Crafty As L

Over at Visible Image this week, our Design Team theme is End of Summer.   For my inspiration, I’ve chosen the zinnias and sunflowers in my garden that are blooming their socks off and will continue to do so until the first frosts.   I grew these from seed and have loved watching them develop through the various stages. For my non-card make, I decided to have a play in my art journal, something I don’t often do and it pushed me a bit out of my comfort zone.   On a double page spread, I stamped all the elements using Versafine Clair Nocturne ink and the Sunflower Grunge , Daisy Grunge and Create Happiness stamp sets.   The flower in Create Happiness is actually a gerbera but it’s close enough to a zinnia for me! The pages were sprayed with Distress Spray Stains and a gold mica shimmer.   They turned out a bit dark but I thought I could lift some of the colour out.   That didn’t work, so lesson one of today’s make was that the mica spray seems to s...

My Mother-in law had bought some glass vases from the charity shop and wanted to transform them into lanterns to sell at a WI fundraising event.   She then realised that she had no equipment to decorate them with so asked me if I would mind doing it instead.   Of course I didn’t! Two of the lanterns were straight-sided and I’d seen some YouTube demos showing how you could glue the top layer of patterned napkins onto glass.   I wanted to make my own panels so started by cutting white tissue paper to fit and sprayed it with Distress Spray Stains. Once dry, I stamped a variety of silhouette stamps from Lavinia across each piece. Next, using Ranger Multi Medium Matte, I attached each piece of tissue to the vase.   This was rather more difficult than it looked with napkins, maybe because the tissue paper is so delicate. I ended up with a couple of holes and wrinkled areas but there was little more I could do whilst they were wet so they were set aside to dry. ...