for a fortnight and the theme is Sun and/or Moon.

 We have 2 Sponsors for this challenge, so there will be 2 Winners.... Sandie...is offering a  lovely rubber stamp and decoupage card kit by Micheal Powell.

And 

Is offering a voucher for another winner 

Crafty-Emblies is a new Company

They offer affordable emblishements and masks in wood and plastic. 

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You make each day feel brand new.

I've been wanting to try out Brayer techniques for a while now and inspired by this theme and my teamies, I gave it a go for this challenge.

First thing I noticed was I didn't have enough ink pads and the ones I had were not big enough!  I know, I know, I can hear you say "call yourself a papercrafter"...the shame of it. But this will be rectified soon as more colours and bigger ink pads are part of the next crafty shopping list.  Undaunted by my lack of kit,  I soldiered on with my current stock and got quite messy and inky in the process.. Great FUN!!!!

I started with a piece of plain white smooth cardstock with a punched circle masking the spot where I wanted the sun and started with the lighter colour blue. I loaded the brayer with ink, making sure that I left no gaps on the roller and starting off the paper, began rolling the ink lightly across the card. Working toward the middle, I repeated the process until I got the colour and the blend I wanted. At the opposite end of the card, I started with the darker blue, but this time before I applied the ink to the cardstock, I ran the brayer lighty over a piece of crumpled paper to lift off some of the ink. Then, when I applied the ink to the card it produced a 'ripple' effect on the water.

The background was created with a torn piece of paper masking out a mountain shape and carefully brayered in the ink. I used the piece of paper I'd punched the circle out of to act as a mask for the 'sun', which helped me to stay inside the lines and get a nice misty effect on the sun. To create perspective, I stamped some reeds in black ink in the bottom right hand corner and added three bird outlines with fineliner pen. The finished card was matted onto white and gold cardstock and then adhered to a Kraft cardbase.

Those of you you read my blog already know that I love getting inky and this was my kind of creative fun.

Thank you for stopping by and reading my blog. I hope you enjoyed your visit and don't forget to leave you comment. Your time and comments are appreciate.

Angela x

Materials Used

White, Gold and Kraft cardstock from stash

Ranger Distress Ink - Pumice Stone and Tumbled Glass

Stampin'Up - Ballet Blue
Memento - Danelion

Stampers Anomymous -  Nature's Discovery Stamp
Verve -  All about you

Stylos Fineliner Pen - Black

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps - Tintin Heart Feature

Hi and welcome to my crafty blog,

Just a little post today to say how mega thrilled I am be the Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps - 'Cards of the Week' this week.  This came about because I was part of the DT for The Crafty Pad that used some of Robyn's digital stamps for a challenge called  Bounty of Buttons and RFDS chose to feature all of the DT projects for that challenge. The post went live yesterday, 10th May, and Susan Paulson, the Sponsorship coordinator for Robyn's, has given me a really nice write up.

I originally posted this in April but here is another look at the card.

So thanks to  Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps and Susan Paulson, I am smiling a HUGE smile today.


Thanks for stopping by to read my blog. Don't forget to leave your comment, I like to hear from you.

Axx

Retro Impression - Crafty Bloggers Network Challenge

Hi All and welcome to the Tintin Heart Blog.

Todays posting is a Retro style  DT card for the Crafty Bloggers Network Challenge  starting today, 5th March.  The card was influenced by the geometric shapes and the bright primary colours of the 60s and 70s. Think of The Beatles, Mary Quant etc...

I punched various sizes of circles and squares from coloured cardstock and arranged them in colour combinations I thought worked together. The red punched heart was adhered to a white square and stamped with a sentiment in black ink. A little yellow punched heart was added for contrast. The completed squares were mounted onto a white cardstock background and matted onto some black card, then adhered to a white card base.

Hope you like the result.



Thanks for taking the time  to stop by to read my blog. Your time and comments are appreciated.


 Angela X



Materials Used

Black, Orange, Yellow, Red, Blue and White cardstock from stash.

Punches:  in  Two, One and a Half,  a Half inch Circles - Two inch square
Tuxedo Black Ink
Verve Stamps.